Archive for March 2009

Preventing Users from Accidently Navigating Away From Your Flex App

One of the downsides to creating Rich Internet Applicationss is that they defy the standard methods for interacting with websites — the refresh, back and forward buttons have no real place in an Flex application.  As a developer you probably understand that clicking refresh or back is a no-no but you users aren’t likely to [...]

Beer Near Here Desktop Part 4: Using Custom Chrome

If you’ve been reading along you’ll know that…I haven’t posted anything in awhile.  Hopefully this post will make up for that a bit.  Today I’ll be writing about using custom chrome (sometimes called ‘skins’) with AIR.  A quick Google search will pull up quite a few resources on this but I noticed that most of [...]

Could this be it? The greatest game ever?

Doomablo.  It certainly has an excellent pedigree.

Beer Near Here Desktop Part 3: Setting up the Project in Flex Builder

After laying down the plan for this project I spent quite a bit of time with the setup in Flex Builder.  If you’ve read my post, Flex Builder Optimization and You, you’ll know that I’ve done a bit of reading on setting up Flex projects for efficient work flows, particularly compile times, and I’ve come [...]