Creating a self-closing Alert control in Flex

By On April 8, 2009 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a self-closing Flex Alert control by creating a timer and using the static PopUpManager.removePopUp() method to remove the Alert after a certain time period.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating custom timers by extending the Timer class

By 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 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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Using a timer to change the selected index of a ViewStack container in Flex

By On January 4, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a timer to change the selected index in a Flex ViewStack container.

Full code after the jump.

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Using the URLVariables and FileReference classes to pass data from Flex to a server-side script

By On October 30, 2007 · 14 Comments

We’ve already seen examples of using Flex to upload and download files (see “Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class” and “Downloading files in Flex using the FileReference class”), but I’ve seen a lot of bugs/questions centering around the FileReference class lately so thought I’d try and do another example or two.

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Disabling a Button control for a fixed number of seconds

By On August 19, 2007 · 3 Comments

I was installing a couple of Firefox plug-ins today and noticed the handy delay on a dialog window, which basically forces you to stare at the dialog for 2-3 seconds before you can press “OK”. Although it can be mildly annoying at times, I can see a lot of places where it would be nice [...]

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Creating a simple timer in Flex with the flash.utils.Timer class

By On August 14, 2007 · 34 Comments

Here’s an example of a simple timer which displays minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, which I built in Flex using the flash.utils.Timer class. You can start and stop the timer using two Button controls.

Full code after the jump.

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