This whole geotagging concept has me thinking quite a bit.  One of the things that I’ve been concerned about is usability.  This is one of the major factors that comes into play when building any sort of website or webapp.  If you check out the geotagging concept you’ll notice that making a selection in the [...]

I recently posted about the ExternalInterface class in Flash 8, which allows for tight integration of Flash and JavaScript. Adobe (formerly Macromedia) announced today the Flex/Ajax bridge. This will provide even tighter integration of the two environments. I call them environments from the simple fact that they didn’t use to play so well together.
Developers [...]

Recently I was faced with the challenge of embedding fonts in Flex. This enables you to set the alpha and rotation of text, which doesn’t work with standard device fonts. If you’re familiar with Flash you can set which fonts to embed by editing a text field’s properties. To achieve the same [...]

I’ve been spending a decent amount of time lately with Flex skins (aka themes). While this is a great step forward from Flash this comes nowhere near the capabilities of raw HTML/CSS. My task was simple: create a custom background image for the Flex application. I’m working on a “Brushed Metal” theme [...]

As a stepping stone to porting Google Maps to Flex I’ve taken the approach of placing the maps on top of Flex. This is done through the use of a transparent background approach where the background of the Flash movie is made to let anything underneath it show through. This is done by [...]

I’m currently involved with a project where Google Maps needs to be integrated with Flex. While this souds like a trivial task if you’re familiar with both technologies you’ll know that they don’t play nicely with each other.
What we recently concluded is that we should port Google’s API to Flex so that the functionality [...]

I’ve been struggling with this one ever since Macromedia released their V2 components. The PopUpManager appears to be giving me all sorts of focus problems with different text field components. Here’s basically what happens. Look at the Flex example below and click on the “Focus with PopupManager” button. When the popup [...]

As you probably know the default theme for Macromedia Flex is called HaloTheme. I’ve been experimenting with custom themes and if you read any of the docs you’ll see a reference to HaloTheme.fla. In my installation I was unable to locate this file and only had access to pulseBlue and pulseOrange.fla. I [...]

I recently finished an article for MX Developer’s Journal discussing the integration of Flex and ColdFusion. It goes into brief detail about using the Flex Web Services class to consume ColdFusion CFC’s. As in most of the articles I write, I like to provide a sample application because I feel that many developers [...]