Flex Automation of Composite Component

Just posting a quick code snippet for anyone banging their head against the wall trying to setup Flex automation testing on a composite component. Adobe's documentation for automation-enabling composite components assumes a fixed set of items, using a simple switch statement to return the known object.

But what if you have a dynamic composite object, such as a Panel that lets you dynamically add Buttons to the ...

Install Custom fonts on Chrome CR-48

If you want to install custom fonts on your CR48 here are some steps to follow:


In Dev mode, drop into a shell and remove rootfs verification so we can copy files to wherever and then reboot

sudo /usr/share/vboot/bin/make_dev_ssd.ssh --remove_rootfs_verification
sudo reboot

Now go back into shell, copy fonts over and reboot again

cd /home/chronos/user/Downloads
sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share ...

Setup LEAP Wifi on Android with Full Wifi

If you are wanting to get connected to your work or college's secure wireless network, you may be hard-pressed with the stock Android wifi configuration settings. Even though the underlying operating system (as of Android 1.6) supports enterprise wifi networks, the only way to set these required modifying a configuration text file. The problem is that non-root users on Android have no read/write access to ...

ThunderTabs: Load any url as a tab in Thunderbird

A Lifehacker post on how to load Google Wave as a tab within Thunderbird inspired me to make a simple extension called ThunderTabs. Its basically a simple way to load any URL in a tab in Thunderbird. I've loaded Gmail, Google Voice, and Google Wave as tabs and it makes my Thunderbird a useful "communications hub".

Thunderbird usually remembers the Tabs open in your last session, but ...

Flash Debugger on 64 bit Linux

One of the main issues for flex developers with migrating to a 64bit environment is the lack of a debug version of the flash player. After scouring forums and blog posts on workarounds, I came up with something that is working great for me. I installed Firefox (Win32) via Wine and installed the flash debugger on it.  I then setup my 32bit Eclipse (where FlexBuilder A5 is installed ...