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	<title>Webapper Blog &#187; Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples</title>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Setting properties of custom components</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/20/shans-simple-examples-setting-properties-of-custom-components/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Actionscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone in #cfflex on DALnet was asking about a custom component. They wanted to have a component that had two lists in it, where selections from the first list would filter the options in the second. They had a method written out that would do the comparison and filtering on the two lists, but they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Someone in #cfflex on DALnet was asking about a custom component. They wanted to have a component that had two lists in it, where selections from the first list would filter the options in the second. They had a method written out that would do the comparison and filtering on the two lists, but they [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Extending an object in Actionscript</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/09/shans-simple-examples-extending-an-object-in-actionscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OOP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, someone asked me how they could re-use the code sample from Igor Costa&#8217;s post about getting the Rich Text Editor to output XHTML. Whenever you want to add functionality to an existing control, you just need to extend it. Here&#8217;s how:
Here&#8217;s the top bit of code from my XHtmlEditor.as file:
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_9::
The actual code [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The other day, someone asked me how they could re-use the code sample from Igor Costa&#8217;s post about getting the Rich Text Editor to output XHTML. Whenever you want to add functionality to an existing control, you just need to extend it. Here&#8217;s how:
Here&#8217;s the top bit of code from my XHtmlEditor.as file:
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_11::
The actual code [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: File uploads with Flex and ColdFusion</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/27/shans-simple-examples-file-uploads-with-flex-and-coldfusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/27/shans-simple-examples-file-uploads-with-flex-and-coldfusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ColdFusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webapper.net/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Shans-Simple-Examples-File-uploads-with-Flex-and-ColdFusion</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone in #flex was talking about how there were no good examples for doing uploads with Flex and ColdFusion. Sounded like an excellent topic to cover here. Now this example is a tiny bit more complex than previous examples, because I needed to cover two methods of functionality: single file uploads and multi-file uploads. Both [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Someone in #flex was talking about how there were no good examples for doing uploads with Flex and ColdFusion. Sounded like an excellent topic to cover here. Now this example is a tiny bit more complex than previous examples, because I needed to cover two methods of functionality: single file uploads and multi-file uploads. Both [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Start to Finish, using Ant with Flex for the first time</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/14/shans-simple-examples-start-to-finish-using-ant-with-flex-for-the-first-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/14/shans-simple-examples-start-to-finish-using-ant-with-flex-for-the-first-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eclipse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: This post is not about best practices or anything of that sort. This is just a recount of my first attempt at using Ant with an open-source Flex library project.
Here are the steps I went through (well, minus the steps that did nothing) to get my first Ant build script up &#38; running;
Installing Ant
There [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Disclaimer: This post is not about best practices or anything of that sort. This is just a recount of my first attempt at using Ant with an open-source Flex library project.
Here are the steps I went through (well, minus the steps that did nothing) to get my first Ant build script up &amp; running;
Installing Ant
There [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Using events (aka how to pass data from components)</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/shans-simple-examples-using-events-aka-how-to-pass-data-from-components/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/19/shans-simple-examples-using-events-aka-how-to-pass-data-from-components/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was some confusion in #flex yesterday. The question came up on how a child component could access the parent component. Eventually, it came down to they wanted to pass some data from the child back to the parent.
Well, the &#8220;black box&#8221; method of component programming says that we should use custom events to send [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There was some confusion in #flex yesterday. The question came up on how a child component could access the parent component. Eventually, it came down to they wanted to pass some data from the child back to the parent.
Well, the &#8220;black box&#8221; method of component programming says that we should use custom events to send [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Keyboard shortcuts and TextInput</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/06/shans-simple-examples-keyboard-shortcuts-and-textinput/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/06/shans-simple-examples-keyboard-shortcuts-and-textinput/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone on #flex asked about preventing text from appearing in a TextInput or TextArea, when the user is using a keyboard shortcut. After a little discussion, I came up with a working example. I decided to use shift-space to simplify things.
The first assumption is that you&#8217;re listening for keyboard shortcuts at the application level:
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_23::
Now, you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Someone on #flex asked about preventing text from appearing in a TextInput or TextArea, when the user is using a keyboard shortcut. After a little discussion, I came up with a working example. I decided to use shift-space to simplify things.
The first assumption is that you&#8217;re listening for keyboard shortcuts at the application level:
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_26::
Now, you&#8217;ve [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Using an XML datasource with mx:ComboBox</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/03/shans-simple-examples-using-an-xml-datasource-with-mxcombobox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/03/shans-simple-examples-using-an-xml-datasource-with-mxcombobox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XML]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I was writing a simple little app, and came across something that should have been trivial, but turned out to throw me for a loop momentarily. I needed to drive some data from XML instead of my tried-and-true ColdFusion components, and I realized I&#8217;d never done it before. So, here&#8217;s the example:
First [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the weekend I was writing a simple little app, and came across something that should have been trivial, but turned out to throw me for a loop momentarily. I needed to drive some data from XML instead of my tried-and-true ColdFusion components, and I realized I&#8217;d never done it before. So, here&#8217;s the example:
First [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shan&#8217;s Simple Examples: Scale all children in Flex</title>
		<link>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/24/shans-simple-examples-scale-all-children-in-flex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/24/shans-simple-examples-scale-all-children-in-flex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shannon Hicks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flex & Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shan's Simple Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.webapper.net/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Shans-Simple-Examples-Scale-all-children-in-Flex</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided since I attempt to help people in #flex (on EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet) on a daily basis, that I&#8217;ll pick one simple question and try to whip up an example for everyone to see.
Today, someone asked how to scale all children of a container. The basic answer is to just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided since I attempt to help people in #flex (on EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet) on a daily basis, that I&#8217;ll pick one simple question and try to whip up an example for everyone to see.
Today, someone asked how to scale all children of a container. The basic answer is to just [...]]]></content:encoded>
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