Table of contents for flex-tips

1. FlexTips
2. FlexTip: mx:Text vs. mx:TextArea
3. FlexTip: XMLSocket connect() after disconnect from server
4. FlexTip: Problem with masks and scalable Flash
5. FlexTips: How to add Bitmap to UIComponent
6. FlexTip – Stop displaying Focus
7. FlexTip: Preventing CheckBox selection with Key.SPACE
8. FlexTip: WordWrap for mx:Text
9. FlexTip: Add Thumbs to Mx:Slider programatically
10. AS3 Conditional Breakpoint – enterDebugger()

Maybe it is easy, maybe not, but I do not think it’s straitforward and logical. If you want to set word wrapping for mx:Text you have to set width. If you did not do this, whole text will be in 1 row and not whole text can be visible. So just set width to fix value or percentage value to use word wrapping feature.

Why I don’t think that it’s not logical? Because when you did not set width to mx:Text it’s in 1 row, but just resize app, and now it’s wordwrapped. So it seems it’s problem only in initialization phase. I think it should work same in all ocassions. That’s just my 2 cents

Table of contents for air-tip

1. AirTip: Problem with app.xml in Flex 3
2. AirTip: AIR application gained focus
3. AirTip: List all of your drives in AIR application
4. Adobe AIR 1.5 available in Flex SDK Nightly builds
5. AIR Tip: ContextMenuItem can crash AIR app on Windows
6. AIR Tip: Flash movie is not rendered in AIR 1.5 HTML in Fullscreen

This is quick Air Tip: If you need get list of all of your drives in code, just use

var list:Array = File.getRootDirectories();

It list all of y our hard drives with CD ROM drives. But if CD is inserted in CD ROM drive, it will be listed as well. I don’t find way how to find out if drive is CD ROM drive, you can just search for files on that inserted CD.

If there is a way how to find out, if drive is CD ROM drive, let us know

Table of contents for air-tip

1. AirTip: Problem with app.xml in Flex 3
2. AirTip: AIR application gained focus
3. AirTip: List all of your drives in AIR application
4. Adobe AIR 1.5 available in Flex SDK Nightly builds
5. AIR Tip: ContextMenuItem can crash AIR app on Windows
6. AIR Tip: Flash movie is not rendered in AIR 1.5 HTML in Fullscreen

This is little AIR Tip: if you want to know when your AIR application gained focus, just listen to AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE.

addEventListener(AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE, handleApplicationActivate);

Table of contents for flex-tips

1. FlexTips
2. FlexTip: mx:Text vs. mx:TextArea
3. FlexTip: XMLSocket connect() after disconnect from server
4. FlexTip: Problem with masks and scalable Flash
5. FlexTips: How to add Bitmap to UIComponent
6. FlexTip – Stop displaying Focus
7. FlexTip: Preventing CheckBox selection with Key.SPACE
8. FlexTip: WordWrap for mx:Text
9. FlexTip: Add Thumbs to Mx:Slider programatically
10. AS3 Conditional Breakpoint – enterDebugger()

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.