Flex 3: Image Caching/404 Handling
Sometimes it may be useful to cache images locally or provide default alternatives in situations where an AIR application is used offline. Continue Reading →
Flex 3: Anti-aliasing on buttons, tabs & other labels
Over on the Adobe live docs page on embedding fonts and anti-aliasing there is plenty of help on how to go about getting elements looking good. Continue Reading →
Flex 3: Messages between multiple browsers and AIR
Sending messages from the browser and AIR using the Flex localConnection class is fairly well documented. I recently needed to extend this to support multiple instances of the same browser flex application talking to a single AIR app. (Cheers to Dave for this trick!) Continue Reading →
Flex 3: Detecting hard disk space
Flex does not appear to have a library that deals very well running out of disk space, and this was a key part of the recent work I did on a download manager. Continue Reading →