Stuart Cohen writes that the Open Source Model is Broken, and I think a bigger point perhaps needs to be highlighted. Open source software can be great, it can have a wonderful function and it can make life better. But not everything needs to be or should be open source. I read a Wikipedia article [...]
Ok, so the Adobe docs say:
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
But thanks to the FlashKit forums:
var pictLdr:Loader = new Loader();
pictLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imgLoaded);
I realize these are two different classes, but the docs on this type of thing are just so poor. Nevermind the horror that you can’t catch AN IO ERROR in a try catch block.
Hopefully this [...]
Whenever someone asks me to work on a Flash project that someone else started, I try really hard to wake up. It’s never good. I try to kid myself that maybe the code will be organized, maybe there will be comments, maybe I won’t find anything held together with duct tape. Ok, once or twice [...]
