Category: Flex
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #7 – Removing DragDrop animation
In Flex was building a simple drag and drop from a library list to another simple list. I also wanted to build the functionality of dragging the item out of the simple…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #6 – Keydown
Spent some time screaming “Why can’t my component receive keyboard events? “ Crazy, I’m not sure why i never knew this, but for a component to receive keyboard events, it needs to…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #5 – ButtonBarButton bugs
So i had a series of custom Buttons all set up perfectly in a ButtonBar, when I realised that the design dictated that one of the buttons was a different size than…
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ComboBox direction
I needed to force the Flex ComboBox to open in a specific direction. (I’m using a HTML Component FCKEditor, which has to be on top, so I need to aim the ComboBox…
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Skinning the DateField icon
When adjusting the Date icon skin in a DateField component, its not sufficient to just use the css that Flex auto-generates when importing the Skin Artwork. In addition to ‘skin’, you must…
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Frusting Flex problems solved #4 – preventing a DataGrid column from resizing
What a laborious problem this was! I had set up a DataGrid that resized with the browser, and the user could also resize the column widths. However one column contained a button,…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #3 – DataGrid scrolling error
I’m currently working on a project that requires me to be using Flex 2 rather than Flex 3(I’m using an older version of Zinc, and avoiding upgrading if possible as we’ll probably…
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ObjectCollection
i’d set up a repeater to display data returned from a ColdFusion call – which would either be a Y or N. I wanted to adjust how this appears to YES or…
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An Internal Build Error has occurred…
public var interactionType:String=INTERACT_DRAG=INTERACT_FORM; This line of code just wasted 4 hours of my life. Flex didn’t notice that there was a problem, and it was only in building that a problem arose…
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deployment issues
just finishing up an alpha version of a Flex project and discovering a couple of deployment issues that are worth getting down for future – i was getting a persistent ‘Where is…