Archive for July, 2010
Targeting the Right Component for Transitions
When doing any state transitions, you have to be sure to specify the intended target. For instance, recently I was debugging some client code to see why a fade wasn’t working. It turned out that the target was set to the parent group instead of each specific component.
<s:Transition fromState="*" toState="*">
<!-- INCORRECT way of doing it:
Don't target the parent container-->
<s:Fade target="{[content]}"/>
<!--CORRECT: target each specific component-->
<s:Fade targets="{[pageOne, pageTwo]}"/>
</s:Transition>
</s:transitions>
<s:Group id="content">
<local:PageOne id="pageOne" includeIn="one"/>
<local:PageTwo id="pageTwo" includeIn="two"/>
</s:Group>
In this case, you need to target pageOne and pageTwo, NOT content.
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Flex Formatter
After moving from projects that religiously used FlexFormatter to one that didn’t, I realized just how nice this plugin is. If by chance you haven’t heard of it, FlexFormatter is an eclipse plugin that will format spaces, tabs, declarations, reorder properties & functions, indent, and lots more.
To install, use the update site http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite.
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I added a lot of new custom Flex components to my library, MikeOrthLib. It includes a PagedDataGrid control, some handy popup base classes, and other utility components.
Check out the example application (work in progress).