Category Archives: flex

Alternative Implementation of Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus library (SPL)

Rain recently purchased a multi-seat site license for a great tool that is certain to save a lot of time and headache: Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus Library (SPL – info here). This post describes some aspects of the implementation.  You … Continue reading

By: Bryan Elkins Categories: development / flash / flex Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Showing Progress for Multiple Loaders

A common thing to do in most any rich application is to show progress while loading remote assets. In ActionScript, the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties of classes such as LoaderInfo and URLLoader provide the needed information to show a fancy … Continue reading

By: Aaron Hardy Categories: development / flex Tags: , , , ,

A First Date with Unit Testing in Flash Builder 4

Unit testing is a topic that creates a variety of opinions. For a lot of people it is like a first date – the first time they try to take out unit testing for a spin it seems like it … Continue reading

By: Chase Brammer Categories: Blogroll / debugging / flash / flex

Flex: Loading Remote Modules Throws the following: “Error: Unable to load resource module from…”

Recently I was working on localizing a Flex project to handle multiple languages.  There are a bajilion examples on the web of ways to do this, and I found a few helpful ones.  The most helpful was this one. Since … Continue reading

By: Bryce Barrand Categories: debugging / flex

Rain SVG

Aaron Hardy wrote an excellent overview of SVG technology used at Rain to provide our clients with a robust set of tools for editing vector images online. We posted this as its own page as a reference on our blog. … Continue reading

By: andrewb Categories: clients / flex / svg