This seems to come up every once in a while, especially outside US and UK. People start looking at the PDF generating libraries, and find that when they use a non-latin character it stops to work. It needs some special care but it is really easy to get it working, I’m going to show how [...]
Archive for the ‘Flex 4’ Category
Using constants in Flex CSS – with compile time error checking
One of the problems with CSS is that in involves a lot of copy&paste. Having multiple selectors which share a common property value (like a font color) is common, but in CSS you still need to have an individual color for each selector. So you end up with code that looks like this: s|TextArea{ [...]
Snippet – Disabling paste on spark TexInput
It’s a common requirement for e-mail or password inputs – the second input should not be copy pasted from the first one, to make sure it’s what the user wanted to put in. When using spark my Flex 3 method didn’t work, so just in case someone needs to do the same thing, here’s the [...]
Spell checking in Flex (with support for multiple languages)
A while ago the way to go, if you needed spell checking in Flash or Flex was Grant Skinners Spelling Plus Library (which still has a lot to offer, especially for Web applications, as it’s much smaller than the Adobe library). But, for a while now, Adobe has been working on their own project, called [...]
From photoshop design to a Flex 4 skin
When looking at some old project folders I’ve found one of the first skins I’ve created while starting with the Flex 4 skinning model, and I thought it might be an interesting case to look at, source code is included at the end of the post. It’s based on a really nice design done by [...]