Archive for February, 2010

Create Google Maps Flex application using Google Maps API

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Google maps is a powerful tool that provides a huge range of mapping services like street directories, directions, searches, satellite views and more. All of this power is made available to Flex developers through a Flash/Flex API supplied and supported by Google. This tutorial will show you how to embed a Google Map into a Flex application.

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Applying an effect when an HBox container is resized in Flex – mx:HDividedBox resizeEffect

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Applying an effect when an HBox container is resized in Flex

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Developing Flash Components for Flex – addEventListener MouseEvent URLRequest

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Adobe is about to release a development kit for Flex to create components by using Flash IDE. This kit may help developers add more interaction and animation effects into their flex components. Now, I will develop a small sample by using this tool.

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Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application – mx:Zoom mx:Style easingFunction Elastic.easeOut

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I meant to post this earlier, and I already touched on font embedding in an earlier post (Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control), but here’s a quick little way to embed a font in a Flex application.

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Triggering effects when a container is resized – mx:ControlBar – resizeEffect – mx:Resize

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The following example uses a resizeEffect effect along with a Resize tween effect () to create a smooth tween effect whenever the panel is resized.

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