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Status Ex Machina

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

I’m giving an introductory talk at FlashBrighton about State Machines on March 9th at the Werks. You can also catch it streaming live at http://live.flashbrighton.org at round about 7.00pm GMT (ok, it might not start till quarter past, when the bods in the real world have turned up :).

ReferenceError: FLBridge is not defined

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Recently this happened to my Flash CS3 Professional:
On start up I get error messages that won’t go away. They’ll always say “At line 1 of file “FLBridge_init.jsfl”: ReferenceError: FLBridge is not defined”, and whenever I try to exit the pop-up message, another one takes its place.

I’d have to do some acrobatic mouse work to actually quit Flash. Note that this isn’t a crash, Flash seems to be working perfectly, just with consistent and irritating alerts.

Re-installation didn’t help, and I found only three reference on web (one in Chinese) with no answers, Adobe support was also no help.

However, in an inspired moment, I thought I’d change my user profile (using Vista Home). Yup, that worked. So, still no idea about cause, but at least I’ve got Flash Back.

catch up with anti

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Well, I’ve just got through a busy patch work-wise, with no time to work on any private projects, so I’m afraid the FSMVisualiser hasn’t progressed at all since my last post a while back.

However, I thought i’d post some stuff that I’ve been working on. One of these projects is a flickbook navigated trail commissioned by ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Finland. The work is by word picture studio (festival entry here). My part was to composite and make ready all the final prints using AfterEffects, Photoshop and InDesign.

Below are some choice thumbnails, because I sort of like looking at the flickbooks this way:

Flick the First
Flick the First, Flickers, ANTI Festival 2009 by word picture studios

Flick the Fifth
Flick the Fifth, Flickers, ANTI Festival 2009 by word picture studios

Flick the Sixth
Flick the Sixth, Flickers, ANTI Festival 2009 by word picture studios

Flick the Eighth
Flick the Eighth, Flickers, ANTI Festival 2009 by word picture studios

FSMViz Version 0.2

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

FSMVis for pureMVC StateMachine Utility

FSMViz for pureMVC StateMachine Utility


source code here:
http://puremvc-utilities.googlecode.com/svn/tags/fsm_viz_0.2

So this is just the visualisation and the editing of the States and Actions. I still need to implement the saving out of state, and the export of the StateConstants.as

A few points and pointers:

  • If you do look at the code, please consider that it is a quick prototype, it will need to be optimised and architechtured (it doesn’t even have a FSM yet ;~/).
  • The visualisation is done using the Flare package
  • I am using the flex framework RSL, so the first time you visit, the app might take a fair time to initiate. However, from then on it will be cashed on your machine, so it will be much quicker.
  • I have used Joel Hook’s FSM diagram from his Piping the Machine tutorial as the initial diagram
  • You can add states with the form on the bottom left, the package is an optional field that allows grouping of states for a prettier layout using a dot as the delimiter (eg “io.out”, “io.in” or “display”). Then fill in the name and hit ENTER to submit.
  • Rolling over a state will highlight outgoing actions (red) and with ctrl down, all incoming actions (green).
  • Clicking on a state will switch to Edit mode, and bring up forms for editing the state and outgoing actions.
  • Rolling over the highlighted actions will popup their names
  • Clicking the top right x (or hitting ESC) will close the panels with out committing changes
  • Clicking the red X buttons will perminently delete the state/action (hitting DEL will delete the state)
  • Clicking the green tick (or hitting ENTER) will commit any changes
  • Clicking the strange-green-plus-arrow button (or hitting F1) will create a new Action. You can then give it a name and choose its target state.
  • Power Flasher

    Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

    As you can see I have a new badge on my blog. Thanks to the Open Source policy of those generous people at PowerFlasher I have been given a complimentary key for FDT Enterprise for my work on the pureMVC manifold project. If you contribute to an Open Source project, why not apply here.

    FSM Visualisation 3

    Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

    Sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog recently. What with a brute force attack of malware, and working on some bread-and-butter projects, I’ve been a bit diverted.

    However, I have found the time to play around with the FSM Visualiser and have been working on the best way to display and interact with it, so I’ll probably stick something fresh up with in the next week or so.

    Back again

    Thursday, May 21st, 2009

    Hopefully thats the end of it, tightened up my security as much as possible.
    Will have to upload all my assets again in a while. I’m in quarantine at the moment my SPs changed my ftp password, and I don’t know what it is yet. Too depressed to ask.

    infected again

    Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

    and black listed by google!
    AHHH

    I’ve cleaned up again, changed password, blah blah!

    uploading old assets

    Thursday, May 14th, 2009

    just uploading some of my blog assets that I removed due to an html framer infestation.

    All Clear

    Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

    Well, I seem to be all clear of reinfection, and have changed my ftp password.

    Let it be known that you should keep your passwords in your head, and not save them. I believe my password was hacked through a security breach in Filezilla, as I saved my profile in the site manager.

    If anybody does get a virus/mal-ware alert visiting this site, please tell me.

    cheers