Adobe Flex 4 TagCloud Layout with Multi-Line Tags from XML Data Provider

22. July 2010 09:10
Looking back at an older example of using Adobe Flex as a data bound Tag Cloud, I noticed that for any given height/width of the application if the child tag was too long for the container, the text would simply be truncated.  So I began to think about how to create a tag cloud whose child ta... [More]

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URLs are People Too - Using the Social Graph API to Build a Social Web

13. December 2009 12:20

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Flash API for Google Maps

13. December 2009 12:17

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Resize Flash via div on webpage

6. August 2009 08:48
This is a follow up to post http://flexadmiral.com/blog/post/2009/07/23/Using-Javascript-to-animate-a-resize-effect-for-a-div-containing-Adobe-Flex-Flash.aspx. In my earlier post, I used a javascript function to resize an html div in conjunction with resizing a flash/flex application.  M... [More]

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Heat Maps: Open Source Courtesy of Michael VanDaniker

22. April 2009 12:34
Came upon this fantastic demo and source code today from Michael VanDaniker.  Over the past few months, ever since Universal Mind launched their Spatial Key application, I have become fascinated with heat maps within Flex applications.   I have been able to find some pretty decent demo&#... [More]

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My List: Actionscript 3.0 Open Source Libraries

19. April 2009 21:05
This is a list of Actionscript 3.0 libraries available on Google code and other open source sites.  All of these utilize Subversion for source control.  If you aren't familiar with Subversion, visit the SVN website  This list is by no mean complete but it does represent a good m... [More]

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Flex Chart: Column Chart with Multiple Column Item Trend Line

7. April 2009 09:48
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Grrr... trauma using nested XML as the data provider for charts or advanced data grid

18. March 2009 20:19
So I got this idea last night to use an e4x expression as the source of a chart and advanceddatagrid dataProvider. I’ve found that mostly all of the “examples” online and in all the books only look at one or(at most) two nesting levels inside of an xml document. Unfortunately, ... [More]

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Binding e4x to dataProvider

18. March 2009 08:54
Let's say you have a set of redio buttons that act to filter your data collection.  It is possible to bind the dataProvider property of Flex Charts and AdvancedDataGrid controls to an e4x value.  There are still a couple little glitches working this way that I haven't quite figur... [More]

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Birdeye RaVis Modification: Adding zoom on MouseWheel

26. January 2009 13:14
Using the BirdEyeZoom tool is cool, however I hate having to click buttons so I modified the BirdEyeZoom component this morning to add functionality for zooming on an external mousewheel event.  I also noticed that when the scale of the graph is at the minimum or maximum, any further reductio... [More]

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3D Tag Cloud using Papervision 3D, Vectorvision, and Flex

12. November 2008 16:34
(Repost) Apparently BlogEngine dumped this post.  I dont remember what all I had to say on the topic but here is the demo.

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