Here I am in Flash CS3, coding AS3 on the timeline with a few Document classes here and there for sanity on an insane deadline. While waiting for my source control to download (someone apparently checked in the WHOLE internet), I figured I’d blog about an interesting observation I came across this week.
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Month: June 2008
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Designer vs. Developer: Declaring Stage Instances
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Gaia 2.2 Released
I’m using Gaia , the framework for Adobe Flash , for one of my projects. As a n00b, I’ve screwed up my site.xml a few times since I didn’t read the manual. Gaia 2.2 helps a tad in that regard by now validating your site.xml before it goes about scaffolding the whole thing wrong. Having to delete all of the scaffolded classes and FLA’s for a new project 5 times because I’m a moron was frustrating. Another thing that’s nice is Steven finally put event metadata tags on classes, including on some interfaces. Since I code mostly in Flex Builder , I can actually get code hints now when doing addEventListener.
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