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…
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…
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 away from it, so it doesn’t animate underneath…
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 also specify that upSkin, overSkin, downSkin, disabledSkin are…
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, and needed to not be resizable by the…
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 be moving to AIR after this project). But…
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 NO, and thought a straightforward way of doing…
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 with the line ‘Classes must not be nested.’…
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 the debugger or host application running?’ popup window…
Before I forget... 
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