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Category Archives: SDK 4

mx:Module and Unsupported Spark Components

By newtriks | August 5th, 2010
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 [...]
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Spark DataGrid

By newtriks | July 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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Streaming an FLV using Spark VideoPlayer/VideoDisplay

By newtriks | July 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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Helper Method for Handling Flash Vars in Flex

By newtriks | April 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
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