Displaying different fonts in a dropdown menu on a ComboBox control in Flex
The following example shows how you can set different fonts for different items in a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by using a custom item renderer.
Full code after the jump.
Setting the item selection duration on a List control in Flex
The following example shows how you can set the item selection duration on a Flex List control by setting the selectionDuration style.
Full code after the jump.
Setting an effect when the items in a data provider change on a List control in Flex
The following example shows how you can add a data effect when the items in a data provider change in a Flex List control by setting the itemsChangeEffect effect style.
Full code after the jump.
Attention 360|Flex attendees: Announcing the Flex 3 Cookbook Book Giveaway
Post your Flex Cookbook code recipe in the Adobe Flex Cookbook site at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook between July 23 and August 19, and get a free Flex 3 Cookbook, the new O’Reilly Media book by Josh Noble, Todd Anderson, and numerous Flex contributors on the Adobe Flex Cookbook site. Recipes need to be your own original content, but can be reproduced from your own blog posts, flexcoder list or forum replies, and so forth. Bask in the glow of sharing your knowledge with other developers!
Additionally, by posting your content by August 2, you will also be eligible to be considered to win great prizes in the Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off Contest by O’Reilly Media. Read more about that contest at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/awong_flexcookoff.html
Post your code recipe today in the Adobe Flex Cookbook site at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook. We’ll notify you via e-mail and conference announcements as to where you can pick up your free book at the 360|Flex conference on August 20th.
Eligibility: Cookbook content must be a solution, not a question, subject to the Adobe Developer Relation team’s discretion. Each conference attendee is eligible to receiving one book total.
If you haven’t already done so, register now for the conference. There’s just too much going on to miss!
To save Vista, Microsoft chooses Adobe Flash Player!
The fact is that Silverlight’s installation base is less than 10% of computers and Flash Player’s proven reach is just too tempting to use because:
(we think the remaining 1.5% might be robots)
Cheers,
Ted 
Ribbit acquired by British Telecom for $105M
Congratulations to the team at Ribbit, they are now apart of British Telecom. The deal closed at 8AM and it is a very good day for Adobe Flash Player as a Platformm. Ribbit has done an amazing job leveraging the existing API’s of the Flash Player for audio based telephony. With the acquisition by BT, they are now going global and extending the reach of lightweight ip telephony.
I think we will look back at this event and realize that it was the start of a telephony race leveraging Flash Player similar to the web video revolution underway today.
Congratulations to the teams at Ribbit. Great work!
Ted
Setting the label color of a selected item on a List control in Flex
The following example shows how you can set the label color for a selected item in a Flex List control by setting the textSelectedColor style.
Full code after the jump.
360Flex API Contest! Show the world whatchya got!
If you missed our last API contest, you missed a chance at winning an Xbox 360, a Wii, and/or a Playstation 3! Are you kicking yourself for not entering? Do you wish there was a way to turn back time so you could enter?
Fret no longer, as we are proud to announce the next version of the 360|Flex API contest. This time around we’ve got Yahoo and OpenFlux on board. Here’s the low down and the two categories and how to win. Note: OpenFlux’s contest doesn’t even require any programming!
The deadline for the contests will extend beyond the show. Therefore, you can get cranking on your ideas now, come to 360|Flex San Jose to learn these APIs for free on Sunday, then still have time to go off and build your entry! How cool is that? Here’s the contest details as described by those in charge of each category.
*Announcing 360|Flex Yahoo! API Contest*
Yahoo! offers a variety of data-rich APIs for Flash and Flex developers. From Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Weather, to Answers, Search and Flickr, the set of tools for building applications is extremely varied and only limited by your imagination.
Because we love to see developers come up with mash-ups and apps based on our APIs, we are conducting an API Contest, to bring your best and brightest ideas to light. During this three hour event, we are challenging you to use at least two Yahoo! API to build a mash-up, a widget, an application — or anything that will capture attention and impress your fellow developers. For information on the APIs see our Flash Developer Center: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/
As with any contest, this one would be boring if it didn’t have incentives. So, naturally, a panel of Yahoo! judges will select the top projects and award some great prizes.
The award categories are:
*Greatest number of Yahoo! APIs *- can you use three? Or maybe five? Pull them together in a cohesive app, and the prize is yours!
*Most creative use of an API *- you take a Yahoo! API and really run with it, using its functions to achieve remarkable results.
*Eye candy* - an app using Yahoo! APIs that’s a joy to see. Whether it’s large dataset visualization, or an innovative photo viewer, or something else, its the visual chops that count.
*Best overall* — the app that really appeals to the users with its functionality, simplicity and quality.
The top prize for the best overall winner of the API contest is a Game Console. The other winners will receive some wonderful Yahoo! gear, and of course, all winners and their projects will be featured on Yahoo!’s popular Developer Center and the Yahoo! Flash Platform blog.
OpenFlux: The Big Idea Contest
(This time ’round we’ve selected OpenFlux as our Community API. If you’re not familiar with how we do things, we (Tom and I) pick a community driven open source project as our community API. Those who enter the contest in this category win a prize from 360Conferences, and help make the open source project world a little better.)
OpenFlux is getting ramped up for some exciting new demos at 360Flex San Jose, but we’re still waiting for that one component that really shows what the framework is capable of. Luckily for us the guys at 360|Conferences decided to sponsor the official OpenFlux Big Idea Contest. Here’s how it works.
OpenFlux makes it so easy to build custom components that we’ll prove it. We want to see your best component ideas and designs. You come up with it, and we’ll build it. Entries can be submitted as pencil sketches, design mock-ups, or even plain text. The submission with the most votes at the end of the contest takes home a PlayStation 3 courtesy of 360Flex!
The contest deadline will extend past the 360Flex San Jose conference, but you’ll need to be in the audience on Wednesday to hear the final deadline. That means you’ll have plenty of time to learn more about OpenFlux in San Jose and even develop your own OpenFlux components! A fully functional component is a valid submission of course, but remember that your entry could still get out-voted by that one solid idea scribbled on the back of a napkin. I like to think that this is what OpenFlux is all about. It makes sure that framework details don’t get in the way of good ideas and helps developers become innovators. Once you have the ability, there’s only one question left… what’s the big idea?
360Flex Free Sunday Training Highlight: Yahoo!
This week, we’re highlighting all your options for free preconference Training. These hands-on sessions will take place on Sunday, August 17th, the day before the show officially starts. They are 100% free to all registered guests, so be sure to stop by on Sunday and getcha learn on. All the descriptions can also be found in the eProgram Guide.
To register, simply send an RSVP to info@360flex.com and let us know you’re coming. We’ve now added checkboxes for your Free Sunday training selection to the registration process. If you checked that off, there’s no need to send an additional RSVP.
Yahoo! Workshop: Flex@Yahoo! - A Deep-Dive Look at How We Build Flex Components and Applications
Since its inception over two years ago, Yahoo!’s Flash Platform team has produced a large collection of Flash an Flex components and libraries, nearly all open-sourced and available to the developer community for free . In this session, we’ll look at some of our popular Flex components, and deep-dive under the hood of the source code to see how they were built.
The topics discussed will include:
- The very popular Yahoo! AS3 Maps component: We will talk about the efficient tile engine and the techniques of combining a component with rich data APIs.
- The novel AutoComplete manager: Though not a visible component on its own, the AutoComplete manager can turn any text input in Flex into an AutoCompleteone. We’ll demo how to do this.
- The ColorPicker: How one universal component can replace twenty different ones.
During the workshop, the best questions and comments will receive unique Yahoo! prizes. Additionally, a raffle at the end of the workshop will determine a few winners of Alaric Cole’s new book “Flex 3 for Beginners” (O’Reilly)
Setting the border thickness on a DateChooser control in Flex
The following example shows how you can set the border thickness on a Flex DateChooser control by setting the borderThickness style.
Full code after the jump.
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