RE: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal
Read the source code and used the debugger, probably. Keep in mind that mx_internal is not officially supported so its APIs can change or go away in future releases and break your code. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sheriff Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal I checked out the FlexLib on google, the superTabNavigator etc.. and they used alot of mx_internal stuff, now i tried finding any documentation about the stuff in there but couldnt find anything so i was wondering how did they find out what do to use. Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http:/surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo _panel_invite.asp?a=7
Re: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal
this is all i see
**
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* This namespace is used for undocumented APIs -- usually implementation
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* details -- which can't be private because they need to visible
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* to other classes.
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* APIs in this namespace are completely unsupported and are likely to
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* change in future versions of Flex.
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*/
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public namespace mx_internal =
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http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal;;
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}
- Original Message
From: Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 1:25:19 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal
Read the source code and used the
debugger, probably. Keep in mind that mx_internal is not officially supported
so its APIs can change or go away in future releases and break your code.
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Subject: [flexcoders] How to know
what is in mx_internal
I checked out the FlexLib on google, the superTabNavigator etc.. and
they used alot of mx_internal stuff, now i tried finding any documentation
about the stuff in there but couldnt find anything so i was wondering how did
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RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid
I have chosen to have repeating custom component. The custom component has several text fields, a combo box and a data grid From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: 08 September 2007 19:02 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid OK, good luck. You chose repeating DataGrids or custom renderers in a DataGrid? -Alex _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 4:06 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid Thanks for the reply Alex I create the xml data dynamically by retrieving the values from various objects so I can pretty much create whatever data representation I want. With regards interaction rules, the only interaction is to be able to set the values of the combo boxes then when a button is clicked it stores all these values first in an object then when the application is closed it stores this data in an xml file. Now I have had a go at creating a custom component that includes a datagrid and then using a repeater to duplicate this for all the data. This kind of works as you can see here http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/mymarksheet.jpg I am able to get all the data into the custom component by passing all the xml data into it and then within the setter function of the custom component, parsing the relevant data for the combobox, datagrid and text fields. The problem now hopefully is a cosmetic problem which will no doubt be a tough oneJ Thanks Paul From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: 07 September 2007 23:57 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid Usually, the data is given to you in some representation. How do you currently have the data stored for the picture you showed us? It probably can be done, but is going to be significant work. Also knowing what the interaction rules are will help us guide you. For example, are the columns resizable? Are things collapsible? Can things be edited or clicked on or selected? Also, how many items total? _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:05 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid Unfortunately not Tom. This project is being developed in Flex Builder 2 and needs to be finished next week. Client wouldn't be keen on using a beta product unfortunately. So I am hoping it can be done in Flex 2:) -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Tom Chiverton Sent: 07 September 2007 13:51 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Display item renderer in only some rows of a datagrid On Friday 07 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:paul_steven%40btinternet.com wrote: I could do with some further advice on how to represent this data Flex 3's AdvancedDataGrid an option ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to appropriately differentiate advanced action-items on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Using tooltips programatically with AS3
I wish to use tooltips to highlight user input error when entering data into a dataGrid. How can I cause a tooltip to display without using the mouse to rollover an object please?
[flexcoders] Best Practices for XML Compression
With e4x it's much more tempting to use XML for lots of my client/server traffic but the overhead is still going to be a problem. I've see a couple compression strategies outlined but most for AS2 and/or i'm not clear on server-side requirements. Is there a) any good overview of the topic; b) emerging consensus as to how best approach? thx --steve...
[flexcoders] Programatically deselecting tree branch objects
Good morning all,
I'm trying to set up a tree control so that branch items open and close
on select just as if somebody had clicked the twirly.
I've got everything taken care of but I need to find a way to
programatically deselect the branch item.
Here's the code problem:
In my Tree change event handler
public function handleTreeChangeEvent(event:Event):void
{
//some code
if (selectedVideoId != '')
{
trace(selectedVideoId + is the selected video);
}
else
{
if (videoTree.isItemOpen(selectedVideo))
{
videoTree.expandItem(selectedVideo, false, true);
// I now need to deselect this tree item
}
else
{
videoTree.expandItem(selectedVideo, true, true);
// I now need to deselect this tree item.
}
}
}
See the // comments for details on what I'm trying to do.
I very much appreciate any light anybody can shine on this, I've been
beating up google and the API docs for the last few hours with no
results.
Thanks!!
H
[flexcoders] Re: How to expand TREE Node children by clicking folder icon instead of triangle
Hi Alex,
I think you were talking about the below mentioned function. Could
you please elaborate a little bit more whatever you mentioned in your
earlier reply?
Thanks in advance Reagrds;
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* @private
*/
private function disclosureMouseDownHandler(event:Event):void
{
event.stopPropagation();
if (listOwner.isOpening || !listOwner.enabled)
return;
var open:Boolean = _listData.open;
_listData.open = !open;
listOwner.dispatchTreeEvent(TreeEvent.ITEM_OPENING,
_listData.item, //item
this, //renderer
event, //trigger
!open, //opening
true,
//animate
true) //dispatch
}
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would modify or subclass TreeItemRenderer, mimic the code for
mouseDown handling on disclosureIcon and apply it to the icon as
well.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of mubasherhaneef
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:52 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] How to expand TREE Node children by clicking
folder icon instead of triangle
I have a question regarding opening of tree branch node;
In a tree, a branch node can contain multiple child nodes, and, by
default, appears as a folder icon with a disclosure triangle that
lets users open and close the folder but I was trying to open child
node/folder, when user will click either on triangle or on folder
icon.
I tried the below mentioned code but that expands all the nodes
children of tree instead of expanding one node children;
Any help, suggestions or code example should be appreciated.
Regards,
Mubasher
mx:Script
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node label=root Node
node label=My node
node label=myNode1 data=myNode1/
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node label=My Profile
node label=Change Password data=password/
node label=Personal data=personal/
node label=Contact Info data=contact/
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[flexcoders] How to converst an XML to AS Object ?
Situation I have XML like that
album
name/name
images
image/image
image/image
image/image
/images
/album
using HTTPService I'm getting this XML.
I have AS Class:
public class Album {
public var name:String;
public var images:ArrayCollection;
}
straight cast like:
var album:Album = Album (event.result);
doesn't work
Is any suggestion around this, what I do wrong, may be there are some
other way to do that
Thank you.
[flexcoders] Put Flash File into Yahoo! Groups Description...
Hi All, Hope Everyone is fine... Look I want to Embed a swf File into Yahoo! Groups Description ... Could Anyone tell Me How By Showing me the Code Thnx Alot... Please Reply Me on ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thnx 4 reading
Re: [flexcoders] Video and rtmp using Flex
My main issue, is that the URL to the FCS works just fine outside of the proxy
at
my job (it loads immediately) but behind that proxy the connection
fails. And, when I try 'rtmpt' the connection fails in front of the proxy and
behind the proxy.
What's perplexing is that I can stream video from other sites that
connect to vitastream from bwhind the proxy. And, of course, as big
corps go, as empires get built information stops being shared.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
- Original Message
From: greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2007 7:23:19 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Video and rtmp using Flex
Hi Philip,
Do you have your RTMP URI?
If so, you can take the example in the docs for the VideoDisplay component, and
for the source= tag property, just replace this:
source=assets/phone. flv
with
source=rtmp://myURI
I have done it and it works fine.
You can find the full example code here:
http://livedocs. adobe.com/ flex/201/ langref/mx/ controls/ VideoDisplay.
html#includeExam plesSummary
Or is your question more about the basics of rtmp addresses? Or by video
player did you have something in mind other than the VideoDisplay component?
Please post back regarding whether this reply was of assistance, or if you have
any further questions. Also, if you want to provide your rtmp address but not
share it here on the forum, please do not hesitate to email me off list.
hth,
g
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[flexcoders] Hexadecimal XML encoding of carriage returns: #xD;
I'm capturing data from a text area, and binding it to an attribute in an XMLListCollection before packing it up and shipping it off with HTTPService to a PHP page. For whatever reason carriage returns are being encoded as # x D ;(pretend there's no whitespace) which, as was pointed out to me, indicates we should interepret '#xD' as a hexadecimal 'D', indicating decimal 15, the decimal value of the ASCII carriage return. Why this encoding isn't just # 1 5 ; , which I guess would make way too much sense, is beyond me. I suspect the same thing is happening for other special characters, so any solution would need to handle the 'full' range of values. Does anyone know how I can either A. Prevent Flex from using this encoding B. Find a ready-made PHP4 compatible function to get rid of these things Thank you very much.
[flexcoders] Problem with RichTextEditor and Embedded fonts
Hi folks
I'm having a problem with the RichTextEditor when using an embedded font
in my application.
When the font for TextArea is set to an embedded font, no device fonts
will render in the RTE. Typing when this font is selected just causes
no characters to be displayed.
Can be duplicated using the following code:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute historyManagementEnabled=true
mx:Style
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
}
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
fontWeight: bold;
}
TextArea
{
fontFamily:Calibri;
fontSize: 13pt;
}
/mx:Style
mx:RichTextEditor /
/mx:Application
Using this code, try setting the font in the RTE to anything other than
Calibri, and no text is rendered.
I've seen posts on this group that discuss a similar problem (embedding
Verdana, which possibly causes the device font to be shadowed), but that
doesn't appear to be the case here.
Any suggestions?
Marty
[flexcoders] Auto-syncing child image placement when parent image resizes
I think I have a question that I'm sure some of you have ran into but I can't seem to come up with a solution: I have an image of a state inside of a canvas that has on top of it small pushpin icons added as points on the map which are placed using the parent.addChild(somepushpin) mechanism. I don't know what points will be used ahead of time since I'm using an In-Polygon-Test to arbitrarily find points inside of a county. If the browser resizes, the state image resizes but my push-pins do not scale with the image since I'm using the x y coordinates to place the push-pins. Is there a way for the push-pins to sync their position relative to the size of the state image after it finishes resizing? Thanks in advanced
Re: [flexcoders] Re: busy cursor not spinning?
try disabling u're custom skins/css and then running the application to find out if that indeed is the reason On 9/8/07, philza1985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Mayank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have u set the showBusyCursor attribute in the rpc tag? Yes I've set showBusyCursor to true in the httpService tag. Its funny. It shows up, but the clock doesn't turn. Just get the image of the clock not the animation. I've changed the background colour of my app using skins and styles, would that effect this busy cursor not spinning? has anyone else ever encountered this problem (i.e. the busy cursor shows up, but it doesn't spin)? On 9/7/07, philza1985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was just wondering why my busy cursor wasn't spinning when i'm loading something from the server. Is there a setting I've missed? I've also got a style sheet and custom skin (but I haven't changed the look or style of the busy cursor). Does this affect things? thanks. Phil
[flexcoders] Dragging and moving an image to a new location
Hi all, How do I achieve dragging an image and upon releasing the mouse button, the image moves to the new location? I have achieve till the drag drop stage using action script. But when the dragDrop() event is called, how do I use action script to update an image (say id=img1) to the new mouse cursor location? Please help. Cheers:) Alex
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[flexcoders] Migrating from AIr to Flex 2 questions
Hi all- First off I know that this is not the Adobe Air forum however I believe that some people have migrated the example I cite in this message to flex 2 and I was wondering if anyone here had come across it and also I was hoping someone might help me with my compile issues. Please note that I am making it very clear that any technical faults that are occuring lie with me and not the sample. Ok to my problem: I came across an excellent Air app sample created in Flex. Some of you may be familar with it and I need some advise. The app sample code I downloaded was the Salesbuilder Air App http://coenraets.org/blog/2007/08/salesbuilder-source-code-available/ I created Salesbuilder Air App project in flex 3 and used the ImportExisting project s into workspace option in Flex 3 to import the sample code. However it will not run within flex 3 giving me the following message; The file is not launchable! I think the problem is with the salesbuilder.mxml file. It opens (i.e. I can view in source) in Flex 2 but will not open in Flex 3. When I say problem I'm pretty sure its something I'm doing wrong. My next step was to try another sample as a test. I downloaded the sample code for the Adobes employeedirector Air application. Once imported I was then able to run the app sucessfully within the Flex 3 environment. So now I know that I can run an Air app within Flex 3 however I am none the wiser as to what the issue is with Salesbuilder Air App The following are screenshots of the sample files in FB3 and the error message. http://www.mywebdocs.org/fb3/salesexample.pdf Any suggestions would really, really be appreciated. I'm running XP SP2 with 2 MHZ and 2 gig ram Thanks a lot, Garrett
[flexcoders] FullScreen in Builder 3 Beta 1
Here's a quick example of how to switch to full screen in FB3:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=vertical
applicationComplete={stage.addEventListener('fullScreen',function(e:Event):void{
debugText.text='width:'+width+' height: '+height+' Display State: ' +
stage.displayState; })}
mx:Text id=debugText text=width: {width} height: {height}
Display State: normal width=100% height=20 textAlign=center /
mx:Button label=Toggle fullscreen
click={stage.displayState=='fullScreen' ? stage.displayState='normal'
: stage.displayState='fullScreen';} /
/mx:Application
If this doesn't work you probably need to update your installation to
the newest build of the sdk, currently:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flex/3/flex3sdk_b1_061107.zip
[flexcoders] how to connect a jsp with the mxml using Apache Tomcat5.5
hi we find ur email in ur blog . we are currently looking for a jsp sample handling mxml . we had an error using tomcat 5.5 and fds 2.0 . we cant find the requested class flex/webtier/server/j2ee/wrappers/J2EEWrapper if u send me a sample jsp file ,web.xml with the respected jars , we will be gratefull . we dont know how to configure the web.xml in respect to flex . here below i mentioned error i got with the respected jsp file and web.xml java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: flex/webtier/server/j2ee/wrappers/J2EEWrapper flex.webtier.server.j2ee.jsp.MxmlTagImpl.setPageContext (MxmlTagImpl.java:94) flex.bootstrap.BootstrapTag.setPageContext (BootstrapTag.java:107) org.apache.jsp.urldemo_jsp._jspx_meth_mm_mxml_0 (org.apache.jsp.urldemo_jsp:83) org.apache.jsp.urldemo_jsp._jspService (org.apache.jsp.urldemo_jsp:58) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service (HttpJspBase.java:97) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service (JspServletWrapper.java:322) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile (JspServlet.java:291) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service (JspServlet.java:241) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.9 logs. urldemo.jsp --- %@ page language=java% %@ taglib uri=FlexTagLib prefix=mm % html titletesting tag library/title body mm:mxml /mm:mxml /body /html web.xml -- ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC -//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd; web-app display-nameWeekiServer/display-name descriptionWeeki Server/description context-param param-nameflex.class.path/param-name param-value/WEB-INF/flex/jars/param-value !-- param-value/WEB-INF/flex/hotfixes,/WEB- INF/flex/jars/param-value -- /context-param !-- Http Flex Session attribute and binding listener support -- listener listener-classflex.messaging.HttpFlexSession /listener- class /listener !-- MessageBroker Servlet -- servlet servlet-nameMessageBrokerServlet/servlet-name display-nameMessageBrokerServlet/display-name servlet-classflex.messaging.MessageBrokerServlet/servlet- class init-param param-nameservices.configuration.file/param-name param-value/WEB-INF/flex/services- config.xml/param- value /init-param init-param param-nameflex.write.path/param-name param-value/WEB-INF/flex/param-value /init-param load-on-startup1/load-on-startup /servlet servlet servlet-nameFlexMxmlServlet/servlet-name display-nameMXML Processor/display-name descriptionServlet wrapper for the Mxml Compiler/description servlet-classflex.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet /servlet- class init-param param-nameservlet.class/param-name param-valueflex.webtier.server.j2ee.MxmlServlet/param- value /init-param init-param param-namewebtier.configuration.file/param-name param-value/WEB-INF/flex/flex-webtier- config.xml/param-value /init-param load-on-startup1/load-on-startup /servlet servlet servlet-nameFlexSwfServlet/servlet-name display-nameSWF Retriever/display-name servlet-classflex.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet/servlet- class init-param param-nameservlet.class /param-name param-valueflex.webtier.server.j2ee.SwfServlet/param- value /init-param !-- SwfServlet must be initialized after MxmlServlet -- load-on-startup2/load-on-startup /servlet servlet servlet-nameFlexForbiddenServlet/servlet-name display-namePrevents access to *.as/*.swc files/display- name servlet-classflex.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet/servlet- class init-param param-nameservlet.class/param-name param-value flex.webtier.server.j2ee.ForbiddenServlet/param-value /init-param /servlet servlet servlet-nameFlexInternalServlet/servlet-name servlet-classflex.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet/servlet- class init-param param-nameservlet.class/param-name param-value flex.webtier.server.j2ee.filemanager.FileManagerServlet/param- value /init-param load-on-startup10/load-on-startup /servlet servlet-mapping servlet-nameMessageBrokerServlet/servlet-name url-pattern/messagebroker/*/url-pattern
[flexcoders] Re: Creating Custom Events - I need help!
Thanks, i'm living in brazil and today is sunday, only tomorrow i will
can test your sugestion. Tomorrow i post here the result. Thanks.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mayank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The metadata tag is only to assist your compiler and does not
translate in
any runtime code.
Since you are using actionscript to dispatch and catch the event you can
skip this tag. The application will work just fine.
On 9/7/07, robertdx.tw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think that you should state complete class path in metadata tag.
something like:
mx:Metadata
[Event
(name=uploadComplete,type=com.somdomain.MultipleUploadFileEvent)]
/mx:Metadata
otherwise, compiler won't know where the event class is.
Good luck.
Robert
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
danielvlopes danielvlopes@
wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying create a custom event, this event is dispatched completed
upload of some files.
But Event type 'MultipleUploadFileEvent' is unavailable. the erro
appear.
i think the reason is because i extended custom event from
flash.event.Event and this custom event need to be extended of other
package, but i don't who.
Here is part of my code:
My meta data is (extended of flash.event.Event):
mx:Metadata
[Event (name=uploadComplete, type=MultipleUploadFileEvent)]
/mx:Metadata
in function make upload i had de following code:
refUploadFile.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA,
onUploadCompleteData);
And in this moment (onUploadCompleteData) a try to dispatche event
calling uploadComplete function:
public function onUploadCompleteData(event:DataEvent):void {
numCurrentUpload++;
uploadProgress.visible=false;
uploadForm.visible=true;
if (numCurrentUpload arrUploadFiles.length) {
startUpload(false);
}else{
uploadComplete(event.data.toString());
}
}
this is the function to dispatch event:
public function uploadComplete(xmlResult:String) :void{
var eventObj:MultiUploadFileEvent = new
MultiUploadFileEvent(xmlResult,uploadComplete);
dispatchEvent(eventObj);
}
Thanks everyone.
Re: [flexcoders] Dragging and moving an image to a new location
DragManager.acceptDrop()
- Original Message
From: alex_gky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 9:28:35 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Dragging and moving an image to a new location
Hi all,
How do I achieve dragging an image and upon releasing the mouse
button, the image moves to the new location? I have achieve till the
drag drop stage using action script. But when the dragDrop() event is
called, how do I use action script to update an image (say id=img1)
to the new mouse cursor location?
Please help.
Cheers:)
Alex
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[flexcoders] Re: How to expand TREE Node children by clicking folder icon instead of triangle
Mubasher,
Hi, I'm doing the same thing you are. You can see some code that
makes it happen at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/86441
However, you'll run into the same problem I am : (
H
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, mubasherhaneef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question regarding opening of tree branch node;
In a tree, a branch node can contain multiple child nodes, and, by
default, appears as a folder icon with a disclosure triangle that
lets users open and close the folder but I was trying to open child
node/folder, when user will click either on triangle or on folder
icon.
I tried the below mentioned code but that expands all the nodes
children of tree instead of expanding one node children;
Any help, suggestions or code example should be appreciated.
Regards,
Mubasher
mx:Script
![CDATA[
public function treeChanged(event:Event):void {
selectedNode=Tree(event.target).selectedItem as XML;
if([EMAIL PROTECTED] == My node){
//myTree.expandItem(treeData,true);
myTree.expandChildrenOf(myTree.dataProvider[0],true);
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:XML id=treeData
node label=root Node
node label=My node
node label=myNode1 data=myNode1/
node label=myNode2 data=myNode2/
node label=myNode3 data=myNode3/
/node
node label=My Profile
node label=Change Password data=password/
node label=Personal data=personal/
node label=Contact Info data=contact/
/node
/node
/mx:XML
mx:Tree id=myTree width=100% height=100% labelField=@label
backgroundColor=#BEC7CC showRoot=true useHandCursor=true
dataProvider={treeData} change=treeChanged(event)/
[flexcoders] Re: Programatically deselecting tree branch objects
for posterity, I finally came up with a decent solution.
To programatically deselect an item from a Tree:
treeObjectName.selectedItem = null;
Hope that helps somebody at some point.
H
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, hardaur55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good morning all,
I'm trying to set up a tree control so that branch items open and close
on select just as if somebody had clicked the twirly.
I've got everything taken care of but I need to find a way to
programatically deselect the branch item.
Here's the code problem:
In my Tree change event handler
public function handleTreeChangeEvent(event:Event):void
{
//some code
if (selectedVideoId != '')
{
trace(selectedVideoId + is the selected video);
}
else
{
if (videoTree.isItemOpen(selectedVideo))
{
videoTree.expandItem(selectedVideo, false, true);
// I now need to deselect this tree item
}
else
{
videoTree.expandItem(selectedVideo, true, true);
// I now need to deselect this tree item.
}
}
}
See the // comments for details on what I'm trying to do.
I very much appreciate any light anybody can shine on this, I've been
beating up google and the API docs for the last few hours with no
results.
Thanks!!
H
[flexcoders] Rotating Thing, Example inside
was wondering if anyone knew how to do something like this http://www.thereplicants.net/flex/test/InfobolsaDashboard.swf hold SHIFT+ESC and use the cursor thats in the middle of the mouse to move it Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222
RE: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal
Search all of the source for mx_internal From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sheriff Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 11:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal this is all i see ** 14 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L14 * This namespace is used for undocumented APIs -- usually implementation 15 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L15 * details -- which can't be private because they need to visible 16 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L16 * to other classes. 17 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L17 * APIs in this namespace are completely unsupported and are likely to 18 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L18 * change in future versions of Flex. 19 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L19 */ 20 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L20 public namespace mx_internal = 21 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L21 http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal ; 22 http://tools.assembla.com/flexsdk/browser/mx/core/mx_internal.as#L22 } - Original Message From: Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 1:25:19 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal Read the source code and used the debugger, probably. Keep in mind that mx_internal is not officially supported so its APIs can change or go away in future releases and break your code. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com ] On Behalf Of Sheriff Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to know what is in mx_internal I checked out the FlexLib on google, the superTabNavigator etc.. and they used alot of mx_internal stuff, now i tried finding any documentation about the stuff in there but couldnt find anything so i was wondering how did they find out what do to use. Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http:/surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo _panel_invite.asp?a=7 Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http:/search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_ on_mailp=summer+activities+for+kidscs=bz
[flexcoders] List component selectedIndex not updating when selecting and rolling off
The list component (Flex 2) selectedIndex is not updating when
selecting and rolling off a list item. However, the selection
indicator appears over the rolled off item.
You can see this strange behavior with a simple test:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=vertical
mx:List id=tl width=150
mx:dataProvider
mx:Object label=item 1/
mx:Object label=item 2/
mx:Object label=item 3/
/mx:dataProvider
/mx:List
mx:Label text=Selected Index = {tl.selectedIndex}/
/mx:Application
Steps to reproduce:
1. Select item 1 normally by clicking on it.
2. Roll over item 2, mouse down on item 2, move the mouse off the
list, and release.
Notice the Selected Index text still states '0' even though item 2
appears selected.
Anyone else see this and know why? Any work around?
RE: [flexcoders] List component selectedIndex not updating when selecting and rolling off
Known bug. Fixed in Moxie. Not sure of a workaround. Maybe get
mouseUp in capture phase and send change event.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of bick
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] List component selectedIndex not updating when
selecting and rolling off
The list component (Flex 2) selectedIndex is not updating when
selecting and rolling off a list item. However, the selection
indicator appears over the rolled off item.
You can see this strange behavior with a simple test:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
layout=vertical
mx:List id=tl width=150
mx:dataProvider
mx:Object label=item 1/
mx:Object label=item 2/
mx:Object label=item 3/
/mx:dataProvider
/mx:List
mx:Label text=Selected Index = {tl.selectedIndex}/
/mx:Application
Steps to reproduce:
1. Select item 1 normally by clicking on it.
2. Roll over item 2, mouse down on item 2, move the mouse off the
list, and release.
Notice the Selected Index text still states '0' even though item 2
appears selected.
Anyone else see this and know why? Any work around?
Re: [flexcoders] CData inside XML object
Look at XML.ignoreWhitespace (
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/XML.html).
Also, would think you would be able to create a cdata node by doing
something like this:
var cdata:XML = new XML(![CDATA[ + s + ]]);
- Dan Freiman
On 9/7/07, discoguy77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am saving some text from a string into a XML element.
For example:
var s:String = Hello ;
var xml:XML = root{s}/root;
I would like the following to happen:
trace(xml); // prints Hello (without quotes)
Unfortunately, E4X trims the whitespace. I would like my XML object
to be root![CDATA[{s}]]/root so that the space (maybe?)
wouldn't be trimmed, but I cannot use a CDATA block since it occurs
inside a mx:Script![CDATA[ ... ]]/mx:Script already.
Is there a way to add a CDATA block to an E4X XML object?
P.S. As a workaround, I can escape() the string before adding it,
and unescape() afterwards, but this seems ugly and loses the human-
readability.
Re: [flexcoders] Problem with RichTextEditor and Embedded fonts
TextFields, the basis/renderer for (almost) text controls in flex, allows
you to use embeded fonts or device fonts, but not both at the same time in a
given TextField. See TextField.embedFonts in livedodcs for (minimally) more
information.
- Dan Freiman
On 9/9/07, kiwicomposer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks
I'm having a problem with the RichTextEditor when using an embedded font
in my application.
When the font for TextArea is set to an embedded font, no device fonts
will render in the RTE. Typing when this font is selected just causes no
characters to be displayed.
Can be duplicated using the following code:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute historyManagementEnabled=true
mx:Style
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
}
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
fontWeight: bold;
}
TextArea
{
fontFamily:Calibri;
fontSize: 13pt;
}
/mx:Style
mx:RichTextEditor /
/mx:Application
Using this code, try setting the font in the RTE to anything other than
Calibri, and no text is rendered.
I've seen posts on this group that discuss a similar problem (embedding
Verdana, which possibly causes the device font to be shadowed), but that
doesn't appear to be the case here.
Any suggestions?
Marty
[flexcoders] Re: List component selectedIndex not updating when selecting and rolling off
Perfect- thanks for clearing that up.
Here's one solution:
In a class that extends the list based class:
public class TransparentTileList extends TileList
{
public function TransparentTileList(){
super();
}
override protected function
mouseUpHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
super.mouseUpHandler(event);
var evt:ListEvent;
var item:IListItemRenderer =
mouseEventToItemRenderer(event);
var pt:Point = itemRendererToIndices(item);
evt = new ListEvent(ListEvent.CHANGE);
evt.itemRenderer = item;
if (pt)
{
evt.columnIndex = pt.x;
evt.rowIndex = pt.y;
}
dispatchEvent(evt);
}
}
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Known bug. Fixed in Moxie. Not sure of a workaround. Maybe get
mouseUp in capture phase and send change event.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of bick
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] List component selectedIndex not updating when
selecting and rolling off
The list component (Flex 2) selectedIndex is not updating when
selecting and rolling off a list item. However, the selection
indicator appears over the rolled off item.
You can see this strange behavior with a simple test:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
layout=vertical
mx:List id=tl width=150
mx:dataProvider
mx:Object label=item 1/
mx:Object label=item 2/
mx:Object label=item 3/
/mx:dataProvider
/mx:List
mx:Label text=Selected Index = {tl.selectedIndex}/
/mx:Application
Steps to reproduce:
1. Select item 1 normally by clicking on it.
2. Roll over item 2, mouse down on item 2, move the mouse off the
list, and release.
Notice the Selected Index text still states '0' even though item 2
appears selected.
Anyone else see this and know why? Any work around?
[flexcoders] Dynamic Assignment of DataGrid columns
I have created an mxml component for a datagrid.
I wanted to switch the columns between three sets.
The code below is my attempt to accomplish this. A failed attempt.
Is there something wrong with this approach?
Or, is there perhaps something wrong with my implementation?
Regards,
Claude
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:DataGrid xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
horizontalScrollPolicy=auto verticalScrollPolicy=auto
editable=false width=100% height=100%
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridColumn;
public function setDisplayColumns(which:String):void {
switch (which)
{
case 1:
_displayColumns = colSet1;
break;
case 2:
_displayColumns = colSet2;
break;
case 3:
_displayColumns = colSet3;
break;
}
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Array id=colSet1
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field1 headerText=title1 /
/mx:Array
mx:Array id=colSet1
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field2 headerText=title2 /
/mx:Array
mx:Array id=colSet3
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field3 headerText=title3 /
/mx:Array
/mx:DataGrid
[flexcoders] Re: Dynamic Assignment of DataGrid columns
Please ignore previous post.
Just noticed that in copy/paste of the code
I left the columns bit off.
mx:columns
{_displayColumns}
/mx:columns
Sorry for the bandwidth,
Claude
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, generalxxaxx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have created an mxml component for a datagrid.
I wanted to switch the columns between three sets.
The code below is my attempt to accomplish this. A failed attempt.
Is there something wrong with this approach?
Or, is there perhaps something wrong with my implementation?
Regards,
Claude
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:DataGrid xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
horizontalScrollPolicy=auto verticalScrollPolicy=auto
editable=false width=100% height=100%
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridColumn;
public function setDisplayColumns(which:String):void {
switch (which)
{
case 1:
_displayColumns = colSet1;
break;
case 2:
_displayColumns = colSet2;
break;
case 3:
_displayColumns = colSet3;
break;
}
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Array id=colSet1
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field1 headerText=title1 /
/mx:Array
mx:Array id=colSet1
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field2 headerText=title2 /
/mx:Array
mx:Array id=colSet3
mx:DataGridColumn dataField=field3 headerText=title3 /
/mx:Array
/mx:DataGrid
[flexcoders] Re: Creating Custom Events - I need help!
Thanks for the correction, Mayank.
Robert
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mayank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The metadata tag is only to assist your compiler and does not
translate in
any runtime code.
Since you are using actionscript to dispatch and catch the event you can
skip this tag. The application will work just fine.
On 9/7/07, robertdx.tw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think that you should state complete class path in metadata tag.
something like:
mx:Metadata
[Event
(name=uploadComplete,type=com.somdomain.MultipleUploadFileEvent)]
/mx:Metadata
otherwise, compiler won't know where the event class is.
Good luck.
Robert
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
danielvlopes danielvlopes@
wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying create a custom event, this event is dispatched completed
upload of some files.
But Event type 'MultipleUploadFileEvent' is unavailable. the erro
appear.
i think the reason is because i extended custom event from
flash.event.Event and this custom event need to be extended of other
package, but i don't who.
Here is part of my code:
My meta data is (extended of flash.event.Event):
mx:Metadata
[Event (name=uploadComplete, type=MultipleUploadFileEvent)]
/mx:Metadata
in function make upload i had de following code:
refUploadFile.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA,
onUploadCompleteData);
And in this moment (onUploadCompleteData) a try to dispatche event
calling uploadComplete function:
public function onUploadCompleteData(event:DataEvent):void {
numCurrentUpload++;
uploadProgress.visible=false;
uploadForm.visible=true;
if (numCurrentUpload arrUploadFiles.length) {
startUpload(false);
}else{
uploadComplete(event.data.toString());
}
}
this is the function to dispatch event:
public function uploadComplete(xmlResult:String) :void{
var eventObj:MultiUploadFileEvent = new
MultiUploadFileEvent(xmlResult,uploadComplete);
dispatchEvent(eventObj);
}
Thanks everyone.
Re: [flexcoders] Best Practices for XML Compression
Have you seen this library? http://code.google.com/p/vanrijkom-flashlibs/ It may be a great way to save some bandwidth... Mark On 9/9/07, Steve Hueners [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With e4x it's much more tempting to use XML for lots of my client/server traffic but the overhead is still going to be a problem. I've see a couple compression strategies outlined but most for AS2 and/or i'm not clear on server-side requirements. Is there a) any good overview of the topic; b) emerging consensus as to how best approach? thx --steve... -- 323-573-4352(c) AIM:bulbousbeans MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[flexcoders] LocalConnection and BitmapData
I have two flex apps and I would like to send a BitmapData object
between them. The Sender application gets the BitmapData from a UI
object and sends it to the Receiver application.
Sender Application:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.SWFLoader;
public function sendButtonImage():void{
var out_lc:LocalConnection = new
LocalConnection();
var bitmapData:BitmapData;
bitmapData = new BitmapData(target.width,
target.height);
bitmapData.draw(target,new Matrix());
out_lc.send(_foobar, imageHandler,
bitmapData);
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Button id=target x=10 y=10 label=Button
click={sendButtonImage()}/
/mx:Application
Receiver Application:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
applicationComplete=appComplete()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.SWFLoader;
public var in_lc:LocalConnection;
public function appComplete():void{
in_lc = new LocalConnection();
in_lc.allowInsecureDomain(*);
in_lc.client = this;
in_lc.allowDomain(*);
in_lc.connect(_foobar);
}
public function imageHandler(foo:BitmapData):void{
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
On the receiver side I get a type coercion error, saying:
Error #2044: Unhandled AsyncErrorEvent:. text=Error #2095:
flash.net.LocalConnection was unable to invoke callback imageHandler.
error=TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to flash.display.BitmapData.
Can you not send a BitmapData object across a LocalConnection? I
haven't seen anyone say this isn't possible so, I must be doing
something totally stupid.
thanks for any info.
-d
[flexcoders] Re: Rotating Thing, Example inside
they probably rendered a few steps of the spinning animation into buffers. then they display the appropriate buffer based on how far you've rotated it. notice how when you place a window on one side of the cube it goes wonky when you rotate it to another side.
[flexcoders] How to Pass Data From Server to Client On App Load
Hi guys,
I've been banging around solutions to this (apparently) simple problem
for a few months. I still haven't found something I'm happy with.
In our system users load Flex apps off an Apache server, authenticating
to Apache using Single Sign-On (mod_auth_kerb against an ActiveDirectory
server). The Flex app then loads/modifies data using HTTPServices to a
Rails app. Apache passes the authentication details to Rails in a
header, so I know the username in Rails and can lookup groups using LDAP
on the AD server.
My problem is: how do I quickly and securely pass the name of the logged
in user to the Flex app running on the client? I've tried the following
methods:
1. Use mod_rewrite to redirect the browser to
app.swf?user=%{REMOTE_USER} and then use ExternalInterface to read the
user parameter in Flex. -- Can get the user straight away, yay, but it's
obviously insecure.
2. Provide a Rails action that reports the authenticated user (and
groups). -- Not quick enough: I want to know the user straight away at
app startup so I can display admin functions to admin users. Also the
HTTPService call seems like unnecessary overhead to me.
Any ideas how to do this? Some options I can think of but I'm not sure
are possible:
1. Embed the username in the .swf somehow. I guess this would be a use
for live-compiled MXML files on the server (but we don't have FDS/LCDS).
2. Configure Apache to send the username back in the HTTP headers and
read them using ExternalInterface (possible?). Wouldn't be particularly
secure. Although all the actual security is in Rails, so even if people
managed to get the admin interface in Flex they couldn't use it to
change anything on the server without the correct permissions on their
user account.
3. Delay the startup of the Flex app until I get a result from the user
HTTPService? I don't really want the user to wait though...
4. Use ExternalInterface to get the authenticated username from the
browser using JavaScript. No idea if there are JavaScript functions to
do this but would probably be the best method - no round trip to the server.
Ta!
Charlie
[flexcoders] main application's url?
Hey - I've got a flex app that has to sit on the internet at different domains; what's the easiest way to get the main url for future httpservice callbacks, as 'localhost' doesn't seem to work...
[flexcoders] Re: Rotating Thing, Example inside
Hi, You can use Alex Uhlmann's distortion effects http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/2007/03/distortion_effe\ .cfm Robert --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was wondering if anyone knew how to do something like this http://www.thereplicants.net/flex/test/InfobolsaDashboard.swf hold SHIFT+ESC and use the cursor thats in the middle of the mouse to move it \ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222
[flexcoders] Re: private / getters and setters
If you're ever interested in using ASDoc to document your classes,
it states you should name the variable, followed by the setter, then
the getter.
i.e.:
private var _a:Object;
public function set a(value:Object):void
{
_a = value;
}
public function get a():Object
{
return _a;
}
This would be solely for documentation and future developers though -
doesn't really effect your code either way! :D
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the best practice for this, show i always have the private
variables on top and then getters/setters later or just group both
of them right after the other
private var _test:Number
//Constructor here
//events etcc
//getters and setters or
//construct
//vents
//private var_test:Number
getters/setters
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[flexcoders] Re: How to converst an XML to AS Object ?
You can't automatically convert XML to a strong typed object. You
should create a method in your Album class that takes an xml
variable, and then populate the Album from there.
ie
var album:Album = new Album();
album.setData(event.result);
class Album
{
public function setData(data:XML):void
{
//populate the album
}
}
Derrick
Derrick Grigg
www.dgrigg.com
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, lytvynyuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Situation I have XML like that
album
name/name
images
image/image
image/image
image/image
/images
/album
using HTTPService I'm getting this XML.
I have AS Class:
public class Album {
public var name:String;
public var images:ArrayCollection;
}
straight cast like:
var album:Album = Album (event.result);
doesn't work
Is any suggestion around this, what I do wrong, may be there are
some
other way to do that
Thank you.
[flexcoders] building up the url for httpservice
Ok this is stupid.
Since we've got an app that might be moving around, I was going to
either pass the rootURL in flash vars or strip it from the main
application.url.
Well did all that but how do I set it in the httpservice's url with a
variable AND a string:
url={rootURL+\/signup/register\}
?
Re: [flexcoders] building up the url for httpservice
grimmwerks wrote:
Ok this is stupid.
Since we've got an app that might be moving around, I was going to
either pass the rootURL in flash vars or strip it from the main
application.url.
Well did all that but how do I set it in the httpservice's url with a
variable AND a string:
url={rootURL+\/signup/register\}
?
url={rootURL}/signup/register
- s
Re: [flexcoders] building up the url for httpservice
i think thats where the nameofthesevice.Send(...) comes in, so place the url
inside the send, dont quote me on this though
- Original Message
From: grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, September 9, 2007 10:21:36 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] building up the url for httpservice
Ok this is stupid.
Since we've got an app that might be moving around, I was going to either pass
the rootURL in flash vars or strip it from the main application. url.
Well did all that but how do I set it in the httpservice' s url with a variable
AND a string:
url={rootURL+\/signup/register\}
?
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[flexcoders] Re: How to converst an XML to AS Object ?
Thank you I kinda knew about that way ;)
but if my object contains30 fields and also has a bunch of another
objects, this procedure will be painful ;)
What about this way:
public function result(event:ResultEvent):void {
var xmlS:XML = XML(event.result);
var decoder:SimpleXMLDecoder = new SimpleXMLDecoder(true);
var xdoc : XMLDocument = new XMLDocument();
xdoc.ignoreWhite = true;
xdoc.parseXML(xmlS.toXMLString());
var ob:Object = decoder.decodeXML(XMLNode(xdoc.firstChild));
var feed:Album= Album(ob); // Exception here
}
But this doesn't work for me too ;)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Derrick Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't automatically convert XML to a strong typed object. You
should create a method in your Album class that takes an xml
variable, and then populate the Album from there.
ie
var album:Album = new Album();
album.setData(event.result);
class Album
{
public function setData(data:XML):void
{
//populate the album
}
}
Derrick
Derrick Grigg
www.dgrigg.com
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, lytvynyuk lytvynyuk@ wrote:
Situation I have XML like that
album
name/name
images
image/image
image/image
image/image
/images
/album
using HTTPService I'm getting this XML.
I have AS Class:
public class Album {
public var name:String;
public var images:ArrayCollection;
}
straight cast like:
var album:Album = Album (event.result);
doesn't work
Is any suggestion around this, what I do wrong, may be there are
some
other way to do that
Thank you.
[flexcoders] Re: Problem with RichTextEditor and Embedded fonts
That's a shame. Thanks for the response.
Marty
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TextFields, the basis/renderer for (almost) text controls in flex,
allows
you to use embeded fonts or device fonts, but not both at the same
time in a
given TextField. See TextField.embedFonts in livedodcs for
(minimally) more
information.
- Dan Freiman
On 9/9/07, kiwicomposer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks
I'm having a problem with the RichTextEditor when using an
embedded font
in my application.
When the font for TextArea is set to an embedded font, no device fonts
will render in the RTE. Typing when this font is selected just
causes no
characters to be displayed.
Can be duplicated using the following code:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute historyManagementEnabled=true
mx:Style
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
}
@font-face {
src: url(assets/fonts/Calibri.swf);
fontFamily: Calibri;
fontWeight: bold;
}
TextArea
{
fontFamily:Calibri;
fontSize: 13pt;
}
/mx:Style
mx:RichTextEditor /
/mx:Application
Using this code, try setting the font in the RTE to anything other
than
Calibri, and no text is rendered.
I've seen posts on this group that discuss a similar problem
(embedding
Verdana, which possibly causes the device font to be shadowed),
but that
doesn't appear to be the case here.
Any suggestions?
Marty
[flexcoders] Help with AdvancedDatagrid
Guys, We have an issue. We're using a HierarchicalData as dataProvider and we have a case where in a user can add a child node to a parent node. What we want is as follows: A user selects a parent node in data grid (i.e. that particular row appears selected), and then he adds a new node under this parent. What we do is we modify the dataProvider and rebind it, but this make the data grid 'wipe out' any previous selection and now the data in grid appears in the default state (ie when nothing is selected). How can we preserve the selection state? Regards, Sandeep
[flexcoders] RELEASE: maven-flex2-plugin 1.1 released
Greetings all, I have just released maven-flex2-plugin v1.1. This is a plugin to allow flex applications to be built via the Maven automated build system. Changes include: * Fix: Calls to mxmlc and compc may fail if command-line is too long on windows. * Old version of maven-dependency-plugin is used which causes conflicts in some large recursive projects. * Add -licenses.license product serial-number to compiler options as well as a few quality and documentation fixes. The project is available on googlecode at http://code.google.com/p/israfil-mojo, and the actual code is available on the main maven repositories (or should be within a day of this e-mail as the new update is propagated to their servers.) The project documentation can be found at http://www.israfil.net/projects/mojo/maven-flex2-plugin/. Any further issues can be logged at the googlecode site which has an issue (bug) tracker. Thanks for all the issues logged - there are still ones left, and I'll be working on them and some new features over the next two months. My plan is to release more frequently with smaller increments of change. regards, Christian.
Re: [flexcoders] LocalConnection and BitmapData
The problem lies in the fact that BitmapData is not serializable in AMF3. What you can do is: Extend the BitmapData class and add a line like this in the top class definition: [RemoteClass(alias=package.ClassName)] Make sure your new class has no arguments in the constructor and that all the data you want to pass along is available through public properties. What might work in case of BitmapData is the getPixels method. This will give you a ByteArray containing all pixel information. Send that ByteArray over the LocalConnection and at the receiving end use setPixels. To test your solution you can use the following code: var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray(); ba.writeObject(myData); ba.position = 0; var resultData:TypeYouAreExpecting = ba.readObject() as TypeYouAreExpecting; I hope this helps. Greetz Erik
RE: [flexcoders] main application's url?
Application.application.url From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of grimmwerks Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 7:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] main application's url? Hey - I've got a flex app that has to sit on the internet at different domains; what's the easiest way to get the main url for future httpservice callbacks, as 'localhost' doesn't seem to work...
