Tutorial Details
- Program: Flash Builder
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 25 mins
This is the third in a series of tutorials covering implementation of the AS3XLS ActionScript 3.0 library for the Flex framework. We’ll demonstrate how to save an Excel .xls file from modified Flex datagrid controls and also how to write CSV files using the same data to the local filesystem.
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By Joseph Labrecque
Joseph Labrecque is primarily employed by the University of Denver as a senior interactive software engineer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform, where he produces innovative academic toolsets for both traditional desktop environments and emerging mobile spaces. Alongside this principal role; he often serves as adjunct faculty, communicating upon a variety of Flash Platform solutions and general Web design and development subjects.
In addition to his accomplishments in higher education, Joseph is the proprietor of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production company, technical consultancy, and distribution vehicle for his creative works. He is founder and sole abiding member of the dark ambient recording project "An Early Morning Letter, Displaced" whose releases have received international award nominations and underground acclaim.
Joseph has contributed to a number of respected community publications as an article writer and video tutorialist and is author of the forthcoming "Flash Development for Android Cookbook". He regularly speaks at user group meetings and industry conferences such as Adobe MAX, FITC, and D2WC. In 2010, he received an Adobe Impact Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the education community. He has served as an Adobe Education Leader since 2008 and is also a 2011 Adobe Community Professional.
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Cool one. I have been looking for this kind of utility for a proof of concept project I am working on.
Are we going to get the Library for free anytime?
Cool
@oluwaseun You can grab the AS3XLS library from GitHub [http://github.com/djw/as3xls] or Google Code [http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/]. Please note that they are slightly different versions!
what could i do to set column’s width ? I have a problem with a text so long.
Thank you
Hi Joeseph. I am glad to find this tutorial. I do have a question hoping you will make time to help me out. For this demo for instance, my Event Label column is date (e.g. January 1, 2000
, or 1/1/2000), when imported to the app, it turns out to be 36526. I wonder how to covnert it back to date. Thanks for your help.
Can these as3xls projects be completed in Flex Builder 3? I’ve imported your source files and an error is generated on run which seems be be related to the namespace pointers in the application tag.
The source files are for Flash Builder 4. So you can’t just import it…but you can unzip it and make changes to the mxml tags such as from to …