 | 22 Sep 08:17 So I was playing around with Flash the other day trying to make skins for buttons. I haven’t done any real flash work in probably over a year now. But I decided I would try to make a useful component modification to the mx:TextInput. It doesn’t have a built in clear button [... 13 Sep 22:33 Have you ever tried to manually launch a debug.swf in your browser and got the “connect to debugger where? localHost or remote” dialog box?. Here is a scenario: You have a flex application that has some service deployment dependencies on the server it is deployed on. In plain English this means that in order for your application [... 23 Aug 21:46 While waiting to get my hands dirty on my new contract, I decided to fix the title issue with my FieldSet component. It now truncates the text if the text’s width tries to extend beyond the constraints of the border. There were a few house keeping tasks done inside as well. [... 11 Aug 03:22 Today is my last day as a Flex Consultant at Fidelity Investments. Being that, I had to do a little “brain-dumping” into some of my colleagues about the work I have done here.  This led to the discussion about the whole mx framework and how Flash renders visual components.   That led to visiting my Invaluable [... 12 Jul 03:43 Interesting find: I am able to access private/protected members of certain UIComponents via FocusEvents heard by the systemManager. How: On my application, I am assigning a listener to the systemManager for FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN events. This means that almost anything in the displayList will ‘bubble up’ to the listener. systemManager.addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN, onFocusIn, false, EventPriority.DEFAULT_HANDLER, false); Conclusion: [... 5 Jul 22:45 I promise this is the last posting I am doing for the HRule and VRule components. My buddy just kept on buggin’ me that he needed padding for the standard HRule and VRule components IN ADDITION to needing dashed styling. So I added it. The source code on jwo_lib has been updated (haven’t updated the swc [... 3 Jul 23:40 So finally I added those two components to the jwo_lib (new SWC and source). I have deprecated the older swc as there were major issues with the HyperlinkText component not playing well with Repeaters. (Possible bug Adobe? 3 Jul 02:36 No biggie. This isn’t an original concept in the least bit. But I figure I will add to the stew and present my own modified HRule and VRule. These guys took maybe a total of 20 minutes to make. I got so sick of programmatically doing dashed lines, I figured what the hell, [... 27 Jun 05:10 Yeah so I had my first real experience with RegExp. Like a timid, prepubescent girl I quickly glanced the LiveDocs for RegExp, only to quickly giggle, blush and run off to tell my other little friends. No really, I was a complete noob. Today I couldn’t run off to something else. A task [... 20 Jun 01:06 Ok, so its been nearly a month since I last posted. I have been in a royal funk lately. So there had been some interest in the whole Sequence Command thing awhile back. And I had never really followed through. So now that I have some free time, I am reviving the initiative. [... | | |