Year summary
It was a good year, thank you for reading this blog – hope it is useful at least sometimes :) Starting from the 20-th August 2010 when this blog was opened:
- More than 2900 people came and read more than
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Spark Tree on GitHub
I’ve just uploaded Spark Tree component to the GitHub so if you’ve got some updates or bug fixes – please send pull requests :) Also the package is changed – now it’s com.sparkTree.
AMFPHP in convinient and reliable way
Remoting with AMFPHP greatly simplifies the client-server application logic. Now I’m going to simplify it’s usage. No responders, no listeners or clients. Just one call(...) and one callback function:
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Easy solution for one annoying HGroup/VGroup layout issue
Text elements in horizontal and vertical layouts are sometimes coward. When text is small, layout looks nice:
If the text is controlled by user and layout is not smart enough, it can look this way:
“Logout” button is invisible, search …
Storing icons in external ZIP and seamless work with composite icons
There are a lot of ways to work with icons in Flex, e.g.:
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@Embed(...)directive inline - Use
[Embed(...)]metatag and store all icons in class likeAssets.as
All this is good until you have too much assets because:
- Each
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Cloud Layout
Here is the CloudLayout.as [plain] that does nice Web 2.0 tag cloud:
Horizontal Multiline Layout
Sometimes it is necessary to place elements horizontally (like HorizontalLayout) in several lines instead of just one line:
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Fit buttons in the toolbar
Sometimes buttons does not fit in the toolbar:
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Spark Tree – faster, with icons and text colors
I’ve just updated the Spark Tree custom component. Here are the improvements and new features.
Spark Tree
Unfortunately Flex 4 does not have Spark Tree and MX Tree has 99 bugs at this moment.
In our project we were in need of Spark-based Tree for some time so inspired by Alex Harui I wrote it:
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