 | 29 Jun 16:56 The following example shows how you can maintain a loaded image’s original aspect ratio on a Flex Image control by setting the maintainAspectRatio property. Full code after the jump. 28 Jun 16:58 The following example shows how you can detect when the source property has changed on a Flex Image control using the sourceChanged event. Full code after the jump. 28 Jun 11:11 I’ve recently compiled a fairly complete database of all the messages ever sent to the flexcoders mailing list. I’ll be posting the sqlite database file that you can load into your own AIR applications to start playing with this data. But before anything else I thought I’d post a few fun tidbits: Top 10 Posters Poster # Messages # [... 28 Jun 03:56 Have you ever wanted to store a users password, you know, that little checkbox that says 'Save Password' on any login form. Or maybe you just want to persist a session token or other information. You could use the Local Shared Objects or even the File API, but that isn't very secure. How do you [... 28 Jun 03:18 Do you want to create your own flex component? Or you simply don’t like the style of the component you need to use, or even there are some features you would like to have in your actual component? The following 5 tutorials will show how to achieve these goals. Developing Flex Components This tutorial aims to teach [... 27 Jun 23:39 Another very important and delicate aspect of desktop applications, but not only, is the one regarding data encryption. Encryption is the process of transforming data by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing a key. Adobe AIR has an EncryptedLocalStore class that allows to encrypt data to store it on the client’s machine. Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore APIs use DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) on Windows and the Keychain on Mac. 27 Jun 16:02 In an earlier example, “Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property”, we saw how you can set a Flex Button control’s label placement using the labelPlacement property. The following example shows how you can detect when the labelPlacement property has changed using the labelPlacementChanged event. Full code after the jump. 27 Jun 12:02 I don’t spend a lot of time on MySpace anymore but I noticed Ciara was messing with her profile and there was a little WYSIWYG editor over on the left hand side. Since I spend a lot of time with Flex applications it was pretty easy to see that they were using Flex for their new profile editor and James Ward’s Is it Flex confirmed it. The application is kind of boring. 27 Jun 09:38 I have just stumbled in this great site, whose the author is Drew Cummins. This guy it seems to be a genius of the physics and maths. I picked up two tutorials he wrote on about using the FOAM and another simple as3 and physics. Keep an eye on his blog, because it’s really good. Read [... 27 Jun 04:41 Google Gears is a very interesting platform. It’s a browser plugin that is aimed at extending the abilities of web browsers to satiate the needs of modern day rich web applications. The Gears website defines it as follows .. | | |