Today I was using Alert.show() while building a RadioButtonGroup change handler and noticed something interesting.
If you use your mouse to change the values of a RadioButtonGroup, Alert.show() will behave like a proper modal dialog.
However, if you use your keyboard’s arrow keys to toggle the values, the focus remains with your RadioButtonGroup.
The lesson here is since the focus remains with my RadioButtonGroup, you can continue to change the values all you want via keyboard.
In my situation, I kept receiving Alert.show()s, instead of one.
Try it for yourself.
First click on a RadioButton below, and notice that the Alert.show() keeps you from clicking on the RadioButtonGroup until you OK the prompt.
Now try the same thing again using your keyboard. If you do it enough times, the prompts will cover up the stage completely.
Tags: actionscript, alert, alert.show, flex, keyboard, RadioButtonGroup
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Here’s a simple Flex soundboard with the Arnold prank phone calls.
If you haven’t heard these prank calls yet, what are you waiting for? Get flash 9 if you don’t already have it, then get ready to LYFAO!
Launch the arnold soundboard in a new window
Tags: arnold, flex, gator lodge, hooters, prank phone calls
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Here’s an error I’ve run into from time to time while programming Flex on OSX
[compc] Error: Java heap space
[compc] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
This error was a real pain in the arse. I found a lot of people having similar issues and they all fixed this problem by setting ANT_OPTS as an environment variable to increase the memory size. This didn’t work for me. I set ANT_OPTS in my .profile, as well as in .MacOSX/environment.plist. No luck. I never figured out why the environment variable route didn’t work, but I was able to fix this error within Eclipse.
If you run into this error while running Ant build scripts, try the following steps.
- Run Menu > External Tools > Open External Tools Dialog…
- Select your Ant build file on the left
- Click the JRE tab on the right
- Enter “-Xmx640m” in the VM arguments field ( without quotes )
- Click Apply, then Run
Flex JRE preferences
Hopefully this will get you going.
Tags: flex, flexbuilder, java, java heap space, osx, Xmx640m
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