Category Archives: Flex 3

AIR: Migrating Expired Certificates using AIR 1.5.3

By Mister | Published: January 6, 2010
If you renew your certificate and you are running an earlier version of Adobe AIR than 1.5.3, you are in a world of hurt. The process of updating and renewing your certificate is enough of a pain, but trying to update your AIR application after your certificate expires prior to 1.5.3 required [...]
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AIR:: Adding Application Menu Bar Items

By Mister | Published: July 31, 2009
Just a quick how-to post on adding application menu bar items to your Adobe AIR application when running. Certain operating systems can support application menu bars, so this example will not be true for all systems. You can check this using “NativeApplication.supportsMenu == true”, which basically means you are on Mac OSX dude. [...]
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Flex :: Truncating HTML Text

By Mister | Published: July 12, 2009
With Flex truncating text within a Label control is easily done by setting the property “truncateToFit” to true. This parameter doesn’t do much when using the Text or TextArea controls in Flex. To truncate text in these controls you would have to build your own function to count characters and add the [...]
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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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