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Get To Know Adobe Edge Reflow, A Tool For Responsive Designs 14 Feb 2013 | 10:09 pm
We are live! For the past six months I’ve been working on a new product from Adobe’s “Edge” family. This week, my product, Reflow is having its first public preview. Reflow began development less than...
Updating My Flash Player Causes A Green Bar For Videos! 11 Apr 2012 | 10:35 am
An update to the Flash Player, version, 11.2.202.228 just shipped a short time ago and when it did, it introduced a nasty bug on my Windows laptop. Exhibit A: All videos on Hulu, YouTube, ESPN etc se...
Goodbye to Flex 27 May 2011 | 10:53 am
Today is officially my last day on the Flex SDK team. I have been testing the SDK for over six years. I started on the team when Flex was just finishing up its 1.5 release. Look how far its come! I a...
Getting scrolling right in a mobile horizontal list 6 May 2011 | 06:39 am
With the release of Flex 4.5, you can now use Flex to build mobile applications. One of the features added to the Spark List to support mobile was the addition of bounce/pull effects at the beginning ...
Flash Camp focused on mobile development this Saturday in SF 27 Apr 2011 | 08:05 am
Flash Camp is happening in the Adobe SF office this Saturday, April 30. Sign up here. Adobe Flash Camp is a full day event with sessions and a hands-on coding session that will get you up and running...
Changing the barColor for an MX ProgressBar in Flex 4 23 Apr 2011 | 04:56 am
In Flex 3, which uses the Halo theme, if you wanted to change the color of the bar on a ProgressBar, you would specify a “barColor” style for your ProgressBar. Unfortunately, in Flex 4, the Spark them...
Adding toolTips to a Spark ButtonBar 7 Apr 2011 | 09:19 am
This question came up today as to how to add toolTips to individual Buttons in your ButtonBar. No surprise here… the solution was to create a custom skin for ButtonBar. In the custom skin, I am adding...
Using a DateField itemRenderer for a Spark DataGrid 1 Apr 2011 | 04:53 am
Here is another simple example of using a custom itemRenderer in a Spark DataGrid. In this example, I am using an MX DateField component as an inline itemRenderer. This DataGrid is also editable. Bot...
Using a Spark Form with Validators 30 Mar 2011 | 09:38 am
In this example, I’ve created a very simple registration form using Flex 4.5′s Form component. To validate the form, I am using MX StringValidator and MX EmailValidator. There are no Spark validators ...
Where is drag and drop in the Spark DataGrid? 11 Mar 2011 | 06:04 am
Before you spend any significant amount of time trying to figure out what APIs are available for enabling drag and drop on the Spark DataGrid, I thought I’d put it out there that it will not be availa...
