Showing Flex Preloader near the top of your Application

Flex comes with a reasonably good preloader (DownloadProgressBar) that shows in application center while the swf is loading and initializing. I had an application that is taller than browser’s view port height. This means the preloader will show below the fold – making it invisible to users who don’t scroll down. Even when the preloader […]

Flex Regular Expression Online Testing / Learning Tool

When it comes to Regular Expressions, I start feeling giddy. Even after using them a lot on many projects, I never remember the qualifiers and syntax. It’s always RTFM for me when I need to use some regular expressions in my code. And that happened again today. I looked around the manual and searched online […]

AIR 2, Microsoft future UI and iCheckbox

Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta out – list of new features Adobe released a beta of the next version of AIR – AIR 2. Christian Cantrell posted an exhaustive list of everything that’s new in AIR 2.0. The list is impressive, and includes some things we’ve been thinking about – audio recording, calling native apps, multi […]

Notification Components in Flex

If you are building a Flex application, you may need a way to show messages to the user. The usual way to do this is via Alerts. Alerts can be quite distracting and generally avoidable. Another alternative is to have a status message area (like a status bar) and show messages there. But an even […]

Yahoo! Stencils – quickly build mockups

Yahoo! Design Patterns Library has a set of “stencils” available to mock up your next great RIA project! The stencils are available in OmniGraffle, Visio, PDF, PNG and SVG formats. So you can use them with Illustrator or Photoshop / Gimp as well. They have included stencils for: Ad Units, Calendars, Carousels, Charts and Tables, […]