Monthly Archives: June 2005

Parent SWF Security Sandbox & Zinc

First off, wanted to report the sad news my blower’s dead; wrong mixture of gas & oil, piston’s busted or something. Anyway, deploying a project yesterday and doing the unthinkable, loadMovie. A parent SWF loads a child SWF after a … Continue reading

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Post AJUG: AJAX & ThinkCAP

The Atlanta Java Users’ Group meeting tonight was about AJAX. Takeaways: Back button becomes Cancel Submit button becomes Save Tons of open source frameworks to bridge to the backend Code does not need to exist on the client beyond connection … Continue reading

Posted in Web Design | 3 Comments

You, or Someone You Know Can Fix the Machines of the Future

I’m convinced I’ll have a job in technology till the day I die. At the rate things are going, maybe it won’t be coding, but I’ll bet my last dollar it’s in maintenance. I spent, oh, 20 minutes at lunch … Continue reading

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No Complete Event for Internal Content

Both Flash & Flex have a Loader component to load content into. It’s nice in Flash because it abstracts sizing & loading code. It’s even cooler in Flex because you can bind to contentPath. However, if the content you are … Continue reading

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Flex Chronicles #12: External Text Files for String Variables

Typically, if you want external content in Flash, you link to an external text file, and load it into a text field like so: lv = new LoadVars(); lv.owner = this; lv.onData = function(str) { this.owner.my_txt.text = str; }; lv.load(“yourTextFile.txt”); … Continue reading

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