Just read the announcement that Flex Builder 2 would be free for students and faculty. However, not sure if this is free for students and faculties from outside US as well. Would be quite handy if it is, its a big step forward in promoting Flex.
In one of my recent projects, I had the requirement to open a browser window from within Flex on click of a button. Thats when I came across this Externalinterface call. Here is how I did it. [xml] private function openWindow():void { ExternalInterface.call("w_ = function () { window.win = window .open(‘http://yahoo.com’,’TestPage’,’width=700,height=500′); }"); }[/xml] Dont forget […]
callLater() is a function thats rarely talked about and not very well documented as well but I find it rather very useful in some instances. Its quite handy when you want the UI to update and you do a series of things at once. Before each update of the screen, the Flash Player calls the […]
Having worked with both AJAX and FLEX, I think this is very useful article to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX_vs_Flex However, after having worked on several projects in FLEX, I am more inclined towards using FLEX over AJAX as it gives far more options to do stuff and now we can also create dekstop apps with AIR. Your thoughts ?
Flex has some nice components and libraries for charting purposes. However, this new component library called ILOG Elixir (currently in Beta) looks really nice and has some excellent features. It is scheduled to be released in early 2008 though. Here are some key features :- 2D chart extensions with radar charts (also named spider charts) Full […]
Ebay and Adobe have launched an AIR powered desktop version of eBay, it is finally out, check it out it looks really good and has some amazing features!!! http://desktop.ebay.com . I personally have done a couple projects in Flex and I beleive it is a big step forward in creating RIA apps. I am glad that […]
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