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Recent blog posts

• Pixel-perfect accuracy with FXG?
  I’ve been running some tests in Flex rendering FXG rects with a stroke to see if there’s a way to get the strokes to render inside the bounds of the object. I need this precision for a project I’m working on and unfortunately it doesn’t look good. All of these tests were done using some […]
• Flash Catalyst and the Designer/Developer workflow
  Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I drew this up recently to illustrate a proposed workflow for a project I’m working on. This is similar to the workflow as proposed by Adobe but with an extra level of respon […]
• Archiving and Unarchiving objects in Objective-C
  Woohoo … my first Objective-C related post! Ok, so this is nothing new but I thought I’d log a couple of things that caught me out as a NOOB to the whole iPhone development malarky. First off archiving your objects is a way of saving them to a property list file that sits on your […]
• Another custom Flex preloader but with RSL support
  This post has a great article on building a custom Flex preloader which also allows you to handle the progress of the runtime shared libraries that the Flex framework now loads into the users cache. The DownloadProgressBar component allows you to view the progress of the runtime shared libraries but be aware that it can […]
• Custom Preloader class for Flex apps
  I’ve blogged on this before but here’s an updated version of a custom preloader class that extends Sprite and loads in a MovieClip from a SWC to use as the animation and display the load progress. Custom preloader for Flexpackage com.cravens.nr.preloader {         import com.cravens.nr.model.Config;         […]
• Detecting when text has run into the end of a container in a TextFlow object
  More fun and games with the Text Layout Framework. So, I have a load of links being flowed one by one through a bunch of linked containers. I need to detect when a link reaches the end and has ‘overflowed’ so to speak. To do this you need to make sure your ContainerController objects have […]