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.

<mx:Label fontSize="100" scaleX="2" scaleY="2" text="Hello" />

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 flex style explorer 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 timer 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