Mike 1.7.2011

  • Figured out there are actually 2 web servers running on fgmdev.com, one on port 80 and one on 8080.  I was deploying to the one on 8080 while trying to connect on port 80
  • Spoke to Brian this morning and I’m not going to try and get out  more fully functional demo to give the customer an idea of where we are headed then go back and build the framework.
  • Started this task by making a collapsible SkinnableContainer which, when compressed, displays only a header and a ”+’ button to expand it, expanding it them displays the widget which for now is either RichText or a datagrid
  • Learned something new about TextFlows,  I originally thought they acted like the data providers for RichText components.  turns out they are in fact themselves gui components and not simply a data class.  This screws up my plan of having the display and text editor point at the same TextFlow.  I’m either going to have to make copies or figure out another way to do data binding with rich text.  I found this out when having a demo with multiple text areas all pointing at the same TextFlow.  It worked fine until you minimized one of the collapsible containers.  The null pointer exception in FocusManager immediately made me realize TextFlows can’t be shared… actually it was more like my big toe hurting because my arm was broken.