Determining which version of the VideoPlayer control is installed in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can determine which version of the Flash VideoPlayer control is installed in Flex 4 by using the static constant fl.video.VideoPlayer.VERSION property.

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Determining the current Text Layout Framework version in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can determine the current Text Layout Framework (TLF) version in Flex 4 by using the static constants in the flashx.textLayout.BuildInfo class.

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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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Using named groups with Regular Expressions

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This is always a neat trick that I seem to always forget about, so I thought I’d post it here. When working with Regular Expressions, the RegExp class supports named groups. So instead of having to go through the RegExp result and access it like an array ([1], [2] .. [n]), you can use named [...]

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Checking the user’s Flash Player capabilities using the flash.system.Capabilities class

By Peter deHaan On August 8, 2007 · 3 Comments

There are a lot of times when you may want to know what version of the Flash Player plug-in your visitors are using. Or perhaps you want to know their screen resolution, operating system, language, whether they have accessibility or an IME. Finding all this out is simple thanks to the Flash Player’s flash.system.Capabilities class.

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