Yep, you read that right. The bugs in the Flex app are starting to multiply out of control and they’re popping up faster than I can kill them. I fixed several bugs today, none of which I knew existed before today. Some of the bugs weren’t possible to catch before since the functionality that was necessary to show they existed wasn’t implemented yet. As more things get implemented, we’ll be seeing this on an increasingly frequent basis.
I also (re-)discovered a rather serious bug that I thought I had quashed two weeks ago. Despite my “hack-tastic” solution, default company permissions are still not being set correctly. Therefore, I am making a detour from the schedule to investigate this as it is a rather serious bug, especially now that users can almost join companies.
Which brings me to what I spent most of my time on today. Users can now ask to be added to companies, at which point they will receive the default permissions for the company and be given “requested” status. Still to-do: implementing the company user management UI so that an authorized user can actually approve the request by changing them to “active” status. Also I spent about two hours figuring out how to integrate FlexSpy into our development builds (and remove it from test/production builds). I opted for a hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-Space) rather than a button somewhere on the screen (for simplicity and also so we don’t run into a “I want to put something there so we have to move the FlexSpy button” issue later). Consequently, the integration is somewhat… quirky. Flex, as usual, sucks massively and lacks true support for hotkeys, so you have to focus on the application first. By focus, I don’t mean “click somewhere in the app”, because annoyingly that doesn’t work. Instead, you have to focus on something that is really focusable, like a text input or a datagrid.
And to close out our grab bag of news, the rumors were right for once: FB4 beta 2 was released today. Hopefully I’ll have time to tinker with it later this week.
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