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September 11th, 2008

Flex Gangsta Rap

If you’re Flex Gangsta, let us know in our Flex Forum. And if you are just Gangsta, but want to be real Flex Gangsta, Sign up for our Coaching Program for learning Flex, AIR, ActionScript.

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August 28th, 2008

FlexTip: WordWrap for mx:Text

Maybe it is easy, maybe not, but I do not think it’s straitforward and logical. If you want to set word wrapping for mx:Text you have to set width. If you did not do this, whole text will be in 1 row and not whole text can be visible. So just set width to [...]

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August 28th, 2008

WP Syntax: Finally WP plugin for ActionScript 3 and MXML syntax highlighting

Finally I’ve found good Wordpress plugin for syntax highligting of ActionScript 3 and MXML. Syntax is very easy (who would tell that ) with only 2 settings: lang, line (from which line should code starts). So from today I can support both my favourite languages on my blog (i’ve changed already my last 3 [...]

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August 27th, 2008

Preventing CheckBox selection with Key.SPACE

This is quick Flex Tip. If you do not need or do not want change CheckBox selection with space key, you can set mouseFocusEnabled to false.

<mx :CheckBox mouseFocusEnabled="false"/>

If you know about any other solutions, let us know.

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August 16th, 2008

Flexets Forum: New resource for Flex / Flash / AIR learning

Flexets Forum: New resource for Flex / Flash / AIR learning

We have launched new forum on our company site Flexets.com to help people in Flex / Flash / AIR / ActionScript learning process. I hope we will help people to see that beauty and easiness in developing with Adobe tools. It’s targeted to Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript as well as collection of useful resources. We [...]

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June 9th, 2008

I just won Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition

Heh, I just won Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition on onAIR Tour in Prague few minutes ago :)) Mike Chambers lucky hand ;))
We’re in process of founding our company called Flexets, so it’s cool, I won Flex for Flexets
Thanks Adobe

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May 29th, 2008

CLICK and DOUBLE_CLICK Events

I’m curious if anyone need handle both events on same component in same time. Just imagine situation: You got circle. On MouseEvent.CLICK you want to decrease radius by 10px, on MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK increase radius by 10px. It is obvious that when you double click on circle, you dont want to fired both: decrease and increase radius.
Sure, [...]

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May 29th, 2008

FlexTips - Stop displaying Focus

Here is quick Flex Tip. If you don’t want to display focus rectangle on pressing TAB key, you should use focusEnabled = false;
It’s quick solution for 1 component, but if you want disable focus for all components in your application just use focusManager.deactivate();
That’s all, hope it helps to anyone…

New: Thanks to Marc Hughes for pointing [...]

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May 26th, 2008

Embedding fonts in Flex: just some glyphs

This is not tutorial, I’m just trying to figure answer our for that question: Is it possible to embed just some glyphs of font in AS3.0 project? I’m using just FlexBuilder, but there some other way, please let me know, I need to know answer ASAP.
Please let me know if it is not possible as [...]

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May 21st, 2008

Flash Player 10 Collection: 30 links and counting

My Flash Player 10 Collection is growing. Is not 24 hours from publishing and there are almost 30 links to various information and resources about Flash Player 10, PixelBender, different Flash tutorials how do stuff for Flash Player 10. So if you want to have all information in 1 place, watch for Flash Player 10 [...]

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October 10th, 2008

AS3.0 KeyboardEvent WooDoo

WTF? I don’t know what’s wrong, and if this is a bug or anything, but I came across interesting issue. Let me first tell, that it seems it’s bug on Windows, or maybe just my Windows really do not know, I need you to help me. I need your test to let me [...]

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September 17th, 2008

You can meet me in Brighton this year.

You can meet me in Brighton this year.

If you are going on FlashOnTheBeach to Brighton this year, you can meet me there and say hello. Maybe beer will be good at the evening If you will look for Flexets guys (t-shirt with Flexets logo) I know you will find me. It’s always great to see my readers and subscribers. I’m [...]

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August 28th, 2008

WP Syntax: Finally WP plugin for ActionScript 3 and MXML syntax highlighting

Finally I’ve found good Wordpress plugin for syntax highligting of ActionScript 3 and MXML. Syntax is very easy (who would tell that ) with only 2 settings: lang, line (from which line should code starts). So from today I can support both my favourite languages on my blog (i’ve changed already my last 3 [...]

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August 25th, 2008

WampServer - all you need for your localhost

I’m not PHP or MySQL guru, but from time to time I need test some product which I will use on live server and till now on the best 1-click installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL for me is WampServer. Installation takes few moments and that’s all. You can just start all services with one [...]

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August 3rd, 2008

Generating .xls Excel file - part I.

In my latest project I need generate Excel .xls file from Flex. Because in Flex or Flash there is no support for such generation, I’ve to do it manually and I want to share this knowledge with all of you in this new tutorial serie. Because content of Excel file can vary this will be [...]

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August 2nd, 2008

I’m aggregated by RIA.Alltop.com

I want to everyone know that I’m aggregated by RIA.Alltop.com, so in RIA category of AllTop.com.
For all AllTop.com visitors, this is site is about Flex, AIR and Flash Development and news from RIA World. I hope you will find here information you need for you, or just some exciting news. I will do my best [...]

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August 1st, 2008

I’m Back at Adobe Feeds

I would like to thanks to Daniel Taborga and Scott Janousek to resubmit my changes to Adobe Feeds (MXNA).
As you can see I have move my blog to http://www.franto.com from previous URL (http://www.franto.com/blog2 or http://blog.franto.com) because of SEO problems If you have bookmarked my blog, please update your bookmarks to http://www.franto.com and my RSS [...]

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July 23rd, 2008

Incredible Flash Game: Fantastic Contraption

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Physics game - never be the same. Many solutions for same goal. Saved game can be watched by other people.

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July 23rd, 2008

Flash CS3 Components in Flex Builder AS3 Project

Today we needed to use Flash CS3 Components in Pure AS3 project in Flex Builder. All Flash coders know, that Flex Builder is much better coding environment than Flash CS3. I’ve expected that SWC files from Flash CS3 components will work in Flex Builder, but it’s not that easy But Josh Tynjala already wrote [...]

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July 21st, 2008

3x creative use of displacement filter

I fell in love with DisplacementMapFilter as it first time appeared in Flash 8. All tree demos you see here are remakes of some old AS2 experiments; in AS3 performance should not be such issue - actually the only performance test I took was when I displaced 800×600 bitmap with itself back in AS2 and [...]

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