In this example were going to look at a way to create a custom preloader SWC in Flash Professional and use it inside of a Flex 4 application by extending the SparkDownloadProgressBar class.
This preloader will display the progress percentage of loading and also a count of RSLs as they are being loaded, after loading is [...]
Read full blog post: Flex 4 Custom PreloaderFollow up to my last post. I am having to do this enough that I wrote a bat file for it. Here is what it looks like if anyone is interested. Just copy and paste the code below into a notepad and save as a .bat file. I put mine in [...]
Read full blog post: “Content Assist” did not complete normally – bat file workaroundHere is a work around for this annoying bug in Flash Builder 4 beta 2:
From: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-21566
Close Flash Builder 4 beta 2
Delete this folder in your workspace:
\.metadata\.plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel.
Relaunch Flash Builder 4 beta 2
I had a great time presenting at Flash Camp St Louis this last Friday. The City Museum was a great venue. All the other speakers did a great job. Thanks JP for putting together such a great event!
Here is the sample code I showed in the presentation. Rt-click and select View [...]
Two TMG employees presenting at Flash Camp St. Louis this Friday at the City Museum, Ben Bishop and Jason Hanson.
Should be a good time. If you are in St. Louis and have any interest in Flash, Flex, or Catalyst think about coming.
Tickets still available.
www.flashcampstlouis.com
If you are like me and cannot stand long compile times you may find that increasing the memory allocation for FlexBuilder will help. To do this edit this file. Likewise, if FlexBuilder uses too much memory for your system you can make edits to this file.
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\FlexBuilder.ini
Here are my [...]
An essential part of Agile Development is to embrace the use of unit testing throughout the development of your project. Unit tests give the programmer to ability to run automated tests on their code at anytime to ensure that any refactoring or added code has not broken what was previously written. This luxury [...]
Read full blog post: How to Use Asynchronous Test Methods with FlexUnit 4This week, I wanted to use Ant to compile a large project with a couple external libraries. Right after a few seconds of running my build.xml using Ant, I received this ugly message:
compile flex project:
[mxmlc] Loading configuration file C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.3.0\frameworks\flex-config.xml
[mxmlc] Error: Java heap space
[mxmlc] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
……
BUILD FAILED
Boooooo!
After consulting a couple of [...]
For the Morphic Group’s Facebook page we wanted to repurpose the featured projects part of our current website into a Facebook page tab. After looking at a series of tutorials and poking and prodding till it worked, here is how we did it.
What you will need:
- A webserver or hosting account that can run PHP
- [...]
