Determining which server/domain a SWF is hosted on

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · 19 Comments

Here’s a handy tip which can help you when deploying Flex applications on mulitple servers (such as a staging/production server). Basically you can listen for the Application tag to dispatch the applicationComplete event, grab the URL of the SWF using the loaderInfo.url property, and then use the URLUtil.getServerName() method to parse out the server name.

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Styling buttons in an Alert control

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a basic example of applying a custom style to an Alert control’s buttons and giving them a nice, rounded effect.

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Creating ActionScript cue points with the VideoDisplay controlEdit”, reader Florian asks how you can set cue points dynamically from FlashVars.

Well, here’s one method of passing a single name/value pair from the HTML template into our Flex application and having Flex parse the string and dynamically add the ActionScript cue [...]

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Rounding a Button control’s corners using the cornerRadius property

By Peter deHaan On August 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A simple example which lets you tweak a Button control’s cornerRadius property using a HSlider control.

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