There are too many tutorials teaching us how to change textArea styles in Flex 4 with Spark theme styles. It is unlucky for people like me who are still working on legacy Flex 3 project. It cost me several hours to change the textarea component styles in Flex 3. In my project, I want to change the Flex TextArea vertical scrollbar truck style, drag thumb style, and hide the scroll arrow. First, I create the scrollbar truck skin and thumb skin in flash and publish as swc file, then change the Textarea vertical scrollbar style by following code:
Read more
Change CheckBox Style in Flex 3
These days, I am working on a new Flex 3 project. Since new Flex SDK 4.6 was released several months ago, it is very hard to find any resources for Flex 3, especially for the Flex 3 Skin tutorials. All Flex 3 components are using the halo theme styles. After Flex 4.0, the new spark theme styles are involved and the process to customize skin become much more flexible. The spark theme styles allow programmer to change more styles, but it also becomes more complicated to create and apply new style. Changing checkbox style in Flex 3 is a very simple job. If you know how to change Button style in Flex 3, there will not be any problems for you to change CheckBox style.
Read more
Create Right Click Menu in Multiple Parent-Child Layer
In Flash, creating right click menu is easy and simple. In one display object which has several cascade children display objects, we can define different right click menu for display objects in different levels. Here I will show a simple example. In this example, I will create a three level display object. The blue color displayObject is the most out parent, which has a child displayobject in green color, and the green color displayObject has one red color child display object.
Read more
Html5 Games Development With Flash CS6 And CreateJS
This month I am quite busy with my new project, converting flash game into HTML 5. Once iPhone and iPad came out, they announced that they would not support flash in their browsers and they suggest to use HTML5 to implement browser multimedia applications. At that time, lots of flash developers decided to move their focus on HTML5 and tried to migrate their flash apps to HTML 5. As my opinion, the most difficulty part to create Html 5 games is lack of tools to speedup the development. Unlike Flash IDE, creating html5 games for iPad or android tablets is a very tough job. Without develop tools, we need to write the html code, CSS and javascript piece by piece. It may take a very long time to program a character or a game scene in html 5.
Read more
Latest Google Algorithm Changes Make My Sites Disappeared
Yesterday I mentioned that Google applied their latest search engine algorithm and it make a big effects on my sites. This new algorithm is named “webspam algorithm change”. And it does a nice job to clean up my sites from the SERPs. Now I have a whole day data to analyze. I will not update all my sites because Google may fine tune their algorithm as well. When the changes get stable, I will come back to check my sites data.
Read more