Compiling and deploying a mobile application built in Adobe Flex 4.6 was an extremely difficult and confusing tasks.  Main issues involved vague error messages in Flex Builder and even vaguer solutions that I came across on-line. Missing File error messages This was the most confusing

What should have been a relatively simple requirement interestingly enough turned in to an involved process. The concept is quite simple: I needed a way to modify the standard spark.component.TextInput component for my mobile application – the modification involved changing the

When creating Adobe Flex islands within an SAP WebDynpro application one must embed proper ActionScript libraries in to the corresponding Flex project.  The libraries can be located in an SAP NetWeaver system.  To find the libraries follow these steps: TR: SE80 Select MIME Repository 

This particular problem has puzzled me for quite some time now.  Imagine the following scenario: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"

  flash.utils.describeType Produces an XML object that describes the ActionScript object named as the parameter of the method. This method implements the programming concept of reflection for the ActionScript language. var lo_xml:XML = describeType(myClass); lo_xml.@name; // retu

Stumbled across this strange error while doing some development.  I’ve needed to determine the enable function of a button based on two boolean conditions and as a result created the following bit of code: <com:Component enabled="{booleanA &amp;&amp; booleanB}&qu

When you’re dealing with a situation that requires the use of the following image settings: width="100%" height="100%" scaleContent="true" maintainAspectRatio="true" You can find your self in a situation where the loaded content will resul

When I tried creating a new project with the BlackBerry sdk I ran in to the following error: DescriptionResourcePathTypeLocation Unable to resolve resource bundle “collections” for locale “en_US”. Flex ProblemUnknown Although annoying I quickly found a solution

If you are working with rich text editors you will run in to a situation where you have to format an HTML string to RichText value. Following code can accomplish this: gc_ta_bio.textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow( "<h1>Your String</h1>", TextConverter.TEXT_FIE

I want to set up a more secure process than a current ActionScript POST/GET service querying. To do that I started looking at AMF. Action Message Format(AMF) is a binary file format representing a serialized ActionScript object. The AMF file type is used throughout the Flash Player fo