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...

A news release from Mozilla just released, “Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine“. Adobe has contributed their source code for ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. The project is called Tamarin. The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code...