Posted by: vx on: October 18, 2008
Using an RIA framework to build Web 1.0 applications (aka. New technology same old stuff).
One of the largest challenges when moving from Web 1.0 applications to the RIA’s development paradigm is learning to think differently. Flex gives developers an advanced component library that allows for doing things that simply weren’t possible only a few years [...]
Posted by: vx on: October 16, 2008
There are very few resources on the web about printing in Flex. Adobe LiveDocs is an excellent on-line reference for Flex. I thought of sharing my experience and the way I successfully printed the dataGrid in Flex.
Example below: shows how to call a function to print a datagrid
public function printDataGrid() : void
{
var printJob : FlexPrintJob [...]
Posted by: vx on: October 15, 2008
The below example gives you a hook to sort a particular column in a datagrid without user input. One can use the below function where ever a datagrid has to have a default sort order on its column(s). Note : This works with flex 2 datagrid and not with Advanced datagrid in Moxie.
The dataGridDefaultSort functions [...]
Posted by: vx on: October 10, 2008
Yesterday I spent hours writing my own password strength monitor utility in for a personal project but i couldn’t make it work properly, So i did exactly what every other developer does after getting thoroughly frustrated i.e. I Googled until i reached this: geekWisdom
Download source from here
Click on the image to view sample
You [...]
Posted by: vx on: October 9, 2008
Flexbox is a directory with a whole bunch of fine Adobe Flex components available for developers, compiled and managed by Mrinal Wadhwa.
Go check it out
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