Sometimes I hate Flex… Sometimes

Vicker — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:15:22 +0000

Don’t get it wrong… I am not leaving Flex, most of my current developments still rely on it and I am sure it will last for several more years.

Working with Flex for nearly two years. I am sure I have the right choice however sometimes Flex do makes me mad.

SWFLoader content can’t be unloaded completely.
(How many times you try to replace a loader content but you notice the content music never gone away)
VideoDisplay component doesn’t play .flv correctly…
Not even those produced by Flash Video Encoder…
Non standard CSS
Math.floor (Math.random () * 4) + 6
(Oh my god… I just want a random integer)
Smooth scroll List
Disabling Ctrl key during drag move
Gradient fill Container
Full screen Keyboard input…
(I understand security… but that should be user’s responsibility… not developer’s obstacle)

Flex Builder related…

Why can’t I export my syntax coloring settings?
I don’t know which part I haven’t done yet… WHERE’S MY TODO!?!?
Auto building get set function please…

To be continue…

Adobe… please… I love advancedDataGrid… but fix the old ones first…

Munsang College Biology Department Website version 3 始動~!

Vicker — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:24:47 +0000

岩岩完成左民生個 Biology website~
講真~ 原本只係諗住 update XHTML version (者係 version 2) 既 content~
可惜我自己又手痕… 想試下用 Flex 黎做…
原本一個鐘頭可以做完既野~ 結果用左差唔多一個星期去做~
Anyway~ 學到野~ product 我都好滿意

Munsang College Biology Department Official Website
http://munsang.edu.hk/secondary/subject/biology/

主頁同 version 2 無大分別~ 最大改善係 Art design~
用左適當既 alpha transparency 同埋 image reflection (web 2.0 既 standard 野)
另外一樣特別既係 home 既 content 係 randomly selected~

AJAX 做唔做到呢? 易唔易呢? 唔知…
XHTML 就一定唔得~
但係 Flex… 只係幾句~ 仲要係 very structural 咁做~
用 Flex 做 website 絕對係有佢既優點~

其實 SEO 我都有考慮過~ 不過係 Biology web 黎講就未必重要~
因為 Biology web 本身 d content 比較少字~
最多被 index 既都只係 student projects 而唔係 Biology web…
所以 SEO 基本上可以完全唔諗~

Student project page 同 version 2 一樣用 thumbnail 設計
但係就用左 tile layout~ 右手面 show details~ 慳位之餘畫面吸引~
利用左 ArrayCollection filterFunction 黎做 real time searching~
又係普通 XHTML 好難做到既效果~

除左 thumbnail view 之外~ 為左方便分類而做埋 list view~
用左 Flex 3 既 AdvanedDataGrid 加 GroupCollection~
(Thanks Thomas~ 你o個招好得~)

Activites page 最大特色係 non popup image viewer~
圖雖然細左少少~ 但係勝在 manageable~ 唔會周圍 pop up~
加埋 next 同 previous buttons~ 睇圖非常方便~

version 2 有一個大問題係 movie~
有 d student provide wmv~ 有 d 就 mov~
下下想睇都可能要裝 player 或者 open third party application…

今次 version 3 將 VideoDisplay 放埋入 website
所有 movie convert 晒做 flv~ 無論 file size 定 accessibility 都提高左~!
(convert movie 可以話係地獄之旅… 有機會再 blog)

整個 website 用左好 strict 既 Cairngorm structure 去做~
所有 data 係 XML feed 入 delegate 再 parse 成 ArrayCollection of value object~ 絕對 OO~
而且亦可以係無 server side scripting 既情況底下~
令 user 可以透過改 XML instead of 一大堆 XHTML 黎改 web content

呢個 project 絕對係我 Flex 路上既重要一頁~!!

其實 Biology Website 可以話係睇住我既 skill evolution~ 聽日再 blog~

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Sometimes I hate Flex… Sometimes

Munsang College Biology Department Website version 3 始動~!