Easy Tiger… (or snow leopard, dont eat my friend Adobe Flash)

woooah. greetings my old friend wordpress (that slapper Twitter seems to have distracted me!!). Im sitting here listening to massive fireworks going off in the background on the eve of Aucklands Anniversary day, whilst watching Federer V Murray in The Australian Open mens final. I am just back from a long weekend on the east [...]

Can’t Open Add Printer (Win 7 Professional 64-Bit – Bootcamp)

Ahh yes. Sometimes i wonder why i still bother, but more from the adventures of running Windows on Mac hardware. Recently installed Windows 7 64bit, runs sweeeet. Then loaded up my Windows 7 partition from inside OSX via VMWare Fusion, also sweet. However after booting back into Windows 7 all printers where missing, print spooler [...]

Using Enumerators instead of Constants.

Call me lazy, but i have almost always gone with using static constants where other developers scream enum enum… ENUM!!! public static const TYPE_ONE :String = "typeOne"; public static const TYPE_TWO :String = "typeTwo";   public var type   :String = TYPE_ONE; Ok, so i hear ya, you can chill now, from now one its: [...]

Using [Inspectable] metadata tag for code completion.

If you want your custom components bindable properties to popup selectable values (i.e. true/false) via code completion in Flex Builder and also to show in the Properties Panel in design view, the Inspectable tag is your friend: [Inspectable(category="General", enumeration="true,false")] public var isCool:Boolean; If your like me and have been a bit slack on the metadata [...]

Papervision: Mouse events on Collada models.

Papervision provides a number of useful object parsers for loading 3D models, including the DAE and Collada classes. Ive found the DAE class to work more consistently than the Collada one, so thats how im rolling. Listening for mouse events on the loaded model should be simple right? Turns out its quite a pain in [...]