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I have recently been doing a lot of searching around inside the Flex Components and I have come accross some interesting imports / classes that don't appear to be in the API documents. However there are a few good sites out there that have started documenting these API's trying to work out there usages.

The one i have been using most often is

The Flex Non-Docs

However I have also found a few imports that are documented but that don't provide the ability to use auto complete or allow you to import them automatically

for example

mx.utils.DescribeTypeCacheRecord and mx.utils.DescribeTypeCache

If anyone knows how to actively stop code hinting for class's and would like to share that would be great!

I am always coding dashed lines in ActionScript and I got sick of it so i was going to create some little components to use instead. But I had an idea why not google it first? And heypresto no need to build them as Justin Opitz has done it for us.

visit the post here

Thanks

I haven't written a post in a little while so I figured it was about time. I have recently started a project that has to deal with a lot of XML data and converting all that data into configuration objects VO's and other objects can be a bit of a pain. I use e4x a lot but I also find a little known Flex class called SimpleXMLDecoder really useful when I want to quickly convert an XML into an object.

var xmlDoc : XMLDocument = new XMLDocument( xmlhere );
var simpleXML : SimpleXMLDecoder = new SimpleXMLDecoder( false );
var xmlObject : Object = simpleXML.decode( xmlDoc );

Finding a good Caliper or measuring tool that is both cross-platform and FREE seems to be quite difficult. PixelPerfect is a good starting point but not really as useful as a real caliper. So I decided to create myself a CALIPER application for Adobe® AIR™ Project Page or directly from the Adobe MarketPlace

Just a quick post mostly as a reminder to myself on how to easily create Icons for your Adobe AIR applications.
Once the application has finished Initializing i add a button to the main view. that calls a method called takeSnapShot( e : MouseEvent ); that writes the application out to the desktop as a PNG file. (more...)

Forgot to post about this but redbullracing went live last month and i was in charge of creating the flash homepage. It was a simple but interesting project, most notably the distortion effects that are applied to it. Apparently they have caused a lot of people to think their monitors were broken! I blogged about some of these effects here I also made a little countdown timer that lets you know how much time is left until the next race. Which was kind of neat as it had to be localized to the users current location.

They have just posted a security alert over at Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team Website regarding false links on social networking sites that tell you to download un-official versions of the flash player that have malware installed on them..

So be careful

I needed to build a simple Password Strength indicator much like the ones you find on google registration pages. Using some simple RegExp ( Regualar Expressions ) it wasn't that hard.
Below is a simple example that uses the class to display the security level as well as updating a HBox to show a visual indication of the quality of your password.
The crieteria for the regular expressions are to check Capital letters, standard letters, numbers and none word characters to build up the quality level Right click to view source

The guys over at adobe have put together some good free video's on getting started in Flex, Currently 3 whole days worth of stuff!

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/