Mike Orth - Booya! » Tips

Spark Label Tooltip

Mike — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:09:56 +0000

While it’s still default for a Label to truncate and show ellipses if the text is too long, it’s no longer default to show a tooltip (as it was in mx). Easy fix for this is the aptly named property:

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Slider Increment – snapInterval

Mike — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:03:43 +0000

For future reference, trying to remember what the property name was for the interval or step size for a slider. The property is named “snapInterval”

Targeting the Right Component for Transitions

Mike — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:43:27 +0000

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.

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fromState="*" toState="*">

target="{[content]}"/>

targets="{[pageOne, pageTwo]}"/>
>
>

id="content">
id="pageOne" includeIn="one"/>
id="pageTwo" includeIn="two"/>
>

In this case, you need to target pageOne and pageTwo, NOT content.

Flex Formatter

Mike — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:00:25 +0000

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.

Flash Builder 4 Beta / FB3 – “Removing compiler problem markers” error

Mike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:42:08 +0000

If you’ve played with the new Flash Builder 4 Beta, you may have wanted to test out your existing projects in it. And like me, you may have just quickly pointed it to an existing workspace to import a project. If you haven’t – DON’T. Once you switch back to Flex Builder 3, you will start getting An internal error occurred during “Removing compiler problem markers…”

This is because FB4 is built on a different version of Eclipse and modifies your workspace files (not your .project files), i.e. it hoses your existing workspace. To get rid of it, just create a new workspace in FB3 and import your projects there.

How to use a DataGrid with no column headers

Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:42:34 +0000

This is one of those quirky things that is not all that well documented. I had a client that needed a datagrid but didn’t want the header row. It sparked the memory of struggling to find how to do this the first time I needed it. So hopefully this will help end your search for the answer