Trazzle-wise – we’re using Logmeister under the hood which supports Monster and Trace: https://github.com/FrancisVarga/LogMeister

(We are not unfriendly to Windows developers, we just don’t have any Windows boxes to test on

SWFAddress issue? Interesting. Could you open an issue on Github with the full errors?

As of right now, it works in production just fine – so far. The project seems to have been inactive for a long time now, but it’s the only thing we’ve got. BirdBase doesn’t directly use it, but rather integrates it via the as3-navigator library written by Eric-Paul (https://github.com/epologee/navigator-as3).

I think:

1. It’s fine to use in BirdBase.

2. That none of know if and when it will stop working.

3. We should be prepared for that time and ensure that project managers, account handlers and team leads know that this might happen

4. Even if development is dead, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Go for it.

The 2.5 version is a beta version, old, but never out.
The current release is still 2.4:
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

And it seems the project is dead now:
Asual, the author of SWFaddress has moved on Github – https://github.com/asual
And works on Java/JavaScript projects. No more on SWFaddress

Are you sure it’s cool to use it in birdbase?

Joe

Well, Eric-Paul (author of the Navigator) and I have discussed this too, it proved a little more complex than I would have liked but it does work.

By and large, I used sub-views not managed by the Navigator for one site, but that wasn’t entirely satisfactory. So I hacked it with this:

		[PostConstruct]
		public function constructed():void
		{
			addEventListener( Event.ADDED, handleAdded, true );
		}

		private function handleAdded( event:Event ):void
		{
			if( navigationContainer )
			{
				if( this == navigationContainer.parent && this.numChildren > 0
					&& this.getChildIndex( navigationContainer ) != this.numChildren - 1)
				{
					this.setChildIndex( navigationContainer, numChildren - 1 );
				}
			}
		}

Which simply shifted the child index up to the top again for the navigation. Not ideal, AT ALL

But if you give us more info about what you’re trying to do, then maybe I can get get Eric-Paul out of hiding to discuss this with.

http://birdbase.org/2011/05/tips-updating-strings-dynamically/

in ConfigurationService, line 78, you will see:

textService.strings = d.strings;

So all you need to do, at the most basic level, is set a Dictionary of key-value pairs, of the new strings. So you could simply:

[Inject]
public var textService:ITextService;

At the top of your class, load in a YML file and decode it to a dictionary:

var d:Dictionary = YAML.decode( e.target.data ) as Dictionary;
textService.strings = d.strings;

More info shortly.