--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, dnk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Appolocoders.
with a typo like that Google may have trouble:
Steve, this is what bnk meant
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/messages
cheers
barry.b
They certainly deserve consideration to be
rolled into Cairngorm proper.
hmmm, on listening to that podcast a while ago, I got the distinct
impression that there was a - not a disagreement as such - but
certainly a difference in viewpoint, especially for the reasons that
UM went to the
suggestion: type=my 2c
and if there's any Aussie's or Kiwi's
... head over to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexaussie/
Bjorn Schultheiss had the foresight to set this up ages ago but it
really needs more bodies to really push it along and give it some
critical mass. Use Flexcoders for
BOLLOCKS to your BOLLOCKS!
(no offence intended, Alen)
I wish it was as clear-cut as you say, but there's a large grey areas
there (this is just dealing with a class library, not a whole application)
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/stories/s295800.htm
(about half way down)
Steve
I've got a bunch of .NET webservices that need username, password and
domain to be sent from a Flex client for the webservice to then
authenticate (against AD on that end). It's from the Sharepoint family
of apps.
I'm just looking for a concise example to get started, trying to adapt
what I'm
CrmSdk.account newAccount = new CrmSdk.account();
newAccount.name = accountName;
Guid newAccountId = myCrm.Create(newAccount);
return newAccountId.ToString();
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I've got a bunch of .NET webservices that need
Well I prefer not to mess with the generated code, for the maintenance
sake.
Robert
dumb question time...
how do you guys usually manage the generated code when the webserver
target moves from, say, development to a production environment and
the soap address changes?
(since part of the
just as a followup, installing the plug-in into Eclipse worked without
a hitch.
so there must be something in the stand-alone version that's throwing
a wobbly.
just to reiterate, FB3 stand-alone has been the only software that's
failed to install using this profile. In other words, only
I might have found it: FB3 installer is having a fight with the
network trying to get outside/phone home - and losing.
I just tried the additional plug-in's software update (cfeclipse):
Network connection problems encountered during search.
Unable to access site:
we found the solution just by chance... check and
delete some of the params in the flex builder shortcut, right now I
can't remember which one was so you'll have to try
Gus, are you sure this was the thing that fixed it?
here's the args in the shortcut to my plug-in version of FlexBuilder.
for me it turns out to be a paths/UNC problem.
recreating the project with a workspace that maps to a drive letter
(in the case of Windoze) fixes it.
more info here from the Ant lists:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg29534.html
Perhaps you could get your admin to come over, give you full admin
rights, install FB3, then reduce your rights again?
or is that E a B? ;-)
more like a PITA - or rather a snowflakes chance in hell.
I bring this up because (like a mine canary) I may not be the only one
this happens to.
just downloaded and tried to install FB3.
not good news. First time ever I've had a failure.
The error said it could not update the plug-ins into Eclipse
the problem could be my end: the SOE of my workstation has me set up
as an almost admin ... but not fully (and I can't change it -
although I
you can create a persistent instance
of a remote object, set credentials on it after the user successfully
logs in, and then continue to use it without fear of any session
timeout
ah ha! sounds great.
thanks Jeff ... you wouldn't happened to have blogged this at all, by
chance?
is there a risk that the username and password will be packet-sniffed
and then nefariously used?
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
meaning you no disrespect at all, Jeff, this may be an honest mistake.
I've accidentally posted such an event on this list instead of our
regional Flex list - it's an easy thing to do after a hard day at
work: the names are similar and they're both Yahoo groups.
I must tell you though, I was
Its a very bad security implementation but will work as long as nobody
else knows the hard coded string.
or decompiles the swf
anything else? I'm curious what else is out there for this scenario,
apart from above or encrypting a handshake?
Maybe he confused the SDK/compiler with the player.
especially since I think I saw a call for talented assembly
programmers to work on the Flash player. I doubt you could squeeze
*that* much performance at such a small size with anything else
(actually, two players in one now-a-days)
but this
People have been begging for some kind of threading for a long time,
but the Flash Player team seems pretty adamant that this won't happen
any time soon.
and, IMHO, fair enough too. The SWF is just the UI, it's not the whole
application**. There's async calls to the server and Java (and ow
Perhaps that is
something that could be lobbied for for flash 11. I think the train
has left
the station for flash 10.
[sigh]
I admit this is because I'm using Flex as a content player, and an
external HTML doc as such content. To be perfectly honest, I've had a
gut-full of browsers (and
the code below is an app that I used Judah's HTMLcontrol.swc for - in
three places. While it mostly works, the fact that it uses IFrames and
javascript is still a compromise. No disrespect to Judah but I'm
trying to totally remove the influence of the browser - that's why I'm
using Flash in the
We have not put out a code coverage tool for Flex 2. It's something
that we have on our roadmap, but timing is unknown.
so, is there still no movement on this? Nothing as part of
FlexBuilder3? no side projects?
http://www.colettas.org/?p=60
X axis with two Y axes:
I realise it's actually combining two charts into one with a common X
axis but any idea how?
X-axis: months of the year
Left Y-axis: total rainfall per month
Right Y-axis: av daily temp each month.
anyone seen an example of this built in Flex?
thanx
barry.b
disregard.
What I'm after is a chart with Secondary Axes. Ely has an example of
just this sort of thing.
pls forgive the noise.
I'm having custom fill colours on a chart and placing label text on
top of them.
since the colours are just unsigned Int's is there a simple thrashold
of fill values I can use to switch the label text from black to white?
fill.. | .label
black ... white
dk blu .. white
lt blu .. black
yellow
depends.
I'm still hoping it'll be the full flash player on mobile devices
somwday soon, not just flashlite.
or perhaps give up now and have divergence right here? bloat the flash
player with OpenGL support while flashlite progresses on regardless?
I'm just hoping to eventually make flex apps
the docs seem to hint no because (in this case) it changes the
signature from the base class ... but I just need to check.
within a chart I'm using the itemRenderer for each series in a BarSet.
I need some way to tell it that it's processing a different series
than the one before so it'll use a
thanx guys.
@Ely:
I've seen reference to IFactory before and now it's starting to make
sence. Thanks. That's why I thought you couldn't pass arguments - this
difference in use by the charts
@Mike:
I'm a bit lost on how (and where) I set the three seperate styles:
this is how the itemRenderer
awww ... woe ...
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method BarSeries.
1120: Access of undefined property BarSeries.
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: BarSeries.
import mx.charts.series.items.BarSeriesItem;
import mx.charts.series.items.*; //eh,whynot
...
yep. that's it - incorrect namespace. but I've hit another problem...
performance on drawing it, esp compared to the origional version.
*really* noticable. I must be asking a lot from the framework to do
this, unless I'm not doing it the _best_ way?
BarChart id=chart width=100% height=100%
thanx Sean, looks a bit neater too (never been keen on multiple exits
from methods).
still heavy with resources tho... It'll be displaying different data
every 10 seconds or so (kiosk app) so I'll throw some more data at it
and see if it's still an issue.
now all I gotta do is work out getting
this *should* be easy.
following one of Ely's bar chart itemRenderers, a label is created on
each bar showing it's value.
Unfortunately, this itemRenderer uses the X position where the drawn
bar ends.
_label.text = BarSeriesItem(_chartItem).xValue.toString();
The trouble is I've got a BarSet
rats! didn't work
_label.text = _chartItem.item[BarSeries(_chartItem.element).xField];
Call to a possibly undefined method BarSeries
_label.text = _chartItem.item[BarSeriesItem(_chartItem.element).xField];
Access of possibly undefined property xField through a reference with
static type
So Evan Gifford found this out too at the end of last year. It
explains my fill colour.
so now I have the same question as Evan. In addition, how to reset the
itemRenderer to only display the sub-chart value, not the progressive
score.
--
Evan
OK, so getting the default style colour still doesn't help when using
multiple instances of the itemRenderer. It still resets back to the
first fill colour when used:
the problem (as I see it) is that I'm using the renderer on multiple
BarSeries but can't apply it to the whole BarSet.
either
many thanx for your reply, Brendan
I think there's something *funny* going on with it, however.
this actually has no effect on the fill colours:
private static const fills:Array =
[0xFF,0x00FF00,0xFF,0x7A7A7A,0xFF,0xAAFFAA,0xFF];
I thought this was overriding the
can an itemRenderer work across a whole BarSet?
I'm using Ely's ChartSampler app to try and come up with a bar chart
where the values are labels inside each bar. it's adapting a couple of
ideas in the ChartSampler. however, I'm tripping over some fundamental
itemRenderer issues.
I'm turning
How are customisations handled?
I mean, I'm hung up on needing to do special things with labels on bar
charts at the moment. In a seamless case not only do I have to worry
if Flex can do it but also if the abstracted Java code will allow this?
or is it a case of what you don't know you won't
I just can't quite get this right.
I'm trying to have @id attribute as the horozontal axis while
@text as the tooltip.
where should the attribute value @id be in this?
thanx
b
mx:ColumnChart showDataTips=true width=100% height=85%
id=columnchart2
how come othere eclipse plug-ins can allow you to select code and push
it around with the mouse (eg: cfeclipse) but not flexbuilder?
another article on how to get the trace output in firefox (or
console.app):
http://www.visible-form.com/blog/view-trace-statements-in-the-terminal-on-os-x/
BUT...
I don't get it.
I'm *sure* I installed the debug player when I installed Flexbuilder a
couple of months ago
and sure enough, when I
If
you only need a single Flex app on the server, you can use the free
version of it.
the criteria: probably only a few hundred simultaneously.
so the free version will do that? honestly?
I've just started looking into TreeItemRenderer as a way of solving a
problem.
with my lowest level leaf nodes, the label (should) come from the
first 20 chars of the @text attribute. for the parents and
grandparents of it (as folders), the label comes from the @name of
those nodes.
I take it
no matter, I lucked onto the correct answer.
it wasn't what I thought, labelFunction to the rescue instead:
private function treeLabel( item:Object ) : String
{
var node:XML = XML(item);
if( node.localName() == question)
Ivo, did you find a solution?
the tree controls' labelFunction (instead of labelField) could be
an easy way out to conditionally modify the label's condition0
just a quick suggestion
best'o'luck
barry.b
mx:Tree width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={questionaire.section}
Macintosh HD:Users:username:Library:Preferences:Macromedia:Flash
Player:Logs:flashlog.txt
that path doesn't exist for me (PPC 10.4, FB 2.0.1).
Macintosh HD:Users:username:Library:Preferences:Macromedia:
for me, none of these are correct
MacHD:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:mm.cfg
If you are unable to see this file, one possible reason can be that
you don't have DEBUG version of Flash Payer installed.
it's funny, I did consider that but discounted it since FlexBuilder in
debug mode can run http://.../main-debug.html?debug=true;
which to me implies I said yes to
I've just (well, 3:00 am this morning) got XML saving and re-reading
back in. I played it safe and .toString()'d it before save but it'll
probably work without it.
here's the whole of my fetching of data, inc the getting and saving of
the XML as an LocalSO.
I hope it helps you.
cheers
b
(PS:
Jurgen
please forgive me for asking, could you clarify what's going on at the
.NET end and what the SWF would need to do to get the next page of data?
would the 150k+ records be held in a dataset (or whatever) in memory
(cache, session, etc) on the server? (flex would need to send a call
back
yeah, Tom speaks the honest truth (below), and this is what I told my
project manager...
and yet, the stake-holders are *insisting* that the Flex printing
classes are not enough - they want a file of somesort (a txt will do).
also there is no server-side code support (no CF, PHP, .NET) for this
Hang on a sec...
in giving Mark an answer, he's been landed with more jargon.
Mark, I'm nowhere near the expert that Tom or others here are on this
subject ...
... and there are some good blog posts around (and the Adobe site
itself) with decent detail on all of it ...
but... I work at a
I've just hit this also
jvm terminated Error code = 1
- last 4 days FB2.01 been getting slower and more resource hungry
- Mac 10.4, FB2.01 stand-alone
- Eclipse is also falling over/won't start - same error
- increasing the available memory (settings below) didn't help
- only 2-3 projects
(pls note: this is on a Mac)
I've at least got both Eclipse and Flexbuiler (stand-alone) to run up
again by repointing the sym-link of [jre] Current to 1.6.0**
but I got a word of caution from a friend
while Eclipse will run on 1.6, but I don't think the compiler and
some other parts work
just checking:
call the URL http://192.168.0.84/amfphp/stafflist.php just by itself
in a browser (ignoring Flex).
Does it come back as well-formed straight XML?
Does it come back as SOAP (it shouldn;t)?
just a thought...
b
PS: I've sent you code on how I do it [offlist], using the
if you find a solution to the bug, do ensure to keep everyone
informed, yes? for my application I'm finding it a bit of a show-stopper.
Thanks for the link, let me check it to reach any decision.
I just can't see why I can't get the chart data to display. Looking at
examples, the XML data can be directly and easily bound to the chart.
but it still won't display. Do I need to refresh it (somehow?) because
the data won't return until onResultReturn() runs? no errors, just no
data showing.
aye, it is Tom
[Bindable]
public var questionaire:XML;
that's how I can use the buttons to page thru each node of the xml and
update it's attributes with controls (which works fine)
mx:Text text=[EMAIL PROTECTED] width=20%/
mx:TextArea width=80% height=100% id=questionText
closer (sort of).
yes I did misunderstand what was used for the category axis.
but correcting that hasn't helped, to be honest. setting CategoryAxis
to id didn't improve it
however, if I leave out the horizontalAxis and CategoryAxis
completely, it'll fall back to the default of displaying an
many thanks Michael, I'll check it out to see if it fits
such a shame about HTMLcomponent.swc. It was just what I needed after
being spoilt with Apollo I've tried to contact the author but I'm
running out of time...
many thanx Ely, that got it going. you are indeed correct and it makes
sence now (mea maximus culpa)
but does that mean the docs are wrong? look at the month attribute:
this issue has been successfully resolved offlist and input from the
flexcomponents list. and just in the nick of time too.
followup info can be read on the support forums for this component:
http://drumbeatinsight.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=15
I now have no hesitation recommending this
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Barry, can you send me the download link or the swc of that HTML
component because i need a non-apollo HTML component for my Flex app.
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any limitations in doing it this way?
- file size?
- change the xml content and need to re-compile?
I only ask because I've been using HTTPrequest and to be honest my use
might not need to ... (now that you've brought this method up)
thoughts? opinions?
thanx
b
http://www.flexcapacitor.com/htmlcomponent/examples/HTMLFrameInApplication.html
I'm using the HTML component in IFRAME mode on a canvas with other
controls.
When ever I click a button, the HTML content disappears within the
HTML component. clicking on the component itself returns focus and the
I'm trying to retrieve a static XML doc for processing.
I can step thru all the way to
trace(xmlRequest.send);
but after that it won't go into either listener method:
onResultReturn()
onResultFault()
and after xmlRequest.send(), the app returns back to the calling code
then an error is thrown
Why are you setting:
xmlRequest.contentType = Application/xml;
simply due to a lack of clear examples. just about everything else
uses the mx:HTTPService as an tag.
sadly, leaving it out didn't help. same problem.
is there anything obvious wrong with the code?
can the listeners be debugged
fudge!
it's a timing issue. I was trying to process the XML before the damn
thing returned with the goods.
private function init():void // from creationComplete()
{
getQuestions( xmlLocation );
/*
moving the next two lines into the result handler
of the
we're just about to cough for 2 more FB2 licenses (with charting).
What with Flex 3.0 getting closer every day and it being released as
open source, can we buy today with impunity and confidence that we
won't be further stung with IDE upgrades when Flex3 is released?
one would hope not, eh?
well, I suppose I'm really asking if it's truly going to be a new full
version.
From reading between the lines on the blogging of Ted's Flex360
keynote, it sounds more like it'll be a point release, not a new
version (excepting new closed-source components, and I wonder what the
data integration
the more Mac users there are (and Linux) the more Microsoft has to be
kept honest with products like SilverLight. x-platform support from
Adobe is a given*. Spread the word. Convince your parents to change.
Lead with Grenades. Keep the bastards honest.
* except for Authorware, report builder in
I think more important to where to generate ID's (see other reply on
this thread) is when... which only comes to analysing use-cases.
single new records are easy enough but if you're dealing with multiple
related records chances are you're working with transactions. and
transactions with an
Is the more info going to be more sophisticated than the
TextArea.htmlText can handle?
Does it have a known set of html tags that you can mimic with
TextArea.styleSheet?
thanx Alex,
in short, no, it's not complex, it'll be pretty straight forward HTML.
(ideally..)
just so long as I can
you might be on to something here, Alex...
(kicking around the idea...)
in the more_info.html file I can replace the
a name=#policy101h2Policy 101/h2/a
p
...
/p
with
div id=policy101
h2Policy 101/h2
p
...
/p
/div
and then use myDiv.innerHTML to get each section of the HTML as needed?
have you looked generating flashpaper via cf?
hey Paul, how'd you know I was a CF programmer? does it really show
that bad? how embarrassing...
Sadly, there's no server-side code in this case to lean on. it all has
to be static HTML and swf's.
So far my choices are
- Alex's suggestion of
I need a more info panel that opens up when required at particular
spots. I'm hoping to keep the more info content as one HTML doc
(that can be edited/replaced by itself) without embedding the content
into the flex app itself, with each section run off named #anchors.
at least, that's how I'd
I'm no expert in Flex and RIA development but i have implemented
creating the ID on the client using the createUUID to generate a GUID
which by all practible means it will be globally unique.
unique record identifiers are the domain of the data storage. IMHO,
they should NEVER be generated
how are you going to get the data from the vb6 app to drive the charts
in the swf?
and then this hits the airwaves
http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/display/INTRO/Granite+Data+Services+Overview
I'd like to say 3 things at this point:
1) I'm not trolling by chipping in here. My bottom line is to use
powerful technology to solve serious problems that the boss will sign
off
1) Q: have I picked the wrong method and setFocus() is NOT what I want
- or - do I have to construct exactly what I want piece by piece?
[full code below]... I've got a TextInput that updates the underlying
XML when it loses focus (which it does OK). When the buttons are used,
it returns the
or to fully abstract it?
private function removeSelection(event:Event):void{
event.currentTarget.selectionBeginIndex = 0;
event.currentTarget.selectionEndIndex = 0;
}
mx:TextInput id=txtWeight
text=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
focusIn=removeSelection( event )
focusOut=onRatingChange(
I think that Adobe should seriously consider revising their
licensing to work on multiple platforms.
one would think so, yes, especially since what we're talking about is
just a plug-in to a cross-platform (and free) IDE.
There are plenty of people that own Mac laptops and Windows desktops
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why the heck should they push it?!?
Because it makes Flex more attractive/a legitimate possibility to a
MUCH larger audience.
I don't think anyone is disputing that, especially with Adobe getting
(needing) the jump on whatever Microsoft's Vista, XAML, etc will mean
Why isn't WebOrb all over the dev center? Why isn't Adobe pushing it?
why the heck should they push it?!? In my eyes they're doing
bugger-all to help the CFEclipse IDE which also supports an Adobe product.
midnight coders has their own revenue stream. they stand or fall by
the products they
no takers, Mick?
this was one thing I wanted to look into before being sidetracked with
some datagrids.
at first I was thinking of keeping a register of what was opened so I
knew what to close.
then I was thinking of closing all before opening the selected one.
these are just some rough thoughts
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Say you've got a DataGrid that uses a ComboBox as an
itemRenderer. You probably wouldn't want the logic that handles the
change event of the CB inside that itemRenderer component, you would
want it in the parent of the DataGrid
Ben, please forgive my lack of Flex
Can you subclass the DateField and rewrite the DateChooser pop up code?
me? personally? rewrite the DateChooser?
nope.
I'm not an AS3 component programmer. got no idea how. I'm a CF/ASP.NET
coder that's into using pre-built components to (eventually learn how
to) build Flex-fronted apps.
Franck and Doug: may I be so bold as to include here some information
I sent to our programming team for them to have some context?
I offer it here as a talking point only - and would invite any
comments or corrections to help me gain a better understanding myself
... this has just been gathered
YAHOO (... ahemforgive me...)
Tim, thankyou very much.
that got it... and it looks just right.
cheers
barry.b
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it *tries* to displays it but disapears, so I'm hoping there might be
a work-around (apart from moving the datagrid layout and/or size around)
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well, I reckon it's a bug:
when using DateField as an itemRenderer
using the livedocs example
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/mx/containers/TitleWindow.html
the titleWindow's x and y values surprisiongly seem to do sod-all...
mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
title=Title Window x=600 y=300
positioning seems to be driven
LOL! thanx anyhoo, Doug.
I can guess that all I need to do is get a reference to the origional
ArrayCollection (the dataGrid's dataProvider) from within the
titleWindow and let the [binding] do the rest... but it's a read then
append then save.
I've tried but keep getting scoping issues from
(background)
I'm looking at some code(*) on extending controls to add extra
formatting and validation. I need to have a dateField accept null
values, alert if text entry is not a date and format the picker date
to DD/MM/
- for an itemRenderer of a dataGrid
(anyway...)
I'm really worried
well, I reckon it's a bug:
when using DateField as an itemRenderer in a datagrid, you cannot use
it in the last column if the datagrid is set to 100%...
why?
the rendered DateChooser control (the date picker) falls off the edge
of the window and fails to display. it then throws a type
you flamin' bewdie, Tim! thanx heaps.
(and it makes sence too)
but... almost there: can't get the right references
Access of undefined property NewPopUpParent
I think I've missed something, or using the wrong reference for the
pop-up.
import mx.core.Application; // for mainCanvas
actually, scratch that error. it's something else that's wrong:
public var NewPopUpParent:DisplayObject;
NewPopUpParent = Application.application.mainCanvas;
generates the compile time error
Access of undefined property NewPopUpParent
but changing it to
public var
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