[flexcoders] Re: How to display the Image

[Praveen Saxena]

 Hi,
   I tried this but didnt got any success 

mx:DataGrid dataProvider={_xlDayData} height=180  
mx:columns
  mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=Day 
width=200 / 
  mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=High 
width=100 /
  mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=Low 
width=100 /
  mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData 
headerText=Image dataField=image
mx:itemRenderer
mx:Component
mx:Image source=??/
/mx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer
  /mx:DataGridColumn
/mx:columns
  /mx:DataGrid  


 Can any one correct this how to retrive the Image

Regards
Praveen


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If you set the itemRenderer to mx:Image, and dataField set to
 WeatherImage you should see the image.
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Praveen Saxena
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:39 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] How to display the Image
 
  
 
 
 Hi,
 Is it possible to put the image in the datagrid after getting the 
 the image url from the XML file.
 My sample Xml look like this.
 WeatherData
 DaySaturday, May 19, 2007/Day
 
 WeatherImagehttp://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg
 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg /We
 atherImage
 MaxTemperatureF76/MaxTemperatureF
 MinTemperatureF43/MinTemperatureF
 MaxTemperatureC24/MaxTemperatureC
 MinTemperatureC6/MinTemperatureC
 /WeatherData
 My requirement is display the image after from the URL specified in 
the
 WeatherImage tag.
 Thanks  Regards,
 Praveen

RE: [flexcoders] Override failing.... between MXML base class and AS3 subclass

[Alex Harui]

Can you show us some code?  How are things set up in MXML and in the
subclass?

 



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Behalf Of Matthew OMeara
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:16 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Override failing between MXML base class and
AS3 subclass

 

Perhaps I shopuld not be trying to do this, but here it is anyway...

I have a compound MXML component that I have created that has a few 
MXML children and 2 states. It serves as an agnostic visual control 
that Value Objects get assigned to for dipslay.

I want to reuse the MXML control several times over, so I have 
subclassed it in an AS3 class. Everything works fine except... when 
I override functions from the base class in the descendant class, it 
is failing to override.

Meaning I have a button in the base class that calls its own 
function, which is overriden in this instance but flex fails to 
route my event to the overriden function... it sends it to my 
placeholder function in the base class.

I realize that Flex does not support Abstract functions yet, but what 
I am trying to do should work without requiring abstract.

Any insights are appreciated.

Matthew

 

RE: [flexcoders] Does Drag Drop Only Update the DataProvider?

[Alex Harui]

How do you know it didn't update __employees?

 

Can you post a mini-example in a couple of screenfuls of text?

 



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Behalf Of Geoffrey
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:11 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Does Drag  Drop Only Update the DataProvider?

 

I have a DataGrid that has a dataProvider bound to an ArrayCollection.

code
mx:DataGrid id=dgEmployees
dataProvider={__employees}
...
/code

I also have another DataGrid (dgAllEmployees) that is within a popup,
which I use as a source for Drag  Drop operations to populate the
dgEmployee dataGrid.

What I've noticed is that when I drag  drop employees from the all
employees DataGrid to the employees DataGrid, it seems to only
update the dataProvider of dgEmployees, and not the ArrayCollection
__employees. Why is this?

Below is a snip of my drag  drop code where it actually copies the
data. This is a generic method that is used all over the application.
code
public static function doDragDrop( event:DragEvent ):void
{
// Prevent the default event from happening.
event.preventDefault();

// Get drop target
var dropTarget:DataGrid = DataGrid(event.currentTarget);

// Get the dragged items from the drag initiator.
var dropItems:Array = event.dragSource.dataForFormat(items) as Array;

// Add each item to the drop target.
for (var i:uint = 0; i  dropItems.length; i++)
{
var dest:IList = IList(dropTarget.dataProvider);
if (!contains(dest, dropItems[i]))
{
dest.addItem(dropItems[i]);
}
}
}
/code

I think that I had event.preventDefault(); in there because it was
putting 2 of each dropped item in the dgEmployee DataGrid. Might this
be messing something up?

Also, contains() is a custom method to compare the source items to
what's in the target's list to prevent duplicates. Is there a better
way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
GT

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to display the Image

[Alex Harui]

I think it would look more like:

 

mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Image dataField=image
mx:itemRenderer
mx:Component
mx:Image /
/mx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer
/mx:DataGridColumn





From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Praveen Saxena
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How to display the Image

 


Hi,
I tried this but didnt got any success 

mx:DataGrid dataProvider={_xlDayData} height=180  
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=Day 
width=200 / 
mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=High 
width=100 /
mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData headerText=Low 
width=100 /
mx:DataGridColumn labelFunction=lfDayData 
headerText=Image dataField=image
mx:itemRenderer
mx:Component
mx:Image source=??/
/mx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer
/mx:DataGridColumn
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid 

Can any one correct this how to retrive the Image

Regards
Praveen

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If you set the itemRenderer to mx:Image, and dataField set to
 WeatherImage you should see the image.
 
 
 
 
 
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[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
] On
 Behalf Of Praveen Saxena
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:39 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
 Subject: [flexcoders] How to display the Image
 
 
 
 
 Hi,
 Is it possible to put the image in the datagrid after getting the 
 the image url from the XML file.
 My sample Xml look like this.
 WeatherData
 DaySaturday, May 19, 2007/Day
 
 WeatherImagehttp://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg 
 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/few.jpg  /We
 atherImage
 MaxTemperatureF76/MaxTemperatureF
 MinTemperatureF43/MinTemperatureF
 MaxTemperatureC24/MaxTemperatureC
 MinTemperatureC6/MinTemperatureC
 /WeatherData
 My requirement is display the image after from the URL specified in 
the
 WeatherImage tag.
 Thanks  Regards,
 Praveen


 

[flexcoders] Sound Security Errors

[Bjorn Schultheiss]

When loading sound files from a remote domain without a policyfile  
how do I catch security errors.

I cant find any help in the documentation.


Regards,

Bjorn Schultheiss 

Re: {Disarmed} Re: [flexcoders] Flex on Mac

[Tom Chiverton]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, fuad_kamal wrote:
 main window.  Sure, you could size the main eclipse window across all
 three of your monitors, but that's not what we're talking about, here.

Open a new Eclipse window, you can then drag the tabs to that one.

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Resize Effect for Auto

[Tom Chiverton]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Matt wrote:
 Thanks for the response. That has many potential problems though.
 First of, that would expand to the maximum available space, whereas I
 only want it to take up the area it needs.

So add up all your component widths.

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Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Tom Chiverton]

On Friday 18 May 2007, Austin Kottke wrote:
 more scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot more
 feasible. (As in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could be
 generated through Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) 

I think you'd be a lot better off returning a domain-specific description of 
what the GUI should do and look like, and have the client reconfigure itself 
(removeChild(), addChild(new Button()) etc. etc.

 scalability and integration with servers - similar to the Apache IIS mod
 for JSP, etc - the only problem is that it's just for Apache or IIS.
 Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end would
 eliminate this problem.

There is already a web-tier compiler.

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[flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

[James]

Hi all, my name is James Wilson, I am a flex programmer in the atlanta
area, new to the list.

On a datagrid, I'd like to display more information about the item the
user is hovering over in a tooltip, but I want to get this information
(a fair bit) dynamically based on a case number/id from the datagrid
item that is being hovered over.

The best way I can think of is to do a loop in the dataTipFunction:

public function myDataTipFunction(e:HitData):String 
{

while(httpService.lastResult == null){}
//return tooltip based on result.
}

Surely there is a better way.

Thanks everyone. Nice to meet you all. :)

James Wilson

[flexcoders] using custom components

[bill.fogarty17]

Hi folks, I'm trying to use a MVC model for buildin my application.

I have built 2 custom components  placed them in my components 
folder. 

My components are:
- Appliction Layout component, similiar to a VDivided box
- Custom panel component with minimise, maximise, close button.

In my main.mxml, I plan to set up 10 different states, each one 
representing different screens of my application. 

Each of these states, will be made up of 1 custom layout component 
which can contain multiple custom panels on the left and 
multiple custom panels on the right hand side.

My question is, im main.mxml, how can I write the following:
- Create a new Layout Component
- In the lhs of the Layout Component put 2 custom panels
- In the RHS of the layout componnet put 3 custom panels

Once I can do that, I an create lots of different states, I just cant 
figure out how to write it...im sooo close, but yet so far!




Here is my Layout Component


?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; width=100% 
height=100% xmlns:components=assets.src.components.*   
mx:Script
![CDATA[
public var indexValue:int = 0;

private function changeState() : void {
if(indexValue == 0){
currentState='zeroOneHundred';
indexValue = 1;
}
else if(indexValue == 1){
currentState='fiftyFifty';
indexValue = 0;
}
}
]]
/mx:Script

mx:states
mx:State name=fiftyFifty
mx:SetProperty target={fnwLeftPanel} 
name=width value=50%/
mx:SetProperty target={fnwRightPanel} 
name=width value=50%/
/mx:State
mx:State name=zeroOneHundred
mx:SetProperty target={fnwLeftPanel} 
name=width value=0%/
mx:SetProperty target={fnwRightPanel} 
name=width value=100%/
/mx:State
/mx:states

mx:transitions
mx:Transition id=fnwTransition fromState=* 
toState=*
mx:Parallel id=t1 
targets={[fnwLeftPanel,fnwRightPanel]}
mx:Move duration=500/
mx:Resize duration=500/
/mx:Parallel
/mx:Transition
/mx:transitions


mx:VBox id=fnwLeftPanel width=50% height=100% 
backgroundColor=red  
/mx:VBox

mx:Image source=assets/src/images/arrow_sample.png 
click=changeState();/

mx:VBox id=fnwRightPanel width=50% height=100% 
backgroundColor=green
/mx:VBox
/mx:HBox




--
-
here is my panel
--
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Panel xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
styleName=layoutPanel layout=absolute width=100% 
height=200 
paddingTop=0 paddingLeft=0 paddingRight=0 paddingBottom=0 
x=0 y=0

mx:states
mx:State name=minimise
mx:SetProperty name=height value=48/
mx:SetEventHandler target={button1} 
name=click handler=currentState=''/
/mx:State
/mx:states   
mx:transitions
mx:Transition fromState=* toState=*
 mx:Parallel target={this}
mx:Resize duration=1000/
mx:Move duration=1000/
/mx:Parallel
/mx:Transition
/mx:transitions

mx:Label id=fnwPanelLabel text=/

!-- taskbar control items --
mx:HBox id=fnwPanelControlBox width=100% height=22 
styleName=panelOpts
mx:Spacer width=100%/   
mx:Button height=13 width=13 
styleName=optionsButton /
mx:Button height=13 width=2 
styleName=panelDivider /
mx:Button height=13 width=10 
styleName=minButton click=currentState='minimise'  id=button1/
mx:Button height=13 width=2 
styleName=panelDivider /
mx:Button height=13 width=12 
styleName=closeButton /
/mx:HBox

!-- main content items --
mx:VBox id=fnwPanelContentBox styleName=contentHolder 
y=22 width=100% height=100%
 
/mx:VBox  
/mx:Panel





--
--
here is my main.mxml
--
--
?xml version=1.0 

[flexcoders] Events not firing from swf imported with SwfLoader

[beecee1977]

Hi,

I'm not a flash expert so you'll have to bear with me on this. I'm 
not creating the swf's myself.

I've recieved animations in swf's before and used them in image 
controls and they work fine. (movie clips generated in Flash MX 2004)

If however the swf has a button on it (just an animation which plays 
on the rollover and snaps back to first frame on rollout) no events 
get fired from it when it's embeded into my image control. I'm 
assuming that the button in the swf is catching all mouse events and 
not passing them on. Does anybody know if this is the expected 
behaviour or if there's an easy way around it? 

As it stands I guess I'll need to handle switching to an animation on 
the rollover event within Flex2.

Thanks in advance
Bill

P.S. I saw this, but it seems like overkill for what I want. 
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html

[flexcoders] TileList skinning help

[Jon Bradley]

I'm trying to skin up the TileList component and am not having the  
best of luck - aside from just changing colors and whatnot.

Has anyone succeeded in using skins through CSS to style the TileList  
component? Specifically, I have a background skin that I'm trying to  
use for the normal background state, roll over, and selected states.

When you have a custom item renderer for the TileList, does it  
override any settings you make for the component? I even imported my  
CSS styles into the itemRenderer that I created and applied the style  
to VBox components in there - that doesn't take unless I put another  
nested VBox inside (but then I don't have all the states available).

Since I'm creating a pretty custom item renderer with various  
elements, should I just be importing these skins directly into the  
itemRenderer and handling it from there?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

cheers,

jon

[flexcoders] zoom for buttons in ButtonBar

[chen_saraf]

Hi,
I'm kind of new to Flex :)
What would be the way to show zoom effect on buttons contains withing 
ButtonBar?
Thanks,
Ken

Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Austin Kottke]

Ely,

   I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

   It is something that if implemented could make developing in flex a 
lot more scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot 
more feasible. (As in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could be 
generated through Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) A lot of 
developers don't know a thing about flex, but can learn basic MXML for 
layout or simple scripting and implement basic server side operations. 
And if these are kept just as mxml it makes updates in the future 
easier. We can then just tell someone (edit the MXML) and you're done, 
instead of download the flex sdk, set your ant build, yada ya -- some 
aren't programmers, but MXML is very easy to learn. It's a lot more 
confrontable for a designer/layout guy to tackle.


   Anyway, runtime MXML would be something that would majorly increase 
scalability and integration with servers - similar to the Apache IIS mod 
for JSP, etc - the only problem is that it's just for Apache or IIS. 
Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end would 
eliminate this problem.


Best, austin

Ely Greenfield wrote:


 

 


Austin et. al. --

 

There are a number of features of MXML that simply can't be replicated 
at runtime. Things like script blocks. Other features would be 
prohibitively difficult (arbitrary binding expressions, @Embed, 
mx:Component, among others).  You could reduce MXML to a 
runtime-parsable subset, and I know various people have taken various 
 approaches to this.  The more you reduce it, the easier it would be 
to replicate...removing repeaters, implicit arrays, default 
properties, etc. would get you down to something that could be 
implemented in a reasonable amount of time.


 

I'm curious...how many people would find runtime MXML to be important 
to them?


 


Ely.

 

 

*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
*On Behalf Of *Doug McCune

*Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader 
Can Create UIComponents


 

Yeah, ummm, my advice would be ignore that article. That's one of the 
effects of having an article submission process that allows anyone to 
submit anything. I know the cookbook is supposed to be user generated 
and reviewed, but anyone from Adobe want to exercise a little 
editorial control? I wouldn't mind the hand of god going in there and 
selectively removing a little content... sometimes democracy needs a 
helping hand.


On 5/17/07, *Daniel Freiman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists.  The 
sentence We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because 
the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects doesn't 
inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about.  Since 
it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also 
possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't 
understand that they're doing it.  Then again, that wouldn't explain 
what they're fighting with another company about earlier in the article.


They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd either 
search them or not worry about it.  My guess is you'd be searching a 
long time for something that isn't there.  It would be nice if someone 
could prove my guess wrong though.


Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com

 

On 5/17/07, *Austin Kottke* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe site 
about

reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create components
at runtime. While
I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples, but
very vague actually, but it states:

Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to leverage
reuse within the Flex2 programming model.

Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate the wheel
in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I would
surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that was
able to read MXML into a way to read XML.

As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML is XML !
Yipee, now I can easily read MXML because it is essentially a form of XML.

We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because the
compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects.

But what if we could trick Flex2 into dynamically loading MXML at
runtime ?


So my question, has anyone ever done this and how did they do it? I'm
not talking about using the
modules package to load in precompiled swfs. But loading in mxml and
having it run after being loaded.

Best, Austin



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RE: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Dimitrios Gianninas]

I'm not to keen on this personally for security reasons. My company just got 
some security training recently and I saw the effects of XSS (cross side 
scripting attacks). One plus for Flex is that it is not affected by this, 
however implementing runtime MXML execution would make it prone to similar type 
of attacks. So weighing runtime MXML vs security, I would take security.

Dimitrios Gianninas
Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.

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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create 
UIComponents

Ely,

I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

It is something that if implemented could make developing in flex a lot more 
scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot more feasible. (As 
in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could be generated through 
Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) A lot of developers don't know a 
thing about flex, but can learn basic MXML for layout or simple scripting and 
implement basic server side operations. 
And if these are kept just as mxml it makes updates in the future easier. We 
can then just tell someone (edit the MXML) and you're done, instead of 
download the flex sdk, set your ant build, yada ya -- some aren't 
programmers, but MXML is very easy to learn. It's a lot more confrontable for a 
designer/layout guy to tackle.

Anyway, runtime MXML would be something that would majorly increase scalability 
and integration with servers - similar to the Apache IIS mod for JSP, etc - the 
only problem is that it's just for Apache or IIS. 
Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end would eliminate 
this problem.

Best, austin

Ely Greenfield wrote:

 Austin et. al. –

 There are a number of features of MXML that simply can’t be replicated 
 at runtime. Things like script blocks. Other features would be 
 prohibitively difficult (arbitrary binding expressions, @Embed, 
 mx:Component, among others). You could reduce MXML to a 
 runtime-parsable subset, and I know various people have taken various 
 approaches to this. The more you reduce it, the easier it would be to 
 replicate…removing repeaters, implicit arrays, default properties, 
 etc. would get you down to something that could be implemented in a 
 reasonable amount of time.

 I’m curious…how many people would find runtime MXML to be important to 
 them?

 Ely.

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *On Behalf Of *Doug McCune
 *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader 
 Can Create UIComponents

 Yeah, ummm, my advice would be ignore that article. That's one of the 
 effects of having an article submission process that allows anyone to 
 submit anything. I know the cookbook is supposed to be user generated 
 and reviewed, but anyone from Adobe want to exercise a little 
 editorial control? I wouldn't mind the hand of god going in there and 
 selectively removing a little content... sometimes democracy needs a 
 helping hand.

 On 5/17/07, *Daniel Freiman* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists. The 
 sentence We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because 
 the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects doesn't 
 inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about. Since 
 it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also 
 possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't 
 understand that they're doing it. Then again, that wouldn't explain 
 what they're fighting with another company about earlier in the article.

 They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd either 
 search them or not worry about it. My guess is you'd be searching a 
 long time for something that isn't there. It would be nice if someone 
 could prove my guess wrong though.

 Dan Freiman
 nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com

 On 5/17/07, *Austin Kottke* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe site 
 about reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create 
 components at runtime. While I don't totally get how this works as 
 there are no code samples, but very vague actually, but it states:

 Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to leverage 
 reuse within the Flex2 programming model.

 Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate the 
 wheel in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I 
 would surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that 
 was able to read MXML into a way to read XML.

 As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML 

[flexcoders] WebService in AS

[hugocorept]

Hello you flexers

Well, i have created an WebService in AS, because in the mxml tag way,
the WSDL derived from an TextInput does NOT WORK.. :( sad... so i
create this simple AS but i cant get the lastResult successful, Always
give me null in the beginning, click again, and then the result, and
for last [Object Object], can you light me :P ?


[Bindable] public var webService:WebService = new WebService;

public function wsHelloWorld():void{
webService.wsdl = myWsdl.text;
webService.loadWSDL();
webService.HelloWorld(myInput.text);
trace(webService.HelloWorld.lastResult);

}

null
Hello, testee (-- This is the THING!!)
[object Object] (-- This enter in HelloWorldResponse Object, ??)


Hope you can help on this,
Grate for all the help!

[flexcoders] Re: Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Ed Smith]

  I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

I'm not too sure about this. Wouldn't every swf have to link to every mx 
library (just in case it's used)? That would mean that every time you 
load from a URL you'd download the whole of MX, not just the components 
that are actually being instantiated. Wouldn't that be a problem in 
practice?

Ed

Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Austin Kottke]

Yea, I get it. It sounds really cool though -- I'd love to be able to 
see dynamically created
MXML and not have it to be server side (Apache IIS mod). This would make 
flex's value
a lot higher. I suppose that there is some class in the flex framework 
which does this however,

converts MXML to objects and then it's ready.

Has anyone ever used this or is it internal?

Best, Austin

Daniel Freiman wrote:


I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists.  The 
sentence We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because 
the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects doesn't 
inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about.  Since 
it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also 
possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't 
understand that they're doing it.  Then again, that wouldn't explain 
what they're fighting with another company about earlier in the article.


They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd either 
search them or not worry about it.  My guess is you'd be searching a 
long time for something that isn't there.  It would be nice if someone 
could prove my guess wrong though.


Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com

On 5/17/07, *Austin Kottke* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe
site about
reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create
components
at runtime. While
I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples, but
very vague actually, but it states:

Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to
leverage
reuse within the Flex2 programming model.

Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate the
wheel
in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I would
surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that was
able to read MXML into a way to read XML.

As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML is XML !
Yipee, now I can easily read MXML because it is essentially a form
of XML.

We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because the
compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects.

But what if we could trick Flex2 into dynamically loading MXML at
runtime ?


So my question, has anyone ever done this and how did they do it? I'm
not talking about using the
modules package to load in precompiled swfs. But loading in mxml and
having it run after being loaded.

Best, Austin



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[flexcoders] Getting 500 error on uploading

[kumarpal jain]

Hi All,
   
  I am getting HTTP status 500 when I am trying to upload a file more then 3 MB 
on server from my machine.
  I want that there should not be any restriction on file size limit.
  It is giving me following error message
  'IOErrorEvent type=ioError bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 
text=Error #2038: File I/O Error. URL: 
http://localhost:5151/default.aspx?category=uploaduid=66; '
   
  please suggest any solution to quickly fix the bug.
   
  Thanks,
  Kumar

   
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based ServiceLocator?

[Alistair McLeod]

Hi Ben,

I can't think of anything that's changed between 2.1 and 2.2 that would
cause this. I'm guessing that the web services your defining dynamically
aren't getting registered with the service locator, so its probably a
timing thing. Have you moved to Flex 2.0.1 at the same time, though I
don't know of any specific reason why that would change something.

Can you check if your web services have registered in the  _webServices
Dictionary stored inside ServiceLocator? That dictionary is created
through lazy instantiation on the first call to get webServices() on the
service locator, so ensure that that call never happens before you have
created your dynamic web services.

Thanks,

Alistair

-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: 17 May 2007 19:07
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based
ServiceLocator?

I declared my ServiceLocator subclass in AS rather than MXML, and when
my app loads I load an XML file. That XML file contains the WSDL URLs
for all the WebServices that I use in my app, so once it is loaded I
call an initServices() method that I defined on the ServiceLocator
subclass. The initServices() method declares my WebService objects, sets
up event listeners and calls loadWSDL() for each, using the URLs defined
in the loaded XML. Once all my loadWSDL() calls have returned the app
continues on to other startup tasks.

This all worked perfectly in Cairngorm 2.1. With 2.2 however, as soon as
I call ServiceLocator.getInstance().getWebService(), I get the error and
callstack pasted below. Debugging shows that all of my WebService
variables are defined and in memory, but for some reason they are not
registered with the ServiceLocator. In some quick tests, I noticed that
the describeType() call in AbstractServices.as does not seem to include
references to variables defined in AS. Since the accessors list from
describeType() seems to be the source of what gets registered with
ServiceLocator, my guess is that that is the source of the problem.

You can see a slightly obfuscated version of the class at
http://returnundefined.com/files/MyAppServices.as

Thanks,
Ben

Error: C0009E: WebService not found for documentMetadataWebService
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.business::WebServices/getService()[C:\dev\swat\proje
cts\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\WebServices.as:83]
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.business::ServiceLocator/getWebService()[C:\dev\swat
\projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\ServiceLocator.
as:171]
at
com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.business::BatchDelegate$iinit()[D:\ClearCa
se_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Components\Sourc
e\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\business\BatchDelegate.as:
27]
at
com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.commands::GetRecentBatchesCommand/execute(
)[D:\ClearCase_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Comp
onents\Source\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\commands\GetRe
centBatchesCommand.as:27]
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::FrontController/com.adobe.cairngorm.control
:FrontController::executeCommand()[C:\dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngor
m\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\FrontController.as:212]
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven
tFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()[C:
\dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\Cairngo
rmEventDispatcher.as:113]
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEvent/dispatch()[C:\dev\swat\proje
cts\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\CairngormEvent.as:77]
at
com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.commands::ApplicationIsReadyCommand/execut
e()[D:\ClearCase_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Co
mponents\Source\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\commands\App
licationIsReadyCommand.as:16]
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::FrontController/com.adobe.cairngorm.control
:FrontController::executeCommand()[C:\dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngor
m\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\FrontController.as:212]
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven
tFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()[C:
\dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\Cairngo
rmEventDispatcher.as:113]
at
com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEvent/dispatch()[C:\dev\swat\proje
cts\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\CairngormEvent.as:77]
at
com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.commands::LoadAppConfigCommand/com.fmr.pro
jects.PsaBatchTool.commands:LoadAppConfigCommand::configFileLoaded()[D:\

[flexcoders] TextArea: Show selection even when focus lost

[Mark Ingram]

Hi, I have a TextArea that shows a dialog when the user makes a
selection. The only trouble is, when the dialog displays, the focus is
lost from the text area, and now it appears as if there is no selection.
Is there a setting I can change somewhere to get the selection to always
draw (or to draw always when a specific condition is on)?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

 

 

[flexcoders] Re: Difference between getChild and getAtomationChild

[pmotzfeldt]

I understand that it is a method of the IAutomationObject. But there
is still something that I do not figure out.

I have created an adapter that enables me to take advantage of the
automation package and replay events on a Flex application I have
created. With this application all the display components have
automation children. But with a mock class I have used to test the
adapter, where I just create a class that extends Application and add
some panels and buttons, none of those have automation children only
regular children. (Both projects implements the automation.swc and
automation_agent.swc. And all components are UIComponents, which
implements IAutomationObject)

What in Flex decides if a object has automation children or regular
children? 

Thank you


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Correct. getAutomationChild() is a method of the IAutomationObject
 interface, and only returns children that also implement that interface.
 IAutomationObject is part of the mx.automation package, which is
designed
 for automated testing. So basically, it's a filter for testing tools
so they
 only have to look at objects that can be automated. The Flex
extension for
 Mercury QTP is currently (I think) the only commercial tool that
makes use
 of it.
 
 Peter
 
 On 5/15/07, Johannes Nel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
my guess its the interface for QTP
 
 
  On 5/15/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Tuesday 15 May 2007, pmotzfeldt wrote:
Hi, I am wondering what the difference between a regular child
and an
automation child of for instance an UIComponent.
  
   guess
   Some children are for purely GUI purposes, such as a title bar
or label.
  
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Re: [flexcoders] WebService in AS

[Daniel Freiman]

Actually, I may have screwed this up because loadWSDL is also asynchronous.
Remove the first line of wsHelloWorld (initHelloWorld()) and just make sure
to call initHelloWorld well before you call wsHelloWorld.  Really you should
add an eventListener to webService for LoadEvent.LOAD and not call
helloworld until that LOAD has been received once.  Unfortunately, I have to
go do something right now so I can't write that up.  Sorry for the confusion

Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com


On 5/18/07, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello world is an asynchronous call so the trace function will be called
before HelloWorld is completed.  Instead try this:

[Bindable]
public var webService:WebService;

public function wsHelloWorld():void{
  initHelloWorld();
  webService.HelloWorld(myInput.text); // call web service function
}

public function initHelloWorld():void{
// initialization that only needs to be called once
if (!webService) {
webService = new WebService();
webService.wsdl = myWsdl.text;
webService.loadWSDL();
webService.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, resultListener);
}
}

public function resultListener(event:ResultEvent):void {
// handle result of webservice
   trace(event.result );
}

Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com


On 5/18/07, hugocorept [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:

   Hello you flexers

 Well, i have created an WebService in AS, because in the mxml tag way,
 the WSDL derived from an TextInput does NOT WORK.. :( sad... so i
 create this simple AS but i cant get the lastResult successful, Always
 give me null in the beginning, click again, and then the result, and
 for last [Object Object], can you light me :P ?

 [Bindable] public var webService:WebService = new WebService;

 public function wsHelloWorld():void{
 webService.wsdl = myWsdl.text;
 webService.loadWSDL();
 webService.HelloWorld(myInput.text);
 trace(webService.HelloWorld.lastResult);

 }

 null
 Hello, testee (-- This is the THING!!)
 [object Object] (-- This enter in HelloWorldResponse Object, ??)

 Hope you can help on this,
 Grate for all the help!

  

[flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Peter Demling]

Hello,

I have a CartesianChart where I don't want the calloutStroke to be
drawn (and thereby offset the positioning of the dataTips from their
data point), so I've set dataTipCalloutStroke={null}.

This works fine when dataTipMode=single, but it does not work when I
set dataTipMode=multiple: the callout is still drawn and the
dataTips are offset.  Any ideas?  This is kind of a deal-breaker for
my app, since a major feature is to display my custom dataTips
directly adjacent to all (plot) data points at the same time.  I
suppose I could go way-deep into concatenating the default
itemRenderer and the dataTip's custom contents into a custom
itemRenderer, but I'd rather not have to code all that internal
plumbing if I could instead do it all with this one style setting.

Thanks for any suggestions!

-Peter Demling
 Lexington, MA

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Matt Wicks]

I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of it but I  
found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ?

On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:


The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
at
mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal:: 
$addChildAt()

at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
(internally addChild calls addChildAt).

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
 few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my  
face

 when I approach something close to stability is this error:

 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.

 This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
 support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
 components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
 particularly scary is that the error message appears once and  
then any
 time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it  
throws

 the same message over and over.

 I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
 SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
 windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was  
specifically a

 problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
 selection of a menu option would then display a window. What  
ended up

 happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
 same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
 indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
 SystemManager container again.

 Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a  
known bug
 and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to  
fixing it?

[flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Matt]

The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
at
mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
(internally addChild calls addChildAt).

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
 few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
 when I approach something close to stability is this error:
 
 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
 
 This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
 support.  It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
 components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
 particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
 time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
 the same message over and over.
 
 I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
 SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
 windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
 problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
 selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
 happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
 same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
 indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
 SystemManager container again.
 
 Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
 and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?

[flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based ServiceLocator?

[ben.clinkinbeard]

Hi Alistair,

_webServices is empty, but we already knew that. Looking at
ServiceLocator in the debugger shows all of my WebService objects
properly constructed and present, they're just not registered for
whatever reason. As far as I can tell, getWebService() does not get
called before the first time I try to access one of my WS objects,
which is when it bombs. I thought maybe it was because I had forgotten
to remove my manual calls to loadWSDL(), but removing those didn't
help either.

I've been up to date on the Flex SDK for a while now. Like I said,
this began as soon as I switched to 2.2 without changing anything else.

The _webServices dictionary is populated by calling describeType() and
then harvesting the accessors XMLList, correct? I am almost positive
that is the problem. WS properties defined in AS don't seem to be
included in accessors, resulting in them never getting registered.

Let me know what you think.
Ben

PS - I've converted to an MXML ServiceLocator, so this issue isn't
holding me up, I'm just trying to make Cairngorm as robust as possible.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alistair McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Ben,
 
 I can't think of anything that's changed between 2.1 and 2.2 that would
 cause this. I'm guessing that the web services your defining dynamically
 aren't getting registered with the service locator, so its probably a
 timing thing. Have you moved to Flex 2.0.1 at the same time, though I
 don't know of any specific reason why that would change something.
 
 Can you check if your web services have registered in the  _webServices
 Dictionary stored inside ServiceLocator? That dictionary is created
 through lazy instantiation on the first call to get webServices() on the
 service locator, so ensure that that call never happens before you have
 created your dynamic web services.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Alistair
 
 -Original Message-
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
 Sent: 17 May 2007 19:07
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based
 ServiceLocator?
 
 I declared my ServiceLocator subclass in AS rather than MXML, and when
 my app loads I load an XML file. That XML file contains the WSDL URLs
 for all the WebServices that I use in my app, so once it is loaded I
 call an initServices() method that I defined on the ServiceLocator
 subclass. The initServices() method declares my WebService objects, sets
 up event listeners and calls loadWSDL() for each, using the URLs defined
 in the loaded XML. Once all my loadWSDL() calls have returned the app
 continues on to other startup tasks.
 
 This all worked perfectly in Cairngorm 2.1. With 2.2 however, as soon as
 I call ServiceLocator.getInstance().getWebService(), I get the error and
 callstack pasted below. Debugging shows that all of my WebService
 variables are defined and in memory, but for some reason they are not
 registered with the ServiceLocator. In some quick tests, I noticed that
 the describeType() call in AbstractServices.as does not seem to include
 references to variables defined in AS. Since the accessors list from
 describeType() seems to be the source of what gets registered with
 ServiceLocator, my guess is that that is the source of the problem.
 
 You can see a slightly obfuscated version of the class at
 http://returnundefined.com/files/MyAppServices.as
 
 Thanks,
 Ben
 
 Error: C0009E: WebService not found for documentMetadataWebService
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.business::WebServices/getService()[C:\dev\swat\proje
 cts\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\WebServices.as:83]
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.business::ServiceLocator/getWebService()[C:\dev\swat
 \projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\ServiceLocator.
 as:171]
   at
 com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.business::BatchDelegate$iinit()[D:\ClearCa
 se_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Components\Sourc
 e\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\business\BatchDelegate.as:
 27]
   at
 com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.commands::GetRecentBatchesCommand/execute(
 )[D:\ClearCase_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Comp
 onents\Source\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\commands\GetRe
 centBatchesCommand.as:27]
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.control::FrontController/com.adobe.cairngorm.control
 :FrontController::executeCommand()[C:\dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngor
 m\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\FrontController.as:212]
   at
 flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven
 tFunction()
   at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()[C:
 \dev\swat\projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\control\Cairngo
 rmEventDispatcher.as:113]
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.control::CairngormEvent/dispatch()[C:\dev\swat\proje
 

RE: [flexcoders] Getting 500 error on uploading

[Dimitrios Gianninas]

Something is wrong on the server-side... check your application logs to see if 
there is some kind of exception happening.
 
Dimitrios Gianninas
Developer
Optimal Payments Inc.
 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
kumarpal jain
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:27 AM
To: FlexCoders
Subject: [flexcoders] Getting 500 error on uploading



Hi All,
 
I am getting HTTP status 500 when I am trying to upload a file more then 3 MB 
on server from my machine.
I want that there should not be any restriction on file size limit.
It is giving me following error message
'IOErrorEvent type=ioError bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 
text=Error #2038: File I/O Error. URL: 
http://localhost:5151/default.aspx?category=uploaduid=66 
http://localhost:5151/default.aspx?category=uploaduid=66  '
 
please suggest any solution to quickly fix the bug.
 
Thanks,
Kumar



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RE: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Giles Taylor]

Would this be what you are looking for?

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS

 

Giles

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Austin Kottke
Sent: 17 May 2007 21:09
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can
Create UIComponents

 

Ely,

I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

It is something that if implemented could make developing in flex a
lot more scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot
more feasible. (As in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could be
generated through Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) A lot of
developers don't know a thing about flex, but can learn basic MXML for
layout or simple scripting and implement basic server side operations.
And if these are kept just as mxml it makes updates in the future
easier. We can then just tell someone (edit the MXML) and you're done,
instead of download the flex sdk, set your ant build, yada ya -- some
aren't programmers, but MXML is very easy to learn. It's a lot more
confrontable for a designer/layout guy to tackle.

Anyway, runtime MXML would be something that would majorly increase
scalability and integration with servers - similar to the Apache IIS mod
for JSP, etc - the only problem is that it's just for Apache or IIS.
Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end would
eliminate this problem.

Best, austin

Ely Greenfield wrote: 

 

 

Austin et. al. -

 

There are a number of features of MXML that simply can't be
replicated at runtime. Things like script blocks. Other features would
be prohibitively difficult (arbitrary binding expressions, @Embed,
mx:Component, among others).  You could reduce MXML to a
runtime-parsable subset, and I know various people have taken various
approaches to this.  The more you reduce it, the easier it would be to
replicate...removing repeaters, implicit arrays, default properties,
etc. would get you down to something that could be implemented in a
reasonable amount of time.

 

I'm curious...how many people would find runtime MXML to be
important to them?

 

Ely.

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug McCune
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML
Reader Can Create UIComponents

 

Yeah, ummm, my advice would be ignore that article. That's one
of the effects of having an article submission process that allows
anyone to submit anything. I know the cookbook is supposed to be user
generated and reviewed, but anyone from Adobe want to exercise a little
editorial control? I wouldn't mind the hand of god going in there and
selectively removing a little content... sometimes democracy needs a
helping hand. 




On 5/17/07, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists.
The sentence We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime
because the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects doesn't
inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about.  Since
it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also
possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't understand
that they're doing it.  Then again, that wouldn't explain what they're
fighting with another company about earlier in the article. 

They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd
either search them or not worry about it.  My guess is you'd be
searching a long time for something that isn't there.  It would be nice
if someone could prove my guess wrong though. 

Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com 

 

On 5/17/07, Austin Kottke [EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:

Hi,

There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe
site about 
reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create
components
at runtime. While
I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples,
but
very vague actually, but it states:

Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to
leverage 
reuse within the Flex2 programming model.

Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate
the wheel
in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I
would
surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that
was 
able to read MXML into a way to read XML.

As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML is
XML !
Yipee, now I can easily read MXML because it is essentially a
form of XML.

RE: [flexcoders] Events not firing from swf imported with SwfLoader

[Ravi Kumar Gummadi]

Flex strips off all actionscript unless it is generated by Flash 9 !

So therez no way u can monitor the events from flex 

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of beecee1977
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:07 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Events not firing from swf imported with SwfLoader

 

Hi,

I'm not a flash expert so you'll have to bear with me on this. I'm 
not creating the swf's myself.

I've recieved animations in swf's before and used them in image 
controls and they work fine. (movie clips generated in Flash MX 2004)

If however the swf has a button on it (just an animation which plays 
on the rollover and snaps back to first frame on rollout) no events 
get fired from it when it's embeded into my image control. I'm 
assuming that the button in the swf is catching all mouse events and 
not passing them on. Does anybody know if this is the expected 
behaviour or if there's an easy way around it? 

As it stands I guess I'll need to handle switching to an animation on 
the rollover event within Flex2.

Thanks in advance
Bill

P.S. I saw this, but it seems like overkill for what I want. 
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html 

 

[flexcoders] Flex is Broken

[Matt]

I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
when I approach something close to stability is this error:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.

This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
support.  It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
the same message over and over.

I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
SystemManager container again.

Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?

Re: [flexcoders] WebService in AS

[Daniel Freiman]

Hello world is an asynchronous call so the trace function will be called
before HelloWorld is completed.  Instead try this:

[Bindable]
public var webService:WebService;

public function wsHelloWorld():void{
 initHelloWorld();
 webService.HelloWorld(myInput.text); // call web service function
}

public function initHelloWorld():void{
// initialization that only needs to be called once
if (!webService) {
webService = new WebService();
webService.wsdl = myWsdl.text;
webService.loadWSDL();
webService.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, resultListener);
}
}

public function resultListener(event:ResultEvent):void {
// handle result of webservice
  trace(event.result);
}

Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com


On 5/18/07, hugocorept [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hello you flexers

Well, i have created an WebService in AS, because in the mxml tag way,
the WSDL derived from an TextInput does NOT WORK.. :( sad... so i
create this simple AS but i cant get the lastResult successful, Always
give me null in the beginning, click again, and then the result, and
for last [Object Object], can you light me :P ?

[Bindable] public var webService:WebService = new WebService;

public function wsHelloWorld():void{
webService.wsdl = myWsdl.text;
webService.loadWSDL();
webService.HelloWorld(myInput.text);
trace(webService.HelloWorld.lastResult);

}

null
Hello, testee (-- This is the THING!!)
[object Object] (-- This enter in HelloWorldResponse Object, ??)

Hope you can help on this,
Grate for all the help!

 

Re: [flexcoders] TextArea: Show selection even when focus lost

[Daniel Freiman]

TextField (which displays the text in TextArea) has a property
alwaysShowSelection.  If you don't know how to access the textField of a
TextArea, check out my post on it:
http://nondocs.blogspot.com/2007/05/faqtext.html.

Dan Freiman
nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com

On 5/18/07, Mark Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Hi, I have a TextArea that shows a dialog when the user makes a
selection. The only trouble is, when the dialog displays, the focus is lost
from the text area, and now it appears as if there is no selection. Is there
a setting I can change somewhere to get the selection to always draw (or to
draw always when a specific condition is on)?



Thanks,



Mark







 

Re: [flexcoders] Flex is Broken

[Jeffry Houser]

  Why not check the number of children in the container before trying 
to access them?
  And/or if you already have a variable pointed to the child, check 
to see that it isn't null before accessing it.

  If you were to provide some code it might be easier to suggest options.

At 09:58 AM 5/18/2007, Matt wrote:

I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
when I approach something close to stability is this error:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.

This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
the same message over and over.

I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
SystemManager container again.

Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?



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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Andrew Trice]

I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components.  That is
the root of your problem.  I bet it you took those off, you wouldn't get
the error anymore.  In my experience with Flex, I've noticed that the
child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when the effect
has completed).  There is a synchronization issue that occurs while the
effect is playing.

 

Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually causes errors
very similar to what you are experiencing.  If you are adding another
child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished playing.  Hope
that helps.

 

-Andy

 

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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Wicks
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

 

I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of it but I
found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ? 

On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:





The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:

RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
at
mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
at Function/http://adobe. http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
(internally addChild calls addChildAt).

--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
ups.com, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
 few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
 when I approach something close to stability is this error:
 
 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
 
 This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
 support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
 components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
 particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
 time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
 the same message over and over.
 
 I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
 SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
 windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
 problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
 selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
 happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
 same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
 indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
 SystemManager container again.
 
 Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
 and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?





 

 

[flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Richard Rodseth]

I'm whipping up a mock-up of a UI much like a mail client (folder tree
+ data grid), using XML dummy data. I've got the rows of the data grid
populating with an e4x predicate, and I have the tree populating with
data like this:

mx:Tree x=0 y=0 width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={folders} labelField=@name showRoot=false
defaultLeafIcon=@Embed(source='Assets.swf',
symbol='TreeFolderClosed')/mx:Tree

mx:XML  id=folders
   folders
   account name=account1
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
   /account
   account name=account2
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
   /account
   /folders

/mx:XML

But I'd like to have nested folder elements, and haven't figured out
how to do that. If I do the dot dot notation, the tree shows the
folders twice. Can anyone help? Thanks.

[flexcoders] TextArea: Halo skin draws over top of child controls!

[Mark Ingram]

Hi, I have a Text Area with a child control embedded in it. Even though
the child control was added last, the halo skin still gets drawn on top
of everything. Which looks odd! Is there any way I can stop this?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

 

 

RE: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder2 bug: line number setting not remembered

[Petro Bochan]

Hi,

 

If you will, Eclipse doesn't have this kind of 'bug'. I think you should
opt for using the plugin versus the native Flex Builder environment.

 

Cheers,

Petro

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bruce Hopkins
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 6:06 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder2 bug: line number setting not
remembered

 

No,

I'd would argue that it definitely is a bug. It occurs inconsistently --
sometimes I get line numbers, and sometimes I don't.




On 5/17/07, Petro Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:

Hi,

 

This is definitely not a bug, happens from time to time.

 

Cheers,

Petro

 



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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:57 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder2 bug: line number setting not
remembered

 

I use flexbuilder2.0.1 in windowsXP, when i check the option by
selecting : Preferences/General/Editors/Text editors/Show line numbers

then line numbers showed, but while i close the IDE, and restart again,
the setting lost!

 

Anyone found this?

 



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Re: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder2 bug: line number setting not remembered

[Bruce Hopkins]

No,

I'd would argue that it definitely is a bug. It occurs inconsistently --
sometimes I get line numbers, and sometimes I don't.



On 5/17/07, Petro Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Hi,



This is definitely not a bug, happens from time to time.



Cheers,

Petro


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remembered



I use flexbuilder2.0.1 in windowsXP, when i check the option by selecting
: Preferences/General/Editors/Text editors/Show line numbers

then line numbers showed, but while i close the IDE, and restart again,
the setting lost!



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Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Jon Bradley]

Not sure what you're really asking, how to do a nested tree? You need  
to use XMLList instead of XML (I don't think it dynamically casts the  
dataProvider to a XMLList if you provide it just XML).


You can swap out label with name and use the same labelField convention.

good luck,

- jon

Here's a tested example:

mx:XMLList id=myTreeData
node label=Accounts
node label=First Account
node label=Inbox
node label=Flexcoders/
node label=Flashcoders/
node label=Flashnewbie/
/node
node label=Send Items
node label=Nested Tree e4x/
/node
node label=Trash
node label=Flashnewbie/
/node
/node   
node label=Second Account
node label=Inbox
node label=New Messages/
node label=Flagged Items/
node label=Attachments/
node label=All Mail/
/node
node label=Send Items
node label=Tree Data Provider with e4x/
/node
node label=Trash
node label=Lame Yahoo HTML emails/
/node
/node   
/node   
/mx:XMLList


On May 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Richard Rodseth wrote:


I'm whipping up a mock-up of a UI much like a mail client (folder tree
+ data grid), using XML dummy data. I've got the rows of the data grid
populating with an e4x predicate, and I have the tree populating with
data like this:

mx:Tree x=0 y=0 width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={folders} labelField=@name showRoot=false
defaultLeafIcon=@Embed(source='Assets.swf',
symbol='TreeFolderClosed')/mx:Tree

mx:XML id=folders
folders
account name=account1
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
account name=account2
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
/folders

[flexcoders] Re: doPrint and ViewStack

[tkacyndra]

anyone? :(

Re: [flexcoders] tree event using cairngorm

[Tom Chiverton]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, achegedus wrote:
 How do I call a method for a flex tree from a cairngorm command?

We pass the tree into the Event, and save a copy of this in the Command before 
calling the Delegate.
When it returns, you've got the tree to hand then.

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Re: [flexcoders] doPrint and ViewStack

[Tom Chiverton]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, tkacyndra wrote:
 by half of my text is getting cut off (anything beyong the scroll
 bar)

What scaling mode are you using for the print job ?
Can you post your code ?

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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based ServiceLocator?

[Alistair McLeod]

Hi Ben,

It does sound like something to do with describeType(), though I can't
see Cairngorm 2.2 could have changed what it returns. Can you compare
the describeType() output in the two versions. Have you debugged the
application and stepped through the getWebService() call to see whats
happening there?

Ali

-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
Sent: 18 May 2007 14:47
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based
ServiceLocator?

Hi Alistair,

_webServices is empty, but we already knew that. Looking at
ServiceLocator in the debugger shows all of my WebService objects
properly constructed and present, they're just not registered for
whatever reason. As far as I can tell, getWebService() does not get
called before the first time I try to access one of my WS objects, which
is when it bombs. I thought maybe it was because I had forgotten to
remove my manual calls to loadWSDL(), but removing those didn't help
either.

I've been up to date on the Flex SDK for a while now. Like I said, this
began as soon as I switched to 2.2 without changing anything else.

The _webServices dictionary is populated by calling describeType() and
then harvesting the accessors XMLList, correct? I am almost positive
that is the problem. WS properties defined in AS don't seem to be
included in accessors, resulting in them never getting registered.

Let me know what you think.
Ben

PS - I've converted to an MXML ServiceLocator, so this issue isn't
holding me up, I'm just trying to make Cairngorm as robust as possible.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alistair McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hi Ben,
 
 I can't think of anything that's changed between 2.1 and 2.2 that 
 would cause this. I'm guessing that the web services your defining 
 dynamically aren't getting registered with the service locator, so its

 probably a timing thing. Have you moved to Flex 2.0.1 at the same 
 time, though I don't know of any specific reason why that would change
something.
 
 Can you check if your web services have registered in the  
 _webServices Dictionary stored inside ServiceLocator? That dictionary 
 is created through lazy instantiation on the first call to get 
 webServices() on the service locator, so ensure that that call never 
 happens before you have created your dynamic web services.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Alistair
 
 -Original Message-
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard
 Sent: 17 May 2007 19:07
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm 2.2 incompatible with AS-based 
 ServiceLocator?
 
 I declared my ServiceLocator subclass in AS rather than MXML, and when

 my app loads I load an XML file. That XML file contains the WSDL URLs 
 for all the WebServices that I use in my app, so once it is loaded I 
 call an initServices() method that I defined on the ServiceLocator 
 subclass. The initServices() method declares my WebService objects, 
 sets up event listeners and calls loadWSDL() for each, using the URLs 
 defined in the loaded XML. Once all my loadWSDL() calls have returned 
 the app continues on to other startup tasks.
 
 This all worked perfectly in Cairngorm 2.1. With 2.2 however, as soon 
 as I call ServiceLocator.getInstance().getWebService(), I get the 
 error and callstack pasted below. Debugging shows that all of my 
 WebService variables are defined and in memory, but for some reason 
 they are not registered with the ServiceLocator. In some quick tests, 
 I noticed that the describeType() call in AbstractServices.as does not

 seem to include references to variables defined in AS. Since the 
 accessors list from
 describeType() seems to be the source of what gets registered with 
 ServiceLocator, my guess is that that is the source of the problem.
 
 You can see a slightly obfuscated version of the class at 
 http://returnundefined.com/files/MyAppServices.as
 
 Thanks,
 Ben
 
 Error: C0009E: WebService not found for documentMetadataWebService
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.business::WebServices/getService()[C:\dev\swat\pro
 je 
 cts\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\WebServices.as:83]
   at
 com.adobe.cairngorm.business::ServiceLocator/getWebService()[C:\dev\sw
 at 

\projects\ac_emea\Cairngorm\com\adobe\cairngorm\business\ServiceLocator.
 as:171]
   at
 com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.business::BatchDelegate$iinit()[D:\Clear
 Ca 
 se_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Components\Sou
 rc

e\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\business\BatchDelegate.as:
 27]
   at
 com.fmr.projects.PsaBatchTool.commands::GetRecentBatchesCommand/execut
 e( 
 )[D:\ClearCase_Storage\a391949_PsaBatchToolRefactor_view\BackOffice\Co
 mp 
 onents\Source\PSA.BatchTool\com\fmr\projects\PsaBatchTool\commands\Get
 Re
 centBatchesCommand.as:27]
   at
 

RE: [flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Ely Greenfield]

 

 

Set it to a stroke with an alpha of 0.

 

dataTipCalloutStroke

   Stroke alpha=0 /

/

 

 

Ely.

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Demling
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when
dataTipMode=multiple?

 

Hello,

I have a CartesianChart where I don't want the calloutStroke to be
drawn (and thereby offset the positioning of the dataTips from their
data point), so I've set dataTipCalloutStroke={null}.

This works fine when dataTipMode=single, but it does not work when I
set dataTipMode=multiple: the callout is still drawn and the
dataTips are offset. Any ideas? This is kind of a deal-breaker for
my app, since a major feature is to display my custom dataTips
directly adjacent to all (plot) data points at the same time. I
suppose I could go way-deep into concatenating the default
itemRenderer and the dataTip's custom contents into a custom
itemRenderer, but I'd rather not have to code all that internal
plumbing if I could instead do it all with this one style setting.

Thanks for any suggestions!

-Peter Demling
Lexington, MA

 

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[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder - built in help ..

[jrunrandy]

That's the first time I've heard of this problem. Please check the 
Flex 2 Developer's Guide to see if there is a Modules chapter. If so, 
it's the 2.0.1 help. Another quick way to check is to look for 
Macintosh information in the Using Flex Builder help. And finally, if 
you click the LiveDocs link at the bottom of each page, does it go to 
the flex/2/xxx URL or flex/201?

Because it was an x.0.1 release we didn't really call out the version 
number. In retrospect, that was a mistake and we won't do it again.

Regards,
Randy Nielsen
Flex Documentation Manager

RE: [flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Ely Greenfield]

 

 

Peter -

 

Took a peek at the code, and that looks to be an unfortunately bug on my
part.  Use 'calloutStroke' instead of 'dataTipCalloutStroke' style.  You
might have to set it programmatically:

 

myChart.setStyle(calloutStroke,null);

 

That should solve the problem (and in a more performant way).

 

Ely.

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Demling
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when
dataTipMode=multiple?

 

Hello,

I have a CartesianChart where I don't want the calloutStroke to be
drawn (and thereby offset the positioning of the dataTips from their
data point), so I've set dataTipCalloutStroke={null}.

This works fine when dataTipMode=single, but it does not work when I
set dataTipMode=multiple: the callout is still drawn and the
dataTips are offset. Any ideas? This is kind of a deal-breaker for
my app, since a major feature is to display my custom dataTips
directly adjacent to all (plot) data points at the same time. I
suppose I could go way-deep into concatenating the default
itemRenderer and the dataTip's custom contents into a custom
itemRenderer, but I'd rather not have to code all that internal
plumbing if I could instead do it all with this one style setting.

Thanks for any suggestions!

-Peter Demling
Lexington, MA

 

image001.jpgimage002.jpg

Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[Austin Kottke]

Not exactly as it only works for Apache and IIS - no support for other 
servers such as tomcat, resin, etc. It's definitely in the ball park, 
but needs to be supported on other servers.

If that could be worked out then runtime mxml wouldn't be a problem 
(depending on compile speed). The main thing I was thinking of is adding 
support similar to JSP/Velocity style flex apps so you can add in layout 
code without having to have someone know everything about programming 
(mainly layout code) so designer types can layout their canvas's, hboxes 
without having to know how to compile with the SDK.

Best, Austin


Giles Taylor wrote:

 Would this be what you are looking for?

 http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS 
 http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS

 Giles

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 *On Behalf Of *Austin Kottke
 *Sent:* 17 May 2007 21:09
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader 
 Can Create UIComponents

 Ely,

 I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

 It is something that if implemented could make developing in flex a 
 lot more scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot 
 more feasible. (As in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could 
 be generated through Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) A lot 
 of developers don't know a thing about flex, but can learn basic MXML 
 for layout or simple scripting and implement basic server side 
 operations. And if these are kept just as mxml it makes updates in the 
 future easier. We can then just tell someone (edit the MXML) and 
 you're done, instead of download the flex sdk, set your ant build, 
 yada ya -- some aren't programmers, but MXML is very easy to learn. 
 It's a lot more confrontable for a designer/layout guy to tackle.

 Anyway, runtime MXML would be something that would majorly increase 
 scalability and integration with servers - similar to the Apache IIS 
 mod for JSP, etc - the only problem is that it's just for Apache or 
 IIS. Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end 
 would eliminate this problem.

 Best, austin

 Ely Greenfield wrote:

 Austin et. al. –

 There are a number of features of MXML that simply can’t be
 replicated at runtime. Things like script blocks. Other features
 would be prohibitively difficult (arbitrary binding expressions,
 @Embed, mx:Component, among others). You could reduce MXML to a
 runtime-parsable subset, and I know various people have taken
 various approaches to this. The more you reduce it, the easier it
 would be to replicate…removing repeaters, implicit arrays, default
 properties, etc. would get you down to something that could be
 implemented in a reasonable amount of time.

 I’m curious…how many people would find runtime MXML to be
 important to them?

 Ely.

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Doug McCune
 *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML
 Reader Can Create UIComponents

 Yeah, ummm, my advice would be ignore that article. That's one of
 the effects of having an article submission process that allows
 anyone to submit anything. I know the cookbook is supposed to be
 user generated and reviewed, but anyone from Adobe want to
 exercise a little editorial control? I wouldn't mind the hand of
 god going in there and selectively removing a little content...
 sometimes democracy needs a helping hand.





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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Communication of data between parent and child movie.

[Tracy Spratt]

mySWFLoader.content.myProperty = myValue;

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of ivansebastiansurya
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:55 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Communication of data between parent and child
movie.

 

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, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And if loose coupling is not a key issue for you, you can simply 
access
 public members in the loaded swf using the content property of
 SWFLoader. If you are loading appliations, use SWFLoader, not 
Image.
 
 
 
 Access top level application members using Application.application.
 
 
 
 You will need to listen for the complete event of the loader and the
 APPLICATION_COMPLETE event of the loaded app before you can access
 properties via the content property:
 
 mx:SWFLoader id=ldMain progress=showProgress(event)
 width=100% height=100% 
 
 complete=onCompleteAppLoader(event)/
 
 
 
 /** runs when SWFLoader content has all downloaded */
 
 private function onCompleteAppLoader(oEvent:Event):void
 
 {
 
 var smAppLoaded:SystemManager =
 SystemManager(oEvent.target.content);
 
 smAppLoaded.addEventListener(FlexEvent.APPLICATION_COMPLETE,
 onCurrentApplicationComplete)
 
 //vbMask.visible = false;
 
 }//onCompleteAppLoader
 
 
 
 /** runs when the app loaded in the SWFLoader has completed
 initialization
 
 * and is ready for any access (applicationComplete event)
 
 */
 
 private function onCurrentApplicationComplete(oEvent:Event):void
 
 {
 
 _appLoaded = Application(oEvent.target.application);
 
 _sAppLoadedUrl = _appLoaded.url
 
 var iPosLastPathDelimiter:int = _sAppLoadedUrl.lastIndexOf
(\\);
 
 if (iPosLastPathDelimiter == -1) {
 
 iPosLastPathDelimiter = _sAppLoadedUrl.lastIndexOf(/);
 
 }
 
 _sAppLoadedName =
 _sAppLoadedUrl.substring
(iPosLastPathDelimiter+1,_sAppLoadedUrl.lastInde
 xOf(.));
 
 }//onCurrentApplicationComplete
 
 
 
 /** */
 
 public function showProgress(oEvent:Event):void
 
 {
 
 var sBytesLoaded:String = oEvent.target.bytesLoaded;
 
 var sBytesTotal:String = oEvent.target.bytesTotal;
 
 _nLoadProgress = (sBytesLoaded/sBytesTotal) * 100;
 
 lbLoading.alpha = 1/_nLoadProgress * 10;
 
 if (_nLoadProgress == 100) {
 
 lbLoading.visible = false;
 
 lbLoading.alpha = 1; 
 
 }
 
 
 
 } //showProgress
 
 
 
 Tracy
 
Hi Tracy,

Thanks for your reply. However, I have one question. How if I want 
to actually get a public property of my child application?
Say my child application has a public property called parentProp.
How can I assign values to parentProp (String type) from the parent 
application? I.e. I need to pass info from parent to child?
Thanks.

Ivan.

 

Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Richard Rodseth]

Thanks, Jon. Your example works for me, but I also need to add message
leaf elements, and exclude those from the tree.

i.e.

mx:XMLList  id=folders
  folders
  folder name=account1
   folder name=Inbox
   message name=Greetings
   /message
 /folder
  /folder
  /folders
/mx:XMLList


They're included in the data grid like so:

mx:DataGrid width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={folders..folder.(@name == 'Inbox').message}

Even though this is a mock-up, I'd like to use the same XML structure for
both controls, and see how much interactivity I can mock up just using e4x
to manipulate the XMLList object. Obviously, I will eventually have to
change the datagrid to use the selected tree node rather than the above
predicate.


On 5/18/07, Jon Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Not sure what you're really asking, how to do a nested tree? You need to
use XMLList instead of XML (I don't think it dynamically casts the
dataProvider to a XMLList if you provide it just XML).

You can swap out label with name and use the same labelField convention.

good luck,

- jon

Here's a tested example:

mx:XMLList id=myTreeData
node label=Accounts
node label=First Account
node label=Inbox
node label=Flexcoders/
node label=Flashcoders/
node label=Flashnewbie/
/node
node label=Send Items node label=Nested Tree e4x
/
/node
node label=Trash
node label=Flashnewbie/
/node
 /node
node label=Second Account node label=Inbox
node label=New Messages/
node label=Flagged Items/
node label=Attachments/
node label=All Mail/
/node
node label=Send Items
node label=Tree Data Provider with e4x/
/node
node label=Trash node label=Lame Yahoo HTML
emails/
/node
 /node
/node
/mx:XMLList


On May 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Richard Rodseth wrote:

I'm whipping up a mock-up of a UI much like a mail client (folder tree
+ data grid), using XML dummy data. I've got the rows of the data grid
populating with an e4x predicate, and I have the tree populating with
data like this:

mx:Tree x=0 y=0 width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={folders} labelField=@name showRoot=false
defaultLeafIcon=@Embed(source='Assets.swf',
symbol='TreeFolderClosed')/mx:Tree

mx:XML id=folders
folders
account name=account1
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
account name=account2
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
/folders


 

[flexcoders] Re: Does Drag Drop Only Update the DataProvider?

[Geoffrey]

I don't have the code in front of me right now, but to be more precise, 
dgEmployees is not 
broadcasting a change event upon a DD action.  I want dgEmployees to broadcast 
an 
event every time there is a change to the DataGrid.  The dgEmployees DataGrid 
has a 
change event method defined, somthing like:

code
mx:DataGrid id=dgEmployees
 dataProvider={__employees}
 change=broadcastEvent(event)
 ...
/code

The broadcastEvent() method constructs a custom event containing the number of 
elements in the DataGrid, and then dispatches it to be used elsewhere.

Now, as I type this, I see that I might have keyed off the wrong event, 
change.  Not sure if 
that is broadcast upon a change in the dataProvider, BUT  I had been working on 
this code 
previously (converting to Flex 2.0), and I believe that I saw this same issue.

I noticed that when I used the debugger to step throught the doDragDrop() 
method, I was 
seeing  that only the dataProvider was being updated, and not the 
ArrayCollection.  I can't 
verify this until Monday (5/21), but I'm almost 100% sure this is what I saw.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How do you know it didn't update __employees?
 
  
 
 Can you post a mini-example in a couple of screenfuls of text?
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Geoffrey
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:11 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Does Drag  Drop Only Update the DataProvider?
 
  
 
 I have a DataGrid that has a dataProvider bound to an ArrayCollection.
 
 code
 mx:DataGrid id=dgEmployees
 dataProvider={__employees}
 ...
 /code
 
 I also have another DataGrid (dgAllEmployees) that is within a popup,
 which I use as a source for Drag  Drop operations to populate the
 dgEmployee dataGrid.
 
 What I've noticed is that when I drag  drop employees from the all
 employees DataGrid to the employees DataGrid, it seems to only
 update the dataProvider of dgEmployees, and not the ArrayCollection
 __employees. Why is this?
 
 Below is a snip of my drag  drop code where it actually copies the
 data. This is a generic method that is used all over the application.
 code
 public static function doDragDrop( event:DragEvent ):void
 {
 // Prevent the default event from happening.
 event.preventDefault();
 
 // Get drop target
 var dropTarget:DataGrid = DataGrid(event.currentTarget);
 
 // Get the dragged items from the drag initiator.
 var dropItems:Array = event.dragSource.dataForFormat(items) as Array;
 
 // Add each item to the drop target.
 for (var i:uint = 0; i  dropItems.length; i++)
 {
 var dest:IList = IList(dropTarget.dataProvider);
 if (!contains(dest, dropItems[i]))
 {
 dest.addItem(dropItems[i]);
 }
 }
 }
 /code
 
 I think that I had event.preventDefault(); in there because it was
 putting 2 of each dropped item in the dgEmployee DataGrid. Might this
 be messing something up?
 
 Also, contains() is a custom method to compare the source items to
 what's in the target's list to prevent duplicates. Is there a better
 way to do this?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 GT

[flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Peter Demling]

Thanks for the reply, Ely!  I really appreciate your input. 

 myChart.setStyle(calloutStroke,null);

This works to hide the calloutStroke... ...but the positions of the
dataTip boxes still get offset from the chartItems (in my case, far
away from the DiamondItemRenderers of my plotSeries).  In other words,
when dataTipMode=multiple, I want the dataTip boxes to position
themselves like they do when dataTipMode=single: i.e., a few pixels
to the northeast of the chartItem.  

My real end goal is to show the all the items in the plotSeries, with
their corresponding dataTips right next to them (I'm using a high
mouseSensitivity to forcibly show multiple dataTips right now, but I
know I'll eventually have to explicitly dispatch MOUSE_OVER, or else
override findDataPoints and toggle all the showDataTips value to
false/true).

If I can't force the offset-positioning of these dataTips in order to
align nicely with their chartItems, do you think I need to use a
custom ItemRenderer instead?  Your StoplightItemRenderer example at
qs* is quite helpful in this regard, but I can't figure out how I'd
also draw text values from the chartItem adjacent to the
DiamondItemRenderer (e.g., Smith,John (age 30) adjacent to the
diamond graphic).

Thanks again for any suggestions; believe me, little bumps in the road
like this don't take away from the enormous benefit this charting API
has already been for us.

Regards,
-Peter Demling
 Lexington, MA

*is quietlyScheming.com down?  I lost connection this morning...

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
 
  
 
 Peter -
 
  
 
 Took a peek at the code, and that looks to be an unfortunately bug on my
 part.  Use 'calloutStroke' instead of 'dataTipCalloutStroke' style.  You
 might have to set it programmatically:
 
  
 
 myChart.setStyle(calloutStroke,null);
 
  
 
 That should solve the problem (and in a more performant way).
 
  
 
 Ely.
 
  
 
  
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Peter Demling
 Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when
 dataTipMode=multiple?
 
  
 
 Hello,
 
 I have a CartesianChart where I don't want the calloutStroke to be
 drawn (and thereby offset the positioning of the dataTips from their
 data point), so I've set dataTipCalloutStroke={null}.
 
 This works fine when dataTipMode=single, but it does not work when I
 set dataTipMode=multiple: the callout is still drawn and the
 dataTips are offset. Any ideas? This is kind of a deal-breaker for
 my app, since a major feature is to display my custom dataTips
 directly adjacent to all (plot) data points at the same time. I
 suppose I could go way-deep into concatenating the default
 itemRenderer and the dataTip's custom contents into a custom
 itemRenderer, but I'd rather not have to code all that internal
 plumbing if I could instead do it all with this one style setting.
 
 Thanks for any suggestions!
 
 -Peter Demling
 Lexington, MA

Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Jon Bradley]

Ah, I see what you mean.

Tracy - yea, i realized my goof on that one after I sent the message  
(XML and XMLList are interchangeable for Tree). Thanks for keeping me  
in check. :)


Try the isBranch attribute for folders that you do not want the tree  
to display. Then you can write a custom renderer for leaf nodes –  
the tree will treat nodes with the isBranch flag set to false as leaf  
nodes.


This shouldn't cause any problems with your datagrid.

Example as follows:

mx:XMLList id=treeData
folder label=Accounts
folder label=First Account
folder label=Inbox isBranch=false
message label=Flexcoders/
message label=Flashcoders/
message label=Flashnewbie/
/folder
folder label=Send Items isBranch=false
message label=Nested Tree e4x/
/folder
folder label=Trash isBranch=false
message label=Flashnewbie/
/folder
/folder 
folder label=Second Account
folder label=Inbox isBranch=false
message label=New Messages/
message label=Flagged Items/
message label=Attachments/
message label=All Mail/
/folder
folder label=Send Items isBranch=false
message label=Tree Data Provider with e4x/
/folder
folder label=Trash isBranch=false
message label=Lame Yahoo HTML emails/
/folder
/folder 
/folder 
/mx:XMLList


On May 18, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Richard Rodseth wrote:

Thanks, Jon. Your example works for me, but I also need to add  
message leaf elements, and exclude those from the tree.


i.e.

mx:XMLList  id=folders
   folders
   folder name=account1
folder name=Inbox
message name=Greetings
/message
  /folder
   /folder
   /folders
/mx:XMLList

[flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Matt]

That actually does fix it...shouldn't I be able to add and remove
without having to write work-arounds for bugs in Flex though?

If I wanted that kind of development experience I'd go back to writing
HTML and JavaScript. ;)

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Trice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components.  That is
 the root of your problem.  I bet it you took those off, you wouldn't get
 the error anymore.  In my experience with Flex, I've noticed that the
 child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when the effect
 has completed).  There is a synchronization issue that occurs while the
 effect is playing.
 
  
 
 Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually causes errors
 very similar to what you are experiencing.  If you are adding another
 child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished playing.  Hope
 that helps.
 
  
 
 -Andy
 
  
 
 _
 
 Andrew Trice
 
 Technical Lead
 
  
 
 Cynergy Systems, Inc.
 
 http://www.cynergysystems.com
 
  
 
 Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice
 
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Office: 866-CYNERGY 
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Matt Wicks
 Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken
 
  
 
 I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of it but I
 found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ? 
 
 On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:
 
 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
 at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
 at
 mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
 http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
 com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
 at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
 at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
 at Function/http://adobe. http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
 com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
 at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
 at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
 at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
 at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()
 
 Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
 (internally addChild calls addChildAt).
 
 --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 ups.com, Matt matt@ wrote:
 
  I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
  few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
  when I approach something close to stability is this error:
  
  RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
  
  This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
  support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
  components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
  particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
  time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
  the same message over and over.
  
  I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
  SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
  windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
  problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
  selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
  happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
  same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
  indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
  SystemManager container again.
  
  Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
  and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?
 

[flexcoders] A couple questions on Tree controls

[Dan Dobbs]

Hi folks, I've just started playing around with a Tree control and was 
wondering if it's possible to NOT display the arrow graphic (that 
identifies that an item has children) or to replace it with another 
image/symbol? I've tweaked the opening/closing functionality to 
open/close upon clicking of the entire item so funcitonality stays 
intact.

Also I've been able to replace the icons with custom symbols but I need 
to replace certain folders that are several levels deep with varying 
symbols. The example in the Help shows replacing individual icons like 
so:

myTree.setItemIcon(myTree.dataProvider.getItemAt(2), iconSymbol1, 
iconSymbol1);

this line changes index 2 on the main level but I'm not sure how to 
reference a deeper level item in the dataProvider. Does anyone know how 
to go about this?

RE: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Tracy Spratt]

XML works fine with tree.  The xml methods dispatch the necessary events
to sync the display with the xml changes.

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Bradley
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:32 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements  tree data provider

 

Not sure what you're really asking, how to do a nested tree? You need to
use XMLList instead of XML (I don't think it dynamically casts the
dataProvider to a XMLList if you provide it just XML).

 

You can swap out label with name and use the same labelField convention.

 

good luck,

 

- jon

 

Here's a tested example:

 

mx:XMLList id=myTreeData

node label=Accounts

node label=First Account

node label=Inbox

node label=Flexcoders/

node label=Flashcoders/

node label=Flashnewbie/

/node

node label=Send Items

node label=Nested Tree e4x/

/node

node label=Trash

node label=Flashnewbie/

/node

/node

node label=Second Account

node label=Inbox

node label=New Messages/

node label=Flagged Items/

node label=Attachments/

node label=All Mail/

/node

node label=Send Items

node label=Tree Data Provider with e4x/

/node

node label=Trash

node label=Lame Yahoo HTML emails/

/node

/node

   /node

/mx:XMLList

 

 

On May 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Richard Rodseth wrote:





I'm whipping up a mock-up of a UI much like a mail client (folder tree
+ data grid), using XML dummy data. I've got the rows of the data grid
populating with an e4x predicate, and I have the tree populating with
data like this:

mx:Tree x=0 y=0 width=100% height=100%
dataProvider={folders} labelField=@name showRoot=false
defaultLeafIcon=@Embed(source='Assets.swf',
symbol='TreeFolderClosed')/mx:Tree

mx:XML id=folders
folders
account name=account1
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
account name=account2
folder name=Inbox
/folder
folder name=Sent Items
/folder
/account
/folders

 

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Ely Greenfield]

 

 

DataTips were really written to be interactive tips, while a lot of
people have asked for functionality that allows you to treat them more
like labels. We hear the request, and are considering ways to update it
for a future release.

 

If I wanted to put labels on the plot items, I'd probably, in increasing
order of difficulty: 

 

1)  Use the data graphics drawing API (see the post on my blog).
Pro: very easy.  Con:  less performant.

2)  Write a custom item renderer. Pro:  more performant, leverages
existing plot series. Con: axes won't automatically make sure there's
enough room for the labels.

3)  Write a custom series (or extension to plot series).  Pro:  best
performance option, best experience (can make the chart axes make room
for labels).  Con:  requires understanding writing custom series.

 

 

Personally, I'd suggest taking a shot at #3.  Writing a custom series
really isn't all that difficult, esp. for a plot series, which is the
simplest kind.  I'd probably try this:

 

1)  Extend PlotSeries.

2)  In the constructor for your extension, create a UIComponent and
addChild it. This will be the sprite that will contain your labels.

3)  Override the get labelLayer property, and return a reference to
that UIComponent.  This makes sure the chart adds it to your display,
above all the series, so labels don't appear under items.

4)  Override updateDisplayList.  First call the super.  Second, for
each chart item in the renderData.filteredCache array, create a Label
(or some custom component), position it where you want relative to the
x/y values in the chart item, and add it as a child to your labelLayer.

5)  Override describeData. This is the method where you tell the
axes what range your data represents.  You also have the option of
telling the series that you need a certain number of pixels on either
size of your data.  You'll want to report to the axis that you need
space to the right of your data for the label.  See the ASDoc for
describeData for more details.

6)  Optimize.  Reuse your labels in your updateDisplayList function,
etc.

7)  Deal with transitions, if you want.  Eearlier I said that in
updateDisplayList, you want to look at the renderData.filteredCache
array. With transitions, it's a little more complicated.  You might have
a transitionRenderData property, in which case you want to use that.
Your transition render data property might have an elementBounds array,
in which case you want to use that instead.  Honestly, in my experience,
it's better to hide labels during transitions, so probably you just want
to see if you have a transitionRenderData value, and hide all your
labels if you do.  See PlotSeries.updateDisplayList for an example of
how to deal with transitions and render data.

 

Ely.

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Demling
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:15 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when
dataTipMode=multiple?

 

Thanks for the reply, Ely! I really appreciate your input. 

 myChart.setStyle(calloutStroke,null);

This works to hide the calloutStroke... ...but the positions of the
dataTip boxes still get offset from the chartItems (in my case, far
away from the DiamondItemRenderers of my plotSeries). In other words,
when dataTipMode=multiple, I want the dataTip boxes to position
themselves like they do when dataTipMode=single: i.e., a few pixels
to the northeast of the chartItem. 

My real end goal is to show the all the items in the plotSeries, with
their corresponding dataTips right next to them (I'm using a high
mouseSensitivity to forcibly show multiple dataTips right now, but I
know I'll eventually have to explicitly dispatch MOUSE_OVER, or else
override findDataPoints and toggle all the showDataTips value to
false/true).

If I can't force the offset-positioning of these dataTips in order to
align nicely with their chartItems, do you think I need to use a
custom ItemRenderer instead? Your StoplightItemRenderer example at
qs* is quite helpful in this regard, but I can't figure out how I'd
also draw text values from the chartItem adjacent to the
DiamondItemRenderer (e.g., Smith,John (age 30) adjacent to the
diamond graphic).

Thanks again for any suggestions; believe me, little bumps in the road
like this don't take away from the enormous benefit this charting API
has already been for us.

Regards,
-Peter Demling
Lexington, MA

*is quietlyScheming.com down? I lost connection this morning...

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
 
 
 Peter -
 
 
 
 Took a peek at the code, and that looks to be an unfortunately bug on
my
 part. Use 'calloutStroke' instead of 'dataTipCalloutStroke' style. You
 might have to set it programmatically:
 
 
 
 myChart.setStyle(calloutStroke,null);
 
 
 
 That should solve the problem (and in a more 

[flexcoders] Flex help

[sunitaleena]

Hi, 

I am having this problem . I am trying to call this function from a
button' s click event. The function is like this:
public function Insert():void {
myResult.deleteorder(orderid);

for (var i:int = 0; i  myData.length; i++ ) {

  var newProduct:Product = myData[i]  ;
   
   myService.insertsp( newProduct ) ;
   }//end for loop

 var uv:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
  var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest
(OrderReview.html);
  uv.ordern = lblordern.text;
request.data=uv;
 navigateToURL(request,_self); 

}

When I was testing with 2 or 4 records it was working fine. Now I am 
testing with real data. It just doesn't work . This doesn't wait for 
the for loop to be finished completely and starts processing the 
other steps. I want the other steps to be processed after the loop is 
done. Please help. Is there some wait command in Flex? I am a new 
bee..

Thanks in advance.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[hank williams]

On 5/18/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  That actually does fix it...shouldn't I be able to add and remove
without having to write work-arounds for bugs in Flex though?







Of course... we should outlaw bugs :)

Hank

If I wanted that kind of development experience I'd go back to writing

HTML and JavaScript. ;)

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Andrew
Trice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components. That is
 the root of your problem. I bet it you took those off, you wouldn't get
 the error anymore. In my experience with Flex, I've noticed that the
 child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when the effect
 has completed). There is a synchronization issue that occurs while the
 effect is playing.



 Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually causes errors
 very similar to what you are experiencing. If you are adding another
 child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished playing. Hope
 that helps.



 -Andy



 _

 Andrew Trice

 Technical Lead



 Cynergy Systems, Inc.

 http://www.cynergysystems.com



 Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice

 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Office: 866-CYNERGY



 

 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] On
 Behalf Of Matt Wicks
 Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken



 I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of it but I
 found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ?

 On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:





 The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:

 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
 at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
 at
 mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
 http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
 com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
 at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
 at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
 at Function/http://adobe. http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
 com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
 at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
 at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
 at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
 at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

 Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
 (internally addChild calls addChildAt).

 --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders% flexcoders%25
40yahoogroups.com

 ups.com, Matt matt@ wrote:
 
  I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
  few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my face
  when I approach something close to stability is this error:
 
  RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
 
  This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
  support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
  components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
  particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then any
  time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it throws
  the same message over and over.
 
  I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
  SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
  windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically a
  problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
  selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended up
  happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
  same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
  indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
  SystemManager container again.
 
  Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known bug
  and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing it?
 


 

RE: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

[Alex Harui]

All List controls rip off the background of the renderers by blocking
the CSS background styles in the main component.  We do this so the
selection and rollover highlights show through.  You can modify the
renderer to pick up the appropriate background styles, but then you may
block viewing of the selection and rollover.  There's a way to get
around that too.  There's an example on my blog.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Bradley
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:19 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

 

I'm trying to skin up the TileList component and am not having the 
best of luck - aside from just changing colors and whatnot.

Has anyone succeeded in using skins through CSS to style the TileList 
component? Specifically, I have a background skin that I'm trying to 
use for the normal background state, roll over, and selected states.

When you have a custom item renderer for the TileList, does it 
override any settings you make for the component? I even imported my 
CSS styles into the itemRenderer that I created and applied the style 
to VBox components in there - that doesn't take unless I put another 
nested VBox inside (but then I don't have all the states available).

Since I'm creating a pretty custom item renderer with various 
elements, should I just be importing these skins directly into the 
itemRenderer and handling it from there?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

cheers,

jon

 

[flexcoders] star (*) data type vs. Object

[Adam Pasztory]

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between setting a generic
variable's data type to Object and setting it to *.  Are they equivalent?

I tried to search for the answer, but it's hard to do a search for *. :)

thanks,
Adam

RE: [flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

[Alex Harui]

dataTipFunction should be the answer, but I don't get what you are doing
in the loop.   Can you give more detail of what you are trying to
accomplish?

 

-Alex

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:47 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

 

Hi all, my name is James Wilson, I am a flex programmer in the atlanta
area, new to the list.

On a datagrid, I'd like to display more information about the item the
user is hovering over in a tooltip, but I want to get this information
(a fair bit) dynamically based on a case number/id from the datagrid
item that is being hovered over.

The best way I can think of is to do a loop in the dataTipFunction:

public function myDataTipFunction(e:HitData):String 
{

while(httpService.lastResult == null){}
//return tooltip based on result.
}

Surely there is a better way.

Thanks everyone. Nice to meet you all. :)

James Wilson

 

[flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Peter Demling]

Thanks for the details on the options, especially #3.

 1) Use the data graphics drawing API (see the post on my blog).

Excellent; I'll start with this (I need to demo a proof-of-concept
this weekend).  QuietlyScheming is still refusing my connection,
though (it must know I want to do unsavory things with dataTips).

 2) Write a custom item renderer

Once I'm in updateDisplayList() and I have access to the _ChartItem,
is it possible to then output the contents of a data field from the
item (e.g. _ChartItem.hitData.item.NAME in a Label to output
Smith,John via addChild() or something), or is it restricted to pure
Graphics drawing methods?

 3) Write a custom series (or extension to plot series)

I like that as my eventual solution; and assuming that the answer to
the above question is no, I assume this would be the only way to
embed data provider fields (e.g. Smith,John from the ChartItem) into
the ItemRenderer?

thanks again,
-Peter Demling
 Lexington, MA


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
 
  
 
 DataTips were really written to be interactive tips, while a lot of
 people have asked for functionality that allows you to treat them more
 like labels. We hear the request, and are considering ways to update it
 for a future release.
 
  
 
 If I wanted to put labels on the plot items, I'd probably, in increasing
 order of difficulty: 
 
  
 
 1)  Use the data graphics drawing API (see the post on my blog).
 Pro: very easy.  Con:  less performant.
 
 2)  Write a custom item renderer. Pro:  more performant, leverages
 existing plot series. Con: axes won't automatically make sure there's
 enough room for the labels.
 
 3)  Write a custom series (or extension to plot series).  Pro:  best
 performance option, best experience (can make the chart axes make room
 for labels).  Con:  requires understanding writing custom series.
 
  
 
  
 
 Personally, I'd suggest taking a shot at #3.  Writing a custom series
 really isn't all that difficult, esp. for a plot series, which is the
 simplest kind.  I'd probably try this:
 
  
 
 1)  Extend PlotSeries.
 
 2)  In the constructor for your extension, create a UIComponent and
 addChild it. This will be the sprite that will contain your labels.
 
 3)  Override the get labelLayer property, and return a reference to
 that UIComponent.  This makes sure the chart adds it to your display,
 above all the series, so labels don't appear under items.
 
 4)  Override updateDisplayList.  First call the super.  Second, for
 each chart item in the renderData.filteredCache array, create a Label
 (or some custom component), position it where you want relative to the
 x/y values in the chart item, and add it as a child to your labelLayer.
 
 5)  Override describeData. This is the method where you tell the
 axes what range your data represents.  You also have the option of
 telling the series that you need a certain number of pixels on either
 size of your data.  You'll want to report to the axis that you need
 space to the right of your data for the label.  See the ASDoc for
 describeData for more details.
 
 6)  Optimize.  Reuse your labels in your updateDisplayList function,
 etc.
 
 7)  Deal with transitions, if you want.  Eearlier I said that in
 updateDisplayList, you want to look at the renderData.filteredCache
 array. With transitions, it's a little more complicated.  You might have
 a transitionRenderData property, in which case you want to use that.
 Your transition render data property might have an elementBounds array,
 in which case you want to use that instead.  Honestly, in my experience,
 it's better to hide labels during transitions, so probably you just want
 to see if you have a transitionRenderData value, and hide all your
 labels if you do.  See PlotSeries.updateDisplayList for an example of
 how to deal with transitions and render data.
 
  
 
 Ely.

RE: [flexcoders] Flex help

[Alex Harui]

Flex/Flash is single-threaded.  The loop has to complete before moving
on to the URLVariables code.  I'd double check to see if the data.length
is what you expect

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of sunitaleena
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:22 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex help

 

Hi, 

I am having this problem . I am trying to call this function from a
button' s click event. The function is like this:
public function Insert():void {
myResult.deleteorder(orderid);

for (var i:int = 0; i  myData.length; i++ ) {

var newProduct:Product = myData[i] ;

myService.insertsp( newProduct ) ;
}//end for loop

var uv:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest
(OrderReview.html);
uv.ordern = lblordern.text;
request.data=uv;
navigateToURL(request,_self); 

}

When I was testing with 2 or 4 records it was working fine. Now I am 
testing with real data. It just doesn't work . This doesn't wait for 
the for loop to be finished completely and starts processing the 
other steps. I want the other steps to be processed after the loop is 
done. Please help. Is there some wait command in Flex? I am a new 
bee..

Thanks in advance.



 

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Michael Schmalle]

Maybe things like trying to shift into another gear without the clutch in
factors into this equation as well.

You didn't show any code, so I don't know if you are trying to brute force
something that in the design of the framework was not a bug to begin with
but an implementation.

Peace, Mike

On 5/18/07, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




On 5/18/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   That actually does fix it...shouldn't I be able to add and remove
 without having to write work-arounds for bugs in Flex though?






Of course... we should outlaw bugs :)

Hank

 If I wanted that kind of development experience I'd go back to writing
 HTML and JavaScript. ;)

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 Andrew Trice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components. That is
  the root of your problem. I bet it you took those off, you wouldn't
 get
  the error anymore. In my experience with Flex, I've noticed that the
  child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when the effect
  has completed). There is a synchronization issue that occurs while the
  effect is playing.
 
 
 
  Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually causes errors
  very similar to what you are experiencing. If you are adding another
  child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished playing.
 Hope
  that helps.
 
 
 
  -Andy
 
 
 
  _
 
  Andrew Trice
 
  Technical Lead
 
 
 
  Cynergy Systems, Inc.
 
  http://www.cynergysystems.com
 
 
 
  Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice
 
  Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  Office: 866-CYNERGY
 
 
 
  
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.comflexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]
 On
  Behalf Of Matt Wicks
  Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken
 
 
 
  I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of it but I
  found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ?
 
  On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
  The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:
 
  RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
  at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
  at
  mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
  http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
  com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
  at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
  at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
  at Function/http://adobe.  http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
  com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
  at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
  at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
  at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
  at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()
 
  Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
  (internally addChild calls addChildAt).
 
  --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders% flexcoders%25
 40yahoogroups.com

  ups.com, Matt matt@ wrote:
  
   I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found quite a
   few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my
 face
   when I approach something close to stability is this error:
  
   RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
  
   This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
   support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
   components to a container this shows its ugly head. What makes this
   particularly scary is that the error message appears once and then
 any
   time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it
 throws
   the same message over and over.
  
   I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
   SystemManager container and created a work-around to pre-instantiate
   windows and just keep them hidden until needed. It was specifically
 a
   problem when I would use the popup manager to display a menu and the
   selection of a menu option would then display a window. What ended
 up
   happening was that the window would be created and popped up at the
   same time the popup was being removed and it would get its internal
   indexing off it would seem and never could you do anything to the
   SystemManager container again.
  
   Is there a way to add and remove items safely or is this a known
 bug
   and one I just have to live with until Adobe gets around to fixing
 it?
  
 


 





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Blog - Flex2Components
http://www.flex2components.com

You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'.

RE: [flexcoders] Flex help

[Tracy Spratt]

Data service calls are asynchronous and do not block code execution.

 

Use the AsyncToken to track the data service calls, and a result handler
function to invoke rest of the code when all of the calls have returned.

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of sunitaleena
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:22 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex help

 

Hi, 

I am having this problem . I am trying to call this function from a
button' s click event. The function is like this:
public function Insert():void {
myResult.deleteorder(orderid);

for (var i:int = 0; i  myData.length; i++ ) {

var newProduct:Product = myData[i] ;

myService.insertsp( newProduct ) ;
}//end for loop

var uv:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest
(OrderReview.html);
uv.ordern = lblordern.text;
request.data=uv;
navigateToURL(request,_self); 

}

When I was testing with 2 or 4 records it was working fine. Now I am 
testing with real data. It just doesn't work . This doesn't wait for 
the for loop to be finished completely and starts processing the 
other steps. I want the other steps to be processed after the loop is 
done. Please help. Is there some wait command in Flex? I am a new 
bee..

Thanks in advance.



 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Does Drag Drop Only Update the DataProvider?

[Alex Harui]

Mx:DataGrid's change event is for when selection changes, not when the
collection changes.  Could that be the issue?  collectionChange may be
what you want.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Geoffrey
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:12 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Does Drag  Drop Only Update the DataProvider?

 

I don't have the code in front of me right now, but to be more precise,
dgEmployees is not 
broadcasting a change event upon a DD action. I want dgEmployees to
broadcast an 
event every time there is a change to the DataGrid. The dgEmployees
DataGrid has a 
change event method defined, somthing like:

code
mx:DataGrid id=dgEmployees
dataProvider={__employees}
change=broadcastEvent(event)
...
/code

The broadcastEvent() method constructs a custom event containing the
number of 
elements in the DataGrid, and then dispatches it to be used elsewhere.

Now, as I type this, I see that I might have keyed off the wrong event,
change. Not sure if 
that is broadcast upon a change in the dataProvider, BUT I had been
working on this code 
previously (converting to Flex 2.0), and I believe that I saw this same
issue.

I noticed that when I used the debugger to step throught the
doDragDrop() method, I was 
seeing that only the dataProvider was being updated, and not the
ArrayCollection. I can't 
verify this until Monday (5/21), but I'm almost 100% sure this is what I
saw.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How do you know it didn't update __employees?
 
 
 
 Can you post a mini-example in a couple of screenfuls of text?
 
 
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
] On
 Behalf Of Geoffrey
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 6:11 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
 Subject: [flexcoders] Does Drag  Drop Only Update the DataProvider?
 
 
 
 I have a DataGrid that has a dataProvider bound to an ArrayCollection.
 
 code
 mx:DataGrid id=dgEmployees
 dataProvider={__employees}
 ...
 /code
 
 I also have another DataGrid (dgAllEmployees) that is within a popup,
 which I use as a source for Drag  Drop operations to populate the
 dgEmployee dataGrid.
 
 What I've noticed is that when I drag  drop employees from the all
 employees DataGrid to the employees DataGrid, it seems to only
 update the dataProvider of dgEmployees, and not the ArrayCollection
 __employees. Why is this?
 
 Below is a snip of my drag  drop code where it actually copies the
 data. This is a generic method that is used all over the application.
 code
 public static function doDragDrop( event:DragEvent ):void
 {
 // Prevent the default event from happening.
 event.preventDefault();
 
 // Get drop target
 var dropTarget:DataGrid = DataGrid(event.currentTarget);
 
 // Get the dragged items from the drag initiator.
 var dropItems:Array = event.dragSource.dataForFormat(items) as
Array;
 
 // Add each item to the drop target.
 for (var i:uint = 0; i  dropItems.length; i++)
 {
 var dest:IList = IList(dropTarget.dataProvider);
 if (!contains(dest, dropItems[i]))
 {
 dest.addItem(dropItems[i]);
 }
 }
 }
 /code
 
 I think that I had event.preventDefault(); in there because it was
 putting 2 of each dropped item in the dgEmployee DataGrid. Might this
 be messing something up?
 
 Also, contains() is a custom method to compare the source items to
 what's in the target's list to prevent duplicates. Is there a better
 way to do this?
 
 Thanks in advance.
 GT


 

RE: [flexcoders] TextArea: Halo skin draws over top of child controls!

[Alex Harui]

TextArea doesn't really expect children other than its border and
scrollbars.  If you add another child, you have to figure out when and
how to set the z-order by using setChildIndex or getting the index right
on addChildAt, and correctly report the measured width/height including
the child.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Ingram
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:21 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] TextArea: Halo skin draws over top of child
controls!

 

Hi, I have a Text Area with a child control embedded in it. Even though
the child control was added last, the halo skin still gets drawn on top
of everything. Which looks odd! Is there any way I can stop this?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when dataTipMode=multiple?

[Ely Greenfield]

 

 

Hmmm...seems to be down right now.  I'll send you're the code directly.

 

Ely.

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Demling
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:43 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Setting dataTipCalloutStroke={null} when
dataTipMode=multiple?

 

Thanks for the details on the options, especially #3.

 1) Use the data graphics drawing API (see the post on my blog).

Excellent; I'll start with this (I need to demo a proof-of-concept
this weekend). QuietlyScheming is still refusing my connection,
though (it must know I want to do unsavory things with dataTips).

 2) Write a custom item renderer

Once I'm in updateDisplayList() and I have access to the _ChartItem,
is it possible to then output the contents of a data field from the
item (e.g. _ChartItem.hitData.item.NAME in a Label to output
Smith,John via addChild() or something), or is it restricted to pure
Graphics drawing methods?

 3) Write a custom series (or extension to plot series)

I like that as my eventual solution; and assuming that the answer to
the above question is no, I assume this would be the only way to
embed data provider fields (e.g. Smith,John from the ChartItem) into
the ItemRenderer?

thanks again,
-Peter Demling
Lexington, MA

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
 
 
 DataTips were really written to be interactive tips, while a lot of
 people have asked for functionality that allows you to treat them more
 like labels. We hear the request, and are considering ways to update
it
 for a future release.
 
 
 
 If I wanted to put labels on the plot items, I'd probably, in
increasing
 order of difficulty: 
 
 
 
 1) Use the data graphics drawing API (see the post on my blog).
 Pro: very easy. Con: less performant.
 
 2) Write a custom item renderer. Pro: more performant, leverages
 existing plot series. Con: axes won't automatically make sure there's
 enough room for the labels.
 
 3) Write a custom series (or extension to plot series). Pro: best
 performance option, best experience (can make the chart axes make room
 for labels). Con: requires understanding writing custom series.
 
 
 
 
 
 Personally, I'd suggest taking a shot at #3. Writing a custom series
 really isn't all that difficult, esp. for a plot series, which is the
 simplest kind. I'd probably try this:
 
 
 
 1) Extend PlotSeries.
 
 2) In the constructor for your extension, create a UIComponent and
 addChild it. This will be the sprite that will contain your labels.
 
 3) Override the get labelLayer property, and return a reference to
 that UIComponent. This makes sure the chart adds it to your display,
 above all the series, so labels don't appear under items.
 
 4) Override updateDisplayList. First call the super. Second, for
 each chart item in the renderData.filteredCache array, create a Label
 (or some custom component), position it where you want relative to the
 x/y values in the chart item, and add it as a child to your
labelLayer.
 
 5) Override describeData. This is the method where you tell the
 axes what range your data represents. You also have the option of
 telling the series that you need a certain number of pixels on either
 size of your data. You'll want to report to the axis that you need
 space to the right of your data for the label. See the ASDoc for
 describeData for more details.
 
 6) Optimize. Reuse your labels in your updateDisplayList function,
 etc.
 
 7) Deal with transitions, if you want. Eearlier I said that in
 updateDisplayList, you want to look at the renderData.filteredCache
 array. With transitions, it's a little more complicated. You might
have
 a transitionRenderData property, in which case you want to use that.
 Your transition render data property might have an elementBounds
array,
 in which case you want to use that instead. Honestly, in my
experience,
 it's better to hide labels during transitions, so probably you just
want
 to see if you have a transitionRenderData value, and hide all your
 labels if you do. See PlotSeries.updateDisplayList for an example of
 how to deal with transitions and render data.
 
 
 
 Ely.

 

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RE: [flexcoders] star (*) data type vs. Object

[Peter Farland]

See:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/specialTypes.html#*
 
The type * is just like Object but it can also store values that are
undefined. Object can only store null.

It's useful to determine whether a dynamic property actually exists on a
type and just happens to be null, or whether it literally is not defined
on that type.



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Adam Pasztory
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:42 PM
To: flexcoders
Subject: [flexcoders] star (*) data type vs. Object



Can anyone tell me what the difference is between setting a generic
variable's data type to Object and setting it to *.  Are they
equivalent? 

I tried to search for the answer, but it's hard to do a search for *. :)


thanks,
Adam


 

Re: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

[Jon Bradley]

Woa... great overview you have on itemRenderers on your blog.

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out what demo you were referring to  
that solves these problems.


Could you post a direct link (or email it to me)?

thanks a ton!

- jon


On May 18, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Alex Harui wrote:

All List controls rip off the background of the renderers by  
blocking the CSS background styles in the main component.  We do  
this so the selection and rollover highlights show through.  You  
can modify the renderer to pick up the appropriate background  
styles, but then you may block viewing of the selection and  
rollover.  There’s a way to get around that too.  There’s an  
example on my blog.

Re: [flexcoders] zoom for buttons in ButtonBar

[Joan Tan]

The individual buttons on a ButtonBar are children of the ButtonBar.
Therefore, you would play a Zoom effect specifying a child as the target.
Here is an example:

 mx:Zoom id=myZoom /
mx:ButtonBar id=bb horizontalGap=5 itemClick=clickHandler(event);
mx:dataProvidermx:Array
mx:StringFlash/mx:String
mx:StringDirector/mx:String
mx:StringDreamweaver/mx:String
mx:StringColdFusion/mx:String/mx:Array
/mx:dataProvider /mx:ButtonBar mx:Button label=play effect
click=myZoom.play([bb.getChildAt(1)]) /

If you want to play an effect on the click on one of the buttons, you can
also use the relatedObject property of the itemClick. For example, using the
ButtonBar above, you might have:
 private function clickHandler(event:ItemClickEvent):void {
myZoom.play([event.relatedObject]);}

Good luck,
Joan

On 5/17/07 9:43 PM, chen_saraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
  
  
 
 Hi,
 I'm kind of new to Flex :)
 What would be the way to show zoom effect on buttons contains withing
 ButtonBar?
 Thanks,
 Ken
 
  
 

Re: [flexcoders] Hide scrollbar on Horizontal List in Flex2

[Joan Tan]

Set horizontalScrollPolicy=²off² on your HorizontalList.

Joan


On 5/17/07 3:12 PM, mondainx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
  
  
 
 I have a horizontal list and I want to hide the scrollbar, since I use
 buttons/images to scroll left or right. How do I go about doing this?
 
 Paul
 

Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

[John Robinson]

For the archives, compile times can be greatly reduced using fcsh,  
though I'm not sure how you'd go about using it in a server-side  
environment.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Compiler_Shell

John

On May 17, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Paul J DeCoursey wrote:

 You can easily integrate a compile on demand system using the Flex SDK
 and Tomcat.  The problem is the compilers are not very fast.  I'm
 guessing that the Apache/IIS module does some caching so that compiles
 run faster because they don't have to reload large libraries each  
 time.
 Once the compiler is opened up a little more you should be able to
 implement this kind of thing.

 Austin Kottke wrote:
 Ely,

 I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable.

 It is something that if implemented could make developing in flex  
 a lot
 more scaleable and integration with the server end would be a lot  
 more
 feasible. (As in doing HTTPRequests where serverside MXML could be
 generated through Velocity/JSP and then given back to the ui) A  
 lot of
 developers don't know a thing about flex, but can learn basic MXML  
 for
 layout or simple scripting and implement basic server side  
 operations.
 And if these are kept just as mxml it makes updates in the future
 easier. We can then just tell someone (edit the MXML) and you're  
 done,
 instead of download the flex sdk, set your ant build, yada ya --  
 some
 aren't programmers, but MXML is very easy to learn. It's a lot more
 confrontable for a designer/layout guy to tackle.

 Anyway, runtime MXML would be something that would majorly increase
 scalability and integration with servers - similar to the Apache  
 IIS mod
 for JSP, etc - the only problem is that it's just for Apache or IIS.
 Some run tomcat, resin, etc. But having it on the client end would
 eliminate this problem.

 Best, austin

 Ely Greenfield wrote:

 Austin et. al. –

 There are a number of features of MXML that simply can’t be  
 replicated
 at runtime. Things like script blocks. Other features would be
 prohibitively difficult (arbitrary binding expressions, @Embed,
 mx:Component, among others). You could reduce MXML to a
 runtime-parsable subset, and I know various people have taken  
 various
 approaches to this. The more you reduce it, the easier it would  
 be to
 replicate…removing repeaters, implicit arrays, default properties,
 etc. would get you down to something that could be implemented in a
 reasonable amount of time.

 I’m curious…how many people would find runtime MXML to be  
 important to
 them?

 Ely.

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *On Behalf Of *Doug McCune
 *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:47 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader
 Can Create UIComponents

 Yeah, ummm, my advice would be ignore that article. That's one of  
 the
 effects of having an article submission process that allows  
 anyone to
 submit anything. I know the cookbook is supposed to be user  
 generated
 and reviewed, but anyone from Adobe want to exercise a little
 editorial control? I wouldn't mind the hand of god going in there  
 and
 selectively removing a little content... sometimes democracy needs a
 helping hand.

 On 5/17/07, *Daniel Freiman* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists. The
 sentence We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime  
 because
 the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects doesn't
 inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about. Since
 it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also
 possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't
 understand that they're doing it. Then again, that wouldn't explain
 what they're fighting with another company about earlier in the  
 article.

 They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd either
 search them or not worry about it. My guess is you'd be searching a
 long time for something that isn't there. It would be nice if  
 someone
 could prove my guess wrong though.

 Dan Freiman
 nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com

 On 5/17/07, *Austin Kottke* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe  
 site
 about
 reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create  
 components
 at runtime. While
 I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples, but
 very vague actually, but it states:

 Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to  
 leverage
 reuse within the Flex2 programming model.

 Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate  
 the wheel
 in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I  
 would
 surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that was
 able to read MXML into a way to read XML.

 As we know, MXML resembles XML rather 

[flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Matt]

It's pretty straight-forward to reproduce.  Just do something like:

container.removeChild(c1);
container.removeChild(c2);
container.removeChild(c3);
container.addChild(c4);
container.addChild(c5);
container.addChild(c6);

Just make sure that the components have addedEffects and
removedEffects on them and you'll see the handy-dandy evil error
message. :)

I think the only way I can manage this is to have a utility method
that I call to add and remove components from a container and if the
component has a removedEffect then it queues it up and waits for the
removedEvent to finish before going on with removals. It just seems
like Flex should already be doing that internally instead of partially
removing it, but not really.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Michael Schmalle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Maybe things like trying to shift into another gear without the
clutch in
 factors into this equation as well.
 
 You didn't show any code, so I don't know if you are trying to brute
force
 something that in the design of the framework was not a bug to begin
with
 but an implementation.
 
 Peace, Mike
 
 On 5/18/07, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  On 5/18/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
 That actually does fix it...shouldn't I be able to add and remove
   without having to write work-arounds for bugs in Flex though?
  
 
 
 
 
 
  Of course... we should outlaw bugs :)
 
  Hank
 
   If I wanted that kind of development experience I'd go back to
writing
   HTML and JavaScript. ;)
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
   Andrew Trice andrew.trice@
   wrote:
   
I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components.
That is
the root of your problem. I bet it you took those off, you
wouldn't
   get
the error anymore. In my experience with Flex, I've noticed
that the
child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when
the effect
has completed). There is a synchronization issue that occurs
while the
effect is playing.
   
   
   
Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually
causes errors
very similar to what you are experiencing. If you are adding
another
child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished playing.
   Hope
that helps.
   
   
   
-Andy
   
   
   
_
   
Andrew Trice
   
Technical Lead
   
   
   
Cynergy Systems, Inc.
   
http://www.cynergysystems.com
   
   
   
Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice
   
Email: andrew.trice@
   
Office: 866-CYNERGY
   
   
   

   
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.comflexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]
   On
Behalf Of Matt Wicks
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken
   
   
   
I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of
it but I
found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ?
   
On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:
   
   
   
   
   
The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:
   
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
at
mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
at Function/http://adobe. 
http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()
   
Just to be clear here though, I'm calling addChild, not addChildAt
(internally addChild calls addChildAt).
   
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders% flexcoders%25
   40yahoogroups.com
  
ups.com, Matt matt@ wrote:

 I have been using Flex for quite a while now and I've found
quite a
 few moderate to serious bugs, but the one that keeps slapping my
   face
 when I approach something close to stability is this error:

 RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.

 This seems to occur due to ActionScript 3's lack of concurrency
 support. It would seem that if I quickly remove and add several
 components to a container this shows its ugly head. What
makes this
 particularly scary is that the error message appears once
and then
   any
 time I try to do anything at all to the container after that it
   throws
 the same message over and over.

 I originally saw this appear in reference to popups on the
 SystemManager 

[flexcoders] TileList itemRenderer resize

[Daniel Grace]

I am using a mostly default (some options, no subclassing) TileList
with a custom itemRenderer. I have been using the same itemRenderer
for a while with no problems. I made a change to where one of the UI
elements inside of this itemRenderer sets its visible and
includeInLayout to false depending on the underlying data. When this
happens the height of the itemRenderer should change, but the TileList
doesn't seem to realize this.

I am assuming that the TileList does a height/width calculation early
on and doesn't notice that things are different. I am fine with
subclassing, but at this point I don't know where to look for the
right functions/events to latch on to to make this work as I expect.

BTW, I know that the measurements are based off of the first data
element, but because of the way this actual application works all of
its itemRenderers will be the same size -- they just need to change
sizes at runtime sometimes.

TIA,
Daniel

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

[Andrew Trice]

If you can, just reverse that.  Add the new items, and then remove the
old ones.  You *should* see nearly identical visual effects, and
shouldn't get that error.   Without seeing the full code, I can't
guarantee that it will solve your problems, but I'm pretty sure that
this would help you.

 

-Andy

 

_

Andrew Trice

Technical Lead

 

Cynergy Systems, Inc.

http://www.cynergysystems.com

 

Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice

Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Office: 866-CYNERGY 

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:24 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken

 

It's pretty straight-forward to reproduce. Just do something like:

container.removeChild(c1);
container.removeChild(c2);
container.removeChild(c3);
container.addChild(c4);
container.addChild(c5);
container.addChild(c6);

Just make sure that the components have addedEffects and
removedEffects on them and you'll see the handy-dandy evil error
message. :)

I think the only way I can manage this is to have a utility method
that I call to add and remove components from a container and if the
component has a removedEffect then it queues it up and waits for the
removedEvent to finish before going on with removals. It just seems
like Flex should already be doing that internally instead of partially
removing it, but not really.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Michael Schmalle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Maybe things like trying to shift into another gear without the
clutch in
 factors into this equation as well.
 
 You didn't show any code, so I don't know if you are trying to brute
force
 something that in the design of the framework was not a bug to begin
with
 but an implementation.
 
 Peace, Mike
 
 On 5/18/07, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  On 5/18/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   That actually does fix it...shouldn't I be able to add and remove
   without having to write work-arounds for bugs in Flex though?
  
 
 
 
 
 
  Of course... we should outlaw bugs :)
 
  Hank
 
  If I wanted that kind of development experience I'd go back to
writing
   HTML and JavaScript. ;)
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com  flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
   Andrew Trice andrew.trice@
   wrote:
   
I noticed that you are using removeEffects on the components.
That is
the root of your problem. I bet it you took those off, you
wouldn't
   get
the error anymore. In my experience with Flex, I've noticed
that the
child indexes change when an item is actually removed (when
the effect
has completed). There is a synchronization issue that occurs
while the
effect is playing.
   
   
   
Adding children while a remove effect is playing usually
causes errors
very similar to what you are experiencing. If you are adding
another
child, try adding it after the remove effect has finished
playing.
   Hope
that helps.
   
   
   
-Andy
   
   
   
_
   
Andrew Trice
   
Technical Lead
   
   
   
Cynergy Systems, Inc.
   
http://www.cynergysystems.com http://www.cynergysystems.com 
   
   
   
Blog: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice
http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice 
   
Email: andrew.trice@
   
Office: 866-CYNERGY
   
   
   

   
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]
   On
Behalf Of Matt Wicks
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:23 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com  flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex is Broken
   
   
   
I had a similar problem .. never really got to the bottom of
it but I
found that addChildAt worked while addChild didn't ?
   
On 18 May 2007, at 15:03, Matt wrote:
   
   
   
   
   
The exact error message I'm currently getting is as follows:
   
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChildAt()
at
mx.core::UIComponent/http://www.adobe.
http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt
http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt 
com/2006/flex/mx/internal::$addChildAt()
at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()
at mx.effects::EffectManager$/::removedEffectHandler()
at Function/http://adobe. 
http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply
http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply 
com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()
at 

Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

[Richard Rodseth]

Thanks! That's good for now. I don't need a custom renderer because I set
the defaultLeafIcon.

defaultLeafIcon=@Embed(source='Assets.swf', symbol='TreeFolderClosed')

On 5/18/07, Jon Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Try the isBranch attribute for folders that you do not want the tree to
display. Then you can write a custom renderer for leaf nodes – the tree
will treat nodes with the isBranch flag set to false as leaf nodes.

RE: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

[Alex Harui]

The background color demo shows how to determine when to remove the
background so the selection and highlight can show.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jon Bradley
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:10 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

 

Woa... great overview you have on itemRenderers on your blog.

 

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out what demo you were referring to
that solves these problems.

 

Could you post a direct link (or email it to me)?

 

thanks a ton!

 

- jon

 

 

On May 18, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Alex Harui wrote:





All List controls rip off the background of the renderers by blocking
the CSS background styles in the main component.  We do this so the
selection and rollover highlights show through.  You can modify the
renderer to pick up the appropriate background styles, but then you may
block viewing of the selection and rollover.  There's a way to get
around that too.  There's an example on my blog.

 

 

[flexcoders] Re: selectedIndices are Strings???

[Jason]

Now, now

No need for chastising. Consider how illogical ActionScript (and
coding) tend to be in general.

I mean we'd think a banker counting money by going
1,10,11...19,2,20,21,...3 and so on would think the banker had gone nuts. 

*LOL*

RE: [flexcoders] TileList itemRenderer resize

[Alex Harui]

Try setting itemsNeedMeasurement=true and calling
invalidateProperties().

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Daniel Grace
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] TileList itemRenderer resize

 

I am using a mostly default (some options, no subclassing) TileList
with a custom itemRenderer. I have been using the same itemRenderer
for a while with no problems. I made a change to where one of the UI
elements inside of this itemRenderer sets its visible and
includeInLayout to false depending on the underlying data. When this
happens the height of the itemRenderer should change, but the TileList
doesn't seem to realize this.

I am assuming that the TileList does a height/width calculation early
on and doesn't notice that things are different. I am fine with
subclassing, but at this point I don't know where to look for the
right functions/events to latch on to to make this work as I expect.

BTW, I know that the measurements are based off of the first data
element, but because of the way this actual application works all of
its itemRenderers will be the same size -- they just need to change
sizes at runtime sometimes.

TIA,
Daniel

 

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

[James]

I want to get information about the item that is being hovered over. I
don't have this information in memory, I need to get it from the web
server, that requires waiting for a result event from HTTPService
before returning the data I need.

Thanks!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 dataTipFunction should be the answer, but I don't get what you are doing
 in the loop.   Can you give more detail of what you are trying to
 accomplish?
 
  
 
 -Alex
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of James
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:47 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips
 
  
 
 Hi all, my name is James Wilson, I am a flex programmer in the atlanta
 area, new to the list.
 
 On a datagrid, I'd like to display more information about the item the
 user is hovering over in a tooltip, but I want to get this information
 (a fair bit) dynamically based on a case number/id from the datagrid
 item that is being hovered over.
 
 The best way I can think of is to do a loop in the dataTipFunction:
 
 public function myDataTipFunction(e:HitData):String 
 {
 
 while(httpService.lastResult == null){}
 //return tooltip based on result.
 }
 
 Surely there is a better way.
 
 Thanks everyone. Nice to meet you all. :)
 
 James Wilson

Re: [flexcoders] TileList itemRenderer resize

[Daniel Grace]

I added the following code to the TileList:

   public override function set dataProvider(o: Object): void {
   if (this.dataProvider) {
   this.dataProvider.removeEventListener(collectionChange,
this.cc);
   }

   super.dataProvider = o;
   this.dataProvider.addEventListener(collectionChange,
this.cc);
   this.callLater(this.cc);
   }

   private function cc(event: Event = null): void {
   this.itemsNeedMeasurement = true;
   this.invalidateProperties();
   }

I have added (and since removed, since it was noisy) an alert to my cc
function, so I know that it's getting called when my underlying data gets
changed... but the individual tiles still aren't resizing. I can see the
very top part of the unhidden data in the tiles, but it doesn't expand to
see the rest.

Am I handling this in the wrong place?

TIA,
Daniel

On 5/18/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Try setting itemsNeedMeasurement=true and calling invalidateProperties().


 --

*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Daniel Grace
*Sent:* Friday, May 18, 2007 12:26 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [flexcoders] TileList itemRenderer resize



I am using a mostly default (some options, no subclassing) TileList
with a custom itemRenderer. I have been using the same itemRenderer
for a while with no problems. I made a change to where one of the UI
elements inside of this itemRenderer sets its visible and
includeInLayout to false depending on the underlying data. When this
happens the height of the itemRenderer should change, but the TileList
doesn't seem to realize this.

I am assuming that the TileList does a height/width calculation early
on and doesn't notice that things are different. I am fine with
subclassing, but at this point I don't know where to look for the
right functions/events to latch on to to make this work as I expect.

BTW, I know that the measurements are based off of the first data
element, but because of the way this actual application works all of
its itemRenderers will be the same size -- they just need to change
sizes at runtime sometimes.

TIA,
Daniel

[flexcoders] Printing from Flex

[simonjpalmer]

Anyone tried to do much printing from Flex?  Any words of wisdom
before I dive headlong into the docs and scour the message boards? 
Any good examples?  How about Charts, anyone managed to print them
successfully?  And PDF generation?  Anyone found a good way of doing
that containing charts?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[flexcoders] Error 2152 with RTMP streams

[Mondain]

Does anyone else get this error when viewing and then attempting full
screen on RTMP based FLV streams?

Error #2152: Full screen mode is not allowed.

And if so do you know how to fix it, in Flex2?

Paul

--
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire

RE: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

[Alex Harui]

Hmm.  The request to the server could take a long time.  What would you
want to show in the interim?  Waiting too long for lastResult will cause
the UI to appear stuck.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:17 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips

 

I want to get information about the item that is being hovered over. I
don't have this information in memory, I need to get it from the web
server, that requires waiting for a result event from HTTPService
before returning the data I need.

Thanks!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 dataTipFunction should be the answer, but I don't get what you are
doing
 in the loop. Can you give more detail of what you are trying to
 accomplish?
 
 
 
 -Alex
 
 
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
] On
 Behalf Of James
 Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:47 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
 Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips
 
 
 
 Hi all, my name is James Wilson, I am a flex programmer in the atlanta
 area, new to the list.
 
 On a datagrid, I'd like to display more information about the item the
 user is hovering over in a tooltip, but I want to get this information
 (a fair bit) dynamically based on a case number/id from the datagrid
 item that is being hovered over.
 
 The best way I can think of is to do a loop in the dataTipFunction:
 
 public function myDataTipFunction(e:HitData):String 
 {
 
 while(httpService.lastResult == null){}
 //return tooltip based on result.
 }
 
 Surely there is a better way.
 
 Thanks everyone. Nice to meet you all. :)
 
 James Wilson


 

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Re: {Disarmed} Re: [flexcoders] Flex on Mac

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You guys think that I have to wait for the Leopard OS to buy a MacBook?
Or the Tiger OS is good too? I'll use two operacional systems... or maybe
tree.
Windows, Mac, Linux.

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[flexcoders] Gradient Fill in ChartArea

[Patrick Lemiuex]

Is it possible to apply a fill to chart with a gradient without  
having to make a custom Renderer?

Also, does anyone have any good examples of custom toot tip renderers?

Thanks,
Patrick

RE: [flexcoders] Re: selectedIndices are Strings???

[Alex Harui]

The look like ints to me.  Did you do for..in instead of for (; 
length)?

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jason
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:05 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: selectedIndices are Strings???

 

Now, now

No need for chastising. Consider how illogical ActionScript (and
coding) tend to be in general.

I mean we'd think a banker counting money by going
1,10,11...19,2,20,21,...3 and so on would think the banker had gone
nuts. 

*LOL*

 

[flexcoders] Re: Flex: Remote Objects

[Oliver Merk]

For Java: YES, you *do* need FDS
For ColdFusion: No
For HTTP: No, but there's a proxy in FDS you *could* use
For WebServices:  No, but there's a proxy in FDS you also *could* use

Hope this helps,
Oliver

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Scott Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Do I have to have FDS2 do call remote objects? (Java etc.)

[flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ??

[carl_steinhilber]

Given a string that represents the id of a given component, is there a
way to get a handle to that component?

Something like:

   var myCheckboxName:String = checkbox1;
   var myActualCheckbox:CheckBox = getElementById(myCheckboxName);
   myActualCheckbox.selected = true;
  
I figured if nothing else I'd be able to eval() the string... but then
I remembered that AS3 deprecated eval().

Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
-Carl

Re: [flexcoders] Printing from Flex

[André Rodrigues Pena]

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
take a look at Print Controls

On 5/18/07, simonjpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Anyone tried to do much printing from Flex? Any words of wisdom
before I dive headlong into the docs and scour the message boards?
Any good examples? How about Charts, anyone managed to print them
successfully? And PDF generation? Anyone found a good way of doing
that containing charts?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 





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RE: [flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ??

[Alex Harui]

mx:CheckBox id=checkbox1 ... /

 

is referred to in the mx:Script block as:

 

checkbox1

this.checkbox1

this[checkbox1]

 

as in:

 

trace(checkbox1.selected) // get the selected property

 

There is no function since they are actually properties on the document.
Subdocuments use parentDocument to talk to parent documents.

 

-Alex

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of carl_steinhilber
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:46 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ??

 


Given a string that represents the id of a given component, is there a
way to get a handle to that component?

Something like:

var myCheckboxName:String = checkbox1;
var myActualCheckbox:CheckBox = getElementById(myCheckboxName);
myActualCheckbox.selected = true;

I figured if nothing else I'd be able to eval() the string... but then
I remembered that AS3 deprecated eval().

Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
-Carl

 

Re: [flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ??

[Patrick Lemiuex]

something like:

var myCheckBox:CheckBox = new CheckBox();
myCheckBox.id = myCheckBoxID;

Works like this:

myCheckBox.selected = true;

On May 18, 2007, at 4:46 PM, carl_steinhilber wrote:



Given a string that represents the id of a given component, is there a
way to get a handle to that component?

Something like:

var myCheckboxName:String = checkbox1;
var myActualCheckbox:CheckBox = getElementById(myCheckboxName);
myActualCheckbox.selected = true;

I figured if nothing else I'd be able to eval() the string... but then
I remembered that AS3 deprecated eval().

Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
-Carl

[flexcoders] Vertial Scroll Issue with Using Date Field ItemRenderer in a DataGrid

[Troy A. Binford]

Hi folks,

This is a weird bug and I hope someone can help me with it. In my
example code (DateRendererWTF.mxml being the main app and
OMGRenderer.mxml being the renderer), everything initially scrolls
fine. Then choose a date for any one of the datefields. Now move your
mouse down and up so that in travels through and out of the datagrid
on the top and bottom. As you can see the datagrid now scrolls
automatically. What is with this?

Sample mxml files:
http://www.speechlessrock.com/DateRendererWTF.mxml
http://www.speechlessrock.com/OMGRenderer.mxml

Thanks for any help,

Troy

[flexcoders] Having really tough time with Data Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]!!

[asherritt9]

Finally figured out how to get dataservice.getItem() to work.

I've bound it's result to a textInput, but changes to the interface are 
not affecting the DataService on commit.

Does any one have a sample work flow for getting then updating data?

Thanks 

-A

[flexcoders] WSDLError Element not resolvable with WebService using creationComplete

[Peter Connolly]

I've encountered something that looks like a timing issue within Flex2.

When I try to access a WebService operation in the 'creationComplete'
param of mx:Application:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=wsWidgetQueries.GetWidgetsByType.send()
  mx:WebService id=wsWidgetQueries
 
endpointURI=http://localhost:/widgets-ws-1.0-SNAPSHOT/Widgets-WS;

wsdl=http://localhost:8080/widgets-ws-1.0-SNAPSHOT/widgets.wsdl;
 useProxy=false showBusyCursor=true
 mx:operation name=GetWidgetsByType
 mx:request
 GetWidgetsByTypeRequest
 typeId{cbxType.value}/typeId
 /GetWidgetsByTypeRequest
 /mx:request
 /mx:operation
...

I get the following error:

[WSDLError faultString=Element
http://www.widgets-inc.com/testapp/schemas:GetWidgetsByTypeRequest not
resolvable faultCode=WSDL.BadElement faultDetail=null]
 at
mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::pars\
eMessage()
 at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLOperation/parseMessages()
 at
mx.rpc.soap::Operation/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::invok\
ePendingCall()
 at
mx.rpc.soap::Operation/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::invok\
eAllPending()
 at mx.rpc.soap::WebService/::unEnqueueCalls()
 at
mx.rpc.soap::WebService/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::wsdl\
Handler()
 at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven\
tFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/dispatchEvent()
 at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/::parseCompleted()
 at
mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::http\
ResultHandler()
 at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven\
tFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::disp\
atchRpcEvent()
 at
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resu\
ltHandler()
 at mx.rpc::Responder/result()
 at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge()
 at ::DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler()
 at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEven\
tFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()

But, when I comment out the 'creationComplete' parameter and run the
wsWidgetQueries.GetWidgetsByType.send() as an action off a 'click' event
on a button, the WebService works just fine.

That indicates to me that 'creationComplete' is executing BEFORE the
WSDL has been properly parsed.  If so, 'creationComplete' isn't really
complete when that .send() gets invoked!

Have others encountered this problem?
And, if so, is it a known bug or is there a standard workaround for it?

TIA.

[flexcoders] WSDLError Element not resolvable with WebService using creationComplete

[Peter Connolly]

When I include a creationComplete .send() to a WebService in my app:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=wsWidgetQueries.GetWidgetsByType.send()
mx:WebService id=wsWidgetQueries 

wsdl=http://localhost:8080/widgets-ws-1.0-SNAPSHOT/widgets.wsdl;
useProxy=false showBusyCursor=true
mx:operation name=GetWidgetsByType
mx:request
GetWidgetsByTypeRequest
typeId{cbxType.value}/typeId
/GetWidgetsByTypeRequest
/mx:request
...

I get the follow WSDLError:

[WSDLError faultString=Element
http://www.widgets-inc.com/widgets/schemas:GetWidgetsByTypeRequest not
resolvable faultCode=WSDL.BadElement faultDetail=null]
at
mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::parseMessage()
at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLOperation/parseMessages()
at
mx.rpc.soap::Operation/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::invokePendingCall()
at
mx.rpc.soap::Operation/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::invokeAllPending()
at mx.rpc.soap::WebService/::unEnqueueCalls()
at
mx.rpc.soap::WebService/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::wsdlHandler()
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/dispatchEvent()
at mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/::parseCompleted()
at
mx.rpc.soap::WSDLParser/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::httpResultHandler()
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::dispatchRpcEvent()
at
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resultHandler()
at mx.rpc::Responder/result()
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge()
at ::DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler()
at
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()

But when I take out the 'creationComplete' parameter and, instead,
have the .send() action occur with a 'click' event on a button, the
request works fine.

The sample application from Chapter 18 of the Getting Started with
Flex2 works fine on my workstations (Firefox  IE7), but my own app
does not.  The sample is obviously using ColdFusion, whereas I am
using Tomcat 5.5.x to host the web services.

It seems that the WSDL is not completely parsed when the
'creationComplete' .send() is processed.

Has anyone encountered this problem too?  If so, is it a known bug?

TIA.

PS: Btw, I posted this before using the beta Rich-Text Editor. It did
not seem to post successfully...  ?!?!

[flexcoders] Re: WebService sending dynamic XML - problem

[discipl4]

It just doesn't seem 'right' to do that, you know?  :)  With all of
the great XML constructs in Flex, to have to do a sloppy translation
of gt; into  on the webservice side.. I cant sleep at night :)  It
seems like such a hack hehehe.


- - Dan



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ah, rats.
 
  
 
 And you don't want to manually encode/decode the strings?
 
 Tracy
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of discipl4
 Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:13 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService sending dynamic XML - problem
 
  
 
 Tracy,
 
 Thanks for the reply :) If you pass it like that, it gets encoded :(
 The XML tags get turned into gt and lt because the SOAP wrapper
 thinks you were sending string data inside of 1 XML tag.. which you
 are really.
 
 That is my problem exactly.
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 , Tracy Spratt tspratt@ wrote:
 
  What happens if you sen the xml as a string explicitly, and then parse
  it into a dom on the server?
  
  mx:operation name=SaveAction
  mx:request
  mx:myParameter{myXMLObject.toXMLString()}/mx:myParameter
  /mx:request
  /mx:operation
  
  
  
  Tracy
  
  
  
  
  
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 ] On
  Behalf Of discipl4
  Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:39 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
  Subject: [flexcoders] Re: WebService sending dynamic XML - problem
  
  
  
  Nate,
  
  Thank you for the quick response!! :)
  
  I did not know you could implement a WS call the way you do, very
  cool, although unless Im understanding it improperly, I dont think it
  will work for me. Please correct me if I am misinterpreting how your
  way works.
  
  You do ws.getMyFunction(firstName, lastName, city) .. for instance,
  and your webservice gets the data in an expected size and format,
  right? It goes, param1 is the firstname, param2 is the lastname, and
  param3 is the city. No definition involved but it is still finite. 
  
  What I need to do is have a flexible structure in my xml to have an
  infinite amount tags inside certain blocks. 
  
  So sometimes I might pass and xml that looks like this:
  
  person
  tag2FirstName/tag2
  tag3LastName/tag3
  tag4San Diego/tag4
  /person
  
  and sometimes I need to send this:
  
  person
  tag2FirstName/tag2
  tag3LastName/tag3
  tag4San Diego/tag4
  tag5Chicago/tag5
  tag6New York/tag6
  /person
  
  If I pass in the parameters as you have, I have no way to denote the
  beginning and end of that section that contains 'n' number of
 elements.
  
  Does that make sense? I know it's hairy :) I really want to keep the
  XML structure. I think if I did it your way, I could pass in a ton of
  parameters as key/value pairs and build the xml on the other side...
  like.. ws.getMyFunction(firstname, Bill, lastname, Smith, city1,
  Chicago) ... but man, then I have to dissect the nice XML object that
  Flex gives you to work with.
  
  Thanks again for your time in hashing this out with me!!
  
  Best,
  
  - - Dan
  
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
  , Nate Pearson napearson99@ wrote:
  
   This is how I do it:
   mx:WebService id=ws wsdl=http://myurl/service.asmx?WSDL
 http://myurl/service.asmx?WSDL 
  http://myurl/service.asmx?WSDL http://myurl/service.asmx?WSDL   
   useProxy=false showBusyCursor=true
   mx:operation name=getMyFunction result=projectsHandler(event)/
   
   /mx:WebService
   
   Then in action script I go ws.getMyFunction(param1, param2, param3).
   
   You don't have to define your parameters in MXML. If you don't, Flex
   will let you send as many or as little parameters as you want. I
 only
   get an error if the amount of parameters that I send don't match the
   type and number on the server side.
   
   Hope this helps,
   
   Nate
   
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 
  mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , discipl4 discipl4@ wrote:
   
Hi friends - I have been wrestling with a problem that I was
 hoping
you could help me out with :)

I understand the premise of defining a WebService in Flex, with
parameters and data, and sending the data over the wire to my
 WSDL. 
However, I have a unique situation where I want to assemble a
  dynamic
XML file and send it over a WebService. Unless you define a 1 to 1
mapping of parameters in Flex to a WSDL, I cant find any way to
 make
this work.

Example: This works just fine as an operation on a webservice - 

mx:operation name=SaveAction
mx:request
mx:myParameter{someStringVariable}/mx:myParameter
/mx:request