Monthly Archives: May 2009

FormItem, adding an icon

Adding an icon to a form item is (yet another) one of those really annoying things in flex. I’m sure its something that loads of people wish to do but you can’t. Well just to see if I could, I … Continue reading

Exploding pie charts, part 2

In one of my first blogs I demoed a pie chart that made each of the wedges from the pie explode out the way when its item in the legend was rolled over by the mouse. The pie chart also … Continue reading

Dates, how many days? (DateValidator)

It’s been a while since I last looked at this, and it annoys me that there isn’t a simple function to do this. So if you are wishing to find out how many days are in a month for a … Continue reading

Flex & Version control

Ever had a project where your client has some kind of odd/unusual caching issue with their servers that you have absoulutly zero control over? Well if you have (which I have had) then the following swc file may help you … Continue reading

Simple tip #1 – custom events

Today while coding I was creating some classes that required them to dispatch custom events. I know that this is a fairly common thing to do but sometimes it is these little things that can trip you up or take … Continue reading

Custom Class & Custom Itemrenderer

Today (not for the first time – but it’s been a while) I needed to create a custom class that took a custom itemRenderer. Having used itemRenderers for ages I thought it was going to be straight forward, but I’d … Continue reading

Silverlight / AIR / NYT

Well this is slightly old news, and a lot of you may well know that the New York Times has released a very good AIR application for reading the news.  You may even recognize it from the demo that was … Continue reading

Tiles and the packing problem

On more than one occasion in the past I’ve been wishing to create a custom component that is totally dynamic so that I don’t have to worry about hardcoding any sizes. So lets just say I have a list/tilelist and … Continue reading