In this particular case, it turned out that I had given my variable the same exact name as my mxml file, causing the compiler to choke and give me that error. This error shows up not just with coinciding variable names, but component ID’s as well.

That didn’t solve the problem at all.

So my next idea was, let me add random parameters onto my source SWF link to trick the browser into thinking data has changed and not load the cached file. This would be perfectly flawless except for the fact that nobody wants to re-download a 1 MB+ file every time they reload, especially if the user is on a dial-up connection.

So I stumbled across this Adobe article titled, “Providing Version Synchronization for Deployed Rich Internet Applications.” This fantastic article solves the problem entirely by creating a class in the Flex app that polls a server for the most recent “version number” allowing you to control the poll time and force the user to update their application.

Since that specific example is a little outdated, I just had to modify a few things, and was up and running in no time. My current application uses AMFPHP for it’s backend, so instead of connecting to a ColdFusion server as the article suggests, I just tapped into my AMF service in PHP, which just returns a string containing the latest version number; ie. 1, 1.5, 2.

So all you would do if the VersionManager realizes that the current user is on an outdated version is use navigateToURL and basically reload the page, but with an update parameter in the URL. Then in your PHP or JavaScript, just make sure you check if that update parameter exists, then append random parameters to your SWF source link and the browser will not load that file from cache

My updated VersionManager.as can be found here, enjoy!

I highly recommend you download it and give it a try, its’s definitely worth it.

SWFScan can be downloaded here.

I just could not get the text in the datagrid to wrap around nicely.

Even after throwing in the wordWrap property it still didn’t work:

It turns out that you had to add the “variableRowHeight=true” property to the Datagrid tag!

More fantastic information at Flex Pasta!

We’ve got a bunch of people that are already willing to help so please let me know if you’re interested!

If you would be interesting in helping me set this up, please drop me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll get in touch with you.

I’m looking to get an open source project going, preferably something involving a large scale cairngorm app so we could get lots of people working on it and contributing.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for hundreds of hours here, just if you have some spare time, maybe just half an hour a day, or even 15 minutes. I figured if lots of people help out this could really go places.

I don’t have too many ideas on what we would actually develop, but looking forward to your input!

I first explored the XIFF API probably over a year ago, and now it’s time to revisit it. Polishing up my FlexIM application shouldn’t be too difficult with the sample code finally available!

I noticed that nobody else had built and successfully launched an app that allowed you to have songs on your profile because of bandwidth and storage problems I guess.

I decided to give it a shot and created SongBook!

It’s been only a few hours, and already I’m seeing a fantastic response! Already over 150 users have signed onto the application and uploaded songs to their profiles! I didn’t expect it to have such a fantastic growth rate, but it’s really getting out of control. My used bandwidth nearly doubles by the end of the day (running up a few GB’s per day!)  so I’m not really sure what to do because I’m expecting a few millions users to add the app.

Take a look for yourself, and please, add it if you have a Facebook profile. Not that I have to ask you to add it, it’s already pretty amazing :p

If you know of any lovely company that would like a nice fat ad spot right on the home page of the app (projected to have a few million views, daily/weekly?) and would like to sponsor me, PLEASE let me know!

Thanks!!

It has quite a bit of activity and some nice job postings already

I you’re looking for a job, take a look!