Archive for November, 2005
Flex Alpha 2
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005TweetMark Anders has a really sweet post on what is coming from the various Flex teams and what we should be seeing with aplha 2. Although no timeline has been given in this article, we can see what the Flex teams have been working on and get a taste of what we can expect to [...]
UPS Tracking via Yahoo Maps
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005TweetUPDATE: This sample has been chosen as example of the day at: http://www.ifbin.com Using the new Yahoo maps beta I created this application to track your UPS packages as they move about the U.S. Flex is using a web service call to access a ColdFusion cfc which is acting as a facade to fetch the [...]
Image Cropping with AS3 and Flex 2
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005TweetThis example show how to crop out a section on an image using the new Bitmap and BitmapData classes. It captures the x,y,height, and width from the draggable red crop box. Source code for this sample is available in the Flex By Example section of IFBIN.com. This sample requires the Flash 8.5 player. Run This [...]
Bad News and Good News
Thursday, November 10th, 2005Tweet OK, first the bad news, the site was down for the past 36 hours due to corruption on the server. We are back up now and have restored most of the data. There are a few examples that may still be missing but will be replaced shortly. OK, now the good news, Ted Patrick [...]
Open Flex Window From Flex
Friday, November 4th, 2005TweetUsing the new ExternalInterface API we can call a javascript function to open a new window with a flex application. This sample requires the Flash 8.5 player. Run This Code View & Download Source Code