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Bender Code Preview

Well we’re still a ways from havinga working prototype but I thought I’d post some code to give people an idea of where I’m heading (and to get Mark off my back ;p). Much thanks go Justin McLean and Robin Hilliard for answering stupid questions. here is the current Bender.as: Here is Bender.cfc: and here is a Related posts:

  1. Templar Code
  2. Bender Expansion
  3. Bender persistence
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Bender: Dynamic class instantiation and library generation

I’ve been playing about with the creation of dynamic classes – IE instantiating something you don’t have a reference to already in your flex project. This blog post has a method to achieve it but it suggests putting everything into a swc library. Having thought about this a bit, I’m wondering if it might not Related posts:

  1. Bender Explained
  2. Bender Expansion
  3. Bender persistence
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Coldfusion returntype behaviour in flex

Just a gotcha for anyone else who runs into it – I had an issue today in retrieving data from a remoteobject call in flex. My flex code looked like this: Now all I was trying to do at this stage was verify that the correct data was coming through, but for some reason it Related posts:

  1. Coldfusion / jrun on macbook pro (intel)
  2. Bender: The Flex to Transfer Bridge
  3. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3
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Bender Expansion

I have just concluded a magnificent conversation with the brilliant Mark Mandel of Transfer fame – we spent about 25 minutes each trying to convince each other of pretty much exactly the same thing The upshot is that while I’ve been focused just on getting direct communication between flex and transfer, Mark has been Related posts:

  1. Bender Explained
  2. Bender persistence
  3. Bender Revived
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Bender: The Flex to Transfer Bridge

I’ve been working on a bridge between Transfer ORM and Flex, and while it’s not yet complete I wanted to report on my progress. The idea of this bridge is to allow flex coders to achieve the same methodology as cf developers using Transfer. The workflow of using Bender should be like this: Install Transfer and Related posts:

  1. Bender Explained
  2. Bender Expansion
  3. Bender persistence
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Bender persistence

Bender is progressing very nicely – I can now instantiate a Bender generated actionscript class within my flex app, use the setters to populate the instance with data, instantiate the Bender component, and call Bender.save(myBenderClass); and the data I’ve put into the instance is persisted to the database this is a lot of fun Related posts:

  1. Bender Explained
  2. Bender Expansion
  3. Bender Revived
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Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 3

It’s aliiiiive! Finally got it sorted. After a little more fiddling, I have linked the paddles to the movement of each hand (and reversed the image so your right hand controls the right paddle etc) and added a moving ball. **Edit** – click here for webcam pong! You need a webcam and flash player 9. The Related posts:

  1. First Flex 2 App – Webcam motion tracking
  2. Flex 2 – Webcam motion tracking part 2
  3. Coldfusion returntype behaviour in flex
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