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Create and share mockups online with Tiggr

Tiggr is an application for creating user interface mockups collaboratively online. It focuses on creating mockups for rich web application development.

drag&drop images and UIComponents into a the TextFlow of a Flex TextArea

Recently we wanted to spice up the abilities of a TextArea with the feature of drag&drop images into the text. But not only the image should appear, also the subtitle of the image underneath it. Something which is known in HTML very well (e.g. CKEditor) happens to be a little bit more difficult in the Flex TextLayoutFramework.
 

Setting HTML text on a Spark RichtText

Today i needed to display the result of a google search. I wanted to display the title, url and content of the result. Title and url were pretty straight forward but the content was HTML formatted text.

With Flex 3 you had your trusty htmlText property on the Label, but now with Flex 4 there isn´t such a property anymore. To make matters worse, Label can´t event display HTML. So i went to RichtText, that could display HTML tags but also had no htmlText property.

Getting the SWF url of a Flex application

There are times when you load the swf of your application from another directory then the one where you embed it. If that´s the case then images in your application, referenced  like this "_images/icon.png", will be loaded from the folder where the embedding html file lies. So you need the real url of your swf in the application.

Debugging Flex with Firefox 3.6.4

With the new version of Firefox (3.6.4) the guys from Mozilla provided a feature called uninterrupted browsing. What that means is, that when a plugin crashes, firefox deactivates it so that you can still work in your browser. When debugging a Flex application, that´s not helpfull.