I had to track down a download location for Adobe’s Flex 3 install today. It was a little hard to find so I thought I’d share this link for a Windows install: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flex/flex_builder/FB3_win.exe Why it’s at a macromedia.com address I have no clue, but hope this helps someone out. This defaults to a 60 day [...]
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Adobe added a new resource to help everyone including designers, web developers, programmers, managers and architects learn Flex the way they need to. It’s called http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/learn/. I can’t wait to dive in and make use of this. From what I’ve seen so far, it includes real-world examples, videos, links, white papers, articles, excercises, quick starts, and [...]
For me, the Cairngorm Flex Framework has been a bit challenging. Keeping up on different frameworks and libraries for Flex, ColdFusion, JavaScript, etc. can be a bit daunting. So every bit of help is a blessing. Adobe has released an Eclipse Cairngorm Plugin “that augments Flex Builder to provide tooling that improves productivity when developing [...]
Here’s an example I created to bind a text field with a label. This needs to be done with you are dynamically creating components inside of your app instead of using MXML. Be sure to use the if statement on the unwatch function to avoid an error for null pointing.
Here’s a great tool to help with Flex debugging. Put <mx:TraceTarget /> into your code and run your app in debugging mode. You will see valuable debugging information appear in the console area. Great for hassling with remoting like ColdFusion CFC’s. Form more info: Adobe Flex 3 Language Reference TraceTarget
I have a Flex project that I copied in from another source to work on. I changed around some output properties and library paths via the Properties context menu for the project. The changes would hold while Flex was open, but it would never update the .actionScriptProperties file, thus when Eclipse was restarted, the changed [...]
When removing items from an array via its index number, remember to always start from the end and work your way to the beginning. If you don’t, and are removing more than one item, the index you where looking for will no longer be the correct item because one or more have already been removed [...]
