Archive for March, 2009

fileReference.load()

  • March 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

Today, i faced a weird problem of fileReference.load() not working in AIR. Even, in the latest 3.3 SDK. To resolve that, you have to install Flex Builder Update. Then, modify your App.xml into air version 1.5. As, to get the benefits of latest AIR Version. Otherwise, in AIR: Code gets compiled but when we select [ READ MORE ]

Video Conference

  • March 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

The link uses Cocomo SDK for achieving the basic video conference[ READ MORE ]

Date Util Functiions

  • March 18th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

Utility functions to find First Day of a month, Relative Date information like “Today”, “Yesterday” public static function getFirstDayofMonth(fullyear:uint,month:uint):uint { var tmp:Date = new Date(fullyear,month,1); return tmp.getDay(); } public static function isLeapYear( fullyear:uint ):Boolean { var flag:Boolean = false; if(((fullyear%4==0) && (fullyear%100!=0)) || (fullyear%400==0)) flag = true; return flag; } public static function getWeekName( index:uint [ READ MORE ]

Currency/Numeric Formatter

  • March 12th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

The below custom functions might be of use where you don’t want to use currency formatter or numeric Formatter of AS3   public function currencyFormat( number:Number ):String { var words:Array = String( number ).split( “” ).reverse();    var results:Array = new Array();  var l:int = words.length;   for ( var i:int = 0; i < [ READ MORE ]

ByteArray to BitmapData

  • March 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

The Below code demonstrates the conversion of ByteArray to BitmapData. In the below case, SWF is loaded and converted into BitmapData private function swfLoad_complete(evt:Event):void { byteArrayToBitmapData(swf.content.loaderInfo.bytes); } private function byteArrayToBitmapData(ba:ByteArray):void { loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, getBitmapData); loader.loadBytes(ba); } private function getBitmapData(e:Event):void { var content:* = loader.content; var BMPData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(content.width,content.height); var UIMatrix:Matrix = new Matrix(); BMPData.draw(content, UIMatrix); [ READ MORE ]

Convert Data Types: ArrayCollection, XML, Object, String

  • March 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

The code below demonstrates the data type conversions among basic DataTypes used most in Flex. The ‘init()’ method does to and from conversion for ArrayCollection to XML and XML to ArrayCollection Object, String, XML, ArrayCollection   import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; import mx.rpc.xml.SimpleXMLEncoder; import mx.rpc.xml.SimpleXMLDecoder; import mx.utils.ObjectUtil;    private function xmlToArrayCollection(xml:XML):ArrayCollection{               [ READ MORE ]

TextSelection in Flash

  • March 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Flex

To Select a Static Text in Flash, as like mentioned in LiveDocs. It doesn’t work, its mentioned in the below bug entry [Link]. The work around for that is to embed the fonts of the text in your flash movie[ READ MORE ]

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