[Tim Hoff] DataGrid ItemRenderer Example

This is a simple example, how to use either an inline or custom component item renderer with a data grid control. The example shows the various ways that a data grid column can be rendered using dataField, labelFunction, itemRenderer and headerRenderer. MXML and AS examples are included. The example also shows a method to communicate [...]

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[Andrew Trice] Gantt Charts in Flex DataGrids

Here is an example of how you can use an item renderer in a mx:DataGrid to create a basic Gantt Chart. Source Code available for this example.
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[Cynergy Systems] MortgEdge – A Good Example of RIA

Cynergy Systems have been developing RIA solutions for some of today’s most progressive companies. One of their best product is Online Mortgage Broker Information Management System(MortgEdge). MortgEdge was a model and design engagement to build a suite of software products that would dynamically synergize a mortage, it branches, loan officers, employees, borrowers and referrals to [...]

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Flex 3D Charts

3D Charts allow display of multiple attributes of a given data in the same graph. 2D charts are already available in Flex. With same data, a 3D graph can be displayed. The graph can be rotated around in 360 degrees by dragging mouse on the screen. Its perspective can also be increased/decreased by using Mouse [...]

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Get URL query-string variables within Flex application

[Abdul Qabiz's Blog - India] On flexcoders, someone asked, how to get the URL parameters in a Flex 2.0 application? By URL parameter, I mean the query-string variables, as shown below.
http://yourserver/yourapp.swf?name=Joe&age=22 or http://yourserver/yourapp.mxml?name=Joe&age=22 (requires server in place)
name and age are the query-string variables.
You can get the values of the params using from mx.core.Application.application.parameters object, which [...]

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Apollo to use WebKit(Safari) HTML engine

It’s now official. Apollo will use the Webkit HTML engine for supporting HTML/AJAX based applications.
WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications.
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[ Quietly Scheming ] Interactive Calendar Component

Many of you already know that Adobe Consulting team has been working on a calendar component. They have yet to release this component. In the mean time, Ely Greenfield (Quietly Scheming) has posted a proof of concept calendar component in his blog. Source code is not yet released but he does intend to make it [...]

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[Quietly Scheming] Interactive Bubble Chart

Interested in building customized, interactive charts?  See the demo and browse the source here.
Some of the noteworthy concepts demonstrated by this example include:

Custom Bubble Item Renderer
Custom interactive Pan/Zoom chart element
Custom Axis Renderer

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Flex Gauges

[Peter Ent: Writing Flex 2 Components]: Being part of the Flex framework insures that the component is created properly and receives events at the right time. For example, when the component is created its constructor is called, but that’s not the time to make any children (the skins – needle, frame, and cover). When it [...]

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[XML/SWF Gauge] Flash Gauges/Charting

XML/SWF Gauge
XML/SWF Gauge is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web gauges and dials from dynamic data.
Create an XML source to describe a gauge, then pass it to this tool’s flash file to generate the gauge. Type the XML source manually, or use any scripting language (PHP, Perl, ASP, CFML, etc.) to generate [...]

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