Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

Category: Flash

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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May 12, 2008
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…

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March 28, 2008
Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts
If you are in a hurry, here are some links with excerpts about the section.

Contents
- Introduction – What and Why MIX?
- Conference Grounds – Where was MIX and how did it go down
- DoubleClick – Syndication ready Silverlight
- Have we seen this before? – “Dude, Flash did that years ago.”
- Silverlight Adaptive Streaming – Curious about how the buffering works.
- Silverlight on Mobile – Same problems as Flash Lite has.
- Silverlight for Flash Developers – I do Flash; can I do Silverlight?
- AOL’s Silverlight Email App – Enterprise Silverlight
- Bloggers Mingling – A-list bloggers, and who I met
- Conclusions – What I took away from MIX.
- History Repeating – Some of the .NET crew is doing what the Java crew already did.
- Force Fed Silverlight – Silverlight is an alternative, not a choice.
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March 17, 2008
Why Flash Player?

Adobe is doing a marketing campaign to help answer “why?” over at 30onair.com. Specifically, why would you utilize a certain technology, or set of technologies, that Adobe offers. The site aggregates videos on YouTube from people around the world answering these questions in about 30 seconds. You record a 30 second video of yourself answering any of the why questions, upload to YouTube, and tag with “30onair”. Your video will then be shown with the rest on 30onair.com.

Here’s my first one on “Why Flash Player?” – High Quality (HD) | Low Quality (YouTube)

March 11, 2008