This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.
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 example, the flash.net.FileReference object will give you a progress event. This gives [...]
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 nor budget to do right now and a component suffers from the same [...]
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 is failing. In effect, it may not be failing, but simply looking for the wrong [...]
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 you less browser support, the calls are blocking which locks up your visual display depending on [...]
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 a special round of ammunition that burns brightly when fired from a weapon. It’s every [...]
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