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Using Flex 4 sdk codename ‘Gumbo’ in Flex Builder 3

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Flex

If you haven’t heard about the next version of Flex , code name Gumbo is now in development. According to Adobe’s Open Source site , the next version of Flex has 3 primary themes : Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer. Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and [...]

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Width and Height for Dynamic Image in Flex

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Flash, Flex

Recently I was working on a Flex project and realize upon having my project on the live server , I couldn’t retrieve the height and width property of my loaded image by doing below var img:Image = new Image(); img.source = "image.jpg" trace(img.height); trace(img.width); The trace statement above will just show 0 for both width [...]

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Finding Client Machine Capabilities using Flex / Flash

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Flash, Flex

Recently I was writing an application for Flex which I wanted to know about client-machine’s capabilities in order to provide optimal experience on my application. After searching around, I found the Capabilities API in Action script 3. This became extremely helpful as I can know figure out a things on my client machine to make [...]

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