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Rico on Flex

Rico on Flex

http://ricoonflex.wordpress.com

Rico’s contributions to the Adobe Flex community, includes tips, tutorials, and news.

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  • Skinning a CheckBox in Degrafa: The Missing Override

    Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 00:38 in tips, degrafa

    A CheckBox in Flex is essentially a Button with a built in icon to visually describe the checked/unchecked state. The difference however becomes obvious when skinning. If you skin the CheckBox the same way you skin a normal Button, you’ll end ...

  • Vibrant Ink Theme in Flex Builder 3

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 07:49 in tips, tools, flex builder

    I wanted to change the color scheme of Flex Builder to something more pleasing to the eyes. I’m used to coding with the default color scheme but I wanted to try something new and perhaps as a bonus help me code longer by reducing eye strain an...

  • Better Button Strokes in Degrafa

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 03:14 in tips, flex, degrafa

    View Sample | Source Code Degrafa supports strokes but the output is a little disappointing. A quick solution is to apply age-old Photoshop skills. And that is to create a smaller shape enclosed inside another shape to mimic a stroke. The containing...

  • Right Way to Extract Degrafa SWC in Mac OS

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 01:09 in tips, tools, flex

    Degrafa is a powerful open source graphics framework for Flex. I’m really excited to use it on my current project. But one minor issue I encountered early on is extracting the zipped Degrafa SWC file in Mac OS. When you double click on the zip...

  • How to Run TortoiseSVN in Mac OS X

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 00:08 in tips, mac, tools

    TortoiseSVN is my favorite SVN tool, unfortunately it only runs in Windows. And now that I’m using a Mac, I really miss its functionality and ease of use. Yes you can run SVN in the terminal but it’s a hassle when you’re trying to a...

  • Wireless Internet Connection Sharing in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 23:19 in tips, Linux, ubuntu

    At first I couldn’t find any obvious way of making this work so I thought it was going to be another frustrating process. After a bit of research I stumbled upon this post on how easy it is to share an existing (non-WiFi) internet connection t...

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