Via my man, Todd Withrow.
He could eat the 6 week old, half-eaten biscuit in my trunk. I’d love an o-rang, though. Orange twould match my car’s color nicely.
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Interland CEO Flava
Never dealth wif ’em myself, but they obviously ticked someone off. Anyway, guy’s decently smooth whoever did the voiceover.
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Bind to Nothing for Schema
WSDL for webservice here at work apparently does not define a return set (a bunch of holder settings on the Java side) as a complex type. Thus, the WebServiceConnector in Flash doesn’t know wtf to do with it dynamically, and returns only the first value in the set. The emailStatus service for example returns the user’s email address and how many emails they have. The result I get is an integer… simply a number with nothing else. Now, if you treat Flash like VB, and lay out all of your stuff and do a binding, it sets up a schema, type casts the return value as Object, and works like a charm.
I couldn’t for the life of me find a way to set a schema via code, whether via a WebServiceConnector, WebServiceClass, PendingCall, etc. A co-worker found out the above and politely asked that the WSDL’s be “modified” so my Flash can work. Feels like Flash hand-holding to me… makes me feel pretty ashamed, frankly. Whatever.
Until then, so I can hit my deadline, I dropped a WebServiceConnector on stage, and merely add my listener’s and call the trigger method. However, it still doesn’t keep the schema, so I had to bind it to something; in this case, I just bound to a constant value, which is a variable that will never exist; this is a hack I guess just to ensure the schema is kept for the return value since I myself can’t typecast it. I’m sure I can, I just don’t know how.
…so, for the internet archives, if you find yourself needing to typecast a return value from a web service to a specific datatype, use a WebServiceConnector in authortime mode (sacrilege, I know…), and bind to nothing.
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AfterEffects to Longhorn: Repeat of History?
Talking with my co-worker Frankie about future plans I had heard about for AfterEffects and Longhorn. No, can’t remember where I heard it, but basically, plans for outputting either it or Premiere to Longhorn. Now, without getting into the nitty gritty details, basically envision your animation/composition (parts of it) are rendered in realtime via Longhorn. Since the animations are built into the OS for hardware + software accerleration, you have a new platform for distribution.
That, however, is not the point of this post. I think a few of us can remember an animation program that slowly obtained scripting and over time morphed into a totally different product. Flash. If I were Adobe’s CEO, the interjection and further development of the javascript ‘esque abilities in AfterEffects would be awesome if some of your “comps” (think Flash Graphic symbols) were scriptable with C#/VB when you exported to Longhorn. That’d be fuggin’ tight.