[flexcoders] Text/Font with border on characters?

Hi, I want to overlay text so that it can be read regardless of the background colour (without putting a background behind the text itself). So basically I want the text to have a border around each character with a different colour - white with black surround for example. Any ideas how I'd

[flexcoders] Re: Text/Font with border on characters?

, at 12:19, beecee1977 wrote: Hi, I want to overlay text so that it can be read regardless of the background colour (without putting a background behind the text itself). So basically I want the text to have a border around each character with a different colour - white with black surround

[flexcoders] Re: still having trouble with breakpoints

I'll just echo that I see the same thing (again only in .as files included by script tags). For me it's usually after line 500 or so, but no amount of cleaning the project or closing reopening Flex fixes it for me. So I do lots of moving functions to where I can debug them! :-) --- In

[flexcoders] Is there a way to pass on rollOver to parent object?

Hi, Just wondering, is it possible to have a child object ignore mouse rollOvers so that the parent object can pick it up. (I want the parent object's rollOverEffect/rollOutEffect to be activated). Thanks in advance Bill

[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid with bound dataProvider not updating.

Thanks for all the responses! I took the advice and switched to using ArrayCollection and all is working fine now (without hammers :-)) Thanks again! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Alex called invalidateDisplayList a big hammer. The

[flexcoders] Datagrid with bound dataProvider not updating.

Hi, I have a datagrid with the dataProvider bound to an array of objects. If I remove one of the items from the array the datagrid doesn't update to reflect this. Debugging and looking at the dataProvider's length it has updated, but that's not what's displayed. I've tried using

[flexcoders] Re: VideoDisplay volume problem

Have you looked at the reply in this thread? Anyway, here's another thread on same: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/75277 If you don't want to subclass, another trick that might help is setting the volume to some random value before setting it to the value you want. (I

[flexcoders] Re: Memory leak? IE7 Crashes!

7.0.5730.11, faulting module fldbg9b.ocx, version 9.0.28.0, fault address 0x001b5063. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply Tom, I just have this on a 1 second timer: public function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void { time

[flexcoders] Re: Memory leak? IE7 Crashes!

Looks like it's a known issue: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm? forumid=44catid=184threadid=1257667enterthread=y I just hope that it's not exascerbated to something I'm doing in code! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still

[flexcoders] Re: Memory leak? IE7 Crashes!

Indeed there are. It happens with v9.0.45.0 as well. Judging from the link I attached it's not just a problem with the debug version, but I'll give it a go and report back. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007, beecee1977 wrote

[flexcoders] Re: Datagrid with bound dataProvider not updating.

@yahoogroups.com, Angus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arrayCollection or array? Try calling refresh() after the change. On 29/05/07, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a datagrid with the dataProvider bound to an array of objects. If I remove one of the items from the array

[flexcoders] Re: videoDisplay.volume not working

Hi, I started by doing a quick check and then got quite involved in this. Turns out there's a fairly simple solution (I think). There is a bug whereby if you set the volume before the video is loaded it doesn't get set properly I think if you call vidDisplay.load(); before setting

[flexcoders] Re: Memory leak in VideoDisplay?

for an application? Any feedback would be welcome! Bill --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been having memory problems with my application when it's left running overnight in IE7, which often results in IE crashing and a flash9.ocx error popup

[flexcoders] Re: Memory leak in VideoDisplay?

@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007, beecee1977 wrote: Is it normal for memory to fluctuate when there are no user interactions (or timers or anything else in the code)? Yes. Memory may not be reclaimed unless there is pressure to free some. How

[flexcoders] Memory leak in VideoDisplay?

Hi, I've been having memory problems with my application when it's left running overnight in IE7, which often results in IE crashing and a flash9.ocx error popup. Anyway, I'm struggling to pin down where the problem is coming from. I know about the seemingly whimsical nature of when garbage

[flexcoders] Events not firing from swf imported with SwfLoader

Hi, I'm not a flash expert so you'll have to bear with me on this. I'm not creating the swf's myself. I've recieved animations in swf's before and used them in image controls and they work fine. (movie clips generated in Flash MX 2004) If however the swf has a button on it (just an animation

[flexcoders] Re: global variable vs passing parameters to the cus tom components

As you say yourself, your other example is a lot clearer. For example in the context of this question, a=1; b=5; a = b; a = a+5; /*result: a=9 b=4 */ i.e. a = b doesn't make both a and b point to the same Number in memory and changing a does not change b. This is not the case for

[flexcoders] Problems using Zoom effect.

Hi, I'm having a couple of problems with Zoom effects. Here's my simple test application: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute mx:Script ![CDATA[ private function

[flexcoders] VideoDisplay bug?! How to extend to change a private variable?

Hi, I would normally spend more time trying to work this out first, but I'm under a bit of pressure... There appears to be a bug in the VideoDisplay code. vid.close() = within the videoDisplay a private variable called closeCalled is set to true. vid.play() = the closeCalled variable is set

[flexcoders] Re: VideoDisplay bug?! How to extend to change a private variable?

P.S. If it's any easier to access an mx_internal variable than a private variable (when sub-classing/extending a control) that'll work too! Cheers Bill --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would normally spend more time trying to work this out

[flexcoders] Re: VideoDisplay bug?! How to extend to change a private variable?

Freiman On 3/28/07, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. If it's any easier to access an mx_internal variable than a private variable (when sub-classing/extending a control) that'll work too! Cheers Bill --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Re: TextArea autoSize?

Try: either on myTextArea change event: myTextArea.height = myTextArea.textHeight or bind the height to the textHeight. Hope that helps. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to make a TextArea instance expand to the size of the Text assigned to it.

[flexcoders] Re: VideoDisplay.complete event doesn't get called when a video ends

Well you're not crazy, but I've no solution I'm afraid: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcomponents/message/1549 I'd imagine it's something to do with how the flv is encoded? You could try catching a state change event when the video stops playing at the end, but I haven't tried that

[flexcoders] Re: I set VideoDisplay.source to a 404, but VideoDisplay simply says it's loading

This of any use? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcomponents/message/1398 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Yair Flicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, I have a problem where I set the videoDisplay.source property to an invalid URL - 404 - call the .play() method, and then

[flexcoders] Re: How do I prevent the user from selecting text in a text area component?

Yes, but that doesn't stop the user from selecting the text (dragging mouse over and highlighting)... Is there an easy way to prevent that? (Other than disabling the component) Bill --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: editable=false

[flexcoders] Re: text area height

You'd be better starting a new thread, but it's pretty straight forward... Either on myText change event: myText.height = myText.TextArea.textHeight + BORDERS_HEIGHT or bind the height.. Haven't tested this, but it should work. Hope that helps. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jeff noyes

[flexcoders] Re: text area height

By the way, for a TextArea control you won't need the .TextArea bit :- ) That was for a RichTextEditor. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, beecee1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd be better starting a new thread, but it's pretty straight forward... Either on myText change event

[flexcoders] Loading Image into BitmapData

Hi, I have what I hope is a pretty simple problem, but I'm not sure how to do it. I want to load in an image file (png or whatever) from a url and store it locally in a BitmapData Object. I suspect I need to use the Loader class, but I'm not sure how to get it out of this and into a

[flexcoders] Re: Cross domain confusion

I don't really have a solution, but a suggestion as to why it might be working locally. If you created the project in Flex Builder it will add the source location to a trust file: Documents and Settings\$UserName$\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash

[flexcoders] Re: Getting duration of FLV 1.0 videos

Thanks Jim, I'll give that a go. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jim Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beecee1977 wrote: Hi, I want to be able to get the duration of any flv file using the videoDisplay object. This works fine most of the time (just myVideoDisplay.totalTime

[flexcoders] Getting duration of FLV 1.0 videos

Hi, I want to be able to get the duration of any flv file using the videoDisplay object. This works fine most of the time (just myVideoDisplay.totalTime)... However, for older flv files (before 1.1) this metadata is not included. Looking at the code in VideoDisplay.as: /**

[flexcoders] Length of Dictionary...

Hopefully there's a pretty simple answer. I want to find the length of a Dictionary (i.e. the number of entries in it)... There doesn't seem to be any documentation for the Dictionary's properties that I can find.

[flexcoders] Video not showing in VideoDisplay... sometimes...

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem (or better still resolved it)... I have a VideoDisplay object which I load with a source flv. All fine. However, on some occasions the video doesn't display. I've set the backcolor of the VideoDisplay to red, to make sure it's

[flexcoders] Re: setting an external f9 swf's library symbols width

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you could try: maintainAspectRatio=false Hope that helps... -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo!