Enable Advanced Telemetry on Flex or old SWFs with SWF Scout Enabler

UPDATES: v1.0.7 – Added SWF Scout Disabler mode to allow you to remove SWF telemetry tag from SWFs. SWF Scout Enabler title is the toggle, see below. v1.0.5 – Added command line feature provided by Daniel Bunte. Adobe Scout allows developers to profile SWFs like never before. The telemetry data sent by the release Flash Player to Adobe Scout is by default only set to send basic telemetry data. To be able to see data for the AS3...

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Customizing Flex applicationDPI for a multiple screen size application

Building a Flex mobile application that works across smartphones and tablets takes an understanding of screen sizes, screen dots per inch (DPI) and screen resolutions. In the current landscape of devices typically you consider a tablet something bigger then a 5-6 inch physical screen. Also in the current device landscape screen resolutions are for tablets are typically greater then 1024×600 (original Galaxy Tab 7′ and PlayBook), while...

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Applying styles to StyleableTextField with Flex CSS

The following code example comes from my experience in building the Caltrain Times mobile application. In the process of building out Caltrain Times I needed to convert some MXML item renders into ActionScript item renderers. I used some Flex CSS class selectors to change the look and feel for some labels based upon a selected state. I also had variations of font sizes in the Flex CSS class selectors based upon application dpi. When going from...

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Flex Hero -size-report added to mxmlc

This is actually a very cool feature that is being added in Flex Hero. You can check the specification wiki page for SWF Size Report here. Previously all we had was the link-report which gave us a bunch of information about classes and inheritance and a rough idea of compressed size of classes. It was helpful to see which classes relative to each other where taking up space in a specific SWF file. But where the SWF Size Report comes in to play...

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Using Flex Hero RSL Enhancements

One of the new features of the Flex Hero SDK is RSL Enhancements. I wanted to understand what this new feature really means for Flex projects and applications. The following post will show the differences in Flash Builder 4 projects and then use a custom Flex 4 preloader to display timed text information about what really is going on in the RSL loading process.Source Code Used in the Post Flex Hero SDK RSLTest4_0.fxp RSLTestHero.fxp Content If...

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