[we're not talking about those mirror-images that were hip in Flash for a year.] reflection allows your code to inspect its own properties, methods, type, parent-type… . used in recipes including copying xml values to object properties & creating a decorator which extends proxy. I’m putting useful examples below, in one convient spot. ReflectionUtil.rtf includes: [...]
as a trainload of contrast to my last post, I’m playing with Robots. I created an integration of BulkLoader & Robotlegs. assets are grouped as specified in the accompanying assetsLoaded.xml. asset groups are loaded/unloaded on request, using Robotlegs commands. read more @ the project wiki. download the source @ github. view the demo that’s included [...]
I had been building variations of MVC without implementing the Observer pattern. Now having studied Observer, I realize how to do MVC properly. MVC without Observer is like NATO without formal delegates. You’d let every citizen in every nation contact every other directly. We want our model to publish to a group of subscribers. Flex [...]
Built a Horizontal Accordion component for the Boys & Girls Club. The Horizontal Accordion is made of different Panels, each of which automatically tab-order their child Sprites. Many Panels contain Text Input fields. Each Text Input field includes a Flex-style means to add Validation. … There’s other less-cool stuff being done all over the place [...]
Open letter to the Republican Party: Please stop lying. Guiliani made points about Obama’s experience, and his argument there was on solid footing. Then he said: Look at just one example in a lifetime of principled stands – John McCain’s support for the troop surge in Iraq. The Democratic Party had given up on Iraq. [...]
When I see a heavily Eastern European traditional ensemble, a dirty group of musicians, I always figure on an audience of other musicians. Ever since I worked the art gallery racket, selling mass-produceable hotel art to business majors, I don’t try selling skill to laypeople. Part of it is that it takes a feel for [...]
the golden compass – the sibs suggested we watch it and i was all like ‘what shit. i don’t want to watch no golden compass.’ and then i tried to think of why the title sounded so familiar anyway and i remembered godiva saying something about a talking polar bear so i agreed to watch [...]
built a game banner which published to flash 7. requirements included being
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