Until now I have never needed to do a lot with meta data except making items bindable or creating custom events. Recently I wanted to create a limitation on a custom property. Here’s the code:
private var _iconPosition:String = “left”;
[Bindable]
public function set iconPosition( value:String ):void
{
_iconPosition = value;
}
public function get iconPosition():String
{
return _iconPosition;
}
In order to add [...]

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Here is a quick step-by-step tutorial on VPN routing. The purpose is to give you access to the VPN network and the local network at the same time (by default it locks you out of your local network and you can only access the remote network).
Step 1: Create a VPN connection
Frankly, if you [...]

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I quickly found out that my script for creating a route does not work in Windows Vista (well it sort of did). One additional piece of information is that when you are creating the connection click on the “Networking tab”, select “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” and click “Properties.” In the new window, [...]

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At my last job I had the option to work from home on occasion but I rarely did it because working over a VPN is a pain. When you connect to a VPN network, by default it disables your local network connection. End result, you can’t check your personal email while connected to [...]

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I’ve been doing a lot of work with SQLite and AIR lately and I recently came across a post from Eric Feminella which has helped me tremendously.
The SQLiteadmin program can be downloaded at the end of this page: SQLite Administrator - International Milestone Beta
Instructions for installing on Windows: Unzip and run [...]

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I ran across this problem recently…
I needed to create a slider that didn’t change in a uniform way. It was different for each third of the slider. The first third changed evenly from 0 - 25,000. The second third from 25,000 - 100,000. The last third from 100,000 - [...]

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I’ve recently been tasked with figuring this out so I thought I’d share my results with everyone.
The Problem:
Create a Flash/Flex horizontal menu that will overlap the content below it. We don’t know how big the menu might get or what kind of content might end up below it. We do know [...]

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Modifying your default build template is quite simple. There is a template file that is used when building your project. It should reside in the html-template directory at the root of your project in Flex Builder. In Flex Builder 3, the template is named “index.template.html”.
Let’s say you want to modify default parameters [...]

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Flex is great! Javascript can be great! What if two great things got together?
This is a simple code hint which shows how to call javascript functions from Flex and pass data back and forth:
MXML Button:
<mx:Button
id = “button”
label = “Click Me!”
click = “handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent)
/>
Flex Function:
private function handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var functionName:String = “handleButtonClick”;
var returnData:String = ExternalInterface.call(f, [...]

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I have been doing some work with AIR and SQLite recently and came across and issue that had to be solved. The issue was that most everything is a VARCHAR in SQLite and I was not able to insert apostrophes (’) into any string field because that is the string delimiter.
A quick [...]

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