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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010TweetEarlier this year, I authored several blog posts showing some of the differences and the upgrade path from moving from Flex 2/3 to Flex 4. F3 v. F4: Using ViewStack, TabNavigator and Accordion F3 v. F4 Tile v TileGroup F3 v. F4: Repeater v DataGroup F3 v. F4: Boxes v Groups Here is another nice [...]
Trapping flash.display.Loader IOErrors
Friday, October 15th, 2010TweetI was trying to debug an issue yesterday and stumbled across something in the Flex SDK that I was unaware of. I was using SDK 3.4, but this is also true of 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5. My issue was that I had a Loader class which I was using to load image files. In some [...]
F3 v. F4: Using ViewStack, TabNavigator and Accordion
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010TweetYou have probably used mx:ViewStack, mx:TabNavigator and mx:Accordion somewhere in your Flex development efforts over the last 5+ years and had code that looks like this: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223<mx:TabNavigator width="400" height="200" horizontalCenter="0" y="15"> <mx:VBox label="Tab 1"> <mx:Label text="This is tab 1"/> </mx:VBox> <mx:VBox label="Tab 2"> [...]
F3 v. F4: Repeater v DataGroup
Monday, January 11th, 2010TweetAh, good old repeaters. Well if you have used repeaters in the past you are more likely to say, good riddance Mr. repeater. Repeaters were not only pretty heavy components, but also just a general pain in the butt. So, what does Flex 4 have to help us? DataGroups! The following examples both use the [...]
F3 v. F4: Boxes v Groups
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010TweetLayouts are something that has changed a lot with Flex 4. There are several ways to accomplish your layout. Here is a simple Flex 3 example where we wanted to horizontally layout two vertical groupings of Label and TextInput components. 12345678910<mx:HBox horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"> <mx:VBox> <mx:Label text="First name:"/> [...]
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