Andrew Trice

Andrew Trice, co-author of Flex 2 articles on Adobe's Developer Center, maintains a blog at http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice in which he helps orient newbies and experts alike about Flex. Web Developer's & Designer's Journal is pleased here to bring a sampler of some of his more recent shared insights. Getters and Setters vs. Public Properties in Flex I've been asked several times, why would you use get/set functions instead of public variables in your Flex components and classes? Well, there are some great things you can do with getters and setters that you can't do with public variables. On the other hand, there are cases where public variables work better. When using these functions and/or public variables, the code for the caller will be the same: mycomponent.myValue = 1; First, let's look at public variables... [Bindable] public var myValue ... (more)

Binary Data, ColdFusion & Adobe Flex

Several months ago I posted some articles on my blog about Flex 2 components and accessing/modifying their BitmapData. In one example, I sent the BitmapData to the server and saved it as a JPG file, and I've been asked numerous times since... "How did you do that?" It's surprisingly easy to do once you understand the concepts involved. There are four ways to get binary data from the Flex application back to your server: AMF3 (RemoteObject), Web Services, HTTP Services, or through a Socket connection. In this article I'll cover the first three topics as they pertain to Flex 2; Soc... (more)

Binary Data, ColdFusion & Flex

Several months ago I posted some articles on my blog about Flex 2 components and accessing/modifying their BitmapData. In one example, I sent the BitmapData to the server and saved it as a JPG file, and I've been asked numerous times since... "How did you do that?" It's surprisingly easy to do once you understand the concepts involved. There are four ways to get binary data from the Flex application back to your server: AMF3 (RemoteObject), Web Services, HTTP Services, or through a Socket connection. In this article I'll cover the first three topics as they pertain to Flex 2; So... (more)