13 Aug 2008 07:25 pmAdventures in Flex
I did some searching for a good plugin to embed swf files into wordpress posts and it seemed like lots of the ones I turned up were rather dated until I ran into this one by Matt Carpenter. It uses the latest version of the SWFObject project and is compatible with Wordpress 2.6.
16 Jul 2008 03:35 pmAdventures in Flex
In Flex, if you have a custom slider thumb, it will always be scaled to a set size that Flex wants (I think 20×20).
For example,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
backgroundColor="#ffffff"
width="300" height="100">
<mx:HSlider thumbSkin="@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')" />
</mx:Application>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
backgroundColor="#ffffff"
width="300" height="100">
<mx:HSlider thumbSkin="@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')" />
</mx:Application>
would give you this:
To fix this, I wrote a class that extends SliderThumb and sets to the measured size of the skin image:
package controls.sliderClasses {
import mx.controls.sliderClasses.SliderThumb;
import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;
public class FlexibleSliderThumb extends SliderThumb {
override protected function measure():void {
super.measure();
measuredWidth = currentSkin.measuredWidth;
measuredHeight = currentSkin.measuredHeight;
}
}
}
import mx.controls.sliderClasses.SliderThumb;
import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;
public class FlexibleSliderThumb extends SliderThumb {
override protected function measure():void {
super.measure();
measuredWidth = currentSkin.measuredWidth;
measuredHeight = currentSkin.measuredHeight;
}
}
}
Now, modifying the mxml file like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
backgroundColor="#ffffff"
width="300" height="100">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HSlider
thumbSkin="@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')"
sliderThumbClass="{controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb}"/>
</mx:Application>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
backgroundColor="#ffffff"
width="300" height="100">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HSlider
thumbSkin="@Embed(source='resources/images/mario8bit.png')"
sliderThumbClass="{controls.sliderClasses.FlexibleSliderThumb}"/>
</mx:Application>
gives you this:
18 Jun 2008 03:16 pmAdventures in Flex & Computers
I wrote an Flex app yesterday as a demo of component lifecycle and metadata tag usage.
It’s a remake of the classic Gorillas game.
You can play it here.
The source code is here.
