Flex chat is now installed on my sidebar
August 20th, 2007
Update: To get your own chat room, visit www.chatopica.com. To chat about Flex with other Flex developers, visit www.chatopica.com/topics/flex.
Thanks to everyone who helped us test our Flex-based chat widget last week. We’ve made a lot of improvements and I decided it was ready to put on my blog’s sidebar.
Be sure to try the code input mode. It lets you send code without having to worry about filling up the chat and interrupting the conversation. It also does AS3 syntax highlighting.
Soon we’ll provide the embed code so that you can put it on your blog, too. Send me an email if you’re interested and I’ll let you know when it’s ready. We’re hoping we can get enough Flex developers hanging out regularly so that people can use it as a way to get their questions answered.
You can submit bugs here: www.searchcoders.com/bugs
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
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August 27th, 2007 at 8:51 am
I cannot send a message debug error shows
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.searchcoders.minisites.chat.views::ChatMainView/private::send()
at com.searchcoders.minisites.chat.views::ChatMainView/___ChatMainView_Button4_click()
at [mouseEvent]
August 27th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Hi Tim,
That means you’re not connected. You’re most likely behind a firewall that doesn’t allow jabber connections. We’re working on adding http polling to get around those situations.
-Tom
August 27th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Ahh yes that appears to be the issue, can I ask why Jabber is being used? instead of just direct database connection? I did not see where I can add this to my existing Jabber or something like that, but that would be cool if I could open this up in my own jabber client as well as we all searchcoders.
August 27th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Hi Tim, we’re using openfire so that we can take advantage of all the multi-user chat room administration features it provides, among other reasons. We also like having essentially zero latency.