Archive for 'Flex 2'

Reducing Filesizes Using Abstraction

April 23rd, 2008 – 6:27 pm

I had recently came across a situation with a project of mine where concrete referencing resulted in a SWF file that was far more bloated than it clearly should have been. Yet another reason why abstraction is so great — although perhaps it should have been obvious in the first place.
The project in question revolves […]

Advanced String Splitting

March 4th, 2008 – 1:08 pm

I recently had a project where I had to run some fancy regex and recursion on strings written as excel-style formulas. It was an enjoyable project, as I don't often have the opportunity to use regex or recursion in Flex. However, one of the steps in the process required me to perform what, I thought, [...]

Hot Key System for Flex (pre-release)

February 16th, 2008 – 8:37 pm

After having a need for creating hot key shortcuts on multiple different occasions, I decided to break down and create a highly-reusable system that integrates seamlessly into any Flex app. I spent some time and planned out several different use-cases that the system will need to account for. A few considerations were as follows:

Don't [...]

The “NEW” way to resize images

February 4th, 2008 – 2:04 am
Tagged as: Flash, Flex 2, Media

A friend of mine just introduced me to an interesting approach to image resizing called seam carving. It's a solution to the challenge of preserving both the size and composition of an image, and well....perhaps this video will explain it better than I could.
[flash http://www.youtube.com/v/6NcIJXTlugc&rel=1 w=425 h=355]
It also turns out that someone built an RIA [...]

Code-Behind: Flex

August 15th, 2007 – 8:56 pm
Tagged as: Flex 2

In this article, I'll be going in-depth on the practice known as code-behind for the Flex environment. This is a very powerful technique that all software architects should be familiar with, as it promotes sophisticated encapsulation techniques to separate the form and function from within a UI element.
What Code-Behind Is

Code-behind is a practice whose origins [...]

Decorators Explained

April 13th, 2007 – 2:51 pm

So far things are working pretty well for the Decorator Demo I've posted a few days back. I have been adding bits and pieces to it, all the while gaining a better understanding of the power (and limitations) they possess. For those of you who don't know, the Decorator Pattern is a famous [...]

An Experiment with Decorators

April 9th, 2007 – 9:04 pm

I've finally found some free time to play around with some of the experimental ideas I've had in my head, so I decided to start with a fun little decorator demonstration. I haven't had alot of opportunities to play around with the Decorator Pattern much, so I wanted a project that pretty much forced me [...]

Flex 2 Style Explorer Update

February 13th, 2007 – 1:01 pm
Tagged as: Flex 2

For those of you into the Flex scene, this should serve to be a useful asset:
Flex 2 Style Explorer 2.0.1
This totally changes the way I style components =]

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