Entries tagged as flash builder 4
What is it with Flashbuilder and Scrollbars?
Tuesday, March 23. 2010
Call it a feature? As soon as you click a button in a flash builder 4 project you get vertical and horizontal scrollbars.Not that there is much scrolling to do, about 2px. What you get to see is a dotted focus rect which fb4 insist to put around the entire page.
And this happens regardless whether you do it in spark or halo, with a button or toggelButton, on a group or canvas - I spent some hours of my life trying all combinations and variations which I could think of. Below is bare bones example of a minimal test.mxml which compiles both in Flex 3 and FlashBuilder 4:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:Canvas>
<mx:Button label="Drück mich" />
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Application>
Both have source view
testButton Flex3 (581 KB)
testButton FlashBuilder 4 (1,66MB)
Note the different sizes of flex3 and fb4 compiled file size.
There is a spark version of the thing as well:
testButton Fb4 Spark (1,22 MB)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo" minWidth="1024" minHeight="768">
<s:Group id="myGroup" >
<s:Button id="btn" label="Drück mich" />
</s:Group>
</s:Application>
Flashbuilder 4 is sooo slow
Tuesday, March 23. 2010
While I have been using Flex 3 for about 3 years now my first impressions of FlashBuilder 4 are somewhat mixed. I downloaded and installed tbe beta 2 just a week before the release and it is quite fascinating to watch the the thing crawl on its path. Maybe I should just go and get me a shiny new quadcore to get my actioncript editor work in a bearable manner? With all the code highlights and helpfull hinting the thing is quite busy doing its own chores so I have to wait again and again when typing. Frequent actions like - mark a bit of text, copy, click on a number of places in my script and paste the stuff - now have been upgraded to an exercise in patience and keeping my mind focussed. Click on a tab to quickly change to another script and see flash builder go into deep contemplation for some 20 seconds. Wow! Can't work like that.
On the same box flex 3 runs with no nonsense like that. Is it related to running windows 7 (prof.) x64? Searching for other reports of this problem the first I found runs the very same OS and reports the same experience. (German only)