Ben Forta

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June 11, 2006

Hola From Mexico City

Hello from Mexico City. It's been a few years since I was last here, and I'm glad to be back in this huge, vibrant, hectic, energetic, intense, fun city. I am writing this while looking out of my hotel window over beautiful historic Chapultepec Park (last time I was here I got the opportunity to...

June 8, 2006

Favorite FlexBuilder Shortcuts

I've been spending quite a bit of time in FlexBuilder lately, and have started to rely extensively on some shortcuts. Some of these are actually Eclipse shortcuts, but regardless, these are some of my favorite: Ctrl-F11: Run F11: Debug Ctrl-Alt-Down: Repeat current line Alt-Up: Move line (or...

June 7, 2006

Creating A Background Color Renderer

Yesterday I need a Flex cell renderer that would change the background color based on the value of the cell (for example, green if a positive number and red if negative). Unfortunately, background color is not a style, that would have been the simplest option. The solution is to use ActionScript...

June 6, 2006

Using ActionScript To Create Reusable Flex Renderers

Item renderers are the key to customizing just about any Flex controls. If you want numbers in a data grid column to be green or red (based on whether they are positive or negative), you use a cell renderer. If you want list items to be displayed on multiple lines with data from multiple fields...

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