Re: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

[Weyert de Boer]

Have a look at: http://www.innerfuse.biz/dropbox/WebDU 2007 Leveraging 
Apollo Runtime.zip

Shows how you can make a socket server in Ruby and talk with a Bluetooth 
GPS device.

[flexcoders] Re: sprite.startDrag() - Only one sprite is draggable at a time :-(

[Mic]

Thanks! Exactly what I need.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "sunild99"  wrote:
>
> Here are some links I've book marked on drag and drop:
> 
> - Adobe help
> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?
> content=05_Display_Programming_14.html
> 
> About half way through this page, they talk about what to do when you 
> need to work around the limitation of startDrag only working on one 
> thing at a time.
> 
> - earlier post in this group from Doug McCune about this topic
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/126160
> 
> I think they are both similar approaches, but haven't really read them 
> in a while.
>

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

[Guy Morton]

As Tracy said, yes. A socket is just a network connection. Your flex  
XMLSocket doesn't know or care what language the program listening on  
the other was written in. A socket connection is like a call connected  
between two telephones - if no-one at either end talks or neither end  
understands the other nothing much will happen. It's up to you to make  
conversation by defining how you will pass messages back and forth and  
how you will process them at either end.



On 15/02/2009, at 3:41 AM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:


I am not sure myself about my question :).
First, can Flex be listening to a socket that is created within
any program? I mean, if a vb program creates a socket using
Winsock will Flex be able to listen to such socket?
Second, if yes, how would data actually be transfered?

Thanks

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton  wrote:
>
> Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server to
talk
> to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over
the
> socket, etc.
>
> An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike normal
http
> requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't
see it,
> a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are going
to be
> sent by whom and what those messages mean.
>
> Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?
>
> Guy
>
>
> On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
>
> > I am trying to understand how socket communications work in
flex.
> > This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:
> >
> > var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
> > xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);
> >
> > But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to
that
> > port?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>

[flexcoders] How to stop Flex from compiling my Java source files

[elevight]

I'm using Flex 3.0.2 along with Tomcat 5.0. I code my Java using 
Eclipse 3.1, and I was having problems which I later discovered was 
being caused because Flex Builder was compiling my Java source files.

I have my Flex source files in C:\Tomcat5\webapps\FlexApp\src, and my 
Java source files are in C:\Tomcat5\webapps\FlexApp\WEB-INF\src. When 
I build my Flex application, it tries to recompile the Java source 
files. Is there a way I can tell Flex Builder to leave my Java source 
files alone? It's causing me servlet errors.

Thanks.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Alex Harui DataGrid and DTO question

[Alex Harui]

I'm confused.  The DataGrid uses the dataField in the DataGridColumn to 
determine which property in the DTO/VO it is going to get.

If you don't specify any DataGridColumn, the DTO's properties are introspected 
and used, but you don't get to control the order and usually the property name 
is not really what you want to display in the header ("firstName" instead of 
"First Name").

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of florian.salihovic
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:07 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Alex Harui DataGrid and DTO question


Even if it would be possible, wouldn't it break the model/view seperation? You 
are much
more restricted to the data then you are using the "common" way to display data.

- What about formating the displayed data. This would be needed to be done by 
the DTO.
- Other orders... without columns not possible.
- displaying complex content... renderer needed and this is something the DTO 
shouldn't
care about either.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Cato 
Paus"  wrote:
>
>
> Hi Alex is there somway to force the datagird to use the DTO getters and
> setters insted of columns ?
>
> ex:
>
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
> 
>
>
> 
>

[flexcoders] Re: sprite.startDrag() - Only one sprite is draggable at a time :-(

[sunild999999]

Here are some links I've book marked on drag and drop:

- Adobe help
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?
content=05_Display_Programming_14.html

About half way through this page, they talk about what to do when you 
need to work around the limitation of startDrag only working on one 
thing at a time.

- earlier post in this group from Doug McCune about this topic
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/126160

I think they are both similar approaches, but haven't really read them 
in a while.

[flexcoders]Class path alias

[dorkie dork from dorktown]

Is there a method to alias a class name to short class name?

it was something like:

import com.domain.class;
public var MyAlias = ClassAlias("com.domain.class");

var instance:MyAlias = new MyAlias();

I thought I read about it somewhere around Flex 2.0 but haven't seen it
anywhere since.

[flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

[markgoldin_2000]

I would very much appreciate any code sample.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  
wrote:
>
> Yes.  I wrote a socket server in VB.Net that talked to a Flex 
app.  It
> was years ago but I'll send you the code if you like.
> 
>  
> 
> Tracy Spratt 
> Lariat Services 
> 
> Flex development bandwidth available 
> 
> 
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of markgoldin_2000
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:42 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex
> 
>  
> 
> I am not sure myself about my question :).
> First, can Flex be listening to a socket that is created within 
> any program? I mean, if a vb program creates a socket using 
> Winsock will Flex be able to listen to such socket?
> Second, if yes, how would data actually be transfered?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> , Guy Morton  wrote:
> >
> > Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server 
to 
> talk 
> > to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over 
> the 
> > socket, etc.
> > 
> > An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike 
normal 
> http 
> > requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't 
> see it, 
> > a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are 
going 
> to be 
> > sent by whom and what those messages mean.
> > 
> > Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?
> > 
> > Guy
> > 
> > 
> > On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
> > 
> > > I am trying to understand how socket communications work in 
> flex.
> > > This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:
> > >
> > > var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
> > > xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);
> > >
> > > But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to 
> that
> > > port?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

[Tracy Spratt]

Yes.  I wrote a socket server in VB.Net that talked to a Flex app.  It
was years ago but I'll send you the code if you like.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of markgoldin_2000
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:42 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

 

I am not sure myself about my question :).
First, can Flex be listening to a socket that is created within 
any program? I mean, if a vb program creates a socket using 
Winsock will Flex be able to listen to such socket?
Second, if yes, how would data actually be transfered?

Thanks

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
, Guy Morton  wrote:
>
> Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server to 
talk 
> to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over 
the 
> socket, etc.
> 
> An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike normal 
http 
> requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't 
see it, 
> a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are going 
to be 
> sent by whom and what those messages mean.
> 
> Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to understand how socket communications work in 
flex.
> > This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:
> >
> > var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
> > xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);
> >
> > But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to 
that
> > port?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>

[flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

[markgoldin_2000]

I am not sure myself about my question :).
First, can Flex be listening to a socket that is created within 
any program? I mean, if a vb program creates a socket using 
Winsock will Flex be able to listen to such socket?
Second, if yes, how would  data actually be transfered?

Thanks

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton  wrote:
>
> Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server to 
talk  
> to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over 
the  
> socket, etc.
> 
> An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike normal 
http  
> requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't 
see it,  
> a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are going 
to be  
> sent by whom and what those messages mean.
> 
> Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to understand how socket communications work in 
flex.
> > This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:
> >
> > var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
> > xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);
> >
> > But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to 
that
> > port?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: [flexcoders] AIR Application is not Appearing

[Kevin Benz]

Please be aware of a very simple issue that I don't believe is well
documented... When you go through an upgrade of an existing project from
SDK 3.1 to 3.2 where Air is involved, the compiler links the appropriate
Air objects based on what is contained in the app.xml file (YOUR
APPLICATION NAME-app.xml) in the project home directory. You will find
either (the compiler usually crabs about this if you rely on objects not
in the chosen library though)

http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1";> or 

http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5";>

Make sure this is set correctly for your target environment.

 

KFB

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:17 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:  Re: [flexcoders] AIR Application is not Appearing

 

I've seen this occur if there is some sort of startup error. ( No
global exception handler, eh? ). For example, if your Air app is
looking for a config file using static inatialiser on startup and
can't find it, it could just hang there. Check the flashlog for
errors.

DK

On 2/13/09, Alex Harui mailto:aharui%40adobe.com> >
wrote:
> Did they try uninstalling and re-installing?
>
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Developer
> Adobe Systems Inc.
> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
] On
> Behalf Of Ashish Verma
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:03 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  
> Subject: [flexcoders] AIR Application is not Appearing
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I created an AIR Application which was previously based on AIR 1.0 and
I am
> some more features in that application and compiling with the update
of Flex
> 3 and targeting it for AIR 1.5. After making air file I am putting it
onto
> sever to access by users. But when any user trying to run it after
uploading
> it's not displaying any window only showing task-bar button and doing
> noting. When I use the task-bar context to move command I can see the
dotted
> rectangle on the desktop. I also checked for the installation folder
of the
> application in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings but
there
> was no any folder for it.
>
> Please help me out.
>
>
> Best,
> Ashish
>
>

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: [Req] What do you (love|hate|wish for) about (mx.*|Cairngorm|PureMVC|Mate|Prana|BlazeDS)?

[Richard Rodseth]

Hi Josh

I'm also pleased with Mate. I like how they've gone to great lengths to
allow views to be framework-agnostic.
The dependency-injection that sets up bindings rather than purely injecting
values is nifty too. This makes MVP or model adaptors simpler.
One downside is a loss of type safety in the event map, but they have good
debugging output in the console. Darron Schall just contributed a
DelegateInvoker (in the recently released 0.86b) which can be used with
methods returning AsyncToken, so I can still have a distinct service layer
if I wish.

As for the rest, it's usually singletonitis or boilerplateitis that keeps me
away.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, jim.abbott45 wrote:

>   Just as a suggestion, Why not take Maté and add Java/BlazeDS support
> to it?
>
> (OK, I admit it, I really like what I've seen of Maté so far--IMHO a
> Developer could do a lot worse using another framework.)
>
> --Jim
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Josh
> McDonald  wrote:
> >
> > Hey guys, I have a small request:
> >
> > I'd like to know what grinds your gears, and what makes you smile
> about the
> > Flex library, and about whatever other libraries you use on a daily
> basis to
> > get your work done. If you have time, please post here or to me
> off-list a
> > quick summary of your thoughts, some bullet points, or even a link to
> > somebody else's blog posting that sums up your ideas. Anything
> you've got to
> > say, even if it's no more than "PureMVC ftw!", I'd like to hear it.
> >
> > I have a keen interest in frameworks, and I'm planning on building
> something
> > that takes the best ideas I can find (and cook up) from these and my
> > experiences maintaining a mostly-closed-source framework at my 9-5.
> It's for
> > my own apps, I'll be dog-fooding it, but it will be open source.
> It's going
> > to be a full-stack framework with an optional Java+Warp+BlazeDS
> component,
> > so if you think you've got some good ideas, or would like to help,
> please
> > drop me a line.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > --
> > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for
> thee."
> >
> > Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
> > - j...@...
> > - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
> > - http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/
> >
>
>  
>

Re: [flexcoders] AIR Application is not Appearing

[Douglas Knudsen]

I've seen this occur if there is some sort of startup error. ( No
global exception handler, eh? ). For example, if your Air app is
looking for a config file using static inatialiser on startup and
can't find it, it could just hang there. Check the flashlog for
errors.

DK

On 2/13/09, Alex Harui  wrote:
> Did they try uninstalling and re-installing?
>
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Developer
> Adobe Systems Inc.
> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Ashish Verma
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:03 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] AIR Application is not Appearing
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I created an AIR Application which was previously based on AIR 1.0 and I am
> some more features in that application and compiling with the update of Flex
> 3 and targeting it for AIR 1.5. After making air file I am putting it onto
> sever to access by users. But when any user trying to run it after uploading
> it's not displaying any window only showing task-bar button and doing
> noting. When I use the task-bar context to move command I can see the dotted
> rectangle on the desktop. I also checked for the installation folder of the
> application in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings but there
> was no any folder for it.
>
> Please help me out.
>
>
> Best,
> Ashish
>
>

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[flexcoders] Re: HTML > advice please

[aphexyuri]

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for...thanks!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Maya Tulchinsky  wrote:
>
> Check out this one:
> http://www.deitte.com/IFrameDemo3/IFrameDemo.html
> 
> Here is blog about Iframe use in flex:
>
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/blog/2006/12/mixing-html-and-flex-using-iframe.html
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Maya
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 2/13/09, aphexyuri  wrote:
> From: aphexyuri 
> Subject: [flexcoders] HTML  > advice please
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 5:31 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All
> 
> 
> 
> As far as I know, we can't load complex HTML pages into a Flex
> 
> control, but I was wondering if anybody has had experience with this.
> 
> 
> 
> Its for a dashboard app that has flex elements, but must be able to
> 
> load full websites into specific "containers" of the dashboard.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what other technologies would be able to do this, Ajax,
> 
> JavaScript?
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. ..thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Yuri
>

[flexcoders] Re: Memory consumption. Part 2. ItemRenderers

[Dmitri Girski]

Thanks, Alex! 


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui  wrote:
>
> ListItemRenderer.as adds and removes its icon in commitProperties.  
If it is the same 3 icons, and they are small, they should be embedded 
and then you don't need the Image class and will save lots of memory 
that way too.
> 

[flexcoders] Re: Alex Harui DataGrid and DTO question

[florian.salihovic]

Even if it would be possible, wouldn't it break the model/view seperation? You 
are much 
more restricted to the data then you are using the "common" way to display data.

- What about formating the displayed data. This would be needed to be done by 
the DTO.
- Other orders... without columns not possible.
- displaying complex content... renderer needed and this is something the DTO 
shouldn't 
care about either.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Cato Paus"  wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Alex is there somway to force the datagird to use the DTO getters and
> setters insted of columns ?
> 
> ex:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: [flexcoders] Socket communications in Flex

[Guy Morton]

Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server to talk  
to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over the  
socket, etc.


An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike normal http  
requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't see it,  
a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are going to be  
sent by whom and what those messages mean.


Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?

Guy


On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:


I am trying to understand how socket communications work in flex.
This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:

var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);

But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to that
port?

Thanks

[flexcoders] Socket communications in Flex

[markgoldin_2000]

I am trying to understand how socket communications work in flex.
This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:

var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);

But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to that 
port? 

Thanks

[flexcoders] Re: filter arraycollection with checkbox acting wired

[johndoematrix]

i have tried every advise provide so far and still doesn't work. this
is the senario, in my database i have a column(Field Name) for pizza
with Data Type "YES/NO". i display everything in a flex app through a
arraycollection and want to filter that data. i use a checkbox to
filter data if there is pizza or not. when the pizza checkbox is
checked i want to show only entries with pizza. hope that details what
i wanna do.

[flexcoders] Alex Harui DataGrid and DTO question

[Cato Paus]

Hi Alex is there somway to force the datagird to use the DTO getters and
setters insted of columns ?

ex: