Mike Orth - Booya!

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.

>
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.

MikeOrthLib updated

Mike — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:55:00 +0000

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).

Visit the project home page.

Increase Memory in Flash Builder / Eclipse for Mac OS

Mike — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:15:39 +0000

If you ever get the eclipse “Out of Memory” error, then you need to increase the default memory size. It’s relatively easy, but you have to know where to look.

In your eclipse install folder, right click on the Eclipse launcher and choose “Show Package Contents”. Then navigate to Contents/MacOS and open eclipse.ini. Change the min & max values to:

-Xms128m
-Xmx512m

360|Flex San Jose

Mike — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:42:49 +0000

I just got back from 360|Flex conference in San Jose. I got to meet a lot of cool people, as well as put faces to several fellow Universal Mind guys. At past 360s, you had to search to find someone with a PC because it was overwhelmingly Macs, but I was surprised at the amount of PCs I saw this time. There was also a lot of focus on mobile development. Looking forward to next time.

Playing with 3D Rotation in Flex 4

Mike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:53:19 +0000

I wanted to experiment with the new 3D features in Flex 4 Gumbo, so I made this simple rotate demo. Your mouse controls the rotation of the paw. I used the new functionality of

AnimateFilter

SimpleMotionPath

for the ‘info’ button effects and when clicking the paw. Rather than use the Rotate3D effect, I am just setting the rotation properties on MouseMove.

Click for demo

This was done for my good friends at CFBgaming.com.

Skinning Flex 4 slides, Uber-Basic Example Button Skin

Mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:49:40 +0000

Here are my slides from Flex Flash Camp along with an uber-basic example button skin that shows a quick breakdown of a Spark Skin. Great for those who haven’t had time yet to really peer into Flex 4 skins. Look for more advanced skinning topics soon.

Flex 4 Skinning – Nashville Flex Camp

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xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
>

[HostComponent("spark.components.Button")]

top="5" bottom="5" left="20" right="20" />

Flex Flash Camp Presentation, slides on Flex 4 Skinning coming soon

Mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:41:16 +0000

My presentation on Skinning in Flex 4 from the Adobe User Group Tour & Flex / Flash Camp will be up soon. It covers the basics of what has changed for skinning and styling. The demos walk you through creating a new skin and how certain aspects affect the end result. I had a great time meeting more people from 615Flex. Matthew did an awesome job of getting the event organized and off the ground.

Special thanks to Greg Wilson from Adboe, all the attendaes & presenters.

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.