by David Salahi on July 30, 2010
This is a follow-up to my post Flex 4 Vertical Sliding menu and shows two ways to highlight the currently active menu item. The first method is simpler and relies on keeping a reference to the current menu item in a member variable: protected var _currentMenuItem:Label = null; A new function is added to do [...]
by David Salahi on July 28, 2010
Right-click to view source. Here’s a Flex 4 menu component that you can modify with your own menu items and plug in to any application. The menu items are Labels; clicking on one triggers an event which you can handle in the container or elsewhere in your application. This sample menu includes two submenus which [...]
by David Salahi on July 21, 2010
Adobe Flex 4 Training from the Source, Volume 1, an Adobe Press release, is an outstanding resource for getting up to speed on the Adobe Flex 4 SDK and the Flash Builder 4 IDE. Most technical books take a sort of catalog approach to presenting their material. That is, each chapter discusses a specific set [...]
by David Salahi on July 9, 2010
I read RJ Owen’s blog post on the Flex 4.1/Flash Builder 4.0.1 releases so I decided to check my installation to see if was up to date. First, I tried the Help –> Search for Flash Builder Updates option in Flash Builder and it told me that Flash Builder itself was already up to date. [...]
