Fun with Canvas and DragDrop

So we were working on a simple little drag and drop interface for a project and ran into a weird bug that wouldn’t allow us to accept a drop onto a canvas no matter what we tried. Fortunately I remember running into the same problem with Flex 2 a couple years ago, unfortunately I couldn’t remember what I did to resolve it. I just don’t use drag/drop very often and didn’t remember the details.

So what is the issue? Here is the sample app:

Flex Builder Shortcuts

I’ve found that many developers don’t know some of the coolest time saving features available to them. This can be anything like patterns, frameworks, plugins, even databases. This post is focused on the one thing that most Flex developers use everyday, the IDE.   I know some of you out there are using Notepad (or more likely TextMate or VI), but this post is for the rest of us that choose to suffer through the slings and arrows of Flex Builder.

One of the great things about Flex Builder being built on the Eclipse Platform is getting most (unfortunately not all) the features Java (and other) developers have been used to for years.  This post focuses on the shortcuts I like to use nearly everyday.