http://blog.creacog.co.uk Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:00:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When researching ActionScript libraries to include in a project, it is tempting to simply look to see that it has an open-source license and just use it. However closer reading may often reveal that the license burdens the developer with responsibilities which may make use of the code irreconcilable with ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/07/02/understanding-source-code-licensing/ When using the Adobe AIR Update Framework for the first time, you will be stepping through the associated documentation. You will probably initially decide to use a configuration XML file to govern the update process. The documentation presents the following line to inform the framework of the location of your ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/06/21/air-update-framework-beta-locating-config-file/ If you are used to double-hitting the tab key after setting the marquee width, in order to then edit the height, then you are fine. You still need to do the same in CS4 beta. My earlier rant on this : a little fireworks CS3 bug. http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/06/20/a-little-fireworks-cs3-bug-remains-in-cs4-beta/ Over the past few months I've been getting my head around the likes of Cairngorm, PureMVC and better use of design patterns in general. So looking forward to tonight's LFPUG to see what the Slide Framework For Flex adds to the mix. The other stuff on large datasets looks pretty ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/06/19/more-mvc-with-lfpug/ A little while ago I got around to building my version of an alert tool sampler, using it as an exercise to learn Cairngorm. (The documentation for which I have found particularly poor with the exception of a few gems such as David Tucker's excellent Cairngorm 'Getting started' tutorials.) Typically AIR ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/06/18/flex-and-air-updates/ I'm not usually one for echoing release announcements. Herewith one minor exception. With the arrival of a number CS4 betas on labs I was please to see "Subversion integration" being a new feature of DreamWeaver CS4. After a history of making simple Zip snapshot backups, and more recently using subversion ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/06/12/cs4-betas/ If you are using DataGrid in a Flex/AIR application, the chances are you will at some stage hit the following RunTime error... TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties. .. with a traceback indicating the error occurred within DataGrid.as. At which point you will stare at your own ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/04/16/flex-air-datagrid-itemeditor-bug/ I've just been trying to delete a node and all its descendants from an XML object selected on the value of an attribute. Having read the "ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification" (PDF) as linked to from the Flex documentation I expected to be able to write the ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/03/31/e4x-delete-not-so-obvious-but-easy/ When you come to build your first Flex/AIR application that needs a native menu (Application menu on a Mac, or Window menu on a Windows PC), you'll probably find your way to the "Windows, menus, and taskbars" section within the documentation. From there you'll navigate to "Working with native menus" ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/03/20/finding-documentation-on-implementing-native-menus-in-flexair-applications/ The authors of SWFObject and UFO have been working hard on a new version released yesterday as SWFObject 2.0. The project is now on googlecode. Geoff's announcement is here. As stated in my earlier posts I consider use of SWFObject to be best practice for embedding SWFs in web pages. http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/03/15/new-swfobject-20/