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Flex Test Drive in about an hour

Posted on September 21, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

According to the Flex Test Drive site, you can “Build an application in an hour”. While that is definitely true for a simple application, I would say it takes a little bit longer in real life. I started working through the Test Drive demo using the videos, which probably run less than an hour. Since I am familiar with Flex/Flash Builder, it was easy enough for me to have the video running in the background while I built the application. There were several times that I had to switch back to the video to get a better understanding of what Continue reading Flex Test Drive in about an hour→

SAP web services and Flex

Posted on September 15, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

The company I work for uses SAP for their CRM (Customer Relations Management) solution. We were on Oracle, but after being bought out by ze Germans, we had to switch to SAP. The idea was to integrate the German offices with the American offices. That never happened and we ended up splitting off from the Germans this year. However, SAP is still with us. My boss requested that I create some sort of application to check if the web services called by our mobile CRM application, Service Data Automation (SDA), (created by me) were working as part of an overall Continue reading SAP web services and Flex→

ArrayCollection column counts

Posted on July 26, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

As part of an example of trying to read data from SharePoint and display it in a Flex/Flash application, I needed to see if I could create pie charts from the data. After figuring out how to get the list data as an xml output, then cleaning up the data to insert it into a ArrayCollection, the next step was to count the number of times a particular value was used in a particular column. If I was using SQL, it would be a straight forward grouping and count. The work around was to filter out the unique values and Continue reading ArrayCollection column counts→

Orientation change with MXML

Posted on May 22, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

I have been banging my head on the wall trying to figure out how to detect the device orientation on the BlackBerry PlayBook. I initially tried to use the accelerometer function. Unfortunately, the listener would continue to activate and determining the exact orientation was a little iffy. So, a slight move of the device would set off the listener and the redrawing of the screen would keep going until the accelerometer stopped. This was not a good way to test for orientation, it will be a great way to make a game that required moving the PlayBook around a lot. Continue reading Orientation change with MXML→

mx and qnx happliy playing together

Posted on May 20, 2011 by DeanLogic — No Comments ↓

I’m in the processing of updating the Meetup Search application for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Last night I was busy trying to rearrange the search form options and realized that the mx:UIComponent was not returning width or height back in order to determine where to place the next component. The qnx library used for the PlayBook require that an application be either completely in AS3 or use the mx:UIComponent to add the qnx fields; button, textinput, toggle switch, etc… When developing the Meetup Search, I figured that using the mx tags, it would be easier to control the layout and possibly Continue reading mx and qnx happliy playing together→

Updates to the site

Posted on January 30, 2011 by DeanLogic

Well, it has been some time since I’ve made any updates to the site. I initially used a theme that gave a portfolio look to the site. Unfortunately it was a little hokey, so I wanted to update it. In the last year I also picked up a new hobby and a wife, in that order. The wife-to-be had an interest in screen writing, so I decided that I would take over a Meetup group that would help me help her get a screen play published. Since I took over The RTP “Let’s Make a Movie” Meetup Group, I have Continue reading Updates to the site→