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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010If you are at the 360|Flex conference this week, please let me know how it was by answering this simple poll. Click here to vote!
F3 v. F4: Boxes v Groups
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Layouts 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.
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<mx:VBox>
<mx:Label text="First name:"/>
<mx:TextInput />
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F3 v. F4: New Series Overview
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010There have been many changes to the way you use the Spark (xmlns:s) components of Flex 4 vs the older Halo (xmlns:mx) components of Flex 3. My plan of this series is to release a simple comparison post every couple of days comparing the way you would do something in Flex 4 vs Flex 3.
Lets [...]
Merry Christmas from AIRVoice (AIR 2.0)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Well, a while back I did a Merapi Voice demo using Java on the back end along with AIR on the front end and communicating via Merapi.
PLEASE NOTE THIS DEMO REQUIRES AIR 2.0
Download the DMG
With the pending release of AIR 2.0 and the cool new airlock api from Alan Queen I was able to do [...]
Adobe AIR: Passing arguments into native executables
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I have completed a new chapter for the upcoming O’Reilly Flex 4 Cookbook on AIR Basics. This includes a section on how to work with native executables.
Here is what I did as part of this example.
First I created a simple application that included some native c code that simply accepted a few arguments and printed [...]