Comments for Marc's Musings

Comment on My first Red5 experience by priyanka

priyanka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:22:32 +0000

hi,
Great code.thanks for post it.

Comment on AlivePDF Flex/AIR Example by teodora

teodora — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:31:33 +0000

Hello,

I would like to know if there are benchmarks concerning the pdf generation. In my project I have to generate a pdf from a table with 10000 lines and 10 columns. I am afraid that the pdf generation could freeze the client computer.

thanks in advance

Teo

Comment on Customizing TileList selection by kevin

kevin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:40:10 +0000

hello mark,
I’m a flex beginner and i’m trying to do exactly what you did in this example.
But I dont really understand how it works and where to put this code.

And I wonder how (in your before/after screenshot) you can have different witdh in the tile list items for your left and right colums

So if it’s not a problem for you, can you send me your source code or explain me if it’s not taking you too much time.

Thanks (and sorry for my poor english) :))

Comment on LogViewer updated by John Grden

John Grden — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:53:25 +0000

anyone else getting this error when using LogViewer with an Air app?

ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on mx.binding::PropertyWatcher(). Expected 3, got 2.
at _com_roguedevelopment_logviewer_LogViewerToolBarWatcherSetupUtil/setup

Comment on Customizing TileList selection by Keith

Keith — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:59:09 +0000

Marc,
Thanks so much for sharing this. Just what I was looking for.

Thank you
Keith

Comment on Globe Trotting - Using the AIR Derby prize by John Wilker

John Wilker — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:16:52 +0000

Sounds like a prize well spent!

Have fun!

Comment on Popup Menus and Graphical Buttons by Oluwaseun

Oluwaseun — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:20:29 +0000

Thanks Marc. I’ve got a little one did. I’d like to send it to you but how do i get it across so you could check it i.e. how do i upload it on this blog?

Comment on Custom DataGrid headerRenderer based on Canvas by swienty1

swienty1 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:15:19 +0000

Hi,

I have also a lot problems with custom header renderer based on a container. I was using BOX with PopUpButton. When I try change renderer on other, I can’t see popuppanel after click on PopUpButton. It’s strange …

Comment on AS3 Drawing API oddity by kenneth

kenneth — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:30:34 +0000

I’ve found the same issue with lineTo when drawing two lines of different colour on the same shape:

the lineStyle can get transposed between the two different lines, despite resetting them during the drawing code as above.

oddly enough if you change the order of the lineStyle and moveTo it often helps (i.e. linestyle after moveTo). Adding the lines to different shapes solves the problem but presumably creates extra overhead which (probably?) slows down the application

Comment on Customizing TileList selection by Mariosh

Mariosh — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:39:07 +0000

Great post, Thanks Marc.
I had a problem with TileList where the highlight border around the selected item becomes very wide If I make the application window full-screen (example). Your example solved my problem.
I made also more advanced example (nice blue gradient fill) Vista Start Menu.

Comment on Are there any open source user management systems? by Marc

Marc — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:07:24 +0000

AppFuse turned out to be pretty good.

http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Home

I used some of that, plus a bunch of customizations.

Comment on Are there any open source user management systems? by yaniv

yaniv — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:51:19 +0000

i have same problem. did you found a good open source user managment system

Comment on Interacting with an AIR app from a browser based app by Marc

Marc — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:46:38 +0000

Paul, Steve, Unfortunately it’s been a long time since I worked on the poof of concept for the local connection option, and I don’t remember exactly how it worked.

Comment on Interacting with an AIR app from a browser based app by Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:28 +0000

Was Paul’s question ever answered? I’m wondering the same thing.

Comment on Amazon EC2 - I’m sold… by Marc

Marc — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:41:11 +0000

They’ve got a great calculator for costs.

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

The biggest cost for doing hosting this way at first is the 720 (24 hours x 30 days) hours of compute time. On a small instance it’s $0.10 an hour, so $72 is really the minimum you can spend for full time hosting.

For a smallish site, you’re looking at less than $20 for bandwidth, storage, etc.

I was paying about $110 for a dedicated server + FTP backup space. Now it’ll be about $100 including some backups on S3.