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 [...]
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 [...]
So you’ve been working on a Flex project for nearly a year and you have a few dozen modules and even more Actionscript classes and suddenly you realize that the project is taking an eternity to compile. Three minutes 26 seconds in my case. This snuck up on me too as compile times gradually became [...]
On a recent Flex project I needed a component that would allow me to move selected items in one list to another list. A Google search for “flex list to list component” turned up nothing, nor did “flex enhanced list component”. Undaunted I decided to roll my own which I am now sharing with the [...]