Adding a link to context menu in Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a custom link to a context menu in Flex Gumbo and Flash Player 10 by setting the link and contextMenu properties.

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Setting the node indentation level when calling the toXMLString() method in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On August 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the amount of indentation used when calling the toXMLString() method by setting the static XML.prettyIndent property in ActionScript.

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Ignoring comments in an XML file in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can ignore comment tags (<!-- … -->) in an XML document by setting the static XML.ignoreComments property.

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Determining the XML class’s settings in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can get the XML class’s current settings by calling the static XML.settings() method.

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Determining if an item is listening for a specific event

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can check whether a Flex Button control is listening for a specific event (FlexEvent.BUTTON_DOWN) by using the hasEventListener() and willTrigger() methods.

According to the Flex 3 documentation for the EventDispatcher class’s hasEventListener() method (link):

The difference between hasEventListener() and willTrigger() is that hasEventListener() examines only the object [...]

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Looping over an Array using the every() method in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can loop over an Array in ActionScript 3.0 using the Array class’s every() method.

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Looping over each item in an Array in ActionScript 3.0

By Peter deHaan On April 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can loop over an Array object and modify items using the Array class’s forEach() method.

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Skewing an Image control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On April 7, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can skew a Flex Image control vertically and horizontally using the Transform and Matrix classes.

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Returning values from JavaScript in your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API

By Peter deHaan On March 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Calling JavaScript functions from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API”, we saw how we could call JavaScript functions from our Flex application.

The following example shows us how we can return a value from a JavaScript function call and use the data in our Flex application.

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Calling ActionScript functions from your HTML templates using the ExternalInterface API

By Peter deHaan On March 11, 2008 · 7 Comments

In a previous example, “Calling JavaScript functions from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API”, we saw how you could call JavaScript methods from our Flex applications using the static ExternalInterface.call() method.

The following example shows you how you can call ActionScript methods in our Flex applications from JavaScript using the static ExternalInterface.addCallback() method [...]

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Checking to see if the ExternalInterface API is available in Flex

By Peter deHaan On March 10, 2008 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can check to see whether your Flex application is in a container that supports the ExternalInterface API.

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Calling JavaScript functions from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API

By Peter deHaan On March 9, 2008 · 25 Comments

The following example shows how you can call a JavaScript function from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface class and the static ExternalInterface.call() method.

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