Archive for the ‘Flex’ Category
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Banging my head on some PrintDataGrid oddities, reported as Bug 15305. I suspect some of the code is making the assumption that only one PrintDataGrid will ever exists.
The sizing of the data grids seems oddly tied to previous grids that have been created. Can't figure out exactly the ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
If you use Flex on a Mac you may have noticed that the trackpad scroll doesn't work. The Flex team has deferred the problem, claiming it's a Flash Player bug. I can't find the Flash Player bug database, so I can't confirm it.
If you use Flex and find this as ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
My responses to Flex and Java – A Perfect Technological Marriage, section by section
Intro: "so you've been a java developer..." then "... JavaScript". Java and JavaScript, two different things. (Acknowledged implicitly in section 1)
Flex will be familiar to a Java developer. It will be familiar to a JavaScript web developer. ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Why is the XML namespace for Adobe's Flex mx?
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
When I first started back into tech in October, I was ignorant of the names of most of the technologies and how they fit in the ecosystem. I hadn't heard of Flex, Flash's big brother.
Since I've become familiar with it, and have been working with the Flex Builder 3 ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
If you have ever had to review someone else's MXML code and tried to trace your way through hierarchies of VBox controls containing HBox controls containing VBox controls containing TileList controls containing VBox controls, and so forth, you will quickly realize the value in creating components that have semantic meaning. ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Scripting languages often have the weakness of silent failure, which pays for the "robustness" value. Configuration-based "languages", particularly XML (the latest magic cool-ade) ones have a similar silent-failure weakness.
Flex 3.0 adds these two together plus a minimal amount of available documentation, provides loads of power, but also a huge ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
From Adobe's product information page about back-end support for their front-end Flex product.
LiveCycle Data Services ES (previously called Flex Data Services) software provides a comprehensive set of data-enabling features for using data in Flex or Ajax based RIAs that revolutionize the user experience. A powerful data services architecture and programming ...
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