February 2010
3 posts
Flex Formatter
I use Eclipse 3.4.2 in combination with Flex Builder 3.0. An important feature that is missing in FB3 is a formatter. I’m very glad I found this project on SourceForge by Ernest Pasour: Flex Formatter.
Installing it is easy. Download it, unzip it, move the files to the plugins folder of Eclipse and restart Eclipse. You now see a couple of new icons in your Flex perspective, with the most...
RESTful uploading of files using XML
After searching for too long to find any documentation on this topic, this is just as a reminder for myself. Hopefully, it’ll solve somebody else’s problem as well.
To send a file to a Rails application, using a RESTful XML API call, use the following XML snippet:
base64-encoded file contents
The file contents should be base64 encoded, and may be encapsulated in a CDATA...
Flex SDK 4.0.0.13875
On Friday 29 January Adobe released a new ‘stable’ version of the Flex SDK, version 4.0.0.13875. One of the nice things about it was the addition of the Flex 4 TitleWindow. Peter deHaan uses the new TitleWindow in one of his articles on his excellent blog: Constraining the movement on a Spark TitleWindow container in Flex 4
When using the new SDK we encountered quite an annoying...
