RE: [flexcoders] Please Adobe. Unanswered questions, and building the community

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
My understanding is that Adobe support engineers don't generally start supporting products until they are released (and therefore the product is stable). It's up to the development team to support alpha, beta, and GMC releases and we do that to the best of our abilities as we have spare time.

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Beta 3: getDefinitionByName

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
It always returns 'class object' No, it can also return a Function if you pass something like flash.utils.getTimer, which is a package-level function that isn't in any class. Since the return value can be either a Function or Class, we had type it as Object. - Gordon

RE: [flexcoders] Garbage collection and removeChild [Flex 2 beta 3]?

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
it does not seem to be collected What are you doing that you think should cause it to be collected? Do you keep allocating memory indefinitely? An object may never get garbage collected unless the Player decides it needs the memory. Should one have to remove all objects created through the

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 Label class, need background

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
The background of the standard Label is always transparent, but it is easy to override this behavior by overriding the updateDisplayList() method. Do you know how to do programmatic drawing with the Graphics class? - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [flexcoders] Re: htmlText formating destroyed by binding execution

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
I believe this has been fixed since Beta 3. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of n51red Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 3:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: htmlText formating destroyed by binding

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 Label class, need background

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
Sorry, I see that you said Flex 1.5. You would override draw() instead in your custom component, and the drawing methods like beginFill() and drawRect() are on the Label itself rather than on the Label's Graphics object. It should look something like this LabelWithBackground.mxml: mx:Label

RE: [flexcoders] Garbage collection and removeChild [Flex 2 beta 3]?

2006-06-23 Thread Jason Hawryluk
Thank you, this clears some things up. :) I was actually allocating memory up to 100mb and then seeing if it's collected by letting it sit there with no activity, and watching the process memory usage (couldn't think of another way). You can later remove a component from a container using the

[flexcoders] selectedDate not set after choosing a date from DateChooser

2006-06-23 Thread Bas J. Brey
I set the selectedDate of a DateField, this works. But when I choose a date from the connected DateChooser the selectedDate is set to null. Can anyone verify this? Im now forced to parse the text from the DateField. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

RE: [flexcoders] Setting effects in states?

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
That did it, cheers! From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ely GreenfieldSent: 22 June 2006 17:27To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Setting effects in states? effects are styles. So use SetStyle instead. Ely. From:

RE: [flexcoders] SOLUTION IS A BUG ? Re: ExternalInterface Flex 2 FireFox issue.....

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I can't get this to work in FireFox, even with the change to the javascript file noted below (has anyone confirmed that as a bug, amd will it be fixed in the release?). In FireFox, I get: Error: getMovie(FlexTests).setData is not a function FlexTests is the ID, and setData is a method I added

RE: [flexcoders] how do you dispatch event from a custom class?

2006-06-23 Thread Paul Williams
Hi Jon, Sprite extends EventDispatcher, so you don't need to instantiate another EventDispatcher in your class. Instead, try the following: this.dispatchEvent(new Event(AuthenticationFailed,true,false)); If you still have problems can you let us know what object you are creating your event

Re: [flexcoders] embedFonts

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 22 June 2006 23:11, Chaitu Vadlapatla wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the embedFonts property for TEXT. You mean what font a particular control is using ? Don't you know, having written the style ? And also has anybody been able to implement any anti aliasing for

[flexcoders] Identifying a RTMPFlexSession

2006-06-23 Thread Alberto Albericio
Hello all, In FDS, Im trying to maintain a list of open RTMPFlexSession sessions on the server; Im using the events FlexSessionListener.sessionCreated and FlexSessionListener.sessionDestroyed for that. That works but I can´t identify what client belongs to what session. Method

RE: [flexcoders] SOLUTION IS A BUG ? Re: ExternalInterface Flex 2 FireFox issue.....

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
Fixed it. I changed the getMovie function slightly (it was the same problem moyosaned had, but the fix didn't seem to work): function getApp(appName) { if (navigator.appName.indexOf (Microsoft) != -1) { return window[appName]; } else { return

[flexcoders] Identifying a RTMPFlexSession

2006-06-23 Thread Alberto Albericio
Hello all, In FDS, Im trying to maintain a list of open RTMPFlexSession sessions on the server; Im using the events FlexSessionListener.sessionCreated and FlexSessionListener.sessionDestroyed for that. That works but I can´t identify what client belongs to what session. Method

[flexcoders] Flex2B3: graphics.drawRoundRectComplex

2006-06-23 Thread Tim Hoff
I'm using this code to draw a rectangle. graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x00); graphics.drawRoundRectComplex(0, 0, w, h, 6, 6, 6, 6); The rounded corners are not smooth and aligned correctly. I know that this was a problem with Flash MX, that was fixed by Flash 8. Is there a way to smooth

RE: [flexcoders]Final:Please Adobe. Unanswered questions, and building the community

2006-06-23 Thread Jason Hawryluk
Thanks for responding, My initial worry was not that all my questions are not getting answered. It was more like if Adobe wants to get into the dev realm and be active in convincing existing MS dev people to make a switch to Flex from the upcoming WPF/e and WPF platforms, their community support

[flexcoders] About dates sent to a webservice. Is this correct?

2006-06-23 Thread Bas J. Brey
You set a date e.g. 25th of January 2005 00:00 GMT +2 Flex sends it to the service as 24th of January 2005 22:00 ? If so than you can never use a date type in your webservice cause then you miss timezone information. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

[flexcoders] Reloading flex app cuts breeze presentation sound (BUG?)

2006-06-23 Thread João Fernandes
I just found this one, i was listening presentation in the background http://adobechats.breezecentral.com/p31075720/ And the sound just began to stop, I first thought it was randomly but then I realized that each time I reloaded my flex 2 app, this interfered with the presentation. The

[flexcoders] Re: htmlText formating destroyed by binding execution

2006-06-23 Thread n51red
That's great, thanks for letting me know. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this has been fixed since Beta 3. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [flexcoders] e4x adding attributes across members.

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 23 June 2006 03:49, coder_flex wrote: inputXML.book.(addToTotal( totalClass, Number(@price)*Number(@quantity))); trace(totalClass.totalAmt); Eww. Take a look at the 'for each' example in the docs :-) -- Tom Chiverton This email

[flexcoders] Re: Please Adobe. Unanswered questions, and building the community

2006-06-23 Thread george_w_canada
I'd rather to sit and wait the release day of Flex 2. There's only several days left (next week?) it will save your time a lot with the official release but not beta version. You could buy or try it or use SDK only. George --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, sourcecoderia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[flexcoders] Saving DataGrid Items in to Database.

2006-06-23 Thread sreedhar reddy
Hi, This is Sreedhar. I am working with Flex Builder 2 Beta 3, Java Server Pages, and Sequel 2005.Actually, I am trying to save entire Datagrid Items in to a table in thedatabase bya Button Click. I am very thankful, if somebodyhelps me in this problem. Thanks Regards, SreedharThanks

[flexcoders] Flex 2.0 profiling

2006-06-23 Thread Damien Mandrioli
Hi all, I would like to know if a code profiler is envisaged for the final release of Flex Builder. Im experimenting some very strange CPU consumption et memory leak, is there known performance problems in the beta 3? Next I will try to isolate the problem to post it here.

RE: [flexcoders] SOLUTION IS A BUG ? Re: ExternalInterface Flex 2 FireFox issue.....

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I also found an awful bug in Firefox as I was doing it (open attached as html in Firefox and compare to IE)! This is why innerHTML isn't in the standard - trying to be bug compatable with IE is a silly game to start :-) bug compatible with IE? I don't understand. IE does innerHTML

Re: [flexcoders] SOLUTION IS A BUG ? Re: ExternalInterface Flex 2 FireFox issue.....

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 23 June 2006 13:43, Daniel Tuppeny wrote: bug compatible with IE? I don't understand. IE does innerHTML correctly. Firefox *completely* changed the structure of the document, Trust me, it's best not to argue, or we'll do the while document.getElement() (or whatever) debate again :-)

[flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
How do you modularize MXML.In actionscript we import classes, and each class represents some conceptual chunk, but I am not sure what the equivalent is in MXML.I have been looking at lots of code examples, but they are all small. This has been very helpful in learning how APIs work, but I am on

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
You want to use MXML components... http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex20beta3/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=Part1_GetStarted.html You can pass in data when the component is called, and even have bendable and/or functions that return values/objects.

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
Oops... Silly spell-checkers. Components are bindable, not bendable. Of course, they are FLEX-able... Ha! Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shannon HicksSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:21 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [Junk

Re: [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Luc ESSER
The answer is Cairngorm ! (sorry, couldn't resist) :D JL - Original Message - From: hank williams To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 3:09 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question How do you modularize MXML.In

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Thanks. I hadnt looked at MXML components because I thought they were more like flash components(ugh), and thats not how we do code modularity in flash.I appreciate the tip.Hank On 6/23/06, Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to use MXML components...

RE: [flexcoders] e4x adding attributes across members.

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Horn
Here's a basic example using for each: ?xml version=1.0? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; mx:Script![CDATA[ private var myXML:XML = order item id='1' quantity='2'

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Ok, so in looking at the docs, to include a directory you use xmlns:MyComp=*This should as I understand it include everything from the main app directory.Is MyComp a reserved word that is the holder of the directory path, or could you use other words here instead of MyComp. ThanksHankOn

[flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I'm struggling to get the difference between two dates in months... I want to input something like Jan 1st and July 18th, and get something like 7.5 out. I tried using .getTime() and then creating a date from the result, but that's not accurate because of variable length months. I

Re: [flexcoders] selectedDate not set after choosing a date from DateChooser

2006-06-23 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Can you post your code somewhere? I am using DateField's selectedDate property with no problems.On 6/23/06, Bas J. Brey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the selectedDate of a DateField, this works. But when I choose a date from the connected DateChooser the

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I think I need more coffee The following code (which I'm sure is correct!), returns around 2.8 when I'm expecting around 3.2. Anyone spot my error? public static function getMonths(startDate:Date, endDate:Date):Number{if (startDate endDate){var tmp:Date = endDate;endDate =

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Horn
You can use anything when you define a namespace. You need to match whatever you use in your mxml tags; for example, if you name it fred, then you reference the ButtonComp control with a fred prefix: ?xml version=1.0? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; xmlns:Fred=*

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I was using .day instead of .date TFI Friday! =) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel TuppenySent: 23 June 2006 15:33To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates I think I need more coffee The

[flexcoders] Flashpaper and Flex 2 bug

2006-06-23 Thread Michael van Leest
Hi, Is there any progress on the FlashPaper bug in Flex 2? I've tried to load the flashpaper swf, but some functionalities don't work (search, selection etc). Thanks, Michael Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups

Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Pan Troglodytes
I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :DOn 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using .day instead of .date TFI Friday! =) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Thanks. One last question on this. I have no problem defining how to put a component in the same directory and using MyComp=*, but if I want to put it in a sub directory, MyComp=MyComponents is not working. The MyComponents directory is now at the same level as the main app. Any ideas?

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Luc ESSER
You'll have to specify .* to get to the files inside your directory. MyComp="MyComponents.*" should work. Jean-Luc. - Original Message - From: hank williams To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW]

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
You want to use: xmlns:mx="MyComponents/* Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williamsSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:03 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
Jean-Luc is right... it's mycomponents.* Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Luc ESSERSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:08 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Luc ESSER
Slash notation ???!!! Is that actually working ? Anyway, you should use dot notation, as said previously. To add to my previous post, if you wish to go down several directories, you keep using dot notation : MyDir1.MyDir2.* for example. Be carefull about case sensitive. Best, Jean-Luc.

[flexcoders] Re: Background Gradient??

2006-06-23 Thread Renaun Erickson
Gradient colors in Flex's CSS are done like this: header-colors:#636B73,#F4F5F7; But if you give background-color multiple color values it nulls the value. I tried with no luck, background-colors:#636B73,#F4F5F7; --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Erich Cervantez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Sorry, that is what I was doing. I just misstyped the email. And that isnt working.HankOn 6/23/06, Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to use: xmlns:mx=MyComponents/* Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of hank

Re: [flexcoders] Background Gradient??

2006-06-23 Thread Peter Baird
Title: Re: [flexcoders] Background Gradient?? I assume you mean a background gradient for the application. In flex 1.5 there is, unfortunately, no property that you can set to have a background gradient color other than the default (there is in Flex 2.0). However, that doesnt mean you cant

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
I wouldn't disagree! There seems to be no useful functions for manipulating dates. They should copy all the methods and properties from the .NET DateTime class :o) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan TroglodytesSent: 23 June 2006 16:02To:

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Thanks. The dot did it!HankOn 6/23/06, Jean-Luc ESSER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll have to specify .* to get to the files inside your directory. MyComp=MyComponents.* should work. Jean-Luc. - Original Message - From: hank williams To:

[flexcoders] toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread djbrown_rotonews
I'm wanting to add some toolTip type behavior when the user rolls over some data in a DataGridColumn. It doesn't appear that the DataGridColumn natively supports toolTip behavior, but is there a way I can mimic one via the itemRollOver event? Something like popping up a Label just under the

Re: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Well, it helped when I figured out I could do things like date.date += 12 and it would automatically correct for rolling over months/years. But at the very least, there needs to be a built-in daysBetween function. Yes, yes, I know you can do the getTime() arithmetic. But every time you have to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reusing Cairngorm views

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 22 June 2006 19:03, Tim Hoff wrote: view section, was just where they are located (directory) in the project, not where they are used in the project. I've kept them in the same place as the MXML view files (a view sub-dir). It sounds like you're getting there. :) Yeah, just

[flexcoders] Using user suplied username/password with Cairgorm 2 services

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
If I have a RemoteObject service defined in a Cairngorm 2 app, that asks for a username and password, how can I assign those strings as credentials for the remote service to use. What I want to do is setCredentials() on *something*, right ? Can't use the result of calling the serviceLocator

[flexcoders] RemoteObjects in components

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Ok, so I just created a component. It needs to access remoteObjects. I defined the component as a canvas. But I guess canvas's cant have sub items that are remoteObjects, so a compiler error is thrown. But the whole purpose of this component is to display remoteObject data in a scrolling list.

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Tuppeny
things like date.date += 12 I didn't know that. That's certainly a bit better! I was frustrated there was no AddDays() etc.! Yes, yes, I know you can do the getTime() arithmetic You can't. Because once you detach the length of time from the actual dates, you can't figure out the

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] RemoteObjects in components

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
Check out my little flex project... http://flex.work.iotashan.com/hlstatsx/hlstatsx.html Nothing special, but it does what you're asking. Right-click to view the source. Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williamsSent: Friday, June 23,

RE: [flexcoders] animated line charts

2006-06-23 Thread Ely Greenfield
There's no effect that draws it one point at a time...you probably saw a SeriesSlide effect, which slides the points on from offscreen. All the charting effects allow you to specify an elementOffset, where the start of the effect on each datapoint is offset from the next or previous

[flexcoders] Re: About dates sent to a webservice. Is this correct?

2006-06-23 Thread kellyb723
Yes this is correct. I recently had a long thread about this. What I was told by Adobe is that If a web service defined the element-type in WSDL as `dateTime' and sends a value that does not include a time zone component Flex has to assume that this is UTC time and will automatically adjust the

RE: [flexcoders] Using user suplied username/password with Cairgorm 2 services

2006-06-23 Thread João Fernandes
Tom, Did you try this? myService.setRemoteCredentials(username,pwd) myService.FunctionToCall() João Fernandes Dep. Informática - Área de Desenvolvimento Cofina media Avenida João Crisóstomo, Nº 72 . 1069-043 Lisboa PORTUGAL Tel (+351) 213 185 200 . Fax (+351) 213 540 370

[flexcoders] Re: Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread kellyb723
AMEN!! (not terribly helpful, but feels good to say) - Kelly --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Pan Troglodytes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I swear, I really think the date class was designed by a crazy man. You hear that Adobe? - CRAZY! :D On 6/23/06, Daniel Tuppeny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] SOAP Serialization bug

2006-06-23 Thread zosoo7
Hello. We've encountered what appears to be a bug in beta 3. We are using the mx:WebService, and when flex serializes the xml to send up to our web service, it appears to drop namespaces on nested aggregate objects that are in different packages on the server/web service. It seems that it only

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] RemoteObjects in components

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
Thanks. Its great to see some other code. I have learned a few things just checking it out.But one question. In looking at your code, I noticed that the remoteObject stuff is at the application level. Does this mean that you cant put remoteObjects in MXML components? I was hoping to modularize

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] RemoteObjects in components

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
You can, I haven't gotten that far yet. When you create your custom components, you can have methods that return values objects. So, you could define the remoteObject in the component, and have a public function that would call the remoteObject, and return a object back to either the

RE: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] RemoteObjects in components

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
At a much higher level... Flex was really designed to use ModelViewController... Your thoughts are definitely on the right track! Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hank williamsSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:02 PMTo:

[flexcoders] Flex 2 the SWFLoader and some php

2006-06-23 Thread talion_4
I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand here, I've been trying to get my flex app to load a swf out of a mysql database. I've stored the swf's in a longblob column by manually dropping them in with a mysql table editor. These swf's are mainly just simple animations nothing fancy and they

[flexcoders] Re: e4x adding attributes across members.

2006-06-23 Thread coder_flex
Your answer involves looping externally (which is how they explain it in the flex code sample). I was trying to avoid that and use e4x's power to do the same. Therefore I was calling a function within the e4x expression. I know that calling a function within e4x expression works because I am

[flexcoders] Re: Flex2 B3 - Scroll Bar problems

2006-06-23 Thread thunderstumpgesatwork
Thanks for that info. This sounds like a bug then. Why would setting the minHeight/Width on a child of a container cause the scrollbars for that container not to show properly? The minHeight and minWidth is necessary to prevent the canvas (or actually I have a whole component) from sizing too

RE: [flexcoders] Another simple flex newbie question

2006-06-23 Thread Tracy Spratt
You modularize mxml by creating components. Components can be implemented either in Actionscript or in mxml. Except for the implementation there is no difference. To create an mxml component, create an mxml file, and instead of using mx:Application as the root tag, use some other tag,

RE: [flexcoders] [F2B3] Could Adobe make Flex Framework available trough SVN?

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Chotin
If you've ever done support though you'll know how many times someone will say they're using the official release when later they remember that oh yeah, I did try that experiment a few weeks ago and must have forgotten to undo it :-) We are not against the idea, but it will take time for us to

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 2.0 profiling

2006-06-23 Thread Matt Chotin
The profiler is something that did not make the 2.0 release. Well be looking into getting it out in a later release. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damien Mandrioli Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 4:47 AM To:

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-23 Thread Tracy Spratt
Have you looked into the AS 3 libraries? I found this on dates manipulation: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/as_libraries/docs/corelib/ Look at DateUtil Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006

RE: [flexcoders] toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread Tracy Spratt
They are called dataTips. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex20beta3/langref/mx/controls/DataGrid.html Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djbrown_rotonews Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:41 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

RE: [flexcoders] Saving DataGrid Items in to Database.

2006-06-23 Thread Tracy Spratt
How far have you gotten? Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sreedhar reddy Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:19 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Saving DataGrid Items in to Database. Hi, This is

[flexcoders] installing NoteTag on JBOSS

2006-06-23 Thread Michael
Does anyone know the best way(or if it can be done) of installing notetag on a JBOSS server? Thank you, Michael __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives:

[flexcoders] Re: Accepting MXML attribute's width in percentage on a custom component

2006-06-23 Thread Angela
I am actually having the same problem - I have a canvas with the width set to 100%. If I try and get the width in pixels through AS it returns 0. If I try the same thing through mxml it works fine. So this in AS: public function getMiddle():Number { var x:Number; x =

[flexcoders] Re: Flex2 B3 - Scroll Bar problems

2006-06-23 Thread Tim Hoff
minHeight and minWidth are usually used in conjunction with percentage-based height and width. When the content becomes too small to view, the min values kick in. This isn't a bug. It just depends on how you set-up your view. If you set the minHeight/Width of the canvas to an explicit

[flexcoders] Re: Accepting MXML attribute's width in percentage on a custom component

2006-06-23 Thread Tim Hoff
You can get the width in pixels if you use measuredWidth instead of width. x = mainCanvas.measuredWidth*.5; -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually having the same problem - I have a canvas with the width set to 100%. If I try and get the

[flexcoders] debugging app with metadata tags

2006-06-23 Thread Michael
I am trying to use metadata tags to notify my application that an event has occurred. Every time I try to debug my application I get an error that says: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. Does anyone know if this is this something

[flexcoders] Re: toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread djbrown_rotonews
that only works for Flex Charting components though, right? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are called dataTips. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex20beta3/langref/mx/controls /Da taGrid.html Tracy

RE: [flexcoders] Re: toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread Shannon Hicks
nope... works for any list-based component. in the datagrid, you set showDataTips="true" then in the columns, you set dataTipField="fieldname" Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djbrown_rotonewsSent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:10 PMTo:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accepting MXML attribute's width in percentage on a custom component

2006-06-23 Thread Tom Ortega
What about the opposite? Does anyone know of a way to set a width in actionscript to use percentages? i.e.:datagridcolumnVar.width = 25%;won't work.On 6/23/06, Angela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually having the same problem - I have a canvas with the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accepting MXML attribute's width in percentage on a custom component

2006-06-23 Thread Luís Gustavo Sanabio
I'm using anchors. left=0 right=0 top=0 bottom=0 It works better in some cases. (like resizes). Gustavo 2006/6/23, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can get the width in pixels if you use measuredWidth instead ofwidth.x = mainCanvas.measuredWidth*.5 ;-TH--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Angela

[flexcoders] Re: Accepting MXML attribute's width in percentage on a custom component

2006-06-23 Thread Tim Hoff
percentHeight and percentWidth. datagridcolumnVar.percentWidth = 25; -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the opposite? Does anyone know of a way to set a width in actionscript to use percentages? i.e.: datagridcolumnVar.width = 25%;

RE: [flexcoders] how do you dispatch event from a custom class?

2006-06-23 Thread Jon Hirschi
Hi Paul, So I'm putting my event listener in the application core. What I would like is for this event to enter the event stream and bubble up to the application core. Currently, it doesn't look like it even makes it out of the document that I'm in. I'm not even sure that it gets populated

Re: [flexcoders] [F2B3] Could Adobe make Flex Framework available trough SVN?

2006-06-23 Thread hank williams
I love the SVN idea. And you dont even need to post interim code, just official releases. This would allow us to update our projects in a very natural way. Of course it would be great to get unofficial bug fixes, but that shouldnt prevent you from publishing updates in a more modern way. They

[flexcoders] Re: mouseUpSomewhere in IE is not firing (Flex 1.5)

2006-06-23 Thread Raheen M Shabbazz
I'm still running into this problem. Has anyone else seen it? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Raheen M Shabbazz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a canvas on which I have defined handlers for the mouseDown and mouseUpSomewhere events. When the user clicks on the canvas, holds down the

[flexcoders] Re: toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread djbrown_rotonews
weird. I've set up the following and it doesn't appear to work: mx:DataGridColumn showDataTips=true dataTipField=depstatus headerRenderer=myHeaderRenderer id=dptrsts resizable=false textAlign=center fontWeight=bold headerText=STS width={col1.width} headerWordWrap=true dataField=depstatus

[flexcoders] Re: toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread djbrown_rotonews
I actually solved the problem. I had to explicity handle it inside my itemRenderer implementation (via this.toolTip=blah blah ). --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, djbrown_rotonews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: weird. I've set up the following and it doesn't appear to work:

[flexcoders] databinding...

2006-06-23 Thread Doug Arthur
I have a class that I want to be bindable with text fields... When the text field gets updated, the value for the attribute in the class should be updated. The problem is that's not happening the way I thought it should. Am I doing something wrong, or do I have the wrong idea about the

[flexcoders] FLEX 1.5 Webservice wsdl Location as a Variable?

2006-06-23 Thread augie3333
Hi All, Is there a way to not explicitly name the wsdl path in a webservice tag (example:: mx:WebService wsdl=http://www.something.com?wsdl;)? I would like too basically set is as a variable? I have looked around the Flex Doc's about this, but of course haven�t turned up any solid answer if this

[flexcoders] skinning scroll bar

2006-06-23 Thread Chaitu Vadlapatla
Hi All, Please help. I created a fla/swf file with the name of AeonGraphical2.swf and made sure to check the export for actionscript for each of the movie symbols included in the clip. I used the CSS for the Aeon theme and changed the names where needed. The symbols in the clip work

Re: [flexcoders] how do you dispatch event from a custom class?

2006-06-23 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Hello Paul In your code you are creating a separate EventDispatcher, which is not part of any displaylist. If you let your WebServiceCheck dispatch the event instead, it should work. At least as long as it is part of a displaylist. Cheers, Ralf. On 6/23/06, Jon Hirschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[flexcoders] Adding EventListener to variable...

2006-06-23 Thread Doug Arthur
Is there a way to add an EventListner to see when a value of a variable has changed? For instance, if I want to invoke a specific function when myVar is no longer empty? Thanks! __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt

[flexcoders] Newbie layout help.

2006-06-23 Thread Ian Skinner
I have an object (coming from a ColdFusion CFC) that contains an array of objects that can be 28, 35 or 42 elements long. I would like to display this in a grid 7 columns wide and 4, 5 or 6 rows as appropriate. Each of these objects will contain a record set or another array of objects (I

[flexcoders] Re: databinding...

2006-06-23 Thread augie3333
Here is a real quick proto I wrote for you where I stuff your textInputs everything into an object. Click the Set Text button to c the data binded to the texfield. If you have any questions shoot a reply. Thanks, -Augie Marcello III !* RecordData.as * import

Re: [flexcoders] Adding EventListener to variable...

2006-06-23 Thread Greg Burch
Sounds like what you want is a getter/setter.public function set myVar(value:String):void{}public function get myVar():String{}now when myVar gets set your method will be called. -GregOn 6/23/06, Doug Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to add an EventListner to see when a value

[flexcoders] web service problem

2006-06-23 Thread slangeberg
I'm trying to set up webservice call in Cairngorm, but getting null pointer runtime error. Any ideas?:?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?cairngorm:ServiceLocator xmlns:mx= http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml xmlns:cairngorm=org.nevis.cairngorm.business.* !--mx:HTTPService id=studentDelegate url=""

Re: [flexcoders] [F2B3] Could Adobe make Flex Framework available trough SVN?

2006-06-23 Thread Carlos Rovira
Yes, you say it, Hank, SVN is the modern way we use today to get lastest updates of our favourite projects, I think it will be the best option available. Hope Matt and others select that way finaly :) On 6/23/06, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the

RE: [flexcoders] toolTip type behavior for DataGridColumns?

2006-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
DataGridColumn has showDataTips, dataTipField, and dataTipFunction properties. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of djbrown_rotonews Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:41 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] toolTip

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