 | 23 May 21:58 My love for Flex grows more and more each day. I just found a super useful mxml tag that will save me (and you) a lot of work down the road. Have you ever wished that you could quickly create a component without having to structure a proper class file? Not needing to plugin [... 22 May 04:50 In case you haven’t heard about FlexBox, its a site with a big (and growing) list of various custom Flex components.  Fellow flex developer Mrinal Wadhwa has just made a major update to the component listings. And if you haven’t submitted your own custom component… well maybe you should. 18 May 03:06 Did a little testing today on general navigation through a sample application using the various JAWS Cursor Modes. This was necessary to get to the bottom of several inconsistencies when trying to navigate through a simple application. Testing was done using the following technologies: JAWS 6.2 JAWS 8.0 Flex 2.0.1 simple testing application IE Due to yet another [... 16 May 05:51 It seems that the more & more that I develop in Flex (and in particularly in the Agile process), the more & more I see the devolution of certain processes.  First let me preface by saying: I came from a design-ish background though I never fully embraced my role as such. I feel much [... 15 May 04:22 You may have remembered a post about tapping into the mx framework awhile back. Basically I was griping about Adobe’s excessive use of private (instead of protected) methods throughout their components’ code base. Well a buddy found a post on an ugly hack to do this without subclassing. Proceed at your [... 12 May 00:10 Just found this super neat (remember the days before ‘awesome’, ‘rad’ or ‘cool’) video. These guys hacked an industrial robot arm and synced it to motions of a WiiRemote. 11 May 04:08 First off. Either I am severely out of shape or I really went at it too hard. But I am sore as hell. I prefer to think the later though. Wii boxing & tennis are as addicting as… well um… crack? So after my initial ravaging of the Wii and a [... 10 May 04:48 Since most components make use of either the data or dataProvider, I recommend targeting these properties as a source for binding within the each accessibilityProperties object. Here is an example that you would find within an MXML component: <accessibility:AccessibilityProperties id="symbolNumberXChange_acc" forceSimple="true" description="The symbol {data.symbol}, at {data.number}, exchanges on {data.exchange}."/> It should be noted that accessibilityProperties should be [... 10 May 04:38 Since I have decided to plunge into the dark depths of what is Flex Accessibility Development, I will be posting my findings here and subsequent posts. This is a work-in-progress. This and subsequent posts will be targeting the following technologies ONLY: Flex 2 (2.0.1 SKD) ActionScript 3.0 JAWS 8.0.x Internet Explorer 6.0+ To get started, here are a few helpful [... 10 May 01:33 In case you haven’t heard… Flash CS3 Professional Demo And for those who do flex and component development you might want to get these as wel. Flex 2.0. | | |