 | 15 Feb 00:26 When you want to disable a control based on a bindable variable in your application you usually use this method: [Bindable]private var active:Boolean = true; <mx:Button label=”MyButton” enabled=”{active}” /> But what happens if you want to use two variables in the enabled field and both must be true in order for the control to be enabled? Logically you [... 8 Feb 00:42 There has been recent interest in Flex themes lately and a few sites stand out. Eylon’s Napkin Theme tutorial is an excellent presentation of what is possible by with Flex themes. Scalenine is compiling a list of available themes and also offers several to download. With the resent release of Flex 2.01 you can now use [... 30 Jan 00:34 I ran into a problem recently with passing very long strings in the url property of an HTTPService component in Flex. What I would normally do is create a JSON string from nested objects and then pass that string to the server in the url properties. The component setup would look something like this: var [... 23 Jan 01:28 There is a blog site called Flex Doc Team lists updated documentation and examples from the Flex Documentation Team. They currently list updated documents for the new Module tag and Data Binding. I been experimenting with the Module tag for a bit and there are some little “gotchas” involved with its implementation. Right now I am trying [... 17 Jan 04:44 I have had a long standing problem that has been plaguing one of my recent projects. I wanted to remove the ContextMenu right-click items. The way it would normally be done is to create a new ContextMenu and then use the hideBuiltInItems(); to remove all the items from the right-click menu except for the Settings [... 13 Jan 01:42 For a current Flex project we use JSON to transfer data between the application and the backend. Adobe Labs has a JSON serialization library called corelib that includes MD5 hashing, JSON, and other parsing tools. The problem with the corelib is that it weighs in at a hefty 39KB. What if you need just JSON for [... 6 Jan 08:20 I am releasing into the wild some code I had worked on but never really completed fully. I was working on the creation of a FMS helpdesk application. I wanted to integrate Flex, FMS, and Cairngorm together in to one harmonious application. You can find my original post about working with FMS and Flex here. I [... 5 Jan 01:27 Happy New Years! I just purchased a new phone, the T-Mobile Dash. The phone used the Windows Mobile 5, Smart Phone edition. I love this phone, it has a great user interface, feels great in the hand, and it does a fine job with Internet, messaging, and mail services. The Dash also allowed me to [... 20 Dec 01:42 Apollo has been on my mind lately because I can start to see the real advantage of having an RIA sitting in your system tray with all the hooks to the operating system that Flash player just doesn’t allow. Here is a snippet from a recent ZDNet article on eBay’s plan to move [... 8 Dec 00:52 I have been mostly absent for the past month because my new job in Beverly Hills has been keeping me very busy. For my current project at the new gig I needed to develop a way to spring open accordion tabs on either rollover or on the drop of an item. We decided [... | | |