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The AdvancedDataGrid (ADG) control in Adobe Flex 3 extends the capabilities of the standard DataGrid control to improve data visualization. You can:

Sort by multiple columns when you click in the column header
Use the styleFunction property to specify a function to apply styles to rows and columns of the control
Use an expandable navigation tree in a [...]

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I was digging around the other day in Adobe’s Open Source area when I found the Flash Player 10 Beta with instructions on how to compile Flex applications to the new player. Check it!
There is also a tutorial by Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform Evangelist, that covers how to get started using Flash Player 10 (code [...]

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I once built a Flex application that did a cool mapping of an object in transit. (Due to NDA reasons, I can’t say much more than that.) So of course, I use the Yahoo! Maps API for ActionScript because… well it was the only API available for Flex development and I only had a couple [...]

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I have a pet peeve, although I’ll admit it’s one of many. The pet peeve is this. When starting a Flex application that requires authentication, I have to use tabbing or, heaven forbid, my mouse to set focus to the “user name” field on the login screen. Why!! We have been doing this for years [...]

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It doesn”t matter where I go, I always run into people having printing issues with Flex. Most have found the FlexPrintJob class and samples on how to use it, but for those who print multiple pages the results are sometime less than stellar.
I just found a new open source project called FlexReport. It is said [...]

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Our new site is RIA5280.org and is growing fast!
The Denver Adobe Flex UG has been meeting for a year and a half now with great success. We have had great topics, great speakers and great involvement from the community.
We”ve taken the next step in expanding our community by revamping the website. We are using a [...]

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In short, it’’s the free version of LiveCycle Data Services that includes the Remoting and Messaging technology previously available only as part of LiveCycle Data Services. It will now be available for free as a new Open Source product called BlazeDS (under LGPL v3 license).
Get BlazeDS

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So they”ve added this new feature called Runtime CSS to Flex 2 and integrated it with Flex Builder 2.0.1. You may over think this a bit, as I did, but it is really quite simple. In this entry, I go over the details.
I also have a gotcha that may have you scratching your head for [...]

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Sharing your source code is easy in Adobe Flex 2. After a quick glance at the Application class in the Flex API, you”ll find that the viewSourceURL property will allow you to open a new browser window at which your source would be stored. You could point it to a specific file or zip as [...]

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While teaching a Flex class recently, I had several students encounter this error in which their application would error out with the following: “Error #2148: this error did not allow to read data from a file XML”
This seemed rather strange because the XML file was surely there, but something else was up. So we started [...]

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