Blogs

As the IntelliJ is getting popular, there are situations where some developers are using Flash builder as their IDE and some IntelliJ in the same project. Hence you really dont want the IDE specific files to be checked in to your repository. If your project is managed by maven, here is a way to convert the pom file to  flash builder project properties. Once converted, you can import the flash builder project in to the Flashbuilder.

It is very suprising to me that i couldnt find a inherent method to insert a character or a string inside an existing string in Flex, actionscript 3.

When the market is flooded with smart phones having touch screens, the purpose of having a flip phone is becoming redundant. After all, it is about convenience now. It is about the least number of movements you can make to get the desired result. Flip phones have never been famous for that! Flip phones used to be cool once upon a time, and looks very stylish. There was something very smart in flipping the case of the phone, tossing...

Yep, you are right, there is no out of the box way to deselect all the radio buttons in a radiobuttongroup in flex.

For those who want that behavior, here is the snippet that does the trick. I am using ctrl + click to deselect all of them.

in the recent project, i had to use a particular debugger version of flash player in google chrome. Well no big deal.

The problem was, i kept on getting this warning: out dated version of flash player with options- update or run this time. So i had to keep on doing run this time till i really became frustrated and decided to fix this.

Currently i am building an android app with native extension.  Well for those who are new to building native extension, here is a good article to refer:developing-native-extensions-air.

When you are building native extension, there are too many manual processes to do before you can run your application. So here i wrote an ant script which does all the build process for you. Obviously, you need to change the path of each of your build variables according to your settings.

You have an xml data from the backend that drives your view. Now you can simply convert it to an xmllist/xmllistcollection. However, u need more flexiblity with the data and decide to go for array or an arraycolelction, this is how it can be achieved. It is pretty easy to convert them to arraycollection. The function takes an xml parameter and returns an arraycollection...

Most of us in recent times have faced this situation of converting the code base which is in PureMVC to Parsley. Well the benefits of using Parsley is manyfold and is outside the scope of this article. Migration needs to be carried out in step by step procedure:

1. Build some core classes to act as a bridge between the PureMVC and Parsley architecture:

Finally i decided to write my blogs...So lets see what i can start with... Well in my recent Flex project, i wanted to search an instance of an item from an arraycollection(or for that matter from any collection) whose one of its property is equal to my expected property . Well there are many ways to achieve this, but i wanted sometihng generic which i can use for any collection. I have written two functions, one returns the idex of the item and other returns the item itself.

So here is my utility class:

MyUtilClass