Hello all,
Been a while but, I have been working in the labs for quite some time (8 months to be exact), I guess just waiting for this current US presidency to END! Always like molasses in the end.
Anyway, I have written some short tutorials and other adventure notes from my past travels and will start […]

Hi,
Through the years (man, it’s been years now since Flex was released), I have seen a lot of confusion about container scroll bars.
The confusion summed up;
Developers have a child container within a parent. The child container’s measuredHeight exceeds the parent’s viewable height. The parent container then EXPANDS itself to make room for the child’s measuredHeight.
With […]

Order and logic rule our consciousness, thus seeing a template in a framework comes natural for me, I love order.
What is a fork relating in a framework? When creating abstract superclasses that rely on subclasses to fill in details we need forks. A micro routine in a macro routine. Take the flex framework, [...]

Hi,
I have seen a couple posts on flexcoders about the Adobe Dev Center's rotating UI at the bottom of the page.
Check out
RotatingListFX Product
to see how well an encapsulated custom component can create that functionality plus a whole bunch more.

This component is a container that you create children in just like a box or canvas. [...]

Hi,
Have you ever felt like you were a dog chasing it's tail when programming? One of the main things I have learned from creating Flex applications is create and destroy.
Creation ::
You create a plan on paper and map out what happens to who and where. Then you go to implement it and you start getting [...]