 | 11 Aug 03:37 Often times I find myself needing to bubble events from an itemRenderer to the parent control. This is especially important when using a CairngormEventDispatcher. Events should be used by the views, rather than having them nested within the itemRenderer. This is commandment #10 on Jesse Warden's post 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm (or the way Jesse [... 25 Jul 02:06 Jesse Warden has a great new article about developing a custom Flex preloader using Flash (a cooler preloader as he calls it). He also has a new look for his blog that you can now read (just kidding Jesse). Jesse's post relates to my previous post regarding Error #2025. When I developed a custom preloader [... 19 Jul 23:01 My fellow flex dude Larry and I will be in Seattle at the 360Flex event. Our company is actually sponsering the lanards for the event. I would happy to chat with anyone about the Open Xdrive API we just resently released. We use the Xdrive API to power our own Flex applications. We have several projects in [... 18 Jul 00:45 Yesterday I spent the day in down town Los Angeles a the On Air Bus Tour. Adobe came to speak about the new Air Platform and provide information. It was surprising to see that there were as many JavaScript programmers interested in AIR as there were Flex developers. I guess its pretty cool to be [... 26 Jun 22:50 I got my new copy of Flash CS3 and proceeded to make a new preloader for my Flex application. I made a document Class for my CS3 file and attached a CS3 ProgressBar component. I had a public function in the Document Class for setting the progress of the Flex preloading. I dropped the SWF file [... 13 Jun 23:52 I think the title of this post says it all. I needed a InputText for the label of images in my TitleList control. I wanted users to click on the text and edit it in place. I started out creating a simple ItemRenderer with a InputText and skinned the InputText to look like a regular [... 6 Jun 23:56 My friend Lar sent me a brief post by Mike Britton about optimizing Flex SWF files. Since we use a lot of Modules in our development, I thought I would give it a try. In each of your Module Project files, place the following argument : –optimize=true into the Flex Compiler - Additional compiler arguments field. This [... 17 May 05:03 There is a new wiki page called Flex and ActionScript Error Codes that catalogs compiler and run-time errors including the fixes for these bugs. I have been burned more than once by obscure bug errors that I just couldn’t track down in the documentation. Notice that error code 1009 is documented by mister himself. It feels like [... 14 May 02:32 I am finally able to talk about a project I have been working on since November when I took a new job at AOL Personal Media in Beverly Hills. Xdrive Shows is a sharing application that lets you take content stored on your AOL Xdrive account, such as music and photographs, and create a show that you can [... 11 May 10:48 I ran into a very difficult issue trying to get upload files using FileReference and URLRequest. File upload was working fine in Internet Explorer, but nothing would work in Firefox. I tried tracing out the request using LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox, but I couldn’t even see any of the request data. With some help from my co-worker [... | | |