I ran across this problem recently…
I needed to create a slider that didn’t change in a uniform way. It was different for each third of the slider. The first third changed evenly from 0 - 25,000. The second third from 25,000 - 100,000. The last third from 100,000 - [...]

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I’ve recently been tasked with figuring this out so I thought I’d share my results with everyone.
The Problem:
Create a Flash/Flex horizontal menu that will overlap the content below it. We don’t know how big the menu might get or what kind of content might end up below it. We do know [...]

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Modifying your default build template is quite simple. There is a template file that is used when building your project. It should reside in the html-template directory at the root of your project in Flex Builder. In Flex Builder 3, the template is named “index.template.html”.
Let’s say you want to modify default parameters [...]

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Flex is great! Javascript can be great! What if two great things got together?
This is a simple code hint which shows how to call javascript functions from Flex and pass data back and forth:
MXML Button:
<mx:Button
id = “button”
label = “Click Me!”
click = “handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent)
/>
Flex Function:
private function handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var functionName:String = “handleButtonClick”;
var returnData:String = ExternalInterface.call(f, [...]

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I have been doing some work with AIR and SQLite recently and came across and issue that had to be solved. The issue was that most everything is a VARCHAR in SQLite and I was not able to insert apostrophes (’) into any string field because that is the string delimiter.
A quick [...]

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