Category Archives: Flex

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Save Login in Flash and Flex

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Judah

One of the benefits of creating your login in HTML is the browsers ability to save your username and password. This feature is becoming more important with new features like Firefox Sync, Chrome Sync and so on. We can do … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Flex, HTML | 8 Comments

Using CSS in Flex – Styles Guideline

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Judah

First, the stylesheet examples. BTW This is a work in progress. fonts.css, /* CSS file for Embedded Fonts */ /**** MyFont ************************************/ @font-face { src: url("/assets/fonts/Font.otf"); fontFamily: MyFont; embedAsCFF: true; fontStyle: normal; } @font-face { src: url("/assets/fonts/Font.otf"); fontFamily: MyFont; embedAsCFF: … Continue reading →

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UI Graphic tips in Flex

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Judah

This example shows how to create text inner shadow, text and display object border, beveled text with border, lines with inner shadow and frames with inner shadow. This example includes a BorderStrokeFilter and TextShadowFilter classes and skinnable container FrameSkin skin. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, FXG, Graphics, Tips | 1 Comment

Add a border or outline to Text or Bitmap at runtime

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Judah

Update: I’ve created a new border filter based on the Spark DropShadowFilter. It works better and it’s native. You can read more here. I’ve been trying to figure out how to add an outline to dynamic text and found out … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flash, Flex, FXG | 2 Comments

Performance difference between debug and release builds

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Judah

Check out the difference in speed between a release swf and the debug swf in the example project. debug build outline time: ~250ms release build outline time: ~50ms In the above tests I set the font size to 200 and … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, Technology | 1 Comment