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TextMate AS3 Bundle

June 26th, 2007 Randy Comments off

Macromates is working on an official AS3 bundle for TextMate. You will need a Subversion client installed. Then you can grab the bundle using this example:


mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
cd /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
svn co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/
Review/Bundles/ActionScript%203.tmbundle/

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RUNNINGMAP and Milestones

June 7th, 2007 Randy Comments off

I released a minor update (ver 2.9.9) to RUNNINGMAP. The new feature is a dot that will appear on your route every mile or km. I have tweeked the rollover/rolloff states of the points and added proximity logic so that points really close together don’t all show distance values and thus avoid the visual mess of many textfields on top of one another.

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Caching the Flex Framework

June 7th, 2007 Randy Comments off

Ted Patrick has been blogging this week about Flex 3 (codenamed Moxie) which will come out as a public Beta soon. The new features are incredible and game changing. Today he talked about the ability of the Flash Player to cache the Flex Framework as runtime shared libraries and thereby drastically reducing the required file size of compiled Flex applications. Brilliant! This will require Flash Player 9 update (“frogstar”) on the client side.

Ted is on the right.

Me and Ted Patrick at 360 Flex in San Jose

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FP6 Conditional Weirdness

June 1st, 2007 Randy Comments off

Consider the following code:

if (undefined || true) trace(“true”);
else trace(“false”);

if (undefined || “true”) trace(“true”);
else trace(“false”);

if (“true”) trace(“true”);
else trace(“false”);

In Flash CS3 (have not tested with other versions) if you publish this for Flash Player 7 or later your output window receives these traces (as expected):

true
true
true

If you publish for FP6 you get:

true
false
true

That is some strange behaviour. This can be a gotchya if you are writing AS2 code that targets the FP6 because chances are you may be use to writing conditional statements like this.

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