Author: admin
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dynamic text field part I – letter spacing
Just discovered that flash resets the author-time letter spacing of a dynamic textfield when the textfield’s text is set in ActionScript. To maintain the authortime letter spacing settings of the textfield, you…
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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…
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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…
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Embedding external assets
Strange, strange. If you’ve embedded a Flash object inside a html page, and the Flash object loads external assets(images, SWFs, audio), the flash object locates the assets relative to the location of…
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positioning the cursor in a text field
positioning the cursor in flash can be a little tricky and sometimes temperamental, but we should be able to control where the cursor is with setSelection, with both beginIndex and endIndex set…
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printAsBitmap – object must be on stage
just for future reference, I’ve discovered today something that appears to be undocumented – when setting a PrintJob to printAsBitmap=true OR you are printing from a mac,(using the PrintJobOptions class) it is…
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preloader absorbing application FlashVars
As has happened frequently, after completing a Flash application, I find that the size of the application demands a preloader swf to load the application swf (complete with progress bar). the problem…