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3D Effects In Flex - 7/23/2010 - Episode 71 - Flextras Friday Lunch

This time I talk about 3D Effects in Flex and some of the new properties introduced to help add 3D elements to the Flash Player. We talk about Flash Catalyst, round trip development, and UI Skinning standards.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flex 4 Lists - 6/26/2010 - Episode 67 - Flextras Friday Lunch

This session covers Flex 4 Lists. We talk a bit about percentage sizing and dealing with different screen sizes, and the printing Chapter of Enterprise Flex Development.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flex 4 States - 6/4/2010 - Episode 64 - Flextras Friday Lunch

In this session, I talk about Flex 4 States. The conversation goes to ActionScript Eval, HTML5, and the Smokescreen JavaScript based Flash Player.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flex 4 Layouts - 4/30/2010 - Episode 60 - Flextras Friday Lunch

In this session, I talk about how to layout components with in a Flex 4 application. The conversations touches on framework choices (again), Apple, and possible components for Flextras.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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  • Watch Original Recording
  • Flex 4 Layout Sample
  • Sample Code
  • Laying Out Components (Flex 4 docs)
  • Intro to Containers (Flex 4 Docs)
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Anatomy of a Flex 4 Application - 4/23/2010 - Episode 59 - Flextras Friday Lunch

In this session, I talk about the parts of a Flex 4 application. The conversation runs the gambit from Flex framework choices, ColdFusion servers, Unit Testing, and HTTP Streaming.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Spark Buttons - 4/16/2010 - Episode 58 - Flextras Friday Lunch

In this session, I compare the Flex 4, Spark, button to the Flex 3, Halo, button. The audience asks questions about local connection, and command line tools for Eclipse.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flash Bulder Templates - 4/9/2010 - Episode 57 - Flextras Friday Lunch

In this session, I talk about Flash Builder templates. Questions are on the recent Apple iPhone SDK agreement changes, creating default directory structures, and the Flextras AutoCompleteComboBox.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flextras Friday Lunch - Episode 55 - 3/26/2010 - Flex 4 Spark Components A First Look

This time, I take a first look at building Flex 4 Spark components.

Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur every Friday at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Connect. You can find out what time this occurs in your own time zone at TimeAndDate.com.

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Flex 4 Library Project -Type not found or not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D

I spent some time tonight upgrading the Flextras watermarking code to the Flex 4 SDK. I've done this before without problems, but the latest beta is giving me a bunch of errors, similar to these:

"Type not Found or not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D" "Type not Found or not a compile-time constant: Number" "Type not Found or not a compile-time constant: Vector"

After some Googling around I discovered that the fix is easy if you're using a simple Flex Project. My good friend Simeon had my back, this time without even knowing it. His blog post directed me to shortfusion blog which lets me know this is a type mismatch with player versions. I must specify that the player version for my project is Flash Player 10 or higher for this error to go away.

The shortfusion blog has a great screenshot showing you how to update the player version for your Flex Project. Unfortunately, that is where I hit a snag. That screen is not available for Flex Library Projects. What is the solution? You can use a command line compiler option on the specify the targeted player in a Library project. Just add this line to the compiler settings:

-target-player=10

You can see the setting page here: