Yep, that’s right. The title says it all. I promised to have an update available in mid-July. Now it’s August. Where is the update? Well, I have made some progress but it’s not ready yet. Sorry.
If you’re using hfcd, please download and overwrite the original hfcd.jar. Please use the following URL:
http://www.stopcoding.org/downloads/hfcd.jar
The expiration date is now [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Over-promise and under-deliver
Posted in Flex Compiler API, Technology, tagged Flex Compiler API on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Configuring Flex Builder to use the HellFire compiler
Posted in Flex Compiler API, Technology, tagged Flex SDK, Flex Compiler, Flex Compiler API on June 17, 2008 | 24 Comments »
Hi, In my previous post, I talked about a RPC version of the Flex compiler API, i.e. instead of invoking the Flex compiler in the same JVM process as the caller, the RPC version makes network calls to a server dedicated to compiling Flex applications, modules and libraries. After working on the prototype a little [...]
The Flex Compiler API… RPC Style!
Posted in Flex Compiler API, Technology, tagged compc, fcsh, Flex, Flex Compiler, Flex SDK, mxmlc on May 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I don’t know how many of you had used Flex Builder 1.0… It wasn’t Eclipse-based. It was based on the award-winning Dreamweaver C++ codebase. We all know that the compiler has been Java-based since day one, so it’s somewhat difficult to integrate the compiler with the C++ based FB (what JNI??). Anyhow, if I remember [...]
The Future of The Flex Profiler
Posted in Technology, profiler, tagged Flex, Flex Profiler on April 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If you haven’t read my previous blog about the Flex Profiler, I recommend you go take a look…
Ever since the Flex Profiler was made available in early FB3 beta, I’ve been hearing some legitimate concerns. One example and I paraphrase:
It’s great that Flex has implemented a large number of Eclipse views for the main use [...]
Let’s Talk About The Flex Profiler
Posted in Technology, profiler, tagged Flex, Flex Profiler on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yeah, I know. This is a compiler blog, not a profiler blog. But I can explain…
The performance and memory profiling feature in Flex Builder Professional Edition wasn’t done by the FB development team. It was done by the Flex compiler team. Yes. I mean everything: the Eclipse plugin, user interface, profiler agent, data collection and [...]
I Don’t See These Tricks In fcsh!
Posted in Technology, fcsh, tagged fcsh, Flex, Flex Compiler on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
In one of my previous posts, Flex Compiler SHell (fcsh), I mentioned that Flex removed the flex2.tools.Shell class from mxmlc.jar in version 3. For those who’ve read my previous post, flex2.tools.SimpleShell is a simplified version of flex2.tools.Shell and is currently the ‘official’ fcsh. But flex2.tools.Shell is the version I used back then when I worked [...]
SWC: More Should Be Done For Tooling
Posted in Technology, compc, tagged compc, Flex on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you are a Flex developer, I am sure that you know what SWC is. SWC files are component archive files (a.k.a. libraries) and it’s the library format of choice for Flash Authoring and Flex. SWCs are zip-compatible - that means you can use any zip utilities to open and view it.
The SWC format was [...]
Flex Compiler SHell (fcsh)
Posted in Technology, fcsh, tagged compc, fcsh, Flex, Flex Compiler, Flex SDK, mxmlc on April 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In early summer 2005, the Flex development team was busy working on Flex 2. The new Flex compiler redesign and implementation were finally gaining traction (well, you have no idea how frustrating it was when you had to build a new compiler that integrated with some unstable AS3 compiler pieces and had to run those [...]
Understanding the Flex Compiler
Posted in Technology, asdoc, compc, fcsh, mxmlc, tagged Flex, mxmlc, compc, Flex SDK, Flex Compiler on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
STOP! Before you continue, I want to make sure that you have downloaded the compiler source code from the Adobe open source site. Ideally, it would really help if you also have Eclipse setup so you can view the source files easily.
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Flex compiler supports multiple programming languages. [...]
A Brief History of The Adobe Flex Compiler
Posted in Technology, tagged Flex Compiler on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Good evening. Let me start with telling a little bit about the history of the Flex compiler. When we first started building the Flex compiler back in 2002, we almost started everything from scratch. Well, one of the exceptions was the support for ActionScript 2. We ported the C++ version of the ActionScript 2 compiler [...]
