The Flex object composition car example I recently created got some updates. I changed CompositionBase into a interface instead inheriting the class (thx Marcus for the heads up on that one). I also went through all the code and style the source code just like the Flex source. You find the code with ASDoc compliment comments and Flex styled sections. With these updates the set of Car examples classes provide the following benefits: Object...

I read a post called “Getting a bunch of components that work together to know about each other” on “The Joy of Flex” blog by David Coletta and figured I would share how it settled in my brain. First off cohesion and coupling of classes through inheritance or composition are very fluid things. When modeling the real world you can describe the same things quite differently depending on your prespective and usage. ...

[lang_en] I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia. Here is an excerpt: The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file I wonder what “specially crafted SWF file” means, lol. I guess it was funny at the moment. Reminds me of the code some of my friends at school wrote during a ACM practice problem. ...

It came up recently about how to clear out a Form after submitting data to a backend. The basic idea was to reset the form to the initial values. Well, then I got thinking that the solution to that problem also lends it self to make a history of changes. Thats where the Undo/Redo features come into play. You can set the history change size with the “undoHistorySize” attribute. The rest is taken care for you. What ever values are...

[lang_en] You can make really simple image/button rollover’s in Flash. But in Flex, when you want to go beyond the default button roll-over skin implementation you have many different choices. I have compiled a few using ActionScript and a Custom class. There are many more ways of creating image rollover functionality. Even CSS can be used, but they all come back to manually setting the rollOver, rollOut, and mouseDown events. To see...

[lang_en](update) New Flash Penetration numbers by new company, as of August 2006 it puts Flash Player 8 at 86%. When we going to see Flash Player 9 penetration numbers? (update) Myspace.com hack to help Flash Player 9 penetration numbers. It has been basically 8 days since the release of Flash Player 9. We have all been told that the pentration of this browser should gain a larger percentage faster then earlier Flash Players. This is because...