Creating menus which extend beyond panel bounds in CS Extensions very often requires the use of a "NativeComboBox". NativeComboBox uses NativeMenu. When clicking on a NativeMenu, a button below the menu can have its state change incorrectly to the down state.
You want to get NetworkInfo between iOS and Android but one uses a Native Extension (iOS)
Solution
The methods that the NetworkInfo Native extension for iOS uses are the same as the native ActionScript. After adding the native extension to your Flex project, create an interface that defines the methods you want to use. Then create two classes that implement that interface.
Working with events in AS3 isn't as easy as it used to be in the past. While you need to monitor every event in your application there is no real easy way to do it without manually remembering all of your events and remembering to remove them on a one by one bases(ohi so much work...).
With all the new features and powers of AS3 came a lot of leg work. So many classes out there tried to tackle this issue from many interesting and different directions. But most of them demand a large learning curve and a big shift in the way you would interact with your code, some through a framework that locks you into a development style, some changed the way flash handles events.
Solution
Essentially Event Controller is an easier way to keep track of events in actionscript 3. Event Controller is a simple extension to your normal workflow that allows you to easily tag, group and remove any and all events, pause events and restore them when you want them back and more.
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We know how to do it with functions how to set a default value when nothing comes through but what about variables such as in scenarios of flash vars where we just don't know until run time if we are going to get the variables or not.
Solution
Like anything cool in the world of programing there are a few options. The first is a traditional if statement asking our variable if its empty or not but then that wouldn't be such a cool trick if that was the full solution. come join in this is really cool...
You need to communicate with device (in my case a biometric scanner) via RS232. This involves interpreting the serial output from the device and sending the device commands as required.
Solution
Use the freeware application 'Serproxy' to redirect serial communication with the device via a network socket connection to my Air application.