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Archive for April, 2007

Autorefresher Component

Posted in ActionScript, Demo, Flex, Flex Components, Scriptlet on April 24, 2007 | 23 Comments »

If you have been working on applications which serve highly dynamic data on the screen, you are most likely to have had to rely on the “polling” mechanism to get updated data from the back-end. We had similar requirement in our project and we created a tiny component using Flex’s Timer Class to fire a [...]

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Flex Explorers

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Demo, Flex Components, GUI, Skinning on April 18, 2007 | 12 Comments »

I have been collecting all the “flex explorers” from time to time as they are rolled out. The Flex explorers have been really really handy when it comes to checking for some stuff which you are not sure whether is possible. Without the style explorer, we would have been completely lost! From a styling perspective, [...]

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Silverlight, Sparkle and Flex

Posted in Adobe, Apollo, Flex, GUI, Generic, Web 2.0 on April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »

First it was Sparkle and now the new babe in the block is Sliverlight. A month ago, I saw a video covering the Sparkle developers showcasing some pretty cool stuff about Sparkle. Ok. So, I am not one of those bunch who hate anything that comes out of Microsoft because it comes out of [...]

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ANT task to generate ASDoc

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flex on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I am sure most of you would have already seen this. I was googling around for some documentation on how to generate ASDocs. The command line arguements for asdoc.exe is pretty cryptic and its definitely not a tool for someone who is new to the whole thing. I guess I am not the only one [...]

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Client/User Idle Timeout Component

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Demo, Flex, Flex Components, Scriptlet on April 16, 2007 | 10 Comments »

I was looking around in the net for an effective client/user IDLE TIMEOUT mechanism. My requirement was very simple – The UI should time-out if the user is idle for more than 5 minutes. In geek terminology, IDLE translates to zero keystrokes and zero mouse movements.
After googling around and then spending some time at Flexcoders, [...]

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Warn on flex application exit

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flex on April 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »

If you have been developing web based applications which require login, I am pretty sure you would have come across this question – How do you safe-logout the user if the user just closes the window/tab when there is unsaved information on the user’s screen?
My current Flex project requires the user to login and [...]

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Styling Alerts – CAlerts v1.0

Posted in ActionScript, Flex, Flex Components, GUI on April 10, 2007 | 47 Comments »

We’ve been busy for the last couple of weeks. And some posts have been DRAFT for quiet some time. I guess its high time I completed those posts and getting back into active posting mode .
Back to Flex. This time we are looking at Alert Messages in Flex. While the flex alerts are [...]

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