Rich Rodecker’s blog on flash, flex, actionscript, javascript, and php, with a dash of randomness
Archive for February, 2009
Safari 4 Beta Crash
Feb 25th
Safari 4 Beta kept crashing on launch for me, turns out the Glims plugin was the culprit. Removing that solved the issue. Safari 4 looks pretty sweet…though the tabs on top thing is throwing me off a little.
Simple regex to comment out all uncommented trace() calls
Feb 24th
Sometimes I want to comment all lines with trace() from my project. Doing a simple search for “trace” and replacing it with “//trace” might leave some previously commented out lines looking like ////trace() (or worse). I don’t like that because then I can’t uncomment the line with a key command. About 10 seconds with RegExr showed me that you can
comment out uncommented trace() calls using the regular expression \strace and replacing it with “//trace”.
Conventions for Bound Properties
Feb 11th
At the Adobe Open Source site they have a pretty good article about using the [Bindable] metadata tag in Flex, why you might not want to do that, why you might want to use custom event names for the property change events, and what types of issues can occur. It also offers some insight on how to handle various scenarios when using the tag. Some good insight in there, so if you work with Flex you might want to give it a read.
TweenLite/TweenMax get major update
Feb 3rd
TweenLite (and big brother TweenMax), the best tweening engine on the planet, received a major update today. This update introduces a plugin architecture…making it easy to include the functionality you want, and leave out the functionality you don’t. He has also created a plugin explorer to give you a clear view of what your file size would be if you wanted to include or exclude certain plugins. Go check it out!