In my recent quest to quick cram as much Flex knowledge possible into my head, I thought I’d take a look at injecting Flash or pure actionscript content into Flex. For those who’ve been using Flex, this will be old hat. For those such as myself, though, who are just making their way into Flex from a [...]
I’ve seen this question asked in several forums. Enough, anyway, that I would remark on it. The question takes many a form, but it boils down to this: How does one pass arguments to a method acting as an event listener in Actionscript 3? In general there are three broad routes to take: Using a custom [...]
They all said the day would come.. But you know the sorts of things “They” like to say… But after returning from another sisyphean week of floating in the Atlantic, I discovered the Good News in my inbox. Back in December I was one of the lucky few (or many – who knows) who was allowed [...]
Many moons ago someone over at the Kirupa forum asked how to create a combo box that could display a list of fonts in their “natural state”. Sounded pretty interesting so I whipped together a quick example that made use of some graphics in the .fla library. It was nice and worked, but I thought [...]
