Are You Flexperienced?
I encountered a mystery surrounding several missing menu options in one of my Flash Builder workspaces recently. I wanted to create a new skin for a List control so I right-clicked on my skins folder and looked for the New MXML Skin option. And I looked. And I looked some more. But it wasn’t there. [...]
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Right-click to View Source When I first started trying to skin a radio button I was stumped for a little while because there are so many elements in the skin. It was difficult to tell what each one did and making modifications sometimes resulted in no apparent change. In some cases, this was because I [...]
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This is an example of a Flex 4 skin which provides a Spark List control with a completely customized appearance. This example has a border with rounded corners, a custom background color and different colors chosen for the rollover and selected colors. A custom ItemRenderer was included in order to get the desired rollover & [...]
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Hello! Flex 4 is written for experienced developers who are new to Flex, in general, or Flex 4 in particular. It’s organized as a series of 26 independent hands-on tutorials ("sessions"). Its scope is limited but could be a good introduction to Flex. As is the norm for code-oriented technical books these days the book’s [...]
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I’ve been grappling with a mystery lately regarding the failure of my flashlog.txt file. As you may know, you can direct all your Flash Pro or Flash Builder trace output to also go to this file by setting a couple of flags in mm.cfg. I had made those settings but I wasn’t getting anything in [...]
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