Scaling an mx:Text – The Bottom Line…

Have a look at my little test app here.
On the numeric stepper, keep increasing the scaling.
You’ll find at about 1.26, a strange thing happens – you lose the bottom line.
As usual in my adventures with the Flex SDK, it’s a bug.  But this time I don’t think it’s a bug in the Flex SDK.   I [...]

Sliding Panel

I’ve been working on a screen that shows a diary something like the calendar in Outlook.  We’re targeting fairly low-spec machines with screen resolutions not more than 1024 x 768.
On one side I have a list of items that I can drag onto the schedule to create entries.  As development continues, the width of this [...]

I’ve developed my own OLAP Cube

..and here is a test app that shows it working.
I originally had a go with the SDK OLAP classes.  One of my previous posts here shows a test app that I produced.  This app shows just a grid with the cube output.  
But we wanted to put the data in a chart.  I had a [...]

Speedtest.net

I just love the look and feel of this website, and as you might expect, it uses Flash Player.  The app loads in no time, the response is good, and the animations run smoothly.  
 
And it tells me that I’m getting a decent download speed from my ISP…

My flash package has gone missing…

Just recently I’ve noticed something very strange happening in Flex Builder running on Windows XP.  It seems to have forgotten about the flash.* package.
Flex Builder doesn’t offer any of the classes in the flash package during code completion.
Much worse, what used to happen was that when I saved or pressed Ctrl-Shift-O to sort my imports, [...]

Hello Everybody!

Yes, it’s yet another Flex Blog…
But the main reason for me writing this Blog is so that I can remember all the Gotchas (and hopefully some solutions ) to the many problems I’ve had to face dealing with Flex. Not that there are may of them to be fair, but there are [...]