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To fit lots of rows on screen in a Flex 3 data grid, you have to change the font size and the row height of the grid. For example, <mx:DataGrid fontSize=”8″ rowHeight=”12″></mx:DataGrid> But the preceding code causes the text in the grid to be cut off because the grid still has row padding that pushes the text down. To remove that padding, set the paddingTop and paddingBottom styles. For example,…

Disney Preschool Time Online is an online destination, which offers rich learning adventures that automatically adjust to children’s skill levels through interactive play. The application offers an ad-free, full-screen environment that can be password protected, making it safe for kids to play. Powered by Adobe AIR, Preschool Time Online includes a 14-day free trial. According to [...]

Some personal recommendations for Flash Builder: – Design View remains unused for most of my projects. I think this should be moved to a separate tool (Catalyst), and that Catalyst should evolve into a more serious tool that doesn’t crap…

As a result of being back in the “land of the coding” (see post: http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com/2010/09/08/back-in-the-land-of-the-coding/), I should begin easily to accumulate content for blog posts. Case in point last week, when I spun my wheels for what was longer than I should have, over dumb assumptions or misconceptions or misrememberings regarding some aspect of Flex/Flash/AS3. I thought I would start a new series of posts meant to capture such dumb assumptions as a reminder to myself ad hopefully as a cache of useful tidbits that others can come across when they are struggling with things that just aren’t working as

This post is long overdue, and I want to personally apologize to Adobe for taking so long to post it. Adobe (Macromedia?) thrives on customer feedback, early, and makes a serious effort to prioritize on it whilst comparing to their … Continue reading →

Here some upcoming Flash Mobile related events: Nokia World 2010 in London DROID does Flash meetup in San Francisco FITC Mobile 2010 conference in Canada Adobe MAX 2010 in October Los Angeles SEE 2010 in Amsterdam Alessandro

Recently we announced an important technology partnership with SapphireSteel Software that will enable developers to fully utilize the .NET framework for Flash and Flex development. Previously, .NET developers were required to learn and use a second IDE, such as Eclipse, if they wanted to develop Flash/Flex applications. Now .NET developers can use their favorite IDE, [Read full post]

Well as a result of being back in the “land of the coding” (see post: http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com/2010/09/08/back-in-the-land-of-the-coding/) , it is time to start up a new chapter in the Rubbernecker’s Review. Believe me, there has been a lot to look at over the last while since I last posted an episode….but there was far to much to completely review. I’ll just stick to my regular weekly format and post the interesting links from the past week: AIR install badge (from RIAgora) Air for Android: Geolocation (from The World In A State of Flex) Seminar Recording: Advanced P2P – Object Replication (from

Adobe Benelux has organized a contest – send your PDF on a round-the-world trip and win a ?2,000 travel check. Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management Document Rally uses a Flex front end, LiveCycle for PDF conversion and rights management, and ColdFusion for all communication to and from Flash and for database integration.

The FITC Mobile 2010 conference in Toronto is approaching. Here some details: * Two full days of presentations with three tracks of presentations, plus one optional day of pre-conference workshops * Covering iPhone/iPad, Android, Flash 10.1, Windows Mobile, HTML5, Unity, Marketing, Usability, and other relevant topics in the mobile [...]

Debating over attending 360|Flex or RIAUnleashed? Thinking about the relative costs of flying west? How’s this for a deal! We’ve teamed up with Brian over at RIAUnleashed to offer both awesome events, for an awesome low price. $650 for both 460|Flex (4 days) and RIAUnleashed (2 days) Let’s break that down RIAUnleashed = 2 days (1 day hands-on workshops). Boston. Full Price $200 360|Flex = 4 days (1 days hands-on workshops). Washington DC. Full Price $599 Cost to attend both events: $799 Combo Ticket Discount: $149

The first half of 2010 has been kind of tumultuous for me. In March, Adobe and I parted ways. No more employee-employer relationship. However, this did not end my relationship with Adobe technology. Far from it. I took this as an opportunity to have a go at getting more involved in development with Adobe technologies, specifically, anything Flash Platform related. It was time to take my 9 plus years of experience from Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe and jump into a new phase. In my early years at Allaire/MACR, I was involved in the Coldfusion product as Senior QA. More recently (the past 7

For those of you looking to become an Adobe Certified Expert on flex 4, check out Attest 3.0. Holly Schinsky and David Flatley have released the latest version of their certification study tool. Of course, it’s an AIR application A nicely done app that features mini and full exams with random questions.

Presentation at the Adobe Education Leader Institute, San Jose, CA. 11:15am.-12:05pm. Wednesday July 28. 2010 Joseph will demonstrate how the University of Denver is leveraging the Flash Platform across the campus community to allow collaboration between students, faculty, and staff … Continue reading →

Every Flash developer is facing security risks because of the fairly easy ways an Adobe Flash SWF file can be decompiled and reverse engineered. Without protection, anyone can easily reconstruct your SWF files stealing your work. I already blogged about Flash Thieve and SWF Protector as a remedy, but this time I want you to [...]

ISS and Adobe are partnering to offer a free webinar on RIAs in the US Department of Defense. The title is “Information to the Edge – RIAs and Mobile Solutions for the Warfighter”. It’s September 9th at 2 PM EST. More details are here http://www.adobegovernmentevents.com/UsingRIAs/registration.html You can register here http://www.adobegovernmentevents.com/UsingRIAs/registration.html

Four new projects and three updates this week (or so) in ColdFusion open source. Summer’s unofficially over and school is back in session. Football is back (college is what I really care about) and baseball is coming to a disappointing end (at least if you like the Red Sox). As you stare at the leaves that show the first signs of changing color, you might wonder, what does any of this have to do with ColdFusion and open source? Nothing. New Releases and Updates New Project: CFConsole ColdFusion from a Console Terrence Ryan created an AIR application that acts as

Were you having a tough time deciding between attending RIA Unleashed in Boston or 360 Flex in DC? Did your boss say the budget only fit one of the two? Well, it’s time to relax because now you can tell your boss that for a measly extra $50 you can get all 4 days of 360 Flex and 2 days of RIA Unleashed. The best part is you can get all the pre-MAX good stuff at 360 Flex and then catch up on all the newly announced stuff from MAX at 360 Flex. Plus, you can’t beat the extra opportunities

Yesterday morning I got an email from fellow Adobean Danny Winokur in my inbox discussing the state of the union with respect to Flash on the mobile. The synopsis of the conversation went something like this.Flash Player 10.1 is now beginning to ship in volume on many smartphones.    Many of you may have seen the attached full page Motorola ad which ran on Friday in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.  There are other similar ads being planned by major carriers and handset manufacturers.  This is the culmination of years of co-development to migrate Flash (not

A Director 11.5 patch was released yesterday and its available for all the Director 11.5 users through Auto Update. Following enhancements we have done as part of the new Director / Shockwave patch 11.5.8.612: Flash 10 support Flex Components Support Cloth physics support 3D hardware anti‐aliasing support Character controller support Shockwave for Mac 64 bit [...]

Adobe has posted a new article about  all Flash Player 10.1 device, the devices include: Google™ Nexus One™, HTC Evo™ 4G, HTC Desire, DROID 2 by Motorola, DROID by Motorola and DROID X by Motorola. I have posted a new page in our blog sidebar "Flash Player 10.1 device", you can visit this page get [...]

BFusion/BFlex 2010 Hands-on training for developers and designers from industry leaders coming to IU. You will not find a more effective and cost-effective professional development opportunity.   Want to learn more about ColdFusion and Adobe Flex? What about cross-platform AIR applications? Already handy with Illustrator and Photoshop and want to quickly turn your work into Rich Internet Applications? Whether you are a curious beginner or an advanced developer, BFusion (a full day of ColdFusion training) and BFlex (a full day of Flash Platform development) have something for you: What: Hands-on training from the experts in ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, Catalyst, and

This is a video showing you a few things to be aware of with fullscreen support in flash on android.

Adobe Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire web content management vendor Day Systems for about $240 million in cash in a bid to enhance its customer experience management software portfolio.The aim is to integrate Swiss firm Day’s web content management, digital asset management and social collaboration offerings with Adobe’s application development products, which include AIR, Flash, Flex, Lifecycle, and its PDF tools.Day will be run as a separate product line in Adobe’s Digital Enterprise Solutions (DES) business unit, however, and chief executive Erik Hansen, will report directly to Rob Tarkoff, DES’ senior vice president and general manager.Tarkoff

Hey, this will be the second time I’ve attempted this, last year in Portland went pretty great. Here is your chance to ask questions, make feature requests, report bugs and talk to other Pixel Bender developers. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some other Adobe employees from my team and the Flash team to stop [...]

You can tell MAX is around the corner since a significant portion of the posts this week come from Adobe Platform Evangelists. This week included tons of activity in the mobile space but also a quite a few great Flash and ActionScript 3 posts. As always, if you have something you’d like me to share in upcoming weeks, feel free to email me, post in he comments or dm/reply to me on Twitter.Cool Mobile StuffOne of my personal favorite posts this week came from Mark Doherty, an Adobe Platform Evangelist. It is a follow-up post to a prior post that

Attest 3.0 is a Flex 4 mock exam and study guide for the Flex 4 certification. The free/trial version contains one mini exam with 30 questions and 99 days of study material. The paid version is 20.00 USD and contains full 50 question exams as well as 25 question mini exams. You can also randomize [...]

An update to the Adobe AIR Launchpad Beta has been made available today and includes the following fixes/changes in version 1.0.1: Fixed Windows OS path issue for generated icon paths set in the app-descriptor.xml file. Paths will now have the correct path separator. Allow other badge graphics than jpg to be used and named with [...]

Here are some tips regarding my way of managing Dynamic Flex ToolTips and, in particular, how to update content of a visible tooltip. Static vs Dynamic Flex ToolTip The most common usage of tooltips is to provide hints or simplified help. When hovering on a particular button, for example, the tooltip can provide more details on the [...]Dynamic Flex Tooltips (Updating a Visible Tooltip) from @blogagic on Blogagic.com.

If you are looking for a way to have devices talk to each other with out the devices knowing about each other check out this post. There are various options but in this post I will talk about using Flash Player’s multicast ability. The underlying API for this Flash Player 10.1 feature is NetGroup and [...]

For a long time I&rsquo;ve been meaning to try out the the IntelliJ CFML plug-in for two reasons. One of which, I&rsquo;ve always heard really good things about the IntelliJ platform for editing Java, Groovy and Flex, and also because as a Linux based ColdFusion developer, my CFML IDE options are limited. So I decided I was going to get some work done on JavaLoader,to move it into a 1.0 F…

Adobe has posted a new device support page for Flash 10.1 (back in the “Flash Lite” days we had a similar page). I think you can count on Android to heavily populate this page over the next few months. Other device form factors, as well as OSP paterns may also spring up on here, as [...]

We selected a winner from our “Tell InsideRIA why you should be at 360|Flex” contest! Congrat to David Jumeau for making the case why he deserves to join us in DC! Special thanks to the InsideRIA team for spreading the word, and to Deril, Jack, Vitor, Lionel, Curtis, and Josh Grauer for submitting entries! They each get a special discount code to 360|Flex, hopefully we’ll see them there!! Don’t miss out! 360|Flex DC is 2 weeks away! Register now!

Congratulations to the web design and development team over at Sesame Street for another well-deserved accolade for their creatively engaging, Flash-based website. Time Magazine named sesamestreet.org one of the 50 best websites in 2010!

Just a reminder, that you can try out the Klokwork Team Connector when you install the new 30 day trial version from the Adobe AIR marketplace. Once you download and install the trial, download the free Klokwork Team Connector (beta) plugin from http://getklok.com/KlokworkTeamConnector.html. Then install the plugin on the Tools > Preferences > Plugins menu. See the instructions on our website for more details.

What is Chimp? Chimp is a simple component for doing role based permissions in Flex. It uses metadata and a generic ArrayCollection of permission strings to display the proper components for a given set of user roles. You can find more info about the project at: http://www.gorillalogic.com/chimp. Flex 4 Update Shortly after I posted Chimp in 2009, Adobe [...]

Not much of a surprise, but just because a device can run or be upgraded to Android 2.2, does not mean it will be supporting Flash, according to this article on phonescoop. It depends on some key hardware certification requirements being met (see below). Adobe confirmed to Phone Scoop in a call that though Android [...]

So you’re staying at the Hilton, but would like to experience some other stuff around the conference. Well thanks to Liz we’ve got a google map of great places to grab a beer, a bite, or both all not too far away from the Hilton (seriously, you need to be staying at the Hilton!) Check the Map! View 360 Flex DC Places to eat/drink in a larger map Don’t miss out. Register now!

When developing a chat application the client wanted text to have different colors.

For whatever reason, my personal blog has much more traffic than PXL Blog. Maybe it’s the crazy YouTube videos? Or the shameless ramblings during the wee hours fixing bugs? Whatever the case may be, I figured I’d blog twice about Attest 3 being released today. If there’s anything I like more than writing a blog [...]

Have you waited long enough? Then without further ado, Holly and I would like to present to you Attest 3 for your studying pleas…well it’s not fun studying, anyway, here’s Attest 3. Some things to note and some history on Attest: There were many late night bug fixes, involuntary naps where heads hit the desk [...]

Attest 3.0 is now available for download to use for all of your Flex 4 Certification study needs and help you become an Adobe Certified Expert! Dave and I worked hard writing questions and updating the software to Flex 4/AIR 2.0 while still trying to maintain our day jobs and overcome some hurdles along the [...]

Had a stupid bug that cost me a lot of time so I figured I’d post the solution here in case others stumble onto the same problem. I had an app with a Horizontal List control and for some reason, Flex insisted on adding an extra item to my list whenever I added a new item to it? Strange. This only happened after I converted the project to Flex 4 and when I went back…

Harry Partridge created this new teaser for Starbarians, a Flash-animated project he’s been cooking, and uploaded it to his popular YouTube channel. While there’s no nudity in the short, YouTube nixed the video for being “too sexually provacative.” Luckily Newgrounds welcomed the short with open arms, and it’s already nearing 200,000 views. [NSFW [...]

Last week I released the as3term project which is a simple AS3 Terminal application. This week as part of work on as3term 2.0 I’m publishing this simple AS3 syntax coloring Flex/Spark component. Actually I was inspired by my colleague Anirudh Sasikumar and his powerful as3syntaxhighlight library. My thought was to use in the first place it but [...]

Ready to experience a cool new Flex Chat application which supports Red5 server and makes your chatting more fun by adding exciting features? Let’s first take a look of it and then I will talk in detail about the features it provides.Did you like the interface? I guess, yes. A simple yet powerful user interface which adds more power to your text chat. Like various messengers, this application also provides features like font size ( You can select from a predefined range of font size), font types, colors, font weight and smileys. Sounds cool?The color picker component added in this application

As some of my fellow Flashers have pointed out today, there seems to (finally) be some movement on a much requested feature (with over 550 votes) for Flash: AEC Support (Advanced Echo Cancellation). It is the second most voted feature request – number one has more votes since seemingly because it has been overrun by Apple fanboys who complain about Flash’s poor performance on OSX. It hasn’t occurred to them that they should also talk to Apple abo…. err, ok sorry, I forgot that Apple does not enter into a dialogue with its use, let alone run a public bug

I already showed you two ways of editing Box2D environments with Bison Kick and simply using the Flash IDE. Today I’ll show you the most advanced editor at the moment: World Construction Kit made with Box2D C++ 2D physics engine compiled with Adobe Alchemy. The demos on the official site are really awesome and the [...]

Image via Wikipedia Most Web designers are perplexed when a client asks them to build a flash Web site and also optimise it for search engines. This is because more often than not, you have to choose between search engine optimisation and a flashy design. For the best flexibility and results, when it comes to [...]

Lee posted about the Galaxy Tab, which is one of many tablet form factors slated to support Flash Player 10.1 as they roll out into next year. Here’s a promo video. I love how they have learned that to beat Apple you need the “hip” and trendy factor. Still, until you actually start using a [...]