Tag Archives: component

Video tutorial: Use the Flex webservice component in Flash CS4 projects

by Serge Jespers on 02. Mar, 2009 in Flash, Flex, How-to, Video, Video Tutorial

In this video, I’ll show you how you can use the webservice component from the Flex framework in your Flash CS4 projects. If you’re missing the webservice component in Flash, just use the one in the Flex framework.

UPDATE: My sincere apologies. There is an error in my code which I did not explain in the video.
Line 10 should not read myWebService.load but myWebService.loadWSDL.

I do remember we recorded this one twice and I fear that that’s where the mixup happened. Please download the working FLA below.

Download the FLA file.

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Video tutorial: Create Flex container components with Flash CS4

by Serge Jespers on 11. Feb, 2009 in Flash, Flex, How-to, Popular, Video, Video Tutorial

In this video I show you how to make a Flex container component with Flash CS4 and the Flex Component Kit for Flash.

The Flex Component Kit for Flash is incredibly powerful and allows you to combine your Flash design/development skills with the power of the Flex framework.

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Video tutorial: Add video to your Flex application

by Serge Jespers on 06. Jan, 2009 in Flex, How-to, Video Tutorial, flash video

In this video I show you how to add a simple video player to your Flex application by using nothing but standard Flex components.

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Weekly Roundup: May 4th – May 10th

by Serge Jespers on 10. May, 2008 in Roundup, Weekly blend

As last week, this is just a collection of blog posts and sites that caught my attention this week.

  • Send your name to the moon: NASA is sending an unmanned mission to the moon and you can be part of it… well… Your name can be part of it but that’s still cool [link]
  • Spam 30 years old: The first spam message was sent on Arpanet on May 3rd, 1978 [link]
  • Giant solar powered LED screen in Bejing [link]
  • A celebration of Pixel Art: Smashing Magazine has a great collection of Pixel Art which includes the AIR launch poster by Eboy [link]
  • MXNA is back [link]
  • Hydra is now Pixel Bender [link]
  • Interactive demos of ILOG Elixir charting components for Flex: If you’re looking for sophisticated data visualization for Flex, don’t look any further [link]
  • FedEx Desktop released: Now you can follow your FedEx shipments with an AIR app [link]
  • Living in The Netherlands? Take the bus to Multi-Mania. The Dutch Adobe UserGroup is organizing a bustrip to Multi-Mania. [link]
  • The User Interface Resource Center: The User Interface Resource Center (UIRC) provides free articles and White Papers written by industry leaders about user interface design and rich Internet applications (RIAs) [link]
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Tutorial: The Flash and Flex marriage

by Serge Jespers on 05. May, 2008 in Flash, Flex, How-to

One of the things I hear a lot is that people really miss the Flash media components when they’re diving in to Flex. So why not use that component you love so much in your Flex projects? “The Flex component kit for Flash” has been out there for a while now and if you have all the latest updates to Flash, it’s even part of your Flash CS3 authoring environment by default now. I have the feeling people underestimate this feature and don’t really appreciate the power of this yet. So I thought it was a good idea to create a little tutorial to show you how easy it is to make Flex components in Flash CS3 and in this case, how to use the Flash media components inside your Flex projects.

So we’re going to create a Flex component that holds the FLVPlayback component and write a little bit of ActionScript to make it work in Flex. Let me know if this was useful for you.
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