Archive for February 22nd, 2010

Creating a custom creation complete effect on a Flex Alert control – creationCompleteEffect – mx:SoundEffect

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The following example shows how to specify an effect which gets played when an Alert control is displayed by setting the Alert control’s creationCompleteEffect style. You can also see how to embed both the normal and bold font using CSS and @font-face.

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Changing the Flex ComboBox control’s opening and closing easing functions and ColorPicker control’s easing duration

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Changing the Flex ComboBox control’s opening and closing easing functions and Changing the ColorPicker control’s easing duration and easing functions

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Embedding fonts in AS3

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No more do you have to have fonts in your library you can embed them directly from the folder where they reside using the [Embed] in your ActionScript Project.

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Setting the focus blend mode on a TextArea control in Flex – focusBlendMode

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A class that provides constant values for visual blend mode effects. These constants are used in the following:
The blendMode property of the flash.display.DisplayObject class.
The blendMode parameter of the draw() method of the flash.display.BitmapData class
Example shows how you can set the focus blend mode of the focus rectangle on a Flex TextArea control by setting the focusBlendMode style.

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Integration of Flex and JavaScript with ExternalInterface.addCallback()

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Call ActionScript from JavaScript/Browser
Calling ActionScript from JavaScript again requires use of the ExternalInterface class. First we must use the addCallback() function to expose the ActionScript function we want to call to the container.

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