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An AIR gotcha

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:48:00 GMT

I am working on an AIR application at work and I thought I would post a little gotcha when creating an application that does not use the default system chrome.

The documentation says to set the systemChrome to none, and set transparent to true and that will turn off the chrome... well... almost. If you are building a Flex based AIR application, you also have to set showFlexChrome to false as well, or you still get the flex chrome... Hope this helps someone :)

How To: Dynamic Datagrid

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:40:54 GMT

I have an example to share with you all. I am on a project that needed to be able to load a datagrids columns dynamically. Now, I had done something similar at one point, but not like this. I figured I would share this with you all(without giving away project secrets) a simple example of how to define datagrid columns and their data at runtime.

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Its good to be a Flex developer...

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:41:14 GMT

Ted Patrick outlines why its good to be a flex developer right now...

http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/07/how-to-find-flex-developers.php

Code from Presentation

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:55:40 GMT

Ok, I have the code ready for use. Adding and viewing employees is what is working. I figured I would leave it to you to see if you can get edits working and to use that as an avenue for you to ask questions.

The SQL scripts are for SQL 2005 but I can make ones for 2000 or MySQL. Although it wouldn't take much to do it anyway.

http://www.box.net/shared/k7307p7fp1

[box k7307p7fp1]

Thanks,

Clint

Presenting on Flex

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:47:29 GMT

I will be presenting on Flex tonight at our local user group. Its been a couple of years since I last presented and that was on Flex 1.5.

I will post my prez here when I get it finished :)

A count down timer component

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:32:27 GMT

On a project I am working on, I needed a count down timer. The first iteration was just built into the MXML file that needed the counter, but I soon wanted/needed to use this in other places. I also need more control over the layout so I decided to make this a component.

One thing I am finding about making this a component is that the code is much cleaner now and actually smaller that the original inline timer I made. I released this last night and realized that it has some bugs, but I have fixed those. I am including a MXML app that uses the counter so you can see it in action.

To change where it starts, just change the minutes attribute and there you go.

Get the zip here

You are free to use this however you see fit.

Simple Flex/CF Remoting Example

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:56:00 GMT

Hello all, in response to some questions on the FlexCoders list, I have made this very simple remoting example.

Before I get into the code, I just want to clarify what you need to run this example. All you need is CF 7.02, thats it.

Below is the MXML/AS code for the example.

In the above code, there are 2 functions that run. The first one is the initApp() and loadConfirm(event).

The initApp() runs when the application is created. its only job at the moment is to call a method in the remoting.cfc called confirmCFC.

The loadConfirm function sets a bindable variable to the response of the remote call's response. The variable is bound to a label components text attribute.

Here is the code for the cfc.

Thats it. Feel free to IM me with questions or post here on the blog.

Trace output tool

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:20:25 GMT

I have found myself having to use IE more and more (although its not my first choice) and I found myself missing the FireFox plugin, FlashTracer.

Well, I decided to make my own viewer and since I am a PC guy, I used C# Express and built this little app. I call it Trace Watcher and it does essentially the same thing as the Flash Tracer plugin and is useful.

There are a couple of bugs and things I will be updating soon, but I thought I would share anyway.