In trying to track down the cause for the printing bug that’s been harassing me lately, I’ve been simplifying the printing code as much as is possible. In the process, I’ve been cleaning up and evaluating the different implementation details. What functionality, for example, is absolutely necessary when implementing both print preview and general printing support? What’s required to print to multiple devices, such as both a printer and a PDF?
Posted by Kaleb Pederson on February 18, 2009 at 12:58 pm
10 Comments or Links | Adobe Flex, Printing
10 Comments or Links | Adobe Flex, Printing
Many people have complained or indicated that they need or would like a print preview component. FlexReport seems to have had a short lifetime and the demo site has recently been suspended, so it’s no longer an option. We at Soph-Ware Associates, Inc. recently needed such a component — so we wrote one. Try it out here!
A little over a month ago, somebody posted this question to the Flexcoders mailing list asking about encrypting SWF’s to prevent them from being “captured” by applications or individuals. The solution is fairly simple, “encrypt the SWF!” But how would the Flash player handle that you might ask? Let’s find out.
I haven’t been doing much Flex development lately as I’ve been busy with some other new projects. However, I did recently install the alpha of FlexBuilder under Linux, which has been out for a while now. I’ll document briefly what it took to make it run on my system.
If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then the shortest distance between start and finish of a quick hack is “every relevant programming language.” Thus, not too long after hacking out some PHP, Python, XSLT, Bourne Shell script, Regular Expressions and Actionscript I completed a small Flex application that, given a swc, determines and visually represents the size of its library dependencies.
You can try it out here:
http://blogs.soph-ware.com/posted-content/files/SwfSizeDisplay/
In Part I of this series, I talked about some of the generated code that supports data binding in Flex. In this part, I want to take a look at a few more facets of data binding, but mainly as they can be used within MXML.
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We at Soph-Ware Associates would like to announce the first release of the Flex UndoRedo Framework. The Flex UndoRedo Framework builds on Cairngorm to provide a lightweight but extensible framework for handling undo and redo.
The Flex UndoRedo Framework was built with the following goals in mind:
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Posted by Kaleb Pederson on October 18, 2007 at 2:42 pm
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14 Comments or Links | Adobe Flex, Cairngorm, UndoRedo Framework
Yesterday I was fixing some data binding issues and in the process noticed that some of my setters weren’t getting called when they should be — or so it appeared. It turned out that they were just smart.
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I’m just starting off with Flex and am enjoying some of the powerful things that it has available, among which is Data Binding.
Flex Data Binding is very powerful, and very convenient. The “About data binding” section in the Flex manual lists three different ways that we can use data binding:
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