[flexcoders] Re: How can I overlay a UIComponent on top of my application?

2007-12-07 Thread bithroop
get your horizontal layout, plus have a place to put your explicitly positioned elements. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bithroop Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:36 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Re: How can I overlay a UIComponent on top of my application?

2007-12-06 Thread bithroop
); then try adding that bitmap to the main displayContainer (the stage). I hope this works as a starting point. Blake From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bithroop Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:13 PM To: flexcoders

[flexcoders] How can I overlay a UIComponent on top of my application?

2007-12-06 Thread bithroop
Trying to figure out the best way to do this... I have an image in my UI which is small. I want a larger version of it to draw, attached to the mouse cursor, when the user rolls over it. Kinda like a tooltip but moving along with the cursor. (Mixbook does this if you've ever seen it) I have it

[flexcoders] Styling extended Flex Components... simple misunderstanding?

2007-12-05 Thread bithroop
I think I'm not understanding something... My app has a bunch of .mxml classes that extend TitleWindow (singletons in a UI). I want them all to be styled the same EXCEPT for I want each one to have a custom background color. Here's how I'm attempting this... -begin external css

[flexcoders] Re: Events and Non-Display Objects

2007-11-30 Thread bithroop
, Muzak - Original Message - From: bithroop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:33 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Events and Non-Display Objects Jehanzeb - first, thank you for the detailed response! I really appreciate

[flexcoders] Re: Events and Non-Display Objects

2007-11-30 Thread bithroop
Just a quick follow up... I hooked up Muzak's suggestion and that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you Muzak! -b --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bithroop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah that totally makes sense and looks like the proper way of doing things. Thanks Muzak -b

[flexcoders] Re: Events and Non-Display Objects

2007-11-29 Thread bithroop
Jehanzeb - first, thank you for the detailed response! I really appreciate it. In the code you provided, the CustomEventDispatcher was instantiated within the mx:Application object. So from what I've seen, yes Application will be able to hear CustomEventDispatcher's events. However, my sitation

[flexcoders] Events and Non-Display Objects

2007-11-28 Thread bithroop
General question here... I understand Event flow with objects in the display list. They flow either up (bubbling) or down (capture) between parent and child. Maybe an oversimplification but my question really is about how to handle events with objects that are not in the display list. How do you

[flexcoders] Re: Events and Non-Display Objects

2007-11-28 Thread bithroop
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bithroop Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:18 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Events and Non-Display Objects General question here... I

[flexcoders] htmlText resets formatting... why?

2007-11-25 Thread bithroop
I'm having an issue that maybe someone has run into before. I've made a simple rich text editor which edits a model that has an htmlText property as a string. The model is bound to a textArea and the editor which sets the properties of a textRange derived from the selection on the textArea. The

[flexcoders] Re: htmlText resets formatting... why?

2007-11-25 Thread bithroop
the bind and only having the textArea update the model when it is typed in made it work properly. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bithroop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having an issue that maybe someone has run into before. I've made a simple rich text editor which edits a model that has

[flexcoders] Re: Capture Flex screen to e-mail...

2007-11-25 Thread bithroop
Are you wanting to capture just the Flex part? Or also the browser rendered HTML part? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an application that I wrote years ago in ASP classic, I had a button on every page that would allow the user to e-mail the current

[flexcoders] Re: Event dispatching and receiving

2007-11-16 Thread bithroop
Are you saying it works with Application.application? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, duncan mcmillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks Maybe I'm interpreating all the docs wrong but, I have a Custom Class which is one of several View Classes as part of an MVC model I'm using. I have an

[flexcoders] Re: ItemRenderer

2007-11-16 Thread bithroop
If you set the dataField=name of sortable property in your columns like this: mx:columns mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Cards

[flexcoders] Debugging who changed data...

2007-11-16 Thread bithroop
I have a property that is getting changed and I'm having a really hard time figuring out where it's happening and who is doing it. The debugger is walking me pretty far into the SDK and events are firing off and ultimately it's hard to tell. Anyone have any tricks for this?

[flexcoders] Resize Effect Plays Twice?

2007-11-15 Thread bithroop
Here is a really simple example that is bringing up some buggy behavior. This little app will let the user flip between a few different trays. There is a resizeEffect on the ViewStack that holds the trays and a show and hide effect slides them. The resizeEffect is making the move effects play

[flexcoders] Disappearing content/Platform Differences...

2007-11-13 Thread bithroop
I have been developing on an XP SP2 box and a Macbook, bouncing back and forth. Tonight I started having a problem where a remoting call was throwing an error on the PC but the Mac was fine. So I decided to grab my wife's laptop and see how the app did on hers. I was shocked and saddened to see

[flexcoders] When $height != height...

2007-11-06 Thread bithroop
I've got a component called ItemContainer that extends UIComponent. Inside it has a TextArea. I want ItemContainer's height and width to update to match the height and width of the TextArea when the TextArea's are changed (I've got a resizer class that lets you drag a widget to change the

[flexcoders] Component rendering inconsistency once placed...

2007-09-05 Thread bithroop
Are there any common issues to look for when facing this situation: I've made a new mxml component that is an arrangement of standard UI elements inside a Panel container. The panel renders fine on its own, but once it's placed inside another component or app, the layout goes bad. I've cleared

[flexcoders] Re: Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread bithroop
I 100% agree with this. I am very much in the same camp as you, having just started with Flex and, well, most everything RIA related three months ago. But, I have a project I'm trying to get done so having goals which derive from that push my learning every day. So pick something to make and do

[flexcoders] Re: Image -shrinking and resizing

2007-08-30 Thread bithroop
I think you'll want to set the scaleX and scaleY of the image based on the difference between the VBox's base size and its current size. Image has a facility to scale images down to fit, but not up, so this might be your best bet. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Charu [EMAIL PROTECTED]