RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-31 Thread Alex Harui
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) You can tell the compiler to include any class you want, as well as whatever it thinks you want, right? Or is that only valid for SWCs? -Josh -- Therefore, send not to know For whom

[flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-31 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *shudder* That's a bad idea unless the clean up imports builder functionalituy is rewritten to a) function, and b) be something you can control when and if it runs ;-) That's why I suggested a switch. But I

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-31 Thread Josh McDonald
Yeah, I was definitely complaining more about builder than I was about your idea :) On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I suggested a switch. But I routinely go in and clean out the import statements of stuff I decided not to use ;-), so maybe it's

[flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread djhatrick
Alex, Say for instance, you want to create this instance, from a class name defined in XML, and make it totally dynamic, using this work-around does not solve that problem. This function should really be improved, or, at least the documentation should really be supplemented to explain more in

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Gordon Smith
Of djhatrick Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) Alex, Say for instance, you want to create this instance, from a class name defined in XML, and make it totally dynamic, using this work-around

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
Of djhatrick Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) Alex, Say for instance, you want to create this instance, from a class name defined in XML, and make it totally dynamic, using this work-around does

[flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread djhatrick
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djhatrick Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) Alex, Say for instance, you want to create this instance, from a class name defined

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
two, they kinda feel good sometimes. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djhatrick Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:56 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Matt Chotin
My colleagues will tell you that I swear at the computer too, and pound my desk and flop on the ground and cry. You should try the latter two, they kinda feel good sometimes. We keep Alex in a row by himself for this reason.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Gordon Smith
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) My colleagues will tell you that I swear at the computer too, and pound my desk and flop on the ground and cry. You should try the latter two, they kinda feel good sometimes. We keep Alex in a row by himself

[flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Classes take up room in the SWF, so we only put in classes we know you need otherwise your SWF would always be 1MB or more. getDefinitionByName is a roll call. If you aren't in the room, you won't answer. Maybe

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Matt Chotin *Sent:* Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:10 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes) My colleagues will tell you that I swear at the computer too, and pound

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
*shudder* That's a bad idea unless the clean up imports builder functionalituy is rewritten to a) function, and b) be something you can control when and if it runs ;-) On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
You can tell the compiler to include any class you want, as well as whatever it thinks you want, right? Or is that only valid for SWCs? -Josh -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Mathews
You can compile a class into an external swf and load that, then get the class out of it. Works great if you don't know what classes you need until runtime, but don't want to bloat your main swf. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Team Lead* *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* *www.flypaper.com* On Wed, Jul 30,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
Of course you'll have to switch to an asynchronous analogue of getDefinitionByName if you're loading SWFs on demand like JARs. -Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can compile a class into an external swf and load that, then get the class out of