In this post I’ll explain how you can develop a flex library that automatically initializes itself avoiding developers the hassle of remembering how, when and where the libraries need to be initialized and hooked into the application. This can be particularly helpful for debugging libraries like fxSpy, DeMonsterDebugger, KaptInspect, mrdoob, etc. and extremely useful to [...]
In this post I explain how you can catch unhandled exceptions or errors globally in a declarative mxml-based way using the [Mixin] flex-specific metadata tag.
Starting on FP 10.1 and AIR 2.0 you can capture unhandled exceptions or errors globally. Although you can use these new APIs you should always take care of the exceptions where [...]
In this post I introduce a new mechanism for Parsley to load part of a Context from a properties file. This way highly dynamic of changing properties can be managed externally from the properties file, avoiding the verbosity of an XML approach. As always, the source code is attached.
One of the things I like a [...]
When working with String templates, code can easily become quite difficult to read and, consequently, to understand, maintain and modify. This blog post explains 2 techniques that can help you dealing with String concatenation and templating: StringUtil.substitue and [Embed] compiler directive.
For simple String concatenation like:
var value : String = "The value " + user + [...]
This week I’ve been discussing with Alberto from undefined.es different ways to implement a reversible panel. Basically a reversible panel would be a 2-sides panel. In the front part you could have the component or widget and in the back you could have a configuration panel (same concept as in the OSX Dashboard widgets).
One way [...]
Template Components can be quite common in different sort of applications. Maybe the most common one is the Panel, which has a predefined set of components (title bar, status bar, close button, etc) and an specific area where we can instantiate any other component we wish.
In Flex3 you could use the technique explained in the [...]
Once a view has been created, Bindings will always be active no matter if the view is invisible or removed from Stage.
There might be cases when a View is constantly receiving Binding updates (i.e. connected to an LCDS server with big amount of data transfer or messages). Imagine the view that is processing all the [...]
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