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Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:32:14 +0000

The Alert control is great if you need to get a simple confirmation on an action which has a yes/no type answer, but what do you use when you need to prompt a user for their name or something else? JavaScript has a prompt(), and Flex has a very robust PopUpManager class.

TextArea Automatically Resize

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:25:47 +0000

Posting this just on the off-chance someone else ran into the issue and the solutions on the net weren’t up to their needs.

Hyperlink Control

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:21:57 +0000

Problem
One of my friends had been asking me about how to change the style of the LinkButton like an HTML hyperlink, since people liketo display the link as like as HTML.
Solution
I developed a simple Hyperlink control in Flex that has the same look and feel as an HTML anchor tag.
Detailed explanation
Just create class which extends Text, and change the style on mouseOver to meet the same feel like html hyperlink.

Display HTML content in Flex screen

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:42:19 +0000

Problem
I have a application where i need to display HTML text in flex screen (using TextArea). Problem is HTML text contains
tag which is not supported in flex htmlText property. So all the information under

About data representation, Data binding, Data models, Data validation, Data formatting

Sameera Thilakasiri — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:07:11 +0000

Adobe® Flex® provides the following set of features for representing data in your applications: data binding, validation, and formatting. These features work in conjunction with the Adobe® LiveCycle™ Data Services ES and Vega features for working with remote data. Together, they allow you to perform the following tasks:

ObjectCollector: Accessing Flex’s objects by id (even dynamic generated) from anywhere

Sameera Thilakasiri — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:53 +0000

Flex’s components have a nice id property which can be used to easily referencing object created.
All you know, that if I get the following mxml Application file:

Determining a DataGridColumn object’s current sort order – callLater()

Sameera Thilakasiri — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:13:05 +0000

The callLater() method queues an operation to be performed for the next screen refresh, rather than in the current update. Without the callLater() method, you might try to access a property of a component that is not yet available. The callLater() method is most commonly used with the creationComplete event to ensure that a component has finished being created before Flex proceeds with a specified method call on that component.

Fade effect in Flex – fadeIn fadeOut

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:20:08 +0000





       @font-face {
            src: local("Arial");
            fontFamily: ArialEmbedded;
       }

       .captionText {
            fontFamily: ArialEmbedded;
            color : #ffffff;
            fontSize : 16pt;
       }

Create custom tooltip – toolTipCreate

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:16:52 +0000

CustomToolTip.mxml

Build a Drag-and-Drop XML Image Viewer – DragManager

Sameera Thilakasiri — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:08:02 +0000

All of the informations about the images showcased in the gallery are stored in an XML file. Create an xml file that follows this structure and save it as datas.xml in the src directory :