http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm Adobe RIA Development en-us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:27:00 -0700 Sat, 01 May 2010 09:39:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss clint317@cfcdeveloper.com clint317@cfcdeveloper.com http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/5/1/Fireworks-FXG-to-Flash-Builder Fooling around with the FXG capabilities to embed optimized graphics that can be scaled I found a few issues, not sure if they're bugs but here's my findings. I'm using Fireworks CS4 and Flash Builder 4. I basically created a rectangle with a bord... 3D & Graphics Flex/Flash/AS3 Sat, 01 May 2010 09:39:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/5/1/Fireworks-FXG-to-Flash-Builder http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/2/8/GraniteDS-for-Flex-3-and-Glassfish Is it just me or is GraniteDS just too complicated? I'm an expert using FMS Flash Media Server and I understand BlazeDS but Granite Data Services is beyond plug-n-play. First, what is the stack and why is it hard to figure out? Tide, EJB, Gravity, Po... Eclipse & CFEclipse Flex/Flash/AS3 Frameworks Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:46:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/2/8/GraniteDS-for-Flex-3-and-Glassfish http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/2/2/Adobe-Misses-Flex-Boat It's my opinion that Adobe is making a mistake renaming Flex Builder to Flash Builder. Simply put, when it comes to business applications, businesses still don't want to buy a Flash solution. Adobe should catch this wave created by the Flex craze and... Bits and Bytes Eclipse & CFEclipse Flex/Flash/AS3 Frameworks Personal Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:51:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2010/2/2/Adobe-Misses-Flex-Boat http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/12/5/OVP-Open-Video-Player-for-Flex I'm working on creating a simple video chat component for my application and came across this open source solution from the good folks at OpenVideoPlayer.com. You can download the latest open source flash video player version from SourceForge. Open i... Resources Flex/Flash/AS3 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:11:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/12/5/OVP-Open-Video-Player-for-Flex http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/12/4/Starter-barebones-AS-camera-class Just starting on this class and thought I'd post a good starting point for learning. package classes{ import flash.media.*; import flash.net.*; import mx.core.UIComponent; public class Chatcam extends UIComponent{ private var net... Flex/Flash/AS3 OOP/Patterns Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:15:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/12/4/Starter-barebones-AS-camera-class http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Using-do-as-the-event-name-in-Coldbox-dont It took me a day to figure this out, live and learn right. I used 'do' as the event name in one of my Coldbox applications as opposed to 'event' given as the default. If you're considering what to name your events in Coldbox, don't. Just use the defa... Coldbox 2.6 ColdFusion Flex/Flash/AS3 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:10:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Using-do-as-the-event-name-in-Coldbox-dont http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/16/Flex-3-Who-changed-the-shared-object So you have a shared object connected and your setting properties to fire off the SyncEvent handler but you want the client to know if it did it or did another client do it. Not confused are you? Just take a look at this code to use on a SyncEvent to... Flex/Flash/AS3 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:40:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/16/Flex-3-Who-changed-the-shared-object http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/9/Flex-3-TextArea-Scrolling-for-Chat In a chat application you want the message entered to be placed into the textarea component possibly all the way down or up and scrolled to the last entry line. However just placing a new line a text always adds to the textarea but does not scroll au... Flex/Flash/AS3 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:59:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/9/Flex-3-TextArea-Scrolling-for-Chat http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/Is-Flex-now-Flash-New-Flash-Builder-name-stinks It sickens my stomach to think what a big mistake this name change is, changing Flex Builder to Flash Builder. I've never seen so many new jobs open up for a single product than I have with Flex. Flex jobs are everywhere and paying good. Flex, Fl... Flex/Flash/AS3 Personal Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/Is-Flex-now-Flash-New-Flash-Builder-name-stinks http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/3/Fireworks-PNG-imported-to-Flash-shrinks-or-resized I was stuck on this one issue for a while looking for a solution or answer on Google. I never found an answer but I finally figured it out myself. If you have any more information to clear this up please share. I'm working on a Flex application th... Flex/Flash/AS3 3D & Graphics Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:49:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/3/Fireworks-PNG-imported-to-Flash-shrinks-or-resized http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/2/Flex-3-PopUpWindow-custom-event My flex application has settings that can be changed by the user. The settings window is accessible from a menu link control that pops up the settings window. Some of the settings are for changing attributes of other custom components within the app.... Flex/Flash/AS3 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:37:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/10/2/Flex-3-PopUpWindow-custom-event http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/25/New-York-and-Atlantic-City-Vacation The wife and I took a 6 day retreat together, first stopping off in Virginia to hook up with friends then on to Atlantic City for some gambling and NYC for sight seeing. The drive from here just outside Atlanta to their house in VA was about 8 hours,... Personal Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/25/New-York-and-Atlantic-City-Vacation http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/MySQL-Find-and-Replace I didn't know until now about the replace function in MySQL. Evidently you can do case-sensitive search and replace pretty easily. update table set field = replace(field,'before','after'); I'm not sure about using regex but you can do multiple ... ColdFusion SQL Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:40:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/MySQL-Find-and-Replace http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/ColdFusion-with-Javascript-with-ColdFusion I had a situation where I wanted to pass a query param to a ColdFusion page that would use it to find a record in a cfquery then pass that record to a Javascript function used to display that record in that ColdFusion page. Thats a lot to say all at ... ColdFusion JavaScript/Ajax Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:30:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/ColdFusion-with-Javascript-with-ColdFusion http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/Trigger-Javascript-after-loading-ColdFusion-page Once apon a time, and still only if I must, I used the 's onLoad attribute to call a Javascript function after a page loaded. I no longer follow that pattern opting instead to use a window DOM method, window.onload, also called a global event handler... ColdFusion JavaScript/Ajax Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:04:00 -0700 http://www.cfcdeveloper.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/Trigger-Javascript-after-loading-ColdFusion-page