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 […]
Test your site across multiple browsers with Adobe BrowserLabs Web designers and developers are always challenged by the diversity of browsers (each with its own quirks). It’s generally a time consuming and error prone process. Requires someone with a skilled eye to spot the problems. Now, Adobe has simplified that process with BrowserLabs. You can see multiple browsers side by side, and can even […]
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 […]
