Increasing FlexBuilder heap size on Mac OS

Increasing FlexBuilder heap size on Mac OS

• Go to Applications -> Adobe Flex Builder 2
• Right click on "Flex Builder" app
• Click "Show Package Contents"
• Browse to 'Contents->MacOS'
• Open 'FlexBuilder.ini'
• Increase values of 'Xmx' and 'Xms'

You can also watch a screencast on a similar issue at http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog_assets/screencasts/eclipsejvmheap/

Passing parameters to SWF

• Open index.template.html (embed html)

• Browse to function "AC_FL_RunContent" under "else if (hasRequestedVersion) "
  
• Update 'flashvars' to pass appropriate parameters

1. Passing static parameters
AC_FL_RunContent(

"src", "${swf}",
"width", "${width}",
"height", "${height}",
"align", "middle",
"id", "${application}",
"quality", "high",
"bgcolor", "${bgcolor}",
"name", "${application}",
"flashvars",'param1=value1&historyUrl=history.htm%3F&lconid=' + lc_id + '',
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer",
"wmode", "opaque"

);

Inside your flex application you can access the above as:

Application.application.parameters.param1

This will give you the result : 'value1'

2. Passing dynamic parameters or parameters typed in the url
e.g. http://localhost:8080/flextest/DirectLinks.html?a=b&c=d

AC_FL_RunContent(
"src", "${swf}",
"width", "${width}",
"height", "${height}",
"align", "middle",
"id", "${application}",
"quality", "high",
"bgcolor", "${bgcolor}",
"name", "${application}",
"flashvars",'urlparams='+escape(window.location.search)+'&historyUrl=history.htm%3F&lconid=' + lc_id + '',
"allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
"type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"pluginspage", "http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer",
"wmode", "opaque"
);

Inside your flex application you can access the above as:

Application.application.parameters.urlparams

This will give you the result : '?a=b&c=d'

Flex3 beta released

Important links:

• Flex3 release notes

• Flex3
• Flex3 wiki
  
• FlexBuilder3
• AIR aka Apollo3
• Flex-Bug Management system

ButtonBar Panel

ButtonBarPanel : This is an extension of Panel in which a set of buttons can be added either on the header or footer.
Features:

• Extension of mx.controls.Panel , so it inherits all the properties of a Panel
  
• The buttons can be added either to the header or on the footer
• separate ClickHandler can be specified for each button.

Look at the ButtonBarPanelTest.mxml in the source for usage.



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Extending FlexBuilder Trail License

Not sure why Adobe has made licensing check in FlexBuilder so simple.
Currently FlexBuilder stores the timestamp in a temporary file.
So if someone just deletes that file, the flexbuilder trail license is reset.
I don't think I should be revealing the name of the file, its for you to find out ;-)