Valentin Simonov's Flash Blog

JavaScript lazy functions.

Valentin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:28:59 +0000

I never thought about lazy functions in JavaScript. Apparently, you can implement it this way:

var foo = function() {
    var t = new Date();
    foo = function() {
        return t;
    };
    return foo();
};

I hate JavaScript.

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Want an onReleaseOutside event?

Valentin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:57:38 +0000

Vote for it now!

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Scala functions vs. methods

Valentin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:05:18 +0000

Scala is hard. To use its syntax sugar you have to know what’s going on.

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In case you need to unlock some files on OS X

Valentin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:26 +0000

Recently I got a major headache with OS X file locks. Apparently, I can do nothing with locked files even being under root. So here comes a handy script which does that recursively. Taken from this site but there was a typo.

#! /bin/bash
#
# Simple file unlocking utility for Mac OS X
#
ARGS=1
E_BADARGS=65

function recursiveUnlock() {
 pushd $1
 for rdir in `ls -A`; do
 if [ -d "${rdir}" ]; then
 recursiveUnlock ${rdir}
 else
 /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a l ${rdir}
 fi
 done
 popd
}

if [ $# -ne "$ARGS" ]
then
 echo "Usage: `basename $0` starting-directory"
 exit $E_BADARGS
fi

recursiveUnlock $1

Call it recursiveUnlock.sh and “chmod” it to 755.

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VOTE FOR THIS ONE!!!!!1

Valentin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:41:34 +0000

Now as jailbreaking is legal, couldn’t Adobe publish a Flashplayer for the iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) over Cydia(App Store for Jailbreaked Apps)?
I guess this would be a huge market!

https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-5228
I’d like Flash Player on my iPad please!

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Continuing on the XML bug

Valentin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:16:54 +0000

Looks like my XML Flash Player 10.1 issue already has a bug filled at bugs.adobe.com. Too bad, that could be the first ever bug report submitted by me )8

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Huge Flash Player 10.1 XML bug.

Valentin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:15:55 +0000

Check this XML.

It’s obviously malformed. Flash Player 10.0 fails to parse it but Flash Player 10.1 doesn’t care. This caused major headache yesterday.

How do I submit a bug to Adobe?

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Did you know about AS3 “down to” operator?

Valentin — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:39:48 +0000

I am talking about –> operator. Did you know about it? It’s called “down to” operator. Here’s an example.

var a:uint = 20;
while ( a --> 0 ) trace(a);

Isn’t it cool?!

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Ten tips for building better Adobe AIR applications

Valentin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:09:34 +0000

Usually I dislike posts titled “10/20/30 whatever for/to whatever whatever“. Why 10? Can there be more? Why you chose these ones?

But this post about AIR applications seems to be really useful. At least I got some interesting stuff from the article. It is definitely a good read if (even if not) you are developing AIR applications.

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initInjector 0.2.1b

Valentin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:07:01 +0000

Scala version 2.8.0 has been finally released, Joa updated apparat amazingly fast and v.0.2.1b is just a stable Scala 2.8.0 compiled application.

http://va.lent.in/projects/swf/initInjector/initInjector.0.2.1b.zip

InitInjector is a little Scala app which allows you to move code from SWF constructor to a private init method and subscribe it to ADDED_TO_STAGE. This fixes an error of stage being null in loaded SWFs constructor.

0.2.1b:

Recompiled for Scala 2.8.0

0.2b:

Fixed several bugs
Added -p option which also injects init method to parent class constructor
Thanks to Joa Ebert who modified apparat for my needs I got rid of half of my code

Thanks to everyone for reporting bugs.

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