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Flex Builder 2 and CFEclipse

If you have not tried already, it is possible to have CFEclipse installed into the standalone version of Flex Builder 2….

Continue Reading 3 comments June 24th, 2006


DVI-D, DVI-I, and Bios Flashing

I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came home and hocked up my computer the next day I got one VX2025wm working through DVI and the other would not come up on the DVI connection.

I spent an hour and half just trying to figure out what was the issue, and finally just hooked it up through the VGA-DVI connector. Well tonight I decided to really try and understand what was going on…

Continue Reading 3 comments June 24th, 2006

Flex2 a MenuBar with toggled menuitems

The MenuBar and Menu components of the Flex2 framework are nice tools in creating standard business applications. As you look through the examples located in the documentation you might find some issues with the <menuitem/> model attributes…

Continue Reading Add comment June 21st, 2006

Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos (Flash TechNote)

Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here.

Continue Reading 3 comments June 15th, 2006

Flex and Flash Player Codenames (better late then never)

I just finally put all the recent codenames together. I have known of Zorn since Flex Builder 2 was first talked about. But I did not know that Flash Player 9 (and previously 8.5 betas) is called Zaphod. And the next version of Flex (Flex 2) is called Mistral….

Continue Reading 7 comments June 15th, 2006

Flex/Flash wmode Performance

I have been working with a component that loads FLV video and SWF animations. The component is sometimes CPU intensive because of the FLV video and SWF animations used….

Continue Reading 2 comments June 14th, 2006

Apollo Presentation Notes

I am partaking in the Adobe Developer Week. I choose to learn about “Building Killer Desktop RIAs:
Adobes Next Generation Technology”, which is about the Apollo project. Apollo project brings web development to a point where you can create for the web and desktop….

Continue Reading 7 comments June 13th, 2006

Yahoo Groups (FlexCoders) Expand Messages

I have been quite busy with things going on at work and do not have alot of time to frequent FlexCoders. I just noticed a change to the yahoo groups….

Continue Reading Add comment June 5th, 2006

Flash Player 9 (ActiveX) Installer Issues

I had trouble installing Flash Player 9 (ActiveX version) into Internet Explorer. This is the process I followed to fix the issue….

Continue Reading 1 comment June 5th, 2006

Flex 1.5 - Embedbed image problem, when using multiple Flex SWFs

I have 2 Flex applications. The first application (swf1) loads the other application (swf2). “swf1″ has an embedded image inside it, when I try and access the embeded image in “swf2″ nothing happens.

The best way to explain it is with some sample code (source can be found here)

Continue Reading May 30th, 2006

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