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Jul 26, 2009
1 CommentYouTube Embedded Player HTML Component
A few months ago, I needed a quick way to include YouTube video content into an AIR application I was making. Initially, I looked into creating my own video player and trying to use the as3youtubelib, however I ran into people who had many issues with YouTube changing their API which lead to broken videos. I decided to...
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Jun 27, 2009
7 CommentsNestedDataGrid version 2.0 – XML dataProviders
A few months ago, I created a component called NestedDataGrid, to address the annoying issue with DataGrids not being able to support nested properties within objects. This component allows a DataGridColumn’s dataField property to contain a property chain such as: “object.property.propertyList[2]“. This is something that wasn’t possible with a default DataGrid. However, being busy with school (just...
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Jun 20, 2009
1 CommentXML syntax highlighter for FlexBuilder
So a few days ago, I began a quest to find a good XML syntax highlighter for FlexBuilder. Up until now I have been content to limp by using Eclipse’s standard text viewer for XML files, but if I am trying to debug a huge ant script or configuration XML file, the non-colored code just...
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May 15, 2009
11 CommentsCreating a bundled AIR / Java Installer on a Mac
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post detailing how to use Merapi in a Production Environment. That tutorial was primarily written to address managing Java and AIR on a Windows Platform including creating an installer that installs both the Adobe AIR Runtime, the Java-side of an application, and the AIR-side of an application. However,...
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Apr 29, 2009
No CommentsMaking Yahoo’s AutoCompleteManager work with defaultButton
I recently came across a discussion on LinkedIn about what AutoComplete solutions are out there for Flex. I never realized how many AutoComplete implementations are out there! As for myself, I have only tried two… the first was Adobe’s AutoComplete component and the second was Yahoo’s...
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Apr 17, 2009
11 CommentsVariable SampleDataEvent is not defined
So a few coworkers of mine ran into a problem on an AIR project we are working on. Our application involves a lot of music and sound generation which required us to use the new SampleDataEvent class in Flash Player 10. Anyways, for some reason, 2 of my friends at work would get a random...
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Jan 26, 2009
3 CommentsFlex and Web Analytics — Recording User Interaction
In my Web Analytics class today, we discussed tracking user activity in a Flex application. My professor who currently works at Entice Labs talked about how he implemented Web Analytics for a Flex landing page. He recorded any mouse or keyboard events that the user performed while on the page and sent data back to the...
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Jan 16, 2009
4 CommentsCreating a Custom Lifecycle for your Flex Components
Currently, I am working on music rendering in Flex. This is not a trivial task to say the least, considering how screwed up music notation can actually be. Plus, to make things difficult, there are various dependencies with chords and other music notation such as accidentals, beams, ties, slurs, etc. and if you aren’t careful,...
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Jan 06, 2009
2 CommentsMy Web Analytics Class Expectations
Right now, I am enrolled in a Web Analytics class at BYU. From a web developer’s standpoint, most of us usually don’t enjoy the marketing side of the web. Instead, we just prefer to code and leave the “other stuff” to the marketing guys, or analytics just gets ignored completely. I happen to disagree with...
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Dec 19, 2008
29 CommentsMerapi and AIR in a production environment
I have been using Merapi for about six months now and so far I have been very pleased. However, in the project I have been working on there were two issues that we needed to solve that were not really addressed by Merapi or other members of the community. They were: Installing Java and AIR with one...