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Parsing dates with timezones in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Parsing ISO dates with Flex and ActionScript”, we saw how to parse ISO formatted dates (2008-01-25T06:14:23Z) and convert them into an ActionScript 3.0 Date object.

The following example shows how you can convert a Java formatted date (Wed Jul 22 14:29:30 PST 2009) and convert the timezone into an ActionScript [...]

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Replacing carriage returns and line feeds with newline characters using Regular Expressions

By Peter deHaan On December 16, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can use Regular Expressions to globally replace carriage returns and line feeds with the newline character (“\n”) in a string using Flex.

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Opening a new browser window by double clicking an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On November 9, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can open a new browser window/tab by double clicking a Flex Image control by setting the doubleClickEnabled property to true and calling the navigateToURL() method

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Adding custom context menu items to a Flex application

By Peter deHaan On November 7, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can add custom context menu items to a Flex application by creating new ContextMenuItem objects and adding them to the Flex application’s customItems array (via the contextMenu property).

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Setting mouse cursors in Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On November 3, 2008 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can set mouse cursors in Flash Player 10 by setting the Mouse object’s cursor property to one of the static constants in the MouseCursor class.

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Determining the size of your Flex application

By Peter deHaan On October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can determine the total bytes of your Flex application by accessing the loaderInfo.bytesTotal property.

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Determining your Flex SDK version number

By Peter deHaan On October 29, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can determine your Flex SDK version within a Flex application by using the internal mx_internal::VERSION property.

You can also find the version number by doing one of the following:
(a) Viewing the flex-sdk-description.xml file in your Flex SDK’s root directory:

<?xml version=”1.0″?> <flex-sdk-description> <name>Flex 4.0</name> <version>4.0.0</version> <build>3934</build> </flex-sdk-description> [...]

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Dynamically styling error tips in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 26, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Changing the background color of an error tip in Flex”, we saw how you could change the background color of a Flex error tip by setting the borderColor style on the .errorTip CSS selector.

The following example shows how you can style the Flex .errorTip style dynamically using ActionScript using [...]

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Inspecting the properties in a class using the describeType() method and E4X/XML

By Peter deHaan On September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the describeType() method to inspect a class’s accessor methods.

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Creating a component instance by class name in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a new Flex component instance by using its class name by calling the getDefintionByName() method.

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Parsing XML nodes and Objects with dashes in their names in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can parse an XML node with a dash in its node name (<font-family />) as well as parsing an Object with a dash in it’s identifier using the square bracket notation ([]).

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Using a clipboard menu in Flex with Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On August 27, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set a clipboard menu and specify custom clipboard items on a context menu by setting the contextMenu and clipboardItems properties.

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