March 24th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 (formerly Adobe Flex® Builder™) finally shipped on March 22nd.
This software is designed to help software developers rapidly develop cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) and content using the open source Flex framework. It includes support for intelligent coding, debugging, and visual design and features powerful testing tools [...]
February 26th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Using a custom Item Renderer for the Spark List you will still see the default selection and hover color in background, even if your component doesn’t have a background (I noticed that using a rounded rect)! Well, to avoid that just set the autoDrawBackground property to flase in your Item Renderer as shown:
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
If you have already experienced Flash Builder 4 beta 2, you have probably noticed the new Data/Services feature on wich Adobe has put a lot of efforts. Using its wizard it is straightforward how to connect to a database, but there is someting more, at least something I just discovered recently: the data management.
In brief, [...]
January 21st, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
In this previous tutorial I simply showed how to create a service in Flex and how to use it to create something in the database. Now we’ll use the service to get al the items in the database and to populate a DataGrid.
So, let’s open the project and create a DataGrid:
not difficult hu? Okay and [...]
January 20th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
PART I – Creation of the database, connection to the database, creation of items in the database
In this tutorial I will create a simple application to show you how to connect to a database in Flex 4 using the Data/Services functionality and PHP. FinallyI will also show you how to export data into an xls [...]
January 19th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in PHP
I use XAMPP to test my Flex applications, and I noticed a bug with version 1.7.2 sice it is using PHP 5.3.0: the default flex sercives will just retrive the first 256 charcters of the text stored in the database.
To solve it simply update to PHP 5.3.1 or update XAMPP to 1.7.3!
January 11th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Have you ever thought about this possibility? Well this is it: as3xls is a cool library that enables you to import and export xls and CSV files. It can be extremely useful to your needs!
Here some little tutorials.
Here the examples (google code link is broken!).
And here and other version of the same lib, but in [...]
January 9th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Let’s say you have lots of values you want to display in different DropDownLists, putting them all together would be such a mess, especially if they are a lot. So, if there is some knid of linking between these values, you could try to use this simple example to filter them, source here:
This example shows [...]
January 9th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Articolo originale in inglese.
Qualche giorno fa sono diventato matto cercando di formattare del semplice testo in una RichEditableText in Flex 4. Questo perchè nella nuova versione Adobe sta cambiando profondamente il modo di rappresentare gli elementi di testo:
“The Spark architecture provides three text “primitives” — Label, RichText, and RichEditableText — as part of its pay-only-for-what-you-need [...]
December 4th, 2009 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
Learn to use Adobe Flex 4 beta 2 (codename Gumbo) and Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta 2 in a week by stepping through this video training course. It is great, and it is the way I learned Flex.
From here you can download Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta 2.
If you are still a bit afraid [...]