Really Smart Flex Application - Issuu

  • Posted by Simon
  • February 25, 2008

Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, documents, and stuff you’d normally find on print. It’s the place where YOU become the publisher. Upload a document, it’s fast, easy, and totally FREE. Within seconds you’ll have a super cool online magazine you can post anywhere on the web and share instantly with your friends.

Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 Released

  • Posted by Simon
  • February 25, 2008

Adobe have released final versions of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR today. More information is available at the Flex team blog.

opensource.adobe.com is a new site for all of Adobe’s work in the open source community, including the Adobe Flex SDK. Check it out. There’s also a new About RIA microsite available for your perusal.

Yahoo Releases ASTRA 1.1.1 for Flex and Flash

  • Posted by Simon
  • February 21, 2008

This are the features and issues resolved in ASTRA 1.1.1:

AlertManager (Flash)

  • Bug fix: Alert dialog lost focus if the user selected the text and then hit the tab key.

Charts (Flash)

  • Improved animation and invalidation of markers.
  • Bug fix: Setting axis maximum less than the value of an origin-based marker (column, bar) hides the marker.
  • Bug fix: With large data sets, line charts are displayed offset from the left, which hides some data on the right
  • Bug fix: Axis displays improperly when all items have the same value.
  • Bug fix: Infinite loop when calculating minimum and maximum values in some cases.
  • Bug fix: PieChart displays the wrong category when values are primitive and equal.

MenuBar (Flash)

  • Bug fix: Selected menubar button lost focus if it was toggled very quickly with keyboard shortcuts.
  • Bug fix: Skin conflicts between Menu and MenuBar.

TabBar (Flash)

  • Bug fix: Styles like textFormat are not passed through to tabs.
  • Bug fix: focusIndex setter tries to access buttons before they are created.

AutoCompleteManager (Flex)

  • New events
  • Added API for adjusting minimum disk space requirements
  • Bug fix: caret bug when changing selection of completion dropdown
  • Bug fix: itemToLabel bug on certain types of entries
  • Bug fix: loopSelection quirkiness

Previous Articles

Apollo Alpha finally released

  • Posted by Simon
  • March 19, 2007

Another article on Digg about Flex

  • Posted by Simon
  • February 26, 2007

The Amgen Tour of California Flex 2 application

  • Posted by Simon
  • February 19, 2007

Here Comes Adobe Apollo - TalkCrunch

  • Posted by Simon
  • December 16, 2006

Easy Custom Charts - Ely Greenfield

  • Posted by Simon
  • December 5, 2006

Flex 2 Form container with defaultButton

  • Posted by Simon
  • November 28, 2006

Flex and ActionScript Developers

  • Posted by Simon
  • November 21, 2006

Welcome to Barber's Pole

This blog is run by Simon Barber who is the Founder and CTO of ThoughtFaqtory, a firm based in Cape Town South Africa that specializes in the development of Rich Internet Applications. At ThoughtFaqtory, Simon manages, designs, architects, and develops cutting-edge applications for clients around the globe.