Hello All, Thanks again for visiting my blog, “From inspiration to realization”. The blog covers lots of information about Web Development: Ruby on Rails, Java, Flex and etc. The past week has been very frustrating for me. As you know (or not) I work quite a bit with flex development and AIR. The environment for developing these applications is Adobe Flex Builder 3, I never had any problems with this piece of software, but this last week has been just horrible.…

Hi All, If you are working with Adobe flex, you probably know that the framework does not have a function such as DateTime.Now().ToString(). Because of that, displaying a friendly date to the user is impossible unless you write a small extension to the getDate() function in flex. This is the way to go <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 2:</span></pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 3:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">private</span> function INIT():<span style="color: #0000ff;">void</span>{</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 4:</span> getCurrentDate();</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 5:</span> }</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 6:</span></pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 7:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">private</span> var monthLabels:Array = <span style="color: #0000ff;">new</span> Array(<span style="color: #006080;">"Jan"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 8:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Feb"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 9:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Mar"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 10:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Apr"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 11:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"May"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 12:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Jun"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 13:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Jul"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 14:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Aug"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 15:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Sep"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 16:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Oct"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 17:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Nov"</span>,</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 18:</span> <span style="color: #006080;">"Dec"</span>);</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 19:</span></pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 20:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">private</span> function getCurrentDate():<span style="color: #0000ff;">void</span>{</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: white;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 21:</span> var date:Date = <span style="color: #0000ff;">new</span> Date();</pre> <pre style="padding: 0px; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0em; overflow: visible; width: 100%; color: black; border-style: none; line-height: 12pt; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; background-color: #f4f4f4;"><span style="color: #606060;"> 22:</span> todayDate = date.…