The document for Flex 1.5 Panel attribute titleStyleDeclaration is a little mis-leading.  But to much of my surprise I found a nice tidbit in the description of the titleStyleDeclaration.  There is a default styleName for this attribute, which contridicts other statements on the Panel documentation page. The default value is “windowStyles”. Here is what it says in the top part of the...

I didn’t think much of my use of ASDoc when I created my Flex 2 / FMS ConnectionMonitor component. But I guess usage of the ASDoc is not straight forward and some people might want an example of how to use it. You’ll find the ConnectionMonitor Component’s source and sample ASDoc documentation located here. 1. Grab the source and deploy it in a folder (ie: C:\renaun_com_FMS). 2. Make sure asdoc.exe in your cmd prompt path 3. ...

Validating forms are not my favorite thing to do in Flex 2. A lot of the process seems quite tedious. It is a big improvement over Flex 1.5, but typically you have to create the validators and then create a function to see if all the validators are valid/invalid. It seems the simple approach to validation would be to have the Form be aware of the Validators and provide and easy Bindable way of providing the state of validity for the...

The Flex 2 / Flash Media Server 2 (FMS) Connection Monitor component provides real time stats on a FMS connection. The detailed stats include latency, up bandwidth, and down bandwidth. Connected a Camera instance to the class also monitors FPS. Here is a screenshot of the FMS and Flex components in action. Its pretty basic but is meant to be extend for somone’s specific needs. This does show how to use Flex 2 with FMS. There is a...

The AdvancedForm component has been updated to provide a simple approach to Validation. The AdvancedForm now looks for any Validators present in the same document scope. It then tracks any Validators valid or invalid change. It also exposes the “isValid” property that is set to True if all Validators in the same document scope are valid. To see the updates in action nativate to: http://renaun.com/flex2/AdvancedForm/ You’ll...

[lang_en] Have you ever tried to figure out all the configuration parameters of mxmlc? Well there is a lot of information inside the mxmlc itself. You can actually list all the simple and advanced command line arguments that are available. It even gives you power to search across multiple sets of lists to get speciifc information about your search terms. Lets take a more in depth look. You start by running: mxmlc -help You should see: Adobe...