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Now is about that time of year when the music you hear in public spaces is even more aggravating than usual.  The idea I guess is to get you all warm and christmassy to make you reach for your credit card more readily.  I’m ok with music thought out for certain listening conditions.  Dance music […]

I just found yet another way to provoke the dreaded An internal build error has occurred. Right-click for more information. in Flex. I got an update of some Flash assets in a SWC, and using that SWC caused the error. I tried the usual tips found on the net to no avail. What I ended […]

Hi, There’s a new release of OOF, the very Open Flash components, fresh off the press. The tasty new bits: – you can now read Excel files, with the new ExcelConnector. – you can now scroll your lists with the new ListScrollBar. – the XmlConnector now allows you to import any XML file and use […]

I guess this could be called Flexing with a Flasher, part 3. So here are links to parts 1 and 2. I ended requesting the FLA file from the designer, and I ran into a couple (more) bugs in Flash CS3. I don’t use CS4 yet simply because it’s still not stable enough for me […]

I wrote this post on the joy of authoring designs for Flex in Flash. This is the follow up. Since I last posted, my attitude has gone from “cautious optimism”, to “why oh why didn’t we stick to plain Flash???”. Fonts. They always suck and create problems and make me plead for using arial everywhere, […]