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:"/> [...]
F3 v. F4: New Series Overview
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010TweetThere 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. [...]
Flex 3 vs Flex 4 State Management
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009TweetHere is a very simple example of how State management has changed between Flex 3 and Flex 4. Other than the default skin, both of these applications are identical in their resulting swfs. However, how they are coded is much different. Take a look at the code and samples below (Note: Click on the buttons!). [...]
New Gumbo Specs Added
Thursday, October 30th, 2008TweetThree new specifications have been added for Flex 4 (Gumbo). Read about them here: Arbitrary Type Interpolation New Effects for Components and Graphics 3D Effects Support
Flex 4 Skins are Awesome!
Friday, July 25th, 2008TweetEly Greenfield shows how to alter a simple list control through the new skins file within Flex 4. This is simply awesome!
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