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flex: Making a percentage-sized VBox scroll

If you’re using a VBox with a pixel height, it will scroll as expected. If you’re using a percentage sized VBox, it won’t scroll when it’s content grows in size: the scrollbars will be “pushed somewhere up the component hierarchy”. To make it scroll, set it’s minHeight=0. Found this here.


GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it. Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see. See the GeoFeeder page for details. Please upgrade your Flash Player This is [...]


Adobe AIR Tour in München

… switching to german to get the extra stickers … Am 11 Juni checkt die Adobe onAIR Tour in München in der Muffathalle ein. Ich habe mich schon lange angemeldet, aber erst jetzt den Blog Eintrag von Mike Chambers gesehen. Da man für einen muttersprachlichen Eintrag nicht nur eine Postkarte bekommt, sondern auch noch Aufkleber, [...]


Kickoff!

Finally i have been urged to write a blog of my own. Well, kind of. Things i might post here may be: flash/flex/AIR, Java, Perl Linux databases geotagging devices other tech stuff So let’s get back to work to find something to write about.