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How to create a custom button skin in a Flex web application?

That’s a common question but a simple google will not reveal so much info on how to do it.
The limitation with default flex skin is that even we can define as many colors we want in a “gradient fill” the “ButtonSkin” will take in consideration only the first 2 of them.
Why did they made it like this ? donno, and do not care! So we extended the existing skin and created a custom skin for buttons.
Here is how it does look:

Yes.. this is a flex button.

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Bye!

Introducing RIA AppPuncher™

“RIA AppPuncher™ is a software testing and debugging product. AppPuncher was designed from the ground up to facilitate testing of the Rich Internet Applications. The product provides the following functionality:

* Client/server communication debugging
* Functional testing
* Regression testing
* Load testing

AppPuncher supports Flash, Flex, Silverlight, AJAX clients as well as traditional browser-based applications. From the client/server protocol perspective, the product enables testing of the client/server applications using any of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, REST/XML, AMF and RTMP. AppPuncher runs on Windows, MAC OS X and *nix platforms.”

Source: http://www.themidnightcoders.com

In a previous post you can find how to enable/disable Adobe AIR Framework Autoupdate using the Adobe AIR Manager tool.

We had the problem that we wanted to disable Adobe Air Framework from our AIR Application but we never found a way to do this even if the Adobe AIR Manager tool is a air based file. But a few days ago without any doubt what it must be we found a file inside the “C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\AIR\” (win XP) named “updateDisabled”. After enabling the Adobe AIR Framework Autoupdate the file was erased right away.
Then we found the all the magic of setting Adobe AIR Framework Autoupdate value it the presence of a specific file inside a specific folder. Nothing more.. no registry, no encrypted settings files or else.

We took the time and created a simple AS3 class that you can use for Manually Enable/Disable AIR Framework Autoupdate from your Abobe AIR application.

Read full article ad download the code on our official blog http://blog.timeister.com/

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If you are looking for a pdf creator component in flex you may want to know about the new WebOrb PDF Generator from Midnight Codders which is available for flex too.

“Generating documents, reports and document-based forms is a very common task for web application users. RIAs are not an exception as users and business workflows require capturing data contained within RIAs to produce usable documents for offline use, such as archiving or further business processing. WebORB PDF Generator is both an SDK and runtime solution that installs as an extension into WebORB for Java, .NET, PHP and ColdFusion Enterprise and Community Edition servers, enabling both client and server applications to create template-based PDF documents. Templates can be created either on the server as XML files or originate on the client as Flex components. Templates include information about document layout, graphics and data sources for operational data.

Key Benefits:
* Ease of template development – developers can use the development environment they are already familiar with to create customized templates. For instance, Flex developers can use Flex Builder for visual template editing. Future releases of the product will support Visual Studio-based template authoring.

* Advanced workflow support – advanced features such as PDF forms and embedded Flash/Flex content can streamline business workflow and improve user interaction with the generated PDF documents.

* Centralized Administration – WebORB PDF Generator requires no client-side installations, which makes it fast and easy to provide PDF generation capabilities to networked users.

* Reduced cost to develop and deploy – ease of installation, WYSIWIG template editing, non-intrusive data-binding and server-side PDF generation make it possible to provide the benefits of PDF template design and PDF generation at a low cost per server. Server-side deployment means there are no client fees, putting enterprise PDF Generation in reach for any size organization.”

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This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services, enabling you to embed robust, interactive maps applications on your website.
More details here…

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Here is a nice video by David Heinemeier Hansson from 37signals

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If you would like to disable the auto-update capability in Adobe AIR and only manually update the runtime when a new version is available, or if the Adobe AIR Autoupdater is adding unneeded behavior to your AIR application, then you can use the SettingsManager application to disable automatic updates.

Read more…

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I was looking for news on Flex and AIR and found out a great AIR application on www.flex.org . “Tour de Flex” is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

The app is big but it certainly worth to be installed, download is approx 50MB.
Tour de Flex has three primary purposes:
* Provide non-Flex developers with a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see” environment
* Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
* Provide commercial and non-commercial Flex developers a place to showcase their work
Tour de Flex includes over 200 runnable samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex Core Components, Flex Data
Access, AIR Desktop Capabilities, Cloud APIs, Data Visualization, Mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, skins, etc.

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Welcome to TiMeister Web Blog!

Here is our first post and we will not bore you will how cool we are and stuff like that. So let’s get to subject, we will just let you know some basic things about us and about future posts on this blog.

- Who we are?
We are a small team of programmers  hungry for coding and looking to extend the RIA world with our knowledge and talent.

- What is TiMeister?
TiMeister is a free, web-based,  complete timesheet application

- When TiMeister will be available?
TiMeister is already in private testing period and we will release the public beta version soon. So stay tuned!

- Why should I use TiMeister? because:
It will allow advanced features, it will be easy to use and sure it will be free.

- Why should I check your blog if i don’t need a timesheet software?
If you are an ordinary RIA developer we will keep you up to date with latest RIA news and Top Apps
If you are an Adobe Flex developer we will make public some of our solutions to the problems we had in implementing flex-things.
If you are a simple internet user you will find us full of interesting info about latest trends over the web.

Hope you will visit us soon!
For any questions contact us…

or visit us at www.timeister.com