Category Archives: Flash

Garbage Collection and Event Listeners

By Mister | Published: May 29, 2009
On a recent AIR project I have become aware and subsequently obsessed with memory. My concerns have centered around garbage collection and event listeners, specifically how you clean up event listeners to allow Garbage Collection (GC) to clean up objects. Most DisplayObjects implement the EventDispatcher class that allows it to broadcast events. [...]
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HTTP Status 201 causing Flex #2032 Error in IE only

By Mister | Published: March 28, 2009
I ran into a problem right when we were going to launch a new Flex web-based application to production (of course) with Internet Explorer and Flex. I was calling an RESTful service that returns XML and using the built-in Flex HTTPService with either POST/GET as the method for the request. Most [...]
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Xdrive AS3 Library

By Mister | Published: June 17, 2008
I have not posted in a long long while it seems. That would be nice if I were just hanging out on a beach some place. However, I have been busy doing lots of things for work and working on a new AS3 library. I have been developing for the past few months an AS3 library [...]
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Custom RichTextEditor

By Mister | Published: April 24, 2008
One of the longest running post on my blog has been about creating XHTML output from the Flex RichTextEditor control. I always thought it would would be nice if someone took all the comments and suggestions for that post and created a customized control that outputs proper XTHML. Well, Axel Jenson has [...]
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Omniture Tracking in Flash, Flex and AIR Applications

By Mister | Published: January 27, 2008
If you are developing Enterprise level applications chances are you are either used Omniture or you will be asked to integrate with Omniture tracking services. This post is not really about the specifics of Omniture tracking, but rather about the implementation methods for Flash, Flex, and AIR (with Flex). Usually, Omniture tracking [...]
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Better (Cooler) Flex Preloader

By Mister | Published: July 24, 2007
Jesse Warden has a great new article about developing a custom Flex preloader using Flash (a cooler preloader as he calls it).  He also has a new look for his blog that you can now read (just kidding Jesse).   Jesse’s post relates to my previous post regarding Error #2025.  When I developed a custom preloader [...]
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Error #2025 – Clash between Flex 2 & Flash CS3

By Mister | Published: June 26, 2007
I got my new copy of Flash CS3 and proceeded to make a new preloader for my Flex application.  I made a document Class for my CS3 file and attached a CS3 ProgressBar component.  I had a public function in the Document Class for setting the progress of the Flex preloading.   I dropped the SWF file [...]
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