30 Sep 00:42 To build and deploy Flex application I usually use Apache Ant with Flex Ant Tasks which come with the Flex SDK. A few month ago the Flex-mojos blog got my attention and I added it to my RSS Reader and now I finally got the time to play around with it. “Flex-mojos is a collection of maven [... 24 Sep 19:59 After the 360Flex took place in San Jose I watched a few of the video recordings which are available through Adobe Media Player. Ted Patrick was also so nice to put them on his blog. I am always interested in new Flex frameworks and Swiz got my attention. I watched the video and started to play [... 28 Aug 02:41 A few days ago Powerflasher released a new version of their logging tool SOS. I have used it in the past but stopped using it because I switched to Mac. Since the new version also runs on OS X I gave the new version a try and it works nicely. I have posted a little extension [... 26 Aug 19:52 Last week I attended my first online live concert on Ligx.de. The band was Thrice, a post hardcore band which of some of you might know. I was skeptical with the user experience but was surprised positively. Of course it is not comparable with a real live concert but attending the entire show with support [... 25 Aug 23:59 Since last week FlexUnit has a new home on Adobe Open Source and I thought it would be the time to finalize my post about FlexUnit with AIR and Ant which I had in the pipe for a longer time. You can run Ant via command line or from within Eclipse which provides an Ant panel [... 11 Aug 19:14 To skin a TextInput you can define a custom BorderSkin which you can create with the Flex Skin Design Extension. But what do you have to do to have a custom disabled skin?. With CSS you can only set the backgroundDisabledColor. To have a custom disabled skin you have to subclass the TextInput control. In this [... 8 Aug 01:05 There were a lot of news and posts about Flex and open-source so I thought it would be nice to summarize it. Grant Skinner has posted a wonderful summary about common source code licenses. Matt Chotin asked for feedback on suggested projects related to Flex. Personally I would love to see an ORM framework like suggested by [... 5 Aug 00:03 I thought I share some Eclipse goodies which might simplify your workflow if you use Eclipse/Flex Builder on a daily base and don’t know them yet. Linked Resource Sometimes you can not avoid absolute paths within your Flex/AIR project settings (.project, .actionScriptProperties, .flexProperties) because you define for instance an include for a library. When you put these project [... 1 Aug 18:01 When you build a multi-window AIR application you have to care about the parent Sprite/DisplayObject you set for popups opened with the PopupManager and Alert. In a single application you probably used this: PopUpManager.addPopUp(yourView, Application.application as DisplayObject, modal); Problem is when you call this from a view which lives in a native window and not in the main [... 21 Jul 21:52 This is an example I have in the pipe for a long time but I think it still might be helpful to post it. I had the use case to build a Flex UI where elements are visible/invisible depending on the user who is logged in. The combination of the properties includeInLayout and visible does the [... | 