Monthly Archives: May 2007

Cairngorm Command Flaws and What You Can Do About Them

Posted on May 22, 2007 by admin

From Day 1 I hated how Cairngorm Commands / Delegates didn’t give a status to what they were doing. Since Flex‘ primary purpose is a Rich GUI, and there isn’t a built in way to get status on Commands. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex | 11 Comments

Loading Flex Applications Into Flex Applications Gotcha: App Resizing

Posted on May 9, 2007 by admin

I should be asleep, but this is such an awesome bug. Have the need to load one Flex app into another Flex app at work. Modules force us to refactor our 2 separate code bases, which we don’t have time … Continue reading →

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Flex Chronicles #25: E4X Gotchas

Posted on May 4, 2007 by admin

Couple of E4X gotchas that have bitten me in past few weeks. Namespaces The first is namespaces. There is a good article on them in the Flex docs, but it may not be apparent why at first your parsing code … Continue reading →

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Controlling Flash Player 8 SWFs in Flash Player 9 SWFs

Posted on May 3, 2007 by admin

One of the things I’ve been promoting the last year is encouraging people not to mess with loading legacy Flash Player 8 content into Flash Player 9, usually with regards to Flex 2 content loading Flash 8 content. ExternalInterface gives … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Flex | 11 Comments

Building Tracer Bullets with Flex Builder

Posted on May 1, 2007 by admin

Skip to “Flex Tracer Bullets” to bypass all the philosophy and justification. Preface The Pragmatic Programmer, a must have programming book, talks about using Tracer Bullets to help clarify and further define requirements. In military terms, a tracer bullet is … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Business Process, Flash, Flex | 5 Comments