>> By the way, in case anybody was wondering, I ended up picking up the
O'Reilly Flex Cookbook
>> heh yeah your thread got hijacked.
Heh, yeah sorry Todd.
And by the way, in case anyone was wondering, Dave Watts spend a lot of
time with me off list helping me get my copy of Flexbuilder 3 worki
heh yeah your thread got hijacked.
Charles P.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Todd Kerpelman wrote:
> By the way, in case anybody was wondering, I ended up picking up the
> O'Reilly Flex Cookbook over the Training From the Source one, primarily
> because the O'Reilly site had a very simple
By the way, in case anybody was wondering, I ended up picking up the
O'Reilly Flex Cookbook over the Training From the Source one, primarily
because the O'Reilly site had a very simple "Buy the PDF" option. (It's a
little easier to read and code on the train if I can just have everything on
my lapt
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Jason
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:53 PM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
I compared differences between your Flexbuilder 3
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
> I looked in that folder, and all I see are license files, copyright,
> readme f
> I looked in that folder, and all I see are license files, copyright,
> readme files, etc. and a bin and a lib folder. Is it installed in one
> of those or could I possibly be missing something there too? What is
> the filename(s) of your JRE?
That's all you should have. Java lives in the bin a
>> In the case of the integrated install, FlexBuilder will by default
use the JVM installed in c:\program files\adobe\flex builder 3\jre
I looked in that folder, and all I see are license files, copyright,
readme files, etc. and a bin and a lib folder. Is it installed in one
of those or could I p
Awesome, thanks Dave - great info, I appreciate your time spent writing
all that up, and also for the files you send off list. I really
appreciate it. I'll plug these in tonight and see if I get better
results.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Develo
> Ha. Well great, seems my eclipse.ini file is missing - could you send
> me a good one (meaning good settings - I have 2GB ram) or copy and paste
> the contents into a reply and I'll make one with notepad and add the
> .ini extension? Thanks. I had done this before with the
> Flexbuilder.ini fi
Ha. Well great, seems my eclipse.ini file is missing - could you send
me a good one (meaning good settings - I have 2GB ram) or copy and paste
the contents into a reply and I'll make one with notepad and add the
.ini extension? Thanks. I had done this before with the
Flexbuilder.ini file because
>> In fact, if it would be helpful, I can zip up a copy and put it
somewhere.
Yeah, but don't I need a legal copy? We purchased a license with
charting.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for r
Hello,
I have to put my 2 cents in with regard to security. Open source is
safer; for, I can scrutinize every line of code without having to jump
through hoops.
If there is an issue with open source in the enterprise, this is usually
caused by licensing factors, not security. (BS intellect
> I'm going to try and fix Flexbuilder this afternoon - I might if I run
> into problems. I appreciate the offer, thanks!
Well, one nice thing that I neglected to mention earlier is that there
aren't many ties between Eclipse and your OS - you can zip the whole
thing up on one machine, and unzip
>>I'll be happy to help with any configuration questions you have
I'm going to try and fix Flexbuilder this afternoon - I might if I run
into problems. I appreciate the offer, thanks!
Jason Merrill
Bank of America Global Learning
Shared Services Solutions Development
Monthly meetings o
> Dave, I'm really growing weary of this thread, I see we're not on the
> same side of the issue, and that isn't going to change, but I do have to
> respond to one last thing you said:
I'm not really on a side here, I'm just trying to provide information.
I'm not trying to antagonize you. But yeah
Dave, I'm really growing weary of this thread, I see we're not on the
same side of the issue, and that isn't going to change, but I do have to
respond to one last thing you said:
>> So I'm at least aware of security issues within the enterprise. None
of these things should be that big of a hurdle
> Well yeah, but each time - so I got FB 3 approved, but now that I have this
> memory
> problem, to fix it you're saying upgrade Eclipse. Well guess what? That
> means another
> lengthy approval process and review (time and resources) to approve a newer
> version of a
> piece of software that
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Dave Watts
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
> > Just pick a version and stick with it. You don't have to u
> > Just pick a version and stick with it. You don't have to upgrade
> > Eclipse.
>
> Right, except in a case like this memory problem, you did say when we
> were trying to troubleshoot my problems:
Well, that's no different from any other upgrade, though. If
Dreamweaver CS4 works better than Drea
>>Just pick a version and stick with it. You don't have to upgrade
>>Eclipse.
Right, except in a case like this memory problem, you did say when we
were trying to troubleshoot my problems:
>>1. Use a different (newer) version of Eclipse.
>>2. Use a different JVM with Eclipse.
Another part of th
> This pattern repeats itself to the end of the book. It's a terrible way to
> teach something. "We'll teach you the wrong way, then we'll tell you it's
> the wrong way after you already learned the lesson." Do they know nothing
> about the learning process? Apparently so.
Actually, this appro
> I understand what you mean, but I am using the stand alone. If Flexbuilder
> had been its
> own 100% Adobe-made application (meaning not coupled to Eclipse), having the
> stand
> alone version of Flexbuilder, I could still download and run Eclipse
> separately and use it for
> other things.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
I think one of the things that will determine whether you like Flex
training
from the source, is
I think one of the things that will determine whether you like Flex training
from the source, is whether you want a book you can just read and later pick
up and thumb through a section. Flex training from the source is arranged
more as a series of hands-on exercises where the reader is told how
>This book obviously wasn't meant for your learning style, but it was for me.
Different strokes for different folks! :)
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven
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> For training, I like the Adobe Flex training from the source book(s).
I personally did not like this book at all.
Here's how the book goes:
Build this like this.
Build that like that.
Now, you know how you built this and that? That's the wrong way to build it, so
we're going to refactor
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[mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Dave Watts
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
> This experience has made me really dislike the fact that Adobe essentially
> buil
2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book?
This experience has made me really dislike the fact that Adobe essentially
built an Eclipse Plug-in instead of a single app, but I also understand why
they did it
No, this is actually a Good Thing(tm). Eclipse is a mature environment
with lots
> This experience has made me really dislike the fact that Adobe essentially
> built an Eclipse Plug-in instead of a single app, but I also understand why
> they did it
No, this is actually a Good Thing(tm). Eclipse is a mature environment
with lots of people improving it regularly. And because of
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Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:10 AM
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As Dave said, you should probably look into tweaking the Eclipse JVM
memory If you google "Eclipse JVM" or "Eclipse ini" I'm sure something
useful will co
>> As Dave said, you should probably look into tweaking the Eclipse JVM
memory If you google "Eclipse JVM" or "Eclipse ini" I'm sure something
useful will come up.
Dave, Muzak -
Hey thanks guys. However, been there and done that tweaking of the ini
a few times to create more heap space. Initall
/help.html?content=Part2_DevApps_1.html
pdf of the above: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/devguide_flex3.pdf
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/index.html
regards,
Muzak
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> I have Flexbuilder but don't use it much because I have so many out of memory
> errors with it, I haven't been able to get those under control - only
> happens with Flexbuilder - not with any other multimedia application.
> And I have 2GB RAM. I'm really disappointed in Adobe for not addressing
>>(On a side note, are there people out there who are successfully using
>>FlashDevelop with the FlexDesignView plugin for real development? Or
should
>>I lay down the cash for FlexBuilder?)
I'm using FlashDevelop + the free Flex SDK from Adobe to create Flex
apps. Works great, no problems. I di
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