This Week.5 in FlexExamples.com (9/12)
I was away for the Labor day long weekend and it looks like I forgot to post. Either that or I was too lazy. At any rate, here's what you may have missed over on blog.flexexamples.com since my last update:
- Debugging Flex applications with mm.cfg and flashlog.txt
- Charting in Flex Builder 3 (public beta 1 edition)
- Changing the Accordion container's easing duration and easing functions
- Highlighting the Accordion container's currently selected header
- Resizing a Flex Accordion container to fit its contents
- Adding icons to a Flex Accordion control
- Toggling a Flex DataGrid control's header row
- Detecting the mouse scroll wheel in a Flex application
- Styling the Flex DataGrid control using a custom separator skins
- Styling a Flex Button control using embedded fonts
- Launching new browser windows from Flex
- Toggling draggable columns in a Flex DataGrid control
- Toggling resizable columns in a Flex DataGrid control
- Creating drop shadows on the Flex TextInput control
- Creating a Flex DataGrid control with a transparent background
- Toggling sortable columns in a Flex DataGrid control
- Setting custom status messages in a Flex Panel container
- Customizing a Flex ToolTip instance's appearance using styles
- Customizing a Flex TextInput control's error color
- Installing the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3
- Controlling a Flex tool tip's show delay, hide delay, and scrub delay
- Globally disabling tool tips using the Flex ToolTipManager class
- Adding animations and effects to Flex tool tips
- Creating fixed width buttons in a Flex ButtonBar component
- Setting a Flex tool tip's maximum width
- Converting color names to numbers using the StyleManager class
- Trimming strings using the Flex StringUtil class's trimArrayElements() method
- Trimming strings using the Flex StringUtil class's trim() method
- Substituting values in strings using the Flex StringUtil class's substitute() method
- Checking if a character is whitespace using the Flex StringUtil class's isWhitespace() method
- Changing tab alignment within a Flex TabNavigator container
- Styling a Button control
- Changing the cursor in a Flex application using the CursorManager class
- Styling the TitleWindow container
- Changing the track height of a Flex ProgressBar control
- Finding out which fonts are installed on a user's system
- Customing the Flex HSlider and VSlider controls
- Building a simple style browser in Flex 3
- Introducing the StyleManager.selectors property in Flex 3
- Styling the HSlider control using CSS
Whew! Its been a busy 2 weeks. Enjoy.
BFF,
Peter
Comments
Wow, FlexExamples.com has been a lot busier than I expected! Since my first post ("Downloading the latest Adobe Labs version of Flex 3 SDK/Flex Builder 3 (codename: Moxie)" -- July 17, 2007), I've managed to write around 160 posts, so sayeth the WordPress admin dashboard.
The race to entry 500 is on!
Posted by: Peter | September 12, 2007 8:14 PM
I am a big fan of your work. flexexamples.com is quite possibly the best flex example/tutorial/source code site out there. It has shaved days off of my work. One topic I have failed to read about & is rarely referenced anywhere, is that of the Menu component. I've figured out a lot of its quirks like how to convert a menu's global position to local, but things like the fact that it opens from top-left to bottom-right rather than from top to bottom & how to change that is something that I'm struggling with. Could you help me with this or throw up a quick example of it on the site? Thanks for all your hard work!
Posted by: Todd | September 20, 2007 7:48 AM
Hey Peter,
I'm Axel, I'm loving the flexexamples.com site, I too with (almost) every blog post put an example out there, I would like to contribute to the blog with my examples...
here is my most recent one
CustomizingAPopUpEffect
and here is a popular one...
Flex xml photo gallery
and soon to be posted on is the awesome xml (loosely based xspf) mp3 player
MP3 Player
that last one was a great combination of Maikel Sibbald (labs.flexcoders.nl) and myself... I did most of it, but his original post on the simple mp3 player got me started...
Let me know what i can do to contribute to the blog... and can with every post, i'd like to link back to my actual blog just for credit's sake...
what do you think?
i've also read some of your books... it's good stuff...
I'm obsessed with the love of programming, and have worked super hard to get here... it's a never ending battle to keep on top of new stuff... and everyday brings a new challenge, i sure hope we can work together on the examples...
Posted by: Axel | October 4, 2007 10:41 PM