Peter deHaan arbeitet für Adobe im Flex SDK QA Team. Sein neuer Blog blog.flexexamples.com ist eine nette Ansammlung an nützlichen Flex-Beispielen. In einem beachtlichten Tempo hat er seit Ende Juli bereits eine beeindruckende Zahl an Beiträgen gepostet:

• Displaying icons in a Flex List control
• Alternating row colors in a Flex List control
• Setting a Flex Button control’s border color and theme color
• Displaying sound data using the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method
• Adding icons to a Flex TabNavigator control
• Using HTTPService tag to send/receive variables to a server-side script

• Styling a ComboBox control’s dropdown menu
• Sorting an XMLListCollection using the mx:Sort and mx:SortField MXML tags
• Locking columns in a horizontally scrolling DataGrid control
• Preventing a user from deselecting dates in a DateChooser control
• creating tool tips manually using the tooltipmanager class
• changing a modal alert control’s blur, transparency and transparency color
• creating a simple timer in flex with the flash.utils.timer class
• validating flex forms using the validator classes
• converting and formatting colors

• dynamically creating actionscript cue points from flashvars
• sorting date columns in a datagrid
• styling the flex alert control
• Filtering an XMLListCollection using the filterFunction property and regular expressions
• Creating two related ComboBoxes
• Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control
• Removing duplicate items from an array using the Array.filter() method
• Sorting an ArrayCollection using the SortField and Sort classes
• Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager class

• Building a simple Flex module
• Embedding and animating fonts in a Flex application
• Modules and singleton manager classes
• Creating full-screen Flex applications
• Embedding sound effects in your Flex applications
• Setting the ProgressBar control’s labelPlacement, mode, and conversion properties
• Grabbing FlashVars from the embedding HTML template

• Specifying certain unicode-ranges for embedded fonts
• Making auto-repeat Button controls using the autoRepeat property and buttonDown event
• Checking the user’s Flash Player capabilities using the flash.system.Capabilities class
• Positioning a label within a progress bar using the ProgressBar.labelPlacement property
• Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property
• Determining which server/domain a SWF is hosted on

• Rounding a Button control’s corners using the cornerRadius property
• Styling buttons in an Alert control
• Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container
• Creating an Alert control with non-selectable text

Ohne näher auf einzelne Beiträge einzugehen, kann ich den Blog uneingeschränkt als hilfreiche Ressource zum Thema Flex empfehlen. Auch speziell zu Video & Flex sind viele anschauliche Beispiel vorhanden.

Link: blog.flexexamples.com