Sneak Preview: Custom Tree Component for Flex

On March 27, 2008, Flash / Flex - 2 Comments

That’s right, I was so fed up with the tree component of flex, that I decided to build my own. And to make sure that it will not end up as crappy as the default one, my goal was to make sure no listclass or whatsoever would be used.

ikTree

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DragManager prevents mouse events of children *Updated*

On , Flash / Flex - 4 Comments

I just ran into another strange behavior of flex. Lets say you have a VBox, with an image inside. When the user clicks the image, it should do some stuff, but when the user clicks (mousedown actually) the VBox it should start dragging. You would expect that when you click the image, both events are fired. This is true when you don’t invoke the dragmanager. If you call the dragmanager, it cancels out all further mouseEvents, thus preventing the code of the image clickhandler to execute. more…

AMFPHP vs. WeborbPHP

On March 14, 2008, Flash / Flex,php - 8 Comments

The other day, we were discussing remoting frameworks and the options you have on a php server. At my work, we use AMFPHP, and never really looked for other solutions. For .NET applications we use WebOrb, so I was wondering how the php version of WebOrb would perform. The results are quite shocking.
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New theme!

On March 4, 2008, General - No Comments

Yeah, I finally found the time to update my theme! The previous theme lasted for a year and a bit, but never really satisfied me. This theme and template is 100% self made, coz the only way to get a site exactly the way you want is build it yourself. It’s possible that some options won’t work as expected, I’m hoping to track down all the bugs and issues in the next few weeks / months, if there are any. I also need to test it in some more browsers, I’ve only tested in Firefox 2.0.0.12 and IE6.

Please let me know if you encounter strange behavior or php errors.

Flex 3 my ass, it's like going back to Flex 0.2

On March 3, 2008, Flash / Flex - 9 Comments

Damn I hate the new flex builder. Flex Builder 2.0 wasn’t good, but the new Flex Builder is just plain rubbish! I wish adobe didn’t bought macromedia, I’m sure MM wouldn’t release such a crappy product and have the guts to call it a complete new version. FB3 doesn’t even deserve the name beta, let alone final!

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