News by Axel Jensen

Open Source Flex XML MP3 Player (xspf)

3 Apr 05:00
This is a really awesome mp3 player that I made to mimic an actionscript 2 xspf player, but built with actionscript 3 and flex… it’s great and open source! Finally it’s here… OPEN SOURCE FLEX XML MP3 PLAYER Flex xml mp3 player Basically you can specify an xml playlist from the url, and have it play whatever is in [...

Introducing ACJEditor its a RTE

3 Apr 01:00
Again, another post on how the Flex RichTextEditor blows goats… I’ve now completely taken the source from it, and made methods public or protected for extending in addition to adding the xhtmlText property… You can now override styling in the RichTextEditor and inject inline styles into things like a href tags… Application - Source This post is [...

Customizing a PopUp Effect in Flex

29 Mar 02:00
There was a post on Adding animations and effects to Tooltips in flex at blog.flexexamples.com I thought this was a great simple example… I wanted to show how to customize a PopUp with a similar effect. Application - Source You can also right click to view the source. 1. Create a component for the [...

SQL Update Tip

28 Mar 16:38
Just noting for myself on how to update tables from other tables… Say you have a table called “customers” and you have a customerID as the primary key… you now have a cross reference table that joins customers to certain products, it’s only a 1 to 1 relationship in our situation (not very real world with this [...

Photoshop Tip

28 Mar 16:35
This is just a self reminder, a quick video i found online of creating rounded type glossy buttons in photoshop… it’s fairly short and quite helpful to a novice. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Photorealism with Bert Monroy: Volume 1 with: Bert Monroy is good on lynda.

Creating a DragImage from your UIComponent

27 Mar 02:00
Ever want to drag a container, and have an Image of the container and it’s contents drag along with the mouse, much like when dragEnabled is set to true on a ListBase Component Like List, Tree, DataGrid, etc… You see the data that your dragging, in this image that has it’s alpha set to .5… Application [...

CustomRichTextEditor with XHTML text

25 Mar 02:00
Extending the mx.core.RichTextEditor to give it and xhtmlText property using regular expressions. That sentence is pretty self explanatory. Application - Source I’ve written on the the mx.controls.RichTextEditor before in flex… and there are some issues with the HTML that it outputs. That post states that the htmlText the the RichTextEditor pretty much blows as [...

Using Flex 3, Filtering Data, and new TileList ItemsChangeEffect

21 Mar 01:09
This example walks through a simple implementation of filtering data in an ArrayCollection. It shows how to use an ItemRenderer, and to utilize the new ItemsChangeEffect in Flex 3. Application - Source In flex 3 they introduced a new listBased effect, so it effects anything that is listbased, the datagrid, the list, the tree, the tilelist, [...

Air Developer Connection

20 Mar 08:54
Air developer connection link…. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1427019 Awesome air app that has tons of community components listed, with example showings… it’s pretty awesome!

Flex Builder Tip - MY NAVIGATOR WONT SHOW UP I HAVE AN ERROR

12 Mar 05:46
Our power went out last night, and when I left work yesterday, I wanted to comeback later, and continue working, so I left some code up with flex builder open, and when the power went out, my computer rebooted… No huge surprise so far… but when I started flex builder back up my navigator was showing [...
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