I’ve been playing around with Flex Modules lately and thought I’d post this. It’s pretty basic, but it is kind of a “my first module” type experiment. I tried to show a few different things including: calling a module’s methods from the parent application as well as setting properties in the parent application from the loaded module.
If you haven’t looked at modules in Flex yet, I highly encourage you to check out the Flex Doc Team blog at http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/, where you can find their latest version of the “Creating Modular Applications” chapter (blog entry, PDF).
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Building a simple Flex module’
I meant to post this earlier, and I already touched on font embedding in an earlier post (Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control), but here’s a quick little way to embed a font in a Flex application.
In this example we embed a font (the awesome “Base 02″ PC TrueType font (TTF) from http://www.stereo-type.net/), animate it using the Zoom effect and the Elastic.easeOut easing method. We also set the rotation and alpha properties (which you can’t do with non-embedded fonts), and we set the fontAntiAliasType to “advanced” to give the font a cleaner look. Finally we use the effectEnd event to loop the animation.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application’
This is a bit more of a “gotcha” than a tip, but it is something I’ve run into twice in the past week or so. When working with application domains and singletons (such as the DragManager or PopUpManager). I’ve been playing with modules the past couple days and ran into an issue when trying to drag items from a DataGrid in one module to a DataGrid in the second module. When trying to select an item in one of the data grids, I’d get strange run-time errors. The solution? Create a reference in my main application to a dummy DragManager or PopUpManager instance.
Hopefully this will save somebody a little bit of a headache in the future.
Full code after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Modules and singleton manager classes’
