Recently when working on one of the features of Creately (an online collaborative diagram software) I had the need to calculate the curve length of a quadratic curve. The Flex/AS3 curves are quadratic (when you draw using the curveTo function of the Graphics class).The requirement I had was a pretty simple and straightforward one. However I didn’t [...]
Scrolling is a feature that has been around us since the time of window based operating systems. Eventually when the scroll enabled mice and touch-pads were available, the scrolling experience became better. Today with mac’s magic mouse and touch pads, scrolling around and navigating in a window has become a unbelievably seamless experience. Sadly still [...]
Rotating text in AS3 or Flex is not magic. Its a pretty straight forward and easy thing to do. Any control that holds the text will be an extension of a DisplayObject and will have the property rotation to which you can set the angle you want the text/object to be rotated to. But the drawback is this [...]
