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1. Avg. Rating 5.0
   • Flex
   • ActionScript
   • MIXIN
   • Flex and other technologies

   How to create static initialization method which will be cal ...

   Use metatag named [MIXIN] just before class declaration.

   • PiRREST
   • 1
   • February 5, 2009
2. Avg. Rating 4.6
   • Flex
   • Flex and other technologies
   • enterDebugger
   • debugger

   How to break into the debugger programmatically.

   Use flash.debugger.enterDebugger() method.

   • PiRREST
   • 0
   • February 2, 2009
3. Avg. Rating 4.4
   • Flex
   • ActionScript
   • Flex and other technologies

   How to sort items within group in AdvancedDataGrid

   You need to set compareFunction for GroupingField which will take into account field of group and field of items within group.

   • PiRREST
   • 3
   • February 16, 2009
4. Avg. Rating 4.3
   • Flex
   • Flash Professional
   • ActionScript
   • Flex and other technologies
   • Button

   Create full-featured Flex code elements from design assets b ...

   Design your button in Flash Professional. Create class Button in your project. Set linkage to your button to Button class. Then you must embed SWF file using [Embed] metatag with param mimeType="application/octet-stream". Then, load embedded asset using Loader.loadBytes() method. Then just ...

   • PiRREST
   • 0
   • February 5, 2009
5. Avg. Rating 4.0
   • Flex
   • MXML
   • Flex and other technologies

   How to create setter which will accept both numeric values a ...

   There is a metatag named [PercentProxy]. It accepts one parameter, the name of the method which will be used when percents will be set.

   • PiRREST
   • 0
   • February 5, 2009
6. Avg. Rating 4.0
   • Flex
   • ActionScript
   • trace
   • Flex and other technologies

   How to create the most simple and most powerful logger

   We have flash.trace.Trace class which will help to do all that job. Trace class will trace execution of ALL functions in application. It can make traces in flash output (like trace() function) or invoke listener function where will must just filter traces :)

   • PiRREST
   • 2
   • February 5, 2009
7. Avg. Rating 4.0
   • Flex
   • Flash Professional
   • ActionScript
   • embed
   • Flex and other technologies

   How to embed swf file containing ActionScript code using [Em ...

   You have to embed SWF file using [Embed] metatag with param mimeType="application/octet-stream". Then, load embedded asset using Loader.loadBytes() method. Pass LoaderContext with ApplicationDomain.currentDomain as second argument to Loader.loadBytes(). Then just wait 1 frame – and you can ...

   • PiRREST
   • 7
   • February 5, 2009
8. Avg. Rating 3.8
   • Flex
   • ActionScript
   • Flex and other technologies
   • SWF

   How to set SWF’s properties like background color, FPS or si ...

   Use [SWF] metatag just before class declaration or within <Metadata> tag of main Application mxml.

   • PiRREST
   • 2
   • February 5, 2009
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   • Flex
   • ActionScript
   • appendText
   • TextField
   • concatenation
   • performance

   Speed up concatenating strings when using TextField

   Use appendText method of TextField class. It will work 10 times quicker! (If you TextField is multiline and it calculates wordWrap for you, maybe 2-3 times quicker, but that is great too ). You will get warning from compiler about this method if you use plus operator :)

   • PiRREST
   • 2
   • February 5, 2009

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