Archive: September 2005

4 posts

Pseudo static variables in Flash/Flex

by kai on 13/09/2005

The other day I was running into an odd issue. I've developed a Flex component and inherited two other components from this parent component. In the parent component I've defined a private variable inside of an mx:Script block: private var myDataArray = new Array(); Additionally the parent component offered a private function to push objects into that array. I created instances of the two…

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How to convince people of CFEclipse

by kai on 08/09/2005

Some people asked me how I convinced the guys mentioned in this post to switch over to Eclipse. It was not that hard, let me quickly explain why: 1. Both don't like Dreamweaver as a coding tool, so both were on Homesite+ 2. Both were annoyed that Homesite+ doesn't support all the cool features of CFMX 6.0, 6.1 and 7 (well, there's syntax highlighting and help...but that's it) This alone made a…

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Conversion to CFEclipse

by kai on 08/09/2005

Converted two more people in the office today to kick away CFStudio or Homesite and to work with Eclipse 3.1, CFEclipse 1.2, Quantum DB and the Eclipse web standard tools. Took them 2-3 hours to get used to it but now they're pretty happy. The only flaw they're moaning about is that the editor doesn't have a proper line wrap. But anyway...

Wanted: Pre-selected tree node in Flash forms CFTREE

by kai on 07/09/2005

I'm going mad with this. Do you know this situation - you wanna do something very simple and it turns out to be the most ugly and head-banging issue for a while... For me it's how to preselect a tree node in a Flash forms CFTREE. It doesn't seem to be possible with the "offical" tag attributes, but who cares. The Flash forms offer so many ways to tweak their behaviour, but I really got bloodily…

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