Disabling user input in a Flex Application

By Peter deHaan On February 20, 2008 · 8 Comments

I’ve seen this come up a few times in various lists, and figured maybe somebody out there may find this useful.

The following example shows how you can prevent user input in a Flex application by setting the enabled property to false in the <mx:Application /> tag, or by setting the Application.application.enabled property.

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Creating custom timers by extending the Timer class

By Peter deHaan On February 20, 2008 · 1 Comment

In a previous example, “Creating timers using the Timer class”, we saw how to create simple timers using the Timer class and listening for the timer and timerComplete events.

The following examples show how you can extend the Timer class to add methods and properties to the Timer object, which allow you to pass [...]

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Creating timers using the Timer class

By Peter deHaan On February 20, 2008 · 9 Comments

In previous examples, we saw how to use the setInterval() and setTimeout() methods to create simple timers.

The following example shows how you can execute code at regular intervals using the Timer class. It also shows you how you can create timers that repeat continuously as well as timers which only execute a [...]

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