Finally received some attention from Adobe and got an answer on this. The problem with long HTTP Authentication headers is that, by default, the Base64Encoder class will inject newline characters every 72 characters. Obviously that causes a chunk of the base-64 encoded string to be interpreted as a new header attribute, which causes the error. … Read more
human perception in general is logarithmic, also when it comes to things as luminosity, etc. … this enables us to register small changes to small “input signals” of our environement, or to put it another way: to always percieve a change of a perceivable physical quantity in relation to its value … thus, you should … Read more
In realy I advise to you don’t to use this too much… it is very expensive. Adobe need to create a native function to return this to us. But, for now… try this: You will need to cause a explicit coercion to get it! Because when you make and explicit coercion you get an Error … Read more
I had this same problem. In my case I had a mx:Text block (that SHOULD have wrapped), and that mx:Text object was embedded within TWO mx:VBox containers. The only way that I got the text to wrap successfully was to do BOTH of the following: put the ‘ width=”100%” ‘ property into EACH VBox container … Read more
Mate is my pick. The first and foremost reason is that it is completely unobtrusive. My application code has no dependencies on the framework, it is highly decoupled, reusable and testable. One of the nicest features of Mate is the declarative configuration, essentially you wire up your application in using tags in what is called … Read more
Check out Ten Great Ways to Learn Flex, but I think number one should be to use the Quickstarts on the Adobe Site.
The “Flex Framework” is a collection of AS3 classes and components used in developing RIAs. “Flex Builder” is an IDE used to develop “Flex Applications.” Much in the same way HTML is a collection of tags to develop web pages and Dreamweaver is an IDE for developing web pages. However you don’t need Dreamweaver, you … Read more
The three digit hex colors are expanded by doubling each digit (see w3 spec). So #F3A gets expanded to #FF33AA.
Flash and Flex both use the same underlying rendering engine, just with different front-ends. Flash is better suited for making movies and animations. Flex is better for application development.
There is no way to be notified on uncaught exceptions in Flex 3. Adobe are aware of the problem but I don’t know if they plan on creating a workaround. The only solution as it stands is to put try/catch in logical places and make sure you are listening to the ERROR (or FAULT for … Read more