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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Zarqon Active License Control System For Flex/AIR Applications

Cliff Hall from Future Scale and PureMVC has released a public Beta for his companies new product called Zarqon. This is a much needed AIR app for licensing your Flex/AIR applications and the beauty of it is that its reliant only on Amazon S3 no other third party dependencies! Zarqon is a cloud-based system that [...]
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Using BindingUtils chain Value for Nested Property Bindings

In my previous post I mentioned using BindingUtils to update a View with data from a Model. One problem I found were my bindings within nested properties i.e. accessing a value within an Object in a Class, were not firing. The sequence would be model.data.selectedValue.value and setting up the binding in ActionScript I had used [...]
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Horizontal Halo Form Layout

I cannot count the amount of times I have had to use damn mx_internal in this project !@$%^ It's been raised by many a developer that inaccessibility of certain properties in halo components is a grade A pain in the ar$e and I agree, Spark is already a vast improvement. My latest was getting an [...]
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Example ANT Scripts

I love ANT, no two ways around it I really dig it. I have been developing a new example modular application recently which compiles using RSL's and I have been working on an ANT script to build the bad boy. There were a few hoops I had to jump through and I got fed up [...]
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Create A Flex Library Module in IntelliJ IDEA 9

Time for another simple IntelliJ IDEA 9 step by step guide. This time I will run through how to create a Module Library (equivalent to a Library Project in Eclipse) and then create a Flex Module in the same Project space to utilise this new Module Library. This FAQ for Eclipse users is great for [...]
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Flex List – Extra Row Bug

Slowly digging through archives of stuff I have been meaning to blog and I got reminded about this little issue I noticed when I increased the row height on a Flex List component. Looking at the example below note that the list on the left has a load of white space below the final row???
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Simple PureMVC Application on GitHub

For my talk tomorrow on constructing a simple PureMVC application I have uploaded the source to GitHub. This is my first proper submit to GitHub so fingers crossed it's all gone to plan. http://github.com/newtriks/SimplePMVCExample For this application I also quickly put together some other resources that may be of some use to use as references [...]
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Excluding packages in ASDoc Builds Using ANT

I recently had an ANT build.xml script and I ran into a small issue with excluding directories of classes. ASDoc won't allow you (as far as I can see) to exclude a directory of classes, only a defined list of classes which wasn't what I was aiming for. I found this dudes post which offered [...]
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