This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to desolve the myth that Flex 3 can’t truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning and multiple class […]
Anchor Tags in ActionScript Textfields
This example is for anyone who needs to use anchor tags in ActionScript TextFields. If using AIR than the best route is to use an HTMLLoader to load in the raw HTML. If an HTMLLoader is not an option you can use this example to create a wrapper class that mimics the anchor tag functionality. […]
FlexFeed: Twitter RSS Feeds in Flex
Using Flex and PHP it is possible to integrate Twitter RSS feeds into a Flex web page. Twitters cross domain policy (which is used by Flash) does not allow external resources to access feeds. Using PHP as a medium to the data, Flex can access the feed and display all contents. This technique can be […]