Re: [flexcoders] Best practices for full screen video in AIR? What's the best HD performance we can?

2009-03-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:56 AM, George wrote: What I'm doing on video: Use an standalone Window component to contain a FLVPlayback (CS4 version), run full screen display mode on its stage alone. (Didn't set 'fullScreenSourceRect', as I tried, it cause worse performance significantly) Write

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flas 10 on mobile is a go

2009-02-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Anatole Tartakovsky wrote: Jon, That is assumption based on the current status quo and not counting Adobe's and community capabilities and hardware in 15 month from now. Touchscreen is very questionable in most cases - slow and not very accessible in real

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flas 10 on mobile is a go

2009-02-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Carlos Rovira wrote: Hope Apple will see that other phones like this Palm Pre, with features like FP10, can make the iPhone goes down Not if the touch screen and the rest of the UI stink. The touch screen is, by far, the most important aspect of any smart

Re: [flexcoders] New Web 2.0 Company looking for Chalnging work (www.dacoders.com)

2009-01-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Sajid Hussain wrote: please review our company profile looking for favorable response as we are start up with tough time Hour Rate : $12+ US ... no wonder a lot of developers are having a tough time finding work in the US (not all, but a lot). - j

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Slow datagrid updates

2009-01-05 Thread Jon Bradley
Do you have a label component in one of the grid cells that has a width set to 100%, rather than an explicit size? And, if so, do you have that label set to truncate? If you do, that can easily cause slow redraw in a data grid. I've had it happen numerous times. Solution is to set label to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Padding/spacing before the first line in a TextArea

2008-12-16 Thread Jon Bradley
You can't manually remove that padding from the field. It's built into the field as the ascent of the font + 4 pixels for the natural field border (which also cannot be 'removed'). There are only two ways to shift up a field in Flash: Method 1: a. Bitmap snapshot of the text field b.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder caching PNGs

2008-12-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 9, 2008, at 8:26 AM, tom s wrote: How do I get Flex Builder to not cache the PNGs / to check for changes on each compile? I think there's a bug there somewhere. What I do is go into the class where the embed tag is and make a change to the embed tag, then save, then make the

Re: [flexcoders] SWF Verification

2008-11-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:09 PM, EECOLOR wrote: It would be lovely to know how the Flash Player sends the hash of the currently running swf to the server for verification. http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405456 I don't think you can control how it sends the hash -

Re: [flexcoders] Panel as an itemrenderer in List ?

2008-11-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Nik Derewianka wrote: 1) The Panel does not display it's title bar or drop shadow bordering, but seem to be displaying more as standard Box elements. 2) Trying to drag select text on a TextInput child in the panel item renderer causes the containing List dragMove

Re: [flexcoders] FZip loads cached zip before downloading online

2008-10-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Benz wrote: When I restart the application it looks like FZip is first checking the temp folder for the cached zip and if found, it uses that one to unzip, even if the zip was not completed the last time. Does anyone know of a way to prevent that? Compare

Re: [flexcoders] FZip loads cached zip before downloading online

2008-10-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Kevin Benz wrote: When I restart the application it looks like FZip is first checking the temp folder for the cached zip and if found, it uses that one to unzip, even if the zip was not completed the last time. Does anyone know of a way to prevent that? Scratch

Re: [flexcoders] dynamic TileList

2008-10-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 16, 2008, at 1:35 AM, arshak_navruzyan wrote: I'd like to just specify the rowHeight=225 columnWidth=125 and let the tilelist fill up the screen intelligently. Is this possible or am I better off with a different control? I might be reading this wrong but... that's how the TileList

Re: [flexcoders] your 3d engine

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 26, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Michael Schmalle wrote: Might want to make sure that you are sending to the actual private email before you hit send or it's all public, Mike Eh, no worries. :) - j

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Samuel Colak wrote: If you want to be pedantic, yes its written in AS3 using Flex (hence flexcoders !!) Pepervision is written using Flash All 3d engines are written in Actionscript. AS3 is AS3, doesn't matter what program you used to compile the final SWF.

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 25, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Ryan Graham wrote: Isn't Flash Player 10 going to have some basic 3D support built in? I thought I read that somewhere. Should be awesome if so... It does, but it only provides marginal speed improvements. - jon

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Doug McCune wrote: I didn't mean to come off as rude :) Writing your own 3D engine is a huge undertaking and it's an impressive accomplishment. Congrats on the work. Is it going to be released (open source?) I think Sam's confusion was related to how the

Re: [flexcoders] FileReference to ByteArray

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 26, 2008, at 4:48 AM, aytuganov wrote: Does somebody know is it possible to select file using FileReference.browse() and than set it to ByteArray instance. (There is an object that has an ByteArray property. I have to set this property and send the object to server using RemoteObject -

Re: [flexcoders] your 3d engine

2008-09-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Samuel Colak wrote: Jon, There is really no api documentation - im looking to release the code line into the community or basically just keep this internal. I've done alot of work into getting the framerate acceptable without hitting the CPU dramatically.

Re: [flexcoders] PopupButton Background Color

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:02 AM, itdanny2002 wrote: I want totally black background with a white text rather than gradient background. I believe the PopUpButton control uses the highlightAlphas properties to draw a highlight on the button (so it's not the background that you are seeing get

Re: [flexcoders] scale9Grid: What am I missing?

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Amy wrote: mx:Image id=backgroundImage source={windowImage} width=1000 / You're missing the height parameter. I think this is necessary - either as a percent or static value - to force the image component resize. You can also try adding scaleContent=true

Re: [flexcoders] Re: PopupButton Background Color

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:47 AM, itdanny2002 wrote: Jon, it works on purely black but not on purely white any idea ? Not sure. I don't particularly have time to check it out. Highlight is drawn as white, and is something that, oddly, the framework engineers failed to include as a CSS driven

Re: [flexcoders] scale9Grid: What am I missing?

2008-09-23 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 23, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Michael Schmalle wrote: I remember something weird about this, try loosing the apostrophe's around the numbers. Good catch. I haven't run into that in a long time probably because I've been setting this stuff through AS now (or skins). - j

Re: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: Ok let me answer my question, after playing around and changing it up, is it basically an Imaginary Line where It is used to align control like have the label in the formItem be centered to the TextInput control? Ryan added some useful

Re: [flexcoders] A way to control all rounded corners on Container?

2008-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:40 PM, djepyon wrote: Maybe I ought to be making a container component with the CS3 export kit, but does anyone know of a way to round bl and br on a Box/HBox/VBox while tl and tr are square? In my opinion, the best way is to subclass mx.skins.halo.HaloBorder. In that

Re: [flexcoders] Flash video component?

2008-09-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:22 PM, markflex2007 wrote: which component in Flex to take place the Video component in Flash. mx.controls.VideoDisplay I believe. Has no UI components associated with it. You'll need to add those yourself. Or, you can always output an SWF of a video player built in

Re: [flexcoders] Results of Direct Phone Call to Scene7.com

2008-08-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Robert Thompson wrote: I have just talked some another person at Scene7.com and the indication I seemed to have gotten is that there will be a resulting complication in the area of eCommerce and Product Catalog Development to the FLEX community. Scene7 is

Re: [flexcoders] Scene7.com Webinar on 9/11/08, ask some serious questions, examine answers seriously, see if they're answered with depth

2008-08-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Robert Thompson wrote: Will they go too far? Microsoft did. Do you own research on that if you wondered what happened in the 90's. There's plenty of it. The case is posted, Discovery, Judgement. I want some of what you're smoking. :P I don't see how this

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Take the latest Adobe Developer Survey

2008-08-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Amy wrote: I've been applying for Flex jobs lately and finding that, whether the posting includes .net experience or not, they pretty much automatically eliminate you if you don't have it. It would seem to me to be self- evident that if you can pick up any

Re: [flexcoders] Event Phase clarification bubbling - please Diagram

2008-08-06 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 6, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Ralf Bokelberg wrote: for each( var component in [this, hb1, hb2, b1, hb3]) Hadn't seen that done before. nice. The only downside to the whole event bubbling hooplah is that all your components, and all your children need to extend EventDispatcher or some

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Tree having 20000 nodes crashes

2008-08-04 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Guilherme Blanco wrote: I have implemented a DynamicTree for my own usage, after spending almost a week looking for an URL about this subject. Until now, I haven't seen any implementation, and I plan to write a pot in my blog about it. Great post, Guilherme!

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Tree having 20000 nodes crashes

2008-08-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 2, 2008, at 7:25 AM, profiles_arun wrote: I have a tree, which has 21000 plus nodes, when i load the .swf file in IE, it crashes. As such i dont get any error messages, so i checked into widows application error log and found this error Faulting application iexplore.exe, version

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Zoom Tile Container

2008-07-28 Thread Jon Bradley
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/fisheye/TileExplorer.html On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Nate Pearson wrote: Bump. Any ideas?

Re: [flexcoders] I need a gzip library to read gzip files on the fly?? is this possible?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Nochump's AS3 Zip Library. http://nochump.com/blog/?p=15 Be careful with large zip files though, because you'll get script timeout errors. Any zip greater than 1 MB or more will generally cause problems unless you modify the source to decode zip entries in chunks, rather than in a whole

Re: [flexcoders] Copied project gives security sandbox violation

2008-07-10 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 10, 2008, at 8:36 AM, valdhor wrote: Once this was complete and compiled it gives me a security sandbox violation for every remote call. Cleaning the project has no effect. Did you per chance modify the compiler options for the first project? I might've seen this before, but make

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm concepts

2008-07-10 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:33 AM, oscar.12321 wrote: I seems to me that commands are not user gestures, nor clicks or backend queries. The only posible explanation to me is as use cases are abstract (What kind of things can the the user do?) so there is no a fixed rule. In my experience, use

Re: [flexcoders] Allow negative x position of container child

2008-06-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 18, 2008, at 10:16 AM, DannyT wrote: The overall goal is to create a UI that allows the display of items 1 and 2 OR items 2 and 3 and the view will slide into the chosen formation. However I seem to be stuck at the first hurdle. I've tried playing around with borders, scrollPolicy

[flexcoders] PopUpButton custom component with styles

2008-06-12 Thread Jon Bradley
Got a bit of an issue here I can't seem to resolve. I've got a PopUpButton that opens up a custom component (mxml VBox and mxml Canvas). These both use a styleName tag on them. Unfortunately, the PopUpButton doesn't inherit any styles into the popup that is created and I can't get the styles

Re: [flexcoders] know if .browse() was executed or not

2008-06-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:40 AM, David Pariente wrote: The only problem is that if user selects a file several times in the same file_select button, it would keep getting files inside that array, even i just need the last one that he chooses. Not if you make sure the file doesn't already

Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast?

2008-06-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Derrick Anderson wrote: var testVO:EmployeeVO = DataGrid(event.currentTarget).selectedItem as EmployeeVO; Maybe this will help: var testVO:EmployeeVO = EmployeeVO(event.currentTarget.selectedItem); or var testVO:EmployeeVO = event.currentTarget.selectedItem as

Re: [flexcoders] know if .browse() was executed or not

2008-06-06 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:26 AM, David Pariente wrote: The point is that, IN ANOTHER POINT OF THE CODE, i wanna send the files. the on_select is not useful for me. i will not send anything on_select, just put a pair of lines of code there. My opinion is that you are thinking about this too

Re: [flexcoders] PDF into Flex

2008-06-06 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Dels wrote: My question is, can I embed the PDF into the first half of the HDividedBox? if it's a yes, how do I do it? Embed a PDF file? You can't put PDF files in Flex (Flash) - unless I'm missing something. You can use Flash Paper though... -jon

Re: [flexcoders] Re: PDF into Flex

2008-06-06 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:17 AM, valdhor wrote: You can if you are using AIR. From the manual... AIR applications can render not only SWF and HTML content but also PDF content. AIR applications render PDF content using the HTMLLoader class, the WebKit engine, and the Adobe Reader browser plug-in.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-05 Thread Jon Bradley
I'm guessing it's because the session is not retained when performing a file upload to the server - a new session id is created for each FileReference upload attempt. This is a known issue with various workarounds. Modify your server code to ignore any session or login details to be sure

Re: [flexcoders] know if .browse() was executed or not

2008-06-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:23 PM, David Pariente wrote: I was trying checking for some property from fileReference object, like for example .name, so if no name on the object, would mean they didn't select anything there. But accessing the name property when no file choosen throws an

Re: [flexcoders] know if .browse() was executed or not

2008-06-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:40 PM, David Pariente wrote: Im not using a fileReferenceList, but a FileReference. And it seems i can't access any property of FileReference unless i have choosen a file. So there is no way to know if a file was selected. Ok. Then all you need to do is use

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Kiosk Development

2008-06-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:55 AM, Michael Trim wrote: I am interested in evidence (even anecdotal) for or against using the Flex Framework / UI Components and Cairngorm for applications that must remain stable for long periods of time under heavy, sustained use. This isn't a Flex specific

Re: [flexcoders] Irregular Polygon Area

2008-05-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 21, 2008, at 7:10 AM, rleuthold wrote: Does somebody know of a class which calculates the area of an irregular polygon ? If it's not a self-intersecting polygon: 1/2 * ((x1+x2)(y1-y2)+(x2+x3)(y2-y3)+...+(xn+x1)(yn-y1)) The generalized method is basically: 1/2 * ( Sum from 0 to

Re: [flexcoders] Lucida Grande normal weight font cannot be embedded

2008-05-20 Thread Jon Bradley
Have either of you tried to compile with one of the other font managers to see if that works? Flex 3 uses the AFEFontManager by default I believe. You may have better luck with the BatikFontManager but you may run into glyph encoding issues (d/e/p and rounded edges have less than adequate

Re: [flexcoders] GIF image doesn't blinking in Flex App

2008-04-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Nirav Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have put one GIF image of blinking star in my Flex Application but image doesn't blink at all. It looks like simple JPEG image although it is a GIF image. What to do? Because animated GIF images are not supported? Check this

Re: [flexcoders] GIF image doesn't blinking in Flex App

2008-04-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Nirav Upadhyay wrote: Thanks for reply. So you mean that animated GIF images are not supported by any version of Flex (2.0/3.0? I don't think this is a Flex issue. Rather, it's the fact that animated GIF is not supported by the Flash Player. cheers, jon

Re: [flexcoders] Need help buying Flex licenses in US$ - Intl prices are highway robbery!

2008-04-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Glenn Williams wrote: It drives me mad this one. There really is no justification in UK users paying over the odds. There is some justification (though it's pretty minor). Software licensing laws in the UK are different than in the US - they are much more

Re: [flexcoders] Re: graphics object seems to degrade performance

2008-04-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Eric Cooper wrote: I am wondering, though, if I would get this for free if I used DisplayObject and the built- in drag events. I am also wondering, if I am saving that much in terms of memory and speed, by rolling my own as it were. My personal choice was

Re: [flexcoders] Best .NET AMF Implimentation?

2008-04-15 Thread Jon Bradley
WebORB in my opinion. I think it beats out Flourine and AMF.NET. It's free but there's a license agreement. They make their money on support agreements, which in my opinion is a excellent model if you need to have a certain level of service associated with your implementation of their

Shared Fonts Solution - Re: [flexcoders] Shared Fonts Hell

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Mario, Here's how I do it, relevant code contained for the list archives and those that also run into this problem. I changed the title of the response so that it can be flagged as a solution to the problem (is there a standard practice for solutions in this list?). 1. Create a separate

Re: [flexcoders] Re: What do you think of UM Cairngorm Extensions,especially for Modular Apps?

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Ben, Question for you. I've been looking at the UM extensions as well. How about your support for chaining? From what I've seen it's chaining commands, not events. My main needs are to chain events, and right now I'm using a very wordy (ie, many class files) to do that. Separate classes

Re: [flexcoders] Re: What do you think of UM Cairngorm Extensions,especially for Modular Apps?

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:56 PM, ben.clinkinbeard wrote: Hi Jon, I don't really know what you mean by chained events, can you elaborate? I should also point out I have only been using UM Cairngorm for a couple of months and don't feel like my head is completely around it quite yet. More than

Re: [flexcoders] Re: What do you think of UM Cairngorm Extensions,especially for Modular Apps?

2008-04-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Good stuff indeed. Thanks for the links. I've actually grabbed that stuff and started to look into it a bit deeper. cheers, jon On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Douglas Knudsen wrote: http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/ DK On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about DisplayObject.hitTestPoint() and the shapeFlag

2008-04-07 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Eric Cooper wrote: FWIW, I decided to write my own hit test using dot products for concave polygons. I will need to do something a bit more involved for convex polygons, but I don't need that immediately. Give this a shot. This is from my AS3 boolean library

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about DisplayObject.hitTestPoint() and the shapeFlag

2008-04-07 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Jon Bradley wrote: /** * Point inside polygon using winding number method * q Point2d A point 2d structure with x,y properties * p Polygon A polygon as an array of points in clockwise order * returns

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about DisplayObject.hitTestPoint() and the shapeFlag

2008-04-07 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 7, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Eric Cooper wrote: w += 2 * (( p[ip].y p[i].y ) ? 1 : 0) - 1; Ah yup. I didn't compile that bit yet. That was my reference code from the previous project and just copy/ pasted it with the change for function name and comments. I guess I shouldn't be surprised

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: Most Flash/Flex books do not even explain namespaces, how many bytes are int,uint and bitwise operations etc... I had to read a C+ + book first to actually be able to use ActionScript. Also there needs to be scenarios of say when it is

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm and Service Locators

2008-04-01 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Nicholas Watson wrote: Within my ServiceLocator.mxml file, I have a listing of HTTPServices. Each one of them has the URL hard coded in to the file. I would like to make this a configurable setting, depending on which environment the app is running off of (dev,

[flexcoders] WSDL Wizard Errors - Write over existing files?!

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Bradley
Anyone figure out a good solution for this? I've got a service with about 8 separate WSDL files that I'm trying to generate automatically. Unfortunately, most of them share types with each other so the WSDL wizard fails with a Filename Collision error. Shouldn't the Wizard be smart enough

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 3: Cloning WebService instance

2008-03-25 Thread Jon Bradley
Then have a blast trying to deal with WSDL security issues because you have to manually form the headers yourself, making the whole process quite painful. I wish there were a better way to do it on OS X. There's a .NET application that can help if you're on Windows (http://

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need to determine allowScriptAccess/allowNetworkAccess at run time

2008-03-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 25, 2008, at 12:32 PM, shivkxr wrote: Try..catch around the ExternalInterface call? Tracy That's the best that can be done? Unless you have control over the HTML, yes that's the best you can do. That's the point of this security by the way. SWF files cannot control the sandbox

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need to determine allowScriptAccess/allowNetworkAccess at run time

2008-03-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:45 PM, shivkxr wrote: That's not what I meant. What I meant was there should be a method/property available that provides this information Ah. I misread your request then. Sorry about that! - jb

[flexcoders] BlazeDS and Alfresco?

2008-03-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone gone down this road before? I understand that Adobe Share is based on FDS and Alfresco (just recently found this out) and am embarking on a project where I'd like to integrate Flex data services (preferably BlazeDS) with Alfresco 2.9. Any life experiences much appreciated. Matter

Re: [flexcoders] FREE Component: New Styles for Panel, TitleWindow and Alert

2008-03-21 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Paul Whitelock wrote: I've created a component that adds additional styles to a Panel, TitleWindow or Alert and I'm making the component, source code and documentation available for free under the MIT License. May I be the first to say Fantastic! Thanks for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Why are my embedded TrueType Fonts looking so horrible in Flex App

2008-03-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 13, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Blake Barrett wrote: Todd, We have seen this too, I filed a Jira ticket about this in the Adobe bug tracking system here:https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ SDK-14955?rc=1 If you have any additional comments or insight please comment on that ticket so we

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Capturing and recording video with AIR

2008-03-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Abyss Knight wrote: AIR can do it natively, check out the link I posted earlier or Google for RichFLV. Some very slick apps already doing this. AIR cannot compress and create FLV files 'natively'. RichFLV and the like are all using custom classes to write

Re: [flexcoders] Re: AlivePDF to create PDF on coldfusion Server

2008-02-22 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 21, 2008, at 3:36 PM, smustafa77 wrote: Can u please provide with a sample,how can we convert to byte array and store the PDF on the server Hit up alivepdf.org and/or http://code.google.com/p/alivepdf/ Here's a tutorial:

Re: [flexcoders] FileReference woes....

2008-02-22 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:56 PM, e_baggg wrote: Using a packet sniffer, I see the jsessionID is not getting included in the FF POST request. I have seen blogs to tack it on the parameter request but that will not work for me (it has to be a header). This had worked in the past so I am not sure

Re: [flexcoders] Free Image Cropping Component

2008-02-20 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Paul Whitelock wrote: Greetings! I've just completed developing a component for Flex that enables an image to be cropped. A cropping rectangle is used to select the portion of the image to retain. The cropping rectangle may be resized using four corner handles

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight! (Microsoft's Legal Record)

2008-02-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 12, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Robert Thompson wrote: The thing developers need to be concerned about is Microsoft's history. [big snip] Honestly. What Microsoft has done in it's history to people is irrelevant. You obviously care deeply, given your rough road and history with them.

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight! (Microsoft's Legal Record)

2008-02-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 13, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: Conduct in the past often informs future conduct. Where a company has used a product as a weapon to bankrupt the competion, at the expense of features, as MS has done in the past, it is hard to see how it is not going to do so again i.e.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Feedback for the Future

2008-02-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Samuel Neff wrote: This is more of a player issue than Flex, but we need RTSP support for H264 video. Locking us into FMS for streaming video is a real problem for us and means we can't use Flash video and will have to continue to use Quicktime until there is

Re: [flexcoders] Image Marquee

2008-02-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Dan Vega wrote: I am pretty new to Flex but a vet in the programming world so Action Script 3 is great and I think I am coming along quickly with it. I am trying to create a footer bar 800w 60h that will display an animated marquee of all the images i load from

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Interview Questions

2008-02-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: Oops, just failed the interview - what I meant to say was that I have to explicitly call a setter/getter function in Java, while AS3 allows me to access my setters and getters as though they are variables.. Phew.. Nah, you didn't fail.

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for offical specs on OpenGL hardware acceleration

2008-02-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:05 PM, cole_joplin wrote: Is there an official spec on this somewhere? I'd like to know if FP has just a narrow window for me to use, or if I have a way to get to more OpenGL calls. Will OpenGL become available outside of fullscreen mode? Literally a narrow window - ie,

Re: [flexcoders] Flash video switcher to video file..

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:24 AM, grimmwerks wrote: I've got a client asking me if it's possible to create a sort of video switcher -- where users choose shots - and then export to a file. I think something like this is possible in Flash Media Server, but unsure? There was another response to

Re: [flexcoders] Flash video switcher to video file..

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:13 PM, P Smith wrote: The only actual FLV editor that really can save a new FLV file out is the FLV editor at richapps.de. could the fms serverside actionscript method Stream.record() be used to generate new flv?

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Justin Winter wrote: Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but I'd love to hear a better way to overcome the traditional workflow changes since Flex 2. Best regards. Justin Winter useflexmore.com Sander a QI recently released some code that demonstrated the

Re: [flexcoders] Picnik photo functions/features RD

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Bradley
I believe a majority of the image processing is done on the server but it depends on the circumstance. In most cases (not all though), doing image processing in AS is not the best design choice. Some transformations may be done in AS, but it would not make sense in the general case to do

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Picnik photo functions/features RD

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Alexander Tsoukias wrote: Given the nature of picnik, i wouldnt think they go back and forth as the manipulation happens instantly as you drag a slider or pick a color. I think that's accurate. Some of the simpler operations are able to be done in Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Role based rendoring of MXML components - visibility and editability

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Abdul Qabiz wrote: I would not do any such role-based things on client, it's very easy to spoof http packets and a normal user can get access to Admin UI... Just be careful with that... If you have solid way to avoid any such security issues, go ahead.

Re: [flexcoders] Font rendering for print

2008-01-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 9, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Frederico Garcia wrote: Does anyone know how to make flash render fonts the same way for screen display and printing? I've tried embedding fonts, changing the settings for flashType and fontAntiAliasType but I just can't get fonts to display the same way. This

[flexcoders] Bug in TextInput with select and release outside

2007-12-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone run into this and know what the fix might be? This is tough to explain in a short description: 1. Have some text in a text input field. 2. Select the text from right to left (all of it), releasing outside of the text input 3. Delete it 4. Start typing 5. Notice that the text stay at

Re: [flexcoders] TransformTool

2007-12-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 14, 2007, at 7:43 AM, dopenhagen wrote: I am looking for the best way to apply transformation capabilities to an object. I have so far been using the TransformTool from Senocular (http://www.senocular.com/demo/TransformToolAS3/TransformTool.html) but it seems to me that many other Flex

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TransformTool

2007-12-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:58 AM, dopenhagen wrote: Hello Jon, Thanks for your reply. I had also found the Alessandro posting and found it to be quite valuable. However, despite his codesnippet, I am still having trouble skinning the control-handles of the TransformTool-Control. You have a few

Re: [flexcoders] cut a piece of gif or jpg image

2007-12-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:46 AM, ds.dinesh wrote: Please send me any flex code which help me to cut a piece of image. That's not specific to Flex. That's just the BitmapData API. Look up BitmapData in the AS3 docs. - j

[flexcoders] Alfresco anyone?

2007-12-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone here had either success or is experimenting with Flex and Alfresco? I'm not a fluent Java developer by any means and there's nothing I can find whatsoever about Flex/Alfresco integration. There's mention of it here and there and how Adobe and Alfresco are working together

Re: [flexcoders] Issues with Dynamic vs. Embedded Font Leading

2007-12-01 Thread Jon Bradley
be because of the quadratic approximation of the font outlines. cheers, jon On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: Embedded fonts, on the other hand, incorrectly render leading, always. I say incorrectly because it's not how any other desktop print application does it, so far as I can

[flexcoders] Issues with Dynamic vs. Embedded Font Leading

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Bradley
This might've been brought up before, but I can't find reference to it. I'm working on an application that is rendering text fields (multiline, print resolution) on the client end that will be rendered on the server, currently using GDI+ (but other options are open). Photoshop, InDesign and

Re: [flexcoders] Canvas layout / style

2007-11-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Giles Roadnight wrote: The obvious way to do it is to have an image as a background with rounded corners and shadows as part of the image, I'd rather do it with styles if I could though. Might not be exactly what you are looking for, but could you just use a

Re: [flexcoders] Maximum Image Width able to be displayed

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:11 AM, greggiacovelli wrote: Hi, I have been trying to figure out a way around this for a few weeks. It seems there is an undocumented limit of around 8192 px wide images that can be rendered inside of the flash player. Is this an undocumented limitation or is there a way

Re: [flexcoders] Maximum Image Width able to be displayed

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Greg Giacovelli wrote: So what it seems is going on is that it renders the image, clips it, and then displays the visible region and applies a mask over the rest. However the render fails so the rest of the steps are just wasted cycles. I have a fix to just

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Aldo Bucchi wrote: It is THE biggest thing I have seen so far related to the flash player. It's cool, no doubt. There are questionable elements to that demonstration. Although it was primarily running in the Player, it's likely that the actual rendering was

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Matt Chotin wrote: The demo was on a custom Flash Player but my understanding of the only real change is that he made some performance improvements in our ByteArray class (that we can hopefully incorporate into a future release). As part of the demo I believe

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
Basically, it is now business to create a library and become the first to have it in AS3... probably not an evident niche to the rest of us because AIR has not hit the streets yet, but I can bet more than one company is doing something in those lines. Everyday individuals and companies are

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Papervision 3D be available for use in Flex Builder 3 ???

2007-11-01 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: Actually, it's a pretty big deal on reflection. I remember that we will also have a Z axis, so it's possible to represent any 3D surface and therefore full-blown 3D objects. I wonder how they render now that they have a Z axis to contend

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