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 [...]
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Basic socket server in AIR
The socket api is relatively simple, but I couldn’t find a simple step by step tutorial on getting sockets working. The basic idea was to create an app that can send text to connected clients (which I’ll be using to send code while teaching a Flex class), and getting that basic functionality working is amazingly [...]
Snippet- DataGrid labelField upgrade – complexFieldNameComponents
When displaying data in a DataGrid you can now reach into the inner structure of the data item while using the dataField property. Let’s say your data is: <employee> <name>Maurice Smith</name> <phone>555-219-2012</phone> <email>maurice@fictitious.com</email> <active>false</active> <description> <short>short description </short> </description> [...]
Flash Builder extension for Swiz – sneak peak
I’ve spent some time lately learning how to extend Flash Builder, and finally have some results to show. I’ve build a few projects using the Swiz framework, which I love, but I’ve always felt that adding event handlers in the controllers was a rather tedious task, requiring a lot of checking of what’s in 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 [...]