Auto Complete Text Component for Flex Was looking for ways to skin a combobox and found another gem! An auto complete text component for Flex. Now you may say what’s new about that? But this is really nice – shows auto complete, allows multiple items to be added (like tags), can show items horizontally or vertically, can reorder them and some […]
Learn Flex in a week Do you want to learn Flex? Adobe has put up an excellent Flex video training out for free. The course covers almost everything – from basics to PHP integration! Worth it! (thanks to Ashok for the link)
Localizing Flex applications If you want to localize your Flex applications, here’s an excellent approach. It allows loading translations dynamically and is easy to implement. Nice use of change events and data binding! There are other approaches (using Resource Bundle etc), but I like this approach because of its flexibility. I don’t have to compile translations in my […]
Printing Flex application from browser Printing a Flex application from a browser is problematic. IE shows the application correctly in preview and prints it well. Firefox shows a blank area for your Flex application and does not print it. Our Reports module for activeCollab, has this problem and I’ve been thinking about solutions. Here are the alternatives: Use ACPrintManager from […]
Playing two videos in sync We have a Flex application where we want to play two streaming videos, side by side, in sync. E.g. the first video may have a news clipping and second may have an anchor describing the events. I have tried a number of approaches to implement this but haven’t succeeded yet. The videos get out of […]
