As part of our preparation for polishing our Adobe Flex skills Mark Myers has suggested a Blog Tag – where we set each other an Adobe Flex technical challenge in which we have 2 weeks to write a blog explaining how to solve it.
Here is my first challenge to Mark.
Your challenge is to create a custom component which has no external dependencies i.e. a black box which utilises the inbuilt internationalisation features of Adobe Flex to display popup help in the users currently selected language. The popup help should have a close button and a more info button both of which should dispatch appropriate events – you do not need to handle the additional info action in the component.
The popup help should be suitable styled and positioned either at the calling event (mouse click) or in a fixed position (maybe configurable – top, middle, left etc)
Ideally though the component will utilise the inbuilt internationalisation features of flex it should be possible to swap out this approach to use an alternative source / method for the content without having to change the core code.
Good luck Mr Myers!
If anyone else wants to get involved just drop us a note – its a good way to learn new stuff and build content in your blogs.
Building a Custom Spark Component for Adobe Flex
Thu, Aug 11th 2011 5:00a Mark Barton Its taken me a while but I believe I have started to understand the new skinning architecture in Adobe Flex 4 and this blog article describes how to build a reusable custom component taking advantage of the architecture.
This custom component is simply a useful loading animation along with an optional loading message. I often find myself loading remote data (usually from Domino) into multiple panels within an application and its good UI practice to give feedback to the user that the applicatio [read] Keywords: domino
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Quick video of a Flex App reading X Page generated barcodes
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 10:14a Mark Barton Further to the previous blog entry I have done a quick video to demonstrate the Flex App reading the barcodes which have been generated by an X Page.
Saves having to print off the barcodes or you might not have access to a webcam. [read] Keywords: application
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Creating Barcodes with an XPage / Reading them with Flex
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 10:26a Mark Barton Barcodes you have to love them, those little digital pictures can make life a lot easier when trying to tag a multitude of things but still be machine readable.
Already smart phones along with cheap / integrated webcams are putting potential barcode scanners at everyone’s fingertips, what we need is an easy way to create the barcode and then read it.
2D Barcodes
2D Barcodes like the Datamatrix and QR Code can encode a reasonably large amount of information, certainly enough to hold a uniqu [read] Keywords: domino
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Adobe Flex & Robotlegs–a simple process flow diagram
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 9:11a Mark Barton Carrying on with previous blog posts about RobotLegs I thought it might be useful to someone to have a simple process flow diagram along with an explanation on how it hangs together.
Initially Robotlegs (or any framework that I can see) can appear a little over the top and there seems to be a lot of bits of code hanging together but this granularity is important as it allows reuse and testability and tries to eliminate close coupling between bits of code this in turn makes it easier to manage ch [read] Keywords: lotus
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Camera Trap
Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 10:15a Mark Barton For Christmas this year I brought my wife a camera trap to help find out what animals visit the garden at night. The camera trap is a nifty bit of kit which consists of a digital camera, a PIR and lots of IR LEDs – similar to the one pictured here.
The camera can take stills or videos and so far seems to be working well except for the IR illumination being a bit strong – just means you have to position it a bit further back than you think.
So far I have put out a little bit of meat as [read] Keywords: application
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Implementing TagDragon in a Domino Application
Mon, Sep 27th 2010 7:25a Mark Barton TagDragon is Ferdy Christant’s excellent JQuery plugin to provide type ahead functionality. The plugin is not free but requires a small donation but is worth it for a stable robust plugin.
My requirements were to autocomplete on the entries in a view column for performance reasons.
The bits you need are:
Plugin from Ferdy
JQuery Library
A Holding form in Notes – not used for anything but redirecting
A $$ViewTemplate for ‘holding’ the JSON formatted view.
A J [read] Keywords: agent
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Blog Tag – Stickfight has thrown down the gauntlet (well fingerless glove)
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 12:26p Mark Barton As part of our preparation for polishing our Adobe Flex skills Mark Myers has suggested a Blog Tag – where we set each other an Adobe Flex technical challenge in which we have 2 weeks to write a blog explaining how to solve it.
Here is my first challenge to Mark.
Your challenge is to create a custom component which has no external dependencies i.e. a black box which utilises the inbuilt internationalisation features of Adobe Flex to display popup help in the users currently selected language.& [read] Keywords:
Problems Debugging Flex apps in the latest build of Firefox
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 4:14a Mark Barton I use Firefox and firebug to help debug Adobe Flex applications – firebug is a lot cheaper than paying for the advanced version of Flash Builder for the network monitor.
The problem is in the latest version of Firefox they introduced process isolation for plugins – this just causes any flex app to freeze when I am trying to debug it and the only way to kill Firefox is to end the task.
The solution (work around) is here. [read] Keywords: applications
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