Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid Renderer and referencing back

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
You can dispatch an event that bubbles in your cellrenderer, and your main app can catch this event, and then resend the HTTPService. Since the event is not internal to DataGrid's metadata, you can only subscribe via code. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Miranda To:

Re: [flexcoders] Jumpy labels with a cellrendere in Tree

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
I've had this happen too. Inheritance of UIComponents blow as cellrenderers. My suggestion is to extend like Box or HBox, and create your label inside, and center it. - Original Message - From: Joan Tan To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:16 PM

Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid Renderer and referencing back

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
Here's the basic steps for Flex 1.5: - put a button in your cellrenderer - if ActionScript, register for the click event, and provide a click function delegate in the cell renderer - if MXML, point click event to a event handler function in the cellrenderer - in your event handler for the

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Text on a button

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
yourButton.setStyle(embedFonts, true); yourButton.setStyle(fontFamily, Verdana); And ensure whatever font you are embedding is the font it's using, like Verdana for example. Then: yourButton._rotation = 90; - Original Message - From: jgraham_us [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [flexcoders] Reusable CellRenderer

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
The terms "reusable" and "cellrenderer" are not mutually exclusive, sorry. I've never had a project where I didn't write a new cellreneder for each DataGrid. They are like finely crafted food dishes; each is unique and takes time, love, and care. Granted, things like getCellLabel and

Re: [flexcoders] Whats flex beta

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
Yeah man, click the links and go grab a Red Bull. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Whats flex beta Is Flex beta free? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

Re: [flexcoders] Free Flex???

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
You can't bind to statics, so ModelLocator is f00ked, but I think that's already fixed. Because of the changes in AS3, they had to modify some stuff... all for the better. - Original Message - From: Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Text on a button

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:00 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Text on a button yourButton.setStyle(embedFonts, true); yourButton.setStyle(fontFamily, Verdana); And ensure whatever font you are embedding

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Text on a button

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
not sure here, but can't you just make a graphic and use that instead of text on the button? James -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:50 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] header color chnage for inactive popup

2006-01-31 Thread JesterXL
Give it an array, not a string. So, this: currentPage.setStyle("headerColors","[0xFF, 0xFF]"); Should be: currentPage.setStyle("headerColors", [0xFF, 0xFF]); - Original Message - From: Nithya R To: flexcoders Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:27 AM

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 / FlashPlayer 8 Upload problems on remote host

2006-01-30 Thread JesterXL
Did you upload the File Upload SWF as well? Is the SWF loaded on the same domain your Flex MXML is served from? - Original Message - From: Reto M. Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:13 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 / FlashPlayer

[flexcoders] DateField selectedDate toggle

2006-01-30 Thread JesterXL
up in the PopUpManager to use mine instead. ...anyone have a... you know... better way? Perhaps an already fixed DateField? --JesterXL -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] listOwner equivalent Flex 2

2006-01-30 Thread JesterXL
Haven't tried myself, but give parent a shot since he should be a DisplayObject. Don't have the livedocs available to confirm yet. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] Gtalk windows question

2006-01-29 Thread JesterXL
import mx.containers.TitleWindow; private static var uniqueID:Number = 0; function createNewWindow():TitleWindow { uniqueID++; var ref:TitleWindow = TitleWindow(wins_canvas.createChild(TitleWindow, win + uniqueID)); return ref; } mx:Canvas id=wins_canvas / You could use

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Gtalk windows question

2006-01-29 Thread JesterXL
windows question wow thanks. I was thinking windows has been done to death. Can you do this with Tabs too? Thanks a ton. Dan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import mx.containers.TitleWindow; private static var uniqueID:Number = 0; function

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Gtalk windows question

2006-01-29 Thread JesterXL
); debugTxt.text = popup; } Is this right? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can: - either add a child to a ViewStack that an TabNavigator is bound to - add data to the dataProvider a TabBar is bound to - Original Message

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Gtalk windows question

2006-01-29 Thread JesterXL
] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:02 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Gtalk windows question Thanks Jester, Have you ever seen anyone having to do this and what does thier code look like? Dan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you can't

Re: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
2 things: - Flash 8.5, not 9 - a lot of us deploy on intranets, not on the internet, so having Flash Player 8.5 manually installed and/or updated isn't a problem. - Original Message - From: Andriy Panas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006

Re: [flexcoders] Perhaps I'm challenged.

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
Naw, make sure you actually create a collection; they work just like an array. private var yourCol:ArrayCollection; yourCol = new ArrayCollection(item.array); dataProvider={yourCol} - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
in a short timeframe, sometimes seemlessly! - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right

Re: Re[2]: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
: Andriy Panas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JesterXL flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:13 PM Subject: Re[2]: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right? Hello JesterXL, Thursday, January 26, 2006, 4:29:40 PM

Re: Re[2]: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
r? On 1/26/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such thing as Flash Player 9.As far as Flash Player 8.5, yeah, I see your point.Still, I think adoptionrates for it will be extremely higher than past ones based on the 2 mainupdating features, 1 of which developers

Re: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread JesterXL
Flash 9 is referring to the Flash IDE, beta named Blaze. The Flash Player 9 has not been announced anywhere, and if it has, they are referring to the SWF's that Flash 9 will create, or the player team peering into the future, looking for feature requests. ...I'm still learning 8.5 dang it...

Re: [flexcoders] modalTransparency and color question in Flex 1.5

2006-01-25 Thread JesterXL
Hehe, here's a hack... not sure which class Modal extends, but setStyle(color) doesn't work on him, so went straight for the color object itself. Prepare to have your app swim in Kool-aid. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;

Re: [flexcoders] ExternalInterface Question

2006-01-25 Thread JesterXL
It's available in the Flash Player 8. You can load a proxy SWF to call these methods for you. Or, you can utilize a LocalConnection from another Flash 8 SWF. I recommend the 1st option. - Original Message - From: shahnavaz Alware To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [flexcoders] ExternalInterface Question

2006-01-25 Thread JesterXL
Flex 1.5 is hardcoded to work with Flash Player 7 ActionScript. Meaning, it can only compile with Flash 7 code; you can however, make ActionScript calls to a Flash 8 SWF that is loaded in at runtime. What you have below won't work. However, you can map what you have below to call a Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a link inside of a datagrid

2006-01-24 Thread JesterXL
You could use a Link control instead of text, but this should work: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/01/datagrid_hyperl.html - Original Message - From: Jeremy Rottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] Flex2 Debugging

2006-01-23 Thread JesterXL
Last email I got from you was: Changes between DataGrid cellrenderers and embed tag Friday, January 20, 2006 1:30 PM Just set a breakpoint in your custom class where you are binding to a property. - Original Message - From: Jonathan Miranda To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Re: [flexcoders] Flex2 Debugging

2006-01-23 Thread JesterXL
Another thing to check. The compiler won't see: import YourClass; or: {YourClass} as a usage. Meaning, you have to do: private var depend:YourClass; To ensure the compiler puts it in the SWF. At least, this is this way in 1.5, don't know about 2. - Original Message - From:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 mx.controls.Alert vs. Flex 1.5

2006-01-23 Thread JesterXL
mx.controls.Alert vs. Flex 1.5 So whats the trick to capturing the bitmap data? I haven't found a way to do this yet in Flex 1.5. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could probably capture the bitmap data before you open the alert, blur the bitmapData

Re: [flexcoders] Radio Button Cell Renderer for Data Grids

2006-01-23 Thread JesterXL
Don't use groupnames; they are global (at least, to an application). I understand people like using group names, but for a cell-renderer, it's pretty easy to make a radio button selection straightforward. Just forward all click events to a common Delegated function, and edit the field of the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 mx.controls.Alert vs. Flex 1.5

2006-01-23 Thread JesterXL
It's tomorrow! http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/01/how_to_use_the.html - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 mx.controls.Alert vs. Flex 1.5 Just tested

Re: [flexcoders] Performance question - please help!

2006-01-22 Thread JesterXL
for example (hope this makes sense): Chart = cpu:object series = machine1:Array machine60:Array machine1:Array 98 100 45 67 etc.. machine2:Array 56 34 98 45 etc... --- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure; Flex 2 gets all of Flash 8's bitmap features with the added benefit

Re: [flexcoders] Inserting buttons into an accordian header

2006-01-22 Thread JesterXL
The AccordionHeaderClass extends Button, I thought? Hard to remember, but I was pretty sure it did. If so, I know for a fact at least that you can set the headerClass used for the Accordion. That being the case, I'd create a class that extended HBox, and use that class as the Accordion's

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2 mx.controls.Alert vs. Flex 1.5

2006-01-21 Thread JesterXL
You could probably capture the bitmap data before you open the alert, blur the bitmapData, and then open up a MovieClip via PopUpManager behind the alert (basically call it before Alert), and draw the bitmapData into that movieclip. Basically, when you shutdown Windows XP, it does a screen

Re: [flexcoders] IGNORE: Test

2006-01-21 Thread JesterXL
this.removeMovieClip(); - Original Message - From: Vinny Timmermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:11 AM Subject: [flexcoders] IGNORE: Test -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

Re: [flexcoders] Possible to use labelFunction and change text color?

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
Better off to use a cellRenderer G. Here's some code to get you started. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Label xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml; mouseOver=doMouseOver() mouseOut=doMouseOut() mx:Script ![CDATA[ private var lastStyle:Object; private var state:String;

Re: [flexcoders] MXML Components and Classes

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
You can create ActionScript or MXML class; they are effectively the same thing. The only real limitation I've found is I've failed to create extensible containers via MXML; meaning, extending CheckBox, Label, Loader, with MXML works great, but extending Containers like VBox, Panel, etc. gave

Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS3/Flex2 - Effects and Cancelling them

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
seem to work for me. I thought the Move effect created an EffecInstance with my information and set it on it's way, therefore changing the Moves xTo would affect the instance. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upon the user interaction, change the xTo and yTo

Re: [flexcoders] Performance question - please help!

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
Answering from the 30,000ft view, my suggestion is to utilize Flex 1.5 Flash 8's bitmap features. Flash Player 7, which is what Flex 1.5 outputs, cannot handle the amount of data points you want with acceptable performance, either in code or displayed. While paging can be effectively

Re: REPOST: [flexcoders] PrintJob cutting text on datagrid

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
Tri dis: http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000193.cfm - Original Message - From: Mika Kiljunen To: 'Nihit Saxena' ; flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:28 AM Subject: RE: REPOST: [flexcoders] PrintJob cutting text on datagrid Is there really

Re: [flexcoders] Performance question - please help!

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
it, but they'd like to have it accessible from anywhere on the web... Have there been any performance papers published on flash describing memory usage, etc? Thanks! --- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answering from the 30,000ft view, my suggestion is to utilize Flex 1.5 Flash 8's bitmap

Re: [flexcoders] MXML Components and Classes

2006-01-20 Thread JesterXL
and Classes So you're saying just extend a standard MXML component with an mx:script include on line #2. And it should associate the AS file with the class of the MXML component? Well, that sounds hacky :) I hope this is addressed for the Beta. -Trey JesterXL wrote: You can create ActionScript or MXML

Re: [flexcoders] Flex application on PDA

2006-01-19 Thread JesterXL
As far as #3, you could utilize Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8 and develop using ActionScript 2 with similiar components to Flex, and export for Flash 6. 3 years ago, I saw pretty decent performance for forms based apps on a Pocket PC. - Original Message - From: Bruno Martins To:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex application on PDA

2006-01-19 Thread JesterXL
, On a similiar topic. Is there a flash player for Microsoft Mobile 5? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as #3, you could utilize Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8 and develop using ActionScript 2 with similiar components to Flex, and export for Flash 6. 3 years ago, I

Re: [flexcoders] AS3/Flex2 - Effects and Cancelling them

2006-01-19 Thread JesterXL
Upon the user interaction, change the xTo and yTo properites before calling endEffect. - Original Message - From: Trey Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:28 PM Subject: [flexcoders] AS3/Flex2 - Effects and Cancelling them I am

Re: [flexcoders] Updating the data back to database

2006-01-19 Thread JesterXL
Binding. While Flash MX 2004 had considerable amounts of code that did plug-in's to various data sources, Flex takes a much simpler approach. Since any datatype is bindable, you are notified of changes. Array's/Objects (dataproviders) still spit out the modelChanged event as well. Therefore,

Re: [flexcoders] CellRenderer For ComboBox

2006-01-18 Thread JesterXL
Welcome to the pain... shot of morphine? Matt had an old email that did it like this: mx:ComboBox dataProvider={sizes.size} creationComplete=event.target.getDropdown().cellRenderer = sizeRenderer; event.target.getDropdown().variableRowHeight=true / I did the same thing, only used the open

Re: [flexcoders] Embed SWF with masked edges / borders

2006-01-18 Thread JesterXL
Masking the SWF itself is best, but you could do: createEmptyMovieClip(mask_mc); mask_mc.beginFill(0x00); mask_mc.lineTo(widthOfThing, 0); mask_mc.lineTo(widthOfThing, heightOfThing); mask_mc.lineTo(0, heightOfThing); mask_mc.lineTo(0, 0); mask_mc.endFill(); yourThing.setMask(mask_mc); -

Re: [flexcoders] Background movieclip of mx:Label?

2006-01-15 Thread JesterXL
Label does not have a background by default. Sounds to me like some CSS style is inherited and you're seeing a background on your mx:Label. - Original Message - From: Robin Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:38 AM Subject:

Re: [flexcoders] Named parameters in AS3?

2006-01-11 Thread JesterXL
Yes, it's possible. - Original Message - From: Derek Vadneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:01 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Named parameters in AS3? Does anyone know if it's possible to use named parameters in AS3? If not,

Re: [flexcoders] Named parameters in AS3?

2006-01-11 Thread JesterXL
question? I don't think you can do what he asked... -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:46 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Named parameters in AS3? Yes, it's possible

Re: [flexcoders] cell renderer question

2006-01-10 Thread JesterXL
What does your setValue function look like? - Original Message - From: Robert Brueckmann To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: [flexcoders] cell renderer question I have got two cell renderers on my datagrid…one is a simple checkbox,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 - swf symbols

2006-01-09 Thread JesterXL
. The octothorpe syntax did work in 1.5, but it is deprecated in 2.0, because there is no good way to wedge all the parameters in there. In fact, it was the original syntax. -rg -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Sunday

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need help in tackling this event problem...

2006-01-09 Thread JesterXL
? TIA, george --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impossible to do with anonymous objects. However, if you make your event a class, you have no problems. This is enforced at runtime in AS3: class Event { private var test:String; public var

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need help in tackling this event problem...

2006-01-09 Thread JesterXL
() is not the same as the one that was broadcasted prior to any backend service call. Maybe this is Cairgorm that's not working as I want it to? Any Cairgorm guru's out there? TIA, george --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I reckon. I've never used

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need help in tackling this event problem...

2006-01-09 Thread JesterXL
: [flexcoders] Re: Need help in tackling this event problem... JesterXL, Yeah, that's kinda what I suspected. I suppose I could stick it in a ModelLocator. However all my events are asynchronous, so I suppose that *theoretically* your data in ModelLocator might not be in the *correct* context if, say

Re: [flexcoders] how to use MovieClip / swc in flex???

2006-01-08 Thread JesterXL
mx.controls.etc - Original Message - From: Jignesh Dodiya To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] how to use MovieClip / swc in flex??? thanx JesterXL, but still I am confusing regarding SWC...where to place how to link

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2 - swf symbols

2006-01-08 Thread JesterXL
Your syntax is off; it should be: var myImage3:Class Not: var myImage3:String; If your linkage ID of your symbol is image3, then it should work. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 5:17 PM

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 - swf symbols

2006-01-08 Thread JesterXL
.html On 1/8/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your syntax is off; it should be: var myImage3:Class Not: var myImage3:String; If your linkage ID of your symbol is image3, then it should work. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 - swf symbols

2006-01-08 Thread JesterXL
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:37 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 - swf symbols It's being generated for Flash 7.0. Brendan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The LiveDocs are wrong, it is not String. Also, the #symbol format doesn't

Re: [flexcoders] Need help in tackling this event problem...

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
Clearly your problem is your custom EventDispatcher. The one that comes with Flex allows me to throw any custom arg I want at result handlers. Find out why he's not keeping your event handlers. - Original Message - From: george_lui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Re: [flexcoders] Need help in tackling this event problem...

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
this event problem... JesterXL wrote: Clearly your problem is your custom EventDispatcher. The one that comes with Flex allows me to throw any custom arg I want at result handlers. Find out why he's not keeping your event handlers. Yes, EventDispatcher something I have issues

Re: [flexcoders] Alternative to Repeater

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
You basically do: - create a new abstract base class for your component as ActionScript - utilize DataSelector on that class - extend that class in a new file - have the new file do something like this function modelChanged() { cancelAllDoLaters(); doLater(this, "redrawForm"); }

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Slow Compile Times

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
The less strict-typing you used in Flash MX 2004, the shorter compilation would take. I bet same holds true for Flex 1.5. - Original Message - From: Renaun Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:01 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Slow

Re: [flexcoders] Alternative to Repeater

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
esent. If it is the length of the dataProvider, am not clear how that was established 3.Does "modelChanged"fire every time the dataProvider changes? If so seems like it would redraw the entire form even if only one item in the array changed (say using addItem). Thanks, - superabe On 1/

Re: [flexcoders] how to use MovieClip / swc in flex???

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
To utilize MovieClips, embed in SWF's. Give it a linkage name and: Flex 1.5: [Embed(source=your.swf, symbol=LinkageName)] var yourSymbol:String; attachMovie(yourSymbol, mc, 0); Flex 2: [Embed(source=your.swf#LinkageName)] var yourSymbol:Class; var a:Class = new yourSymbol(); addChild(a); To

Re: [flexcoders] Alternative to Repeater

2006-01-07 Thread JesterXL
blished 3.Does "modelChanged"fire every time the dataProvider changes? If so seems like it would redraw the entire form even if only one item in the array changed (say using addItem). Thanks, - superabe On 1/7/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You basically do: - create a

Re: [flexcoders] Licensing and Offline Compiling

2006-01-05 Thread JesterXL
You are allowed to put a SWF on a server that has a Flex license on it, and I've heard of one instance where a client had a pre-compiled SWF deployed on another box that didn't have Flex on it. You have to negotatiate for the latter. - Original Message - From: Paul BH [EMAIL

Re: RIch Text Editor (was RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta Flex 2 release Date? Any one for a Guess)

2006-01-05 Thread JesterXL
to apply italic to that same text I have to re-select it. Users hated it. It had something to do with the TextField, but I can't recall exactly what (JesterXL, care to comment?) Native CSS-like output: In a lot of cases we lock down the use of fonts for our text entry (having access to 20 fonts

Re: RIch Text Editor (was RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta Flex 2 release Date? Any one for a Guess)

2006-01-04 Thread JesterXL
It is. mx:RichTextEditor / - Original Message - From: Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:39 PM Subject: Re: RIch Text Editor (was RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta Flex 2 release Date? Any one for a Guess) Hi, Can you give

Re: [flexcoders] open sourced Flex app

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
At home, I use Flex 2 on the front-end, AMFPHP for remoting, PHP for the middle-tier, and MySQL for my db. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: [flexcoders] open sourced Flex app

Re: [flexcoders] open sourced Flex app

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
Yeah, no one has become an evenagelist there, and those that have vouch for Laszlo. It's extremely frustrating repeating myself to those people, but it has to be done. The problem is, my background is Flash, not Flex, so I'm not taken seriously by a lot of Java folks, nor am I involved in

Re: [flexcoders] Placing an icon in a ComboBox

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
If it's convoluted, let me know, and I'll modify it. http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/12/dynamic_icons_i.html - Original Message - From: im_sean_s [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Placing an icon in a

Re: [flexcoders] How to show and hide busy cursor (showBusyCursor attribute in some MXML tags) manually?

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
Yep! import mx.managers.CursorManager; // And the call it like this: CursorManager.removeBusyCursor(); CursorManager.setBusyCursor(); I always do a removeBusyCursor first just in case the function that shows the cursor gets run twice, I won't accidenatelly set too many busy cursors. -

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Placing an icon in a ComboBox

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
: [flexcoders] Re: Placing an icon in a ComboBox JesterXL, Thank you for the quick reply. What I was looking for may not be possible. I was looking for a way to add icons to add dynamic icons to a combobox either through pure MXML and/or action script. In the example you sent, it appeared you were

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Placing an icon in a ComboBox

2006-01-03 Thread JesterXL
: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Placing an icon in a ComboBox There isn't a requirement, but converting that to Flex isn't easy either so I can see how the audience matters in this case. :: goes

Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha

2006-01-02 Thread JesterXL
Flex compiles in the font to the SWF. Whatever glyphs you specifiy, it'll convert those fonts to vector graphics in the SWF file, ensuring anyone anywhere can see your font the way you intended, and they don't have to have the font installed on their machine. - Original Message -

Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha

2006-01-02 Thread JesterXL
at runtime and set the textbox to that for it to work. i hope i recall the whole process correctly here) On 1/2/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flex compiles in the font to the SWF. Whatever glyphs you specifiy, it'll convert those fonts to vector graphics in the SWF file, ensuring anyone

Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha

2006-01-02 Thread JesterXL
in flash it can work in flex. On 1/2/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTML text typically does not support embedded fonts. I've seen some weird uses of the font tag, but it's typically not worth it. You don't recall the process because you are correctly repressing the horrors

Re: [flexcoders] Printing directly to a printer

2006-01-02 Thread JesterXL
You can't. print, printAsBitmap, and PrintJob are the only way to interface with a printer in Flash. There are 3rd party Projectors XTras for Director that allow other various connections. - Original Message - From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [flexcoders] Gordon Smith owes me $10 (i.e. setChildIndex)

2006-01-02 Thread JesterXL
- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:42 AM To: Flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] Gordon Smith owes me $10 (i.e. setChildIndex) In mx.core.View, setChildIndex generates a childIndexChanged event. However, 2

Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha

2006-01-01 Thread JesterXL
[Embed(systemFont='Arial', mimeType='application/x-font-truetype')] - Original Message - From: Michael Klishin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flexcoders flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2

Re: [flexcoders] Re: creation effect on dynamically created child

2006-01-01 Thread JesterXL
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:35 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: creation effect on dynamically created child I tried that and it didn't work. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried: creationCompleteEffect: WipeDown Instead

Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha

2006-01-01 Thread JesterXL
PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Embed font's glyphs in AS3 Project in Flex Builder 2 alpha JesterXL wrote: [Embed(systemFont='Arial', mimeType='application/x-font-truetype')] Thanks Jesse but this will embed the whole font, won't it? What if I need, say, just numerals? Or just letters a, j, u

Re: [flexcoders] creation effect on dynamically created child

2005-12-31 Thread JesterXL
Have you tried: creationCompleteEffect: WipeDown Instead? - Original Message - From: jgraham_us [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:27 PM Subject: [flexcoders] creation effect on dynamically created child I have a View in which I am

Re: [flexcoders] Setting effect via AS

2005-12-30 Thread JesterXL
Pass the image's ID into the effect's contructor: var e:Dissolve = new mx.effects.Dissolve(imageID); - Original Message - From: Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:46 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Setting effect via AS I need to set an

Re: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer

2005-12-30 Thread JesterXL
editField(), not the method I made up. Tracy -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:56 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer Example

Re: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer

2005-12-30 Thread JesterXL
but I have not tried this. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob DickeySent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:13 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer Hi Tracy, JesterXL, Thanks for bo

Re: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer

2005-12-30 Thread JesterXL
December 29, 2005 11:13 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer Hi Tracy, JesterXL, Thanks for both replies and suggestions. Both worked great, although I think I’ll stick to the last suggestion (editField) as It would take more comments then code t

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Setting effect via AS

2005-12-30 Thread JesterXL
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pass the image's ID into the effect's contructor: var e:Dissolve = new mx.effects.Dissolve(imageID); - Original Message - From: Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 30

Re: [flexcoders] Changing the properties of a Drag Proxy

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
Yes, but it's undocumented and unsupported. I think it's like _root[_dragProxy], or mx.core.Application.application[_dragProxy]. - Original Message - From: Eric Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:49 AM Subject: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] 100% height?

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
If HTML is required, sure. If not, sure. Depends on the application, the context the application runs in, and what the purpose of the HTML is. I've yet to create a Flex app that required HTML, but I have created some Flash ones that did. - launched a File Upload HTML dialogue pre-Flash 8 -

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Changing the properties of a Drag Proxy in Flex 1.5 (also AS3 type safety)

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
vaguely remember they tightened up the meaning of private. Hopefully there is still a mechanism to expose even private properties (strangely even Java allows this via refelction). Sadly, I haven't been able to devote any time to Flex 2 beta. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Changing the properties of a Drag Proxy in Flex 1.5 (also AS3 type safety)

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it's undocumented and unsupported. I think it's like _root[_dragProxy], or mx.core.Application.application[_dragProxy]. - Original Message - From: Eric Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: [flexcoders] re: (AS3 type safety)

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
How people handle these situations in other languages? Early days of Flash, people modified the base intrinsic classes all the time, and a large collection of code snippets popped up all over the web. MovieClip.prototype.drawBox for instance, was a popular one, allowing all MovieClips created

Re: [flexcoders] CheckCellRenderer

2005-12-29 Thread JesterXL
Example: dataGrid.dataProvider[i].cbSelect = newState; becomes: dataGrid.dataProvider.editField(i, cbSelect, newState); - Original Message - From: Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:57 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] Having hard time understanding what features are available to whom when and how

2005-12-28 Thread JesterXL
if that would result in DHTML where I could easily recolor a region.What do you think would work?Bruce On 12/28/05, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can help with #3. Here's a sample: ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?mx:Application xmlns:mx="http

Re: [flexcoders] Making Form in flex export as swf

2005-12-28 Thread JesterXL
Point your browser to: http://yourflexserver.com/yourapp.mxml.swf Appending the .swf will give you the SWF only. - Original Message - From: pioplacz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Making Form in flex

Re: [flexcoders] Having hard time understanding what features are available to whom when and how

2005-12-28 Thread JesterXL
against trial deadline limits on the demo products I am using that will get. I also have to figure out what to tell the potential investors about how much the use of Flex will add to the cost of the production product. Thanks for your help,Bruce On 12/28/05, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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