Archive | February, 2008

LogBook 1.2.1 available for download.

LogBook 1.2.1 patch release is now available on googlecode now. The release addresses quite a few bugs and feature requests. The list of patches can be found here. We are also discussing features for LogBook 1.3 at the Google group for the project. If you have a feature you would like to see added or [...]

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Gears Of War 2 trailer on the gameinvasion blog!

I am drooling already…Check it out here.

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Flex optimization tip: ArrayCollection.removeAll() vs. ArrayCollection.source = new Array(). Is this a bug ?

One of the bugs reported on our recently released LogBook application was around the “Clear Logs” button. Within LogBook, we keep all the LogMessage messages in an ArrayCollection. When Clear Logs was clicked, we called a removeAll() function to clear the ArrayCollection. However when the size of the ArrayCollection grew more than a hundred or [...]

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Released: LogBook, An Open Source AIR based Flex Logging Application

As promised, today we are formally releasing LogBook, our internally developed tool for logging events from Flex (and coming very soon, pure Flash AS2/AS3) applications. For the uninitiated, logging is the process of recording and storing information about events in your application. The functionality is similar to the trace command, but a lot more robust. [...]

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Releasing tomorrow: LogBook, an open source AIR based Flex logging application

The team at Comcast Interactive Media is putting the final touches to an internally developed tool we use for logging events from Flex applications. The application is built on top of the Flex framework and runs as an installable AIR application. Best of all, we will be releasing it under the MIT open source license. [...]

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E4X parsing caveat: Watchout for the Firefox-hidden Namespaces

A friend of mine was having issues with parsing an xml file using E4X today. We were trying parsing an XML file generated by a webservice and for all he tried, the nodes were completely inaccessible to his code. Viewing the XML in Firefox didn’t give any clues and everything should have worked. I have [...]

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