This is a topic I felt I should cover, as after many hours spent Googling, I still haven’t found a viable solution, and neither does it seem, have scores of other Flex Developers. If you need to package an arbitary set of asset files in a swc, the process is not only laborious, but actually [...]
GlobalRemoteObjectFaultHandler Global Error Handler For Parsley 3
Further to my previous post, I still couldn’t get the GlobalRemoteObjectFaultHandler Metadata tag to capture application exceptions being thrown globally. And the reason became perfectly clear upon studying the Cairngorm Parsley Integration code. Seems the Cairngorm code base is still stuck pre-Parsley 3, almost a year and a half after it’s release. Solution – Write [...]
GlobalRemoteObjectFaultHandler woes
Honestly, the trouble I’ve had trying to get Parsley’s GlobalRemoteObjectFaultHandler working, you wouldn’t believe. The documentation on the Spicefactory site is blessedly comprehensive (well at least to a certain level), but it can be frustrating trying to find specific use-case examples when the documentation falls short. (Sorry Jens, criticism is not my intention!). Fortunately, this [...]
Happy 78th Birthday Robert Moog!
I have to say, I’ve always been a fan of Google’s Doodles, but was amazed to see todays Google Doodle – a tribute to the the Synth Father himself, Dr Robert Moog. The actual Google Doogle is a fully playable Mini Moog ( well sort of fully playable! ). Much like the musical machines Bob [...]
Spark invalidateSkinState vs getCurrentSkinState Gotcha
Sometimes coding can be a painful experience. When you’re seemingly following all the rules as defined by the API you’re using, yet things just don’t want to work as you know they should. override protected function commitProperties():void { super.commitProperties(); // do something invalidateSkinState(); } I one such recent predicament, the ‘getCurrentSkinState’ was simply [...]
Remove Spark ButtonBar Selection Toggle Behaviour
One thing that consistently annoys me is the behaviour of the Spark ButtonBar. Without any customisation, clicking one of the buttons on a Spark ButtonBar, puts said Button into it’s selected state. Conversely, the Halo ButtonBar has the opposite – and should I say more desirable – effect, of not gluing the buttons state to [...]
Apache Flex (Incubating) Logo Contest Complete
Is strange seeing Adobe Flex now incubated into the Apache project, but that’s evolution I guess. One thing that I have to congratulate though, is the new Flex logo chosen by the team at Apache, as designed by Adrian Knopik from Fuse Collective. I think the design is superb and really gives a sense of [...]
Adobe Air ADT Error :: Could not generate timestamp: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
This one had me scratching my head for quite flippin’ ages! As with a lot of continuous integration and other automated build systems, ANT is used pretty heavily to script our different consolidation, compilation and deployment tasks. The particular module that threw the above error was an Adobe AIR 3.1 Desktop application that had previously [...]
Flex Spark Skin Transition to Animate Boolean Properties
There may be a better/more ‘Spark’ way of doing this but at the moment I can’t find how. When entering a certain state in my SparkSkin, I needed to flash a couple of LEDs. The LED’d are basically ToggleButtons, so we basically just need to ‘toggle’ the ‘selected’ property at regular intervals. The final solution [...]
Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 – Remove Welcome Screen
I’ve just installed Adobe’s latest incarnation of Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Builder 4.6, to be presented with the familiar ‘Welcome’ screen we’ve been seeing on the Eclipse platform for years now. Only trouble is, usually there’s a checkbox, letting you specify that you don’t want to see it again when starting Eclipse up. Not any [...]
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