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Setting Keyboard Focus on Flex onLoad
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.
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Scrolling List using Tween
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.
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Firefox Add-Ons : Got to Love Them!
Firefox add-ons, also known as extensions, and sometimes confused with pluggins, have completely cemented our loyalty to Firefox as a development tool. Why? Because these little tools are so powerful, and Firefox has provided significantly more options than Internet Explorer or Safari. Not sure what add-ons are? They are small pieces of software that add new features or tiny tweaks to your browser. Many are useless, but some are absolutely spectacular.
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Flex Text Alignment & Layout
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.
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Subversion (SVN) – a version control walkthrough
Version control allows multiple people to work on exactly the same piece of code without overwriting each others’ work. Each person works on their own copy, and, once they have it finished and debugged, they merge it back into the main repository.
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Design Resources: Icons, Maps, & Photography
We use icons, images & photography all over the place within user interface, web and software design. Since we seem to spend a fair amount of time searching for them, I decided to put up a blog that keeps track of what we find. Any of the crew is welcome to add to this – in fact please do.
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Printing In Flex
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).
