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Archive for February, 2007

FlexBox: A directory of Adobe Flex components

Posted in ActionScript, Flex, Flex Components, GUI on February 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Mrinal Wadhwa has created a really nice application for cataloging flex components that float around. The way it has been categorized is really neat. Its a must see! I really liked the information summary he has included for each component. You get all information in one screen. Flex box goes into by de.licio.us immediatel [...]

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1 in every 10 java developers moving to flex??!!??

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flex, Generic on February 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Many would have read or heard this before. I stumbled across this at O’Rielly’s onjava.net in a post by Shashank Tiwari.
Today we have between 3 and 4 million Java developers and we assume that this number grows to 5 to 6 million within the next three to five years. (Which itself is very optimistic, though [...]

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[Asual] SWFAddress v1.1

Posted in ActionScript, Demo, Flex Components on February 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »

The stuff looks neat. But, am still not sure whether we need it as now we have History Management built in as part of the Flex project compilation. Checkout the demo.
SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables [...]

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Open-source TreeGrid Component

Posted in Flex, Flex Components on February 8, 2007 | 23 Comments »

Derek Adams has posted a Treegrid Component at sourceforge. Darron Schall had created this “different” component sometime back. Check it out. It looks pretty cool. Sometime back, another version of a treegrid had surfaced. It was more of a DataGrid with Data Grouping capabilities. Check out the details here and the Demo here. One catch [...]

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Coloring the DataGrid Background

Posted in ActionScript, Flex, GUI, Scriptlet on February 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Peter Ent has posted a really neat tutorial on extending the Datagrid widget to support more options of background coloring. This is one of the most elaborate and precise explanations, I have come across so far. Its not just a DataGrid component, he walks the reader through each method that has to be written so [...]

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Time Entry Component

Posted in ActionScript, Flex, Flex Components, GUI on February 1, 2007 | 55 Comments »

Brenden Meutzner from Stretch Media has created a slick Time Entry Widget. It would be a real handy component for all application developers. Now, you can forget about all those messy time format validations etc.
The component has some pretty cool properties like is24Hour, showSeconds etc. To customize the component in your mxml, set the following [...]

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