http://mikeorth.com Flex, Actionscript Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:03:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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" http://mikeorth.com/2010/slider-increment-snapinterval 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. http://mikeorth.com/2010/targeting-the-right-component-for-transitions 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 ... http://mikeorth.com/2010/flex-formatter 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. http://mikeorth.com/2010/mikeorthlib-updated 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 ... http://mikeorth.com/2010/28 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, ... http://mikeorth.com/2010/360flex-san-jose 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. ... http://mikeorth.com/2009/playing-with-3d-rotation-in-flex-4 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 ... http://mikeorth.com/2009/skinning-flex-4-slides-uber-basic-example-button-skin 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 ... http://mikeorth.com/2009/flex-flash-camp-slides-on-skinning-coming-soon 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 ... http://mikeorth.com/2009/flash-builder-4-beta-fb3-removing-compiler-problem-markers-error