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Xdebug
Ok, I'm know that I'm feeling a little unwell but this is ridiculous. I tried to get the Xdebug debugger working with Eclipse today, running under Windows 7. Started this morning, left it for most of the day; it wasn't working so thought I'd return to it.
The reason for it not working?
Firstly I'd placed the location and name of the php_xdebug.dll in the wrong place in my php.ini file. Secondly I'd mis-spelled the file location, but I did this about two or three times!
Finally got there.
Posted by Graham Blake on 5th February 2010 at 12:10
Importing Blender Data into Unity 3D
Just to see how it worked, I decided to try and save a simple scene in Blender (ok, really simple in fact, the default cube) and import it into my trial version of Unity 3D.
Unity reported a problem with the importing of .blend files, "Blender could not convert the .blend file to FBX file". I posted on the Unity forum and got some useful feedback but didn't get a final solution. Following some advice elsewhere on the same forum, I finally resolved this issue by uninstalling Blender 2.49a and deleting files from the C:\Documents and Settings\ Posted by Graham Blake on 3rd September 2009 at 11:04
When I was growing up I owned a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. Because I was that sort of chap, it was my ambition to emulate the guy that wrote Jet Set Willy and make a small fortune writing computer games. I began to learn Z80 assembler and began to draw-up designs for games. My problem was that I enjoyed coming up with the ideas, and writing about them, more than I enjoyed writing assembler. My other problem, which is still with me to this day to some degree, was not being able to stick to one task. I always found... Posted by Graham Blake on 18th August 2009 at 13:09
I've recently been interested in being able to develop Flex applications in Linux; I'm using Ubuntu. The main obstacle was which text editor to use. I use Aptana Studio to develop Rails applications, such as this very web site, but I'm not sure how to configure Aptana Studio to perform syntax colouring for AS or MXML files. Well after a bit of Googling this afternoon I've discovered Komodo Edit which comes in flavours for Linux, Windows and Mac. It's also free and supports syntax colouring for ActionScript files and MXML files. Hooray! Was easy to install too. Posted by Graham Blake on 19th June 2009 at 11:47
Recently I've been trying to write a post about the use of toolbars with a Flex application. The post is coming along slowly, almost there as I write this, but I had a problem embedding the Flex app. within my blog post. Essentially the embedded Flash object (.SWF file) wasn't appearing on my blog page. My hosting company is DreamHost and so I had a quick look at the DreamHost wiki and forum but couldn't really find anything related to my specific problem. Of course it doesn't help when you're trying to search when there's a Ruby on Rails command... Posted by Graham Blake on 7th June 2009 at 05:17
For the little Flex application that I'm currently writing I wanted to implement a toolbar. In fact I wanted more of a tool palette rather than a plain toolbar, so something you might see in a paint or drawing application such as Photoshop rather than the bar found at the top of most applications. I've now found a solution although it's not perfect and I will probably go back to the issue at some point in the future. I've looked at two possible solutions and I'm sure that there are other solutions available. I didn't want to spend ages coding... Posted by Graham Blake on 6th June 2009 at 05:53
I've recently started to use TortoiseSVN to handle my configuration control needs on a Flex project that I've started working on at home. The other day I purchased a portable external hard drive, with the intention of using it as a way of sharing my project files between my desktop PC and my laptop. I thought that I could also use the drive to backup my work and that I could locate my SVN repository on there too. I could have simply relocated my existing SVN repository from my local hard drive to the new external drive but I couldn't... Posted by Graham Blake on 5th May 2009 at 11:17
I discovered yesterday that it’s not possible to implement constructor overloading in ActionScript 3. Take the following code sample for example. This will give a compilation error because more than one constructor is defined:
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AS3 Class Constructor Overloading
public class MyClass {
private var _dataMember:int;
public function MyClass() {
_dataMember = 0;
}
public function MyClass(value:int) {
_dataMember = value;
}
}
To get around this limitation we can define a single constructor but give the parameters of the constructor default values, thus:
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Posted by Graham Blake on 26th March 2009 at 09:02
Beginning to Flex
If you read my About page you'll see that I have ambitions to take a look at Adobe AIR at some point and to take a look at Flash also. Well for a short while now I've been taking a peek at Adobe Flex. It seems that there are three ways to approach AIR, the JavaScript route, the Flash route or the Flex route. Initially I was going to take the JavaScript route which would involve me firstly learning JavaScript, however the Flex route seems a little more attractive.
Firstly Flex seems geared up to producing client-side applications, having...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 28th February 2009 at 07:31
Getting Hosted
I had a number of problems getting this site up and running with my host at first. I don't know what problems I'm going to encounter in the future but, at the moment, those problems have all been fixed and all is working well.
Don't know how the site will cope if people ever add any comments to my posts! The site was working well on my local PC but there were a number of issues to be resolved when the site finally got uploaded to my host.
For the first problem that I encountered I was getting an Application...
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Posted by Graham Blake on 28th February 2009 at 07:21