Posts about Flex

Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, the my flex apps seemed to compile slower. Today, I finally had enough and took a look into this problem. First, there was the weirdness with Java on Mac in... more

Although FABridge is a nice tool, it's got its shortcomings. I am going to fix one of them now, namely that it doesn't give you real properties, but uses Java's getter setter convention instead.... more

I just learned about Vector, it's a typed Array for Actionscript 3, like generics in Java or C#. However, in Actionscript 3, Vector is a one-off: it's the only class that uses the generics... more

ActionScript 3 has a Javascript lineage. It was essentially a fork of Ecmascript. Plus, the Adobe team has worked hard on making the language a proper superset of the Ecmascript specification. This... more

The Flex-Ajax Bridge is a little javascript library bundled with the Flex SDK that allows you to use javascript to drive your Flex app. It can be really handy for debugging or... more

This is another example of something that would have been a blog post creeping over to SO. more

The List control supports drag-n-drop support out of the box - just not the way I want. What it does is allow you to drag something from another list or other type control and drop onto it there by... more

I have been working more with Flex now, and I have to say: the data binding features(covered here) in Flex is beautiful. It's light years ahead of anything I've ever seen before. Example 1: You... more

This is a follow up to my last Flex post. As I am learning more about Flex I have learned ways to address all 3 of the items in the cons list.Development feedback - not as instant. I mentioned that... more

At work I am required to write a web UI that has a rich-desktop kind of interface. Without getting into too much details, it's layout will look a bit like an older email application(e.g. outlook, the... more