Flex 3 (Beta 3) Badge.swf don't like spaces!

We just recently were challenged with trying to update to the latest Flex beta, and there have been a few changes to the way the seamless install batch.swf works. For one thing, this program now goes out and talks to an air.swf hosted by Adobe. The second, and far more annoying "feature" was that if you had an AIR file name like "Sample Application.air" and tried to publish that using the sample batch.swf provided in the SDK, the AIR Installer would fail, choking on the space.

I've hacked the batch.fla file using regex to put replace spaces with %20, and this seems to have fixed the problem for now. I also downloaded a copy of the air.swf from the Adobe site, threw it in the same folder as my batch.swf and changed the code to use that one instead.

You can get the whole bag of goodies here. I've included all the source and a ready to use batch.swf, as well as a working sample.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

Thursday night I got this fantastic news:

"Dear Karen:
Congratulations! Your abstract,
Use the Power of Apex Dictionary Views to Increase the Quality of Your Apex Applications,
has been accepted for presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, June 15-19, in New Orleans, Louisiana."

Wauw!! A range of emotions ran through me. I go to New Orleans, the city from the gospel and the jazz!

It's the first time I go to a foreign country to give a presentation, so you understand that I'm very excited to be one of the selected speakers at ODTUG! This is a wonderful opportunity!

The Apex-core team at iAdvise has developed their own QA-tool on top of the Apex Repository to guard the quality of our application guidelines and conventions. I will bring this case together with my colleague Jan Huyzentruyt. We already did a lot of presentations together in Belgium, but it is the first time we are doing it abroad ...

So, we are looking forward going to New Orleans and we are honoured being on the list of speakers together with big names like Tom Kyte, Steven Feuerstein, Mark Rittman, Carl Backstrom, Patrick Wolf, ...

Hope to see you there!

Flex 3 (Beta 3) Badge.swf don't like spaces!

We just recently were challenged with trying to update to the latest Flex beta, and there have been a few changes to the way the seamless install batch.swf works. For one thing, this program now goes out and talks to an air.swf hosted by Adobe. The second, and far more annoying "feature" was that if you had an AIR file name like "Sample Application.air" and tried to publish that using the sample batch.swf provided in the SDK, the AIR Installer would fail, choking on the space.

I've hacked the batch.fla file using regex to put replace spaces with %20, and this seems to have fixed the problem for now. I also downloaded a copy of the air.swf from the Adobe site, threw it in the same folder as my batch.swf and changed the code to use that one instead.

You can get the whole bag of goodies here. I've included all the source and a ready to use batch.swf, as well as a working sample.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

Thursday night I got this fantastic news:

"Dear Karen:
Congratulations! Your abstract,
Use the Power of Apex Dictionary Views to Increase the Quality of Your Apex Applications,
has been accepted for presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, June 15-19, in New Orleans, Louisiana."

Wauw!! A range of emotions ran through me. I go to New Orleans, the city from the gospel and the jazz!

It's the first time I go to a foreign country to give a presentation, so you understand that I'm very excited to be one of the selected speakers at ODTUG! This is a wonderful opportunity!

The Apex-core team at iAdvise has developed their own QA-tool on top of the Apex Repository to guard the quality of our application guidelines and conventions. I will bring this case together with my colleague Jan Huyzentruyt. We already did a lot of presentations together in Belgium, but it is the first time we are doing it abroad ...

So, we are looking forward going to New Orleans and we are honoured being on the list of speakers together with big names like Tom Kyte, Steven Feuerstein, Mark Rittman, Carl Backstrom, Patrick Wolf, ...

Hope to see you there!

Flex 3 (Beta 3) Badge.swf don't like spaces!

We just recently were challenged with trying to update to the latest Flex beta, and there have been a few changes to the way the seamless install batch.swf works. For one thing, this program now goes out and talks to an air.swf hosted by Adobe. The second, and far more annoying "feature" was that if you had an AIR file name like "Sample Application.air" and tried to publish that using the sample batch.swf provided in the SDK, the AIR Installer would fail, choking on the space.

I've hacked the batch.fla file using regex to put replace spaces with %20, and this seems to have fixed the problem for now. I also downloaded a copy of the air.swf from the Adobe site, threw it in the same folder as my batch.swf and changed the code to use that one instead.

You can get the whole bag of goodies here. I've included all the source and a ready to use batch.swf, as well as a working sample.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

Thursday night I got this fantastic news:

"Dear Karen:
Congratulations! Your abstract,
Use the Power of Apex Dictionary Views to Increase the Quality of Your Apex Applications,
has been accepted for presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, June 15-19, in New Orleans, Louisiana."

Wauw!! A range of emotions ran through me. I go to New Orleans, the city from the gospel and the jazz!

It's the first time I go to a foreign country to give a presentation, so you understand that I'm very excited to be one of the selected speakers at ODTUG! This is a wonderful opportunity!

The Apex-core team at iAdvise has developed their own QA-tool on top of the Apex Repository to guard the quality of our application guidelines and conventions. I will bring this case together with my colleague Jan Huyzentruyt. We already did a lot of presentations together in Belgium, but it is the first time we are doing it abroad ...

So, we are looking forward going to New Orleans and we are honoured being on the list of speakers together with big names like Tom Kyte, Steven Feuerstein, Mark Rittman, Carl Backstrom, Patrick Wolf, ...

Hope to see you there!

Flex 3 (Beta 3) Badge.swf don't like spaces!

We just recently were challenged with trying to update to the latest Flex beta, and there have been a few changes to the way the seamless install batch.swf works. For one thing, this program now goes out and talks to an air.swf hosted by Adobe. The second, and far more annoying "feature" was that if you had an AIR file name like "Sample Application.air" and tried to publish that using the sample batch.swf provided in the SDK, the AIR Installer would fail, choking on the space.

I've hacked the batch.fla file using regex to put replace spaces with %20, and this seems to have fixed the problem for now. I also downloaded a copy of the air.swf from the Adobe site, threw it in the same folder as my batch.swf and changed the code to use that one instead.

You can get the whole bag of goodies here. I've included all the source and a ready to use batch.swf, as well as a working sample.