Take a look at a typical Flex Debugging perspective Variables view.There is a lot of images with other symbols on top of them. From red squares, green circles to yellow diamonds with (), C, S etc… icons on top. What do they all mean? Well I am not totally sure myself, but some are obvious. – Red Square This defines a private variable. – Green Circle This defines a public variable. – Yellow Diamond This defines a...

I have been fighting to get ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 on a RedHat ES4 box. I did a typical install straight from the download (coldfusion-702-lin.bin) to the integration with Apache. Everything seemed fine until I started trying to connect with my Flex 2 applications. I received this error messages, which don’t show up any where on the web, except for a reference to a FDS/ColdFusion installation issue. [Flex] Exception when invoking...

Just got a new dedicated box with Redhat ES4 on it. I needed to get Flash Media Server up and running on it and had a little bit of an expereince. Here is my steps with dependencies and quirks when trying to install and then run the server. 1. Downloaded FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz 2. tar -zxvf FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz 3. ./FMS_2_0_3_r68_linux/installFMS 4. This is where I got my first quirk, an error message about not having libstdc++. 5. ...

I came across the Namespace class while looking up some information about ActionScript 3.0′s E4X and XML. I didn’t know, will lets say, I didn’t make the connection between the Namespace class and using it with methods and properties of components. This example is very basic and is not meant to be a good use of namespaces. It shows how to use it for methods and properties. In the example there is one method name and one...

Learn how to use Flex 2 and FMS 2 by creating a basic video conference application Video over the Internet and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are the latest craze. With Flex 2 and Flash Media Server 2 (FMS), developers can easily create interactive media Web applications. In this article you’ll create a basic video conference application that will give you the foundation to take you to the next step. Read more...