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ILOG Elixir Gauges using Flex 4 (aka Gumbo) FXG
By Christophe Jolif on July 18, 2008

As you may know Adobe has released on its open-source web site the first nightly builds of Flex 4 aka Gumbo release. You can download them here. If you want to give it a try, go ahead, but carefully read the instructions and be cautious as these are very early builds. One of the nice thing that Adobe has already introduced in these early builds is the FXG extension to MXML that allows you to define in MXML the graphical representation of an object instead of relying on external (SWF, rasters...) assets or on programmatic ActionScript drawings. This is pretty handy because in a few lines of FXG you are able to draw something that would have required much less flexible code to be written in Flex 3. I couldn't resist to give it a try, and defining the graphical representation of an ILOG Elixir Gauge using Gumbo FXG.

Embedding XML in your Flex application
By Christophe Jolif on July 16, 2008

When you want to embed resources in a Flex application you just use the [Embed] tag as advised by Adobe documentation. However this section of the developer's guide is saying that only images, Flash files, audio and font resources can…

Reading Microsoft Excel XML Spreadsheets in AIR
By Christophe Jolif on July 09, 2008

While Web applications, such as Flex applications, usually read data coming from the server in a predefined form and thus do not necessarily need to read third party data formats (the server has digested them). Desktop applications, on the contrary, usually require the ability to read data from such sources. This is especially true when it comes to data visualization applications where the end-user might want to, for example, import its data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and display them into a data grid or charting control. The objective of this post is to see how your AIR (or Flex) data visualization application can read a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and display its result.

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