Today i’ve launched my new website, labs.flexperiments.nl. All new posts will be posted there, and my components will find a perminent place there.
So update your links and rss feeds!
This week, I had to do some flash work for TFE. As soon as a fired up flash and started programming I realized how lazy you get when programming in eclipse. I mean, auto import, code completion, all kinds of shortcuts… Compared to the flash IDE it’s heaven 
. Now, I know that there are many IDE’s for flash Actionscript like SePY and FlashDevelop, but none of them really satisfies me like Eclipse does. The only problem with using Eclipse as Actionscript editor is the fact that you cannot build fla files in Flex Builder… or can you? more…
As of 30/04/2008, the Midnightcoders have released a new version of WebOrb for PHP (version 3.0.0). (Thanks David C. Moody for letting me know). And boy, they’ve certainly improved the performance!
In my previous post WebOrb was a factor 4 slower than it’s opponent, AMFPHP. With this new version, the difference is much smaller. I ran the ‘invoke large dataset’ test and the difference was only 40ms (It used to take 6 seconds, it now takes 270ms). So AMFPHP still holds the speed record, but WebOrb is closing in! more…
I’ve made some changes to the tree, which add some more functionality and make it even more (re-)usable.
IKTree now has:
My AS3 Regular Expression Tester (ASRET) has just been updated. With ASRET you can test if your expression behaves like you want to. It has some cool features like syntax highlighting, the ability to save your expressions, and calling the replace, math, search and exec functions of the AS3 regexp engine.
The new version brings live matching and result highlighting
With Live Matching turned on, ASRET evaluates the expression every time the expression, the string to match or one of the flags is changed. You can find ASRET here.
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Today I’m releasing the first version of my tree component. This component is a substitute for the build-in tree of flex. Why? Because the build in tree is build on the list classes, which aren’t the most stable classes of flex. My tree is build entirely with UIComponents and VBoxes, no list class used here. more…
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.
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…
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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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!
