Tag: component
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Custom component for distribution – live preview detection
It’s been a while since I worked on a custom component for distribution, to auto-install in the Adobe Extension Manager. Many online tuts and official documentation assume that you want to extend…
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Strangeness in custom component parameters
I decided today to systematically analyse a problem that’s bothered me for several years: What determines whether a parameter setter for a custom component will be called? Today I’ve finally worked it…
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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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Component styling utility function
In addition to an earlier post here: I have put the sample code into a simple utility function that will apply a TextFormat style to any component or TextField, without needing to…
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"Color" component parameter
I never really understood why when you define a component parameter, you can define its type. Wouldn’t the variable type that the parameter is related to, always define the type of the…
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Styling Text In Instances Of Components Using TextFormat
this is an extension of a previous entry here. Text in components or TextFields can be formatted in several ways – applying styles manually in the case of TextFields, applying a style…