CustomGrid v1.0 (or SearchGrid v2.0)

Update: 15 August 2007 – CustomGrid v1.2 released
Last June , when I was just getting my feet wet with Actionscript, I was trying to build a grid component for the project I am working on and the output of that was posted as SearchGrid v1.0 and in July Ted Patrick included it in [...]

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Copy 2 ArrayCollections

This is actually written by my Colleague – Ajit Parthan. Have modified it a little bit so that it returns an ArrayCollection. This method takes in two ArrayCollections and returns a single ArrayCollection which is a sum of the first two. Ex -
ArrayCollection SRC 1 = A, B, C, D
ArrayCollection SRC 2 = [...]

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Nabble – FlexCoders forum

Check out the FlexCoders mailing list feed here at Nabble. I have been using Mail-Archive for a long time now for searching through FlexCoders. But, today I stumbled across Nabble. Hey! Nabble has a far better usable interface. the fonts are slick. The mail threads are shown beautifully and it allows me to see conversation [...]

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[Coding Cowboys]Validating forms in Flex 2

There are many different ways to validate forms in Flex. Which can make it hard to know what is the best method to use. Thru trial and error, this is the best and simplest solution for validating forms in most all situations.
[ Read More |  Demo ]

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[Coding Cowboys] Uploading Files with Flex and PHP

Check out a quickly-developed Flex application that manages multiple file uploads and processes them through a PHP file (right-click in the application to view the source). Or, you can check out an explanation and strategy we used for the PHP.
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Buttons with icons & preset properties

Ever wanted custom buttons in flex with set height & width? Ever wanted buttons with icons in them? If yes, then read on. One of the problems I had encountered in my current project is rooted from the philosophy that Flex follows with regards to the height and width of a widget. Coming [...]

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Databinding to read-only properties

This is a very interesting article (posted at Dynamic Flash) related Binding in Flex. [Bindable] is one of the most attractive features of the flex framework. But, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. This post should clear up some of those clouds.
Databinding has to be just about one of the [...]

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[Quietly Scheming]Some Thoughts and examples on making Custom Flex Charts simpler

I spend a lot of time on flexcoders helping people learn how to write custom extensions to the flex charting components. And while most of the time people are able to reach their goal, there is a steep learning curve they have to ascend first. So last week, in the middle of writing a typical [...]

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[Raghu]FLEX – i – FRAME

One of the biggeset pain points of FLEX/Flash (as i see it) is its inability to render HTML in its totality. FLEX supports a few HTML Tags, but not all.
The trick is very simple. Its just a clever use of the External API interface that lets the Actionscript inside a Flash movie, talk to the [...]

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