Archive for July, 2006
I have updated the AdvancedForm component. Along with the update I have packaged up the swc, docs, source code, and example code for everyone to download.
You can find it on Adobe’s Exchange for Flex area or here.
The documentation is ASDoc styled and powered by Teoti Graphix :: DocumentFX.
Thanks Mike for the documentation.
July 28th, 2006
Flash will officially be 10 years young on Wednesday, August 9, 2006. It just happens that it will be around my own birthday. Now I am a little older than 10 years but time sure does fly by.
Well I decided to provide a link to one of my first Flash creations. It was an old site for my BMX Dirt Jumping brother. You can find it here!
It has sound, dragable menu system (a picture of my bro doing an Indian Flare) and even some stick figures swinging in a tree. The videos are not linked in any more but most other part of the Flash file work. Its crazy to celebrate Flash’s 10th birthday with so much on the horizon and I can’t wait to see what the next 10 have in store.
Be sure to check with your local user groups to see what celebrations are planned.
Oh yeah, here is a link to some people that are trying to gather up old Flash examples.
July 27th, 2006
The RemoteObjectAMF0 class and sample code have been updated to reflect the latest Cairngorm package. You can find Cairngorm for Flex2 on the labs.adobe.com site. I will not be packaging Cairngorm with my RemoteObjectAMF0 samples any more.
There are now 2 examples in the RemoteObjectAMF0 package. The first is the updated Cairngorm login example (see in action / source).
The new example I created is a non-Cairngorm AMFPHP example (see in action / source ).
July 26th, 2006
Thanks to the help of some people on the Flex coders list, I have been able to update the RemoteObjectAMF0 class with some examples of how to use AMFPHP and PHP/AS VO’s. I got this to work with PHP 5.1.1 and PHP 4.3.11.
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006
By the docs it’s covered by an image, so its a color. Let me explain what I am getting at, I was reading Ted’s post on preloaders. If you download the source and run the code from a new project in Flex Builder 2 you get a background flicker. The flicker I am talking about is the Blue-ish defualt Flex application color. I was trying to figure out how the default blue-ish color background was showing up. As I didn’t change any code from the downloaded source code.
I found this information in the livedocs.
The Application container’s style uses an image as the default background image. This image obscures any background color settings that you might make. So, to make the value of the bgcolor property display properly, you must clear the Application container’s backgroundImage style property. To do this, you can set it to the value of a space character, as the following example shows:
Application { backgroundImage: ” “; }
No it is talking about the default background color setting being obscured by an image. But what doesn’t make sense is I tried setting the style backgroundImage: ” “; as stated above and it does not do anything.
What I had to do to get rid of the flicker was actually look at the HTML source of Ted’s example and compare to the one generated by my local Flex Builder 2 project. The difference was the “bgcolor” attribute. This attribute is set by the compile through a parameter ${bgcolor} in the index.template.html template. I tried to find the proper way to set some value in the application or the Flex Builder 2 project properties but couldn’t find anything. So to fix the flicker I ended up modifying the index.template.html, changing all ${bgcolor} with #ffffff.
To view it for your self take a look at:
Ted’s example link
Download source in new Flex Builder project link
You’ll see the bgcolor=”#ffffff” in Ted’s html and bgcolor=”#869ca7″.
July 22nd, 2006
Adobe recently ran some ads Federated Media sites that did not go over well on winning brownie points with Flex coders. You can pick up the post by Ryan here.
The cool thing was Jeff Whatcott of Adobe picked up on the blog and decided to ask the Flex community for ideas. Good job on Adobe’s part for that one.
I decided to give it a try, I am a Flex Developer not a marketing guru so don’t laugh, please (hehe).
Continue Reading July 20th, 2006
Ryan’s article about Java making a comeback was interesting. But it made me think of a key figure in the Java RIA space that has been competing way before Adobe Flex. Its called Nexaweb. A big part of the RIA space is timing. It just now that the internet as a whole are embracing RIA applications like never before.
Interesting to think that Java has been in this space longer than anyone else. Will they redefine themselves or continue be rooted in their original “Sunny” looking future. Nexaweb themselves made the change to provide AJAX features in connection to there applet UI offering. Where Nexaweb’s other offerings provide tools not just for RIA on the front in but a whole backend solution.
Now I am a big Adobe Flex/Flash fan and think it will take over the world. But history also is not that simple, there will be a number of key players in each space which always comes down to implementation and execution. There will be some pretty crappy Flex applications made that will only hamper the movement. You can’t forget that a lot of Flex backends are and will be built on Java also.
July 17th, 2006
Have you ever tried using ORDER BY in a query of queries in ColdFusion, well come to find out its case sensitive, and I need it to be case insensitive. Read on for me solution to the problem.
Continue Reading July 15th, 2006
The Flex object composition car example I recently created got some updates. I changed CompositionBase into a interface instead inheriting the class (thx Marcus for the heads up on that one). I also went through all the code and
Continue Reading July 13th, 2006
I read a post called “Getting a bunch of components that work together to know about each other” on “The Joy of Flex” blog by David Coletta and figured I would share how it settled in my brain. First off cohesion and coupling of classes through inheritance or composition are very fluid things. Many modeling of the real world can be described differently through objects depending on your prespective and usage. Composition, David calls it “containment”, is a very basic part of Object Oriented development. I will use a Car for my example and try to example David’s thoughts as I understood them. Now my take on this might be off but thats the joy of software engineering.
Continue Reading July 12th, 2006
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