The team at Comcast Interactive Media is putting the final touches to an internally developed tool we use for logging events from Flex applications. The application is built on top of the Flex framework and runs as an installable AIR application. Best of all, we will be releasing it under the MIT open source license. [...]
Continuing from the last post, this entry just adds a few more tips for working with List controls. Creating RollOver/hit states: In the last entry I had shown how to create custom renderers that respected their position in the List. The next thing you will probably need to do is create custom rollover effects. One [...]
If you are a Flex developer, one of the Flex components you will work on quite a bit is the Flex List control. This entry will hopefully help you when creating custom List renderers the (hopefully) right and much lighter way. Almost all the Flex applications I work on require a List thats skinned a [...]
I am so excited, I better post this before I pass out . Christophe Coenraets just announced on his blog that Adobe just open sourced the Flash/Flex Remoting and Messaging services under the name BlazeDS. What does this mean? Well remember all those multi-user real-time applications that Adobe demoed selling their Flex Data Services? Well [...]
When Flex 2 came into beta, I wrote an online mp3 player application called FlexAmp. The application let you play songs from an online Box.net storage account and and used the ID3 info to load related content from Flickr, YouTube and Amazon.com. Mike Chambers later did a desktop application using AIR called Ascension that also [...]
ScrollImage is kind of like Flash ScrollPane component. The component takes any image url and loads the image putting scrollbars around it to allow the image to be scrolled. While the same effect can be created by using the Image inside a Canvas container, this implementation is much more efficient since its not creating a [...]
In response to another annoying Flex bashing article on Digg, I though I’d post my response and get some facts straight (I basically take all his ‘facts’ and respond to em so read the other article in paralllel). Funniest thing is, they are trying to sell a proprietary AJAX framework and scare their prospective customers [...]
Kevin, another Flash/Flex developer on my team, has a good poston his blog on the LoaderContext class and using it for getting access to the BitmapData object of an image loaded off a domain other than the one hosts the swf. I never tried this with AS2, so when we were unable to get BitmapData [...]
WooHoo !!!! The Fan, Comcast Interactive Media’s flagship video application, which I worked on as main architect and lead developer, was deployed to production this week. The Fan is currently one of the top 10 online video destinations and the new version adds a LOT of cool features to the application. I have already talked [...]
Earlier I had asked if anyone had any Flex questions I could ask Jeff Tapper when he came by to train the group, and a few people did. Unfortunately, the last day I had a major meeting maelstrom (try saying that three times fast) and so I didnt get to work on any of the [...]
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