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Anaara.com just went LIVE

Fuad Kamal — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:01:07 +0000

Well this has been a month of new things being implemented; Barack Hussein Obama won the presidential election, Adobe MAX SF is around the corner, and our web site is finally live! For ages now we have only had our blog on the site; our workload has been such that getting a decent site together has been beyond scope…but a little over a month ago we finally put our collective feet down and declared, enough is enough! Developed with Adobe Flex, of course…enjoy!

Lots of thanks to everyone who participated in the alpha release.

We decided to deploy in phases…so stay tuned for lots to come still.

undocumented AS2 -> AS3 migration notes: setPropertiesAt()

Fuad Kamal — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:09:02 +0000

here’s another item missed in the Adobe Flex 2 migration doc:

list.setPropertiesAt() has gone away. What replaced it? Good question. Here’s another: What’s the best way to change the background colors of datagrid rows?

Well, there is more than one approach to this, but for my purposes I wanted to set the row colors based on some criteria of the row content (i.e. from the dataprovider). Since I was extending the DataGrid class anyway, I chose to override the drawRowBackgrounds() function (which is also overridden in DataGrid, btw).

undocumented AS2 -> AS3 Notes: Datagrid

Fuad Kamal — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:25:57 +0000

Well, the datagrid class IS covered by the Flex migration doc, but there are some mistakes.

In AS2 there was an event on DataGrid, DataGrid.cellEdit (Broadcast when the cell value has changed).

There’s no cellBeginEdit or cellEndEdit although the migration doc lists these as AS2 events and then says they’ve been changed to itemEditBegin and itemEditEnd. What it should say is that cellEdit has been removed and replaced by these three events:
itemEditBegin
itemEditEnd
itemEditBeginning

For more details see the Flex 2 Language reference…

undocumented AS2 -> AS3 migration notes : contextMenu

Fuad Kamal — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:47:25 +0000

For the past several months I’ve been working on migrating a huge application from Flex 1.5 to Flex 2.0 (now 2.0.1). While the migration document from Adobe was invaluable in the early stages, there were plenty of changes that weren’t documented therein. In retrospect I wish I had kept a list of all these issues, as it is they are scattered among my general notes. It would be nice to have a place to compile these notes with other developers who have also been doing migration projects – I would hope such an effort would be pioneered and encouraged by Adobe…

Anyway I thought I should start posting them as I come across them. Here’s one:

context menu:
In flex 1.5, to refer to the Application-level context menu, you used Application.application.menu while contextMenu referred to any other context menu.
In Flex 2 / AS3 the application level contextMenu is also referred to as:

Application.application.contextMenu