http://joelhooks.com "Test until fear turns to boredom" Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:52:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe this isn't true for every installation of Vista, but we were having a helluva time tonight getting BlazeDS streaming AMF channels to communicate from an AIR client running on Vista. We were just trying to use the default example chat application to do some testing with AIR. It works ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/06/30/blazeds-vista-and-streaming-amf-channels-for-the-children/ I was looking for a list of properties for modal window styles and stumbled across this:  Flex 3.0 CSS Properties List http://joelhooks.com/2008/06/15/complete-flex-3-css-style-properties-list/ The SuperPanel is an excellent component created by Wietse Veenstra. The styling is all hard-coded,  and I need to be able to change this. It also hard-codes the event that is triggered on close, and I wanted to be able to control this. So I added the appropriate meta-tags and ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/05/26/superpanelplus-resizable-flex-panel-component-with-accessible-styling/ I've updated this component to allow for keyboard and forward/back navigation. I'm still improving it, refactoring, but it is almost finished. Here is the original post. http://joelhooks.com/2008/05/24/updated-continuous-scrolling-image-thumbnail-and-slideshow-component-for-flex/  My code smells bad. There is no doubt about it. As soon as I read that metaphor my head was nodding with understanding. This book is a classic, and I recommend it to anybody that wants to improve their coding habits and create more flexible applications that don't make you ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/05/24/refactoring-improving-the-design-of-existing-code/ I've been working on improvements for this thumbnail/slideshow component. The way the continuous scroll flows is very nice. It provides a very fluid feel. I have it reading XML from SlideShowPro director. SSPD simply gives a structure of albums and images, so the component should work ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/05/11/continuous-scrolling-image-thumbnail-and-slideshow-component-for-flex/ In computer programming, an enumerated type is an abstract data type used to model an attribute that has a specific number of options (or identifiers) such as the suit of a playing card (i.e. a Club, Diamond, Heart or Spade). Using this type allows the program to handle the attribute ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/04/28/enumerating-data-types-in-actionscript-3-as3/ This is here as sort of a TODO for myself this year. I want to try this experiment. I really like the concept of breaking down OO projects into this extra fine granularity. He suggests writing a 1000-line program with the constraints listed below. These constraints are intended to be excessively ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/04/24/perfecting-oos-small-classes-and-short-methods/ Here is the beginnings of a full featured open-source continuous scroll thumbnail component for Flex. It is rough right now, but I plan to polish it and make it something useful. This format is really appealing, as it gives the user a seamless view of a gallery, without any jumps ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/04/21/continuous-scrolling-image-thumbnail-component-for-flex/ Hey,I am so interested about that you had ever used the ‘TransformTool’ library in your Flex project. But there is little examples showing how to use it in flex, Would you please share some example about how to use ‘TransformTool’ in Flex? I have tried as such a way: but it ... http://joelhooks.com/2008/04/20/using-the-senocular-as3-transformtool-in-flex/