Tools.Flex 2: Trace from anywhere, a Flex based Tracer Panel.
Here is an Flex application that generates mm.cfg according to your OS (XP, Vista, Mac)and shows the standard trace() outputs in real time (well! there is a slight delay). I love to replicate the features of the IDE using Flash itself. It all started with my flash 6 reference panel made with flash 6
Utilizing the available application space effectively is one of the important things we need to consider when designing an user interface. Olden search interfaces had two parts text input field and a search button. Then the "search"/"find"/"go" text is replaced with a lens icon. Now a days this lens icon is embedded inside the input text itself.
If you want to do the same with Flex, here is a way.
We can assign the lens image as the background image and properly offset it by adjusting transparent area of the image. This technique can work only with a fixed width text field.
If you need your search field to be expandable place the TextInput inside a Canvas and place an Image on top.
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Tips.Flex 2: Adding an icon to all items in the List Component.
List component does not have a default icon. Easy way to add one is to add a Icon function which is very similar to the one we use with Flash v2 components. Only difference is instead of string we need to return a class reference to the image
[Embed (source = 'res/image_link.png')]
[Bindable]
public var image_ico : Class;
private function ImageLabelFunction(item:Object):Class{
return image_ico;
}
Now we can point the iconFunction attribute to this function as shown below
Here is a Flex 2 application which helps to quickly refer to MXML tags and and its attributes. I have plans to integrate it with the Flex 2 SDK help files and make it an Apollo application. I will improve it further and make it available here as online service
I'm making a XML Editor which can help playing around with E4X and manipulate the XML. Which will be hosted as an online service here and will also be available as a Apollo application later.
Here is the alpha version of it. I welcome feature requests and suggestions, kindly post them as comments to this post. The sample XML displayed will give you a clue of what's coming next :)
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Visual Guide.Flex 2: Setting up Flex 2 SDK on Fedora Core 6 - Part 1 - Installing Flash Player 9.
This Visual Guide can help an average windows user to setup flex 2 SDK and start building flex applications in the Linux platform. Part 1 shows how to install both standalone and plugin version of the flash 9 player.
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Saturday, December 23, 2006
