Bronson web development blog

A couple of weeks ago, we were skinning an Air Application for one of our clients. One detail,was to make a DateChooser transparent. We tried and tried and could fix the transparency so we had to give in.

The strange thing is that if you use the standard backgroundAlpha style and set it to 0, you still get a semi-transparent background.

After attending Adobe MAX in Milan, we tried some more tricks and finally we created a calendar that is transparent all the way. Read more »

After attending Adobe Max In Milan, we where inspired to create a new Adobe Group for adobe developers in southern Sweden.The idea is to help and inspire eachother to make the the community in our region even better than it already is.

So please join the group here.

There are so many browser plug-ins for developers now, that it’s no surprise that we find new, useful, plug-ins now and then.

Yesterday my college showed me the Pixelperfect plug-in for firefox and I wondered how I could have survived the last ten years without it. OK, maybe its a bit of exaggeration but its a tiny, super helpful plug-in.

That plug-in, together with a couple of others, are plug-in that we use daily in our work which greatly improve our way of work.

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Imagine this scenario:

You are creating an air application, destined for both os x and windows. Everything works as it should and you are fixing the last functions. One of them is to create an email in your default mail application with a predefined subject and body.

Since it’s flex and cross platform compatible and all that, you create the email by using navigateToUrl in flex and opening a link with all content like this:

mailto:emailadress@theinternet.com?subject=hello&body=thisisanemail.

In windows, everything works fine and you are happy. You know that cross platform prolems might occur, but you hope that, at least this time, everything is ok.
And everything actually works fine.
That is until you put some special characters in your subject or body. Our application needed some those äöå so we had a problem.
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