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I packaged up the first release of FlexMap over the weekend. The source code is being hosted by Google Code but I’ll maintain a page for the project here as well. As soon as Yahoo! releases an updated maps API, this will obviously become defunct, but I wanted to follow through with it anyway. It was an interesting challenge to create a Flex 2 component which exposed much of the same API as the Flex 1.5 version, while doing all of the communication via LocalConnection to a Flash 8 SWF.

I plan on adding some more features so I’ve dubbed this the 0.4 release (I’m guessing I’m about 40% done). Hopefully this is useful for anyone looking to quickly get started with the maps API in Flex 2.

Project home and documentation:
http://www.timwalling.com/flexmap/

Source code:
http://code.google.com/p/flexmap/

My sample application has been updated and the source code is available along with the component source. Some more things might need to be documented, especially my MapEvent addition but hopefully it’s apparent in the sample app.

FlexMap Example

One of my co-workers just posted a regular expression tester/viewer he wrote in Flex 2. Hopefully this will help in my seemingly futile attempts to write/understand regular expressions… Anyway, it’s worth a look.

http://life.neophi.com/danielr/2006/06/regular_expressions.html

Over the weekend another release of FlashDevelop was announced. There were a few fixes, plus some new features:

* ActionScript/XML completion fixes
* Import statement auto-generation (new)
* ActionScript tree quick search (new)
* ActionScript tree display options (new)
* Improved search/replace dialogs
* Some general application fixes
* Improved colored printing

My favorite is the new auto-generation of import statements. For example, in your code if you were type the full path to a class such as mx.util.Delegate, the code would automatically change to just say Delegate and the import statement for mx.util.Delegate would be added to your class.

Looks like they’re getting close to an official 2.0 release, now if I can just get them to add some settings to point to my flex2 compiler so I can quickly work on some flex2 projects from within FlashDevelop. Currently I’ve just hacked the toolbar xml so that I have a new button which launches ant, which then just runs my build.xml file for the project I’m working on. I’d love to see an actual project type for flex2 and maybe a setting which points to the compiler just like the setting for mtasc.

Fellow co-worker Joe Berkovitz just launched his blog and what better way to introduce yourself to the blogosphere, but with a Flex2 game complete with source code! Some may have seen Joe at the last MAX conference where he talked about skinning and styling Flex apps. I recently just started a new position with Allurent where I’ll be working closely with Joe and since he’s not listed with MXNA yet I wanted to welcome him to the Flash blogging community by sending some people over his way.

Has anyone come across this error in testing their Flash applications?

The instruction at “0×01203e8d” referenced memory at “0×01203e8d”. The memory could not be “read”.

It’s been a frustrating bug to address. The actual memory address changes from time to time. I’m only able to reproduce this on a few machines at the office and it only occurs after the browser has been exited. I’ve been able to reduce the frequency of the error by re-working some sound objects that had “onComplete” handlers, but I’m still seeing this after I’ve played an FLV in the application. It seems like something that the application has done, doesn’t mesh well with IE shutting down, cleaning out the activex objects, etc, who knows.

I originally thought it was tied to some bad sounds or bad FLV’s, but I’ve tried the same media files in other swf’s and haven’t been able to reproduce the error. I also have gotten the error when I didn’t play any FLV’s at all, but was using an “onComplete” event like I said above.

It’s been a fun Friday, commenting out code, ripping parts of the app out in an effort to locate what strange combination of events is causing this…

Curious if anyone has had any recent experience with something similar. I’ve googled of course, but only found some older references to similar issues. Figured a plea post for help might be worthwhile.