As more and more devices come out, we on the Flex team have occasionally seen platform-specific or device-specific bugs. One of the more visible ones is when flash.system.Capabilities.screenDPI reports the wrong value. Flex Mobile applications use the screenDPI property for… Read More

* Not really everything. Imports Are Required** In the AS2 days, you could get around having to write an import statement by simply using the fully-qualified class name within the class body (such as flash.display.Sprite as opposed to just Sprite).… Read More

Normally getting hand cursors to show on flex components involves setting useHandCursor="true", buttonMode="true", and mouseChildren="false". Sadly this blows up the tree as you aren't able to select anything.  The way around this is to set  useHandCursor="true" buttonMode="true" on your <mx:Tree/> component and… Read More

Adobe® ActionScript® Code Coverage Plug-in for Adobe Flash® Builder™ helps ActionScript and Adobe Flex® developers understand exactly what code is executed while an application is running. When added to Flash Builder, the plug-in provides a new Eclipse perspective that allows… Read More

Yesterday, I started coding a Flex 4 application for an event in November. Being fed up with the classic Flex 4 progress bars, I decided to create a custom one using Flash CS5 and Flash Builder 4. I was surprised… Read More

Hi all, Just a quick update to tell you guys that, as promised, Lita, Lupo Translator and Lupo Manager are now open source projects (released under GPL). You can access the source code using the URLS of the SVN repositories… Read More

About a year ago I have posted a blog post on how to get started with OSMF (see here). Since than the framework have gone a long way. OSMF 1.0 was released recently and I have given it a second… Read More

FlexPMD is an open source project that helps to improve code quality by auditing any AS3/Flex source directory. It detects common bad practices such as dead code, inefficient code, over-complex or over-long code… It also comes with FlexCPD… that can Read More

I just completed my first series of pdf reports for Buzzmath. I had to take a student Portfolio rendered in Flex and put it in a printable format. After reading and trying, I remain skeptic over which technology serve our… Read More