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Author Archives: newtriks
How to Setup A ColdFusion Project in IntelliJ IDEA
I had recently put out a twitter request to see if there are any tutorials out there for setting up a simple ColdFusion project with IntelliJ IDEA and I got no response. I presumed there would be a specific routine for a ColdFusion project but it seems that there isn’t one and after having a [...]
mx:Module and Unsupported Spark Components
Just to note a minor gotcha to be aware of when using mx:Module’s with Flex 4. Certain Spark components are not supported within mx:Module, two of which are: s:layout s:states A suggested workaround for this is to either add a view component which extends a Spark component such as s:Group to your mx:Module, or simply [...]
MX ComboBox Open Direction Bug – Alternative Solution
Here’s another ComboBox bug (plus potential feature) that irritated me no end with a fix being made difficult due to the relevent methods I needed access to in ComboBox.as declared as private (as so many are in mx components [bangs head]!!!). Bug: ComboBox opens in a specific direction according to its current position on the [...]
Flex Popup Modal and HTML Text Issues
I found an interesting couple of issues today whilst working with Popup’s. Due to time this post is brief but to the point and below is a link to an example (with source) of the issues with fixes. 1) Firstly I was passing an Object to the Popup with the data to display and discovered [...]
Spark DataGrid
I have recently created a new GitHub repository for my code seperation of Alex Harui’s combination of Spark List components to build a datagrid. As my notes say: I have basically taken Alex Harui’s example from http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2009/12/spark_list_spark_list_spark_da.html and broken it up into more bite size chunks, added some styling and various other attributes to try [...]
Streaming an FLV using Spark VideoPlayer/VideoDisplay
I had a head banging moment last night trying to help a mate out to stream an FLV from Akamai (also seen on Wowza) using the latest Spark VideoPlayer component. We had a working flv streaming in the old mx:VideoDisplay absolutely fine, update the component to the Spark equivalent and nothing, nowt, nada, not even [...]
Posted in Flash Media Server, Flex, SDK 4, Video Tagged Flex 4, RTMP, Spark, Streaming Video, VideoDisplay, VideoPlayer 2 Comments
Server move for newtriks.com
I have recently moved this site to my new server and there may be some non-functioning application examples, lost comments (during last nights dns change) and maybe some other small issues, sorry about any inconvenience caused. I will be getting things up and running as soon as I can, although the majority should be sorted [...]
Changing DataProvider in a Flex ComboBox Problem Fix
I have stumbled across an old fix I found for a problem I had with an mx:ComboBox ages ago and thought it worth while blogging about. Basically I found that if I bound an ArrayCollection to the dataprovider of a ComboBox and then changed the contents of the ArrayCollection, the ComboBox would not update? I [...]
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Helper Method for Handling Flash Vars in Flex
I have used the below logic repeatedly now for processing Flash Vars in my Flex 4 applications which others may find useful. In the example below I use it in a service class. Basically I define a custom value object with the flash var properties defined. I then loop through the available parameters in the [...]
How To Reset Default Folder Icons on Mac OS X