Flex

When you refresh the browser with a flex app running fullscreen, obviously the flex app should be focused…. but it’s not

Here’s a really easy way to set keyboard focus on your flex or flash embeded code. Basically, just paste the code below into the bottom of your html. After the page loads, this code gets called and sets the focus on your embeded swf. Continue Reading »

We had a situation requiring up and down buttons, and we wanted them to scroll a list. The catch is how to animate the scrolling. Here’s how we did it. Continue Reading »

I know it’s super simple, but I’ve been banging my head on text layout for a couple of hours. I wanted 2 text boxes to have less space between them (leading) than the default. After trying many approaches, I finally figured out that I can set a negative paddingBottom to achieve the desired effect. Continue Reading »

Flex has its own printing package (mx.printing) which adds functionality to the flash.printing package, making it easier to format output (slicing and paginating).