Theres a bit of a gotcha in flex if you are trying to get large, huge or massive text in your labels on flex 3. I thought it would have been as simple as specifying a large value in the css for the font but this does not work. I eventually found the answer on adobes developers forum (thanks bguijt)

In order to have larger text you just do this with your label tag.

This will give you 200 size text... just keep scaling until you have the size you require.

I've been playing around with an adobe air application I am building and I was trying to make a background image repeat in flex just like it does in html.

I though this would be relatively easy but it turns out its not that simple. In the they achieve repeating backgrounds using a backgrounds.swf file, however I can't seem to find any info or source on how to customise this so I discovered another solution... DEGRAFA!

The other day i was trying to get a list control to have multiple items set on startup however how to do this was not immediately obvious and after searching the web it seems quite a few other were having the same issue.

Eventually I found the answer on Bruce Phillips blog, thanks a bunch Bruce!

It basically boils down to doing this.

Have a creation complete function on the application which will set the lists selected indices to an array... voila.

Example...

Ok now we are going to add a to the application so that we can take pictures every n seconds.

first we add the import statement to add the timer class and the global timer object