Amongst other cool happenings at the Budding Talent Night #2 for the LA Flash User Group this evening, is Steven Sacks ‘ presentation on Gaia , the framework for building Flash sites uber-quickly. I managed to get a run through of his preso last night and was really impressed. I’ve talked, offered advice, and even contributed a tiny portion of sample code to Steven for Gaia, but still learned a ton from his talk.
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Category: ActionScript
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LA Flash User Group: Gaia Presentation Tonight
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Back in the Consulting Game
I put in my 2 weeks notice 3 weeks ago at Multicast Media Technologies, a Live and On Demand Online Video company here in Atlanta. I was originally hired as a Flex Consultant back in March of 2007. I had taken a 3 month sabbatical to find a product company that jived with my goals, but mostly to play XBox for 2 1/2 months. After that, my wife and I jetted to Sydney, Australia so we could both speak at WebDU 2007 (she got the bigger room). I was pretty re-charged to do some Flex work that March. I even got the opportunity to don the khakis and do some on-site client consulting in California. About 5 months into it, they offered me a W2 position, and I accepted. I still kept the flip-flops.
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Found a Use Case for flash.utils.Proxy
Really edge case here, but hey, it’s something.
Background
In creating a Vidego API (video content management API) example in Flash CS3, I ran into problems making an AS3 version from the AS2 version. Flash CS3 doesn’t haven an Accordion component, so I went about using a List instead. My problem with the List in CS3 compared to Flex is that it “expects” the data to have certain properties on it. If your data doesn’t have those properties, it throws an exception. Um… ok… :: face palm :: Yes, I know labelField/labelFunction, but those should be opt-in, especially when you’ve already set a cellRenderer.
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How to Fix the Flash CS3 Components
*** Update: This is NOT fixed in Flash CS4, nor in the 10.0.2 update. I guess Adobe is in denial that stage.invalidate() is broken, or they just don’t have the dough to throw at QA to get 3 lines of code + an updated set of SWC’s. *sigh* ***
…and end the drawNow madness.
I knew something was SERIOUSLY wrong when I read in the official docs (Part 3) from Adobe that if your code doesn’t work correctly, try using “drawNow”, and failing that, “validateNow”. What do you mean “try”? What… the… hell…