About Me

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe Systems Inc on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter’s occasionally updated blogs can be found at:

 
  • Mark Embrey

    Hi Peter,

    What happened to the Flex Examples blog?

    It has been down for some time, and now I see you have it lined through above.

    I’m still trying to learn this stuff!

    Thanks for all of your work!

    Mark

    • http://blog.flexexamples.com Peter deHaan

      @Mark,

      There is a small database issue w/ FlexExamples.com. I’ve having MediaTemple and Sucuri take a look and am trying to get it resolved ASAP (although sadly it was down all day yesterday while I tried to repair the database). It is crossed out above because my broken link plugin I guess resolves the URL as broken. Hopefully it should come back online this morning.

      Thanks,
      Peter

      • Info

        Hi Peter,

        seems that the problem is still not solved. the flexexample blog is one of the best sources for flex in the whole web…

        have to thank you for all the work!!

        cheers,
        Norbert

      • will

        Hi Buddy,
        You blog is the one of very few sites that offers examples of Flex 4, however it seems to be constantly down. I know it is free service that you offering by posting these examples, and sadly it is seems as Adobe and Flash team is using it as the only place for any and all Flex 4 examples. I know you busy, especially with postings to your dhtml examples these days…but please help the desperate flex programmers out here and resolve this issue. If more people knew how to contact you about this, I am sure they would….

        Thanks,
        Will

  • Josh

    Hi Peter, found your blog handy. I am more a css and design ninja rather than a script expert, but enjoy the simplicity of jquery and using the jquery mobile frame work which is very simple to put together, but I have got a question if you feel like putting a demo post up. It’s probably very simple to do but I’m a copy and paste person. Thanks in advance.

    Q. I have this code, which is for the swipeLeft action in jMobile:

    $(“div.swipe-area”).bind(‘swipeleft’,function(event, ui){

    })

    Now how do I go about this triggering this button…

    data-icon=”arrow-r”

    It does not have to trigger that exact button but I want it to do the same action as clicking that button = Go to the next page with the same data-transition, slide.

    Any ideas in how I would finish the jquery above?

    Thanks again.

    Josh

  • Anonymous

    Hey Peter, I’ve been following http://www.flexexamples.com for a while… I’m sure this site will be as handy.  Thanks for posting.

  • Mark Embrey

    Please update Flex Examples… There is lots to blog about since the release of FB 4.5.1. Thamks!

  • Mike

    Peter,

    I am using Coldfusion on the back-end and Flex as the UI. I am sending dates over in the following format; “06/28/2009 00:00:00″. We know Flex converts to UTC(found out the hard way”. As ?I change my Timezone on my local machine the time seems to add and subtract based on my original timezone(GMT-500). If I change my GMT to GMT-800 or PDT) it subtracts only 3 hours, why not 8 hours? Seems like it still knows I am in GMT-500 and it adjusts to that timezone. What is happening here?

    Thanks

  • Mike

    Peter,

    How do you show ONLY ONE data Tip manually. I want to click on DataGrid and have the dataTip on lineChart that matches data show. Any help is appreciated. Going the other way is easy.

    Thanks,

    Mike

  • flex capacitor

    Hi Peter,
    Do you have any examples of the new Flex Spark Callout component? Specifically styling the border color and border width? Thanks

    • Peter deHaan

      No, sorry. I left Adobe/Flex SDK over 10 months ago and haven’t updated that blog in a long time since I no longer use Flex.

      Peter

      • flex capacitor

        Ok. Sad to hear you go. …please come back? we miss you!

        • Peter deHaan

          :)

          I did actually read the Flex 4.6 specs and DevNet article (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/whats-new-flex-flash-builder-46.html) the other day and I was pretty impressed.

          Lately I’ve been playing more with jQuery and Twitter’s Bootstrap CSS framework and it looks pretty interesting. I’m hoping to start blogging on dhtmlExamples again when I get some time. Plus I’m hoping to move FlexExamples to a new server as it seems like my MediaTemple DV server keeps crashing and corrupting every couple days (I’m sure everybody has noticed all the downtime and horrible, horrible speeds).

          Peter

  • Steve

    Hi
    Peter,

     

    For the past 3 years your flex examples
    have many times saved my day, you did a great job, thanks!.  It was odd
    when you left Adobe a few months ago,  but after last week news… it
    seems your were right, after all.  DHTML + jquery is the way, you started first
    , now we follow.

     

    Is there any hints, books, framework online
    information where we could start getting into dHTML development. Any help would
    be great.

     

    And I’m sure that many of your flex
    orphans will come back to your blogs.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Steve

  • Phani Kumar Gundamraj

    Hi Peter,

    Hope you are doing fine. Your blog has been very helpful and it is like a good university for all of us helping us graduate in Flex programming. Thank you very much for all the hard work.

    I have few questions. I have tried and researched a lot but was not able to get a solution.

    1) How do I control the URL in flex? For example, my facebook profile is http://www.facebook.com/firstname.lastname. How do I achieve this in flex. If I have 100 employees in my office, whenever I visit each employee, the URL is still http://www.myoffice.com. I want it to display as http://www.myoffice.com/empFirstName.empLastName. How and where do I control this URL customization in flex.

    2) I display all the employees in a list view with their names as hyper links. I want to provide an option of right click –> open in new tab/window or ctrl-click to open in new window or new tab. I have gone through the flex context examples explained by you but the examples have not specified how to open a new flex window. I basically want to right click on the employee name and open it in a new flex window (not title window) and in this new window, the URL should be displayed as http://www.myoffice.com/empFirstName.empLastName.

    3) How does session management happen in flex? I have gone through the FlexSession and HttpFlexSession classes and setting the logged in user object in FlexSession on the server side. If I open a new flex window(my #2 question), will the session be maintained? Will I be able to retrieve it ? Can I use FlexSession in the actionscript tag in the MXML?

    I am using Java backend.

    Hoping a reply from you..

    Thank you very much.
    -Phani

  • rodrigo

    hey i wanted to know if this code or yours is to be used in flsh. y have to set this kind of menues but i cant find the way to doit in my flsh project

    http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/04/creating-two-related-comboboxes/#comments 

  • Flexlearner

    Sir,
                I am from india, i want to show location information in my application(like google map) .Is
    Google API key is mandatory if i am using india’s map only.
    Please help me to know other way to show the locatino without any api key.

  • Guillemro

    Hello, I am a fan of this site, I have begun to develop applications in Flex 3, and I wonder if there are examples of drag and drop on datagrid, but inserting or updating rows of datagrid destination. Thank you so much, my email is: tdg_2005@hotmail.com

  • Chris

    I am guessing by the looks of the last replies to questions, this is no longer an active site. With that in mind, I am hoping to get a response, Please…

    I was on http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/01/31/creating-an-auto-scrolling-datagrid-control-in-flex/#comments and wanted to accomplish what you have done with Flex 3 in flex 4.6. Does anyone know of a working example that this is accomplished in?

    I would like to have a Datagrid that is approximately 1920×650 that will either autoscroll through the populated rows or have it just continue to the net page of rows automatically if there are any.

    Thanks