When using Drag-and-Drop enabled controls, you can use a public function called calculateDropIndex(event:DragEvent) to figure out where Flex will drop the element being dragged. This method is part of the ListBase class and is overridden for TileBase (which extends Listbase but is the superclass for containers that layout stuff horizontally).
Here is a quick tip for Flex newbies although I imagine this is something thats fairly obvious. If you want to change the complete dataset of an ArrayCollection, do not create a new ArrayCollection object pointing to the same variable(well you can, but it will kill all the databound controls that are listening to events [...]
This is amazing. My apollo application is one of the 10 finalists in the Digg API contest. But it gets even better: Techcrunch did an overview of the 4 apollo based entries and only mine has a screenshot up there (yay! I am special). I am not going to win the contest itself but I [...]
I just submitted by entry for the Digg API contest. Building on my earlier DiggGraphr tool, I was fairly easily able to port it to Apollo. I even added some customization features, like refresh interval and stuff. For more details on the application, check out the application page here. Feedback is always welcome PS, it [...]
This is for a project I am working on and it works pretty sweet. There were a few lessons learnt during the development of the app so I thought I would write a post on it in the spirit of the rest of the world learning from my mistakes . The project (that I cant [...]
Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) is hosting the next PFPAUG meetup and I will be talking on how we use Flex here in applications that immediately appear in front of millions of people. My recent blog entry on how we used Flex to develop the next version of the square view of the Fan got quite [...]
Woohoo. We (the entire Comcast Interactive Media group) just got back from a private screening of the new Spiderman movie. The whole theater was rented out for us and food and soda were aplenty. We are still looking for developers across the board, so if you have coding skill in any domain, c’mon over. Mail [...]
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