Using special characters in your Flex applications

By On August 2, 2007 · 24 Comments

Another good question/dilemma came up on FlexCoders the other day. A curious poster asked how you could embed a copyright symbol, ©, into a Flex application since using © did not seem to work. As it turns out, an easy way to do this is to use a character’s numeric value (©) instead of its [...]

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Finding a pixel’s color value using the Bitmap classes and getPixel()

By On August 2, 2007 · 8 Comments

This example loads an image and then uses a combination of the Bitmap and BitmapData classes to determine the color value under the mouse cursor. Pretty basic, but kind of neat. Maybe? Sorta?

Full code after the jump.

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Adding icons to Panel containers

By On August 2, 2007 · 12 Comments

Personally, I’m amazed I can write an entire post around setting a single (and simple) style, but yet here I am. The following example shows how you can place an icon of your choosing in the upper-left corner of a Panel container. As an added bonus, at least I create the Panel in both MXML [...]

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Rounding a Panel container’s corners using the cornerRadius style

By On August 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Another quick sample (I’m cleaning out my Flex projects from the past year). This time we look at controlling a Panel container’s roundness versus squareness by setting the cornerRadius style.

Just drag the slider to control the corner radius of the two panels (one with a ControlBar and one without).

Full code after the jump.

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Using the Validators.validateAll() method to validate a form

By On August 2, 2007 · 4 Comments

I recently saw this issue in FlexCoders and filed a bug for the poster. Well, it turns out the bug I filed was a duplicate of an existing bug, and that bug has been fixed (in Flex 3 — codename:Moxie). So, long story longer, here’s how you can use the Validator class’s validateAll() method to [...]

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Scrubbing an FLV using the VideoDisplay control and a slider

By On August 2, 2007 · 13 Comments

In yet *another* post about the VideoDisplay control, this time we look at formatting playback times using the DateFormatter class/tag, creating a basic scrubber using an HSlider control, and applying a mildly annoying Zoom effect to the video.

Also, we tweak the slider control (or more accurately HSlider) and prevent users from clicking on the [...]

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