Author Archives: sarah

Flex 4 Degrafa Button Skins Revisited

Posted on May 24, 2010 by sarah

The Degrafa team has posted a new build with iFill support, which is a big step for Flex 4 Degrafa support. Previously, fills weren’t working at all in Flex 4, rendering degrafa nearly useless. The preliminary build is available on … Continue reading →

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actionscriptgirl.com is now styleanderror.net

Posted on May 21, 2010 by sarah

I’ve renamed and moved my blog to better represent the type of content I’ll be posting here. Since starting at Roundarch as a Flex Styler, I’ve moved my forcus towards all things related to the visual appearance of RIA’s. So … Continue reading →

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Simple Stateful Degrafa Button Skins in Flex 4

Posted on April 16, 2010 by sarah

Since Flex 4 is now out, and I spend a lot of time working with degrafa, styling RIAs – I thought it was time to give Degrafa a try in Flex 4 skins, and made a simple demo using the … Continue reading →

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Creating Animated Programmatic Button Skins in Degrafa

Posted on February 16, 2010 by sarah

I usually create my animated buttons skins in the Flash IDE (keeping them to a minimum). However, as I recently learned that there’s a CPU usage problem with skins created using the Flex Skinning Extensions in Flash (http://patrickhansen.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/05/flex-stateful-skins-vs-stateless) ,  I … Continue reading →

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Creating Custom iPhoto Book Themes

Posted on February 14, 2010 by sarah

This weekend, my husband asked for my help creating a book of his work in iPhoto. He wasn’t really happy with any of the available themes, liking the cover / back from one theme, but the inner layouts from another. … Continue reading →

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stackoverflow.com

Posted on April 22, 2009 by sarah

I am in love with stackoverflow.com. It’s a programming wiki / forum-y thing from the same guy who wrote Joel on Software… and um, some other dudes. Anyway, check it out, it’s in desprate need of other actionscript nerds. The … Continue reading →

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Adobe offering Free Flex Builder 3 Professional for unemployed developers

Posted on April 9, 2009 by sarah

Adobe’s being super nice and offering free flex builder 3 pro to any developers who find themselves unemployed: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/?PID=1225267

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Fixing distortion caused by 3D transformations in Flash Player 10

Posted on March 11, 2009 by sarah

On a recent project, I used the new 3D properties available in flash player 10 for some very simple 3D effects. Unfortunately, I ran into some issues with text quality, where any text in an object with a 3D transformation … Continue reading →

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Adobe Flickr API Fail

Posted on September 23, 2008 by sarah

I’m working with the AS3 Flickr API created by Adobe for a presentation for work, and I’m finding it really frustrating. For starters, it really doesn’t seem to match up very well with the Flickr API documentation. In particular, I’m … Continue reading →

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Error 1151: A conflict exists with definition myMC in namespace internal.

Posted on September 11, 2008 by sarah

A friend of mine, who is an excellent Flex developer, asked me about this bug the other day. It’s something you’ll only encounter in the Flash IDE, so if you mainly work in Flex, it’s it’s a bit of a … Continue reading →

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