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Here is how to add new file filters to your flex navigator pane. In my case I wanted to filter out the .svn directories…

1. Exit Adobe Flex Builder if it is already running.
2. Locate and edit this file:

Please note: The version number may be different on your system!

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There is an issue with mx.core.Window in the FLEX 3.0 SDK when working with windows. You can’t check the .closed [read-only] property until after you have actually opened the window, doing so generates the following error.

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

So here is how to get around this problem, Use your own class to extend mx.core.Window!

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Below is a rather unelegant PHP script that will extract Thumbnails from an Indesign document in Jpeg format. It basically searches the Indesign file for the <xapGImg:Img> tag and then reads the data it contains, (your base64 encoded thumbnail!) Simple heh!?

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Today I had to make a file uploader application, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to make my first steps into the world of drag and drop, and AIR!

‘It should be easy peasy to convert my AS3 Skills into an AIR app’… or so I thought. To cut a long story short I had some difficulty getting everything up and running since there is no option to choose an AIR application when creating a new Actionscript project in Flex Builder. I searched for a while and tried several methods, none of which really suited me. (http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1209 and https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-9303)

Eventually I settled with the getting my AIR/AS3 project to work like this…
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There seems to be a lot of press on Microsoft Silverlight this week.

http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/500/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7276907.stm
http://theflashblog.com/?p=345

‘It could mean that the latest cool web 2.0 application that you’ve been playing with on your Mac or PC will run just as well on your mobile phone’ says Technology editor Darren Waters from the BBC. Uhhhhm, OK…

One thing is true though, at least Adobe has some competition again! Anyone remember Live Motion?

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy writing a multiplayer game in as3 using the red5 open source flash server, I’ve also found time to work on some other smaller projects in between, and make time to have a good tidy up on my server network, which has been on my list of to do’s for a few weeks now. More on New work

I just spent a while trying to figure out how to remove the flashing caret from an input text field (caret aka “text cursor”, “text insertion cursor”, or “text selection cursor” i’ll have you know). Anyway, to cut a long story short, after fumbling around some pages on the net looking at setFocus(); hideFocus(); etc etc, I managed to work out for myself that you have to assign the object that you wish to focus on to the stage’s focus variable, in my case the following did the trick nicely.
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I quite like this little flash vector graphics editor that I found on sourceforge.net you can use it to create vector icons, graphics etc. In particular I like that it has can convert SVG xml data into an AS3 class. (For no particulara reason I prefer to have my graphics as as3 classes rather than embedded or loaded files). More on µSprite - Convert .SVG to AS3 class

A while ago I created a typeface for a personal project I was working on, to be honest the typeface was forgotten about until today when I was browsing through my dusty old back up drives. Feel free to grab the font and use it where you may. More on Univers Magnetic

Sometime last September I was commissioned to write a city guide application for the mobile internet. The idea is that you can send an sms message to a short code number and you will receive a wap push message back to your handset containing the pages you request. In this instance you can text any of the following key words to 64446 to try it out (your provider will only charge at your normal text message rate to send messages to this number, UK only). More on City guide SMS Application