Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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Stage dimension limitation – 214×137
I was trying to work out why the Flash Player Settings window was not appearing when i attached a webcam to a Video object, when i discovered that my stage was too…
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stage.mouseLeave and wmode=transparent
noted a strange incompatibility today – the stage.mouseLeave event doesn’t get triggered when you hold a mouse button down, and drag off stage on a flash object which has wmode set to…
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dynamic text fields part II
just got back from a six week holiday, so was wondering if i’d lost my mind while i was away… steps to recreate weird problem: 1. set up two dynamic text boxes…
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Frusting Flex problems solved #4 – preventing a DataGrid column from resizing
What a laborious problem this was! I had set up a DataGrid that resized with the browser, and the user could also resize the column widths. However one column contained a button,…
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dynamic text field part I – letter spacing
Just discovered that flash resets the author-time letter spacing of a dynamic textfield when the textfield’s text is set in ActionScript. To maintain the authortime letter spacing settings of the textfield, you…
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Frustrating Flex problems solved #3 – DataGrid scrolling error
I’m currently working on a project that requires me to be using Flex 2 rather than Flex 3(I’m using an older version of Zinc, and avoiding upgrading if possible as we’ll probably…
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ObjectCollection
i’d set up a repeater to display data returned from a ColdFusion call – which would either be a Y or N. I wanted to adjust how this appears to YES or…
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An Internal Build Error has occurred…
public var interactionType:String=INTERACT_DRAG=INTERACT_FORM; This line of code just wasted 4 hours of my life. Flex didn’t notice that there was a problem, and it was only in building that a problem arose…
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deployment issues
just finishing up an alpha version of a Flex project and discovering a couple of deployment issues that are worth getting down for future – i was getting a persistent ‘Where is…
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Styling Text In Instances Of Components Using TextFormat
this is an extension of a previous entry here. Text in components or TextFields can be formatted in several ways – applying styles manually in the case of TextFields, applying a style…