7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

• Put together a shell script that backs up project_portfolio and moves the file to another machine in the enclave.
• My svn isn’t working. Now it is. Dong fixed, after a few attempts.
• More commenting. Maybe add a transition or two. Added transitions and learned a few things.
  • Components that have a transition must bein BasicLayout, with only x, y, width and height defined. If you need centering, you need to do that programatically, wising things like the FlexNativeWindowBoundsEvent.WINDOW_RESIZE event. Otherwise, the components get confused as to where to go after they have reached their endpoints
  • Programatically created classes also seem to have some issues. The SequenceScreen creates a series of ImageScreens, and I can’t get the SequenceScreen to work as part of a transition. Interestingly, transitions within a dynamically created ImageScreen work just fine.

7:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Deployed the new PPM app. Couldn’t get in contact with Christa, so I left it in the Beta state and will pick it up with her on Monday, unless she calls today.
• Working on skins. Done! That was actually quite easy and nice. Now commenting.

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

• Got word back from Christie. She is eagerly awaiting the new version Monday or Tuesday.
• Working on my Air pure Flex4 app.
  • itemCreationPolicy is now set for the particular component you want to make active or not instead of the parent container. The modes are immediate and differed. THis is *not* in the documentation. In fact, itemCreationPolicy isn’t even mentioned in the online docs. Sheesh.
  • Turns out the reason my ChangeWatcher wasn’t working was that the data that it was watching for a change had already been set. Rewrote things a bit to take that into account.
  • After some flailing, the obvious answer works for when an image finishes loading with the autoload option set to true: image.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoadedHandler);

8:00 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

• Working with getting XML to produce an ImageScreen. Getting images now, need to work with organizing next.
• It turns out that the Math.Random() method is not seedable. Had to write a new random class that uses the BitmapData.noise() method, which you *can* seed. The class creates a bitmap and then reads the pixel values as the random numbers. It returns a uint, int, or Number. Put it up on fgmdev.com

10:00 – 12:00 Physical.

8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Talked to Dong storing retrieving multiple users and meshing with the current DB.
• Weather sealed the giant’ leaky windows
• Working on Air app
  • Added static data dictionary for moving data beween components. I just don’t like passing data with events.
  • This doesn’t work. Not sure why: ChangeWatcher.watch(this, “xmlDataProvider”, handleXmlChange);
  • Looping over XML for loading into SequenceScreens

8:00 – VISIBILITY

• Helped Mike C. Get some OCR technology
• Worked through how to have multiple people in the project creation with Dong
• Found a nice checklist for server hardening that I’m passing off to Tom: http://security.utexas.edu/admin/redhat-linux.html
• More stuff on computer-mediated telepathy: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2010/ninds-27.htm
• public static var umapProvider:String = “https://127.0.0.1/NE2_modis3/ImageProperties.xml“
• Flex in a week. Let’s finish this!
  • Day 5, Exercise 5
  • Day 5, Exercise 6
  • Day 5, Exercise 7
  • Day 5, Exercise 8
  • Day 5, Exercise 9
  • Day 5, Exercise 10
  • Day 5, Exercise 11 – Good tutorial on setting up a simple AIR app, with installer, self-signed certs, etc.