Comments on: Big Brother

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:05:27 +0000

Thanks for that interesting application. The Javascript works for me. But not the swf-file.

By: Toji Leon

Toji Leon — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:37:36 +0000

Thanks for suggestions, Swaroop.

You: “Have you tried running the python script and check if it updates the data file?”

Me: Yes. That’s why we’ve data in the file; right?

You: “I guess youâ€™ll have to debug whether the flex app is actually able to find and read the file or not”

Me: Yes. I went through the mxml and guess that url=”BigBrotherSays.txt” may not be accurate (particularly when I run the swf inside a browser). The correct way to get the file name may be to use the ‘url’ property of ‘Application’ class. See http://tinyurl.com/2z6j8t and http://tinyurl.com/25x69s

Disclaimer: This is the first time in my life that I look into an mxml file!

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:55:03 +0000

@Toji: Have you tried running the python script and check if it updates the data file? And then try running the swf… I guess you’ll have to debug whether the flex app is actually able to find and read the file or not.

By: Toji Leon

Toji Leon — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:34:56 +0000

I cannot see the Pie Chart in Firefox. Both the swf
and the code are in same directory and I double-clicked
the swf to open it in Firefox. The ‘BigBrotherSays’ file
has data ‘Mozilla Firefox=40,Windows Task Manager=25,
python BigBrother.py=15,C:=5,Program Manager=5′

Windows XP SP2. Firefox 2.0.0.4.

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:38:46 +0000

@Taggy: Thanks for the heads-up, I've fixed the permissions.

@Ranganath: Please see the link to Theyagarajan's in the update to the post.

@Calvin: It splits the text of the title window by the dash, so title like 'Swaroop C H, The Dreamer - Mozilla Firefox' gets converted to just 'Mozilla Firefox'.

By: Calvin Spealman

Calvin Spealman — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:05:51 +0000

How does this work with apps that constantly change their titles, such as editors, winamp, firefox, etc.?

By: Ranganath.S

Ranganath.S — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:26:16 +0000

Do you know the api to do the same thing for Linux(Ubuntu).. After reading this article, Just wanted to try on Linux as well.

thank you

By: Ranganath.S

Ranganath.S — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:08:54 +0000

cool one! Its great!

By: taggy

taggy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:05:25 +0000

the java GUI is not accessible . says Permission Denied

By: Allagappan

Allagappan — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:44:09 +0000

Hey, taggy did a Big Brother in ubunut(though it uses ltfx)
Check http://freeshell.in/~taggy/blog