Adobe Flex Intro PPT posted

A couple of weekends ago, I did a presentation for The Chennai Cold Fusion User Group (CCFUG Homepage). Am posting the ppt here. The presentation covered the basics – intro to RIAs, intro to Adobe Flex, a couple of examples and a little bit about Adobe AIR. Check it out… if you have nothing else [...]

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[Component] CForm v1.0

CForm is all about creating data entry screens. This component allows developers to create standardized forms/CRUD screens in their applications. The CForm component is a Data Entry component that can be very useful if -

you are building business applications with many data entry/view screens
you are working with a lot of developers. each handling separate screens/modules
you [...]

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CustomGrid v1.2

I am releasing the v1.2 of CGrid. It’s been in drafts for a long while now.This time, a few more basic niceties have been added to the CGrid.

Export to Excel (Copy selected rows or entire grid to clipboard and paste in excel)
User can select columns to view and width of the columns etc. [...]

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Flexedtoolkit Google project

WANTED: Developers who can contribute to this open source initiative
I have created a google project to put in some of the stuff that we have been working on and releasing through this blog. Some of the stuff that you can already download from Flexedtoolkit are -

Autorefresher
Client Idle Timeout
Custom Alerts
Custom Grid

I am working on [...]

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Flex Explorers

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

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

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

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

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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Yipppppeeee!!!! Apollo Alpha is out!

Wow!! Am I excited….. I just got a mail from Adobe saying Apollo Alpha is available for download. I am just downloading it. Too excited to writing anything more! Lemme try it now!!

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