Skinning Flex 4 Window Chrome in AIR for both Windows and Mac
Sep/092
The beauty of writing AIR applications is how easy it is to skin the user interface in whatever way you choose. It allows you to spend more time refining that interface instead of worrying about getting it to work. So in the spirit of refinement, let’s take a look at how simple it is to skin an AIR application’s window chrome (or TitleBar) to suit the expectations of users on both Windows and Mac.
TODO/FIXME Extension for Flex IDE
Jul/080
Two years ago, Sven Ramuschkat and Dirk Eismann announced an extremely useful Flex plug-in on their site, richinternet.blog. Guess who’s late to the party?
The Flex Task Plugin parses .mxml and .as files looks for instances of “TODO” or “FIXME” and adds the comments that follow to your Tasks view.
How freaking cool is that? Simple. Perfect. Love it.
Flex Components: MXML vs. ActionScript
Jun/081
One question that has constantly nagged me during my conversion from Flash to Flex development is, “Do I write this thingamajig in MXML or ActionScript?” The question is usually answered by the type of component that’s being written. If it’s a visual component, I’ll write MXML otherwise, I’ll write the whole thing in ActionScript.
