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I’m surprised I haven’t stumbled across this before, but it caused a little head-scratching in a recent project. The problem involves having a class with a mixture of binding tags (i.e. with and without custom events), but assumes you are programming to the interface the class implements. In this case making it bindable proves a [...]

The Glow and Blur effects are useful tweens that can be used to animate flash filters in Flex, the only problem is they don’t implement the quality property. It’s hard coded at a value of 1. In most cases this isn’t an issue, and where performance is concerned it’s best left unchanged. But having the [...]

On a recent project I needed an overlapping tab bar, something that the default Flex TabBar doesn’t implement. While you can can easily change the spacing between tabs using a negative horizontalGap, you cannot retain a top-of-the-pile-like status for the selected tab. They are permanently stacked left-to-right on top of each other.
There’s a solution out [...]