Yearly Archives: 2010

SharedObject not updating between tabs

Just created an app which required persistent data, so used a local SharedObject. However discovered that if one person had the app open in two different places(eg. 2 tabs) the persistent data in one tab wasn’t updating in the other

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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 list to automatically remove the item from the

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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 implement IFocusMangerComponent. And then, however you’re trying 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 was happening with the automatic sizing system… So

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XML read error in AIR

Back to blogging, working on a couple of projects: I was importing an XML file using the standard technique of using a URLLoader, and in the result handler, setting the XML file with: var result:XML = new XML(event.target.data); But I

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