Archives for: February 2009
Feb
25
Via Andrew Shorten, Flex Builder Professional is free to students. You can sign up for a copy here.
Edit: Also free to those unemployed, limited time only on this one I would think. more »
Feb
24
I don't have enough time right now to go into too much detail so I'm afraid this post will just consist of pointers and no real code samples, but I wanted to say that bullet points, although technically un-supported in the Text Layout Framework right now… more »
Feb
23
Short and sweet, if you want to know the Unicode ranges for various glyphs, such as Latin 1, Cyrillic and so on, open up flash-unicode-table.xml from your "Flex SDK/frameworks/" directory.
You'll find everything listed, and it's a good way to save on… more »
Feb
23
In a nutshell: Don't try to use Windows TTF files when embedding fonts in Flex on OSX, possibly a CFF thing.Long version: I had a strange problem with font embedding in Flex Gumbo on OS X when trying to embed the following character ranges (using CFF… more »
Feb
19
In my previous post I posed the problem of using the new Text Layout Framework in an application where you already have an Undo stack/mechanism, for example in PureMVC with the Undo utility (CommandHistoryProxy).The challenge arises because the TLF a… more »
Feb
19
UPDATE: I've posted a solution to this PureMVC + Text Layout Framework integration here (this applies not just to PureMVC, but anywhere you want to use your own "undo" stack in an MVC application).
I'm having a bit of a tricky time with integratin… more »
Feb
18
I've been using the TLF for the last day, and it's really a major leap forward from the limitations of the TextField class introduced in Flash 6. TextField still has its uses, it's most likely more processor friendly (unconfirmed). But if you're in need… more »
Feb
17
Back in October 2007 I wrote a post entitled "Does Flash Lite Have a Future?" which is one of my most popular posts and it sparked some interesting comments. The main argument I had for this wasn't that Flash Lite was going down the pan, it was simply th… more »
Feb
16
A thorn in the side of Flash Lite has been removed. Today Adobe has released a developer redistributable version of the Flash Lite 3.1 player along with the packager tool. This greatly improves the situation of not knowing whether someone has the player,… more »
Feb
16
Yes, another pattern, but I've just come across a great post on the M-V-VM pattern and it's a good one to share. I was introduced to the V-M-VM pattern just under a year ago by an outstanding .NET dev when we worked together on an RFID/database powered W… more »
Feb
12
This article is about creating Flex Gumbo (Flex 4) application that run in either Flash Player 10, or AIR 1.5. I also describe how to upgrade an existing FP9/AIR 1.0 application to use the new SDK. In my case I also had to upgrade a Flex Library project… more »
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