Flex : Cotainer class – backgroundAttachment

Note : Same post as previous one.
Folks,
Today, I come to know another one Gem of Flex.
A need arise in my one project, while my development,
I have to create same functionality as done in HTML.
i.e. HTML – Body tag we provide backGround image with size ” fixed “.
<body style=”background:url(images/background.png) fixed”>
So, when ever we scroll the contents,
the [...]

Flex Video Tutorials – Adding visual appeal

In Flex Video Series – Flex In Week
Part 4 has been added as Day 4: Adding visual appeal
I covers some good topics too,

Creating Constraint-based Layouts
Applying Styles to MXML Components
Skining Components with Adobe CS3
Drawing Shapes with the Drawing API
Skinning Components Programmatically

Enjoy Flexing . . .
Mayur Rami

Flex Video Tutorials

Folks,
Be happy, Adobe has announced an entire week for Flex Video Tutorials.
There are some exercises too given, to dirty your hands with and to brighten your skills.
Initially first Three days videos are listed. Schedule for other days will be declared later on.
So, Enjoy Flexing…
Mayur Rami

Solve Flex Bugs and get Flex Books : Amazing

Flex is really going Innovative ways.
Now you can be a, Flex 3 Contributor.  Solve 3 Bugs from Flex Bugs list JIRA and you will get a Flex Book of your wish from Amazon by Adobe Flex Team. Isn’t it amazing…!!
This is rally a very innovative way to make community more aware and to understand the [...]

Close PopUps, TitleWindow, Panel etc by clicking the modal in Flex

I got one query, how to close Popups ( TitleWindow, Panel etc. ) just by clicking on Modal.
A functionality which we found in HTML / Javascript based modal (with lightbox ), some thing we can see now a days in Yahoo Mails, when we see images attached in our mails.
See, Modal is actually a [...]

Flash Player 10 Documentation

Adobe has kept their promise towards ‘ Open source ‘ softwares.
Adobe has released Flash Player 10 ( beta Astro ) – Documentation
Really Flash Player 10 has many more new features like for 3D, New Support for Text, Improved Fillers and Effects etc.
Some newly added packages and Classes in Flash Player 10 are as below.

flash.desktop
flash.text.engine
flash.geom
flash.geom.MAtrix3D
flash.geom.Orientation3D
flash.geom.Utils3D
flash.geom.Vector3D
Top Level [...]

Google Maps API for Actionscript 3, Flex and Flash

Great…
Actionscrpt 3 got another feather. Google announced ‘Google MAP API in Actionscript 3 ‘ through which integration of Google MAPs in Flex and Flash, easily possible, now.
I welcomes Google in actionscript arena…
(Note : I would comment as, due to strategic pressure after Yahoo Map API, ESRI Map API etc. for Actionscript 3, goole has come [...]

Flex and Actionscript 3 coding conventions

It is nice to have a standardization on any product. Same rule applies to softwares also.
Recently, Adobe has given a Coding convention guide line.
Go and check at Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices.
From the perspectives of a software developer it is even better to work with such kind of standards, especially when we [...]

Alert and Popup modal, transparancy, color and blur changes

Today, I am going to post some thing on Popup custom settings. We can change some properties like Popup modal, transparency, color and Blur.
These properties are of style. This has been a very long avaited request from my designer friends. (especially by : Mandu)
In flex ‘<Application />’ tag has mainly four attributes related [...]

flare – add Fusion to Flex

flare is : ActionScript 3 libraries for interactive visualizations on the web.
As a researcher mentality, especially for flex, I come to know about the ‘ Flare – tool kit’ to add some visualization effect to Flex applications .
Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety [...]