Just putting in a last minute pitch for a good thing:
There’s a FREE Web conference going on this weekend in Raleigh, NC that covers Flex, ColdFusion, AIR, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, and other web goodness. The schedule looks good, there’s a networking party Saturday evening, and the hotel rate is decent. So go.
And bring your business cards… the next time I’m asked if I know any web gurus looking for work I need some names and numbers.
My Mac Pro is starting to get kind of dated and I've been lusting after some of the newer/faster systems out there. I'm ambO/Sdextrous and spend my day working back and forth between a pc and a mac and had started to get tired of the minor issues I have working between the two systems so I had considered a tricked out pc with Windows 7. I wasn't too happy with Apple when they decided to change their licensing agreement and shaft Flash developers... that wasn't very cool of them.. Then I saw that
Keith Peters went back to the dark side... and now.. well.. let's just say
Steve's little rant sealed the deal for me.
So I'm enjoying some of the comments on his "pot calling the kettle black" tirade
like this one, and
this from icrontic. ha. And it's good to see some of the
comments like the ones on this article... lolz.. some people do understand that while HTML5 is a great improvement,
it's a very different tool from Flash.
I figure it might be Christmas before I slow down enough to go through the hassle of switching files and everything over to a new system, but when I do get that time I'll probably be getting a nice high end gaming system. One that can play Crysis.
Just posting this because maybe it will help someone...
I decided to try using a
TextLayout component in a SWF loaded into a rather large Flex app that has been in development for some time.. well.. it blowed up.
Main Thread (Suspended: VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.text.engine::ContentElement could not be found.)
Here's the weird part...
- The SWF worked fine when viewed directly in the browser (as expected).
- If the SWF was loaded into the Flex app which was launched by "run" or "debug" from FlexBuilder... it broke (as expected, see error above).
- If the SWF was loaded into the Flex app which was viewed directly in the browser ... it broke (as expected, see error above).
- If the SWF was loaded into the Flex app which was launched by "Profile" from FlexBuilder.... it worked (aaahhhh?)
That last one threw me for a loop because the problem was the Flex project was set to compile for Flash Player 9 and the SWF being loaded in with the TextLayout is dependent on some Flash Player 10 tricks. So why then did it work when I did a "Profile" from FB? .. somewhere there must be a setting or some documentation for this (the profile feature probably relies on something FP10 specific) but I'm not looking for it since I'm beyond the issue now.
Anyway, the solution of course was just to set the Flex project to compile for Flash Player 10...
Here’s what it looks like when I click on symbols in the library in CS4..
Those could be symbols of cars, monkeys, baseballs.. it doesn’t matter. I get horizontal lines.
It’s been this way for a while and I’ve just been avoiding the inevitable reinstall and kind of enjoying the little bit of chaos that this brings into my workspace. It’s time for it to end though. I need to see what I’m about to drag out onto the stage instead of it being a surprise. heh. My library is a box of chocolates.. I never know what I’m going to get until I drag it to the stage.
