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Comment on Global error handling with Flash Player 10.1 by Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:23:33 +0000

Thanks for the post.

We’re trying unsuccessfully to get global exception handling to work with 10.1 AND not force the user to upgrade from flash player 9.

1. we have a hello world app which when you click a button throws an exception
2. we have declared the event listener using the following:
if (loaderInfo.hasOwnProperty(“uncaughtErrorEvents”))
IEventDispatcher(loaderInfo["uncaughtErrorEvents"]).addEventListener(“uncaughtError”, uncaughtErrorHandler);

If we target the compiler to flash player 9.0.124 - then when running with 10.1 - no listener ever gets added

If we target the compiler to flash player 10.x - then we get the error event but any 9.0.124 user must upgrade to 10

Do you know what we’re doing wrong? I don’t understand why you’d need to do step 2 (your method 1) above if it couldn’t be backwards compatible. Is it backwards compatible to 10.0 only? not 9.x?

Comment on Load font dynamically on runtime by Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:18:58 +0000

Flassari, thanks for the post, worked well, instead I used the e.target.applicationDomain.getDefinition instead of the ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition and it all worked famously! The one line registerFont and the return of the fontName was perfect for me.

Thanks!

Comment on Global error handling with Flash Player 10.1 by Flassari

Flassari — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:13:29 +0000

Thanks, I’ve updated the post to include the Flex 4.1 SDK. Much simpler =)
Too bad about the existing project thing..

Comment on Global error handling with Flash Player 10.1 by Dan Mitchell

Dan Mitchell — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:55:50 +0000

First, thanks for the post; second, I’ve spent the morning wrestling with this stuff, and can add a couple of extra notes:

1. If you install SDK 4.1, that now points at Flash 10.1 / Air 2.0, so adding the “correct” code above to a new Flash Builder 4 project compiles and runs properly.

2. However, it’s not trivial to add GEH to an existing project -- anything that starts off with (say)

xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"

won't work, because the 2006 in the namespace there winds up with uncaughtErrorEvents not existing (using either code sample), even when using the 10.1 runtime. Switching to the new namespace means a significant porting effort to handle all the changes; blocks live somewhere else, WindowedApplication has different attributes, etc, etc.

Comment on Line-Line Intersection in C++ by Phloxi

Phloxi — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:33:07 +0000

You bloody beauty.

Comment on AS3 Array Shuffle by Flassari

Flassari — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:53:12 +0000

Thanks for that info MrSteel, good to have that reference here

Comment on AS3 Array Shuffle by MrSteel

MrSteel — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:37:28 +0000

nice way but it’s not the fastest
take a look http://mrsteel.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/randomize-array-shuffle-an-array-in-flash/

shuffle by slice is one of slowest methods actually

Comment on Load font dynamically on runtime by Flassari

Flassari — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:36:16 +0000

@Andre, you might be needing a crossdomain.xml file on your website to allow other swfs to access the file.

Comment on Load font dynamically on runtime by Andre

Andre — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:49:04 +0000

Thanks for the post, very helpfull. BUT im having issues when i want to load the font SWF files from a http://www.domain.com address

ie, loading in ‘MyFont.swf’ works well
loading in ‘http://www.domain.com/MyFont.swf’ does not.

any ideas on how to solve this?

thnks.

Comment on Pie mask in AS3 by KoopaTroopa

KoopaTroopa — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:52:19 +0000

Excellent, just what i needed for my games indicator bars, kudos to you my friend :)