http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/ Anirudh Sasikumar's Blog en-us Copyright 2004, Anirudh Sasikumar Emacs Wiki Blog (ewb) 0.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 600 anirudh@anisk.8bit.co.uk anirudh@anisk.8bit.co.uk Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:18:44 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.08.25.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:41:17 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.08.25.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.07.23.html Struts has a bean:write tag which you use in your JSP to output the value of an object or an object's property. FxStruts is a free open source library that provides the same functionality as bean:write except that the output is in AMF or XML format. Simply point it to any plain java object and you get Flex friendly AMF or XML output with ActionErrors and transaction token support. This makes it easy to migrate an existing Struts app to a Flex UI: all you have to do is add new JSPs and change your struts-config.xml. There is an AMF/XML supporting version of the bean:message tag as well. [...] (918 Words, CategoryFlex)]]> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:28:38 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.07.23.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.06.20.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:09:09 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.06.20.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.06.17.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:32:40 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.06.17.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.04.10.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:21:13 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.04.10.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.03.26.html GnuEmacs is my main IDE and even though Flex Builder 3 has features to kill for, M-x compile has to work flawlessly for me. But the problem with Emacs's M-x compile is that it starts a process each time. This can slow down things when you're working with a really large flex project and mxmlc has to load on each compile. I'm impressed with the speed and awesomeness of the Flex Compiler Shell, so I've hacked M-x compile to re-use an existing instance of the Flex Compiler Shell on each recompile. Also, I got compilation-mode to recognize errors spit out by mxmlc and fcsh so that C-x ` takes you to the correct line of the file where the error / warning was found. [...] (360 Words, CategoryEmacs)]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:12:39 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.03.26.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.03.13.html Flex Ajax Bridge is a beautiful piece of work. It impressed me so much that I translated the javascript part of it to C++. Just like FABridge for javascript, the Flex C++ bridge allows you to do most of the things you can do with actionscript via C++. Of course, the syntax is not as pretty as it would be in javascript but it does let you develop C++ applications with a Flex UI. [...] (1031 Words, CategoryFlexCPPBridge)]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:01:23 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.03.13.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.02.15.html window.print() does not work in HTML AIR applications. The sample that follows gives a replace for window.print() in about 22 lines of javascript. [...] (441 Words, CategoryAIR)]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:59:18 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.02.15.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.02.04.html Ted Patrick had posted about the distinction between loader.load() and loader.loadBytes() where he also mentions that the latter can be used to load an obfuscated / encrypted SWF. I've implemented exactly that in an AIR application using AS3 Crypto Framework to handle the encryption / decryption just to figure out how easy it would be to do it and what it's security implications might be. There's also a companion Flex application that uses loadBytes() but only uses a simple substitution cipher to hide the actual SWF data. [...] (585 Words, CategoryAIR)]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:25:33 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.02.04.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.01.25.html drop shadow) on the desktop. [...] (674 Words, CategoryAIR)]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:09:30 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.01.25.html http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.01.22.html adl. I've written a small AIR javascript library which lets you log the javascript error in your own style or see the error inside an HTML div element without the runtime exception dialog. [...] (476 Words, CategoryAIR)]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:34:36 +0530 http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2008.01.22.html