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• Flex, Uncategorized

  AdvancED Flex 3 (Friends of Ed)

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just finished writing a chapter for Advanced Flex 3 - a forthcoming Friends of Ed title, due out in October. The authors are Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom and Jack Herrington (I’m just contributing one chapter on 3D, mostly about Papervision).
  The problem is, as with all writing (apart from blogging, which is more or less [...]

• AS3

  sensible package names campaign! show your support!

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The bug reported by Tink on sensible package names for Flash/Flex/AIR is open. I have also made some refinement suggestions. Surely we can do better than fl.*, flash.*, mx.*, and the appallingly underused air.*!
  Show your support (and make any further suggestions) at the bug on Adobe’s Jira.

• AS3, International

  TextField vs TextArea .. spot the difference

  07.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
  I suspected it might be something to do [...]

• AS3, Tech

  Bug with TweenLite/Max: onComplete is fragile

  06.26.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I’ve just noticed a minor bug with TweenMax (and, I presume, TweenLite).
  I set up a tween using TweenMax, and set an “onComplete” method. Then, after compiling, I noticed that there my method was throwing an NPE. However, instead of just throwing the exception once, it continued throwing it again and again: presumably, every frame. I [...]

• 3d, AS3

  FlatShadeMaterial.doubleSided does not seem to work as expected

  05.27.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  For some reason, FlatShadeMaterial in Great White doesn’t work quite how I expect it to.
  Look at this example (view source is enabled) … the light only reflects on one side. Strange, huh?
  However, one good thing I discovered while making the example to show others, is that the dark colour (the “ambient” argument passed to [...]

• 3d, Flash

  Hybrid 3D …

  05.22.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  No, it’s not yet another 3D library for Flash. I’m thinking about the ramificiations of a decision I have been, very reluctantly, forced into: use of multiple (well, two) 3D libraries for a single website.
  Papervision3D has (almost) all the features I want: lighting and shading, a sophisticated API (at least in Great White, the [...]

• Flash

  Over-engineering

  05.15.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yesterday a colleague from downstairs (where .NET folks huddle in the dungeon-like darkness and pretend to enjoy using Visual Studio … unlike on my floor where designers and Flash devs flit about in a world of sunshine and butterflies) asked me to make a very simple little SWF … just a marquee basically, similar to [...]

• AS3

  AS3 on the command line

  05.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been digging into Tamarin and it looks fascinating. You can compile ActionScript and then run it from the command line.
  The idea of being able to use AS3 (or ES4) on the command line is very promising for projects like the one I proposed earlier for XSD-based XML AS3 bindings. And I am tinkering with [...]

• Flash

  Catchup: XSD, disposable listeners, Five3D, AS2/3 bridges, AS4 package names, SQLConnection …

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  After some teething troubles with my Wordpress RSS feed, and thanks to some patient help from Daniel Taborga from Adobe and the excellent Feedburner service, my posts are being aggregated once more on MXNA / Adobe Feeds.
  Since the posts in the meantime were not added, here’s a quick little catchup of what I’ve been doing [...]

• AIR, AS3, Flash

  SQLConnection mode?

  05.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In an AIR app, once you have opened an SQLConnection, is there any way of knowing what kind of connection this is?
  By which I mean, whether open() or openAsync() were used, and which of the SQLMode constants were used as the second argument to whichever argument was used?
  If not … why not?? I [...]

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