Creating Flex Component Object when knowing only Class Name of the component

If you need to get a reference to a class in ActionScript 3, but you know only the class name, then in that case you can use the "getDefinitionByName("class name string")" to create an instance of the class.getDefinitionByName method is available in flash.utils packageThis can be easily understandble by the simple example, import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName; var ...

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Getting Currently Selected item from Flex Tilelist Component

To day for some time i have struck with accessing the selected item in the tilelist component after trying out many methods.fianlly i got the access to selected component of list by using the itemclick event of tilelist component. In itemclick event we can get access to the selected item of the tile list .By event.currentTarget will can get the currently clicked component of the particular ...

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Finding number of days between two dates in Flex

Today i found an interesting post an Flexexamples that by using simple basic arithmetic subtraction operator we can find the difference between the two different dates.That is by subtracting one date from another date we can find out how many days are between those days.for example if you want to know the days between April 30-May28 means,just subtract April 30 from May 28 .here is the Flex code...

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Adobe Offerering Free Flex Builder 3 Professional IDE to Unemployed Developers,Students and Staff's of Educational Institutions

Adobe now offers Free Flex Builder 3 Professional IDE to Unemployed Developers,Students and Staff's.To more details about this offering and get the IDE visit here :https://freeriatools.adobe.com/Adobe also set some eligibility criteria to get this offer,here is thatFor UnEmployed Developers :To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the fact that you are currently unemployed ...

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Stlying Flex Alert Using simple CSS

It is quiet easy to apply the style to get the good looking Flex Alert control . Playing with some simple CSS we can come up with more skinny Alert .here is one sample.In this i have written the css to change the style of Alert title ,Alert message font color,Alert border,styles of shadow,headers etc,. Css Source:Alert{color : #124332;background-color: #ffffff;header-colors : #243322, #243322;...

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New Flex SDK 3.3 Released

Its time for an Update,Adobe released Flex SDK 3.3 .New Flex SDK 3.3 can be downloaded from here.http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/Release Notes (with including instructions for updating with DMV 3.3) for Flex 3.3 release can be found here.Just take a look at the Adobe Bug System SDK: Fixed Bugs in 3.3 for the bugs fixed in the current release....

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Trim or Limit the Axis label length of Flex-Charts using Actionscript

One common problem that all the developers facing when creating flex applications with Flex Charting components is with displaying axis labels,when the axis labels exceed some limit then the label of next one one automatically wrap to next line.Some times if all the label text's length is large take 15 to 20 characters then that time the labels will overlap with each other and total chart will ...

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Editing Vertical/horizontal Axis labels of Flex Charts Using labelrenderer

There are many charting components are provided by Adobe with Flex Builder professional to develop rich Dashboard like applications.There are many provisions are given with those components to format/change the way of displaying the data in charts.There are also many direct properties are given with the charting components to made changes to the developers wish.When looking with the Axis labels ...

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Reload Flex Application By itself using NavigateToURL and Externalnterface Methods

With the simple logic we can allow a Flex swf reload by itself.By Loading Application.application.url using UrlRequest in the same page using _self attribute we can get refresh/reload effect to the Flex swf file.Here is lines that do the trick.var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(Application.application.url);navigateToURL(urlRequest,"_self"); If you are using History management in your flex...

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New Adobe-AIR Marketplace Launched

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Showing Current Date and Time in Flex

There is no component to display the current time and date in Flex.we can achieve that by updating the time every seconds using Timer control.Download SourceFor that i have created new Label component that shows the current time and date(using new Date()) ,to make it dynamic i have implemented Timer function that will invoke every second and update the content of that label .i have defined timer...

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Date sorting in Flex Datagrid

In Flex Datagrid sorting is good for the Strings and Numbers,but when its come for the Date objects its not so, Flex also treats the Date objects as Strings and doing the sorting accordingly.To sort this according to date you can use custom sortCompareFunction on that datagrid coloumn which converts the strings to dates ,This will make the date sorting to that coloumn Download the sourceMxml code...

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Modify Height and Width of Popup Date-Chooser-Calendar in Flex-DateField

The DateField control is a text field that shows the date with a calendar icon.When clicking on this calendar icon the DateChooser calendar will open.When the DateChooser control is open, the user can scroll through months and years, and select a date. When a date is selected, the DateChooser control closes, and the text field shows the selected date.This DateChooser will open in its ...

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