http://www.thedesilva.com Andrew de Silva Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I was working on a Flex project and realize upon having my project on the live server , I couldn't retrieve the height and width property of my loaded image by doing below var img:Image = new Image(); img.source = "image.jpg" trace(img.height); trace(img.width); The trace statement above will just show 0 for both width ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/07/width-and-height-for-dynamic-image/ Recently I was writing an application for Flex which I wanted to know about client-machine's capabilities in order to provide optimal experience on my application. After searching around, I found the Capabilities API in Action script 3. This became extremely helpful as I can know figure out a things on ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/06/finding-client-machine-capabilities-using-flex-flash/ Previously, in ActionScript 2.0, you could pass variables along the query string or using FlashVars and the variables would be available in _level0, in ActionScript 3.0, it is a bit different . In Actionscript 3 variables that are passed in through query string have been moved to the parameters property ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/06/retrieve-flash-variables-in-actionscript-3/ Recently I was working on a flash project that was using Actionscript 2 and it was such a pain trying to use loadClip() and pass in the necessary variables through query string for loading the external swf into a movieclip. I figure I'll post this here and hopefully someone ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/06/calling-external-swf-using-loadmovie/ Wow , I just realized how long since I've actually written a post here. I've been extremely busy with work lately and I have not got a chance to update with my blog. I've been working with more .NET stuff than ever at work and also attended a Flash ActionScript ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/05/its-been-awhile/ Its looks like I'm going to be working some extra hours this week.  There's a whole bunch of updating that I would have to carry out on websites that I maintain and designed . Good thing there isn't work that I'll have to deal with on the weekend other than ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/04/long-weekend/ I've to admit, I've been really lazy lately and haven't really been updating my store as much as I wanted to. Work has been much more busier lately and I haven't had much time to spend on working on my own website. I've just divided my store into product categories ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/03/new-products-added-to-store/ I've decided to add a store to my webpage to start selling some of the stuff that I own. Check out my new store by clicking the store icon above or click here . I'll mostly be selling some of my old textbook and stuff that I'm no longer using. ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/02/store-added/ So I've finally decided that it's time for me to really sit down and work on my own site for a change. I'm currently upgrading most of thedesilva.com layout and hopefully will be done at some point next week. http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/02/new-look/ It looks like I finally decided to dedicate my time to the site transfer and everything was successful. I was rather impress that it took half the effort and time to transfer a domain name and also web hosting account. Now if I would only get my lazy bottom ... http://www.thedesilva.com/2007/11/transfer-successful/