I’ve known for a little while but realised I should post…
I’m speaking at webdu again this year. My talk is on getting underneath your flex skin. I’ll be showing some interesting techniques on getting custom states and skins into your custom components.
Speaking at webdu
Google has a new favicon
I noticed that google has a new google fav icon. After putting up with it for a little while then my curiousity got the better of me (as I’m working) and I did a little research to find out that it is to stay.
Oh well, I guess I will get used to it.
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Adobe groups is live
Adobe has set up a site for all usergroups to use with forums, blogs etc.
Visit and sign up for the Brisbane Flash platform group.
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Image resize problem
I have a script for my band’s website that automattically generates an xml file, resized images and thumbnail images from a folder of original photos. Recently it has been giving me some trouble by just cutting out.
This is the culprit…
@imagecreatefromjpeg($origDir.”/”.$file);
Turns out that some embedded meta data from cameras stuffs up the function. I hadn’t encountered it till recently, when I was uploading other people’s photos. The fix for me now is just to run all functions through a fireworks batch process to save off new jpgs, which seems to strip the info out. Will have to find a better solution later.
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Splitting the blogs
Well I’m finally taking the plunge to be more like the ‘cool kids’ and having a technical blog and a personal blog. I’m leaving this as my technical blog and have copied the blog to the http://www.koali.com.au/life.
Over the next few days things are going to look a bit odd around here as I delete posts from both blogs (yes I backed up first 😉 )
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Compiling skins in flash develop
In either the pre-build or post-build command line properties of your project. (project->properties->build tab)
C:\pathtoyourflexinstallation\bin\mxmlc.exe $(ProjectDir)\src\skin.css -output $(ProjectDir)\bin\skin.swf -library-path+=src\flex_skins.swc
You should be able to use $(CompilerPath) but that doesn’t work at the moment.
More details and future fix
