zedia flash blog » Flex http://www.zedia.net Flash, ActionScript, SEO and everything in between Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Using the Flex profiler with a Flash Website or Application http://www.zedia.net/2008/using-the-flex-profiler-with-a-flash-website-or-application/ http://www.zedia.net/2008/using-the-flex-profiler-with-a-flash-website-or-application/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:28:33 +0000 zedia.net http://www.zedia.net/2008/using-the-flex-profiler-with-a-flash-website-or-application/ Ted Patrick posted on is blog a video of a presentation that was made at 360 Flex about the Flex Builder 3 Profiler by Jun Heider. It’s a pretty interesting talk about some unknown feature and tweaks of the profiler. One of the thing I learned that I am really happy to have found was the fact that you can use the profiler on a project that wasn’t made using the Flex Builder,  for example a project made in the Flash IDE. Here are the three simple steps you have to do.

In FLEX

  • Go to the Profiler view and in the Profile menu select “Profile External Application”
  • In the window that will prompt, select the radio button Launch the application manually outside Flex Builder

In Flash

  • All you have to do in Flash is to run the debug version of your movie (“Debug Movie” in the Debug menu)

That’s it, the Profiler will kick in for your Flash application.

Now I don’t see any reasons to use Flex anymore.

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]]> http://www.zedia.net/2007/flex-problems-again/feed/ 0 Using Flex with Flash problems http://www.zedia.net/2007/using-flex-with-flash-problems/ http://www.zedia.net/2007/using-flex-with-flash-problems/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:08:27 +0000 zedia.net http://www.zedia.net/2007/using-flex-with-flash-problems/ I am really trying to integrate Flex into my work but I keep bumping into problems. I am working on a game that uses movieClips for my Sprites (Monsters). The thing is the when you embed a movieClip from Flash it loses all its ActionScript. I know that you can use a method that addScriptAtFrame but it seems to be complicated for nothing. Also what happens if I have a movieClip with a movieClip inside it? I really want to use Flex, I think it’s a great tool, the profiler is really something I wanted and it works great, but why is it so complicated to make it work (Flex)…

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What I can’t get in my head is where to put the ActionScript and how multiple views can update global variables. What I want to do is a five step process and each step build a piece of a xml that describe a picture. I want to be able to move picture and rescale them also. Well, I bought the book, I guess I’ll have to wait until then.

Also today I watched this presentation about what framework to use with the Flex framework (you read correctly) that I came across reading this blog. It’s pretty interesting, a lot is said about design patterns. They bash a lot on cairngorm which I had started reading about but just couldn’t figure what it was about. I guess I shouldn’t have dropped that design pattern class in favor to an Astro-biology class.

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But now I have an idea for a rich internet application, so I said to myself, why not try Flex, this application needs more usability than design. Well it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Flex is a whole new paradigm from Flash even if they share ActionScript 3. I’m kinda lost here and I don’t know where to start to get my application going. I guess I’ll have no choice but to buy the book. That’s what I’ll do right now.

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