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Upgrading from 4.5 to 6.0

Posted on April 20, 2012 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

At work I have been attempting to get our 800+ BlackBerry devices updated. This all began when we provided our service application to a site to use with their own technicians. The devices that we gave them were the BlackBerry Bold 9930. Luckily for me, I also got one of these devices and handed in an old 8800 BlackBerry. The Bold’s came with OS 7.0, but I updated mine to 7.1 in order to take advantage of the Hot Spot feature. Also, in OS 6 and 7, there is a feature for using Near Field Communication NFC tags. While most Continue reading Upgrading from 4.5 to 6.0→

Horizontal Slider and List synch

Posted on October 6, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

As I stated in a previous post, I am working on a little project for work that dealt with including arrays inside of arrays. Part of this also had me putting lists inside of lists. The layout of one of the display has an Accordion navigation control with a HorizontalList, that also contained an accordion with it’s own HorizontalList. I am using the horizontal list to scroll through main items with sub-items below. On top of this, I am creating the HorizontalList, the HSlider and the Accordion controls all dynamically. The first part of setting up the slider and list, Continue reading Horizontal Slider and List synch→

Flex Test Drive in about an hour

Posted on September 21, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

According to the Flex Test Drive site, you can “Build an application in an hour”. While that is definitely true for a simple application, I would say it takes a little bit longer in real life. I started working through the Test Drive demo using the videos, which probably run less than an hour. Since I am familiar with Flex/Flash Builder, it was easy enough for me to have the video running in the background while I built the application. There were several times that I had to switch back to the video to get a better understanding of what Continue reading Flex Test Drive in about an hour→

Zend AMF and Flash Builder

Posted on September 20, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

While I was pondering creating the Flex/Flash test application for the Demo site, I ran across Flex Test Drive. I remember reading it before and couldn’t remember why I didn’t go through with the example….then I tried connecting to the php web service. The Flex Test Drive gives you three options for a server: Java, PHP and ColdFusion. I don’t have a ColdFusion or Java option on my hosted website, so PHP was the way to go. I also didn’t want to bother installing a web server locally, because I want to post my examples on my site. Because of Continue reading Zend AMF and Flash Builder→

ArrayCollection in an ArrayCollection

Posted on September 19, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

At work I am trying to display a bunch of information retrieved from a web services. The data has a header table (top item) and then supporting item tables (sub items). My current data only brings back one top item, but I have set it up to display multiple top items using a HorizontalList. I created a custom component based on a Form, which allows me to easily display header and values. In the future, I can probably use the form for inputs, but for now it is just displaying. I am also using an Accordion container to display each Continue reading ArrayCollection in an ArrayCollection→

Adobe BrowserLab

Posted on September 17, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

I decided to take a glance at the widgets I put in earlier today and stumbled onto a nice little tool over at Adobe. In Dreamweaver you have a few options for viewing your work to determine how it will look in the real world. The first method is to use a split view, which gives you one frame of code and another frame of design. The obvious benefit is that you can quickly find your code problems before sending it up to the site. However, as you notice from the image below, it might not actually be what you Continue reading Adobe BrowserLab→