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Month: March, 2008

Spaces in Flex Actionscript-only project-names

Odd enough Flex Builder seems to hate it when you want spaces in the name of an Actionscript-only project:

Here’s the rough guide to having spaces in your Flex Builder Actionscript-only project-names:

Kind of leaves me wondering, why all the fuss in the project-wizard if we can rename our projects in the navigator?

SVN misplaces my Flex project-files

A little over a week ago I made a post about Flex running old versions of my SWF. In a nutshell; Flex Builder 3 seemed to disregard any changes I made to the classes in my (Actionscript-only) project, and compile an SWF with older versions of the edited classes.
A few days later however, I concluded [...]

Flex 3, stop running the old version of my SWF!

UPDATE: Turns out it wasn’t so much Flex causing this ruckus, but rather Subversion:
rubenswieringa.com/blog/svn-misplaces-my-flex-project-files
I might’ve also have called this post “How many more times will I have to re-import my projects into Flex Builder 3!?”, this sucks..
Today I decided to work on a project of mine, so I pulled in the latest version from my [...]

Pathfinder (AI)

In an attempt to kickstart my graduation-project I decided to throw together another AI-experiment (I’ll post something about it later), after staring out of the window with a blank glare for some time I figured I’d need a pathfinder algorithm so I sat down and wrote/typed it down.
The algorithm is pretty simple in essence — [...]

Colin Moock on Actionscript 4 (FITC Amsterdam 2008)

Last week at FITC Amsterdam I attended Colin Moock’s session about the next version of ECMAScript. As ECMAScript is the language standard on which Actionscript is (somewhat loosely) based, this means that most proposed features for ECMAScript 4.0 will also be in Actionscript 4.0 (hence the name “Actionscript 4??”). Do note that most of the [...]