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Update: Duh. Juan reminded me of the mx:SoundEffect class which can be used just like all of the other effects. You can use the [Bindable] and [Embed] tags and you can use mx:SoundEffect inside the mx:Parallel and mx:Sequence tags as a way to incorporate it into other effects: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [Bindable] [Embed(source="assets/click_sound.

As some of you may know, I have been the community manager for the InsideRIA site since its launch last year. I would like to try something new for InsideRIA and that is publishing some snippets of information that is part of your book during the writing process. Think of it like “here is what [...

The following example shows how you can detect when a RadioButton has been clicked in a FlexRadioButtonGroup by listening for the itemClick event. Full code after the jump.

Thanks to everyone who attended my CFUnited presentation. I had a good turnout and I think it went pretty well. I am hoping that next year I can do a topic of my own choosing! :) Anyway, below is the presentation for those who want it. You can get the sample code out of Subversion at code.google.com/p/remotesynthesis. On a side note, as you can see the PDF conversion in Acrobat.

Thanks to everyone who attended my CFUnited presentation. I had a good turnout and I think it went pretty well. I am hoping that next year I can do a topic of my own choosing! :) Anyway, below is the presentation for those who want it. You can get the sample code out of Subversion at code.google.com/p/remotesynthesis. On a side note, as you can see the PDF conversion in Acrobat.

This is called The Instinct Java Developer Contest. Actually, the first prize is $20K + up to $5K as free membership (?!) in the developer’s program. Details are here. This sweet deal was backed by Sprint that’s promotes Samsung’s Instinct phone. I can’t recall AT&T offering money to develop programs for iPhone. But that’s fine - iPhone has been closed for developers till this Spring.

The following example shows how you can loop over the RadioButton controls in a Flex RadioButtonGroup by using the numRadioButtons property and getRadioButtonAt() method. Full code after the jump.

This time I’m going to show how you can mask an Object3D.  Fist of all we need to determine where the Object3D is , and translate it to 2D. We can do this by getting the screenvertex and passing the target-Object3. In this case we use the earth, of the previous example. Then new define [...

Posted on FLEXJOBS:"JibJab is looking for another Flex engineer to keep building our Flexteam here. We're small but we like it that way because we all get alot done and try many different things. You can see the directionwe're going in Flex by looking at our beta site:You will responsible for technical design and implementation ofcutting edge RIAs using Adobe Flash/Flex 3 with ActionScript 3.0.

The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The method is part of the public methods of the HTMLLoader class: loadString(). It accepts a parameter that contains the html content to load within an istance of the HTMLLoader class. With this simple code you'll load the htmlToLoad string into the HTMLLoader class.