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The Beauty of includeInLayout

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:37:59 +0000

“Specifies whether the component is included in the layout of the parent container.
If true, the object is included in its parent container’s layout.
If false, the object is positioned by its parent container as per its layout rules,
but it is ignored for the purpose of computing the position of the next child.”
[from the API of flex]
The demo application follows for the source right click and view source.

Flex Explorers that I found while googling

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:57:24 +0000

Flex Styles Creator
Derek Wischusen: Flexonrails.net
Derek did some great work adding server-side css-file creation functionality to the Style Explorer. Derek contributed code to the Adobe Consulting Style Explorer in the form of “Export All CSS” functionality, but if you’re looking to create a new CSS file, rather than just copy-and-paste the CSS, check the Flex 2: Styles Creator out.

Flex Filter Explorer
Joe Johnston: Merhl.com

Joe modifies the Flex Style Explorer to create a Filter Explorer. Alter Flex filter properties and generate the appropriate MXML code to create the filter. Awesome!

Flex 2.0 Primitive Explorer
Jason Hawryluk: Flexibleexperiments.wordpress.com
Jason starts with the Style Explorer UI, and creates a great application for exploring and creating code for drawing primitive objects in Flex. If ever there’s a use case for needing to visualize code, and to be able to graphically manipulate something, it would be this use case. Great job Jason.

Flex Transitions and Effects Explorer
David Keutgens: blog.keutgens.de

David takes inspiration from the Flex Style Explorer and creates his own Flex Effects Explorer.

Flex Regular Experssion Explorer
Ryan Swanson: blog.ryanswanson.com

Ryan Swanson takes inspiration from the above explorers and built the excellent utility for the people who are working Regular Expression in Flex or Action Script and made our life easy.

Flex Builder Performance TIPS

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:54:12 +0000

Close editors automatically

Window -> Preferences -> Editors. Select “Close all editors on exit

Close all editors on exit [If you don't want to maintain state]

Window -> Preference -> General -> Editors and select “Close editors automatically”

[ Don't select Restore Editor on start up]

Close unused projects

Go to the Flex Navigator pane on the left. Right click on unused projects and select “Close Project”

Disable code folding [In most cases we will not use code folding]

Go to Window -> Preference -> Flex -> Editor. Uncheck “Code folding”.

Use memory monitoring plugin

help->Software updates -> find and install -> search and install -> new remote site (add your url here)

I hope there are many memory monitoring plugins for eclipse.

I am using the following one

http://www.kyrsoft.com/updates/