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VideoDisplay Improvements

// April 3rd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Programming

VideoDisplay has no doubt been the source of many headaches and much wasted time for any developer that has touched it. A lot has been written about it, and here’s my contribution, which is an evolutionary improvement over others’ work. It’s a fix that adds video smoothing and a source propert setter that doesn’t break the component and still allow you to set autoPlay. (This will all make sense in a minute.)

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Resizing ViewStack

// June 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // Actionscript 3, Flex

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This is simply a really quick note, and a reminder that whenever you’re starting to jump through hoops with code in Flex to accomplish something that should already be there, it probably is. Check the documentation.

So ViewStack lets you switch between different containers visually. By default, the ViewStack takes on the height of the first container within it and does not adjust height when it changes what it’s showing. Why this is the default behavior, I have no idea. But there’s a property that address this.

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resizeToContent = "true"

Done. And duh.