http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/ Tips to give your RIA more FLEXappeal! en Copyright 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:51:23 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Adobe Reader 9 adds new capabilities, better performance and stronger security. Here are the highlights: Improved launch speeds Looking for faster launch speeds? Adobe has enhanced general performance and, in particular, has reduced launch times with Adobe Reader 9. Try... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/07/adobe_reader_9.html General Interest Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:51:23 -0500 Please visit the MAX NA Experience site: http://max.adobe.com/na/experience/ It is a 100% Flash based website with interactive landscapes (click the background). The backgrounds were created by several of the best digital design agencies on the planet. If you can figure... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/max_north_ameri.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/max_north_ameri.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:21:35 -0500 itemEditor,itemRenderer The previous article in this series discussed item editing events. Using events can make your application respond to what the user enters and help the user make fewer mistakes. This article is about using itemRenderers as itemEditors - one... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/itemeditors_-_p_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/itemeditors_-_p_2.html Components Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:22:42 -0500 Editing Events and Complex Editors In the last article of this series you saw how to make some simple inline itemEditors. If you have read the series on itemRenderers, then you noticed how similar the two are. The key... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/itemeditors_-_p_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/06/itemeditors_-_p_1.html Components Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:15:16 -0500 inline itemEditors I recently completed a series on itemRenderers - customizations to list controls which format the display of the list contents. Displaying and rendering content is very cool and with Flex you can do nearly anything you can... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/itemeditors_-_p.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/itemeditors_-_p.html Components Thu, 29 May 2008 17:39:13 -0500 MAX 2008 will be held in San Francisco this year and is now ready for you to register. Each year MAX has gotten bigger and better. If you haven't attended MAX, make this year your first. MAX is a... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/registration_op.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/registration_op.html Wed, 28 May 2008 12:26:18 -0500 Our blogging server is back and my blog, along with a bushel of others, have been restored. Now I can work on my back-log of articles.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/return_to_norma.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/05/return_to_norma.html General Interest Wed, 07 May 2008 15:02:03 -0500 Adobe Media Player,AIRAdobe's just released a new product- the Adobe Media Player. This application is built upon AIR using the Flex 3 SDK. The AMP is a new type of video player. As I write this I'm watching an episode... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/04/adobe_media_pla.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/04/adobe_media_pla.html AIR (Apollo) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:38:54 -0500 Flex,itemRenderers,AIR,UIComponent If you are displaying a large number of itemRenderers - either in the DataGrid or AdvancedDataGrid - your application's performance may be adversely affected if you do not code these itemRenderers effeciently. Here are some tips that might help:... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/04/itemrenderers_p_4.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/04/itemrenderers_p_4.html Components Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:50:49 -0500 itemRenderer,Flex,states,transitions Communicating the with the user of your application is what your itemRenderer does best. Sometimes that communication is as simple as presenting a name; sometimes more elborately using colors; and sometimes with interactivity. itemEditors are truely interactive controls, but... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_3.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_3.html Flex 2 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:22:43 -0500 AIR,file,filesystem,PDF One of the nice things AIR allows is the ability to view both HTML and PDF content. Here's a little app that shows how you can view PDF documents on the local computer. The key is the flash.html.HTMLLoader class.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/viewing_pdfs_wi.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/viewing_pdfs_wi.html Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:30:51 -0500 Flex,itemRenderer,listData In the previous article of this series I showed you how to make external itemRenderers in both MXML and ActionScript. In the examples I've been using there is a Button which dispatches a custom event - BuyBookEvent - so... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_2.html Components Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:25:31 -0500 In Part 1 of this series I showed you how to make an inline itemRenderer. That is, an itemRenderer whose MXML tags and ActionScript code are in the same file as the list using the itemRenderer. The code is... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_1.html Components Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:41:23 -0500 Adobe,Flex ActionScript 3,itemRenderer I'm starting a new series of articles on itemRenderers. Our documentation team has great examples so please check that information out first. I'm giving you my distillation of it. Recycling Renderers One thing many people try to... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p.html Components Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:26:57 -0500 Check this link before migrating your applications from Flex 2 to Flex 3. In my own experience the issues have been very minor and fixed within a few minutes. But your results will varying depending on what controls you've used... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/02/migrating_from.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/02/migrating_from.html Flex Solutions Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:05:33 -0500