Monthly Archives: January 2007

undocumented AS2 -> AS3 migration notes: setPropertiesAt()

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

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 … Continue reading →

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undocumented AS2 -> AS3 Notes: Datagrid

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

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 … Continue reading →

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undocumented AS2 -> AS3 migration notes : contextMenu

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

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 … Continue reading →

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Custom context menus on nested components

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

What do you do if your application needs custom context menus for components that are not at the application level but rather are nested within other containers or components? You can change the Application level context menu when an event … Continue reading →

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Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

I just completed work on a short film project using Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Live Type, and DVD Studio Pro. I had a lot to learn in a short time, but had no choice, since the director was working on … Continue reading →

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Flex 2.0.1 released

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

Flex 2.0.1 has been released for download from Adobe’s site. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this…I can crash the Mac beta by just typing “//” in the code editor. According to Ted Patrick (http://www.onflex.org/ted/) the 2.0.1 is actually more stable on … Continue reading →

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