Re: [flexcoders] Charles Proxy, Flex, and ColdFusion 9

Hi Bill, I didn't see a reply on the list but the developer of Charles Proxy is pretty responsive. Maybe record a session and send it to him? Michael *From:* BillF *Date:* April 24, 2012 12:47 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Charles Proxy, Flex, and ColdFusion 9

Re: [flexcoders] Negative Mask

Is the mask you want an image or going to be drawn dynamically? Do you have a movieclip or some other graphic that will be the mask and you want to invert its masking effect so it cuts out instead? Also, related to what Kenneth posted, which Flash player are you targeting? 9 or 10? Michael ap

Re: [flexcoders] Architecture / Design question...

Wow yeah that would depend on a lot of things. Some thoughts that help me narrow down prospects like that: Am I doing all of the subcomponents in MXML? If so I could manage it with States perhaps using addChild. Pass the state in on instantiation/show/creationComplete, etc. Am I doing all of th

Re: [flexcoders] Moving a viewStack through actionscript

estionPlease():void { questionsVS.selectedIndex=currentQuestion; } *From*: Michael Wills *Sent*: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:44 AM *To*: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject*: Re: [flexcoders] Moving a viewStack through actionscript If I am u

Re: [flexcoders] Moving a viewStack through actionscript

%"> > > > > > > > > > label="Physical" value="0" /> > label="Session" value="0" /> > label="Network" value="1" /> > label="Presentat

Re: [flexcoders] Moving a viewStack through actionscript

Hey there Wally, You can get access to the currently selected viewstack, and also set it, through selectedIndex. So your initial declaration would be like and in your function nextQuestion you can increment the selectedIndex. I'd have to check but I think you can find the number of items in yo

Re: [flexcoders] jQuery for Flex - a Behavior Injection Framework

gt; @Sam, Thanks for adding that link. Guess I shouldn't try to do fancy > html emails for the first time when making important announcements :) > > > @Michael - Thanks! I wouldn't say it would be a decaf *version* of > anything :) It's supposed to play friendly with ap

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Can't seem to get Myriad Pro to encode in Flex

Hi Adrian, Did this ever get worked out? And by any chance did you publish your swf font to Flash 8? I seem to remember the docs saying Flex uses Flash 8 for swf fonts. I'll have to look that up to be sure if that's a requirement though. Oh and Flex can only transcode TTF files so yeah, OTF

Re: [flexcoders] jQuery for Flex - a Behavior Injection Framework

I like the possibility of using it with Mate/Cairngorm. So then it would be the decaf versions of mate/cairngorm? :-) Seriously though this is quite cool. Sam Lai wrote: I think you forgot the link (or my phone's playing tricks with me). http://code.seanhess.net/?p=156 Nice work btw. I'm goi

Re: [flexcoders] Eclipse lost flex!

Hi Nate, Any luck so far? The Flex development view is one of the perspectives used, debugging being another. You can try to go "Window > Open Perspective > Flex Development", or if it's not listed there then choose "Other..." and you can pick it out of that list. Hoping it helps, Michael Na

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Need help finding and fixing SQL Error in AIR App

Going back over this conversation, perhaps you could use a pastebin to post the code chunks? I have seen http://pastebin.org/ but I haven't used it before. I am curious about the invalid characters though because the only thing I have seen in the docs so far is that you have to use two single q

Re: [flexcoders] Converting Object To XML

Here is an example that might be helpful: http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/04/converting-objects-to-xml-packets-using-the-simplexmlencoder-class-in-flex/ Jim Hayes wrote: I guess you'd start with looking at SimpleXMLEncoder : from the help > "The SimpleXMLEncoder class take ActionScrip

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 3 Education?

And since the flexregistration site is only for faculty and students, there is no education pricing anymore then, correct? Michael Matt Chotin wrote: > > Yes. Go to http://www.flexregistration.com. > The site will be updated > tomorrow,but submissions today s

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 and AIR 1 are now live!

It's multiplatform now, too. Very much appreciated! Matt Chotin wrote: > > http://www.adobe.com/products/flex > http://www.adobe.com/products/air > > And best of all: http://opensource.adobe.com/flexsdk >

Re: [flexcoders] drag and drop images and remove the dragged image

I believe if you make a handler for the dragComplete event on your horizontal tile list, you can listen for when the process is complete and then pull out the image that was dragged. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=

Re: [flexcoders] Two way manual drop between two containers

Hi there, Have you seen this? http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=0960.html The example at the bottom is about dragging and dropping canvases. Michael Fah Queue wrote: Hello so I used the code I found http://blogs.adobe

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Google Scheduling Framework question

Those are hosted on Google's Code website, but it's developed by some very cool and very generous Flex coders. http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/ Corey Smaller wrote: google has an API for all types of stuff check out the examples here http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/Schedulin

Re: [flexcoders] Google Scheduling Framework question

It looks like it is possible, if you are using FlexLib. Take a look at the examples, specifically example 6. http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/SchedulingFramework/ScheduleViewer6_Sample.swf Source at: http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/SchedulingFramework/ScheduleV

Re: [flexcoders] Google Scheduling Framework question

Are you using the FlexLib package? http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList Michael hank williams wrote: what is the Google Scheduling Framework? Hank

Re: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder 3 Release Estimate?

On this page: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/10/flex-3-beta-2-lower-price-flex-builder.php has this: Q: If I purchase Flex Builder 2, am I eligible for an upgrade to Flex Builder 3? A: To be eligible for a free of charge upgrade to Flex 3, you will need to purchase maintenance along with the

Re: [flexcoders] flexbuilder3 beta3

Now the guessing begins... with only 90 days... and this being the final public beta release... maybe it will be time to actually pay after this round. Hopefully we'll know a bit before the expiration. It looks like the pricing may not be bad... but timing is pretty important with some budgets

Re: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder 3 Release Estimate?

Someone asked, today I believe, why the FB2 serials don't work with FB3 B3... perhaps this 90 days is the last 90 days then? I was planning on waiting until it was about to expire before trying my serial numbers. But it's confirmed... my serial doesn't work either. Since this is the final pub

[flexcoders] FB3 B3 Refactor by moving items not yet available?

Just wanted to confirm that refactoring by moving a class is not available. I saw it in a milestone planning document (http://flexwiki.adobe.com/confluence/display/ADOBE/Flex+Builder+3+Planning). Is there a way to do it automatically? Thanks, Michael

Re: [flexcoders] After another restart it solved itself - was: Undo/Redo not available in fresh install of Windows FB 3 Beta 3

After a few restarts the undo wasn't working installing PDE, JDT, and then subclipse. After one more, just now, it is. So it's working. Sorry for the spam... Michael Wills wrote: Just wondering if this is unique to me or if others have experienced it. I just downloaded, ins

[flexcoders] Undo/Redo not available in fresh install of Windows FB 3 Beta 3

Just wondering if this is unique to me or if others have experienced it. I just downloaded, installed and configured FB3 beta 3, and undo does not work. Type some text, no undo. My prefs have undo history set to 200 (the default). I haven't had this issue with Windows FB2, or Windows FB3 beta 2

Re: [flexcoders] Box on top of other Box or Component

HI Alex, I haven't used charts, but in general the way to do it is to you absolute positioning. Add your chart and then add your box. that way the box would be above the chart in z-order. Later items in the MXML are higher in the z-order, so they go over other items. HTH, Michael a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local storage of password

Is this a Flex app on a web page? I am not sure about an AIR project but with Flex and webservices, you still have the benefit of cookies and sessions. I am working a project that uses a standard web page login that gets the user logged in and the session started. After that it moves to the Fle

Re: [flexcoders] VideoDisplay inconsistent behavior, it gets Stuck

First I was going to say you have to put that in a try..catch block, except accessing an invalid URL won't throw the exception in a way the try..catch can work with. Can you add an event listener to your FLV loader similar to this post? http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1957547#post

[flexcoders] DistortionEffect triggered on mouseOver possible in itemRenderer in HorizontalList? - was : DistortionEffects in an itemRenderer possible?

I just confirmed that the problem is in fact caused by being triggered by the mouseOver or rollOver event. Being trigger by a mouseUp event is fine. Still digging. Thanks, Michael Michael Wills wrote: > > A little further investigation looks like the error comes in because of

Re: [flexcoders] DistortionEffects in an itemRenderer possible?

on a mouseOver/mouseOut sort of thing. I'll see if I can put together some sample code as well. Thanks, Michael Michael Wills wrote: > > Hello all, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use the ever so groovy > DistortionEffects as prepared by Alex Uhlmann, within an itemR

[flexcoders] DistortionEffects in an itemRenderer possible?

Hello all, I was wondering if it is possible to use the ever so groovy DistortionEffects as prepared by Alex Uhlmann, within an itemRenderer. Specifically a HorizontalList itemRenderer. I get a #2015 invalid BitmapData error currently when trying to trigger a SimpleFlip from one viewstack chil

Re: [flexcoders] AVM1 / AVM2 Issues

Hi Narain, How are you loading the SWF? From this site: http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/08/finally_updated.htm there is a reference to loading FlashPaper: **I would suggest loading the FlashPaper via flash.display.Loader if you can. Unless there's a bug with this, loading SWFs through

Re: [flexcoders] Re: anyone using HTMLcomponent.swc? possible bug.

Hi, just saw this thread. In case the bug can't be worked out have you tried this one? http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/08/finally_updated.htm I saw it on Flexbox ( http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/ ) Michael barry.beattie wrote: > > > if you find a solution to the bug, do ensure to keep eve

Re: [flexcoders] Acessing stage Height

Do you want the height of the entire stage, i.e. of the whole Flex app? I believe you can get to that through Application.application.height. Have you tried that? Hope that helps, Michael patricklemiuex wrote: > > I have a sprite, it's added to the display... > > I understand that any display

Re: [flexcoders] Acessing stage Height

Hmm... sorry newbie here. So it's returning null because "this", the _preloader, hasn't actually been instantiated yet? But if this were called after applicationComplete then it would be fine? Michael Alex Harui wrote: There is an evil nasty trick in Flex that your components aren't on the

Re: [flexcoders] display hand cursor on flex chart

I'm not sure about charts, but I just tried this out with a ButtonBar. You set the useHandCursor = true, but you also have to set buttonMode = true as well. You may also need to set mouseChildren = false. Hope that helps, Michael Raider226 wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to display the

Re: [flexcoders] Coding Standards

There is a nice PDF which was helpful for me. I'm new to Flex, AS3, etc. Ah, just found it: http://blog.dclick.com.br/2007/02/13/adobe_flex_coding_guidelines_english/ Is that along the lines of what you are looking for? Michael vargomike wrote: > > Hi all... I have lots of questions so I'll fi

Re: [flexcoders] Re: navigateToURL

I've used Xampp before for many different things and I've never had any special requirements. It's odd. I even pasted your sample code in the online flex compiler at try.flex.org and it worked fine there. Does your bin/ directory or FlashSite2 directory have any permissions issues? Michael

Re: [flexcoders] Your favorite horizontal menu arrangement

I haven't done this thing specifically but take a look at this link here. Maybe it will help: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=controls_059_15.html Michael mapper2255 wrote: Hello, Putting up a 100% Flex site. Wha

Re: [flexcoders] Error #1034: Type Coercion failed

Would it help to make your HTTPService resultFormat "e4x" and not use mx:Model for categorienAC, but rather use an XMLList? Hope that helps, Michael rdeijkers wrote: I'm trying to fill a Tile with the contents of an xml file. This is my mxml code: http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml

Re: [flexcoders] Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

says that there will be some other way that we > can handle the link click event.. > Working on it.. > Keep u posted > Cheers! > Anupam > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Michael Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >

Re: [flexcoders] Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

com/2007/03/13/yahoo-maps-as3-communication-tool-kit/> Cheeers! Anupam --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Michael Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For clarification, the idea is simply to allow a marker to be clicked to > open it, but then trigg

Re: [flexcoders] Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

ng won't be as necessary... keeping fingers crossed. :-) Thanks for the inspiration all, Michael Michael Wills wrote: > Yeah the POI marker click event is fine and quite useful. I think it was > after reading your post Anupam. :-) However after that, I can't trigger > anything

Re: [flexcoders] Solved - Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

ta. Cool. I think that was all I did. THAT was an education. Thanks again for your help! Michael Michael Wills wrote: One more tidbit, using the XPanel logger, logging "this" from the map, getting it's path (_root.mapClip in this case) I can now call functions from the map it

Re: [flexcoders] Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

7;t be as necessary... keeping fingers crossed. :-) Thanks for the inspiration all, Michael Michael Wills wrote: > Yeah the POI marker click event is fine and quite useful. I think it was > after reading your post Anupam. :-) However after that, I can't trigger > anything in the Ca

Re: [flexcoders] Re: yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

> <http://digitallyinsane.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/yahoo-maps-as3-communication-tool-kit/> > > Cheeers! > Anupam > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Michael Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > For clarifi

Re: [flexcoders] E4X Syntax with XMLList

Hey there Bruce, For that one I believe you would need something like x = cbData.menu.(@label == 'M')[EMAIL PROTECTED]; and you might need to do a .toString() or even cast it to a Number depending on what you need to do with it. Michael boy_trike wrote: > > I am having problems trying to ex

Re: [flexcoders] Getting Index of Array Collection from current Mouse Position in areaChart

Hi Patrick, I'm not sure if this will help, but you can listen for an itemRollOver event on your area chart. That will trigger an ChartItemEvent which in it has "hitData" and "hitSet" which info on the items that triggered the event. Perhaps you can get the actual data from that. Michael patr

Re: [flexcoders] SWF Loading and Query Strings

I don't know if this is related, but can you confirm with an HTTP debugger or perhaps Firefox's LiveHTTPHeaders extentions what it is trying to load? Flex URL encodes requests going out so it may correctly load the SWF, but everything else may be encoded to something like foo.swf%3Ftest%3Datest

Re: [flexcoders] yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

For clarification, the idea is simply to allow a marker to be clicked to open it, but then trigger an event/call a function in the cairngorm app when clicking on a link in the description. Thanks, Michael Michael Wills wrote: > > Hello all, > > Just wondering if it'

Re: [flexcoders] Re: encode & +

eURI("dude man+"); > > > > > > Notice that with encode or encodeURI, you'll get: > > > > > > dude%20man+ > > > > > > ...bleh! That dang + should be %2D instead. > > > > > > BTW, for backg

[flexcoders] yahoomaps POI marker click event, htmltext asfunction

Hello all, Just wondering if it's possible to use asfunction to call a function in a cairngorm app from the htmltext in the description of a POI marker within a Yahoomap in a Flex 2 app without making modification to the as2map.fla file. It's a long shot, but I was just wondering if it's bee

Re: [flexcoders] encode & +

Are you using encodeURI? You may need to use encodeURIComponent instead. Just checking briefly on the JS versions. Michael Jesse Warden wrote: Running encode on a String seems to be missing the +. For example, a space " " becomes %20 like expected. But, a + is not becoming %2D... anyone know

Re: [flexcoders] Re: trying here- get an image name and the images itself to load

No problem. I know the pain, believe me. I'm working on an app now as I am starting out with Flex and decided to dive in with Cairngorm for it. There is definitely a learning curve but it really helps with the separation. Glad it worked out for you there. Michael shawn.gibson wrote: Michae

Re: [flexcoders] TRUNCATING a ComboBox text?

Have you tried maxWidth? I am not sure how it handles the truncation though. Michael Steve Kellogg wrote: Hello, The standard behavior for a combobox is to grow in width until it's wide enough to display the current selection. Is there anyway to tell a ComboBox to Truncate the curren

Re: [flexcoders] TRUNCATING a ComboBox text?

And this has a helper function for intelligently truncating a string: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/accessing_xml_data/ Michael Steve Kellogg wrote: Hello, The standard behavior for a combobox is to grow in width until it's wide enough to display the current selection.

Re: [flexcoders] trying here- get an image name and the images itself to load

Hi there Shawn, I'm a relative newbie here as well but I thought I'd take a look. I learn as I do so I try. :-) It seems when your loadMainImage event is being triggered, you are parsing the data from the XML file correctly actually. But what you want to do is pull the unique data from the i

Re: [flexcoders] PopupButton, newbie can't get selected data

Yeah I see what you mean. It seems like you should be able to pull the currently selected item like from a drop down list. It looks like you would have to make a variable to capture the data from the return event. So it could be something like private var selectedItem : Object = new Object();

Re: [flexcoders] Model and Forms

Hi Luis, It's been a few days so perhaps you already have a solution to this. I'm also just learning myself so I haven't tested this sample code. If it's something that is just defined in the model, and won't change, then it doesn't need to be bound. You can make a constant in your model if

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Error msg show Application not component

*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Michael Wills *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:45 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Error msg show Application not component Oh that's odd. So the columns Res

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Error msg show Application not component

ror. Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Michael Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using Flexbuilder 2? In Flexbuilder 2 the problem tab shows the > line number of the syntax error allowing you to go to the problem directly. &g

Re: [flexcoders] HTTPService where parameter has hypen or underscore and bypassing automatic form encoding of data with bytearray?

Just tried it out again. Flex complains that text/plain is invalid and ignores it on the request. It is still application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Thanks though, Michael Michael Wills wrote: Hi Pete, Thanks. I was hoping I could do something like that but Flexbuilder complains about

Re: [flexcoders] Error msg show Application not component

Are you using Flexbuilder 2? In Flexbuilder 2 the problem tab shows the line number of the syntax error allowing you to go to the problem directly. Michael boy_trike wrote: I have a new application with a few components. If I have a syntax error in one of my components, the problems tab alwa

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best way to communicate with database

Web services may be the easiest to integrate with Flex since they are consumed so easily. I believe Zope/Plone can essentially expose or render it's data as a web service as well. It may also depend on how you are organizing your code for these kinds of projects. Migrating from one technology

Re: [flexcoders] HTTPService where parameter has hypen or underscore and bypassing automatic form encoding of data with bytearray?

*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Michael Wills *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:48 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] HTTPService where parameter has hypen or underscore and bypassing automatic form encoding of data with bytea

Re: [flexcoders] Help any body

What is the problem you are experiencing? When you click A, do you filter the data provider of the datagrid? Michael nsiddiquics wrote: I am making Admin Panel in flex. I am making websie for the TV channel that is food cooking channel. I have used data services to bring data from MySQL datab

[flexcoders] HTTPService where parameter has hypen or underscore and bypassing automatic form encoding of data with bytearray?

Hello all, I am using Flex to access an API that has parameters with a hyphen or an underscore in the name of the parameter. If the parameter name has a hyphen, Flexbuilder (2.0.1) does not compile with a syntax error. Putting the name part in quotes causes the hyphen to be form encoded If it

Re: [flexcoders] Bubble-Mind is now released to you !

I'll try to give it a shot when I can. I use Freemind quite extensively so it could be good to compare. An online version usable anywhere definitely has some advantages. Michael ecpmaz wrote: Yeah I know it appears like an ad but I wanted to make a post here. Some of you here have really hel

Re: [flexcoders] XML to Number from an HTTPservice

Have you tried casting using the "as" operator? num : Number = result.value.I.Want as Number; I'm new and still learning though. I just didn't see anyone else reply yet... Hope that helps, Michael lcujino wrote: I've created an HTTPservice to put some information from an XML on my applica

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Mac style drop-down sheet

No problem. But do you mean like a change of state with a transition then? Michael Ashif Sayani wrote: > > No, I was looking for the dialog box that drops down from the top of > the application. > > thanks though, > Ashif > >

Re: [flexcoders] Web Services: Nearing Wit's End

Hi Shibli, I defer to the experts on the details (I'm new to Flex) but I have gotten other services to work. A web service debugger has been a great asset in that development. Two popular ones are Charles (http://www.xk72.com/charles/) and Service Capture (http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCaptur

Re: [flexcoders] Mac style drop-down sheet

Hmm something like this link? http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/2006/05/mac_os_x-lookin.cfm Or something more specific to drop-downs? Michael ashifsayani wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd seen a posting where someone created a mac style drop-down sheet > in Flex. I can't seem > to find the li