Author Archives: Tushar

About Tushar

Hi, I am Tushar Wadekar from Pune, India. I am an Adobe Certified Flash Developer. My Interests are: Flash, ActionScript, Flex, AIR, PHP, Ruby on Rails. You can reach me at: tusharwadekar[at]gmail[dot]com Thank you! Tushar

Android – Google Contact API 3.0 Example

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Tushar

One of the application I am developing for Android had a functionality to import Google contacts. I faced quite a few issues to implement this and was not able to find any tutorial / example on internet providing detailed information. … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, JAVA | 27 Comments

Making AMF calls from AJAX (JSP, Java)

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Tushar

AMF (Action Message Format) Calls can be triggered from Java Client as well. AMFConnection class can be used for the same. Documentation is available at: http://livedocs.adobe.com/blazeds/1/javadoc/flex/messaging/io/amf/client/AMFConnection.html Below is a simple example usage: Setup BlazeDS and create simple destination as explained … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, AMF, BlazeDS, Flex, JAVA, JSP | 7 Comments

iPhone Simulator – Add Images in ‘Photos’

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Tushar

Here is a quick tip to add images in iPhone Simulator for Mac (Xcode). Open iPhone Simulator Navigate to image using ‘Finder’ Drag image from ‘Finder’ to iPhone Simulator This will open the image in ‘Safari’ on iPhone Simulator Now … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 2 Comments

Flex 3 Auto-Resize TextInput Control? How?

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Tushar

Here is a quick solution to add Auto-Size functionality to TextInput control in Flex 3. AutoSizeTextInput.class Usage in MXML: Not sure if this method is perfect! Do let me know if there is any better way to implement this 🙂

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, components, Flash, Flash CS3, Flex | 9 Comments

AS3 FlexNativeMenu and dataprovider

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Tushar

Yesterday I faced an issue with FlexNativeMenu (popup menu) and its dataprovider. Looks like, FlexNativeMenu does not recognize the changes made to dataprovider. Situation: I was wanted to disable the menu item based on the Label (clicking which I am … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex | Leave a comment

Flex – Double Click to edit functionality for List Control

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Tushar

When for a list control the property editable is set to true, one can click on the item and rename the label or edit the item if an item editor is set. Here is a work around if you wish … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, components, Flex | 5 Comments

MXML ActionScript Classes

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Tushar

As you know, all MXML files are converted to ActionScript Classes which are later compiled in SWF file. If you want to view / study these automatically generated classes, you can use Compiler Argument -keep-generated-actionscript in Flex Builder Project. In … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, Flex, MXML | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Flex – Image Navigator Example

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Tushar

Here is a small example of creating an Image Navigator for big images in Flex. The big image is loaded in Canvas and an Image navigator will have a small prototype of this image. A small rectangle in Navigator can … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, components, Flex | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

ActionScript 3: Using URLLoader to send and load server variables

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Tushar

Here is a very simple example of two way communication with database using Flex and PHP. In this example, we are sending username and password to the PHP file from Flex. PHP file then validates the input and returns the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, Database, Flash CS3, Flex, MySql, PHP | 71 Comments

ActionScript 3: Creating custom event handlers using EventDispatcher

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Tushar

Creating custom event handlers in ActionScript 3 is pretty much simple. Here is a simple example which loads an image and fires a custom event named “onImageLoad” as soon as image is loaded. Class imageLoader.as Now in Flash, create a … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript3, AS3, Flash, Flash CS3 | 35 Comments