Flexperminents online!

On 24-06-2008, Flash / Flex, General, PHP - 2 Comments

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!

Thank you Google for whitelisting me again

On 10-06-2008, General - 3 Comments

About a 1 1/2 month ago, I recieved an e-mail from google stating that my website was a source of Malware. In that same e-mail they give some directions to follow in order to remove the Malware notification. Notification? What nofitification? Well, not only does google send you an e-mail, it also displays a huge warning when you enter my site via google, stating that it may harm your PC. That warning prevents 95% of the visitors to visit my site (also because they make the link to the actual page non-clickable). more…

Compiling Flash Files from Flex

On 20-05-2008, Flash / Flex - 25 Comments

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 :D . 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…

WebOrb closes the gap!

On 7-05-2008, Flash / Flex, PHP - 1 Comment

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…

IKTree v1.1.0 released

On 11-04-2008, Flash / Flex - 3 Comments

I’ve made some changes to the tree, which add some more functionality and make it even more (re-)usable.

IKTree now has:

  • Caching / Recycling of children, which reduce the ‘flickering’
  • Label & IconFunctions
  • Object access for labelfields. You can now access objects in the tree for the labelfield. For instance, you can set ‘obj.label’ as labelField. It will then set the label as data[obj][label].
  • Doubleclick support
  • Added some styles (indicatorThickness & indicatorColor)

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