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Here is another Simple Example To create a mask in Flex 4 (Gumbo), All I am doing is creating a couple of Ellipse’s using the Ellipse tag and positioning them to where I want them to be. Example and Source.
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Here is a simple Example of How you can animate an Icon using the New Flex 4 effects. It is pretty simple and doesn’t require any explanations. So let’s Jump into the example Need Flash Player 10 to view it and Make sure to visit the Forums if you have any questions.
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This is a new property in Flex 4 and you apply the mask via the Group attribute. It behaves much like the mask attribute that comes with all components except now you have the ability to control the detail more to please your specification. If you are having trouble understanding how a mask works, think of it this way. You overlay something over your image and whatever is overlayed on the image gets shown and everything outside that overlay gets cut. The Example is pretty straight forward so Here is the Example and source. Visit the Forums If you have anymore questions. Flash Player 10 to view it. Keep Reading.
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I’m glad everyone enjoyed my first article on how to be intuitive with your wordpress. Many people say that it’s crappy or not as powerful as joomla/drupal, I disagree with them because I know with a little bit of elbow grease and plugin power it’s a full blown cms. Anyway I digress from my point.

I’ve seen a few trends on some fancy shmancy blogs about how to make money but the one thing they never do is really get down and dirty into giving you real details not just the regular , oh put up good content and people will come like crazy. Or other stories like I just opened my website and got 500k hits in 6 hours , a few words for you my friend S-T-F-U & stop fraudin’.

Forget the money aspect of running a website for a second , just trying to market your website to the entire internet is hard word as well as getting loyal readers to come back and give you positive feedback.

In this rant I’m gonna explain how to setup your blog to earn you money.

Let’s begin shall we :
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Here is another example of how to draw Dotted Lines using the Path command. All i am doing is giving it coordinates and having it plot it. Its more concise and easier than having to call the lineTo() method, moveTo() method. Remember You need Flash Player 10 to view it and it uses the Latest Flex 4 SDK. Click Here to View The Example and Source

This Example and tag are pretty self-explanatory and can’t be explained much without looking at the code. All it does is you give it coordinates and it plots them. Example <Path data=”M 55 0 L 67 36 L 109 36 L 73 54 L 83 96 L 55 72 L 27 96 L 37 54 L 1 36 L 43 36 Z”> This draws a Star. M stands for Move To, L stands for Line to and Z stands for stop/Close line you can read more about it here.This is alot easier than having to use the lineTo and moveTo commands. It’s pretty concise. Here is the Code and Sample. As Usual Flash Player 10 to view it. First Data path draws a Star and Second Data path draws an arrow, more examples on the way. Here is Where you can Ask Questions if you have any.
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