http://flex.mentalaxis.com Some serious Flex™ Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Wedge FilledElement for Flex4 previously posted is not compatible with Flex4 Beta2. The updated class (called Arc) is as follows. package { import flash.display.Graphics; import spark.primitives.Ellipse; public class Arc extends Ellipse { public function Arc() { super(); } private var _angle:Number = 0; [Inspectable(category="General")] /** * Start angle for the wedge, in degrees. Zero degrees is 3 O'clock, or East. */ public function ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/12/18/flex4-arc-class-for-beta-2/ I strikes me that, while not 100% relevant to Flex/RIA development, much of what Paul Stachour & David Collier-Brown dig up here from the history of software development, is little known to the current breed of web and Flex developers, I am sure though, that all understand the problem of ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/11/19/re-blog-you-dont-know-jack-about-software-maintenance/ I've created a wedge element for Flex4 which you may like to use for your projects, it's a subclass of FilledElement from the new Spark framework, which already provides Ellipse and Rect primitives. The wedge will draw pie wedges of any radius, arc and start angle, you can also set ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/09/18/flex-4-wedge/ The happy happy brainwash machine. - http://ocodo.id.au/screensaver/lab http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/08/24/ocodos%e2%84%a2-happy-happy%e2%84%a2-brainwash-machine%e2%84%a2/ Flex Formatter Version 0.6.24 is now available. "http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/":http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/ http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/07/09/flex-formatter-update-available/ I'm collecting useful links for flex developers on "del.icio.us/flextools":http://del.icio.us/flextools If you want to send any useful flex development tools or info to the list, add them with your own del.icio.us account and tag them with @for:flextools@ (and anything else useful.) Thanks. http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/07/06/flex-tools-on-del-icio-us/ If you are looking for code formatting tools for Flex Builder, scoot over to https://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/ Ernest Pasour has built an excellent set of source code tools for Flex Builder. Code Formatter Auto Commenting Source Code Reordering The downloaded zip file can be extracted into the eclipse/dropins folder, and it'll just work when you restart ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/07/04/flexformatter/ Some time ago I scripted an auto commenting system for ActionScript 2.0, I'd long planned to upgrade it to ActionScript 3.0, but things tended to get in the way of that, and I kept putting it off. I began working on a project recently which needed half a dozen AS3 class ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/06/29/as3-documentation-auto-commenting/ Back in April last year I blogged about coding standards in AS3, I wrote a protracted post covering just naming conventions, and of course there have been numerous posts covering this topic, unfortunately the community rarely agrees on such things, and in particular the genetic strain that builds Flash coders ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/06/29/flex-coding-conventions/ It doesn't really matter how small your projects are, they are probably going to get bigger than you think, and soon enough, another project will come along and you'll need to look after that one... And then what happens? Maybe another project, and another... and pretty soon things get forgotten and ... http://flex.mentalaxis.com/2009/02/03/issue-tracking-for-better-projects/