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Október 13th, 2009

Unable to export SWC oem

Tweet I have few times lately this error in Flex Builder and there were at least 2 cases, which cause this error to happen. So maybe it will help you to find your problem. Some file (in my case .flexLibProperties) has SVN conflicts, so you need to resolve conflicts and merge them to solve this [...]

Október 14th, 2008

FlexTip: Add Thumbs to Mx:Slider programatically

Tweet I have some new Flex Tip for you. Maybe you have found it already if you have tried add new thumbs to Mx:Slider (HSlider, VSlider) programatically. There can be various “small” problems. Or maybe there is just another way What I’ve tried is increase thumbCount property and add new value to values property. But [...]

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August 27th, 2008

FlexTip: Preventing CheckBox selection with Key.SPACE

Tweet This is quick Flex Tip. If you do not need or do not want change CheckBox selection with space key, you can set mouseFocusEnabled to false. If you know about any other solutions, let us know. Tweet

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Máj 29th, 2008

FlexTip – Stop displaying Focus

Tweet Here is quick Flex Tip. If you don’t want to display focus rectangle on pressing TAB key, you should use focusEnabled = false; It’s quick solution for 1 component, but if you want disable focus for all components in your application just use focusManager.deactivate(); That’s all, hope it helps to anyone… New: Thanks to [...]

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Júl 29th, 2007

FlexTips: How to add Bitmap to UIComponent

Tweet I didn’t know it, but here is solution. Best UIComponent for Bitmap is mx:Image (no surprise), You can just write: <mx :Image creationComplete=”(event.currentTarget as Image).source = new Bitmap( bitmapData)”/> So for mx:Image except source=”path” you can add reference to Bitmap as well. Enjoy Tweet

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Júl 27th, 2007

FlexTip: Problem with masks and scalable Flash

Tweet This may be useful for someone who does not read Flex documentation in more detail. When you have content which is masked and you allow scale for your application, mask will not scale if it is not added to display list (it’s written in documentation ). So if you have such problem, add you [...]

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Júl 24th, 2007

FlexTip: XMLSocket connect() after disconnect from server

Tweet Here is another Flex tips I came across in our project. I don’t know if this was in AS2.0 as well, but in AS3.0 when you receive event that XMLSocket is disconnected (server is disconnected, your net connection is broken), you can’t call xmlsocket.connect() immediately, but you have to wait for a while. So [...]

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Júl 18th, 2007

FlexTip: mx:Text vs. mx:TextArea

Tweet Here my first tip for Flex developers. Maybe many of you know, maybe it will be helpful for someone. If you want make custom component, let’s say “Message dialog” which should be resized according text, nothing is easier. Just use mx:Text, not mx:TextArea. mx:Text has ability to resize according its text property. If you [...]

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Júl 18th, 2007

FlexTips

Tweet I’m starting my contribution to Flex community. From time to time I will publish Flex tips for Flex developers. Of course examples with source code will be attached as well. 1st Flex tip will be posted in few minutes. Stay tuned… Tweet

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