[flexcoders] default Image dimensions
Normally, when using the Image class, if you omit the dimensions, Flex will default the image to its real width/height. However, I'm running into a situation in that Flex is defaulting the dimensions to 0,0 (if omitting explicit dimensions). Has anyone else ever encounted this issue? As for some general details of its useage, I'm instantiating a new instance of the Image() class (rather then using the mx:Image tag), and it's being used as private class variable in a custom container (based off the Container class). The image is being defined as a class variable and then instantiated with its source in the createChildren() method. Being as though this is a runtime image (and therefore won't know and won't be able to hardcode the dimensions), I'm having to listen for the image load complete event to detect what the dimensions should be, and then set them explicitly. This works, but I'd like to find out why the default sizing behavior isn't working correctly.
[flexcoders] pass extra data to event listener
Currently i'm using this code:
.
private var _contactConfirmRemove:Contact;
private function removeContact_listener(event:ContactEvent):void {
var contact:Contact = event.contact;
this._contactConfirmRemove = contact;
Alert.show(
Are you sure you want to delete the contact:\n +
contact.firstName
+ + contact.lastName + ?, // text
Delete Contact, // title
Alert.YES|Alert.NO, // flags
null, // parent
removeContactConfirm, // clickListener
null, // iconClass
Alert.NO // defaultButton
);
}
private function removeContactConfirm(event:CloseEvent):void {
var contact:Contact = this._contactConfirmRemove;
if(event.detail == Alert.YES) {
this.contactManager.remove(contact);
}
this._contactConfirmRemove = null;
}
.
I'm setting the event listener of the Alert box to
removeContactConfirm. I need to pass my Contact variable to this event
listener. I'm currently setting it to a class variable so I can later
access it in the removeContactConfirm function. However, I'd prefer to
just pass it directly to the removeContactConfirm event listener,
rather then temporarily set it to a class var and access it later.
But the way you specifiy an event listener for the Alert box doesn't
allow you to pass extra information. Is there a way to do this? I was
thinking about creating a custom event that extends the CloseEvent
that holds extra data. But then I would also need to configure the
Alert box to dispatch that new custom CloseEvent instead, and I'm not
sure how to to do that.
Is this possible and if so, any pointers?
[flexcoders] ComboBox ItemEditor
I'm using combobox as a dropin item editor in a datagrid. I don't like how many steps it takes to edit a cell... 1: click the cell (renderer turns into editor) 2: click the editor (combobox drops down) 3: click the desired selection (combobox closes) 4: click outside or tab-out to convert the editor back to the renderer and dispatch the itemEditEnd event. When you make a selection in the combobox, I'd prefer it to close up, switch back to the renderer, and then dispatch the itemEditEnd event right away. I've noticed that making a selection in the combobox editor does not dispatch any of the itemEdit events, so I figured I would need to dispatch a combobox change event (from the combobox) and then hopefully use a listener to programmatically destroy the editor and dispatch the itemEditEvent or something. Not sure if this is even possible, but in any case, I can't seem to find anything that can listen to a dispatched event from the editor. I've tried listening for the event on the datagrid, the datagrid column, and the component containing the datagrid... all giving errors. Is this not possible? Or is there a better way to approach this?
[flexcoders] Re: Minimized Panel
The Flex2:Training From the Source book has you develop an application that has panels with minimize/maximize buttons. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Pavel Zabelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! People have you any idea how to develop Panel that have minimize functionality?
[flexcoders] ComboBox itemEditor
I'm using a combobox as a drop-in itemeditor in a datagrid. Whenever they make a selection, I don't like how the user has to click outside or tab-out to get the renderer to replace the editor and dispatch the itemEditEnd event. I'd prefer that once they make a selection in the combobox, it closes up, goes away, label renderer reappears with new value, and itemEditEnd event dispatches. I've noticed taht making a selection in the combobox does not dispatch any of the itemEdit events, so I figure I need to dispatch a change event from the combo editor. And then I'm hoping I can have a change listener programatically update the cell, destory the editor, and dispatch the itemEditEnd event. However, I can't find anything that can listen to an event broadcasted from an itemEditor. I tried listening on the datagrid, the datagrid column, and the component holding the datagrid. is this even possible? Or is there a different approach to solving this?
[flexcoders] Skin MenuBar
I have a menubar with just one item that I'm trying to skin with a small .gif image. The skin image has a size of 10w X 9h. I used the css backgroundSkin selector to apply the image and then resized the menubar component to 10w X 9h. The skin looks perfect, except when I try to click the menubar nothing happens. It appears as if the hit area is invisible because if I increase the buttonBar size to 20w X 19h the hit area exist along the very right edge. So, in other words, if I make the menubar as small as I need it, the hit area goes away. I've also tried to use the CSS itemUpSkin, and it places the image in the hit area, which of course, cuts off the image if too small. Is there any way I can increas the hit area of the MenuBar to cover the entire visable part of the menuBar items?
[flexcoders] Re: titlewindow reveals too early
maybe pop open the title window in the result event of the data loading? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bghoward3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way i can stall the tile window opening until the items in it have full drawn? my title window contains a combobox component populated with dynamic data, so since it takes longer tot load than the the window takes to open, the window resizes after it opens and looks sloppy any direction appreciated
[flexcoders] Customized NumericStepper
I want to make a few changes to how the numericstepper works. For instance, when they click the up button and reach the maximum, I want it to flip down to the minium, and vice versa. There's just a small bit of code in the checkValidValue() function that I need to change. However, if I try to override that function I get the error: 1020: Method marked override must override another method. First of all, I don't quite understand why I can override some methods and not others. And if I can't override that method, what other options do I have?
[flexcoders] ButtonBar labelPlacement
I've noticed that when using the ButtonBar, that in the dataProvider, specifying normal Button attributes (such as labelPlacement, overIcon, etc.) have no effect. Is it possible to easily control these properties of the individual buttons? Or must one resort to a bunch of buttons in an HBox? -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] passing data to CF and back
I have an ArrayCollection used as the dataProvider for a datagrid. Submitting a form adds an item to the ArrayCollection (and therefore the grid). I'm also detecting changes to the ArrayCollection using the CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE event listener. When detecting an ADD, for example, I take the string value of one of the fields in the newly added item, and pass it to a cfc method using RemoteObject. The CFC does some processing and returns data. In the RemoteObject ResultHandler, I want to use the returned data to update the item in the grid. The problem is, I no longer know what index of the ArrayCollection to update. It won't be the last item, 'cause users can continually add items to the queue. Do I need to pass the index index of the new item to the cfc, and then pass it back so I know which index to then update? Or is there a better way? Even as users add items to the queue, it's possible that they can remove an item from the queue before it gets processed by the CFC... so it doesn't seem like passing the index to the cfc and back is a good choice. Or... is there a better way to architect this overall? -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] tree resize to content
I've noticed that the default behavior of the tree is to show a vertical scroll bar once you open enough nodes that it becomes taller then tree dimensions (even if you do not specify a height). Is it possible to have the tree resize it's height to never show a vert scroll bar... without just specifying a large height to begin with? -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Panel padding
That did it. I should have noticed those attributes in the attributes category view. Thank you! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for jumping on this late... What you¹re looking for is the following: borderThicknessRight=²0² BorderThicknessLeft=²0² BorderThicknessTop=²0² BorderThicknessBottom=²0² I¹ve been meaning to include these styles in the style explorer for Panel, as their omission is an oversight. -Peter / \® PETER BAIRD 888/ \888User Experience Consultant 88/ / \88Adobe Consulting | Adobe Systems, Inc 8/ /8\ \8275 Grove St. Newton, MA / /888\ \ \8\ On 7/28/06 6:05 PM, bhaq1972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay this is my last suggestion (cant think of anything else). for your datagrid add a minWindth=0 sometimes i found that works well with width=100% --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: that doesn't work either. it widens the conents inside, but clips them so that the same left/right padding amount exists. the weird thing is that the paddingTop behaves as it should, it's just the left/right padding that's not working --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , bhaq1972 mbhaque@ wrote: what happens if you remove the outer Canvas and make the panel borderStyle=none and paddingLeft=-10 and paddingRight=-10 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: still no effect :( --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , bhaq1972 mbhaque@ wrote: and make the panel borderStyle=none --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote: Hi Devin, Try setting the Panel's borderThickness to 0. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: I have a panel with a datagrid in it. I don't want any space around the datagrid and the panel sides, but can't seem to get rid of it. I set all the padding option on the panel to 0, and it does nothing -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Panel padding
I have a panel with a datagrid in it. I don't want any space around the datagrid and the panel sides, but can't seem to get rid of it. I set all the padding option on the panel to 0, and it does nothing -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Panel padding
that doesn't work either. it just gets rid of the 1px solid border I have. mx:Canvas backgroundColor=#ff cornerRadius=5 left=183 right=10 top=66 bottom=10 borderStyle=solid borderThickness=1 mx:Panel layout=vertical title=Inbox (3) dropShadowEnabled=false headerColors=[#6186b3,#6186b3] borderColor=#6186b3 borderStyle=solid borderThickness=1 borderAlpha=1 paddingBottom=-1 paddingLeft=-1 paddingRight=-1 paddingTop=-1 left=25 right=25 top=25 height=218 verticalGap=-1 backgroundColor=#cfddee mx:MenuBar width=100% fillColors=[#ee, #ee] fillAlphas=[1.0, 1.0]/mx:MenuBar mx:DataGrid width=100% height=100% mx:columns mx:DataGridColumn headerText=From dataField=col1/ mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Subject dataField=col2/ mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Recieved dataField=col3/ mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Size dataField=col3/ /mx:columns /mx:DataGrid mx:ControlBar barColor=#6186b3 mx:Label text=11 messages, 0 deleted, 10 unread/ mx:Spacer width=100%/ mx:Label text=First lt;lt; 1 gt;gt; Last/ /mx:ControlBar /mx:Panel /mx:Canvas --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Devin, Try setting the Panel's borderThickness to 0. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: I have a panel with a datagrid in it. I don't want any space around the datagrid and the panel sides, but can't seem to get rid of it. I set all the padding option on the panel to 0, and it does nothing -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Panel padding
still no effect :( --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bhaq1972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and make the panel borderStyle=none --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote: Hi Devin, Try setting the Panel's borderThickness to 0. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: I have a panel with a datagrid in it. I don't want any space around the datagrid and the panel sides, but can't seem to get rid of it. I set all the padding option on the panel to 0, and it does nothing -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Panel padding
still no dice, but I appreciate you helping me! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bhaq1972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay this is my last suggestion (cant think of anything else). for your datagrid add a minWindth=0 sometimes i found that works well with width=100% --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: that doesn't work either. it widens the conents inside, but clips them so that the same left/right padding amount exists. the weird thing is that the paddingTop behaves as it should, it's just the left/right padding that's not working --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bhaq1972 mbhaque@ wrote: what happens if you remove the outer Canvas and make the panel borderStyle=none and paddingLeft=-10 and paddingRight=-10 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: still no effect :( --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bhaq1972 mbhaque@ wrote: and make the panel borderStyle=none --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote: Hi Devin, Try setting the Panel's borderThickness to 0. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway devin@ wrote: I have a panel with a datagrid in it. I don't want any space around the datagrid and the panel sides, but can't seem to get rid of it. I set all the padding option on the panel to 0, and it does nothing -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: panel header colors alpha
That worked, thank you very much! I would have never thought that a border style would affect that, but I guess I can see out it would --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the borderAlpha to 1. Try: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute mx:Panel x=10 y=10 headerColors=[#ff,#ff] width=386 height=299 borderAlpha=1 /mx:Panel /mx:Application - Original Message - From: Devin Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: [flexcoders] panel header colors alpha I have a panel with the header colors set to white mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute mx:Panel x=10 y=10 headerColors=[#ff,#ff] /mx:Panel /mx:Application but the header renders a light grey, instead of pure white. it seems to be combination of white and the application background color. same is true if I try to make it pure black, [#00,#00], it ends up being a dark grey. I've tried messing with the panel alpha settings, but it doesn't help (they're defaulted to 1.0 anyway) -- 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 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Icons in menu - not working
I don't quite understand this solution. Mind showing a more complete
code example? thanks
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kelly Birr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found my problem. It appears that the menu cannot bind to static
vars for
images. I solved the problem by specifying
{ public const myMenuIcon:Class = GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon; } where
GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon is declared exactly as below. Then pout the local
name myMenuIcon in the @icon field of the xml.
- Kelly
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Behalf Of Kelly Birr
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Icons in menu - not working
I've been racking my brain trying to get icons in the menu bar. I
think I'm
doing exactly what the docs say but I cannot get any icon to render.
The
label and actions work perfectly but the icon does not show up. The
icon is
embedding properly as I can see it in the icon property of a
button in the
same file. I've also tried putting the path to the icon file in the
xml, no
joy.
My Menu XML Is:
menu
menuitem label=File
menuitem label=Open data=File!Open /
menuitem type=separator /
menuitem label=Exit data=File!Exit icon=exitOn /
/menuitem
/menu
My MXML is:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Embed(source=images/icons/iconExitOn.gif)]
public static const exitOn:Class;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:MenuBar id=menu width=100% x=0 y=0 height=27
dataProvider={menuXml} showRoot=false
cornerRadius=3 itemClick=menuHandler(event) labelField=@label
iconField=@icon /
I cannot find any samples anywhere with icons in the menu, Is this
still
supported? Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I am using
Flex 2.0
RTM
- Kelly
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[flexcoders] Re: Icons in menu - not working
Thank you for the example file, Kelly. Turns out I was doing it
correctly, it's just that I was trying to get the icon to appear on
the root menuitem. As soon as I moved the icon to one of the sub
menuitems, it appeared with no problems.
My intentions were to have icons in the root menuitems, but I gather
this is not natively built-in and would require some sort of workaround?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Devin Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't quite understand this solution. Mind showing a more complete
code example? thanks
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kelly Birr kelly.fx@ wrote:
I found my problem. It appears that the menu cannot bind to static
vars for
images. I solved the problem by specifying
{ public const myMenuIcon:Class = GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon; } where
GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon is declared exactly as below. Then pout the
local
name myMenuIcon in the @icon field of the xml.
- Kelly
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kelly Birr
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Icons in menu - not working
I've been racking my brain trying to get icons in the menu bar. I
think I'm
doing exactly what the docs say but I cannot get any icon to render.
The
label and actions work perfectly but the icon does not show up. The
icon is
embedding properly as I can see it in the icon property of a
button in the
same file. I've also tried putting the path to the icon file in the
xml, no
joy.
My Menu XML Is:
menu
menuitem label=File
menuitem label=Open data=File!Open /
menuitem type=separator /
menuitem label=Exit data=File!Exit icon=exitOn /
/menuitem
/menu
My MXML is:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Embed(source=images/icons/iconExitOn.gif)]
public static const exitOn:Class;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:MenuBar id=menu width=100% x=0 y=0 height=27
dataProvider={menuXml} showRoot=false
cornerRadius=3 itemClick=menuHandler(event) labelField=@label
iconField=@icon /
I cannot find any samples anywhere with icons in the menu, Is this
still
supported? Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I am using
Flex 2.0
RTM
- Kelly
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[flexcoders] Re: Where to go to get flex builder 2 assistance?
I'm having the same problem. no matter what directory I try to browse
to, I get the, Server root is invalid error
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Does this list's topic encompass questions related to the Flex
Builder 2 and
CF/Flex connectivity betas?
In particular, I'm trying to get started with all of this. The
first thing
I tried to do was to create a new Flex project in Flex Builder using
ColdFusion Flash Remoting Service. I presume this is the CF/Flex
connectivity stuff. I've been unable so far to find any
information to
confirm or refute this.
From there FB asks for the root folder of the Flex Data Services server,
which it seems to indicate is under my JRun folder somewhere.
Because I'm
working with CF I looked under the jrun4\servers\cfusion\...
folders and
found a flex folder. I set the root folder to that path. I then
checked
the port my CF instance is running on (8300) and set the Root URL to
http://localhost:8300/web-inf/flex/ (and a range of others). I
picked this
url because it's the most correct given the servers port.
Amusingly, I
can't access that url via the web browser so I'm sure that's got
something
to do with it.
I edited the flex-enterprise-services.xml file in that flex folder
to set
the port to 8300. Once thing I noticed was that the default url was
http://localhost:8700{context.root}/flex2gateway/
http://localhost:8700%7bcontext.root%7d/flex2gateway/ . I don't
have a
folder flex2gateway anywhere on my system. I tried changing that
to /flex
but that didn't work either.
Anyhow, the error I'm getting when I click Validate Location is this:
Server Root is invalid. Could not locate flex-config.xml or
flex-enterprise-services.xml
I don't know which root is the problem, Root folder or Root URL.
Furthermore, the finish button is grayed out so I assume that I need to
click Validation Location before I can move forward. The folder I
specified
in the Root Folder field *does* have a flex-enterprise-services.xml
file,
but no flex-config.xml.
So, I really don't know where to go to get help on this (I've dug around
labs.macromedia.com to no avail) so I'm asking here to get some
guidance.
Thanks,
Doug Hughes
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[flexcoders] no more then one icon per menu
I was adding icons to the menus in the MenuBar.
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Embed(source=icons/printpreview.gif)]
var printpreview:String;
[Embed(source=icons/print.gif)]
var print:String;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:MenuBar
mx:dataProvider
mx:XML
menuitem label=File
menuitem label=Print Preview icon={printpreview}/
menuitem label=Print... icon={print}/
When I added the icon for print preview, it worked fine. Then I
added the icon for print, and it showed up, but the print preview
icon disapeared. So then I removed the icon from print, and
the print preview one reappeared. It's only allowing me to have one
or the other, but not both!
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[flexcoders] Re: Odd behaviors with List controls
As long as it's funky behavior and not my code :) But it's no biggie. It's not a client app, just a learning app. Thanks for your suggestions, I'll give them a try. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re the remaining space: I realize you have to scroll quite a bit (of course it differed depending on the size of my window) but I wonder if at any time the space available was actually larger than the full height of a row. That's the key... Both your list issues are funky, wish I had some better suggestions for you. For the TileList images maybe try setting the image source to null and then afterward setting it to the real value? So in setValue set it to null, then enter the if statement and set it to the real value? Or maybe call invalidate? It should work, it's funky. Of course you could also just load the image from the web server and assume the browser cache will take care of it for you (turn it into a JPG or SWF instead of a GIF). For the review list I think there's basically a bug in the variableRowHeight code, only thing you could try is calling invalidate() (or maybe invalidateLayout) on the List and see if it resets its content rows? A Repeater also would do pretty well here, you could simulate the alternating background color pretty easily by doing some simple test in the initialize statement if event.target.getRepeaterIndex() % 2 == 0 and setting the backgroundColor appropriately. Sorry to not be of more help, Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:45 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Odd behaviors with List controls Hi Matt, thanks for responding! It seems like you'd only have extra space in a list control if the height of the control is greater then the combined height of all the elements in the control. That wouldn't be the case in this example, since you have to scroll vertically to see all the items. If you scroll to where the last row is completely visible, you can still keep scrolling quite a bit. I never did fix the second item, it's just that the steps to reproduce it have changed. Let me first explain the criteria on what must exist to create the bug. You have to have a dynamic image in a non-visible cell of the list (due to the list being scrolled up or down). Then you reload the data provider causing the scrolling to reset itself. Any cell that shares the same index as the previously hidden cell, that also becomes visible due to the resetting of the scrollbar, that also uses an embedded image, will be affected. So, in my application, http://default.devinholloway.com/flex/capoeira/, click on the Books link. With my screen resolution, I can see two columns and three rows of books (all dynamic images). With the scroll bar still at the top, click to go to page 2. The first two rows use the embedded no image icon. That's an example of it working correctly. Now click to back to page 1 and then scroll all the way to the bottom. The first two rows of books should be completely hidden (and hopefully you'll notice that huge amount of leftover space that the bottom). While the scroll bar is still at the bottom, click to go to page two. The first two rows of books on page two, which used to show the no image embedded icon, now show the same book covers that the first rows on the page 1 does, only resized to the height of the no image icon. If you want to see happen even more, scroll down to the bottom of the second page, you'll see that the last two products show the photos of the last two products on page one (again resized). for the 4th issue, you need to be on the books page, then the rest of the steps are the same. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry it took so long to respond to this, you may have addressed some of these issues already: 1) I believe the extra row is actually just leftover space in the list. We don't show partial rows unless you explicitly set a count that would cause the row to appear. 2) I think you've fixed this on the site as it is now? 3) This resizing might be a bug in our List class. The extra row is simply because we have a minimum number of cells that need to get rendered to allow scrolling with variableRowHeight. 4) Since you've added more content since your post I can't reproduce this. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:07 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Odd behaviors with List controls I've
[flexcoders] Re: Button toggle clarification
Thank you for pointing that out. I do see it now. Though, it doesn't seem all that useful, unless I'm missing the greater purpose. It's not like a random user understand the purpose. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ashish Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to see a halo around the toggled button when you click. Its same as the halo you see in mouseover state. -Ashish From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:28 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Button toggle clarification the button control has a toggle attribute. according to the flex docs, Specifies whether a button can be toggled, true, or acts like a pushbutton, false. The default value is false. My initial assumption was that if you set toggle to true, then if you clicked a button, it would remain in the pressed state until you click it again. But this isn't so. To experiment, I created two button controls, side by side, one with toggle set to true, and the other false. I couldn't find any difference whatsoever. So obviously it doesn't affect anything visually. So my question is, what's it for? What does it do? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Computer software testing http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Computer+software+testingw1=Comput er+software+testingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+deve lo perc=4s=93.sig=kh2CguJwmatU5oBXjFo9Rg Macromedia flex http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Macromedia+flexw1=Computer+softwar e+testingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+developerc=4 s= 93.sig=dAUcEV7do91-wrRtVS641g Development http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Developmentw1=Computer+software+te stingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+developerc=4s=93 . sig=AlxNUQBOI7Io7S7nhmxV0Q Software developer http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Software+developerw1=Computer+soft ware+testingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+developerc =4 s=93.sig=QWIit8JayomoIHLVkV3FDg YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS *Visit your group flexcoders http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders on the web. *To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Button toggle clarification
Yeah, I see the purpose of it, and it is indeed what I assumed. Thank you for the explanations and example. I guess all I'm saying is, if a button was in a selected toggle mode, I'd expect it be visually stuck in a pressed state. I mean, if I didn't notice it to be selected (without you pointing it out to me), then my mom surely wouldn't have understood it if she was using the application. It's the visual indicator that's poorly implemented. So I'm assuming that if you wanted it to be more visually apparent, that you'd need to reskin it or extend it, or whatever the method is of keeping it in a pressed state visually. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ashish Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like my post didn't go thro' first time, sending it again... Toggle button can be used in many ways. It shows visually that if its in a selected state or not as well as you can get or set the state of the button programmatically using the selected property of the button. It returns true if the toggle button is selected and false if its not selected. I don't have really good use case off hand but for eg. say you are creating a really simple math app with four buttons for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with two input text boxes and a result textbox. If you use the toggle buttons instead of normal buttons user will know by looking at the button state the result in the result box is the output of which mathematical function. -Ashish From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:28 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Button toggle clarification Thank you for pointing that out. I do see it now. Though, it doesn't seem all that useful, unless I'm missing the greater purpose. It's not like a random user understand the purpose. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ashish Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to see a halo around the toggled button when you click. Its same as the halo you see in mouseover state. -Ashish From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:28 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Button toggle clarification the button control has a toggle attribute. according to the flex docs, Specifies whether a button can be toggled, true, or acts like a pushbutton, false. The default value is false. My initial assumption was that if you set toggle to true, then if you clicked a button, it would remain in the pressed state until you click it again. But this isn't so. To experiment, I created two button controls, side by side, one with toggle set to true, and the other false. I couldn't find any difference whatsoever. So obviously it doesn't affect anything visually. So my question is, what's it for? What does it do? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Computer software testing http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Computer+software+testingw1=Comput er+software+testingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+deve lo perc=4s=93.sig=kh2CguJwmatU5oBXjFo9Rg Macromedia flex http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=msk=Macromedia+flexw1=Computer+softwar e+testingw2=Macromedia+flexw3=Developmentw4=Software+developerc=4
[flexcoders] reskinning a list control
I'd like to change a few visual aspects of the list control. In the normal state I'd like the rows to have a gradient background. In the highlighted and selected state I'd like to change the solid background colors. I've never done this, and I've very little experience with flash/actionscript in general, so it's probably going to take me a good while to get it figured out. Problem is, after skimming through the documentation and other online resources, it seems like there's 20 (exageration) different ways to go about this. extending or subclassing components graphically skinning in the flash authoring environment programatically skinning by editing .as files creating a new theme using the rowrender attribute using the FlexForFlash files and so on... Some of these might be refering to the same process, some might not do what I want and have a different purpose then what I'm trying to do. Some might be just for flex 1.0... I'm not asking anyone to write the code for me (though if you have some samples laying around, that'd be great!) but if you can point me in the right direction I'll at least won't be staying up all night learning the wrong way. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: Odd behaviors with List controls
Hi Matt, thanks for responding! It seems like you'd only have extra space in a list control if the height of the control is greater then the combined height of all the elements in the control. That wouldn't be the case in this example, since you have to scroll vertically to see all the items. If you scroll to where the last row is completely visible, you can still keep scrolling quite a bit. I never did fix the second item, it's just that the steps to reproduce it have changed. Let me first explain the criteria on what must exist to create the bug. You have to have a dynamic image in a non-visible cell of the list (due to the list being scrolled up or down). Then you reload the data provider causing the scrolling to reset itself. Any cell that shares the same index as the previously hidden cell, that also becomes visible due to the resetting of the scrollbar, that also uses an embedded image, will be affected. So, in my application, http://default.devinholloway.com/flex/capoeira/, click on the Books link. With my screen resolution, I can see two columns and three rows of books (all dynamic images). With the scroll bar still at the top, click to go to page 2. The first two rows use the embedded no image icon. That's an example of it working correctly. Now click to back to page 1 and then scroll all the way to the bottom. The first two rows of books should be completely hidden (and hopefully you'll notice that huge amount of leftover space that the bottom). While the scroll bar is still at the bottom, click to go to page two. The first two rows of books on page two, which used to show the no image embedded icon, now show the same book covers that the first rows on the page 1 does, only resized to the height of the no image icon. If you want to see happen even more, scroll down to the bottom of the second page, you'll see that the last two products show the photos of the last two products on page one (again resized). for the 4th issue, you need to be on the books page, then the rest of the steps are the same. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry it took so long to respond to this, you may have addressed some of these issues already: 1) I believe the extra row is actually just leftover space in the list. We don't show partial rows unless you explicitly set a count that would cause the row to appear. 2) I think you've fixed this on the site as it is now? 3) This resizing might be a bug in our List class. The extra row is simply because we have a minimum number of cells that need to get rendered to allow scrolling with variableRowHeight. 4) Since you've added more content since your post I can't reproduce this. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:07 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Odd behaviors with List controls I've been noticing a lot of odd behavior with the List and TileList controls. The application I'm working on is located at: http://default.devinholloway.com/flex/capoeira/ You should see the list of titles on the left hand side. If you scroll the product list all the way down, you'll see an empty row. Every time I use a list-based control, it always produces at least one extra empty row at the bottom. Is this expected behavior? Issue #2: Keep the product list scrolled to the bottom to where the top product for both tilelist columns are not visible (my browser is maximized at 1024x768), and then use the NumericStepper pager control to jump to the second page of results. When that loads, the top product for each column should be using the no image book cover. But instead, they're using the same two images for the top two products on the first page of results, only resized to same height as the no image icon. Now scroll to the bottom of the second page, and the last two products might also display the same two images rather then the no image icon. This is fairly consistent behavoir when flipping through pages. Issue #3: Go back to the first page and select the first product. On the right hand side, select the customer reviews accordion pane. This list displaying these reviews have variableRowHeight and wordWrap turned on. When you first select the customer reviews, the list isn't sized correctly. It's as if it figures out the height of the tallest list item, and uses that height for all visible list items. You have to scroll up and down to get it to recalculate and get each list item sized correctly. You should also see one extra blank list item at the bottom like I noted in the first issue. Issue #4: Now use the NumericStepper at the bottom of the reviews to flip to the second page of reviews, and scroll to the bottom
[flexcoders] How much do you charge for Flex development?
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[flexcoders] Re: NumericStepper change event executes on startup
Thanks Matt.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Definitely a bug in NumericStepper. Only suggestion I can make is
that
you put a little hack in that ignores the first change event and
only
acts on subsequent ones.
Matt
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Devin Holloway
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:47 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] NumericStepper change event executes on
startup
I have a web service that executes on application initilization.
When
using the Network Service monitor in FlexBuilder, I noticed that
both
the send and result filters for the web service showed up twice. At
first I assumed this was a bug with the Network Service monitor.
But
sometimes the web service call would fail for whatever reason, and
when it did, it would show two consecutive alert boxes telling me
it
failed. That's when I figured that it is most likely being called
twice.
The web service sends back 10 results at a time, so I'm using the
numericstepper to request additional results. The only two places
in
my application that calls the web service is in the Application
initialize and NumericStepper change attributes.
Out of curiosity, I removed the web service call in the Application
initilization and kept it in the NumericStepper change event. When
the application starts up, the web service still gets called (and
only called once according to the network service monitor).
My conclusion is that the NumericStepper's change event is
automactically executed after initilization, even though the
livedocs
say that the change event is only executed when the value changes
from user interaction.
mx:NumericStepper id=pager value=1 minimum=1
maximum={aws.ItemSearch.result.Items.TotalPages}
change=aws.ItemSearch.send()/
Even though using the numericstepper to call the web service on
application startup works, that seems like an unnatural way to
develop. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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[flexcoders] Odd behaviors with List controls
I've been noticing a lot of odd behavior with the List and TileList
controls. The application I'm working on is located at:
http://default.devinholloway.com/flex/capoeira/
You should see the list of titles on the left hand side. If you
scroll
the product list all the way down, you'll see an empty row. Every
time
I use a list-based control, it always produces at least one extra
empty
row at the bottom. Is this expected behavior?
Issue #2: Keep the product list scrolled to the bottom to where the
top
product for both tilelist columns are not visible (my browser is
maximized at 1024x768), and then use the NumericStepper pager control
to jump to the second page of results. When that loads, the top
product
for each column should be using the no image book cover. But
instead,
they're using the same two images for the top two products on the
first
page of results, only resized to same height as the no image icon.
Now scroll to the bottom of the second page, and the last two
products
might also display the same two images rather then the no image
icon.
This is fairly consistent behavoir when flipping through pages.
Issue #3: Go back to the first page and select the first product. On
the right hand side, select the customer reviews accordion pane.
This
list displaying these reviews have variableRowHeight and wordWrap
turned on. When you first select the customer reviews, the list isn't
sized correctly. It's as if it figures out the height of the tallest
list item, and uses that height for all visible list items. You have
to
scroll up and down to get it to recalculate and get each list item
sized correctly. You should also see one extra blank list item at the
bottom like I noted in the first issue.
Issue #4: Now use the NumericStepper at the bottom of the reviews to
flip to the second page of reviews, and scroll to the bottom. The
second page has 5 review list items, although, the scroll bar stops
at
the end of the third item and won't let you scroll any further.
Sometimes if you scroll up and down, or go to another page of reviews
and come back, it'll let you see all of the reviews on this page.
Here's the code snippets for both the lists:
Product Tile List:
mx:TileList id=productList
dataProvider={aws.ItemSearch.result.Items.Item}
cellRenderer=ProductListCellRenderer liveScrolling=false
change=aws.ItemLookup.send(); width=100% height=100%
itemWidth=225 itemHeight=125/
Product Tile List Cell Renderer:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Embed(source=images/noimg.gif)]
var noimage:String;
function setValue(str:String, item:Object, sel:String) {
if (item==undefined) {
visible = false;
return;
} else {
title.text=item.ItemAttributes.Title;
author.text=(item.ItemAttributes.Author)?By
+ item.ItemAttributes.Author:;
price.text=(item.Offers.Offer)?Price: +
item.Offers.Offer.OfferListing.Price.FormattedPrice:;
availability.text=
(item.Offers.Offer.OfferListing.Availability)?
item.Offers.Offer.OfferListing.Availability:Currently unavailable;
if (item.SmallImage) {
image.source=item.SmallImage.URL;
image.width=item.SmallImage.Width;
image.height=item.SmallImage.Height;
} else {
image.source=noimage;
image.width=60;
image.height=40;
}
visible=true;
}
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Text id=title width=225 height=30 selectable=false
styleName=productTitle/
mx:HBox width=100% height=100%
mx:Image id=image/
mx:VBox
mx:Label id=author width=157/
mx:Text id=availability width=157
selectable=false/
mx:Label id=price styleName=productPrice/
/mx:VBox
/mx:HBox
Customer Reviews List:
mx:List
dataProvider={aws.ItemLookup.result.Items.Item.Cu
stomerReviews.Review}
cellRenderer=CustomerReviewsCellRenderer variableRowHeight=true
wordWrap=true width=100% height=100%/
Customer Reviews List Cell Renderer:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Embed(source=images/stars-0-0.gif)]
var stars00:String;
[Embed(source=images/stars-0-5.gif)]
var stars05:String;
[Embed(source=images/stars-1-0.gif)]
var stars10:String;
!-- and so forth --
function setValue(str:String, item:Object, sel:String) {
if (item==undefined) {
visible = false;
return;
} else {
switch (item.Rating) {
case 0 :
[flexcoders] NumericStepper change event executes on startup
I have a web service that executes on application initilization. When
using the Network Service monitor in FlexBuilder, I noticed that both
the send and result filters for the web service showed up twice. At
first I assumed this was a bug with the Network Service monitor. But
sometimes the web service call would fail for whatever reason, and
when it did, it would show two consecutive alert boxes telling me it
failed. That's when I figured that it is most likely being called
twice.
The web service sends back 10 results at a time, so I'm using the
numericstepper to request additional results. The only two places in
my application that calls the web service is in the Application
initialize and NumericStepper change attributes.
Out of curiosity, I removed the web service call in the Application
initilization and kept it in the NumericStepper change event. When
the application starts up, the web service still gets called (and
only called once according to the network service monitor).
My conclusion is that the NumericStepper's change event is
automactically executed after initilization, even though the livedocs
say that the change event is only executed when the value changes
from user interaction.
mx:NumericStepper id=pager value=1 minimum=1
maximum={aws.ItemSearch.result.Items.TotalPages}
change=aws.ItemSearch.send()/
Even though using the numericstepper to call the web service on
application startup works, that seems like an unnatural way to
develop. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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[flexcoders] Display a list of item attributes
I'm using the Amazon.com web service to display a list of products.
The products returned populate a TileList. The selection of a product
(the selection of a TileList cell) is bound to a model holding the
currently selected product.
mx:Model id=selectedProduct{productList.selectedItem}/mx:Model
Each item returned has a node of item attributes, such as:
ItemAttributes
AuthorNestor Capoeira/Author
TitleThe Little Capoeira Book/Title
PublisherNorth Atlantic Books/Publisher
... and so on
/ItemAttributes
Most of the products contain a lot of the same item attributes, but
not all products will have all of them. As an example, some products
might not have an Edition attribute.
I'm trying to display each of these in a line item fashion. I've
tried several ways, but run into problems each time.
The first attempt was using an html list in the htmlText property of
the mx:Text control... binding the data from the selectedProduct
model to the html list. If just one item attribute is missing (like
no Edition attribute), then the entire mx:Text control won't render.
Then I split up each list item into it's own mx:Text control. Then,
if an attribute is missing, it leaves a big blank space where it
would normally be.
Then I tried using an mx:List control to display them. Since the
existing selectedProduct model doesn't appear to match the structure
needed for the List control, I created a new model based off the
selectedProduct model.
mx:Model id=selectedProductAttributes
mx:Object labe=title
data={selectedProduct.ItemAttributes.Title}/
mx:Object labe=title
data={selectedProduct.ItemAttributes.Author}/
... and so on
/mx:Model
That appeared to work okay, except when I selected a different
product from the TileList (which should update the selectedProduct
model, which would update the selectedProductAttributes model,
which should update the attributes List) the attributes in the List
control wouldn't update unless I moused-over the list items.
So I'm basically asking for suggestions on how to output this stuff.
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