http://blog.creacog.co.uk Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:49:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a number of days off-line following the provider having been hacked. We are now back online! Hurrah. Having moved away from LXAdmin (it worked well for a while) I can now concentrate on real work again rather than recovery. http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/06/13/back-online/ Quickly creating re-usable components based on others, augmented with additional ActionScript behaviour using MXML is as simple as can be. However, to create a component from scratch using ActionScript requires a lot of detailed knowledge of how the Flex framework works and the component life-cycle in particular. The Flex documentation attempts to ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/05/21/finding-information-on-flex-3-component-lifecycle/ Just a quick note to highlight that Adobe today released Fireworks CS4 10.0.3 updater. Amongst other things this update fixes the text alignment problem which has been affecting so many users. Some relevant links: Adobe Forum > Fireworks > Discussions > text-engine Adobe Fireworks Team blog Adobe Fireworks updaters http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/05/06/fireworks-cs4-1003-updater-fixes-text-bug/ My SimpleOscilloscope component described in an earlier post has now been updated to include a few filters controllable through setting styles. Of course like any other Flex component, it can have additional filtering applied in the normal way. I just felt like including these : alphaDecay, redMultiplier, greenMultiplier, blueMultiplier, blurX, ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/03/15/simpleoscilloscope-filter-update/ The documentation is correct, so i have no excuse, but I didn't initially read much beyond the signature of the constructor... public function BitmapData(width:int, height:int, transparent:Boolean = true, fillColor:uint = 0xFFFFFFFF) I needed a transparent bitmap. Reading the default "transparent:Boolean = true", I assumed by simply supplying width and height, a transparent ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/03/13/flashdisplaybitmapdata-gotcha-well-gotme-for-a-while/ 26 March 2009 Looking forward to this slight departue from the usual subjects at LFPUG into the world of iPhone/iPodTouch development.  I have my development kit but not got around to using it yet... An Introduction to iPhone Application Development iPhone Development for Web Developers 30 April 2009 Some interesting 3D flash stuff. I have ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/03/10/couple-of-user-group-events-lfpug/ In the majority of my projects to-date, I am the sole developer on the project team. I was feeling the need to get into writing Flex components to a level that they could be distributed. Essentially making sure I use meta tags correctly and adding appropriate asdoc comments allowing other ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/03/09/simpleoscilloscope-my-first-opensource-flex-component/ Finally got around to adding a case-study to my corporate site including a screen-cast of some of the features of my longest running project, a Flex/AIR application for communicating football moves and plays. Essentially a digital, animated version of a football tactic board. More details and the screen-cast are on ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/02/23/coach-tool-in-flex-air/ After various Mac system and security updates found that ssh+svn would result in errors... svnserve: Command not found. svn: Connection closed unexpectedly Updated my previous article on using svn+ssh with DreamWeaver with a solution. http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/02/16/updated-svnssh-with-dreamweaver-article/ Since installing this update I observe on my intel based mac that two PowerPC based apps now crash immediately on launch. Logging "Exited abnormally: Illegal instruction" to the console. The two applications affected so far on my system are CanoScan Toolkit X and more importantly Retrospect. Unfortunately the installers for ... http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2009/02/15/apple-security-update-2009-001-breaking-powerpc-apps/