The Flex Tip

another test post

2010-07-20T13:32:00.001-07:00

Just a test

New Blog

2010-06-13T04:33:00.000-07:00

Check out the new Word Press blog- General programming, but I've got a backlog of Flash posts coming up...
Code Pushers Blog

GraphicGroup

2010-05-23T19:53:00.000-07:00

Probably the most common hack I've had to perpetrate in Flex 4 has had do with creating backgrounds for groups. Obviously Adobe wanted to keep the Group class lightweight, but denying fill/stroke capabilities seems silly considering the graphics object is already there- we just need methods to access it.

Here's GraphicGroup- an extension of Group that exposes Stroke/Fill properties just like a Rect, and alternately exposes some convenient style properties. The same code can be added to HGroup and VGroup.

GraphicGroup.as

Spark Path Utility

2010-03-04T12:15:00.001-08:00

Tester utility for spark path primitives

Draggable Spark Panel

2009-09-17T16:16:00.000-07:00

The new Spark Panel lacks the built-in drag functionality the old Halo Panel came with. Here's a simple fix:

DraggablePanel.as

(Code link courtesy of tblurb.com, a great site.)