June 23 2009 by 
Wally Kolcz
With most of my AIR apps connecting to the internet either to get or push data, having the ability to monitor the connection to the internet is vital to the success of the application. Here is a simple URL monitor that checks to see if the application is connected to the internet or not and then enables or disables a button.
Posted in AIR | Flex | Flash | 
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June 23 2009 by Wally Kolcz
As I start to develop sample Flex apps that including the Ribbit (http://www.ribbit.com) library and functionality I noticed that the example on Ribbit's site on how to log into the account is incorrect. Here is how it should work (or atleast my way)
Posted in Ribbit | Flex | Flash | 4 comments
April 22 2009 by Wally Kolcz
While in the process of building a flip book that populates itself with an image and then the story that accompanies that story. I encountered a problem with getting the text to wrap around the image. After a little Googling, here is the solution to share.
Posted in Flex | Lazy Code | 1 comments
December 29 2008 by Wally Kolcz
Guess the computer shut down before saving or something....anyways it broke my Flex Builder 3. I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it about 4 times before I hit the Google. Luckily I found the solution.
Posted in Flex | 1 comments
September 21 2008 by Wally Kolcz
This is probably a simple explaination, but I was having a small problem with this on one of my applications and took some digging to find a solution. So I thought I would post the simple answer for my future reference and for anyone else. How to add a 'Please choose.." into the first position of a combobox that is populated by an ArrayCollection.
Posted in Flex | 1 comments