about 2 months ago - No comments
I have to give the Adobe Flash team big props on the new Spark framework’s focus on separated logic. Not only does it enhance my productivity and sanity, but it has opened wide the door for and encouraged the Flex community to create vast reusable code in ways that Flex 3 had problems encouraging developers
about 3 months ago - 3 comments
Situation: I was working with the Spark (Flex4) TextArea component. I wanted the background to no longer be visible or just simply alpha set to zero. I expected I could set a stylesheet property backgroundAlpha to zero. However, that didn’t work and there wasn’t even a property on the component called that. I dug in
about 10 months ago - No comments
How does one rasterize a transformed vector capturing it’s new dimensions without pixelation? Note: This follows my previous post Matrix Not Synchronized Challenge: To render a bitmap of a transformed vector display object without pixelation. Specifically, after a mx.controls.Text is transformed, a bitmap snapshot is needed to be taken of the new object including the
about 10 months ago - No comments
I’m short on time right now and just want to post this Basically, matrix transforms do not update dimensions, rotations, and coordinates of UIComponents / InteractiveObjects. Take a look at http://sources.novelastudios.com/flash/matrix_adustments/MatriciesAdjustments.html Adjust the width and notice that when you switch over to the Pixel Tab the width never updates. Don’t believe me, then do a
about 11 months ago - No comments
My opinion is that the following is a big bug. When serializing/cloning an object that has required constructor parameters, you receive an error telling you the arguments are incorrect. Note: the following is just an example using a “native” flash class. Really, you should never have to serialize or clone an Event, so please just
about 1 year ago - No comments
I came across a bug where when you set the scrollRect of a DisplayObject and get a dimension, within the first few mil/nano-seconds it reports the correct width and height. However, after that the reported width and height is the scrollRect‘s width and height. This to me is a bug considering you can not request
