Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers

Recently I happened to have to implement a textarea to highlight the research done inside a textarea. For this I found an excellent library that was just in my case: Flex Text Highlighter Class. But if you turn wordwrap on... Liviu Stoica http://blog.comtaste.com

In my last post I introduced the Alchemy Project and I explained how to install/set up the Alchemy environment on a Window machine to compile a very simple "c" file in a swc. Today I'll go deeper and talk about... Luca Galati http://www.comtaste.com

When a J2EE developer starts the design of a Google App Engine application he has to face some problems and adapts some of the well-established design patterns in web application development. Let's start with a bit of introduction to explain... Emanuele Tatti http://www.comtaste.com

In a previous post I explained how to list available operations provided by a WebService, parsing the WSDL document using some undocumented classes of the Flex 3 and 4 SDKs. This time I want to give you some suggestions about... Francesco Rapanà http://www.comtaste.com

One of the most important problem in Application development is the Security of Data Transfer from\to Client to\from Server. The Flash Player environment has a lot of security rules and controls to safeguard data in the Web, but sometimes it's... Luca Florido http://www.comtaste.com

UiBinder helps developers to build GWT widgets in a few simple steps, exploiting the flexibility and maintainability of XML. This allows developer without a strong background in java to be competitive in the GWT code production. Thus we see UiBinder... Michele del Prete http://www.comtaste.com

Since Flex 2, the Adobe Flex sdk's contain a class named BindingManager, unfortunately it's not documented in the released ASDoc, but this class it's really helpful to us to manage and debug all kind of binding inside our applications. BindingManager.debugBinding:... Liviu Stoica http://blog.comtaste.com

In my last post I briefly introduced Swiz framework and uncovered part of its great potential. This post will be about Swiz's custom metadata processor, a powerful tool available with the 1.0 release. The metadata processors were available in previous... Constantin Moldovanu http://www.comtaste.com

Flex editable combobox can be really useful if you need to let the user select either one of the predefined values or a custom input. The same result can be achieved using a TextInput for custom text and a button... Francesco Rapanà http://www.comtaste.com

In my last post I showed you how Mate framework works. Now I would like to deepen the study on this framework with a short example, and I'd like to show one of best practice ways to use it. For... Luca Florido http://www.comtaste.com