Blocking TabBar Click/Change Events

One scenario that often presents itself when developing a Flex application is blocking users from navigating away from the current view. You might want to do this if the user’s form data is incomplete or if data has changed and you want to ensure they want to discard…

Running the Zecco Gauntlet

Like many of the readers that will probably come across this article, I too was intrigued by the notion of the free trades that Zecco offers. Can it be true? What am I sacrificing in exchange? Is the pain worth it? I did my fair share of research by sifting through numerous blog…

Advanced Callout Component

Most flex developers have become acquainted with the built-in tooltop the flex framework provides. It’s very convenient when all you need is a plain text hint to display briefly while the cursor is over a particular element.

Utah’s Greatest Gift to Mankind

One of the great things about running a blog is the ability to share with random, distant strangers ideas that only a decade earlier would have been sequestered by a particular region or culture. Today, I’m officially declaring to the world one of the Utah’s greatest gifts…

#1 Priority — Tax-Free Toy Arrows

Remember in the news when all your government representatives had their panties in a wad about how they were scrambling to get a “bailout bill” prepared and passed? Well of all things most important to our country, they somehow managed to find time to slip section 503…

Wireless Power

A couple weeks ago I was talking with some family about technological advancements and our predictions of what the future holds. I predicted in 20 years we would have wireless power. What does this mean? It means no cables and no outlets. Free from tangles, power strips, power converters…

Meta-Learnings from Adobe MAX 2008

While I learned a fair share at Adobe MAX 2008, I’d like to focus this post on meta-learnings. What are meta-learnings? I’m not sure yet, but here we go:

• Gucci is to Hollywood as writing books is to nerds. I don’t remember the number of times…

Finding the nearest component in Flex

In Flex, we sometimes need to find the component nearest to the mouse cursor. The following example will show you how to do so. Here are the basic steps:

1. We will set up an event listener to watch for mouse movements.