What are fuzzy pixels? Semi-transparent lines that appear on the edges of your Sprites that make them appear fuzzy or blurry. This is the result of positioning a custom drawn Sprite (using the graphics property) on non-whole number pixels (for example myObject.x = 1.5). Your probably wondering why anyone would set a Sprite to an […]
Display TwitPic Images in Flex & AIR
Problem: The TwitPic API does not currently support outgoing requests and the image source from amazon aws contains an AWS AccessKeyId, expiration time stamp, and signature. This would normally require a regular expression to rip the source JPG path out of the HTML. Ripping the source out of the HTML is a bit of a […]
Skinning Flex Components – Part 1: CSS
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. […]