http://flexoop.com Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and everything in between Tue, 19 May 2009 23:51:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently at work, I had been puzzling over object creation and sub-object creation within each of those objects (e.g. how do I create deep nested objects without bringing down my database server and my ColdFusion server trying to loop over everything). After checking out the design patterns books, and ... http://flexoop.com/2009/05/builder-design-pattern-in-coldfusion/ I just installed Subclipse 1.6 in my Flex Builder as there was some conflict between it and my TortoiseSVN install. I like to do my commits and updates via Eclipse so I'm not switching out to my Explorer window for quick commits. If there is any conflict resolution ... http://flexoop.com/2009/04/subclipse-16-changes-highlight-and-comment-colors-in-cfeclipse/ Recently at my job, our User Interface guru came up with the design and interface that she wanted for our users. However, the design she came up with required adding a colspan to a datagrid. As many know who have tried it, this is not really a possibility ... http://flexoop.com/2009/03/adding-colspan-to-a-datagrid/ I have recently begun using my MenuItem and MenuItemWithChildren classes at my work, and have made a slight modification to the code to lessen some of the code writing required. As I was using the menuItem class, I realized that when I selected the item, I was usually just calling some ... http://flexoop.com/2009/02/update-to-menuitem-class/ At my work, the business wanted a right click menu that did not have all of the default "Flash" items in it. Now, you can edit the context menu so that it hides *most* of the Flash options, but not all of them. I found a right click ... http://flexoop.com/2009/02/wmode-one-little-attribute-makes-all-the-difference/ Ha ha! I figured out (after just blogging my frustration in my previous post) how to change the Additional compiler arguments that automatically are added when creating a new project from ja_JP to en_US. There is a file called config.xml (on my PC it is located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder ... http://flexoop.com/2009/01/success-fixing-the-ja_jp-locale-from-being-set-in-compiler-arguments/ This is annoying the heck out of me. For some reason, I'm not sure when, my locale got set to ja_JP instead of en_US I did the update in eclipse and I'm wondering if it somehow got the japanese version of the SDK instead of the US version. Each ... http://flexoop.com/2009/01/why-is-locale-set-to-ja_jp/ Well, not too many, but I would say just enough to ease the use of the Flex framework itself, and deciding how best to lay out your code. Up to this point, I have not tried to use a framework for my code, mainly because I did not really ... http://flexoop.com/2009/01/frameworks-galore/ I really do like using the struct method of transferring typed objects from ColdFusion to Flex. However, today I ran into an issue when passing them to Flex from ColdFusion. I had been following along with Dan Vega's posts on RocketFM, and I decided to download the code and tinker ... http://flexoop.com/2009/01/problem-solved-transferring-typed-objects-to-flex/ These are the final 2 methods in my DateUtils Class of the FlexDateUtils library. I've got a Business class, a Holiday class and a DaylightSavingTimeUS class that are all included in the FlexDateUtils library, and I may go over those in the future, but not right now. /** * Gets ... http://flexoop.com/2009/01/flex-date-utils-daysinyear-isleapyear/