Even though we are sweltering under unseasonably hot weather I can but dream about Winter. The reason for this forward thinking is the fact that I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Flash on the Beach in Brighton in December.
My session will be on component development, (like anyone would expect me [...]
While producing component based applications it became very tiring to have to repeat the same process to apply styles to individual or groups of components while not resorting to using _global.styles.componentClassName and ‘tarring with the same brush’ so to speak. If you do this it can be a real pain to apply a clean variant [...]
I realised last night (by ‘realised’ I mean someone pointed out - Stefan :P). That I hadn’t posted up an actual component based on my earlier post about adding rollOver and rollOut events to the Button component.
So to rectify this I have uploaded the MXP to the downloads section so those of you who would [...]
For those interested in how to package up your Flash files for distribution via MXPs. I’ve just finished a general article on how a .MXI (mixy) is structured, including an example file to play with. If writing .MXI files for use in .MXP’s isn’t your bag there are a few links on .MXI makers at [...]
Well I thought my articles covering off sizing a component in the IDE were at an end. That was until I got a comment from Justin Levi regarding resizing a component via the component inspector panel, he posed the following:
Great examples. Have you ever found a way to size the component container based on component [...]