I’m not sure why working offline
requires you to use Flash. Is the point that you want to deliver a SWF directly
instead of pointing users to an MXML file? This is something that you can work
out easily with Macromedia sales as far as the license goes. Technically all
you need to do is either use mxmlc to compile the MXML file (a SWF will be
output right there) or have your flex-config.xml set keep-generated-swfs to
true and you can pull the SWF from next to your MXML file after you’ve
hit it once with your browser. The SWF itself is not the issue, it’s
making sure you’re licensed to give your users an offline SWF J
Matt
Hi Everyone,
We have an existing Flex App, that creates
dashboards on the fly
that pull data from http services. It's a
beautiful thing as a real
working, "live" application.
However, creating an environment where
such an app can be delivered or at least demo'ed
entirely "offline"
is a challenge. The problem is that both the
layout and the data
need to be rendered at runtime, not design
time. The
article "Dynamically Creating User Interface
Components" is a small
scale example of this.
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexprimer_03.html
I'm looking to recreate some of the Flex controls
in Flash. I
understand that the flexforflash.zip is both
outdated and deprecated
in functionality, but conceptually it would be
possible to reuse
these components back in the Flash environment,
provided we
populated the components with the correct initial
objects, etc. I
also understand this would probably require
implementing a large
portion of the Flex Framework back into Flash, but
it seems like
early on Flex v1.0 some of this may have been done
by providing the
flexforflash.zip in the first place. For
example the FlexforFlash,
contained mx.core.Application,
mx.containers.Panel, etc. How would
one go about using these components since they
were provided...?
I've cobbled together the following example, but
after tracing, I
realize that my properties aren't getting populated
properly, and
the Panel isn't rendering correctly.
Let me show the code below:
import mx.core.Application;
import mx.containers.Canvas;
import mx.containers.Panel;
import mx.charts.PieChart;
trace("ROOT PROTO:"+_root.__proto__);
// Init Object, App, Canvas, Panel...
var MyApplication:Object = null;
var pnl:Object = null; //mx.containers.Panel
var cnv:Object = null; //mx.containers.Canvas
var init:Object = null;
var pChart:Object = null; //mx.charts.PieChart
MyApplication = new mx.core.Application();
trace("myApplication:"+MyApplication);
this.__proto__ = MyApplication;
if (!(this.constructObject == undefined)) {
this.constructObject();
} else {
trace("COULD
NOT FIND CONSTRUCTOBJECT");
}
trace("Application:"+application); //
Static Var should show ref?
init = new Object();
init.id = "CANVAS";
init.borderStyle = "none";
init.x = "10";
init.y = "30";
init.width = "800";
init.height = "600";
cnvs = createChild(mx.containers.Canvas,
"cnvs", init) ;
//cnvs.invalidate();
init = new Object();
init.id= "PANEL1";
init.x = "0.0";
init.y = "0.0";
init.width = "328.0";
init.height = "296.0";
init.title = "Output Chart";
init.headerHeight = 21;
init.shadowDirection = "right";
init.panelBorderStyle = "roundCorners";
//init.cornerRadius = "3";
//init.dropShadow = "true";
init.headerColors = "[0xE1E5EB,
0xF4F5F7]";
init.footerColors = "[0xF4F5F7,
0xE1E5EB]";
// Had prev. cast as Panel(createCh...), but same
results
pnl = cnvs.createChild(mx.containers.Panel,
"pnl", init) ;
pnl.invalidate();
trace("Panel:"+pnl);
trace("Panel:"+pnl.id);
trace("Panel:"+pnl.title);
trace("Panel:"+pnl.width);
trace("Panel:"+pnl.height);
//trace("Panel:"+pnl.headerHeight);
init = new Object();
init.id = "piechart1";
init.x = "421";
init.y = "735";
init.dataprovider = "";
pChart = pnl.createChild(mx.charts.PieChart,
"pChart", init) ;
pChart.invalidate();
trace("PieChart:"+pChart);
trace("PieChart:"+pChart.id);
trace("PieChart:"+pChart.x);
trace("PieChart:"+pChart.y);
stop();
TRACE OUTPUT:
ROOT PROTO:[object Object]
myApplication:[object Object]
Application:undefined
Panel:_level0.cnvs.pnl
Panel:PANEL1
Panel:Output Chart
Panel:100 *****SHOULD BE 0
Panel:100 *****SHOULD BE 0
PieChart:_level0.cnvs.pnl.pChart
PieChart:piechart1
PieChart:0 *****SHOULD BE 421
PieChart:0 *****SHOULD BE 735
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jason
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