[flexcoders] Programming Challenge - finding nodes in an array with a value near a number

2007-03-19 Thread grae_hall
So I've got a programming challenge. I've got audio/video streaming in, and I've got an XML document converted to an Array (each node is an index of the array), each value in the array in the contains a cuepoint in Ms. What's the most efficient way to find the cuepoints in the array which are

[flexcoders] using coldfusion to return height and width of flex swf

2006-12-15 Thread grae_hall
I've got a SWFTag coldfusion tag I've made that's a handy shortcut for embeding flash 8 or less swfs into a page with syntax that feels similar to an an HTML image tag. Unfortunately, it requires that I know the explicit width and height of the swf, and set them as attributes. SWFTag uses

[flexcoders] Re: ToggleButtonBar: Styling Individual Button

2006-08-29 Thread grae_hall
Hey hey hey, I had just such a question, so I spent a bit of time looking into how to access the child buttons of a button bar, and skin them uniquely, as opposed to simply skinning the first - rest - and last. I figured out how to do it, and ran a cool looking custom skin over the top of it,

[flexcoders] success: flex data services linking to coldfusion - both as instances in jrun

2006-08-26 Thread grae_hall
after a lot of stuffing about today, Patrick and I managed to get FDS running as an instance of jrun, configured apache, and got FDS talking to coldfusion's event gateway, which did ran logic on the consumer/producer messages, and supplied the result. We couldn't find much in the way of

[flexcoders] Limiting length of xmllistcollection to display only first 10 in a datagrid.

2006-07-28 Thread grae_hall
I've got a datagrid component which I'm using to display the most recent documents from an XML file. It's an XMLListCollection. I think. I've worked out how to do the sort()/refresh() stuff on it, and that's working as expected. However, there's the potential for there to be in excess of 1000

[flexcoders] Re: Programmatic skinning example - buttons, buttonbar, panel, etc

2006-05-23 Thread grae_hall
link Grae... On 5/21/06, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what I'm talkng about Grae - exchange. :) -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, grae_hall grae@ wrote: http://grae.halltech.com.au/xmxSkins/ It's an example with source of how to skin buttons with your own

[flexcoders] Programmatic skinning example - buttons, buttonbar, panel, etc

2006-05-20 Thread grae_hall
http://grae.halltech.com.au/xmxSkins/ It's an example with source of how to skin buttons with your own styles programmatically - it's a snippet from an RIA I've been working on. It's pretty rough, and I've only got a few months of flex experience, so there may be all sorts of mistakes and

[flexcoders] Extended Visual Component Defaults in Design View

2006-04-13 Thread grae_hall
I've created a series of extended visual components for the project I'm currently working on so I've got a centralised location to adjust the appearance and methods of any component I put on the stage. So for example, I have XPanel, which extends Panel, and I've overridden commitProperties to

[flexcoders] F2B2 : RE: Extended Visual Component Defaults in Design View

2006-04-13 Thread grae_hall
@yahoogroups.com, grae_hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a series of extended visual components for the project I'm currently working on so I've got a centralised location to adjust the appearance and methods of any component I put on the stage. So for example, I have XPanel, which

[flexcoders] F2B2 : Eclipse : Changing the Documents location

2006-04-05 Thread grae_hall
I've got My Documents on the root of my C (far more convenient) - windows and all my applications see the My Documents directory as being mapped to mapped to the root of C - but I'm probably not the only person who's had difficulty nailing down exactly how to get Eclipse to point there by

[flexcoders] F2B2: Loaded SWF Movie Clip frame as unique image source?

2006-03-31 Thread grae_hall
How's that subject for correct grammar for phrasing a question. So - what I've been trying to do - I load a mulitframe external SWF in via with the Loader - then once loaded I create a new movieclip from the loader.content - then I gotoandstop on my desired frame - then it gets a little bit

[flexcoders] Timer problems - timer still firing once after timer is reset.

2006-03-22 Thread grae_hall
I'm having a bit of a problem with the Timer function. And I'm also a little unsure of the variable syntax to read the framerate of the application. I've created a custom class to allow me to easily attach listeners and actions to components throughout my application in a centralised manner.

[flexcoders] Re: Timer problems - timer still firing once after timer is reset.

2006-03-22 Thread grae_hall
pretend I proof read that block of code which I copied and pasted out of my actual working class. Pretend the thisEvent=eventCeil; line exists before I refer to eventCeil in my timer is instantiated. Yeah... pretend. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, grae_hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

[flexcoders] Re: Timer problems - timer still firing once after timer is reset.

2006-03-22 Thread grae_hall
Well - fortunately the request for thoughts on the timer can be disregarded - I've managed to get it all working. The application now has a custom class able to be attached to any interface component which tweens from a user defined value to a user defined value with a user defined easing

[flexcoders] Re: Flip and mirror a bitmap in Flex

2006-03-19 Thread grae_hall
The issue is it doesn't have the image loaded completely and added as an instance - so - you need to get a set of loader listeners for the image happening - and then on the completion listener run the bitmap reflect function. If you embed the image - you should be sweet. At least - that's what I

[flexcoders] Re: Flip and mirror a bitmap in Flex

2006-03-15 Thread grae_hall
Dearest Richard, There's a demo of run time reflection of flex components by Trey Long located here http://humanwasteland.com/reflectdemo/ReflectFilterDemo.html it's a good example of how to implement the bitmap, bitmapdata, and matrix classes in Flex 2.0 It's a bit technical - but you can

[flexcoders] Looking for simple working Flex 2.0 remoting examples

2006-03-01 Thread grae_hall
The Flex project I'm working on is up to the stage of commencing initial communications from flex swf client to the business logic on the backend server. I've got a subcontractor working with me and I've handed him the task of getting the remoting functional. Unfortunately we haven't been able

[flexcoders] application MXML loading children component MXMLs

2006-02-28 Thread grae_hall
I'm writing the foundations of an ecommerce site in Flex. I've created an application MXML as the stub with the application tags - and I've created the major subsections as MXML components framed by canvas tags. What's the best method of including the component MXML files so that data can be

[flexcoders] syntax / code hinting help for a custom classes 'type' variable

2006-02-27 Thread grae_hall
I'm extending the effects class to allow me to have a custom tag that can tween a component in a known and limited number of ways. I'm not really sure what the correct syntax is to define those limited types of class methods. Say my tween class allows you to tween the alpha, the scale, and the

[flexcoders] Removing Default Halo Themes

2006-02-22 Thread grae_hall
I've tinkered around most of today - read quite a bit - and I'm not really sure if I'm on the right track. In my default Flex app the components are obviously pre-styled with one of the Themes. As part of a fairly interesting contract I'm working on - I'd like to specify the styles of my