“A lifestreaming thing that lets you see it all in one place”
Skimmer. The next Adobe AIR app and the hard work of many individuals over the past 6 months. It has been amazing to see this application turn from design into reality. This is a summary of the technologies used and [...]
Skimmer
posted by Chris Black on March 24th, 2009 under AIR, Uncategorized
Skinning Flex Components – Part 1: CSS
posted by Chris Black on January 6th, 2009 under Flex
This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to desolve the myth that Flex 3 can't truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning [...]
Anchor Tags in ActionScript Textfields
posted by Chris Black on November 30th, 2008 under ActionScript, Flex
This example is for anyone who needs to use anchor tags in ActionScript TextFields. If using AIR than the best route is to use an HTMLLoader to load in the raw HTML. If an HTMLLoader is not an option you can use this example to create a wrapper class that mimics the anchor [...]








