I wrote an article on Flix Engine - I loved what it allowed me to do.
I don't have any advice for a linux app that would do the same - but if
you decide to go with Windows - you can't go wrong with Flix Engine.
Jeff
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Oh yeah - http://www.flexauthority.com/articlesArchive/FlixEngine.cfm
Might help.
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Behalf Of Jeff Steiner
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:05 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] FLV
I have been asked to find out if anyone
might be interested in participating in a Seattle
area Flex User Group. Please send me an email off the list if this is
something that you would be interested in.
Thanks,
Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Founder
Flex Authority
You can actually connect directly to SQL
server by turning on the web listener and pass your SQL statements in an HTTP
request.
It is pretty easy to do and reduces the
overhead of another layer.
Jeff
Founder
Flex Authority
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We are actively
I just concluded writing an article for
Flex Authority that shows off the power of On2s Flix Engine. This
product takes an input file and outputs to SWF or FLV. This is truly a must
read article for anyone interested in merging media with your current Flex application.
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Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:38
AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Encode media
files to FLV in real-time from a web page
I just concluded writing an article for
Flex Authority that shows off
Is there a better way of doing this?
Jeff
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:31
PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Looking for
a consistent way to close
When returning data from a CFC
most of the time it changes the name to all caps. For example:
SELECT Stuff FROM Table
Cfreturn query
Output it as:
event.result[0].STUFF;
Jeff
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We are actively seeking contributors
It also depends upon the type of
information in the RIA that your team builds. For example, if you are
spending a ton of money for a 3-5 tier setup where everything is load balanced,
but the app is only going to be used a few thousand times a week, you are
probably not going to be saving
Careful about reselling that might
want to check with your Account Manager first.
Jeff
Founder
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the site. Have a sample that you want to share with the world? Send
it to us!
From:
I cant imagine it would. From a
developers perspective, are you going to want to create an application
that is available to ~50% of Windows installs 6 years after it debuts?
Jeff
Founder
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We are actively seeking contributors for
the
I am looking to close a window after a
Flex app loads in it. I am using the following function it seems to
close every now and then but not all the time.
function closeWindow() {
getURL('_javascript_:window.close()');
}
Anyone have a sure fire way of doing this?
Thanks,
Did you add the mxml and swf file
extensions to the AddHandler tag?
And it goes in your WEB-INF
folder. I extract it for JRun, but YMMV.
Jeff
Founder
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We are actively seeking contributors for
the site. Have a sample that you want
I thought that I would bring up the Flex
Jobs topic in the forums of Flex Authority. I am seeing probably 4-5 Flex jobs
a week on the major job search engines!
If you are interested, take a peek at http://www.flexauthority.com/forumThreadList.cfm?topicID=12.
Jeff
Founder
Flex
with the world? Send it to us!
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Behalf Of Paul Hastings
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:39 PM
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Jeff Steiner wrote:
How odd. I
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Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:54 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Installing Flex CF
Jeff Steiner wrote:
IIS Configuration Manager. Under properties of your website, find the
configuration button and add the file extensions .mxml and .swf
: [flexcoders]
Installing Flex CF
Jeff Steiner wrote:
Meaning that you have a blank page in your
browser - but your URL changes to
?versionChecked=true and if you right clck on
the page where the flex app
should be, you see a context menu of a flash
app - that just isn't there?
yup.
I have
David,
Correct on having Flex installed on your
CF Server (If you are running the integrated version of CF otherwise this
would be considered Flex on JRun). Your JAVA stuff will work on any instance
of JRun installed. For example after merging an install of CF / Flex
and JRun you
Have you taken a look at the charting
examples from Christophe?
http://flexapps.macromedia.com/flex15/chartexplorer/explorer.mxml
Jeff
Founder
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We are actively seeking contributors for
the site. Have a sample that you want to
There is a great write-up by Jack Minster
on Flex Authority. Check out:
http://www.flexauthority.com/articlesArchive/FlexCF7Merge.cfm
Jeff
Founder
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We are actively seeking contributors for
the site. Have a sample that you want to
myString = event.result.message;
Give that a try.
Jeff
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it to us!
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
There is one located here.
Let us know if that doesnt help.
http://www.flexauthority.com/samplesIndex.cfm?sampleID=9
Jeff
Founder
Flex Authority
http://www.flexauthority.com
We are actively seeking contributors for
the site. Have a sample that you want to share with
Take a peek a http://www.tomlink.net and look for his
WebService / AMF comparison. You feed it the details of the request and
it times how long it takes to crunch through the data. It is a very cool
application.
BTW if anyone on this list knows
Tom I would love to get an email for
FYI: Someone contributed an example of
this to the site this morning. I just posted it and you can find it: http://www.flexauthority.com/samplesIndex.cfm?sampleID=39
Let me know if that helps.
Jeff
Founder
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There is a 'complete' event as part of the package. This event gets
broadcast when the media has finished playing. You could set some script to
load the next song when this fires.
Jeff
Founder
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We are actively seeking contributors for the site. Have
When you say that you change the autoplay
properties to true where do you mean? In the mxml tag or in the
script that is loading the music file. Also how are you loading
the media? The medialPlayer.load() loads the media but does not play it.
Mind sharing a bit more?
Jeff
Nutshell: I am working with a handful of FLVs for a tech demo that I am
creating and want to prevent them from being downloaded. Does anyone have a
good idea about how I can go about doing this?
Longer version: I have encoded FLVs sitting in a web directory (because
contentPath requires a
responsibility for any damage or loss caused in respect of any viruses
transmitted by the e-mail. Please ensure your own checks are carried out
before any attachments are opened.
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This is directly out of the
http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf.
The next major release of Flex, code-named Mistral, will provide an
extensive set of new features.
The class library will be extended with new and improved user interface
components. An extended
Jamie,
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From: Tarik Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex - the general feeling about the product is...
Hi Jamie.
- Love Flex. Has enabled us non flash developers to build
But I coined the phrase Non-Enterprise RIA roughly 30 minutes before
Benjamin's first email went out - Sorry guys but that supercedes all of the
rest and I expect to receive royalties here pretty soon.
Jeff
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You sure can. Take a look at the createChild function of the TabNavigator.
In short - it would look kind of like this - with myCanvas being a local
xmlns:
mx:TabNavigator id=tileMe
local:myCanvas /
/mx:TabNavigator
mx:Button label=duplicate myCanvas click=tileMe.createChild(myCanvas,
'1')
?
Jeff,
You can change the themeColor of entier app like this:
mx:Application themeColor=0xFF ..
..
/mx:Application
-abdul
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:00
,
Rich
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Sent: 24 May 2005 07:10
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Possible to setStyle on the entire
application?
ha
Sorry - I am looking
Craig,
I have a specific example on FlexAuthority. Visit:
http://www.flexauthority.com/samplesIndex.cfm?sampleID=23
I have multiple checkboxes that pass along their checked state to a CFC that
returns XML to populate a chart.
Let me know if that does not answer your specific question.
Jeff
Without using a setStyle for every single element in an app, is it possible
to change the theme-color of an application on the fly?
Thanks,
Jeff
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corey,
Manish did this a while back and posted the sample on Flex Authority.
Look in the Samples section under Advanced.
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:13 PM
Subject:
That is flat out increadible.
I can't wait!
Jeff
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From: Jeff Beeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] E4X in Flex 2.0, part 1: Reading XML
This is very
: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Looking for a critique
On 5/14/05, Jeff Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would you mind taking a look at something for me and let me know what
you
think?
http://www.flexauthority.com/Test/weather/weather.mxml
Looks pretty neat
Weather.com offers a free service to developers. I am not violating any
copyrights here.
Jeff
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From: Tom Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:44 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Looking
Manish,
Would you mind taking a look at something for me and let me know what you
think?
http://www.flexauthority.com/Test/weather/weather.mxml
Thanks,
Jeff
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Anyone know where I can find a listing of the available HALO themes?
Thanks,
Jeff
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: [flexcoders] Halo Themes List
In the themeColor style description of UIComponent in the ASDoc:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/asdocs_en/mx/core/UIComponent.html.
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jeff Steiner
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9
accordion panes?
Is there a sample of this on FlexAuthority?
Thanks,
Andrew
www.flexdaddy.com
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Andrew,
You could actually create something a bit more custom - try looking
at the
Cart/product detail view on the Flex
I would guess that he was extending the namespace as a custom component?
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
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From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Simple layout question...
Who
Hello everyone,
Jack D. Minster has written an excellent article on overcoming the
limitation of not being able to upload files with Flex. This is a
deceptively simple solution, and one worth checking out.
Direct access to the article is:
http://www.flexauthority.com/articlesIndex.cfm
Let me
Rich,
I cannot answer your question, but I have a couple of charting examples and
post the XML as well. Feel free to poke around
http://www.flexauthority.com/samplesIndex.cfm
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
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From: Rich Tretola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Congratulations!
Jeff
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From: Scott Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex NCL
FYI:
Got approved today for my NCL
:)
Thanks Adobe..err
Congratulations!
Do a search through this list and you will find a couple in the past month.
Also - cflex.net has a listing of all of the jobs that he is aware of on his
homepage. Check it out.
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
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From: adk365 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Email. As far as I know there is no way to contact them to find out what
the status of your request is.
Jeff
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- Original Message -
From: Francois Le Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:40 PM
Subject: Re:
I love PrimalScript. It has intellisense for mxml and, for flash
developers, they are supposed to be a decent platform.
For those that remember Cold Fusion Studio - you will feel right at home.
http://www.sapien.com/products.aspx
Jeff
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I have one for Flex Authority.
It took about 3 days from the time I requested until I heard.
Jeff
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From: Rich Tretola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]
Dirk,
When I talked to my account manager the other day - he told me that the
price you pay is the basis for future maintenance agreements. I would still
check with yours.
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
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From: Dirk Eismann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
My guess is that you will be back.
Lazslo, while the samples look great, is still based upon Flash player 5
(Beta 3 of Lazslo is player 6). It is one of those things where you have to
wonder - how does Lazslo know what to extend of the Flash Player. The
people that are contributing to it make
So then what is stopping an ISP from using that methodology?
Jeff
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From: Lucian Beebe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex license
The Flex license
Lucian,
Any way I could be considered for a beta on that?
Thanks,
Jeff
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I have a co-worker that is attempting to compile Flex apps into portlets for
use within WebLogic Portal server.
Anyone here have any experience in that realm?
Thanks,
Jeff
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I will take a shot at answering some of your questions.
The Flex app (SWF) is cached by default on the client. This is assuming
that the client has caching enabled. If your application has been cached on
a client machine - the next time they visit your site a small time/date
check is executed to
Happy Birthday Matt!
Jeff
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From: Robert Brueckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 5:30 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] BIRTHDAY: THE FATHER OF DATA BINDING
Happy B-Day and thanks for all the
Clint,
I would still be interested in publishing your article as well.
Let me know.
Jeff
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From: Clint Tredway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm - Getting Started PDF manual
Clint,
What OS are you running?
Jeff
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From: Clint Tredway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:16 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Update on Flex Builder mem usage
I just purchased a laptop to
Gina,
I have not played with images on buttons, but I can do so today and let you
know later this evening. I would guess that someone else will give you an
answer before then.
To answer your second question, check out
www.flexauthority.com/samplesIndex.cfm on the Beginner tab and select the
Vandan,
Flex, in and of itself, does not truly have the ability to add, edit or
delete data from a db. What you can do is call a webservice that performs
those actions.
Check out some of the samples in the Flex Explorer on Macromedia's web site
for some good specifics as to what flex can do.
Tracy is right, but there is an easier way.
Change your HTTPService tag to look like this:
mx:HTTPService id=srv url=installation.jsp
mx:request
ID{nameOf}/ID
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
You can still reference the srv ID from AS and call it elsewhere in your
app. But now - when you call srv it
What was the magical attribute?
Jeff
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From: Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: ComboBox color ?
Never mind, I made my changes a little
...result[2].myColumnName
If you have to navigate through the result to make the dtagrid work,
then that should be the start of the array:
..result.DATA[0].myColumnName
Tracy
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From: Jeff Steiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:14 PM
If you are seeing the combobox look like it contains the data (meaning that
you have a solid drop down) but there is nothing there, you probably
overlooked labelField=. Add that as a property and put the name of the
element that you want to see there.
Jeff
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I am looking to control the size of windows that are opened using the getURL
command from an mx:Link tag.
Can someone point me in the right direction here?
Thanks,
Jeff
http://www.flexauthority.com
the options for size, etc.
Matt
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:17 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] attributes of getURL
I am looking to control the size of windows that are opened using the
getURL
command from
Are you sitting behind a proxy? One potential could be that IE is
configured to go through the proxy and Firefox is not.
Just a thought based upon the error message.
Jeff
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From: Andrew Kasian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I have a problem that I am sure just about everyone on this list could
answer - but for the life of me I cannot figure it out.
I have a webservice that is returning a Query object from a CFC. I can
reference the result in a datagrid but I want to have a bit more control
over it. I would like to
This could not have been done with Flash because of the fluid nature of the
items being showcased (Unless you wanted to spend a ton of cash on the
maintenance). Every 3 months you would have to re-create the flash files to
add/remove clothes.
Jeff
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Upon calling a mxml - a timedate request is sent to the server to see if the
file on the server is newer than the cache.
Make sure that you are refreshing the browser when you try to view the
updated file.
Jeff
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Can you give a copy of the error / or maybe better describe what is
happening.
Jeff
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:06 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Browser/ Flex
Forado
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Asunto: Re: [flexcoders]
Dynamic model
04/02/2005 18:14
Por favor,
responda a
flexcoders
Isaac,
Are we to understand that the XML filename changes and that you are trying
to compile the result into the swf
After the install you need to whitelist the local server to allow it to run
the webservice samples.
Look inside your flex directory for flex-config.xml and scan through for the
whitelist tag inside http-service.
There are some examples there that you see what to add.
If this does not answer
Kevin,
I saw that after installing once. What J2EE server are you running Flex on?
I believe that I modified the context_root to point to a different location
and that it fired right up. I will look back through my notes and let you
know tomorrow.
Jeff
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It looks great.
Jeff
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From: Seth Voltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] A nearly complete click-and-hold menu!
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As somone put it to me a while back - Welcome to the world of effects...
This is normal behavior. Embedded fonts are required for effects.
Jeff
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Sent: Monday, January
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