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Flex Hero – Android links collection

Lately in my free time I’ve started to learn Flex Hero to be able to develop mobile applications for Android devices in Flex. I’ve downloaded Flash Builder Burrito from Adobe Labs, which already consists Flex Hero SDK, so I could immediately start developing my first Flex Android application. It’s quite new area and there is [...]

Android Time Picker for Flex Hero

I’ve create new Android mobile component in Flex Hero. Last time I’ve created Android Date Picker, which allows you to pick date. But if you need change time, there is another component: Time Picker. So I’ve recreated it for Flex Hero. There are 2 different possibilities: changing time in AM/PM format or full day mode. [...]

Android Date Picker for Flex Hero

I’ve been testing new Flex Hero SDK with AIR 2.5 on my HTC Desire HD. In Flash Builder Burrito it works very nice and smooth. Even debugging on mobile works nicely (computer and mobile must be connected to same wifi). I’m just playing and testing some new stuff and have needed date picker for choosing [...]

Problems with latest stable Flex 4 nightly build

I have commercial project in Flex 4. That’s great I always wanted to use Flex 4 for commercial project (otherwise I didn’t have time to work with Flex 4). It was too risky, because Flex 4 is just beta 2, but application depends on custom skinning, so we have decided to implement it in Flex [...]

Loosing children interactivity after setting perspectiveProjection

My current project needs to use new native 3D in Flash Player 10. It seems so easy to use it, just set any 3d property like x,y,z or rotationX, rotationY, rotationZ and all should work perfectly. It seems so. But I have found problem and it seems it’s Flash player bug (I hope someone proves [...]

Goodbye FlashDen, hello ActiveDen

I’ve found out today, that there is no longer FlashDen.net, but instead there is new site in Envato network called ActiveDen. It’s same site, but Adobe has asked Envato to change the name because “Flash” is registered trademark of Adobe. And there are also Flex files on ActiveDen, so there are no more just pure Flash files, so it’s maybe better name now.

Major update of Goalscape AIR application

This friday we have released major update for Goalscape AIR application. It is project we (me with Tomas as Flexets company) have been working on for more than year. If you are not aware of Goalscape application please look at intro video. But in one sentence it’s Goal Management Software.

Text Layout Engine: TruncationOptions

This is same example as yesterday (Fit text in rectangle with Text Layout Engine), but I’ve added one more switch. You can decide if you want use TruncationOptions or not. Reason why I want to show this to you is that it works differently. I do not know if this is feature or bug, but try to tell me your opinion in comments.

Text Layout Engine: Fit text into rectangle

This is first example in serie of examples of showcase how to use Text Layout Engine (mainly for Flex 3).

Here is quick description: I need to fit text in rectangle (need it for our Goalscape project). I want to be able to change width, height, font size and text of course.

Text Layout Engine in Flex 3

I’m going to play with Text Layout Engine, which is bundled in Flex 4. But we need to use it in Flex 3 in our Goalscape project. And it’s possible to use Text Layout Engine in Flex 3. All you need to do is download Flex 4 SDK, or Flash Builder and get textLayout.swc from [...]