http://blog.tsclausing.com Technology, Trading and other Stuff Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:26:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Source and example files from the presentation are now available through the following links: 1) What you get for free with UIComponent 2) [view] Component lifecycle 3) [view step one | step two] Invalidation I have a text version of the presentation in the works. Anyways, I hope this is helpful to you ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/52 [just an announcement ... no content] I'll be presenting at the next 615Flex user group meeting [details & directions] on Tuesday, 11/11. We should have a great turnout and a decent intro hands-on about creating custom Flex components by extending the UIComponent class. Description: 1) What you get for free with UIComponent 2) Component ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/50 Updated: I'm going ahead and making the rough original source available since I have less time to work on this than expected. Please let me know if this helps you on any project or at least gets you started :) One of the more popular posts on this blog is ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/49 I've started a little pet project called SpinjAS (named after the super-cool toys). It's a super-simple and fun way for your users to move objects around, size them and rotate them when you don't need a more precise tool like object handles. Here's a quick demo: (Right click to ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/48 To learn more about the mysimplemp3 project, click the <my:SimpleMP3 /> tab at the top of this website. The project is hosted here on Google Code where you can download the latest swc or check out the source. Currently the only demo is my proof of concept found here. ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/47 What's this? It looks easy! OK. I really don't like building MP3 player components in AS3 for Flex. It's doable, sure, but tedious. In fact, I don't like it enough that I've done something about it. Now it can be fun to make an MP3 ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/45 My presentation files for Sorting, Filtering & Paginating Data in Flex are posted here. This session is a two hour hands-on in which attendees will build a Flex application from scratch [see it live]. The application demonstrates basic sorting, filtering and use of a web service that generates ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/43 I'll be finishing the second half of a Cairngorm series tonight. The topic is "Commands, Responders, Delegates and the ServiceLocator - Getting data into a Cairngorm application." This should be a relatively short presentation compared to the last one :) Also tonight - Andy Matthews of DealerSkins will be ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/42 "Adobe's Cairngorm MVC framework is used by Flex develpers to deliver scalable and maintainable rich internet applications. Universal Mind has created extensions to that framework to address implementation issues that can impede developers." Read more at: http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/ I'm excited to see this! I haven't had time to try out the new extensions, ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/41 Update: New updated example in "Text on a curved path in Flex - Resurrected" - please see instead of this entry. There was some discussion in the 615Flex Google group earlier about how to warp text in a Flex application. (If you have any valuable input or resources please leave ... http://blog.tsclausing.com/post/40