--- In [email protected], "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Thanks, Paul, for your response. I agree with your insight. > The last thing to remember is that nobody is obligated to respond > to any query, so the simpler the query the more likely it is that > you'll get a reply. Certainly, I don't mean to infer that anyone is obligated to respond. But to your point about making a simpler query... I wouldn't consider my original query to be all that complex. I provided the source for two .mxml files, which took up the bulk of my post. But, in truth, all anyone would have to do would be to cut and paste that source into a project, compile, and then they'd see exactly what I'm seeing. How much simpler could it be? I respect people time, especially when they're trying to help me. And I find providing more information is infinitely more respectful than providing less. If I post a "simple" query like "I can't get xyz functionality to work properly", you take the time to test xyz functionality yourself and post back "it works for me", and after 3 more rounds of replies back and forth we finally discover between us that I'm using a different version of Flex than you are... how much of your time have I just wasted? Quite a bit. If I post a "less simple" query like I provided originally, you have all the information you need straight away, including Flex version, the exact problem(s), and full source code. You know right away whether any research you were to do would have any bearing on a solution. I often find posts that don't include full source code to be more frustrating and complex to deal with... because as you're trying to plug their snippets into a project, it takes considerably longer to try to figure out the context, analyze all the necessary includes, set up all the necessary namespaces and references, etc, etc. So certainly "shorter" does not necessarily mean "simpler". And, in fact, I'd feel comfortable in replacing "necessarily" in that sentence with "usually". > Generally speaking, flexcoders is pretty helpful, but theres no > rule that every query will be answered. I find FlexCoders to be *extremely* helpful. If I'm having a problem that relates to something that's already been discussed, I search and typically have an extremely well-thought-out expect solution within minutes. I don't expect that every query will be answered. But, as I said, in initial responses to my own posts, I'm zero for six... which seems a little out of the norm. Hence my assumption that I must be doing something wrong. > Sorry, I'm not going to wade through the example below. But, see, then I *am* doing something wrong. Because to copy and paste the .mxml files is not "wading". It would literally take 30 seconds. So somehow I've got you feeling that you'd have to "wade" through the *rest* of my post (ie. the "words") to make any sense of the issue I'm having.
