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Flex – ActionScript State Transitions bases on actionscript

Sameera Thilakasiri — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:21:21 +0000

This is going to be a quick tutorial over using transitions when changing states. It is going to build off the states basics from this tutorial. Again states are very useful in almost all applications and using transitions can put some nice eye candy on your application. This will show some cool transition effects.

How to create localized UI component / control

Sameera Thilakasiri — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:09:00 +0000

One of issues outlined in that post is that the Flex UI components are not localization aware, or more simply put, the UI components do not have any built in support for resource localization. Below we will recap the current method you use to implement localization strings and then a proposed alternative embedding localization handling directly into the UI controls.

Designing Flex 3 skins and styles using Creative Suite 3 and Flex Builder 3

Sameera Thilakasiri — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:49:07 +0000

1. Styling or skinning?

Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component

Sameera Thilakasiri — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:47:35 +0000

The DataGrid component lets you easily filter data based on user input and present both the data and the data grid with your custom formatting. This article shows you how to do the following tasks with data grids:

Dynamically creating a DataGrid instance

Sameera Thilakasiri — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:20:12 +0000

When creating projects with components, you’ll often need to create a component instance dynamically instead of at authoring time. Creating a component dynamically allows your applications to be more flexible and your code to be slightly more portable because you can add, reposition and resize instances using ActionScript.

Flex How to remove Duplicates from an Array

Sameera Thilakasiri — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:06:57 +0000

If you have an Array and you want to get rid of duplicates from the array, here is a little function you can order online levitra use to achieve the same.

MultiLine Label in Flex

Sameera Thilakasiri — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:00:59 +0000

If you are using the control and the size of your text is bigger than the size of the container, you will see a cut off version of the text because by default, the Label control does not allow multiline text.

Displaying a webcam’s video in a Flex VideoDisplay control – attachCamera(), getCamera()

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:19:39 +0000

The following example shows you how you can display a user’s webcam feed in a VideoDisplay control using the static Camera.getCamera() method and VideoDisplay class’s attachCamera() method.

Displaying dynamically loaded XML in a DataGrid control in Flex – QName

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:00:12 +0000

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Collapsible Panel Component for Flex

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:57:09 +0000

Here’s an another post in the same vein as my previous one: this time, the component I’m sharing is a Panel subclass that allows for collapsing and expanding its contents. What this means is that the user can click on the header of the Panel to make it toggle between an open or closed state, with a smooth animation.
I Tried to implement the component so that it’ll be easy to use in both MXML and ActionScript. In the demo app there is also an example on styling the CollapsiblePanel.