Here is the main application in Flex: Main.mxml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml" xmlns="*" layout="absolute"     creationComplete="svc.getCalendar()">         <mx:Canvas id="BaseCanvas" label="Mobile Calendar">        ...

I just came across this blog Waldo Smeets. Skinning Components just got easy with Flex 2. There are support to define the 9 component skins right in the attributes of the MXML component tag it self. Before you had to do it in AS etc… Interesting in deed. Flash 8 provides a 9-slice scaling feature to help with the designing of components.

What better way to blog then blog while you are experience it. Here I am at our Las Vegas Macromedia User Group meeting (lvmmug.org). Scott Fegette is talking to us about Labs and Adobe’s community involvement. First interesting comment is about an internal saying in Adobe/Macromedia “We Heart Feedback”, bumper stickers anyone? They push the Forums, Labs, and the Macromedia Blog aggreator (MXNA). I also just noticed the...

Xamlon provides a lot to the RIA space. I have not used it personally but my first thoughts are questions. How many flash components does Xamlon support? I assume there are not as many as in Flex Framework. This is because they are mimicing .NET controls. Do they support Flash Remoting, or what RPC/Data Services do they provide? The answer to this quesiont is no and that they only support SOAP. All the new Flex 2 Enterprise Data Services...

This is a summary of some discussions on the flexcoders yahoo group. As for a summary, Peter breaks it down pretty well. We have actually confused to issues together: 1.) “AMF protocol versions” 2.) “Flex 1.5 styled RemoteObject in Flex 2″ Details on the 2 issues: All AMF protocol versions should work as Flash Players progress. This is what has happened in the past and has been stated what will happen in the future. So...

Three files in this example, CreateDestroyIssue.mxml, test/MainPage.mxml, and test1/MainPage.mxml. The issue is that test/MainPage.mxml is a VBox and test1/MainPage.mxml is a Panel. When test1/MainPage.mxml is created some of the styles are not correct, for example the round edges of the panel header. This only happens on files with the same name, even though they are in different directories. Example code: CreateDestroyIssue.mxml <?xml...