Flex - Button label truncation problem

I recently had trouble with Flex truncating the label on some but...




It was a particularly aggravating affair, playing with the padding and the width which had no apparent effect. After hours of searching the net and finding nary a shred I discovered that there was a simple fix.




Simply changing the label placement property of the button to 'bottom' had the desired effect rendering the label correctly.




Ahhhhh, much better.

Making the Eclipse XML editor Useful

I use Eclipse for editing pretty much everything I on my Mac with its great free plugins who wouldn't want to use it there is only one small problem. That problem is the built in XML editor for Eclipse sucks, it tree based meaning you can't get the the underlying code without using the default Text Editor.

I decided that there must be a free plugin you can use so I Googled "free eclipse xml editor" and found several articles about an editor called XmlBuddy but there was a problem, the domain www.xmlbuddy.com has been sold so you are not going to be able to download it from there crap! So yet again I turn to my friend google and at last I have found the answer.

I downloaded the plugin from cnet unzipped into my Eclipse plugins directory, now I finally have a decent XML editor.