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Eclipse/FDT freezes while building workspace

Martin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:57:49 +0000

If you’re dealing with very big projects with lots of classes in Eclipse/FDT it might happen sometimes that Eclipse gets stuck while building the workspace. Even killing the Eclipse process and starting it up again won’t help, because with “Build Automatically” enabled it starts building right after launching and probably gets stuck again. This little solution will get you up and running again in a few seconds…

shutdown Eclipse
goto the workspace folder in your filesystem
rename the project-folder which caused the problem
startup Eclipse (now it won’t start building, because it doesn’t find the project)
disable the automatic building process (untick Project > “Build Automatically”)
close Eclipse
undo renaming the project-folder
startup Eclipse
build project manually (select project, Project > Build Project)
after that you can enable the automatic building again

Create Font SWFs easily in FDT

Martin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:58:25 +0000

I created an ANT build file which lets you create font SWFs easily, it takes a class template as input, generates the actual class for the chosen font and compiles the corresponding swf. but enough talking … give it a try.

Download:

fontcreator.zip

Setup:

import the zip file via “Import > Existing Projects.. > Select archive file”
add flash nature: AS3, Flex 3/4 SDK
run the ant build (don’t forget to select “Run in the same JRE as the workspace” in External Tools > JRE)

Steps:

select class template (you can create an own class template, save it in the template directory und select it here)

select font file (has to be in the assets/fonts directory)

specify a class name for your font class

the name for the font (thats the name you’ll use with TextFormat.font later on)

font weight

font style

mime type, normally ‘application/x-font’ should do the job

specifiy the chars to want to embed

That’s it. Now your font should get generated and afterwards be available in the deploy/fonts directory.

Portfolio Moved

Martin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:26:44 +0000

As there is no real backend, my old portfolio site is quite hard to update, so I decided to move the portfolio temporarily to this blog until i have the time to go for new flash site. You can find a small selection of projects here.

Test your color IQ

Martin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:03:07 +0000

I just tested my color IQ at xrite.com. The best result would be 0 and my score was 4. Considering that 1520 was the worst score in my gender and age range this is not too bad I guess.

What’s your color IQ?

for free

Martin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:21:39 +0000

web conference: October 24-26, 2008"/>

wohoo, I won a ticket for . thanks to flashforum.de and Aral for choosing the lucky winners.

new design, new content

Martin — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Finally I have decided to move my personal stuff to ~~http://private.formatlos.de~~ and accordingly seperate it from my technology and design related posts. Therefore you will find experiments, projects and other stuff I want to show you on this blog in the near future.

As there are so many cool (and even more ugly) wordpress themes out there I decided not to waste my time with designing and coding an own one but go for a nice and free theme.