the reason is that your main.as does not have a valid view.
try passing the mxml view as an argument to it and call it's addChild
function;
e.g.
public function createSprite2():void{
var main:Main = new Main();
main.createSprite(this);
}
and in main.as
public function
Hi all
I want to create a pre loader for label while binding data
I think what he's saying is he would like a loading screen for each user
control that is bound to some data. i.e. whilst it's waiting for data,
display the waiting screen.
Mark
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Behalf Of
On Friday 18 Jan 2008, markcavins wrote:
You are correct it would be a JS HTML. Is there a way for flex to take
control of the browser to keep the JS from activating?
As I said:
JavaScript ... won't be run by the Flex HTTP client.
--
Tom Chiverton
Helping to widespreadedly expedite
On Sunday 20 Jan 2008, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
But the list of columnName(s) is what I am trying to get.
As an alternative, look at dataGrid.columns
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Tom Chiverton
Helping to enthusiastically incubate scalable information
on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com
On Monday 21 Jan 2008, shaun wrote:
Clearly AIR is not suited to the type of app that needs to access the OS
runtime or execute programs locally otherwise it would have an api to do
so.
Not, not at the moment. It's rare that one tool can do everything.
And lots of people are asking about
I want to customise the legend label for a PieChart.
I cant see anyway to do this without overriding PieSeries...
Is there an simpler way to do this.
tks
Hi
I have an app that's approx. 2MB big was using the default Flex
preloader, which has suddenly stopped working.
I have confirmed this by throttling my app with Charles. While my app
loads, there is a blank screen. Once the swf has loaded, the preloader
displays for a short few seconds then
On Monday 21 Jan 2008, John wrote:
Hi there, Has anybody achieved or got any advice on SCORM'ing a Flex
package?
What'ing ?
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Helping to simultaneously exploit B2B platforms
on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com
This email
On Monday 21 Jan 2008, polestar11 wrote:
preloader, which has suddenly stopped working.
What had you just changed ? Roll back in your version control and trya some
older versions.
Does clearing the browser cache help at all ?
--
Tom Chiverton
Helping to seamlessly innovate unique customers
Hi all
I want to delay the start of my effect mean that I want the effect start in
the second number 5
On Saturday 19 Jan 2008, hergy80 wrote:
the created objects from the DOM. I don't see any references to
creating destructors within the class, and I'm not sure if there is an
event to listen for..
There's a childRemove event, isn't there ?
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Tom Chiverton
Helping to continuously
Hi again
There's no distinct version at which it stopped working, so rolling
back could be a very long ardious process. At some point I did some
changes to initialization of various classes / loading configs, in the
initialization stage. I'm not sure if this can affect the pre-loader?
Clearing
Yes, that could have been the source of that but in a generic
situation not all data fields are shown in grids and grids in turn
might have no data columns (images for example). So, the best is to
get a list of fields straight from the dataProvider.
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Yes, I've uncommented CF-RTMP in the service config xml.
I try to run example from :
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/php_getstarted.html in my
apache2.2 that have installed with php and flex module.
.mxml file :
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
backgroundColor=#f6f6f6
I am new to flex so excuse my ignorance if its obvious
Does flex provide the ability to have a socket listening for connections?
I would like to spawn a separate thread to listen for incoming
connections, while the flex app is still able to do its UI interactions.
If Flex doesn't have this
This is the code I am using:
mx:states
mx:State name=Login
view:Login id=login /
/mx:State
/mx:states
This is the error I am receiving:
In initializer for 'overrides': type view.Login is not assignable to target
type Array or target
element type
I did find an example which does appear to
You can connect to SQL Server 2005 directly (even without IIS
or Apache). You need to open HTTP ENDPOINT for your SQL Server. (with
create http endpoint.) and you need to define SOAP webmetod (as a stored
procedure). If your security consideration permit to open batches from
Hi,
I am having big problems with the Tree. I am used to having more
inuitive Tree (recursive) structures, and am conmfortable with
recursion.
My immediate question is how to use the getChildren() of the default
ITreeDataDescriptor of a Tree with NO ROOT item, but rather many
branches
Hello,
I have made a AIR application which import the data from the PC and show
the image with data. The data is saved in CSV format.
It has been exported with Flexbuilder 3.
Problem 1:
It runs fine in windows with AIR 2.0 runtime. It shows image and data
perfectly. When I install AIR 3.0
I have a datagrid and a chart sharing the same data provider. I'm
trying to find the function I need to call to trigger the data tip to
show on the chart when I click on a row in the datagrid.
I've looked under myChart.series[0].items[0..n] and each part in
between but can't seem to find a way
Hello!
Spent almost whole weekend trying to display html text (generated by
flex own RichText editor) withis DataGrid cell. Tried item renderes
Label, Text, TextArea, without any success. Coud it be a bug?
Text of course ir wrapped in CDATA, no errors, no warning from
compilator. Monday is
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And those will work with Flex 2 projects? That's the question. I see the
files for Flex 3... I assumed they were incompatible.
You must recompile FunFX adapter's sources to use it with Flex2. If
you are interested, I
Mh sounds like the php script can't be called.
I guess you are sure that the file is there.. so maybe
there is something wrong with your file permissions???
Just an idea...
Max
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From: Harry Saputra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday,
that doesn't look right, shouldn't you be adding your component as a
child in the new state.
I find the best way to code states is in the flex builder design tool,
it is too easy to get the syntax wrong. Switch to your login state
and add your custom control and you'll get exactly the code you
Try this:
mx:states
mx:State name=Login/
mx:AddChild position=LastChild
view:Login id=login/
/mx:AddChild
/mx:State
/mx:states
~randy
_
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Behalf Of simonjpalmer
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:55 AM
To:
Hello !
Is there any way I can upload several files and makw only one request?
Because, using the traditional FileReference.upload() method, this is
applying to each of the files and the request is made for every file.
Is there any other alternative except FileReference.upload().
Thank you !
Hi,
is it possible to download files in a Flex app from
the server to the user by calling a php script that
only allows the download if a user is authorized?
I know how to handle the authorization check.. it is
more about if there is a way to echo or send the data
or whatever by a php script
Hi,
have anyone tried the as3 library to read/write far archives?? is it
stable enough??
This sounds normal, yes. Some more memory will be used for each new
DisplayObject (each new Object of any kind, for that matter). It won't
be reclaimed until all the references to that object are gone, and the
GC sees fit to do a collection. It could be that you have stranded event
listeners or
I'm slowly but surely building out some libraries intended to make it a
bit easier to handle. So far all I have is an RTE Abstraction class that
transparently implements the various LMS Calls. It's v2004 rev.3, and I
can't really move forward until I can find previous versions of the
documentation
Still down. Would it help move things along if we users begged and pleaded?
:) We need this...
Douglas
On Jan 18, 2008 2:07 AM, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it just me ?
No, it isn't working for me either. I'm cc'ing some folks on the
documentation team.
Gordon Smith
Adobe
We use the standard Flex/Java structure of a package/directory tree
based on company url: com.truviso.component.package.subpackage.so.on,
depending on how fine-grained we feel the package divisions should be.
It's a little deeply nested, but that's a minor inconvenience. It works
quite well for
Actually, it _will_ help move things along. Thanks.
FYI, some of the web apps running on adobe.com were down over the
weekend and everything was supposed to be up and running yesterday.
However, on LiveDocs, there seem to be two remaining errors:
* Funky search. I see an error in an SSI, but it
It requires a custom renderer. There is an example on my blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2007/03/thinking_about_item_renderers_1.ht
ml
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Behalf Of juris.vecvanags
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008
If you look at the datagrid source, there is a function called
generateColumns which tries to introspect the data and generate the
column set. Naturally, nested fields aren't found, and unless the
fields have friendly names, your column headers end up looking like
lastname instead of Last Name,
It should be working now. Thanks for your patience.
-Randy
Are you making this harder than it is? Just assign the XML to the
Tree.dataProvider. Find the node you want using an e4x expression, and
pass that reference to expandItem(). callLater may be needed depending
on how you assign the dataProvider.
Here is an example, there are more on that same
I tried:
trace(gridObj.dataProvider.generateColumns());
but it returns null.
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If you look at the datagrid source, there is a function called
generateColumns which tries to introspect the data and generate the
column set.
Hi all.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to fully reset a flex application
programmatically?
My problem is this.
I'm using states to manage my apps logging in/out
But, when a user logs out, then back in again all of the components have
already been initialized during the first
I have created a ItemRenderer that displays some text based on values in the
XML data. Everything works as expected, but I want to display a image based
on the value in the XML data. The image source attribute =
{XML(data)[EMAIL PROTECTED] which returns a value = addNew, but does not
load the
The {server.name} and {server.port} tokens are a shortcut you can use if your
swf is loaded and runs in a browser. At runtime on the client these values are
swapped out based upon the URL for your swf. You can never use a {server.port}
token for an RTMP URL; you need to use an explicit port.
The Flash Socket API doesn't support binding a port to accept TCP connections
or UDP datagrams on.
So you can stop work on your AIR FTP client or HTTP server for now :)
Seth
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I know also that the order in which you install the runtime's matters
(see the release notes).
I seem to remember that if you need to run apps that worked with the
B2, you had to install that, then B3. If it was a new install and you
just did B3, the B2 apps will not work.
I can't seem to find
Mark, there is no such function on dataProvider. I'm surprised you
didn't get an error. Please read my replies carefully. There is no
function to do what you want to do directly. I was pointing you to an
example of how we use getClassInfo in the DG. But even when you get
that to work, you
You could use a Pause effect in a Sequence:
mx:Sequence
mx:Pause duration=5000/
mx:Fade alphaFrom=1 alphaTo=0/
/mx:Sequence
Or use effectEnd:
mx:Pause duration=5000 effectEnd=myEffect.play();/
mx:Fade id=myEffect alphaFrom=1 alphaTo=0/
Those are just a couple options that may, or may
or create a timer class
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From: scalenine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:05:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Delaying effect start
You could use a Pause effect in a Sequence:
mx:Sequence
mx:Pause duration=5000 /
I tried to search for this but got a server busy error. I figured
I would go ahead and post it. I appologize if this has been covered
before.
I'm trying to dynamically generate columns for my datagrid. I don't
have prior knowledge of the column attributes before receiving the
data. I get
I'm releasing the first beta of FlexReport, a client-side open source
(LGPL) report generation library for Flex. You can see a demo (and
sources) at www.kemelyon.com/bts
Hope you find FlexReport useful and contribute with any improvements you
make.
Regards,
Frederico Garcia
Thank you! Looks like I will have something to play with for the rest of the
afternoon after all :)
On Jan 21, 2008 3:14 PM, Frederico Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm releasing the first beta of FlexReport, a client-side open source
(LGPL) report generation library for Flex. You can see
Why would you think that a book called actionscript 3 animation uses
only only
flash.* classes throughout and avoids the mx.* classes completely ?
It was just a guess, because the title didn't include the word Flex.
Are you saying that this book actually does use mx.* classes?
Doesn't Flex
if you really want to practice using the flash book then just add it to the
rawChildren property and it will work in flex project and you wont get any
error but be careful though since rawChildren is for non-content children and
you should not really be using it. At least that is what i do when
Hi folks, How can I embed the air runtime in an air application? Is
thre any possibility to do this? thnx.
It doesn't matter where I go, I always run into people having printing
issues with Flex. Most have found the FlexPrintJob class and samples on how
to use it, but for those who print multiple pages the results are sometime
less than stellar.
Thanks for starting FlexReport
Hey All,
I am doing some file-upload stuff with java on backend. To achieve this I
need to do some post with multipart/form-data.
I am also using *FileReference* to get a reference to handle the file. But
in the flex language reference it says,
*Note*:The FileReference.upload() and
For anyone using alivePDF, I think this is a bug in the source. After checking
with FPDF
source, I think line 2001 in PDF.as should read:
} else this.x += pWidth;
instead of:
} else this.x += currentPage.w;
currently this.x is being set to the page width which pushes any second cell
you try
But what result you get? Make sure that data are already there (gridData and
columnData are filled with values) when you launch this method.
I would fix the code with the following :
var headers:String = new String();
var newColumns:Array = new Array();
// flex loops are generally done this way
I am happy to announce that InsideRIA.com which is a new RIA community
portal coming from O'Reilly and Adobe is now officially live. You can
read my full post at:
http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/01/21/introducing-insideria/
I would ask a favor of my flex coders who run their own blogs, to
Hi Folks,
Im trying to make a filter in my dataGrid using XML via HTTPService, but not
success.
My XML is something like this:
realstates
realstate
mls123/mls
classLOTS/LAND/class
typeResidential/type
asking_price
I have a client that would like a combobox in a datagrid... simple
enough
the scenario is a combobox filled with upc numbers, and when a upc
gets selected, the whole row of the datagrid gets filled out, and it
adds an empty row to the bottom of the datagrid...
It's not working the way i
First, you need to set resultFormat=e4x on the httpservice tag.
Then you can either put the results into an XMLListCollection and use
its API to filter, or you can use e4x expressions directly on the xml to
do the filtering.
Tracy
From:
Hi,I'm one of the founders of Wikinvest and we're looking for some
Flex/Flash superstars. We've got some pretty cool stuff that we're building
-- see below for some more info. Email me if you're interested in exploring
further (also, if you're not interested but know of some folks who might be,
That's awesome, thanks for making this. FlashPaper 3, here we come... ;)
I wonder how your code compares with the source for Share, if Adobe ever
releases it.
___
Joseph Balderson, Flash Platform Developer | http://joeflash.ca
Writing
damn! I thought I did and bookmarked it
http://del.icio.us/barry.b/SCORM
maybe someone else has?
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_usp=SCORMtype=all
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From: Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:37 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Help With AlivePDF
snip
What we BADLY need in flex is a way to view PDF's natively. How about an
Acrobat Flex
component? Adobe? It
Hello,
I am using Tomcat for my Flex application so on my
browser's navigation toolbar(the place where we write
url in a browser) the Tomcat's icon appears. I want
to put a different icon there- how do I do that.
Regards,
When I want to remove the skin of various components like this I often set
the skin class to ProgrammaticSkin, which is the base skin class but doesn't
actually render anything. So if you set trackSkin to ProgrammaticSkin it
should hopefully do what you want.
Doug
On 1/20/08, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL
Using Flex 2, I'm having a bit of a problem figuring out how a toolbar
should be coded. I want a strip that runs along the bottom of the app. It
has a number of differently sized buttons on it, some regular buttons with
just an icon, some icons and text, some popup buttons, etc. When the app is
I have an application that runs both in browser (Flex) and standalone (Air).
But the application does different things depending if it is Flex or Air.
I currently have two versions, but would like to just have one.
Is there a way of detecting if it is running as AIR / Flex so that for
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you making this harder than it is? Just assign the XML to the
Tree.dataProvider. Find the node you want using an e4x expression,
and
pass that reference to expandItem(). callLater may be needed depending
on how
you are going to have to implement your own TreeDataDescriptor
On 1/21/08, hmmmbeer3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you making this harder than it is? Just assign the XML to the
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wrote:
We use the standard Flex/Java structure of a package/directory tree
based on company url:
com.truviso.component.package.subpackage.so.on,
depending on how fine-grained we feel the package divisions should
be.
It's
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you are going to have to implement your own TreeDataDescriptor
Hi,
yes I plan on doing that - but I would still like to know how to use
the default one to retrieve the data - it works fine on a tree with a
single root
you don't have to use the default one
look at overriding getChildren
On 1/21/08, hmmmbeer3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you are going to have to implement your own TreeDataDescriptor
Hi,
There's a showRoot parameter on Tree
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Behalf Of hmmmbeer3
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:11 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tree and ITreeDataDescriptor
--- In
Don't have time to look right now, but you may need to call
validateNow() before setting the selectedItem or use callLater to set it
later. Row changes can cause the DG to adjust the selectedIndex and
that might be causing a conflict for you.
From:
There probably might be different ways. But I use the following trick.
I create a class called Version.as in my Flex project under a specific
package.
package com.mycompany.
{
public class Version
{
public static const HAS_AIR:Boolean = false;
}
}
I create the exact same package
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you don't have to use the default one
look at overriding getChildren
To do that, I would have to implement all of the ITReeDataDescriptor
interface; which I might do in any case, but for a simple Tree, with no
root,
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There's a showRoot parameter on Tree
But what if my data had no single root item? And how would I get a
reference to the root in any case to pass to getChildren(node:Object).
Passing null does not work.
Mh there must be a favicon.ico in your root folder.
If you change that it should do the trick.
Then it is important to make the browser reload the
new image. I think you have to restart the browser..
should find a 100% working way on google though.
Max
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From: hworke
There must be an easier way.
The very first line of Flex vs Air app is different.
mx:WindowedApplication
mx:Application
There must be a way of saying, is this a Application or WindowedApplication.
Regards
Dale Fraser
http://learncf.com
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
IIRC, if you pass in something like an ArrayCollection, then you say
showRoot=true and we should display the entire top level w/o a call to
getChildren
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Behalf Of hmmmbeer3
Sent: Monday, January 21,
I would think the easiest way to address this is to create states for
various screen resolution ranges, while keeping the rest of the
application the same. Set the state based on the resize event calling
a function from the application tag.
Otherwise, you'll have to create an algorithm (see
I am experiencing a problem in a drag and drop control for which I have been
unable to create a cut down test case version.
I have a Canvas full of draggable images that can be dragged over to a sibling
drop pane. If an image is dragged over to the drop pane relatively fast the
drag proxy does
Thanks,
Made a couple of modifications based on your example and got it to
work.
Here is the function for the record (headers String and Alert
commented out):
public function updateGridData():void{
var newColumns:Array = new Array();
//var headers:String = new String();
var i:int;
I have a Flex app that needs to adjust its layout before a printout is useful.
This is not a
problem when a user clicks the print button I have in my app. In this case I
just call my
doPrint() function which creates a FlexPrintJob, adjusts the layout as
necessary, and then calls
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com,
ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Renaming or moving a class should go through the entire project
and refactor for me.
Thats what the refactoring in FB3 does.
Sorry to revive something from a dead thread, but I was searching for
this issue
Hello,
I'm working on a print function for a Flex 2 app. When my print button is
clicked I only want to print a portion of the page, and I need
to manipulate the layout first to make sure the output looks good. From what
I've read everybody recommends creating a new Canvas,
adding the
The docs say this :
if (Security.sandboxType == Security.APPLICATION)
{
// Load SWF that contains AIR APIs
}
else
{
// Load SWF that does not contain AIR APIs
}
http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/html/help.html?content=os_shell_09.html
(I've been meaning to look this topic up
You need a custom datadescriptor if you need to have the tree show a
different structure than the underlying xml, but it has nothing to do
with expanding nodes.
Are you calling the expandItem using callLater()?
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for the info Seth. For what it's worth it wasn't for ftp, or web
server stuff. ;-)
Does anyone have any idea if that is something that will be included in
the future?
Is this capability not included because of security concerns or some
other reason.
Gordon Smith wrote:
Why would you think that a book called actionscript 3 animation
uses only only
flash.* classes throughout and avoids the mx.* classes completely ?
It was just a guess, because the title didn't include the word Flex.
Are you saying that this book actually does use
Hi,
FlexReport is not meant to be a replacement for alivePDF (in fact the
built-in pdf generation is alivePDF). FlexReport main intent is to
ease the creation of templates, reducing the amount of code needed to
a minimum, and address all the issues concerning printing in flash.
I could have
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need a custom datadescriptor if you need to have the tree show a
different structure than the underlying xml, but it has nothing to do
with expanding nodes.
Are you calling the expandItem using callLater()?
What is your dataProvider's dataType?
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of hmmmbeer3
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:19 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Tree and ITreeDataDescriptor
--- In
thanks for the reply.
I did try both dg.callLater(myCallLater) and dg.validateNow(); neither
one gave the result that we're expecting...
it's sort of aggravating how people want to stretch the datagrid s
far... granted this isn't THAT far, but i have another client that
wants the datagrid
I think someone else already explained that you can simply draw into a
UIComponent rather than into a Sprite or a Shape. All three of these
have a 'graphics' property which contains a reference to an instance of
the flash.display.Graphics class, which has methods like drawCircle().
But a
Hi ALL,
I am using Flex DataGrid Component in which Each cell is having a
renderer.
Renderer : It consist of Accordion component and each form of accordion is
having a Tree component in it.
Every component is given percentageHeight,
Only Tree component is not taking the
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is your dataProvider's dataType?
XML. I'm actually developing a thin rich client, where all data is
published via a Web Service. So the Tree (nor any other Flex
component) every deals with anything but pure XML.
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