I was fixing a bug today on coldfusiondocs.com , reported by one of the readers and I noticed that the SWF file that Flex generated was 482Kb in size. I think that is rather big for a simple application, that it is and it also explains why the server bandwidth usage had gone very high […]
If you want to pre-select an item in a Datagrid when it loads for the first time, this is how you can do it. The idea is really simple, just set the selectedIndex property of the Datagrid to the index you want and then scroll the DataGrid to the selectedIndex. Took me a while to […]
I have been spending some time lately on this idea of mine and I would like to get some initial feedback on this. Its to do with the CF documentation that is available to developers. As a developer, I always have to search for CF tags or functions and there is no easy way to […]
I personally dont like hardcoding things like texts and labels inside any compiled code, reason being , when it needs to be changed for whatever reason, I have to go through the pain of loading the project and making the change and then compiling it again and deploying it again , all for one little […]
I have been playing around with this idea of giving a new face to the CF documentation on tags and functions. Whenever I had to search for some tag or function (which I do almost daily), I had to make several clicks before I got to the page. So I decided to play around with […]
If you are using PopUpManager and TitleWindow to create a popup window in Flex, you have probably run across this problem already. The createPopup() function takes first argument as the owner of the popup window. And when you do PopUpManager.centerPopup(this) , it centers the popup. But it only centers the popup relative to its parent […]
I just found out this really cool way to browse a Flex app. I use Flex Builder to develop Flex apps, so this is related to Flex Builder , not sure if this works in the Eclipse plugin as well. While you are in the code view, if you mouse over the name of a […]
User specific login information is usually stored in session variables in any web application. However, Flex doesnt have anything called session variables in it. So how do we save this information across the whole application. Static classes come to the rescue here. This can also be achieved by use of shared objects and Singletons but […]
In one of my other blog posts, someone pointed me towards the Flex AJAX bridge as an alternative to using Flex ExternalInterface. So I went ahead and had a look at it. Its currently in beta state and would need the Flash debug player to be notified of any errors etc while execution but apart […]
Google has released out Flex version of the searchmash website, http://www.searchmash.com/flash/search/#home . It seems to have a few interesting features. It has got Google Maps embedded and when searching for videos, you can play videos within the results. And when you get the web results, you can mouse over a result to view a snap shot view of the […]
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