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FlexSkinning: Skinning and Styling of Flex Components

This is start of new serie on my blog Franto.com. In latest Flex and AIR projects I’ve used lot of custom skinning and styling of original and custom Flex components and I’ve found it very easy. But also there are some curious exceptions and other stuff I like to share with you in this new [...]

FlexTip: Add Thumbs to Mx:Slider programatically

I have some new Flex Tip for you. Maybe you have found it already if you have tried add new thumbs to Mx:Slider (HSlider, VSlider) programatically. There can be various “small” problems. Or maybe there is just another way
What I’ve tried is increase thumbCount property and add new value to values property. But [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

FlexTip: 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.

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 [...]