Here’s an interesting little hack that has, at a stroke, saved me enormous headaches with getting Flash-authored content (IUMovieClip) to play nice in Flex apps.
A little background: the Flash stuff I get from my designer does not conform to what Flex expects from its components. Things stick out the sides, animate all over the place, [...]
Tanya Gold, in her Guardian article What’s with this Jane Austen fixation? raises an interesting issue, and one that I have pondered recently after seeing the Austen novels top the lists of “popular classics” again and again. What resonance with today’s readers is implied by the enduring, in fact resurgent, popularity of Jane Austen’s fiction? [...]
I’m laughing at myself ruefully over a silly mistake I just made. I had a variable, of type uint, set to a value that ended up (for obscure reasons) being -1.
Now as the name of the type suggests, uints cannot be negative. So if you try to set them to a value less than [...]
Vinnie Vivace from New Zealand raises an interesting problem, exactly the same one as I’m having. He is authoring UIMovieClips in Flash using the Flex Component Kit for Flash. He is getting compiler errors because certain classes are missing, such as ArrayCollection.
A commenter on his blog suggests that he eliminate all dependency on Flex classes. [...]
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