Category Archives: Tools

Flex 4 Gives Me a Headache

By Jeff | Published: 29 March 2010
I’m glad that I decided to wait until the release of Flex 4 prior to the release of DarkRoomX. Much of the style hacking I was doing for presentation in DarkRoomX has been obsoleted in Flex 4, and the new spark controls. As a result, upgrading will not be the simple matter of a little [...]
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Installing Adobe Air on 64bit Linux

By Jeff | Published: 7 November 2009
So, I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 64bit on my pc. And, when I went to install Adobe Air so that I could test DarkRoomX it didn’t work. Or, rather the installer completed but it didn’t actually work. So, I had to dig up some instructions for getting it to work (you need to manually install [...]
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Pre-Release Checklist

By Jeff | Published: 2 October 2009
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on DR progress. I have closed out all my open issues, and I only have one, maybe two feature sI want to add before the launch. Then, I will be working on the site. After the site is ready to go I will make an official beta [...]
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NativeMenu Glitch in Snow Leopard

By Jeff | Published: 29 September 2009
Is anyone using the preview release of DarkRoomX in Snow Leopard? I have a testing system setup, and when I ran it I noticed a weird issue with the menu. Apparently, I am getting a duplicate, useless apple menu. I am curious if this is an issue with Air and Snow Leopard, or just DarkRoomX, [...]
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Distraction Free Writing in 2009

By Jeff | Published: 28 September 2009
While Dark Room has been mostly dormant, many things have changed. I originally got the idea for Dark Room from Jesse over at Hog Bay. WriteRoom was really the first in this modern era of retro text editors. Back then, WriteRoom was the only game in town, and it was, and still is, Mac only. [...]
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