I had a go at loading some assets from Amazon S3 with AS3 bulk loader and ran into trouble. Generally I specify loader context when I load files from external source, but I thought Bulk Loader handled it all internally. After browsing the source code I found out that you can pass the LoaderContext into [...]
Flash to Flex ComponentEvent coercion error solved
Today I had an interesting problem embedding a swf file compiled in Flash Professional CS3 into Flash Builder 4. My SWF file contained a Flash TextArea component, which dispatches a ComponentEvent when scroll bars are activated. This event resulted in the following error in Flex: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert fl.events::ComponentEvent@1b06b4c1 to [...]
Customise Red5 applications and broadcast messages to Flex HOWTO
In one of my earlier posts Flex and Red5 simple demo, I demonstrated how to broadcast messages from Red5 server to all subscribed Flash clients and vice versa. This feature of Red5 open source Flash streaming server continues to impress me and I think everyone with a bit of AS3 and Java knowledge should take advantage [...]
Removing default icons from Flex Tree control
What’s so cool about Flex framework is the fact that it’s very extensible, which allows me to do almost anything I want with it. For example, to remove folder/arrow icons from Flex Tree control, which prevents nodes from collapsing and also creates more space for labels, you can add the following in your stylesheet: defaultLeafIcon: [...]
Illegal override of activate in mx managers SystemManagerProxy – Solved
I’ve been quiet on the blog front for a while. I was having a rough time scuba diving in the tropics and so on… If you’re interested, take a look at some of my holiday pics I uploaded on facebook. Now back to business. At Learnosity, I’ve been working on migrating our core Flex 3 app to [...]
Flex and Red5 simple demo
I’ve been using Red5 Flash Streaming Server for a while and the more I use it, the better I like it. Sure, Adobe Flash Media Server is an excellent commercial product which does the same thing and supports server-side ActionScript. Red5 doesn’t support server-side ActionScript at the moment (this will probably change), but it is an open source Flash [...]
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