Flex AdvancedDataGrid Source Code

If you happen to have a Flex Builder Professional license you also have the source code for the datavisualization components. The source is archived in the DMV-source.jar file. This file is located in the lib directory of your SDK.

For Windows machines this is

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\sdks\3.2.0\lib\DMV-source.jar


To extract the source you run the following command.


java -jar DMV-source.jar [license-file-location] [output-location]


The license file can be found here

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Flex


You can put the source anywhere but Flex Builder Professional is already setup to read the source from

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\sdks\3.2.0

so it is easiest to just extract it from there.

The final command to extract the code would be

java -jar DMV-source.jar C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Flex C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\sdks\3.2.0


Finally some debugging relief

I’ve always hated that fact that I had to (or thought I had to) loop through collections to get to the particular element I was interested in while debugging. Turns out I didn’t need to do all that looping.

conditional breakpoints in eclipse

Now I want all that wasted time back.

Developing for Mac and iPhone

I’ve been thinking about teaching myself Cocoa programming in hopes of developing for the iPhone so the following blog entry from Command-Tab may be useful.
Learning Cocoa for the iPhone

Diff tools

Here is a quick link to a article on the  vimdiff diff/merge tool.  I’m always looking for new diff tools as I’m never quite happy with the one I’m currently using (SourceGear DiffMerge).  I doubt I’d be happy with this one but figured I’d share.