Tag Archives: AS3

Google Docs in Flex frustration

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I enjoy using Google Docs.  I have to admit, it is a very easy way to share information between people and to do on-line collaboration.  I have used documents to brainstorm ideas and create outlines in real time on-line.  Recently I created a form that stores the information submitted into a spreadsheet.  Unfortunately,  the spreadsheet is a little hard to read with the responses are very long and there are multiple long responses.  The provided “summary” view for the spreadsheet doesn’t help, because it just displays all the answers together.  This would be great for a survey, but not for Continue reading Google Docs in Flex frustration→

ArrayCollection column counts

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As part of an example of trying to read data from SharePoint and display it in a Flex/Flash application, I needed to see if I could create pie charts from the data.  After figuring out how to get the list data as an xml output, then cleaning up the data to insert it into a ArrayCollection, the next step was to count the number of times a particular value was used in a particular column.  If I was using SQL, it would be  a straight forward grouping and count.  The work around was to filter out the unique values and Continue reading ArrayCollection column counts→

Orientation change with MXML

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I have been banging my head on the wall trying to figure out how to detect the device orientation on the BlackBerry PlayBook.  I initially tried to use the accelerometer function.  Unfortunately, the listener would continue to activate and determining the exact orientation was a little iffy.  So, a slight move of the device would set off the listener and the redrawing of the screen would keep going until the accelerometer stopped.  This was not a good way to test for orientation, it will be a great way to make a game that required moving the PlayBook around a lot.  Continue reading Orientation change with MXML→

mx and qnx happliy playing together

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I’m in the processing of updating the Meetup Search application for the BlackBerry PlayBook.  Last night I was busy trying to rearrange the search form options and realized that the mx:UIComponent was not returning width or height back in order to determine where to place the next component.  The qnx library used for the PlayBook require that an application be either completely in AS3 or use the mx:UIComponent to add the qnx fields; button, textinput, toggle switch, etc…   When developing the Meetup Search, I figured that using the mx tags, it would be easier to control the layout and possibly Continue reading mx and qnx happliy playing together→

ScaleX by ScaleY

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I made an update to my Flex Egg Timer example. The Egg Timer uses Degrafa libraries to create the images. They released beta version 3.1 back in December, which was after I started working on a project that used the Egg Timer. Well, when I created an updated version of the project using the new version of Degrafa, I was getting some very odd looking pie pieces. I was using an EllipticalArc to draw both the white timer and the red background. It gave the effect that the red background was the timer and the white part was the background. Continue reading ScaleX by ScaleY→