Posts by dougr

Improving Flash Builder Performance

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Ever do something and then wonder why you didn’t do it years ago?

I just updated my Flash Builder 4.5.ini jvm settings to increase allocated memory and found a noticeable improvement, overall, in Flash Builder.

Robotlegs Project Skeleton With TDD

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I like to setup a basic skeleton project to use as a template for new projects. Given that I’ve been developing with Robotlegs for the past couple months, and I’m getting more and more comfortable with it, I decided to go ahead and flush out a skeleton project with FlexUnit for TDD and UnitTesting.

Automatically Setting .swf Object Focus (updated)

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Problem: Upon application initialization the DOM has not fully loaded when attempting to set focus on a .swf application window.

Symptom: When the application loads, it is possible to visually confirm that components have focus, however, the application itself does not. As a result, user interaction is required to give the application focus and allow keyboard events within the application.

Creating Code Templates In FlashBuilder 4.5

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FlashBuilder 4.5 has introduced code templates which are extremely useful for speeding up development and creating templates for introducing convention into your team. I’ve provided a quick video tutorial on creating a code template that produces a test method stub which I will generally create many times in a project.

Flash Player Plugin Hangs and Crashes While Debugging

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Ever since I updated Firefox from version 3.6.x to 4 I began experiencing issues with Flash Player timing out and crashing during debugging sessions in FlashBuilder. I found that if I spent any more than a minute sitting on a breakpoint that FireFox would report that the Flash Player plugin had crashed