from:"Doug"

Hey guys,

Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this
list:
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/

The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders
messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the
sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It
contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS
Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that
file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some
ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow.

I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the list
was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I
finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with.
Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if
you do anything cool with the data yourself.

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)

And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, working on
it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server crashed :P

Doug

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 primo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Wow ! The UI looks really nice :)

 2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com



 Hey guys,

 Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this
 list:
 http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/

 The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders
 messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the
 sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It
 contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS
 Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that
 file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some
 ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow.

 I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the
 list was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I
 finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with.
 Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if
 you do anything cool with the data yourself.

 Doug

Re: [flexcoders] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)

Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do
front-end development.

BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe Flex
forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I figure out
how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe uses (from Jive)
has webservice access and I should be able to write something to pull all
the data. If anyone has any experience with this, drop me a line.

Doug

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com wrote:

 And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, working on
 it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server crashed :P

 Doug


 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 primo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Wow ! The UI looks really nice :)

 2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com



 Hey guys,

 Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this
 list:
 http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/

 The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders
 messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the
 sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It
 contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS
 Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that
 file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some
 ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow.

 I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the
 list was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I
 finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with.
 Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if
 you do anything cool with the data yourself.

 Doug

Re: [flexcoders] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)

I've got the numbers for longest threads too, just didn't include those
stats in the post. Here are the top 5 threads for all time and for the past
year.

For all time:
Splitting FlexCoders into smaller, focused groups - 137 messages
Will Microsofts new Silverlight Player kill our beloved Flex? - 129 messages
Flex 1.5 price - 103 messages
Choice of backend systems - 82 messages
SEO Compatibility - 66 messages

For only 2009:
Flex Builder on Linux being scrapped - 38 messages
New Adobe Forums coming! - 37 messages
Question about a Flex component - 34 messages
Roles Based UI - 33 messages
Ribbon in FLEX - 30 messages

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote:

Very interesting stats., and it's hat's off to Tom Chiverton and Tracy
Spratt.
Thank you to them.

How about a star burst to show which topics led to the most subsequent
activity?

John

Doug McCune wrote:

Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do
front-end development.

BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe
Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I
figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe
uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to write
something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with
this, drop me a line.

Doug

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune
d...@dougmccune.comdoug%40dougmccune.com
mailto:d...@dougmccune.com doug%40dougmccune.com wrote:

And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware,
working on it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server
crashed :P

Doug

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411
primo...@gmail.comprimo411%40gmail.com
mailto:primo...@gmail.com primo411%40gmail.com wrote:

Wow ! The UI looks really nice :)

2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com doug%40dougmccune.com
mailto:d...@dougmccune.com doug%40dougmccune.com

Hey guys,

Last night I put together a post that details some of the
stats for this list:

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/

The post also contains a download of the entire archive of
all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file
is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and
date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains
148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's
in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of
the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting
it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what
to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow.

I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about
whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it
should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to
getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope
you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the
list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself.

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] Nobody ever answers any of my posts...

2009-10-31 Thread Doug McCune

Ha, I totally thought you meant try starting the post 1/2 pixel down from
the previous post if he wanted someone to answer. Why isn't anyone
answering me?!?!?! Dude, your posts are off by a half pixel, duh.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:39 AM, dorkie dork from dorktown 
dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com wrote:



 Maybe try starting them 1/2 to 1 pixel before your current positions and
 1/2 to 1px after your end position.

 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM, cjsteury2 cra...@steury.com wrote:





 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 cjsteury2 cra...@... wrote:
 
  Okay... i have finally figured out how to write a custom itemrenderer
 for HOLC Chart Series Item... And the secret is posted below (about 99% of
 the way)... can anyone PLEASE tell me how to render the Open and Close Tick
 marks correctly?? Using this code they are a little off...
 
  I have tried to get the DrawRect() function a million diff ways but do
 not know what is throwing it off...
 
  package com.steury.controls.orders { // empty package.
 
  import flash.display.Graphics;
  import mx.charts.series.items.HLOCSeriesItem;
  import mx.core.IDataRenderer;
  import mx.skins.ProgrammaticSkin;
 
  public class ChartColorRenderer extends mx.skins.ProgrammaticSkin
  implements IDataRenderer{
 
  private var color:Number;
  private var green:Number = 0x00ff00;
  private var red:Number = 0xfe;
  private var _hlocItem:HLOCSeriesItem;
  private var open:Number;
  private var close:Number;
 
  public function ChartColorRenderer() {
  // Empty constructor.
  }
  public function get data():Object {
  return _hlocItem;
  }
 
  public function set data(value:Object):void {
  _hlocItem = value as HLOCSeriesItem
  invalidateDisplayList();
  open=_hlocItem.openFilter;
  close=_hlocItem.closeFilter;
  }
 
  override protected function
  updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number,unscaledHeight:Number):void {
  super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
  if (open  close) color = red;
  if (open  close) color = green;
  var g:Graphics = graphics;
  g.clear();
  g.beginFill(color,1);
  g.drawRect(0, 0, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
  g.endFill();
  g.beginFill(color,1);
  g.drawRect(open,0,10,1);
  g.endFill();
  g.beginFill(color,1);
  g.drawRect(0,close,10,1);
  g.endFill();
  }
  } // Close class.
  } // Close package.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex DMV 3.4.0

2009-08-27 Thread Doug McCune

Entering your license key into FB was supposed to automatically run the
extraction too (although sometimes this didn't work and you had to manually
run the extraction to get at the source). But yeah, now it seems like you
just download the 3.4 DMV zip file from the official adobe website.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:08 PM, tntomek tnto...@yahoo.com wrote:



 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Jeffry
 Houser j...@... wrote:
 
 
  But, if I have the ActionScript source code why would I need to do
  that? Can't I just compile my own swc?
 
  I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle.
 
 
  tntomek wrote:
  
  
  
   Previously for 3.3 you had to run a java command that looked at your
   flex builder license file
  
  
 
  --
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  Adobe Community Expert: http://tinyurl.com/684b5h
  http://www.twitter.com/reboog711 | Phone: 203-379-0773
  --
  Easy to use Interface Components for Flex Developers
  http://www.flextras.com?c=104
  --
  http://www.theflexshow.com
  http://www.jeffryhouser.com
  --
  Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust
 

 Prior to 3.4 you didnt have the source code until you ran the java
 encrypted extract

Re: [flexcoders] How to get resizecursor when resizing a custom chrome window in AIR?

2009-08-05 Thread Doug Arthur

Did anyone ever figure this one out?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 1:52 AM, ola.muldal ola.mul...@yahoo.com wrote:

   I've tried a few diffrent solutions, but I am abit confused about what
 is going on when resizing.

 I have a flex panel which acts as the chrome. This is set to 100%
 width and height in the WindowedApplication. When using the native
 resizing, scaling of the panel works realtime during dragging.

 However, when i try to move a custom cursor with
 CursorManager.setCursor(CursorResize); - this will just freeze the
 custom cursor. Same thing happens when i just try to use
 MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE and change the x/y coords manually.

 I guess that when i resize the application, the mouse is not active
 in the application, thus the swf file doesnt receive any events from
 it. So is there a way to get around this, or is it possible to get the
 native OS cursor to appear (which appears when using standard chrome)?

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 4 Profiling Question - GC Root?

2009-06-11 Thread Doug McCune

  will filter out chains that have long paths back to the root as those are 
 less likely to be the source of a problem.


I'm curious about this part about filtering out chains with very long
paths. I've come across quite a few instances of loitering objects in
the FB 4 profiler that don't show any back references. When you expand
the reference it just lists itself and it says that it is a GC root
node. But then doing some really aggressive stuff to try to free up
all possible references does indded get those items collected (meaning
that I don't think it can be blamed on the GC simply not running when
I took my snapshot, etc).

Could this be because there are filtered out chains that I'm not
seeing? Is there any way to selectively turn any kind of filtering
like this off?

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] FlowBox Nesting

2009-05-12 Thread Doug McCune

FlowBox has a pretty serious bug having to do with how it does its height
calculation. This bug has been logged and has remained unresolved for far
too long (I say this as the main flexlib maintainer, it's basically my
laziness that has kept this from being fixed). That said, there's a second
container in FlexLib that also accomplishes the same goal, it's called
FlowContainer. It was origianlly written as part of the docking toolbar
component. It more or less does the exact same thing, but doesn't have the
problem with the height calculation.

So I'd advise trying to use FlowContainer instead of FlowBox, I bet it will
solve your problem.

Doug

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Mike Oliver moli...@corenttech.com wrote:




 Yes its the flow box see attached.

 http://www.nabble.com/file/p23513630/ToolbarDemo.swf ToolbarDemo.swf

 It looks like the flow box calculates its height based on all components
 wrapping.

 Ollie


 Tracy Spratt-2 wrote:
 
  Is it the FlowBox that is causing the problem? What happens if you
  replace
  it with an HBox? Do you still get that space? Can you put a border or
  background on the FlowBox to see if it is causing the layout issue?
 
 
 
  Something is confusing the layout. The space between items in a VBox
  should
  be only the verticalGap.
 
 
 
  Tracy Spratt,
 
  Lariat Services, development services available
 
  _
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:
 flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] On
  Behalf Of Mike Oliver
  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:13 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [flexcoders] FlowBox Nesting
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  I said that I tried a VBox and that did NOT give me what I want,
 
  Here is the mxml
 
  mx:VBox x=10 y=42 height=650 width=100%
 
  ns1:FlowBox width=100% paddingBottom=10 paddingLeft=10
  paddingRight=10 paddingTop=10 left=10
  mx:ComboBox/mx:ComboBox
  mx:DateField/
  mx:Button label=Save/
  mx:Button label=Add/
  mx:Button label=Cancel/
  mx:HSlider/
  /ns1:FlowBox
  mx:DataGrid height=100% width=100% left=0
  mx:columns
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 1 dataField=col1/
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 2 dataField=col2/
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 3 dataField=col3/
  /mx:columns
  /mx:DataGrid
  /mx:VBox
 
  and I attached the swf and here is a screen shot.
 
  http://www.nabble. http://www.nabble.com/file/p23513102/ToolbarDemo.swf
 
  com/file/p23513102/ToolbarDemo.swf ToolbarDemo.swf
 
  Now note that the space between the flowbox and the grid is what I want
 to
  eliminate.
 
  http://www.nabble.
  
 http://www.nabble.com/file/p23513102/ScreenHunter_28%2BMay.%2B12%2B17.09.jp
  g com/file/p23513102/ScreenHunter_28%2BMay.%2B12%2B17.09.jpg
 
  Tracy Spratt-2 wrote:
 
  Plain old VBox will do this for you. Set the lower grid height to 100%
  and
  it should resize dynamically to fit (If the VBox has a fixed height) If
  the
  VBox height is not set then its container will show scrollbars
 
 
 
  Tracy Spratt,
 
  Lariat Services, development services available
 
  _
 
  From: flexcod...@yahoogro 
  mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com
 ups.com
  [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogro 
  mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com
 ups.com]
  On
  Behalf Of Mike Oliver
  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:55 PM
  To: flexcod...@yahoogro 
  mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com
 ups.com

  Subject: [flexcoders] FlowBox Nesting
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  I am trying to create a screen with a grid and a toolbar on top of it.
 
  The problem is that the toolbar can have more user selectable controls
 in
  it
  than will fit on small screens.
 
  So I wanted to use the FlowBox and that works great but only if I allow
  for
  the space between the Flowbox and the grid control under it.
 
  I wanted the grid control to float under the toolbar and if the toolbar
 /
  flowbox gets reduced in width to wrap a control down into a second row
  the
  grid would slide down to accommodate.
 
  So I thought a flowbox with a flowbox and the grid control in it but the
  nested flowbox and grid won't fill the parent flow box with width=100%

 
  I have tried TileList and VBox and have yet to find the combination that
  will allow the grid to float under the FlowBox.
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  View this message in context: http://www.nabble.
  http://www.nabble.
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  com/FlowBox-Nesting-tp23506408p23506408.html
  com/FlowBox-Nesting-tp23506408p23506408.html
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Re: [flexcoders] Check out my Facebook profile

2009-02-10 Thread Doug McCune

A septilian teraflops?! zoids!

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Kelly dek...@gmail.com wrote:


 It is a datamining operation sponsored and run by the American/Nazi Cocaine
 Importation Agency (CIA).

 The National Slavery Agency (NSA) is also heavily involved in the project

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU

 It is an extension of the MK-Ultra Nazi mind control experiments of the
 last 80 years.


 http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread291893/pg1




 http://www.conspiracyresearch.org/forums/Is-The-Nsa-Using-Optical-Processors-t36231.html

 The second book he published 'Body of Secrets - Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret
 National Security Agency' even went further. But in the first few pages of
 the book they talk about their staff working on a computer capable of a
 Septillion calculations per second (which is literally orders of magnitude
 beyond anything known to the public..) That is one heavily researched book
 with over 650 references at the end of it...

 Why is there great suspicion of the NSA having a optical computer (not to
 even mention a possible quantum computer) is because of a company out of
 Israel named Lenslet. Lenslet in 2003 debuted a Optical DSP processor on a
 line-card capable of 8 Teraflops of calculations per second - If you don't
 know how fast that is - it is equal to about 1250 high end silicon based
 processors working together...

 Read about it yourself : http://www.controleng.com/article/CA491825.html








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 heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or
 darkly?









 Nate Beck wrote:

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 What's that?  ;)

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Re: [flexcoders] multiple select in List w/o holding ctrl key?

2009-02-05 Thread Doug McCune

I wrote this a few years ago, might be what you're looking for:
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/04/01/list-control-for-the-one-armed-man-take-two/

Doug

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM, coder3 rrhu...@hotmail.com wrote:


 Hi All,

 I have a mx:List that allows multipleSelection. It works. But in order to
 do
 multiple select/unselect, i need to hold the Ctrl key, otherwise, it will
 be
 single select/unselect.

 Is there a way to do the multiple select w/o holding the Ctrl Key?

 Thanks
 C
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Re: [flexcoders] Custom List Item Render to have multiline (so variable Height)

2009-02-04 Thread Doug McCune

I've pretty much never been able to use variableRowHeight in a real world
scenario. Once you start scrolling with item renderers that need to measure
themselves based on data, it all gets completely messed up. I'd love it if
someone knew how to get it working all the time (as opposed to only on the
first rendering pass). But I've basically resigned myself to the fact that
variableRowHeight can't be used.

Doug


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Flap Flap flapflapl...@kilooctet.netwrote:

   Hi there,

 Second night that I'm pulling my hairs on this stuff, I'm sure you will
 give me some good hints.

 So, I have a custom list item render.
 It's a VBOx with a GradientCanvas (width 100%, no height) child that have a
 TextArea for child (width 100%, no height).
 The GradientCanvas he's a custom component to have a advanced gradient
 background.
 The problem is one the TextArea.

 Here is the behavior that I'd like to have:

 When text is on several lines, the item renderer should update his height
 to match the TextArea height.
 At this moment, the TextArea display scrollbars.

 I've try with Label (but no multiline).
 With UITextField, but not a mx component...
 With Text component but the list act weird with this one...

 Can you point me to some clues ?

 thx

 Benoît Milgram / Flapflap
 http://www.kilooctet.net

 I'm also a music mashup / bootlegs producer :
 http://www.djgaston.net

Re: [flexcoders] Custom List Item Render to have multiline (so variable Height)

2009-02-04 Thread Doug McCune

Perhaps I was a bit harsh in my initial comment about variableRowHeight :)

I'll certainly try some examples and report back on what works and what
doesn't for me. Maybe I've just always done my custom renderers wrong
somehow for working with variableRowHeight with scrolling.

Doug

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Fotis Chatzinikos 
fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com wrote:

   Doug,

 have you tried adding the following on the textarae? It solves real world
 renderer recycling :-)


 minHeight=0  //to accomodate for really short renderers
 change=invalidateSize()  //re-measure on text change

 when a renderer is recycled new text from the data provider is feed inside
 the textarea, so the change
 event fires which is wired to invalidateSize which in turn calls the
 overriden measure function.

 In the measure function, as Alex mentions in another mail do not use height
 but measuredheight instead.

 On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com wrote:

   I've pretty much never been able to use variableRowHeight in a real
 world scenario. Once you start scrolling with item renderers that need to
 measure themselves based on data, it all gets completely messed up. I'd love
 it if someone knew how to get it working all the time (as opposed to only on
 the first rendering pass). But I've basically resigned myself to the fact
 that variableRowHeight can't be used.

 Doug



 On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Flap Flap flapflapl...@kilooctet.netwrote:

   Hi there,

 Second night that I'm pulling my hairs on this stuff, I'm sure you will
 give me some good hints.

 So, I have a custom list item render.
 It's a VBOx with a GradientCanvas (width 100%, no height) child that have
 a TextArea for child (width 100%, no height).
 The GradientCanvas he's a custom component to have a advanced gradient
 background.
 The problem is one the TextArea.

 Here is the behavior that I'd like to have:

 When text is on several lines, the item renderer should update his height
 to match the TextArea height.
 At this moment, the TextArea display scrollbars.

 I've try with Label (but no multiline).
 With UITextField, but not a mx component...
 With Text component but the list act weird with this one...

 Can you point me to some clues ?

 thx

 Benoît Milgram / Flapflap
 http://www.kilooctet.net

 I'm also a music mashup / bootlegs producer :
 http://www.djgaston.net





 --
 Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D.
 Founder,
 Phinnovation
 fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com,

Re: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year

2009-01-29 Thread Doug McCune

What if you aggregate your data by some amount (say the maximum resolution
you can display on the x-axis), and then for each data point you plot the
min, max, and average, kind of like the HLOCChart that's used to show stock
data. That would let you see the average trend as well as identify any peaks
or valleys that were out of the ordinary. So then the task involves being
able to efficiently take 500,000 points and turn it into 2,000 aggregated
points with min/max/avg.

Or even just do 3 completely separate line series for the min, max, and avg.
There's only so much information you can show in a single horizontal pixel,
so there's simply no way to show all the data. But showing min/max/avg might
get you the info you need.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Maciek Sakrejda msakre...@truviso.comwrote:

How about, on the main graph, showing the raw data as limited by the
slider, but on the slider, show points that average over some period of
time, combined with a separate series for outlying points (those outside
1 or 2 standard deviations from the mean)?

This gives you an overview of the general trends, a quick indication of
outliers, and an ability to zoom in on any single section fairly easily.

--
Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com

-Original Message-
From: Mark Easton mar...@azurebell.co.nz mark63%40azurebell.co.nz
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:16:16 +1300

Hi Maciek,

Thanks for your response.

Yes I have seen that example and I liked it. We still need to contend,
though, with having 500,000 values to plot for the full graph. Using
standard graphing that takes for ever to plot - in fact I could not get
it to plot. 2000 values seems to the maximum number of points that can
be plotted, or to be exact the number of pixels available on x-axis. So
how can I take 500,000 points and :

1. Producre a graph that as closely as possible retains its shape?
2. Shows exceptional values

If I were to massage the 500,000 points by taking sample of 250 points
and averaging them, then I can miss important detail. I could use a
vertical column graph with floating columns, where I plotted the line
starting at min and ending at max for the plot point.

Furthermore as the user used the slider to look at a smaller portion of
the graph I would still want to plot at maximum pixel detail. That is if
the user uses the slider to look at 1 month then that would allow me to
plot points where each point was calculated from a smaller sample size.

Cheers
Mark

-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]On
Behalf Of Maciek Sakrejda
Sent: Friday, 30 January 2009 11:21 a.m.
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year

Have you suggested a thumbnail slider solution à la Google
Finance (say,
like here:

http://www.meutzner.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/15/Google-Finance-with-Flex-from-Silvafug-last-night)?
We've implemented something similar, and it works quite well. I can't
share our implementation, but the example I linked has source.
--
Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com

-Original Message-
From: Mark Easton mar...@azurebell.co.nz mark63%40azurebell.co.nz
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
To: Flexcoders flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:04:42 +1300

Hi,

I am trying to work out how best to produce a chart which allows
a user
to
make sense of data logged every minute for up to 12 months (ie
524160
values). To complicate matters the graphs are are presented on a
dashboard
where the user can display many graphs at once - so we are not
just
displaying the one graph and the size of the graph will change
depending
on
how many graphs are being displayed in the dashboard window.

We are logging sensor data (temperature, current, vibration,
humidity,
wind
speed etc). Client does not like a month, week, day, hour,
minute drill
down
scenario - I tried that and it was rejected. He wants a line
graph, but
where we do have to average data would like to some idea of max
and mins
-
maybe that can be done in point comment. Trouble is if we chart
so many
points then there are too many points for the mouse click to
discern.

Essentially the client would like to see the data always at
maximum
detail
no matter what period is being looked at. I have read this

http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=visualizing_large
_data_sets, and am thinking that I will need to proceed in kind

Re: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year

2009-01-29 Thread Doug McCune

Hey Mark,

This might be out of the question due to client restrictions, but I'd be
very interested in seeing a screenshot of the solution you come up with
(even if you have to use some fake data to show us). It's an interesting
data visualization problem and I think it would benefit many people here (or
maybe just me) to see how you decided to solve it. So if after you figure
out a workable solution you can share what you did and how well it worked,
I'd be interested.

Best of luck,
Doug

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mark Easton mar...@azurebell.co.nz wrote:

Thanks Doug,

Yes I have been thinking (the last hour) of using such a representation or
alternatively of plotting a graph of floating columns, with each column
starting at min and ending at max, combined with a line graph in a different
colour showing the averages. BUT (and this is a big but) the client said he
was not interested in min and max, but rather exceptional values. Although I
have to take his requirements with a grain of salt sometimes it does pay to
listen to him - he is the client! :)

The exceptions may be a single solitary value or a series of values. So, if
I were to grab the points that within each sample are 1 or 2 std deviations
outside the normal then I wont always have these points - so they may just
be the odd value. Hence using floating columns to display these seems to
make sense.

Mark

-Original Message-
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]*on
Behalf Of *Doug McCune
*Sent:* Friday, 30 January 2009 12:34 p.m.
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Charting 1 minute data over 1 year

What if you aggregate your data by some amount (say the maximum
resolution you can display on the x-axis), and then for each data point you
plot the min, max, and average, kind of like the HLOCChart that's used to
show stock data. That would let you see the average trend as well as
identify any peaks or valleys that were out of the ordinary. So then the
task involves being able to efficiently take 500,000 points and turn it into
2,000 aggregated points with min/max/avg.

Or even just do 3 completely separate line series for the min, max, and
avg. There's only so much information you can show in a single horizontal
pixel, so there's simply no way to show all the data. But showing
min/max/avg might get you the info you need.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Maciek Sakrejda msakre...@truviso.comwrote:

This gives you an overview of the general trends, a quick indication of
outliers, and an ability to zoom in on any single section fairly easily.

--
Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com

Hi Maciek,

Thanks for your response.

1. Producre a graph that as closely as possible retains its shape?
2. Shows exceptional values

Cheers
Mark

Have you suggested a thumbnail slider solution à la Google
Finance (say,
like here:

http://www.meutzner.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/15/Google-Finance-with-Flex-from-Silvafug-last-night)?
We've implemented

Re: [flexcoders] Flex. AIR and IPhone

2009-01-27 Thread Doug McCune

Apologies for how long this email became, but I was reading around on the
trusty wikipedia and wanted to try to clear up some things about the
success of the existing web standards. I don't want this to come off as
too much of a rant, but it proably will.

Let's take a look at the history of CSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS):
CSS level 1: November 4, 1997
CSS level 2: May 12, 1998
CSS level 3: began 1998, still unfinished

A brief excerpt:
The CSS Working Group began tackling issues that had not been addressed with
CSS level 1, resulting in the creation of CSS level 2 on November 4, 1997.
It was published as a W3C Recommendation on May 12, 1998. *CSS level 3,
which was started in 1998, is still under development as of 2008*.

*In 2005 the CSS Working Groups decided to enforce the requirements for
standards more strictly. This meant that already published standards like
CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and CSS 3 Text were pulled back from Candidate
Recommendation to Working Draft level.*

And if you really want to have fun look at the half-assed implementation of
CSS across the many browsers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(CSS). It's been
10 years since CSS 2 was written (10 years!) and yet there still isn't even
consistent implementation of that. And CSS 3 implementation is a joke.

Maybe HTML is better, let's look at that (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Version_history_of_the_standard):
HTML 2: 1995
HTML 3.2 recommendation: January, 1997
HTML 4 recommendation: December, 1997
HTML 5 working draft: January 2008 (10 years!)

Hmm, maybe we can look at ECMAScript, the standard controlling JavaScript
development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript)
ECMAScript 1: June 1997
ECMAScript 2: June 1998
ECMAScript 3: December 1999
Added E4X to ECMAScript: June 2004
ECMAScript 4: scrapped
ECMAScript Harmony: in development

And now, finally, we'll look at the timeline of Flash/ActionScript:
Flash Player 2: 1997
Flash Player 3: 1998
Flash Player 4: May, 1999
Flash Player 5: August 2000
ActionScript 1: September, 2000
Flash Player 6: March 2002
Flash Player 7: September 2003
ActionScript 2: September 2003
Flash Player 8: August 2005
Flah Player 9: June 2006
ActionScript 3: June 2006
Flash Player 10: October 2008

So for literally the past 10 years the standards bodies haven't been able to
release a single completed specification. That goes for HTML, CSS, and
ECMASCript (the closest would be the draft of the unimplemented HTML 5 that
was released a year ago). The entire standards-based web is running on
stuff that was written before the dot-com bubble burst! Now look at how
Flash has progressed since 1999. That includes the complete evolution of
ActionScript all the way from the very first version to the AS3 (including
the recent Vector, etc enhancements that come with Player 10). The entire
evolution of AS3 occurred after the last ECMAScript spec was written. CSS 3
started development in 1998 and still isn't finished. In that same time
period we went from Flash Player 3 to 10.

I'm not holding my breath for anything new coming out of these standards
groups. 10 years and they can't write a specification. The entire world
changes in 10 years.

Doug

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote:

 On 27/01/2009, at 6:10 PM, Sam Lai wrote:

 I think the issue here is that if Adobe/MS used SVG as a base instead
 of their proprietary XML dialects, then they won't be able to innovate
 and implement new features as quickly.

 I disagree, and cite the HTML web browser example again

 If they added proprietary extensions to SVG, there'll be a massive
 backlash as seen with IE and its CSS, JS and HTML extensions.

 IE is criticized because it is rubbish and *doesn't follow the
 standards*.

 If they try to get it into the standard, it will take ages to get it
 through the committee, and they will lose the competitive advantage of
 developing that feature in the first place.

 Unfortunately the standards process just does not keep up with
 innovation. But personally, I don't think it should - details should
 be thrashed out, and issues should be resolved in standards,
 particularly those that could not be foreseen during the initial
 implementation.

 Yes, that tends to happen and is fine...the point is though that there
 is a working towards a standard, which is not currently what's
 happening with Flash or Silverlight. Both are pretending SVG doesn't
 exist. Flash has some token support for it is the best anyone can say.

 I'm a believer of what Sebastian said - Competition is what drives
 technology forward, standards come after the war to clean up the mess,
 but they don't innovate.

 Again, i disagree, but then maybe I think more highly of humanity than
 you do... :-)

 What would be nice would be a SVG container for Flex/SL, and one that
 can reach out into the app and allow the app to reach in.


 Indeed. I'd be amazed if both MS and Adobe don't have

Re: [flexcoders] Flex. AIR and IPhone

2009-01-26 Thread Doug McCune

 I think you are seriously misguided about the role of standards. HTML seems 
 to have worked pretty well. I don't see MS or Adobe trying to do their own 
 versions of that (though they may screw up their support for it at times, yes 
 IE is dreadful)...

And ECMAScript 4 worked out just grand didn't it? If Adobe waits for
all the standards zealot children to stop their infighting and crying
just to improve ActionScript or Flash, that's the day I learn a new
technology.

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] copyright notices in code

2009-01-20 Thread Doug McCune

 How do people add copyright notices to their code? When they create a
 new file?

I've only ever done manual copy/paste at the top of each file.


 What if the notice changes? Do they use ant to add it before
 compilation to each file?

There's no point in adding copright notices before compilation.
Comments are stripped from compiled code.


 Does compiling Flex remove the copyright notice? If so, should one
 worry about having a copyright notice in the code for if/when it is
 decompiled?

Again, all comments are stripped, so there's no point. And if someone
is decompiling your code, chances are they know that they don't own
the copyright :) they just probably don't care.

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Illegal override of WindowedSystemManager in mx.managers.WindowedSystemManager

2009-01-15 Thread Doug McCune

Did the SWC include any classes that have the same names (but not the same
package structure) as some built-in AIR or flash classes? I recently heard a
report of someone unable to compile an app with player 10 for AIR 1.5 if the
project had a custom class named Vector.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Jesse Warden jesse.war...@gmail.comwrote:

   I removed an SWC from my libs dir, a debug window component that has
 nothing to do with AIR and air related classes... and it fixed my problem.
  wtf?


 On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Jesse Warden jesse.war...@gmail.comwrote:

 I keep getting this error for Flex 3.1 in AIR in the Flex Builder IDE
 3.0.2.  If I switch the SDK to 3.2, the app doesn't event launch.  I've even
 tried targeting flash player 10 via -target-player=10.0.0, but no dice.
 Any clue?  Here's some more debug info that appears in the Output panel
 that isn't mine:


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::dispatchEventFromSWFBridges()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::getSandboxRoot()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 accessor not implemented mx.managers:ISystemManager::swfBridgeGroup

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::addChildToSandboxRoot()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::addChildBridge()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::getTopLevelRoot()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::removeChildBridge()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::isTopLevelRoot()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::isDisplayObjectInABridgedApplication()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::useSWFBridge()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::getVisibleApplicationRect()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::removeChildFromSandboxRoot()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager


 method not implemented
 mx.managers::ISystemManager/mx.managers:ISystemManager::deployMouseShields()

over-binding 0 in mx.managers::WindowedSystemManager

 VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of WindowedSystemManager in
 mx.managers.WindowedSystemManager.


  at mx.core::Window/commitProperties()

 at
 mx.core::Window/open()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\airframework\src\mx\core\Window.as:2548]

 at
 com.jxl.powerz.managers::PowerBarWindowsManager/createPowerBar()[/Users/jesse/Documents/_Projects/DnDWorkspace/Powerz/src/com/jxl/powerz/managers/PowerBarWindowsManager.as:52]

 at
 com.jxl.powerz.managers::PowerBarWindowsManager/loadPowerBarsFromVOs()[/Users/jesse/Documents/_Projects/DnDWorkspace/Powerz/src/com/jxl/powerz/managers/PowerBarWindowsManager.as:42]

 at
 com.jxl.powerz.views::Main/init()[/Users/jesse/Documents/_Projects/DnDWorkspace/Powerz/src/com/jxl/powerz/views/Main.mxml:16]

 at
 com.jxl.powerz.views::Main/___Main_Canvas1_creationComplete()[/Users/jesse/Documents/_Projects/DnDWorkspace/Powerz/src/com/jxl/powerz/views/Main.mxml:5]

 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()

 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()

 at
 mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:9298]

 at mx.core::UIComponent/set
 initialized()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:1169]

 at
 mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:718]

 at 
 Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply%28%29

 at
 mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8628]

 at
 mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8568]

Re: [flexcoders] Cant empty context menu- previous answers don't work...

2009-01-13 Thread Doug McCune

This is specifically (and has always been) impossible. You cannot ever get
rid of those context menu items. As in never ever ever. The best you can
hope for is supressing the context menu and replacing it with your own,
which is sort of possible with a javascript hack I believe (google stuff
about javascript flash context menu, I think Dan of polygeek.com was doing
some tests trying to figure it out).

Doug

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM, john fisher j...@jpfisher.net wrote:

   well since nobody had time to answer yet, I kept digging.

 here's one bug: if you add Settings as part of the string which forms
 your custom menuitem label, not just the whole String which could
 collide with the Settings menu, but part of a custom string, it won't
 show at all in the menu, and no error is thrown. Parameters is
 acceptable, but thats all I know one way or the other.
 see Alex's previous comment:
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/125171

 this code definitely does NOT clear the two standard menuitems,
 Settings... and About... nor the debugger-player's debugger and
 show redraw regions
 var menuItem:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(Our switch:
 Change Parameters);


 menuItem.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,createParamPopUp);
 var customContextMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
 customContextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
 customContextMenu.customItems.push(menuItem);
 Though it does add an item, and run the associated function.

 Has anyone cleared the *whole* contextMenu out?
 or
 Taken control of mouse-rt-click events so as to avoid the standard
 contextMenu?

 John

Re: [flexcoders] recompiling framework shared library?

2009-01-10 Thread Doug McCune

yup, that would work just fine

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote:

   Could you subclass that class and make the changes there? That way you
 don't need to change the Flex class, and hence the RSL.

 2009/1/10 luvfotography 
 ygro...@all-digital-links.comygroups%40all-digital-links.com
 :

  Hi, I've made a change to mx.controls.videoClasses.VideoPlayer.as and
  placed it in my 'src' folder under the folders 'mx', then 'controls',
  then 'videoClasses' and it picks up the change no problem.
 
  If I then change my project to use 'runtime shared library' it's not
  picking up my changes.
 
  What do I need to do?
  do i need to recompile the framework_3.0.0.477.swz somehow?
  thanks,
 
 
  
 
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Re: [flexcoders] recompiling framework shared library?

2009-01-10 Thread Doug McCune

oh, ha, I thought that was the original poster asking that. My bad.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com wrote:

 yup, that would work just fine


 On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote:

   Could you subclass that class and make the changes there? That way you
 don't need to change the Flex class, and hence the RSL.

 2009/1/10 luvfotography 
 ygro...@all-digital-links.comygroups%40all-digital-links.com
 :

  Hi, I've made a change to mx.controls.videoClasses.VideoPlayer.as and
  placed it in my 'src' folder under the folders 'mx', then 'controls',
  then 'videoClasses' and it picks up the change no problem.
 
  If I then change my project to use 'runtime shared library' it's not
  picking up my changes.
 
  What do I need to do?
  do i need to recompile the framework_3.0.0.477.swz somehow?
  thanks,
 
 
  
 
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Re: [flexcoders] recompiling framework shared library?

2009-01-09 Thread Doug McCune

yeah, one of the downsides of using the signed rsl is that you can't easily
monkey patch. I'm not sure what happens if you try to load your code in a
different RSL AFTER the framework RSL has been loaded... But in general if
you want to use the cached framework RSL you're committed to using the
classes as they are in that RSL.

Doug

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Steve Mathews happy...@gmail.com wrote:

   The swz are signed files that only Adobe can compile.

 On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM, luvfotography 
 ygro...@all-digital-links.com wrote:

 Hi, I've made a change to mx.controls.videoClasses.VideoPlayer.as and
 placed it in my 'src' folder under the folders 'mx', then 'controls',
 then 'videoClasses' and it picks up the change no problem.

 If I then change my project to use 'runtime shared library' it's not
 picking up my changes.

 What do I need to do?
 do i need to recompile the framework_3.0.0.477.swz somehow?
 thanks,


 

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Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex

2009-01-08 Thread Doug McCune

Check out Andy Powell's post about using Merapi and GPS:
http://www.infoaccelerator.net/blog/post.cfm/live-gps-visualizations-with-air-merapi

I have a small app running on my BlackBerry that posts my lat/lon to my own
webserver, which just stores it in a DB. The using whatever serverside
technology I want (java, php, etc) I could expose a web service to return my
coordinates. So you can either communicate directly with the device via
Merapi, or push data somehow from the device to a webserver and then pull
the data from the server into your Flex app.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote:

   In addition to what Tim said.

 The Merapi project (http://merapiproject.net/), is an excellent candidate
 for a project like this.  You can use Java to communicate to the GPS unit's
 device drivers, and then use that data with webservices or the yahoo maps
 API to serve maps in real time.

 Just a thought.

 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Tim Rowe tim.r...@carsales.com.au wrote:

If you want to do it in realtime you're going to first have to decide
 what devices you support.  There might be some standards for communication,
 but others go off and do their own thing and those might be the ones you
 want to support.  Garmin often take a lot of heat for this (despite what
 they're pushing with ANT+ standards).

 Do you have a particular device in mind to start out, and have you done
 any research on what dev tools they have available?  Obviously at some point
 you're going to want to abstract things out, but you need to at least have a
 rough idea whether your design is even going to work for real-world existing
 designs and products.

 --Tim

  --
 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Ben Cessa
 *Sent:* Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] GPS in Flex

  Hi, I'm planning to build an AIR application but I have a major doubt
 here, by looking at the amazing work of Doug McCune I think is
 possible to integrate real time GPS data into a Map on a Flex
 application, but my question is: how? Just in case the above is not a
 completely clear explanation let me put it with other words:

 I wanna know how ( considering first if this is even possible right
 now ) to get data from a GPS device and load it, real time ( well,
 pretty much real time ) inside a map on a Flex and/or AIR application.

 I really hope someone with far more experience than myself can point
 in the right direction on this one, thanx in advance for your
 attention, and have all a great new year :)




 --

 Cheers,
 Nate
 
 http://blog.natebeck.net

Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid columns autosize

2009-01-08 Thread Doug McCune

But doing some pretty simple calculations based on data type is easy. For
example, if you know a field is a date and you want to display the full date
and time string, you know how wide that needs to be. Or if a field is a
phone number, etc. Unknown strings present problems, but maybe just some
simple stuff would be better than nothing at all?

Doug

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote:

No, to size a column to the widest content, the datagrid would have to
 read and compute the size for every field in every record.  This would be
 impossible for large datasets.



 Tracy Spratt
 Lariat Services

 Flex development bandwidth available
   --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *k.sigiscar
 *Sent:* Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:56 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Datagrid columns autosize




 Hello,

 I was wondering if somebody had a solution for sizing automatically
 the width of datagrid columns based on their content.

 I have seen some implementations but none are satisfactory in terms of
 performance/stability.

 Thanks,
 Karl.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accordion with no selection possible ?

2009-01-05 Thread Doug McCune

Check out the SuperAccordion by Tink:
http://www.tink.ws/blog/superaccordian-updates/

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM, rockorgames eguilhe...@gmail.com wrote:

   ? im not sure how do i wanted to look like.. like all closed ?

 i suppose i ll have to make some kind of ugly hack like make 1 empty
 canvas as the last and make it open.. and then ugly put another canvas
 on top of the acoordion to hide this last accordion tab.. and when the
 user clicks any of the other tabs i remove both the empty accordion
 tab and the canvas on top of it but this is so ugly.. is there a
 better way to do it ?

[flexcoders] Re: model in UIComponent

2009-01-05 Thread Doug S.

Can you post your code for the popup?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, stldvd stl...@... wrote:

 I've got some UI text fields and labels bound to properties in my model.
 
 I'm dispatching an event which, when listened to, causes a popup to
 appear:
 
 var newRulesetWindow:IFlexDisplayObject =
 PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, NewRuleset, true);
   mx.managers.PopUpManager.centerPopUp(newRulesetWindow);
 
 The popup appears fine, but there is no data loaded from the model.
 I've stepped through the code and this is what appears to be
 happening. I've got an instance of my model (instance named _model)
 declared in the components that need it. But for some reason, after
 those components' code has finished, I'm getting the following error
 from UIComponent.as:
 
  private function callLaterDispatcher(event:Event):void 
 No such variable: _model
 
 So it isn't seeing it in this callLaterDispatcher. I'm not sure how to
 get around this -- the _model instance is declared correctly in all my
 components, but isn't being seen in the UIComponent. 
 
 Anyone know what to do?
 
 Thanks,
 
 David

Re: [flexcoders] Generating Random key

2009-01-05 Thread Doug McCune

Heh, but if you're REALLY going for unreadable lines of code, you might as
well go all the way:

function repeat(n:Number, f:Function) : Array {
   return n  1 ? repeat(n-1, f).concat(f()) : [f()];
}

function createUID():String {
   return repeat(4, function(){ return repeat(3, function(){ return
String(BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ).substr(int(Math.random()*19), 1) }).join()
}).join(-);
}

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Josh McDonald dzn...@gmail.com wrote:

   A quick take on it:

 function randomLetter() : String
 {
 const noVowels : String = BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ;
 return noVowels.charAt(Math.round(Math.random() *
 (noVowels.length - 1)));
 }

 function repeat(n : Number, f : Function) : Array
 {
 return n  1 ? repeat(n-1, f).concat(f()) : [f()];
 }

 var result : String = repeat(4, function() : String {
 return repeat(3, randomLetter).join(); }).join(-);

 -Josh


 On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM, anuj sharma anuj...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi Brendan
 makes sense to put the code :-), With the format I was looking for
 following code works perfectly for me, I am not sure thats the right way of
 coding but this is working for my purpose. I am pretty sure there can be far
 far better way for this
 Anuj
 /**CODE**/
 mx:Script
 ![CDATA[
 import mx.messaging.channels.StreamingAMFChannel;
 import mx.controls.Alert;

 [Bindable]
 public var track:String;
 private function init():void
 {
 btn_genkey.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,key);
 }


 public function key(event:MouseEvent):void
 {
 var newLength:uint = 12;
 var userAlphabet:String = BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ;
 var alphabet:Array=userAlphabet.split();
 var alphabetLength:int = alphabet.length;
 var randomLetters:String = ;

 var _keyfirstpart:String;
 var _keysecondpart:String;
 var _keythirdpart:String;
 var _keyforthpart:String;
 var _concatenatedString:String;
 for (var i:uint = 0; i  newLength; i++)
   {
 randomLetters += alphabet[int(Math.floor(Math.random() *
 alphabetLength))];
   }
   _keyfirstpart=randomLetters.slice(0,3);
   _keysecondpart=randomLetters.slice(3,6);
   _keythirdpart=randomLetters.slice(6,9);
   _keyforthpart=randomLetters.slice(9,12);


 _concatenatedString=_keyfirstpart+-+_keysecondpart+-+_keythirdpart+-+_keyforthpart;
   text_ii.text=_concatenatedString;

 }
 ]]
 /mx:Script

 mx:TextInput id=text_ii x=645 y=270 width=224/
 mx:Button id=btn_genkey x=513 y=270 label=Generate key
 width=124 /



 On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Brendan Meutzner bmeutz...@gmail.comwrote:

   So what did you end up putting together?  Should post the code here
 for the next guy...


 Brendan



 On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:41 PM, anuj sharma anuj...@gmail.com wrote:

   Awesome guys your guidance help me in achieving this withing 30
 minutes, it is working now
 Thanks for your help again
 Anuj

 On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, anuj181 anuj...@gmail.com wrote:

   Hi
 I need to work on a piece of code in which whenever user clicks on the
 button , the code should generate random 12 character key having all
 caps and no vowels in the format of XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX. Can anybody guide
 me in this direction. Is there any built in function for that or do I
 have to use my own logic for random generation in this specific case.
 Any help will be appreciated.
 Thanks
 Anuj





 --
 Brendan Meutzner
 http://www.meutzner.com/blog/





 --
 Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

 Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog!

 :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
 :: 0437 221 380 :: j...@gfunk007.com
 :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/
 :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Font for tab navigator heading not working

2008-12-31 Thread Doug McCune

Out of curiosity are you loading modules or loading the framework as an RSL?

Doug

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim Hoff timh...@aol.com wrote:


 hmm, they are buttons. So, you could try using the font in Button{}
 CSS. Kind of a bad hack though.


 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nate
 Pearson napearso...@...
 wrote:
 
  Yup, no change. The other styles do work but not the font-family.
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Tim
 Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:
  
  
   Hi Nate,
  
   Have you tried it without the quotes?
  
   tabStyleName: myTabs;
  
   -TH
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 Nate Pearson napearson99@
   wrote:
   
I'm trying to get a custom font in the tabs of my tab navigator
 and I
can't get it to work. My code is below. I can get the font to work
 in
other stuff but not in the tabs.
   
Thanks!
   
-Nate
   
   
   
.myNavigator {
tabHeight: 30;
tabWidth: 140;
paddingLeft: 0;
paddingTop:0;
tabStyleName: myTabs;
firstTabStyleName: myTabs;
lastTabStyleName: myTabs;
selectedTabTextStyleName: myTabs;
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
borderColor: #8e8e86;
borderThickness: 2;
}
   
   
.myTabs {
highlightAlphas: 0, 0.1;
fillAlphas: 1, 0.82;
fillColors: #a2a2a2, #b7b6b4;
backgroundColor: #758bbc;
borderColor: #b7b6b4;
color: #ff;
textRollOverColor: #ff;
themeColor: #b7b6b4;
fontSize: 14;
textAlign: left;
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
}
   
@font-face
{
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
src: url(assets/fonts/AvenirLTStdMedium.otf);
}

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Font for tab navigator heading not working

2008-12-31 Thread Doug McCune

ahh, I bet it's because the font you embedded didn't embed teh bold style,
and Buttons by default use bold styling. Either change your embed style
block to specify the bold fontWeight, or change your tab style to make the
fontWeight normal.

Doug

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@yahoo.com wrote:

   Doug, no I'm not doing that.

 Tim, The button css thing didn't work either :(.


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Doug
 McCune d...@... wrote:
 
  Out of curiosity are you loading modules or loading the framework as
 an RSL?
 
  Doug
 
  On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim Hoff timh...@... wrote:
 
  
   hmm, they are buttons. So, you could try using the font in Button{}
   CSS. Kind of a bad hack though.
  
  
   -TH
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
   flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%
 40yahoogroups.com,
 Nate
   Pearson napearson99@
   wrote:
   
Yup, no change. The other styles do work but not the font-family.
   
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Tim
   Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:


 Hi Nate,

 Have you tried it without the quotes?

 tabStyleName: myTabs;

 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
 flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%
 40yahoogroups.com,

   Nate Pearson napearson99@
 wrote:
 
  I'm trying to get a custom font in the tabs of my tab navigator
   and I
  can't get it to work. My code is below. I can get the font
 to work
   in
  other stuff but not in the tabs.
 
  Thanks!
 
  -Nate
 
 
 
  .myNavigator {
  tabHeight: 30;
  tabWidth: 140;
  paddingLeft: 0;
  paddingTop:0;
  tabStyleName: myTabs;
  firstTabStyleName: myTabs;
  lastTabStyleName: myTabs;
  selectedTabTextStyleName: myTabs;
  font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
  borderColor: #8e8e86;
  borderThickness: 2;
  }
 
 
  .myTabs {
  highlightAlphas: 0, 0.1;
  fillAlphas: 1, 0.82;
  fillColors: #a2a2a2, #b7b6b4;
  backgroundColor: #758bbc;
  borderColor: #b7b6b4;
  color: #ff;
  textRollOverColor: #ff;
  themeColor: #b7b6b4;
  fontSize: 14;
  textAlign: left;
  font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
  }
 
  @font-face
  {
  font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
  src: url(assets/fonts/AvenirLTStdMedium.otf);
  }

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Font for tab navigator heading not working

2008-12-31 Thread Doug McCune

You shouldn't need the overall Button CSS selector if you don't want all
your buttons in your app to use that font, you should be able to just add
the font-weight: normal part into the myTabs selector, which would make only
your tabs have that font instead of all buttons.

And genius must just be another way of saying I banged my head on the same
wall a few times before :)

Doug

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@yahoo.com wrote:

   DOUG MCCUNE YOU ARE A GENIUS!

 Props to Tim too for mentioning the Button css.

 This is what it took:

 Button{
 font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
 font-weight: normal;

 }

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Doug
 McCune d...@... wrote:
 
  ahh, I bet it's because the font you embedded didn't embed teh bold
 style,
  and Buttons by default use bold styling. Either change your embed style
  block to specify the bold fontWeight, or change your tab style to
 make the
  fontWeight normal.
 
  Doug
 
  On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@... wrote:
 
   Doug, no I'm not doing that.
  
   Tim, The button css thing didn't work either :(.
  
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
   flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%
 40yahoogroups.com,
 Doug
   McCune doug@ wrote:
   
Out of curiosity are you loading modules or loading the framework as
   an RSL?
   
Doug
   
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:
   

 hmm, they are buttons. So, you could try using the font in
 Button{}
 CSS. Kind of a bad hack though.


 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com,
   Nate
 Pearson napearson99@
 wrote:
 
  Yup, no change. The other styles do work but not the
 font-family.
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%
 40yahoogroups.com
   flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Tim
 Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:
  
  
   Hi Nate,
  
   Have you tried it without the quotes?
  
   tabStyleName: myTabs;
  
   -TH
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.comflexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comflexcoders%

   40yahoogroups.com,
  
 Nate Pearson napearson99@
   wrote:
   
I'm trying to get a custom font in the tabs of my tab
 navigator
 and I
can't get it to work. My code is below. I can get the font
   to work
 in
other stuff but not in the tabs.
   
Thanks!
   
-Nate
   
   
   
.myNavigator {
tabHeight: 30;
tabWidth: 140;
paddingLeft: 0;
paddingTop:0;
tabStyleName: myTabs;
firstTabStyleName: myTabs;
lastTabStyleName: myTabs;
selectedTabTextStyleName: myTabs;
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
borderColor: #8e8e86;
borderThickness: 2;
}
   
   
.myTabs {
highlightAlphas: 0, 0.1;
fillAlphas: 1, 0.82;
fillColors: #a2a2a2, #b7b6b4;
backgroundColor: #758bbc;
borderColor: #b7b6b4;
color: #ff;
textRollOverColor: #ff;
themeColor: #b7b6b4;
fontSize: 14;
textAlign: left;
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
}
   
@font-face
{
font-family: AvenirLTStdMedium;
src: url(assets/fonts/AvenirLTStdMedium.otf);
}

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Doug McCune

It's not that Flash Player decides it wants to convert the Date to a
different timezone. It's about what data Flash Player has about that Date.
When a Date is sent over the wire, particularly when using AMF either with
Blaze or CF or whatever, the date is sent as the Unix timestamp, which is
the number of milliseconds since 1970. That keeps the data transfer very
small and simple, all you need to send is a single Number, which only takes
up 8 bytes.

So then Flash Player gets this single number, which represents the number of
milliseconds since 1970, and it has to figure out how to turn that into a
formatted Date. But that means that if you have a date of Jan 1 2008 @ 12pm
in California (Unix timestamp of 1199188800), that same timestamp gets shown
as 9am in New York. Because Flash Player has no idea that that same Unix
timestamp is meant to be formatted in California time, you end up showing
different times (and potentially even different dates if the timezone
difference extends across midnight).

So like people have mentioned, in order to get the date to display the right
way you have to send more data. This can either mean sending the timezone
offset that is supposed to be used for display, which will then require some
offset conversion on the clientside, or sending the Date as a String, which
takes up more bytes than the simple Number and requires a simple String to
Date conversion on the client.

But using the normal Date object with AMF will only send the number of
milliseconds since 1970, and that information alone is not enough if you
want to show the same formatted time across all timezones.

Doug

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote:

The problem is that somehow.



 If the server serving that date is in a different location to you, flash
 player says, well I wont show that date I just got from the database, I'll
 adjust it to your time. This is totally useless, so for example if Im
 logging actions in an audit, the date in those logs could look different
 from one user to another.



 Regards

 Dale Fraser

 http://learncf.com

 http://flexcf.com





 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Randy Martin
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 December 2008 3:52 PM

 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.



 I guess I really don't understand what the problem is here?? I have a
 smalldatetime (or a datetime) in a MSSQL database. I setup a value object in
 AS to have the date field as a Date object. I go get the date from
 ColdFusion using RemoteObject. The cfc sets up a CF value object with the
 date as a CF Date object. And, voila, the MSSQL datetime becomes an AS Date
 object.



 I don't have to convert anything to a string, or any other kind of object.
 So, what's the problem here???



 ~randy



 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Dale Fraser
 *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 9:51 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.



 Why does Flex do this?



 If I get a date out of the db and want to deal with it as a date, surely
 this should be possible. How can the flash player determine it needs to
 change it to a different date.



 There must be some other option rather than converting to a string.



 Regards

 Dale Fraser

 http://learncf.com

 http://flexcf.com





 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Paul Kukiel
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 December 2008 1:46 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.



 Thanks Tracy,



 I knew I was going to get this answer.  I already got this working with
 strings as a test sample looks like I have to convert the rest of the app.
  Surely others are feeling my pain with this issue.



 And Nate I look forward to seeing what you have come up with when its
 ready.



 Paul.



 On 15/12/2008, at 7:46 PM, Tracy Spratt wrote:







 Pass the date as a string.

 Tracy


  --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Paul Kukiel
 *Sent:* Monday, December 15, 2008 3:17 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.



 I have a date in a server in Australia:  22/12/2008 12:00:00 AM

 I am using this label function for the grid to try and fix the time zone
 issue but my date always comes back to me as 21/12/2008 in the datagrid.  I
 really just wan the exact date from the database regardless of where I am in
 the world.

 Any ideas?


 // Label Grid Date
 public static function labelGridDate(item:Object,
 column:DataGridColumn):String {
 var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
 var myDate:Date = item[column.dataField];
 formatter.formatString = DD MMM ;

 var

Re: [flexcoders] doug mccune's site down

2008-12-14 Thread Doug McCune

Heh, funny when this list gets used as my own personal email service :) got
your other email and just responded, thanks for the heads up on the site,
maybe once I start blogging again I'll pay more attention to it being down
:P

Doug

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:38 PM, grimmwerks gr...@grimmwerks.com wrote:

   Hey Doug -- was trying to contact you through your site but got a 500
 server error -- for some reason I just can't compile your
 BouncingFisheye, but wanted to let you know about the server issue...

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex developer and their hourly rate

2008-11-04 Thread Doug McCune

Right, so as a very rough rule of thumb, take your hourly rate and double
it, then multiply by 1,000 to get the equitable annual salary. So an hourly
rate of $100/hour is roughly equal to $200,000/year. And then obviously you
need to factor in stuff like the cost of benefits, overhead (stuff like
office rent or equipment, etc), and the cost of unbillable hours (you've
gotta do unpaid work just to get paying work).

So figure out what kind of annual salary you would want, then subtract the
cost of benefits (do some research about benefit costs), then subtract any
other expenses you have that you wouldn't have with a regular job (make sure
to think about tax rate differences). Then try to think about how many hours
a week you think you're going to have to spend just to get work (soliciting
clients, bending over backwards with unpaid proof of concepts or wireframes,
unbillable phone meetings to go over initial specs, etc).

If you figure all that out then you end up with the amount of $$ you want to
make per year and the number of hours per week you are hoping to bill. Then
just do the math and figure out what you need to charge to make that.

So yeah, if you can bill $100/hour for a solid 40 hours a week for a year
(with 2 weeks vacation I think) you end up making about the equivalent of
$200k/year minus benefits, overhead, and potential tax differences (of
course you can write more shit off now too). But just be sure to be honest
about the number of billing hours per week you can really pull off. The
additional work of just getting billable contracting work, plus the added
cost of benefits and overhead, is probably why Tracy quoted the general rule
of thumb that he did.

Doug


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yes, hello, do the math. ;)

 Tracy


  --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *Vivian Richard
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:05 PM

 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex developer and their hourly rate



 But should not an independent consultant get more than the
 salary, since he/she does not get and benefits and also the
 employer does not have any obligations like the regular employee?

 On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]tspratt%40lariatinc.com
 wrote:
  And understand, this is an independent contractor rate for billable
 hours.
 
 
 
  One rule-of-thumb I have heard is that an independent hourly rate should
 be
  one thousandth of what the annual salary would be for the same level of
  developer.
 
 
 
  For example if an annual salary is 100K per year, then the hourly rate
  should be $100 per hour. I am sure 100K is not an unusual salary for an
  experienced developer in SF.
 
 
 
  Tracy
 
 
 
  
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:
 flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] On
  Behalf Of Rich Rodecker
  Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:40 AM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex developer and their hourly rate
 
 
 
  that's how it goes...you're talking about a much different cost of living
  than say, Arkansas.
 
 
 
  On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:37 AM, nathanpdaniel [EMAIL 
  PROTECTED]ndaniel%40bsi-scs.com
 wrote:
 
  $100/hour Man, I'm gonna have to move to SF! HAHAHA :D
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Rich
 Rodecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
 
 
  That's always a hard question, and mostly depends on a few major
  points:
  location, experience, and additional skill set. SF, and just about
  every
  major city is definitely going to get you a higher rate than say,
  Tennessee.
  How is your portfolio? If you have an impressive body of work
  that will
  also increase your value. On top of that, if your a flex developer
  that is
  highly skilled in additional areas, or have alot of experience
  building
  enterprise-level apps, that will also increase your value.
  All that being said, I don't know :) Though I'd esitmate you're
  going to be
  somewhere around $100/hr.
 
 
 
 
  On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, hworke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  
   Hi Devs,
  
   I do not have any idea about the market hourly
   rate that a Flex developer with 3 years experience
   charges in San Francisco bay area charges. Can
   someone please give me some idea?
  
   Best regards,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Delays in posts

2008-10-31 Thread Doug McCune

Subscribe to the email list and have it send you individual emails. Then set
up a filter in gmail to label all messages from the list and throw em into a
folder and automatically out of the inbox. Then just let that sit and amass
thousand of messages (my flexcoders label currently has 16,500 unread
messages).

Doug

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:01 PM, lagos_tout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi,

 Thanks for the prompt response.
 I only use the web interface, both for posting and checking for
 responses. I do so by searching by my email address. This should
 should pull up all my posts, right? Yet when I do that, not even this
 thread shows in the results. Isn't that strange? I see posts, but
 the most recent one is from the 17th of October. And like I mentioned
 in my original post I posted a couple of new ones a few days ago. Is
 there a better way for me to track my posts?

 Thanks.

 LT

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 Dimitrios Gianninas

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I checked your account and it is unmoderated, which is the way it is
 suppose to be. Maybe you can direct me to the messages offline and I
 check to see where they are?
 
  Can you see them via web interface?
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages
 
  Dimitrios Gianninas
  Flexcoders Moderator
 
 
  
 
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 flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]
 On Behalf Of lagos_tout
  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 4:17 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [flexcoders] Delays in posts
 
 
 
  You know, I love this group. But the delays suck. I posted 2
  messages at least 3 days ago and they still haven't shown up. I guess
  if I have an urgent question, I'm going to have to post elsewhere, as
  much as I'm reluctant to do that - the people on this list are very
  knowledgeable and generous.
  Thanks.
  LT
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [flexcoders] Extending UIComponent memory issues.

You've got 4,000 things all moving around at once? Are all 4,000 of those
actually visible? 4,000 UI components seems like a lot for any layout
manager to have to deal with. I'd try to focus on figuring out how to reduce
the number of UIComponents before I worried about how much memory each one
is taking up. I may be totally off base, but I can't imagine a scenario
where you want 4,000 images all on the screen at the same time.

And if you do really need to load 4,000 swfs all at the same time then you
probably want something that's lighter than custom UIComponent classes,
which would keep those 4,000 objects out of the normal
invalidation/validation cycles of the display list.

Doug

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Michael Schmalle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   A side note,
 You are doing some very expensive leg work in the 'content' setter.

 You need to break that out into commitProperties() and updateDisplayList().

 You would get a huge performance increase for sure.

 As far as the memory, doesn't look to weird, event listeners without weak
 references can make thing hang around as well.

 Mike


 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:08 PM, flexaustin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   So I have this base component, that when running profiler, says its
 eating up tons of memory. I have about 4000 of these at one time in
 my Flex app (see component code below). This base component is
 extended by two other components, which are then extended by two more
 components each so 3 or 4 levels above this base component.

 1. My first question is does the profiler just point to the base class
 or are there actually 4000 of these being created outside of their
 extended children?

 2. My 2nd question is is their anything wrong with the code below? Why
 is it eatin memory? The parameter content when pulled in is a swf
 file (icon) that is 5kb each so 5kb * 4000... you get the math.

 When I run this progam the CarouselImage's are using up 30% to 35% of
 my apps memory usage. And my app is eating up 725,000kb of mem usage,
 thus crashing my pretty decent computer.

 // --- BEGIN CODE --
 package com.mysite.views.components
 {

 import flash.display.DisplayObject;
 import flash.system.ApplicationDomain;

 import mx.core.UIComponent;
 import mx.events.ResizeEvent;

 public class CarouselImage extends UIComponent
 {
 // Content
 private var _content:DisplayObject;
 private var _contentWidth:Number;
 private var _contentHeight:Number;

 public function CarouselImage(content:*=null)
 {
 super();

 // Set content
 this.content = content;
 }

 // Properties
 [Inspectable]
 public function get content():DisplayObject
 {
 return _content;
 }

 public function set content(value:*):void
 {
 if (_content != null)
 {
 removeChild(_content)
 removeEventListener(ResizeEvent.RESIZE, handleResize);
 }

 if (value is String)
 {
 try
 {
 value = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition(value);
 }
 catch (error:*)
 {
 // Do nothing
 }
 }

 if (value is Class)
 value = new value();

 _content = value as DisplayObject;

 if (_content != null)
 {
 _contentWidth = _content.width;
 _contentHeight = _content.height;

 addChild(_content);
 addEventListener(ResizeEvent.RESIZE, handleResize);

 scaleContent();
 }

 this.invalidateDisplayList();
 this.invalidateProperties();
 this.invalidateSize();
 }

 public function get contentWidth():Number
 {
 return _contentWidth;
 }

 public function get contentHeight():Number
 {
 return _contentHeight;
 }

 // Measure and draw
 private function scaleContent():void
 {
 if (_content != null  width  0  height  0)
 {
 // Width
 _content.scaleX = width / contentWidth;
 // Center the image
 _content.x = (width - (contentWidth * _content.scaleX)) * 0.5;

 // Height
 _content.scaleY = height / contentHeight;
 // Center the image
 _content.y = (height - (contentHeight * _content.scaleY)) * 0.5;
 }
 }

 // Event handlers
 private function handleResize(event:ResizeEvent):void
 {
 scaleContent();
 this.invalidateDisplayList();
 this.invalidateProperties();
 this.invalidateSize();
 }

 }
 }
 // - END CODE 




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Re: [flexcoders] Efficiency and objects in the display list

Sprites can have mouse handling. If you don't base your class on UIComponent
you lose all the automatic display list stuff (measuring, layout, etc). But
if you manually control positioning and everything yourself, and don't have
any need for stuff like CSS styles, then you should be OK using Sprite.

Doug

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   It seems odd that there is no really lightweight class for addressing
 this sort of need, which I would have expected was a common one (I note it's
 the subject of a second thread now too).


 On 16/10/2008, at 9:51 AM, Guy Morton wrote:

 Thanks for the reply, Josh. They do need to respond to mouseovers and
 mousedowns, so am I stuck with UIComponent?

 Guy

 On 15/10/2008, at 8:11 AM, Josh McDonald wrote:


 If they don't need mouse events, base them on Shape instead.

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Anyone?
 On 14/10/2008, at 11:34 AM, Guy Morton wrote:

 We have an app which adds 50 or 60 dynamically created and animated
 canvas-based objects to the display list as it runs. I've noticed when
 running this under the profiler that even though these canvas-based
 components are really simple (they have a draw function and a rotate
 function in them and don't import any other classes) they each add
 about 1 Mb to the overall memory consumed by the app.

 I've also tried making the components UIComponent based instead of
 using Canvas (as I believe it's a little more lightweight) but it
 doesn't seem to make a huge difference.

 Is there a better/more efficient way to dynamically create, draw,
 rotate and animate a bunch of small objects in a flex app?

 TIA

 Guy





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Re: [flexcoders] Efficiency and objects in the display list

Create a custom component that extends UIComponent that you will use to hold
all your Sprites. Then you can use addChild to add the Sprites to that
component. And since your custom holder component extends UIComponent you
can add that to whatever Container class you've got in your app.

Doug

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Which gets me back to where I started... :-/


 On 16/10/2008, at 11:26 AM, Tracy Spratt wrote:


 Container children must be UIComponents.  You will need to add the sprites
 to a UIComponent first.

 Tracy


 --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *Guy Morton
 *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:01 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Efficiency and objects in the display list



 Hi Doug



 Yes, I tried using Sprite but it seems I can't add a sprite-based component
 to my other containers...I guess because they are UIComponent based? Do
 Sprites in flex have to be added to the display list directly? I'm having a
 look at the docs but it's a little confusing as they generally discuss
 Sprite in terms of Flash rather than Flex.



 Guy





 On 16/10/2008, at 10:55 AM, Doug McCune wrote:





 Sprites can have mouse handling. If you don't base your class on
 UIComponent you lose all the automatic display list stuff (measuring,
 layout, etc). But if you manually control positioning and everything
 yourself, and don't have any need for stuff like CSS styles, then you should
 be OK using Sprite.

 Doug

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 It seems odd that there is no really lightweight class for addressing this
 sort of need, which I would have expected was a common one (I note it's the
 subject of a second thread now too).





 On 16/10/2008, at 9:51 AM, Guy Morton wrote:



 Thanks for the reply, Josh. They do need to respond to mouseovers and
 mousedowns, so am I stuck with UIComponent?



 Guy



 On 15/10/2008, at 8:11 AM, Josh McDonald wrote:





 If they don't need mouse events, base them on Shape instead.

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Anyone?



 On 14/10/2008, at 11:34 AM, Guy Morton wrote:



 We have an app which adds 50 or 60 dynamically created and animated
 canvas-based objects to the display list as it runs. I've noticed when
 running this under the profiler that even though these canvas-based
 components are really simple (they have a draw function and a rotate
 function in them and don't import any other classes) they each add
 about 1 Mb to the overall memory consumed by the app.

 I've also tried making the components UIComponent based instead of
 using Canvas (as I believe it's a little more lightweight) but it
 doesn't seem to make a huge difference.

 Is there a better/more efficient way to dynamically create, draw,
 rotate and animate a bunch of small objects in a flex app?

 TIA

 Guy






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 Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog!

 :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
 :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/

Re: [flexcoders] Efficiency and objects in the display list

Guy, I'm curious to hear about whether shifting from UIComponent components
to using sprites made your app perform fast enough for you. Once you do a
bit of testing care to share your overall experience?

Doug

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Yes, thanks Doug, Josh, Tracy...I did get that working.


 On 16/10/2008, at 11:21 AM, Doug McCune wrote:


 Create a custom component that extends UIComponent that you will use to
 hold all your Sprites. Then you can use addChild to add the Sprites to that
 component. And since your custom holder component extends UIComponent you
 can add that to whatever Container class you've got in your app.

 Doug

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Which gets me back to where I started... :-/


 On 16/10/2008, at 11:26 AM, Tracy Spratt wrote:


 Container children must be UIComponents.  You will need to add the sprites
 to a UIComponent first.

 Tracy

 --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *Guy Morton
 *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:01 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Efficiency and objects in the display list


 Hi Doug


 Yes, I tried using Sprite but it seems I can't add a sprite-based
 component to my other containers...I guess because they are UIComponent
 based? Do Sprites in flex have to be added to the display list directly? I'm
 having a look at the docs but it's a little confusing as they generally
 discuss Sprite in terms of Flash rather than Flex.


 Guy



 On 16/10/2008, at 10:55 AM, Doug McCune wrote:





 Sprites can have mouse handling. If you don't base your class on
 UIComponent you lose all the automatic display list stuff (measuring,
 layout, etc). But if you manually control positioning and everything
 yourself, and don't have any need for stuff like CSS styles, then you should
 be OK using Sprite.

 Doug

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 It seems odd that there is no really lightweight class for addressing this
 sort of need, which I would have expected was a common one (I note it's the
 subject of a second thread now too).



 On 16/10/2008, at 9:51 AM, Guy Morton wrote:



 Thanks for the reply, Josh. They do need to respond to mouseovers and
 mousedowns, so am I stuck with UIComponent?


 Guy


 On 15/10/2008, at 8:11 AM, Josh McDonald wrote:





 If they don't need mouse events, base them on Shape instead.

 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Anyone?


 On 14/10/2008, at 11:34 AM, Guy Morton wrote:



 We have an app which adds 50 or 60 dynamically created and animated
 canvas-based objects to the display list as it runs. I've noticed when
 running this under the profiler that even though these canvas-based
 components are really simple (they have a draw function and a rotate
 function in them and don't import any other classes) they each add
 about 1 Mb to the overall memory consumed by the app.

 I've also tried making the components UIComponent based instead of
 using Canvas (as I believe it's a little more lightweight) but it
 doesn't seem to make a huge difference.

 Is there a better/more efficient way to dynamically create, draw,
 rotate and animate a bunch of small objects in a flex app?

 TIA

 Guy





 --
 Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

 Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog!

 :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
 :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/

Re: [flexcoders] Can you do multiple namespace manifests in a single .swc from within builder?

2008-10-02 Thread Doug McCune

Yeah, you can do it. I do that both with the additional compiler args
of the project properties panel and with ANT. So I've got something
like this as my additional compiler args:

-locale en_US -namespace http://ns1.dougmccune.com/ /manifest1.xml
-namespace http://ns2.dougmccune.com/ /manifest2.xml
-include-namespaces http:/ns1.dougmccune.com/
http://ns2.dougmccune.com/

I'm trying to remember now what autocomplete will pick up, and I
honestly can't really remember. I pretty much use ANT for most of my
real swc builds, but then I also add the actual library project to the
build path too. That means I have two entries for pretty much the same
swc, the one built by ANT and the local project one. That works fairly
well for me to let me easily debug stuff, and then keep using ANT for
when I'm ready to roll out a production build.

I think sometimes I might get both options, one for the correct
namespace and then also the package structure way. I just try to
always choose the proper namesapce one when I select my completion
option. Eitehr way your code will compile, it'll just look nicer if
you keep the clean namespaces the way you want them.

Doug

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hey guys,

 I've tried a few things (adding --namespace commands in additional compiler
 options, and adding another entry in .flexlibProperties), but I can't seem
 to get this to work from Builder. It seems to break auto-complete;
 somethings auto-complete to package names instead of namespaces, others
 won't auto-complete at all, etc... I know you can do it when you're building
 a .swc from Ant, but then it becomes difficult to navigate between
 application and library code when you're debugging both at the same time.

 But, I would very much like to have a few separate namespaces in my library
 project to separate gui components from application structure elements, and
 command-chain elements, if I can figure out how to make it all work nicely!

 Any ideas? Anybody know the secret, if it can be done at all?

 Cheers,
 -Josh

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 :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [flexcoders] Posting extended Flexlib component?

2008-10-01 Thread Doug McCune

Yup, you can do whatever you want with any of the source. Flexlib is
released under the MIT license.

Doug

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Allan Pichler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all



 I have extended the flexlib scrolling canvas to use for an image gallery and
 I'm wondering if it's okay to make the source of such a component
 downloadable from a public website?



 A beta non-source version can be found at
 www.unzipmenow.com/flib-gallery/index.html



 Feel free to comment/question me directly if you like, so we don't overload
 the mailing list!



 Thank you all in advance!





 Best regards



 Allan Pichler

 Brewmaster - ColdFusion/Flex/Ajax/UI



 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Skype: apichler

 Yahoo: allan_pichler

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

 I don't think papervision has anything on it - And its all written in
 Flex :)


That's a big claim my friend. We're going to need to see more than 4
planes with a video material to make any assessment :)

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

I clicked and moved... All I'm saying is that the claim that your
personal 3D engine is better than PV3D is a large claim that needs far
more than that example to back it up. Does yours render faster? handle
more polygons? support unique textures, etc? All I'm seeing in that
demo is basic 3D planes with video materials, which any of the 3D
engines (PV3D, Away3D, Sandy) have been able to do for years. Even
Flash Player 10 now has built in support for 3D planes.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Samuel Colak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 click and move it around !

 On Sep 25, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Doug McCune wrote:

 I don't think papervision has anything on it - And its all written in
 Flex :)


 That's a big claim my friend. We're going to need to see more than 4
 planes with a video material to make any assessment :)

Re: [flexcoders] Not to harp on about it....

I didn't mean to come off as rude :) Writing your own 3D engine is a
huge undertaking and it's an impressive accomplishment. Congrats on
the work.

Is it going to be released (open source?)

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Samuel Colak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 then goto http://www.im-at-home.com - my other website.

 As for sandy and a couple of others, sure i guess they will do the
 same.
 Mine i think is faster - simply because it handle things in a different way.
 Ive been in the 3D space for quite some time since the Amiga - this has
 some shortcuts which arent publicized.
 Of course you are welcome to test the theory

 On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Doug McCune wrote:

 I clicked and moved... All I'm saying is that the claim that your
 personal 3D engine is better than PV3D is a large claim that needs far
 more than that example to back it up. Does yours render faster? handle
 more polygons? support unique textures, etc? All I'm seeing in that
 demo is basic 3D planes with video materials, which any of the 3D
 engines (PV3D, Away3D, Sandy) have been able to do for years. Even
 Flash Player 10 now has built in support for 3D planes.

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Samuel Colak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 click and move it around !

 On Sep 25, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Doug McCune wrote:

 I don't think papervision has anything on it - And its all written in
 Flex :)


 That's a big claim my friend. We're going to need to see more than 4
 planes with a video material to make any assessment :)

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Base64Encoder / Base64Decoder

In my version of the SDK source the toString method is defined and
looks like this:

public function toString():String
{
return flush();
}

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joao Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What do you want to do with Base64? I might be able to point you at
 an example. I've also logged a bug for documentation to ask them to
 provide examples in these classes (note this, and commenting on the
 live docs, is a better way to get the doc team's attention).
 https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDOCS-509


 The problem was with the toString() method in Base64Decoder(which does
 not exist), according to the docs Returns the string representation
 of the specified object..
 The application threw a compile time error because the method did not
 exist.
 I ended up using the flush() method, after checking source code for
 the class, hence my comment on the previous post about the source.
 But thanks anyway.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Base64Encoder / Base64Decoder

woops, that was in Base64Encoder, not Decoder. My mistake.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In my version of the SDK source the toString method is defined and
 looks like this:

 public function toString():String
{
return flush();
}

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joao Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What do you want to do with Base64? I might be able to point you at
 an example. I've also logged a bug for documentation to ask them to
 provide examples in these classes (note this, and commenting on the
 live docs, is a better way to get the doc team's attention).
 https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDOCS-509


 The problem was with the toString() method in Base64Decoder(which does
 not exist), according to the docs Returns the string representation
 of the specified object..
 The application threw a compile time error because the method did not
 exist.
 I ended up using the flush() method, after checking source code for
 the class, hence my comment on the previous post about the source.
 But thanks anyway.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Base64Encoder / Base64Decoder

I assume the bug here is that the toString() method was supposed to be
implemented the same way in Base64Decoder as it is in Base64Encoder,
which would then make the docs at least make sense. But it looks like
that method simply got left out of the decoder class. Add it in just
like in the encoder and things aren't as confusing (although I'd argue
that using the toString() method to retrieve the result is an
inherently confusing way to use the classes).

Doug

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 woops, that was in Base64Encoder, not Decoder. My mistake.

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In my version of the SDK source the toString method is defined and
 looks like this:

 public function toString():String
{
return flush();
}

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joao Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What do you want to do with Base64? I might be able to point you at
 an example. I've also logged a bug for documentation to ask them to
 provide examples in these classes (note this, and commenting on the
 live docs, is a better way to get the doc team's attention).
 https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDOCS-509


 The problem was with the toString() method in Base64Decoder(which does
 not exist), according to the docs Returns the string representation
 of the specified object..
 The application threw a compile time error because the method did not
 exist.
 I ended up using the flush() method, after checking source code for
 the class, hence my comment on the previous post about the source.
 But thanks anyway.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Base64Encoder / Base64Decoder

Woops, my bad again. I gotta stop responding to threads without really
understanding what I'm talking about. I think I just noticed that both
have flush() methods and I assumed that was to a String (which is
wrong in the case of the decoder). I'll stop talking now.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Just curious, where'd folks see the decoder docs talk about a toString()?
 Base64Decoder's primary use is to decode to a ByteArray so it has a
 toByteArray() method. If you wanted to construct a String from this
 ByteArray you'd need to know the charset encoding used in the bytes.

 Pete

 -Original Message-
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Doug McCune
 Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:29 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Base64Encoder / Base64Decoder

 I assume the bug here is that the toString() method was supposed to be
 implemented the same way in Base64Decoder as it is in Base64Encoder,
 which would then make the docs at least make sense. But it looks like
 that method simply got left out of the decoder class. Add it in just
 like in the encoder and things aren't as confusing (although I'd argue
 that using the toString() method to retrieve the result is an
 inherently confusing way to use the classes).

 Doug

Re: [flexcoders] Retry: Question for Doug McCune on Drag-drop component?

2008-09-23 Thread Doug McCune

For basic dragging stuff, here's typically what I do. Have a mouse
down listener on whatever component you want to drag. On mouse down
you keep track of the coordinates where the user pressed. Then you add
a mouse move listener to the system manager. Also add a mouse up
listener to system manager. Then when the user moves the mouse (which
you catch with the system manager listener), perform the calculation
of how far from the original mouse down position the mouse is and move
the component to the right place. Then when you catch the mouse up
event (again, from system manager), you remove the mouse move listener
and you're done.

See the code in the Panel class in the Flex framework for an example
of this type of dragging. The big thing to know is that you want to
use mouse move and mouse up events from the system manager, not from
the component itself. If you use the component itself you'll end up
losing the mouse movement if the user drags quickly off the component,
or you might get stuck in endless dragging if the mouse is released
while not over the component.

You should also probably have a listener for when the mouse leaves the
stage and stop dragging at that point too, since not doing that can
make the drag operation continue after the release the mouse (if they
move the mouse off your app and the release).

Doug

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, gwangdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Sorry if this question should be better showing up at the
 flexcomponent group. I didn't have any luck there so far;)

 Suppose I am motivated enough to roll up my sleeves to do something
 like what McCune is doing here at tileUI.com:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0N7tgF7OOM

 Just for the drag part to get started, am I better off implementing
 the darg-drop framework that Flex provide or should I start from the
 more basic mouseUp/mouseDown?

 I guess this question is for every Flex guru besides Doug;) I
 appreciate it.

Re: [flexcoders] Retry: Question for Doug McCune on Drag-drop component?

2008-09-23 Thread Doug McCune

Thanks :) For the dragging stuff, just check out the source of Panel.
There's code in there that I often copy/paste into my own stuff to
handle dragging the exact same way.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Doug, you're a store (and distribution point) of much useful Flex kung-fu :)

 I didn't think of doing that last time I was messing with drag-n-drop, but
 it's a great idea.

 On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 For basic dragging stuff, here's typically what I do. Have a mouse
 down listener on whatever component you want to drag. On mouse down
 you keep track of the coordinates where the user pressed. Then you add
 a mouse move listener to the system manager. Also add a mouse up
 listener to system manager. Then when the user moves the mouse (which
 you catch with the system manager listener), perform the calculation
 of how far from the original mouse down position the mouse is and move
 the component to the right place. Then when you catch the mouse up
 event (again, from system manager), you remove the mouse move listener
 and you're done.

 See the code in the Panel class in the Flex framework for an example
 of this type of dragging. The big thing to know is that you want to
 use mouse move and mouse up events from the system manager, not from
 the component itself. If you use the component itself you'll end up
 losing the mouse movement if the user drags quickly off the component,
 or you might get stuck in endless dragging if the mouse is released
 while not over the component.

 You should also probably have a listener for when the mouse leaves the
 stage and stop dragging at that point too, since not doing that can
 make the drag operation continue after the release the mouse (if they
 move the mouse off your app and the release).

 Doug

 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM, gwangdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  Sorry if this question should be better showing up at the
  flexcomponent group. I didn't have any luck there so far;)
 
  Suppose I am motivated enough to roll up my sleeves to do something
  like what McCune is doing here at tileUI.com:
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0N7tgF7OOM
 
  Just for the drag part to get started, am I better off implementing
  the darg-drop framework that Flex provide or should I start from the
  more basic mouseUp/mouseDown?
 
  I guess this question is for every Flex guru besides Doug;) I
  appreciate it.
 
 

 

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Re: [flexcoders] New to FLEX

2008-09-22 Thread Doug McCune

[Shameless Plug] Flex for Dummies!

http://dougmccune.com/blog/flex-for-dummies/
http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Flex-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470277920

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

 Http://feeds.adobe.com
 http://adobe.com/flex

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 - Original Message -
 From: NATA RAJAN
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:51 AM
 Subject: [flexcoders] New to FLEX

 Hi friends
 am new to FLEX . can u send what are the flex sites to learn and PDF books
 and sample codings which u worked


 regards
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Re: [flexcoders] New to FLEX

2008-09-22 Thread Doug McCune

Yeah, it's a hard line to walk trying to write something that someone
without any knowledge of Flex can pick up and use to get started, but
also trying to balance some more advanced stuff, all while keeping the
page count ridiculously low (we ended up cutting a full chapter after
exceeding the For Dummies absolute max allowed, make sure to check
out the website on dummies.com for that extra chapter). And the
dummies style is also to try to let the reader flip to any chapter
without having to have read the previous ones, so that's an added
challenge :)

Thanks for the support! It's always wonderful to hear nice things.

Doug

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Nancy Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

 I just picked up a copy on Friday at Borders .. mostly because I saw that it
 was written by you.  My first impression is that it's probably easier than I
 need, but what really struck me about it is that it seems like a very good
 reference for getting it ingrained in the brain as to what everything is and
 does.

 Congrats, Doug .. despite the title :) .. looks to be a handy one to keep
 around!

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 - Original Message -
 From: Doug McCune
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:30 AM
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] New to FLEX

 [Shameless Plug] Flex for Dummies!

 http://dougmccune.com/blog/flex-for-dummies/
 http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Flex-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/0470277920

 On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

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 From: NATA RAJAN
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:51 AM
 Subject: [flexcoders] New to FLEX

 Hi friends
 am new to FLEX . can u send what are the flex sites to learn and PDF books
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: New to FLEX

2008-09-22 Thread Doug McCune

dang, I didn't know about http:///blog
that's where all the secrets are!

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 And read a boatload of blogs! I use bloglines myself, but google reader (or
 a browser bookmark) will do the trick. Here's the URLs of the Flex / RIA
 blogs I subscribe to:

 **I hope this msg doesn't get flagged as spam for all the URLs :)

 http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/
 http://adamflater.blogspot.com/
 http://rss.adobe.com/en/flex_cookbook_most_recent.rss
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/
 http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/
 http://shigeru-nakagaki.com/index.cfm
 http://www.boostworthy.com/blog
 http://www.buntel.com/blog/index.cfm
 http://www.herrodius.com/blog
 http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/
 http://david.realeyes.com
 http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe
 http://www.degrafa.com
 http://www.dgrigg.com
 http://dispatchevent.org
 http://dougmccune.com/blog
 http://ecmascript.zwetan.com/
 http://jwopitz.wordpress.com
 http://sherifabdou.com
 http://blog.sunild.com/
 http://blog.flexmonkeypatches.com
 http://www.dehats.com/drupal
 http://blogs.adobe.com/gosmith/
 http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng/
 http://fullasagoog.com/
 http://www.gskinner.com/blog/
 http://gettingandsetting.com
 http://www.graviti.tv/blog
 http://blog.haxe.org
 http://iamdeepa.com/blog
 http://blog.iconara.net
 http://jacwright.com/blog
 http://ech.net/blog
 http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog
 http://joshblog.net
 http://www.colettas.org
 http://office.realeyesmedia.com/blogs/jun
 http://kennethteo.com
 http://blog.kevinhoyt.org
 http://blog.thinkingdigital.org
 http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin/
 http:///blog
 http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/
 http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/
 http://www.quasimondo.com/
 http://www.riapedia.com
 http://www.ryangorer.com/blog/
 http://thesaj.wordpress.com
 http://scalenine.com/
 http://seantheflexguy.com/blog
 http://blog.smashedapples.com/
 http://www.thetechlabs.com
 http://www.onflex.org/ted/index.php
 http://timwalling.com
 http://www.tink.ws/blog

 -Josh

 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:31 AM, radwhite81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 the best book I would recommend is Flex 3 cookbook and Adobe flex 3
 training from the source. Great books they teach the basics and then
 gets into what you really want to know.


 

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: FlexBuilder debugging kills ITunes

2008-09-21 Thread Doug McCune

I've ditched debugging in Firefox and switched to only debugging in
Safari. For some reason debugging in FF worked fine up until a certain
point, then it became crazy crazy slow and would nearly hang my entire
machine. Switched the default browser for debugging to Safari and all
was normal again. Dunno what was up or if that is anything like your
issue.

Doug

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:49 AM, rleuthold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is your mac starting to feel slower at the same time the iTunes begin to act
 shaky ? Do you
 debug with Firefox ?

 If so, check with Activity Monitor if your CPU is running at max ...

 If that is the case, try to do a fresh install of Firefox. With fresh I mean
 move the profiles and
 bookmarks away from the default location, reinstall Firefox and add all
 profile and addon
 stuff again.

 worked for me ...

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

 Brendan Meutzner wrote:
  Hi All,
  I'm sorry to post this not so technical question, but I figured it'd
  be
  the best place to see if other folks have this same frustration that I
  do.
 
  My dev machine is a Macbook Pro running Leopard, and I'm working with
  FlexBuilder 3.0.1. I've found that whenever I go to debug an app and it
  hits a breakpoint, my ITunes audio output begins
  skipping/hopping/jumping
  etc... It's terribly annoying!
 
  I've never had this issue on my Mac Pro running the same environment...
  EXCEPT... I haven't pushed up to 3.0.1 hotfix for FlexBuilder there
  yet...
  just running 3.0.
 
  Has anyone else had this happen to them? I'd love to just switch to
  another audio player, but having a lot of ITunes content, it would be
  really
  annoying to convert.
 
 
  Brendan

 man renice

 Might help.

 cheers,
 - shaun

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList changing items displayed after scrolling

2008-09-18 Thread Doug McCune

You guys still use UIComponent? Man, real men go straight for Sprite. Or
sometimes I just use Object and project the display list straight into the
user's brain.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

…extending UIComponent.. Wooo hoo, you are playing with the big boys
 now!

 Tracy


  --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *Kyle
 *Sent:* Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:49 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: TileList changing items displayed after
 scrolling



 Thanks for the url's! I think that I had a number of issues with my
 renderer. One thing was that I was not setting the data property as
 [Bindable] so I don't believe that it was properly being set and/or
 dispatching the dataChange event. Secondly, (as you mentioned) there
 may have been a recycling issue. What I ended up doing was scrapping
 the idea of extending my item renderer off of some pre-existing class
 (such as Image or HBox) and extending UIComponent, then overriding all
 the methods to take full control over my renderer. This seemed to
 really do that trick!

 I also found a series written by Peter Ent to be extremely helpful:
 http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2008/03/itemrenderers_p_1.html

Re: [flexcoders] flex not displaying JPEG images

2008-09-16 Thread Doug McCune

You could try reading the raw bytes of the JPEG and actually extracting the
thumbnail if it's embedded (depending on what you're doing that could
actually be a huge performance boost if all you need is the thumb). I think
Kevin Hoyt had some code that extracted the thumbnail from EXIF data, check
this stuff:
http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2007/12/18/samples-updated-for-air-beta-3/

Doug

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   Alex Harui wrote:
  Can you repro yourself? Use some tool to generate a 150DPI image and
  see if Flex can show it. Then add thumbnails, etc until it dies?

 sort of. we thought we had id-ed 3 things different from the other working
 images:

 - 150 DPI
 - ICC Profile
 - embedded thumbnails

 a kind soul w/photoshop expertise stripped out the ICC Profile (and double
 checked that these images were indeed 8 bits/channel) as well as reducing
 the
 DPI to 72 (not exactly sure about that as the EXIF data still says 150DPI
 but
 the image's properties says 72DPI). didn't help.

 we used cfimage to convert to PNG then back again to JPEG which looked
 liked it
 croaked the thumbnail (not 100% sure)  reduced the DPI to 96. flex still
 hung
 when we loaded the roundtripped JPEG images. tried the same thing
 w/fireworks,
 no joy.

 converting to PNG seems to be the only way to display these images.

 created a 150DPI PEG image in fireworks  it too killed flex (can't tell if
 it
 also embedded a thumbnail). ditto for a 96 DPI image. based on this maybe
 it's
 an embedded thumbnail (if fireworks does indeed embed them) as the DPI
 seemed to
 have no effect. though we thought the JPEG--PNG--JPEG round trip
 w/cfimage
 should have lost those???

 btw the client is using a 3.0 SDK compiled version while we're running 3.1,
 no
 difference. both are running 9.x flash players.

 thanks.

[flexcoders] Re: How can I set focus to a field in a programatically created popup?

2008-09-15 Thread Doug S.

I'm not sure about tab loops as they relate to modules... 

You might just need to explicitly set the focus on whatever textInput,
etc. that you want when the focus returns to the original view after
the PopUp has closed.

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

 Doug:
 
 What my current problem is;
 
 When do anything anything that makes the popup close 
 (PopUpManager.removePopUp) when I subsequently press the tab key 
 focus goes to a textInput in another module.
 
 I assume that tab loops are module specific aren't they?
 
 Paul
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, prljamdm doug.sarver@ 
 wrote:
 
  What do you mean by leave my popup?  Mouse out of it or click on 
 a
  field outside of it?
  
  -Doug
  
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote:
  
   Alex:
   
   Thanks, that seems to have done it.
   
   Now on to the next problem, why when I leave my popup, and 
 strike 
   the tab key does it go to a field in a different module...
   
   Paul
   
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aharui@ wrote:
   
Before you do all of that, try delaying your focus setting 
   function using callLater.  It might just be a timing problem.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How can I set focus to a field in a 
   programatically created popup?


Kenneth:

I'm not sure that I know how to do all the things I would need 
 to 
   do.

In the current code I create a titlewindow, add all of the 
 bits and
pices such as horizontal boxes, textinputs, and datagrids, 
 which 
   are
all dynamic and can change based on content, and then I use the
popup manager to display it.

I don't know how to accomplish the same thing starting out 
 with a
mxml component.

Paul

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Sutherland
kenneth.sutherland@ wrote:

 Why don't you try

 ttlwQuery.addEventListener(FlexEvent.SHOW, 
 functionToSetFocus);



 I'd also recommend not creating the titleWindow inside the
 loadQueryCanvas, it would be better to create as separate 
 class
which is
 a titlewindow that you can then create and show. See
 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/16/creating-an-
 undraggable-
titlewin
 dow-container-in-flex/ for an example if I'm not making 
 sense J





 P.S I've know people to use private paste to show there code.
 http://privatepaste.com/

 Handy especially as pasting code into an email normally 
 makes it
 unreadable.



 HTH,

 Kenneth.



 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com] On
 Behalf Of aceoohay
 Sent: 15 September 2008 15:36
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How can I set focus to a field in a
 programatically created popup?



 Kenneth:

 Thanks for the response. That is precisely how I have done 
 it in
the
 past as well. Unfortunately, I do not know how to create
 functions on-the-fly. I am creating the entire object 
 using AS
 code and then displaying it in a popup. Is there a way of 
   creating
a
 new function in an object as you create it? If so I could 
 create
an
 initApp() function and call it from creationComplete.

 Also is there a better way of posting code so that it 
 doesn't 
   lose
 its formatting?

 Paul
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
 , Kenneth Sutherland
 kenneth.sutherland@ wrote:
 
  I haven't tried your code but I would normally do what 
 you're
doing
  using the show event.
 
 
 
  e.g. show=fieldToGetFocus.setFocus();
 
 
 
  this would go inside of your popup code.
 
 
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com

 [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
 ] On
  Behalf Of aceoohay
  Sent: 15 September 2008 07:38
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%
   40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [flexcoders] How can I set focus to a field in a
  programatically created popup?
 
 
 
  I am creating a titlewindow with some fields completely in 
 AS3
  script. I then display this object using a popup. I want 
 to set
 focus
  to the very

[flexcoders] performance implications of marking a class as final?

2008-09-15 Thread Doug McCune

Anyone have any details or benchmarks about what kind of performance gain
(if any) you get from making a class final?

[flexcoders] RadioButton Set selectedValue

2008-09-12 Thread Doug

I have a form Item which contains RadioButtonGroup and a Repeater 
which dynamically loads up RadioButtons from model data, it is inside 
a VBox container:

mx:FormItem direction=horizontal
mx:Label text=Status:/
mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType 
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuationAdmin.valuation_statu
s}/
mx:Repeater id=valStatus 
dataProvider={listModel.allValuationStatuses}
mx:RadioButton id=vs group={statusType} 
label={valStatus.currentItem.title}/
/mx:Repeater
/mx:FormItem

On creationComplete() I call init() which in turn calls 
loadUserInfo(). Here I call selectedValStatus and pass on selected 
data from model:

private function loadUserInfo():void{
if(model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration != null){
selectedValStatus(model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.val
uation_status);
}
}

selectedValStatus() takes the data object passed to it, loops over the 
model list data and then checks to see if the model list data is 
equivalent to the data.title property, where i then set the selected 
value of the radio group:

private function selectedValStatus(data:Object):void{
if(listModel.allValuationStatuses != null){
for(var i:int = 0; ilistModel.allValuationStatuses.length; i++){
var item:ArrayCollection = listModel.allValuationStatuses;
if(data != null){
if(item.title == data.title){
statusType.selectedValue = data.title;
}
}
}
}
}

The Behavior:
Data is present on creation complete.
I have another radio group using the same code architecture that works 
perfectly, is in same form.
On the form load the radio button is not selected.
On a view index change and then return the button is selected 
properly.
Thanks!

[flexcoders] Re: RadioButton Set selectedValue

2008-09-12 Thread Doug

Check this out Tim,
I set up a test group and started building up attributes until it 
failed.  At this point:

mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType 
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.valua
tion_status}/
mx:RadioButton id=tb group={statusType} label=Open value=Open 
/

I have no repeater and it works great, confirming data is on time and 
attributes are correct.  I even went back to my list data and retyped 
the values..just in case whatever.

So, is it possible to have a timing issue within the repeater itself?

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

 Might just be a timing issue Doug.  Have you tried callLater()?  
 Otherwise, maybe set 
 model.selectedValuation.valuationAdmin.valuation_status to the 
 correct value, instead of setting the selectedValue directly; since 
 it's bound.
 
 -TH
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug doug@ wrote:
 
  I have a form Item which contains RadioButtonGroup and a Repeater 
  which dynamically loads up RadioButtons from model data, it is 
 inside 
  a VBox container:
  
  mx:FormItem direction=horizontal
  mx:Label text=Status:/
  mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType 
  
 
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuationAdmin.valuation_statu
  s}/
  mx:Repeater id=valStatus 
  dataProvider={listModel.allValuationStatuses}
  mx:RadioButton id=vs group={statusType} 
  label={valStatus.currentItem.title}/
  /mx:Repeater
  /mx:FormItem
  
  On creationComplete() I call init() which in turn calls 
  loadUserInfo(). Here I call selectedValStatus and pass on selected 
  data from model:
  
  private function loadUserInfo():void{
  if(model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration != null){
  selectedValStatus
 (model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.val
  uation_status);
  }
  }
  
  selectedValStatus() takes the data object passed to it, loops over 
 the 
  model list data and then checks to see if the model list data is 
  equivalent to the data.title property, where i then set the 
 selected 
  value of the radio group:
  
  private function selectedValStatus(data:Object):void{
  if(listModel.allValuationStatuses != null){
  for(var i:int = 0; ilistModel.allValuationStatuses.length; i++){
  var item:ArrayCollection = listModel.allValuationStatuses;
  if(data != null){
  if(item.title == data.title){
  statusType.selectedValue = data.title;
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }
  
  The Behavior:
  Data is present on creation complete.
  I have another radio group using the same code architecture that 
 works 
  perfectly, is in same form.
  On the form load the radio button is not selected.
  On a view index change and then return the button is selected 
  properly.
  Thanks!

[flexcoders] Re: RadioButton Set selectedValue

2008-09-12 Thread Doug

I tried callLater(selectedValStatus,[data]) as well as updateComplete 
and valueCommit on the repeater with no change in behavior.  I get rid 
of the repeater and write in three static radio buttons, still binding 
the group to the model, and it works as it should (not what i wanted 
but works = happy client).  Still open to ideas to solve though.

mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType 
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.valua
tion_status}/
mx:RadioButton id=open group={statusType} label=Open 
value=Open /
mx:RadioButton id=closed group={statusType} label=Closed 
value=Closed /
mx:RadioButton id=pending group={statusType} label=Pending 
value=Pending /


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

 
 Yes, it's possible that the repeater children are getting 
instantiated
 at the same time that your trying to set the selectedValue.  Try 
running
 selectedValStatus() on the updateComplete or valueCommit event of 
the
 repeater.  Or, just use callLater(selectedValStatus, data) after
 loadUserData().
 
 -TH
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug doug@ wrote:
 
  Check this out Tim,
  I set up a test group and started building up attributes until it
  failed. At this point:
 
  mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType
  
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.valua
  tion_status}/
  mx:RadioButton id=tb group={statusType} label=Open 
value=Open
  /
 
  I have no repeater and it works great, confirming data is on time 
and
  attributes are correct. I even went back to my list data and 
retyped
  the values..just in case whatever.
 
  So, is it possible to have a timing issue within the repeater 
itself?
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Hoff TimHoff@ wrote:
  
   Might just be a timing issue Doug. Have you tried callLater()?
   Otherwise, maybe set
   model.selectedValuation.valuationAdmin.valuation_status to the
   correct value, instead of setting the selectedValue directly; 
since
   it's bound.
  
   -TH
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug doug@ wrote:
   
I have a form Item which contains RadioButtonGroup and a 
Repeater
which dynamically loads up RadioButtons from model data, it is
   inside
a VBox container:
   
mx:FormItem direction=horizontal
mx:Label text=Status:/
mx:RadioButtonGroup id=statusType
   
  
  
selectedValue={model.selectedValuation.valuationAdmin.valuation_statu
s}/
mx:Repeater id=valStatus
dataProvider={listModel.allValuationStatuses}
mx:RadioButton id=vs group={statusType}
label={valStatus.currentItem.title}/
/mx:Repeater
/mx:FormItem
   
On creationComplete() I call init() which in turn calls
loadUserInfo(). Here I call selectedValStatus and pass on 
selected
data from model:
   
private function loadUserInfo():void{
if(model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration != null){
selectedValStatus
   (model.selectedValuation.valuation_administration.val
uation_status);
}
}
   
selectedValStatus() takes the data object passed to it, loops 
over
   the
model list data and then checks to see if the model list data 
is
equivalent to the data.title property, where i then set the
   selected
value of the radio group:
   
private function selectedValStatus(data:Object):void{
if(listModel.allValuationStatuses != null){
for(var i:int = 0; ilistModel.allValuationStatuses.length; 
i++){
var item:ArrayCollection = listModel.allValuationStatuses;
if(data != null){
if(item.title == data.title){
statusType.selectedValue = data.title;
}
}
}
}
}
   
The Behavior:
Data is present on creation complete.
I have another radio group using the same code architecture 
that
   works
perfectly, is in same form.
On the form load the radio button is not selected.
On a view index change and then return the button is selected
properly.
Thanks!

Re: [flexcoders] Subclassing Components: Theoretical Question

2008-09-11 Thread Doug McCune

heh, that's almost the exact description of what I called the
CanvasButton:
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/06/01/new-component-canvasbutton-added-to-flexlib/

Doug

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Yeah, I'd make one subclass of Button that lets you put whatever you
 please as the label, and have function set labelControl(cntrl:*) as the
 [DefaultProperty]. If it finds a string, go with a UITextField, if it's a
 DisplayObject, use it, if not throw an error. Then you have:

 pkg:FreeFormButton click=doStuff width=150
   mx:textblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah/mx:text
 /pkg:FreeFormButton

 -Josh


 On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Make one subclass that handles both HTML and multiline?



 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *wnoone01
 *Sent:* Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:17 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Subclassing Components: Theoretical Question



 Hey all,
 I've got a theoretical question about subclassing a component. Here is
 the use case:

 A programmer requires buttons that support multiline labels. This is a
 requiement for Button, RadioButton, and CheckBox. Now to start, the
 programmer can subclass mx.controls.Button to implement the
 functionality. But now he needs to implement the functionality in
 RadioButton and CheckBox.

 One way is to subclass RadioButton and CheckBox and then duplicate the
 functionality there. However, not only will he be duplicating
 functionality, he is headed down a slippery slope. Let's say that for
 his next project, he suddenly requires a button label that supports
 HTML formatting. Now he must subclass again. So now the classes grow
 from:

 MultilineButton
 MultilineRadioButton
 MultilineCheckBox

 To

 MultilineButton
 HTMLButton
 MultilineRadioButton
 HTMLRadioButton
 MultilineCheckBox
 HTMLCheckBox

 The next project requires a multiline html button. So now its:

 MultilineButton
 HTMLButton
 MultilineHTMLButton
 MultilineRadioButton
 HTMLRadioButton
 MultilineHTMLRadioButton
 MultilineCheckBox
 HTMLCheckBox
 MultilineHTMLCheckBox

 And now its officially out of hand and the programmer is mired in a
 subclassing nightmare.

 ---

 So basically my question is what is the best way to handle this
 problem in Flex. Is subclassing the only way or is there a more
 efficient solution (decorators, item renderers, etc.)?

 Thanks in advance for any guidance
 Bill




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 :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [flexcoders] chatroom on flex and red5

2008-09-10 Thread Doug McCune

no no, he can design it *on flex*, so that's all the hard work. Then all you
have to do is code it and get fuctions workingm. That's the simple part,
easily only worth 50%.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   - Original Message -
 From: sniperbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sniperbe%40yahoo.com
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:08 PM
 Subject: [flexcoders] chatroom on flex and red5

 i would like to make a chat room website , that has cams and mics and
  has admins and so on and i can design it on flex but need it cod ed
  and get fuctions workingm, if you are able to do this we can owen it 50
 50

 I think anyone who can code it can do a chatroom design as well..

Re: [flexcoders] Re: turn horizontalScrollPolicy and verticalScrollPolicy off for all

2008-09-09 Thread Doug McCune

filing a bug request for the egg issue (I was going to call it a
feature request, but really, it's just a bad design choice)... maybe
if we yell at them enough, adobe will find an answer.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It is not that I don't ever want scrolling, just that I would rather have to
 actively enable it on the container I want.

 This is a very small issue, like I would really like to have a little flat
 spot on an egg, so it won't roll away…

 Tracy



 

 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Josh McDonald
 Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:38 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
 verticalScrollPolicy off for all



 Not much dispatches a bubbling ADDED_TO_STAGE event IIRC :(

 However, Container extends UIComponent, so you could use
 UIComponent.mx_internal::dispatchEventHook. But make sure you chain (!!),
 and you can't complain when Alex breaks your code in FX 4 :)

 -Josh

 On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How about (untested):



 systemManager.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, noscrollbarshandler,
 true);



 function noscrollbarshandler(event:Event):void

 {

 If (event.target is Container)

 {

 horizontalScrollPolicy =
 verticalScrollPolicy = off;

 }

 }



 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Doug McCune
 Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:17 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
 verticalScrollPolicy off for all



 Could you just use a global CSS stylsheet that set all the scrollbar
 skins to an empty skin (ProgrammaticSkin) by default, and then you
 would have to change the style specifically for any components you
 wanted to actually have scrollbars? Dunno if that would really work or
 not...

 Doug

 On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 Agree here as well...


 On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I agree, a lot of time can be wasted looking through nested
 containers trying to find a scrollbar culprit. wishlist?

 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I do understand. Maybe I should be more pro-active, but often my
 apps
  reach a point where the best way to make sense of the scrollbar
 behavior
  is to turn them off everywhere. I, too. would prefer the scroll
  policies to be off by default.
 
 
 
  Tracy
 
 
 
  
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
  Behalf Of Boon Chew
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:24 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
  verticalScrollPolicy off for all
 
 
 
 
  It's kinda a pain to have to subclass every single container used
 in the
  app just to turn the policy to off. I was hoping that for policy-
 based
  stuff we have an app-wide setting, like
  Application.application.scrollPolicy = no that can be overrided by
  individual containers.
 
  Lazy programmers like me in this case will probably resort to monkey
  patching the banana containers...
 
  - boon
 
  --- On Mon, 9/8/08, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  From: Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
  verticalScrollPolicy off for all
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 5:35 PM
 
  Subclass the containers to set the policies to off and use the
  subclasses instead.
 
 
 
  Gordon Smith
 
  Adobe Flex SDK Team
 
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups.
 com]
  On Behalf Of Boon Chew
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:26 PM
  To: flexcoders
  Subject: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPol icy and
  verticalScrollPolic y off for all
 
 
 
  Hi,
 
  Is there a quick way to turn off horizontalScrollPol icy /
  verticalScrollPolic y or prevent them from showing up once and for
 all
  for all containers in an app without resorting to patching?
 
  - boon
 




 --
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 http://www.meutzner.com/blog/



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Re: [flexcoders] Printf style formatting of numbers to have leading and trailing 0's?

2008-09-09 Thread Doug McCune

Use the NumberFormatter and set precision to 2. But I don't think that has
anything built in that will give you the double 00 if the number is 0 at the
beginning. Instead, you would end up with 0.00. But you could pretty easily
extend the NumberFormatter class, override the format function, then call
super.format() and check if the result is 0.00, of so just prepend an
extra 0.

Doug

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Jo Morano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi!

 I have a Number that I need to print out along with other strings. I don't
 get the leading or trailing 0's and that continues to affect the label whose
 text they represent. Is there a C style formatting mechanism which would
 make

 string =  + number

 give me 12.34 when number is 12.34 and 00.00 for number = 0?

 Today I get 12.34 and 0 respectively.

Re: [flexcoders] Re:Looking for a Flex forum.

Tim,

I haven't seen any forums written in Flex, and I'd argue (as I think many
here would) that Flex is not a great technology for writing a forum
application. There are some things that Flex does incredibly well, and some
that it does not... and text-based content portals is one that Flex is not
great for. For the same reasons I'd argue that Flex is not a good choice if
you want to create a blogging platform. The SEO issues alone, not to mention
the text rendering issues, would prevent me suggesting using Flex.

Doug

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM, timgerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   I am sorry that I might not have stated my question better. I am
 looking for a forum that is coded in Flex. I have not seen any with
 Google searches and was wondering what (if any) people are using.

 I am sorry that my question might not have been formulated to your
 desire but that was a lousy answer. If you are unable to reply with
 any constructive responses, they why respond?

 Common, this form is for learning and asking questions. I was taught
 that there are not dumb questions, except for the ones that are never
 asked. I guess since you create Instructional Technology  Media
 software then all questions you answer in your software help people
 that don't ask questions

 I am sorry that you took your time to read my post, I am sorry that
 you responded.

 timgerr

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 Merrill, Jason

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   I was wondering if there was a Flex forum that people have used?
 
 
 
  I'm speechless.
 
 
 
  Jason Merrill
  Bank of America
  Enterprise Technology  Global Risk LLD
  Instructional Technology  Media
 
  Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
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  ideas and technologies?
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  tp://sharepoint.bankofamerica.com/sites/ddc/rd/blog/Lists/Posts/Archive.
  aspx .

Re: [flexcoders] Re:Looking for a Flex forum.

I'm not trying to be a complete glass is half empty kind of guy, so
if you want to build a Flex message board, go for it. But I do think
there are substantial reasons that you haven't seen a successful one
yet out in the wild (or has anyone seen one at all?).

 Is SEO still an issue when writing a Flex application? I would argue that 
 it's not.
 A) Google (Yahoo coming soon if not already) now indexes content within a 
 SWF. This includes dynamic content as well. Using dynamic deep linking and a 
 site map that points to different content in the SWF helps a great deal with 
 this.

Except nobody has gotten this to work yet (I assume it will work
eventually, but right now it's basically a pipe dream in the real
world). See: http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1617
So yeah, in the future SEO might become less of an issue with Flex
sites, but for now it's as big an issue as it's ever been, and for me
is still a deal breaker if the site requires indexing.

 B) If A isn't enough, you could always use mod_rewrite (or similar 
 technology) to take a link structure and pass parameters down into a SWF to 
 determine the view state and content. In addition, the server side script 
 could print an html version of the content in the background which would 
 allow search engines to index the content and give non-flash users access to 
 the information as well. The only down side to this approach is you can not 
 update the URL bar while the user browses through the application since 
 anchor links are not passed through to the server (to my knowledge). This can 
 be compensated for by displaying a link to this page in the application.

Yeah, so this has long been the only real way to make your site search
engine friendly, and it certainly works, but in the end you're
building two websites, one for the search engine and a completely
different one in Flex for the users. Why bother building the flex one
then? esp if the application doesn't use anything that makes
Flex/Flash stand out? If you have a forum that was based on sharing
music or video, then maybe I could understand wanting to go with Flex
(although I'd probably still argue for just embedding little widgets
in HTML). But a standard forum works very well as an HTML app with a
scattering of AJAX. Esp when you compare the text capabilities, stuff
like HTML links, inline images within blocks of text, good support of
rich formatting within text blocks. It's all stuff that's a no brainer
with HTML, but either works sub-par or not at all in flash player.

 Anyways, sorry I couldn't answer your original question better. But I think 
 the idea of a Flex based forum is definitely a realizable idea, and I didn't 
 want you to give up on it because of a few dissenters.

:) certainly don't let me tell you what you can and can't do. If you
want to build it, go for it, just be aware of what you're getting
yourself into. And report back on your progress if you decide to take
the plung!

Doug

Re: [flexcoders] Framework RSLs -- Any Reason Not To Use? Any Problems Related to Their Use?

I think mainly you just need to be aware of the size implications
(both good and bad). By using the framework RSL you are removing the
framework from your SWF, which will reduce your SWF size by quite a
bit. However, you are also requiring the loading of the full framework
RSL. The full RSL includes all the framework classes, not just those
used in your SWF, so this RSL is actually larger than the savings that
you have gotten with your smaller swf. But this framework RSL can be
cached and can even be cached from other people's apps.

So if someone visits your app without ever having loaded the RSL
(either from you or another person's app) then their initial load time
will actually be longer than if you did not use the RSL. However,if
they have viewed another Flex app that used the RSL, then your load
time will be faster.

The other thing that I've heard is that you can't monkey patch
framework classes if using the RSL, since that gets loaded after your
main app, the RSL framework classes take precedence.

Doug

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I haven't heard of any :-)

 On 9/8/08 1:26 PM, greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 I am on a team that is pushing into production a public facing Flex
 application on the Internet. We have configured the app to use the Flash
 Player's caching of the Framework RSL.

 Before going live, I am posting here to see if anyone has experience that
 causes them to caution against using the Framework RSL (e.g.
 framework_3.0.0.477.swz)?

 I have seen the following post by Dmitri Girski's with his analysis on where
 RSLs offer the most benefit (Thanks Dmitri :-):
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/108149

 But I have not had luck tracking down any horror stories. I certainly am
 heartened by this lack of horror stories. However, if by using the Framework
 RSL we might be introducing any risks or pitfalls, we sure would prefer to
 know before we go live, rather than hear about them from our customers ;-)

 If anyone might have advice they are willing to share, we would be most
 appreciative if you could be so kind as to share your experiences.

 Thanks,

 g

Re: [flexcoders] Framework RSLs -- Any Reason Not To Use? Any Problems Related to Their Use?

A related question for Matt or someone from Adobe... didn't Google
announce sometime back that they are hosting common JavaScript
frameworks? The idea being that people could link to those to ensure
that download speed was super fast and that they could be cached more
easily?

Any thoughts on Adobe hosting a version of the framework RSL on a
super duper balls to the walls fast network, so we never have to worry
about the 500+k loading being a bottleneck on our end?

Doug


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM, greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Doug,

 Thanks!

 My apology for not including in my initial post the analysis that you have
 so graciously provided.

 In our case, we have done the analysis that you indicated, and yes there are
 cases where visitors downloads will be increased by our use of the Framework
 RSLs.
 -- First Time Visitor.  First time visitor for whom our app is the first app
 using that version of the Framework RSL.
 -- Flash Player Earlier Than 9.0.115.  All visitors using earlier versions
 of Flash Player than 9.0.115 will download the swf version of the RSL in all
 cases.

 The above being understood, we have decided to proceed with using the
 Framework RSL because repeat visitors, and hopefully even many first time
 visitors will enjoy smaller and therefore faster downloads.

 Regarding monkey patching we have not done that in this app.  We certainly
 will be mindful of this if we should we, in the future, do any monkey
 patching (aka underriding core framework classes).

 Again, thank you for sharing.

 g

Re: [flexcoders] Re: turn horizontalScrollPolicy and verticalScrollPolicy off for all

Could you just use a global CSS stylsheet that set all the scrollbar
skins to an empty skin (ProgrammaticSkin) by default, and then you
would have to change the style specifically for any components you
wanted to actually have scrollbars? Dunno if that would really work or
not...

Doug

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Agree here as well...


 On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I agree, a lot of time can be wasted looking through nested
 containers trying to find a scrollbar culprit. wishlist?

 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I do understand. Maybe I should be more pro-active, but often my
 apps
  reach a point where the best way to make sense of the scrollbar
 behavior
  is to turn them off everywhere. I, too. would prefer the scroll
  policies to be off by default.
 
 
 
  Tracy
 
 
 
  
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
  Behalf Of Boon Chew
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:24 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
  verticalScrollPolicy off for all
 
 
 
 
  It's kinda a pain to have to subclass every single container used
 in the
  app just to turn the policy to off. I was hoping that for policy-
 based
  stuff we have an app-wide setting, like
  Application.application.scrollPolicy = no that can be overrided by
  individual containers.
 
  Lazy programmers like me in this case will probably resort to monkey
  patching the banana containers...
 
  - boon
 
  --- On Mon, 9/8/08, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  From: Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPolicy and
  verticalScrollPolicy off for all
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 5:35 PM
 
  Subclass the containers to set the policies to off and use the
  subclasses instead.
 
 
 
  Gordon Smith
 
  Adobe Flex SDK Team
 
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups.
 com]
  On Behalf Of Boon Chew
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:26 PM
  To: flexcoders
  Subject: [flexcoders] turn horizontalScrollPol icy and
  verticalScrollPolic y off for all
 
 
 
  Hi,
 
  Is there a quick way to turn off horizontalScrollPol icy /
  verticalScrollPolic y or prevent them from showing up once and for
 all
  for all containers in an app without resorting to patching?
 
  - boon
 




 --
 Brendan Meutzner
 http://www.meutzner.com/blog/

Re: [flexcoders] package structure for different programming languages

2008-09-06 Thread Doug McCune

ditto, same structure but different actual locations on the drive. Usually
when I have a java project and flex project that have mirrored classes
(usually when using remoting), that means that I have one Flex project and
one Java project, which exist as separate projects within Eclipse. I never
have java source classes in my Flex projects and never have AS classes
within my java projects.

Doug

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ralf Bokelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   completely separated, but the packages can have the same structure/name
 r.


 On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:37 PM, ibid049 [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED]ibid49%40gmail.com
 wrote:
  Just an organizational question.
 
  If you have a client-server app in flex, and you have your domain-
  specific package structure, e.g. com.yahoo.groups.tech.etc., Do you
  put your AS classes within the same structure as your server-side
  classes, whatever language they're written in, or do you keep you
  language-specific classes completely separate in duplicated
  com.yahoo.groups.tech folder structures elsewhere on the hard drive?
 
  I imagine this is a preference thing, but I wanted to know how
  everyone else usually does it, specifically for ease of development
  and setting up Flex Builder.

Re: [flexcoders] clipContent doesn't always clip content

2008-09-05 Thread Doug McCune

Guy, your inner cnavas takes up 100% width, so as far as yourouter canvas
knows, it doesn't need to clip the children. clipContent doesn't force
clipping, it simply turns it on if needed, and the Canvas determines if it
needs clipping based on whether any of the children are placed outside of
the visible bounds.

I usually just add a dummy UIComponent object and place it at -1,-1 in the
canvas. So try this:

mx:Canvas clipContent=true id=containerLayer bottom=0
left=350 top=0 right=0 horizontalScrollPolicy=off
verticalScrollPolicy=off 
mx:Canvas id=dynamicLayer clipContent=true width=100%
height=100% horizontalScrollPolicy=off verticalScrollPolicy=off
mx:UIComponent x=-'1 y=-1 /
/mx:Canvas
/mx:Canvas


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Danny Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Does clipContent clip the Graphics object or just DisplayObject
 children?


 On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi Mike

 I know for sure that the graphics are being drawn outside the enclosing
 canvas, because the child canvas is drawing x values  0 and these aren't
 being clipped but are visible outside the map area.

 Guy

 On 05/09/2008, at 9:51 PM, Michael Schmalle wrote:


 Hi Guy,

 Are you actually measuring the graphics that you draw (in a sub component,
 the child of the canvas)?

 Is there a possibility that canvas is not knowing if the graphics are
 extending passed what it THINKS is the measured width and height?

 Mike

 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a problem in that clipContent seems to intermittently not clip
 the content in a layer as I imagine it should.

 The graphics in the layer are drawn using the graphics class and the
 layer is inside another Canvas, eg

 mx:Canvas clipContent=true id=containerLayer bottom=0
 left=350 top=0 right=0 horizontalScrollPolicy=off
 verticalScrollPolicy=off 
 mx:Canvas id=dynamicLayer clipContent=true width=100%
 height=100% horizontalScrollPolicy=off verticalScrollPolicy=off /
 /mx:Canvas

 MOST of the time the content drawn in the nested canvas is clipped
 correctly, but sometimes it spills over the content to the left of the
 containing canvas.

 Anyone got any ideas as to why this happens and how to prevent it?

 TIA

 Guy




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Re: [flexcoders] clipContent doesn't always clip content

2008-09-05 Thread Doug McCune

sorry, first part of my message wasn't really applicable, since you were
trying to use the inner canvas for clipping, not the outer, but the code
should work OK.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Guy, your inner cnavas takes up 100% width, so as far as yourouter canvas
 knows, it doesn't need to clip the children. clipContent doesn't force
 clipping, it simply turns it on if needed, and the Canvas determines if it
 needs clipping based on whether any of the children are placed outside of
 the visible bounds.

 I usually just add a dummy UIComponent object and place it at -1,-1 in the
 canvas. So try this:

 mx:Canvas clipContent=true id=containerLayer bottom=0
 left=350 top=0 right=0 horizontalScrollPolicy=off
 verticalScrollPolicy=off 
 mx:Canvas id=dynamicLayer clipContent=true width=100%
 height=100% horizontalScrollPolicy=off verticalScrollPolicy=off
 mx:UIComponent x=-'1 y=-1 /
 /mx:Canvas
 /mx:Canvas


 On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Danny Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Does clipContent clip the Graphics object or just DisplayObject
 children?


 On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi Mike

 I know for sure that the graphics are being drawn outside the enclosing
 canvas, because the child canvas is drawing x values  0 and these aren't
 being clipped but are visible outside the map area.

 Guy

 On 05/09/2008, at 9:51 PM, Michael Schmalle wrote:


 Hi Guy,

 Are you actually measuring the graphics that you draw (in a sub
 component, the child of the canvas)?

 Is there a possibility that canvas is not knowing if the graphics are
 extending passed what it THINKS is the measured width and height?

 Mike

 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have a problem in that clipContent seems to intermittently not clip
 the content in a layer as I imagine it should.

 The graphics in the layer are drawn using the graphics class and the
 layer is inside another Canvas, eg

 mx:Canvas clipContent=true id=containerLayer bottom=0
 left=350 top=0 right=0 horizontalScrollPolicy=off
 verticalScrollPolicy=off 
 mx:Canvas id=dynamicLayer clipContent=true width=100%
 height=100% horizontalScrollPolicy=off verticalScrollPolicy=off /
 /mx:Canvas

 MOST of the time the content drawn in the nested canvas is clipped
 correctly, but sometimes it spills over the content to the left of the
 containing canvas.

 Anyone got any ideas as to why this happens and how to prevent it?

 TIA

 Guy




 --
 Teoti Graphix, LLC
 http://www.teotigraphix.com

 Teoti Graphix Blog
 http://www.blog.teotigraphix.com

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

Re: [flexcoders] Horrible performance problems...Need some ideas on improving

2008-09-04 Thread Doug McCune

There are a few places within the ADG code where the code loops over every
single item renderer and needlessly (or at least excessively) calls
validateNow() on each renderer. That forces the renderers to each relayout
and draw themselves and does not allow the delayed layout processing that
the framework is supposed to allow.

See the updateDisplayOfItemRenderer() method in AdvancedDataGridBase and
you'll find this function:
protected function updateDisplayOfItemRenderer(r:IListItemRenderer):void
{
if (r is IInvalidating)
{
var ui:IInvalidating = IInvalidating(r);
ui.invalidateDisplayList();
ui.validateNow();
}
}

that gets run waaay too often.

Also see the drawCellItem() method of AdvancedDataGrid, which down at the
bottom of the method has this call:

if (item is IFlexDisplayObject)
{
if (item is IInvalidating)
{
IInvalidating(item).invalidateDisplayList();
IInvalidating(item).validateNow();
}
}

So basically every time your data grid is redrawing itself it takes way
longer than it should. I created an extended version of ADG and overrode
those two methods (had to copy/paste most of the drawCellItem method) and I
removed the calls to validateNow, seemed to speed things up a lot.

Doug

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Adrian Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

All,

 I am seeing some incredible lag while using a couple of simple panels
 and a complex ADG.  While I love the flexibility and power of Flex/AS and
 the ADG,  I really need to overcome these performance problems or the
 project will sink.

 My ADG has approx. 100 columns with approx. 200 rows, in a grouping
 collection that contains approx 30 groups.

 I suspect the lag I am seeing has to do with the redrawing of the
 rows.  Whenever I scroll or collapse/expand the nodes, it takes between 1/2
 to 1 second for the action to complete.  And this isn't even a very large
 dataset...we have some that have a few thousand rows. I haven't used any
 item rendering (yet) that would slow the speed down, though I have two
 columns that have style functions attached. All in all, this is about as
 close to display the raw data as I can get.

 I have spent some time with the profiler and performance monitor and it
 appears the the code is sound and without memory leaks.  I have also gone
 thru to refactor poorly designed code and remove unnecessary nestings.

 So my initial questions with this admittedly somewhat vague problem
 are:

 1.)  Is there a way to turn off the animations and would doing so help
 with the speed?
 2.)  Has anyone else faced this same dilemma and how did you overcome
 the problems?

 Thanks,
 Adrian

Re: [flexcoders] Horrible performance problems...Need some ideas on improving

2008-09-04 Thread Doug McCune

the class has a bunch of other stuff in it too (we needed some further
display customization), but it's pretty straightforward. The
updateDisplayOfItemRenderer method was overriden like so:

override protected function
updateDisplayOfItemRenderer(r:IListItemRenderer):void
{
if (r is IInvalidating)
{
var ui:IInvalidating = IInvalidating(r);
ui.invalidateDisplayList();
   //dear Flex team in India: I hate you.
   // ui.validateNow();
}
}

and then I copied/pasted the entire drawCellItem() method and commented out
the call to validateNow() that occurs in the lower part of that function.
Give that a whirl and let me know if it helps with performance.

Doug

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Adrian Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

Hi Doug,

 This makes sense.  It's staggering that the validateNow() is being
 called basically on every cell

 In hope of avoiding recreating the wheel, would you be willing to share
 your extended code with me so I can give it a whirl and see if it remedies
 the problem?

 Thanks!
 Adrian

 Doug McCune wrote:

  There are a few places within the ADG code where the code loops over
 every single item renderer and needlessly (or at least excessively) calls
 validateNow() on each renderer. That forces the renderers to each relayout
 and draw themselves and does not allow the delayed layout processing that
 the framework is supposed to allow.

 See the updateDisplayOfItemRenderer() method in AdvancedDataGridBase and
 you'll find this function:
 protected function updateDisplayOfItemRenderer(r:IListItemRenderer):void
 {
 if (r is IInvalidating)
 {
 var ui:IInvalidating = IInvalidating(r);
 ui.invalidateDisplayList();
 ui.validateNow();
 }
 }

 that gets run waaay too often.

 Also see the drawCellItem() method of AdvancedDataGrid, which down at the
 bottom of the method has this call:

 if (item is IFlexDisplayObject)
 {
 if (item is IInvalidating)
 {
 IInvalidating(item).invalidateDisplayList();
 IInvalidating(item).validateNow();
 }
 }

 So basically every time your data grid is redrawing itself it takes way
 longer than it should. I created an extended version of ADG and overrode
 those two methods (had to copy/paste most of the drawCellItem method) and I
 removed the calls to validateNow, seemed to speed things up a lot.

 Doug

 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:

   All,

 I am seeing some incredible lag while using a couple of simple panels
 and a complex ADG.  While I love the flexibility and power of Flex/AS and
 the ADG,  I really need to overcome these performance problems or the
 project will sink.

 My ADG has approx. 100 columns with approx. 200 rows, in a grouping
 collection that contains approx 30 groups.

 I suspect the lag I am seeing has to do with the redrawing of the
 rows.  Whenever I scroll or collapse/expand the nodes, it takes between 1/2
 to 1 second for the action to complete.  And this isn't even a very large
 dataset...we have some that have a few thousand rows. I haven't used any
 item rendering (yet) that would slow the speed down, though I have two
 columns that have style functions attached. All in all, this is about as
 close to display the raw data as I can get.

 I have spent some time with the profiler and performance monitor and
 it appears the the code is sound and without memory leaks.  I have also gone
 thru to refactor poorly designed code and remove unnecessary nestings.

 So my initial questions with this admittedly somewhat vague problem
 are:

 1.)  Is there a way to turn off the animations and would doing so help
 with the speed?
 2.)  Has anyone else faced this same dilemma and how did you overcome
 the problems?

 Thanks,
 Adrian

Re: [flexcoders] Horrible performance problems...Need some ideas on improving

2008-09-04 Thread Doug McCune

heh, my bad about the comments in that block of code, I copied and pasted
without really reading :) To be diplomatic let's just say I have complex
emotions when it comes to the work that was done on the ADG, and that I
don't in fact hate anyone anywhere in the world.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 the class has a bunch of other stuff in it too (we needed some further
 display customization), but it's pretty straightforward. The
 updateDisplayOfItemRenderer method was overriden like so:

 override protected function
 updateDisplayOfItemRenderer(r:IListItemRenderer):void
 {
 if (r is IInvalidating)
 {
 var ui:IInvalidating = IInvalidating(r);
 ui.invalidateDisplayList();
//dear Flex team in India: I hate you.
// ui.validateNow();
 }
 }

 and then I copied/pasted the entire drawCellItem() method and commented out
 the call to validateNow() that occurs in the lower part of that function.
 Give that a whirl and let me know if it helps with performance.

 Doug


 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Adrian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:

Hi Doug,

 This makes sense.  It's staggering that the validateNow() is being
 called basically on every cell

 In hope of avoiding recreating the wheel, would you be willing to
 share your extended code with me so I can give it a whirl and see if it
 remedies the problem?

 Thanks!
 Adrian

 Doug McCune wrote:

  There are a few places within the ADG code where the code loops over
 every single item renderer and needlessly (or at least excessively) calls
 validateNow() on each renderer. That forces the renderers to each relayout
 and draw themselves and does not allow the delayed layout processing that
 the framework is supposed to allow.

 See the updateDisplayOfItemRenderer() method in AdvancedDataGridBase and
 you'll find this function:
 protected function updateDisplayOfItemRenderer(r:IListItemRenderer):void
 {
 if (r is IInvalidating)
 {
 var ui:IInvalidating = IInvalidating(r);
 ui.invalidateDisplayList();
 ui.validateNow();
 }
 }

 that gets run waaay too often.

 Also see the drawCellItem() method of AdvancedDataGrid, which down at the
 bottom of the method has this call:

 if (item is IFlexDisplayObject)
 {
 if (item is IInvalidating)
 {
 IInvalidating(item).invalidateDisplayList();
 IInvalidating(item).validateNow();
 }
 }

 So basically every time your data grid is redrawing itself it takes way
 longer than it should. I created an extended version of ADG and overrode
 those two methods (had to copy/paste most of the drawCellItem method) and I
 removed the calls to validateNow, seemed to speed things up a lot.

 Doug

 On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Adrian Williams 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   All,

 I am seeing some incredible lag while using a couple of simple panels
 and a complex ADG.  While I love the flexibility and power of Flex/AS and
 the ADG,  I really need to overcome these performance problems or the
 project will sink.

 My ADG has approx. 100 columns with approx. 200 rows, in a grouping
 collection that contains approx 30 groups.

 I suspect the lag I am seeing has to do with the redrawing of the
 rows.  Whenever I scroll or collapse/expand the nodes, it takes between 1/2
 to 1 second for the action to complete.  And this isn't even a very large
 dataset...we have some that have a few thousand rows. I haven't used any
 item rendering (yet) that would slow the speed down, though I have two
 columns that have style functions attached. All in all, this is about as
 close to display the raw data as I can get.

 I have spent some time with the profiler and performance monitor and
 it appears the the code is sound and without memory leaks.  I have also gone
 thru to refactor poorly designed code and remove unnecessary nestings.

 So my initial questions with this admittedly somewhat vague problem
 are:

 1.)  Is there a way to turn off the animations and would doing so
 help with the speed?
 2.)  Has anyone else faced this same dilemma and how did you overcome
 the problems?

 Thanks,
 Adrian

Re: [flexcoders] Need Help and Guidance desperately

2008-09-03 Thread Doug McCune

His layout is really difficult. Basically he wants images to be smart enough
to size any which way to fit around each other. If you take a look at the
word doc he attached the second mockup shows the problem. Basically he
doesn't want to restrict to rows or columns, and wants items to be able to
span both, which is hard to do.

I honestly don't have an answer for how to do that layout. If you can change
the requirement to let you use either columns or rows then you're fine.

Doug

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

OK, FlexMDI, probably won't do it for you.  You want some organization
 of the images.  Why didn't FlowBox work for you?



 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *anuj sharma
 *Sent:* Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:31 PM

 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Need Help and Guidance desperately



 Hi Alex
 I am not sure i understand that. Basically I am dragging images from one
 container which is HBOX( because i need scroller facility too) and dropping
 them in another container which is Tile.
 The user should be able to resize the dropped images as shown in the layout
 and the rest of the images have to adjust in terms of size as well as
 location to let resized image to get accommodated. I have seen some examples
 of FlowBox and one as shown in the following link:
 http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/DragTile/DragDrop.html
 but my problem coems becasue user should be able to resize the images in
 the container. As I have mentioned this is the first project of this kind
 for me I am not sure which way to go. Anyway coming to your question 
 (mini-window
 using FlexMDI) it can be the any way as long as it is solving the purpose
 of my requirement. Any detail and suggestions, please let me know
 Thanks
 Anuj

  On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can everything be a mini-window using FlexMDI?



 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *anuj sharma
 *Sent:* Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:46 PM


 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Need Help and Guidance desperately



 Hi Guys


 So is there anyone in the list that can help me in achieving this? This
 problem is burning me out now and I need a good head start to achieve this.
 This is my first project of this kind. Earlier i developed simple prototypes
 using basic event programming. I need you genius guys's guidance to get me
 started and need that layout for my images. If there is any custom
 componenet available in the market then i am ready to buy that too. It is
 taking me little long to figure out this layout. I have reached at the last
 level of this project.
 Sorry for being pain but please help me out in generating this layout. Any
 guidance and any kind of help in this direction will be highyl appreciated.
 Thanks in advance guys
 Anuj

 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:51 PM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dough
 I forgot to mention that i am not sure if i can force the components into
 either rows or columns because I am allowing free flow of the image within
 the container too which means that the user should be able to resize the
 image and should be able to drag and drop the image too whereever he wants
 within the container. i used drag manager for that. i thought should made it
 clear.
 Thanks for your time
 Anuj

 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Oh wow, that's actually a really flexible layout requirement that I
 don't think you can achieve with any of the components out there right now
 (ie TileList, Tile, combination of HBox and VBox, or even FlowBox). I think
 you may have to lose of of the desired functionality and allow the content
 to be binned into distinct rows or columns more tightly. The first image in
 your attachement is doable in the FlowBox I believe, but the second
 screenshot is much harder. Notice how box C extends down into a second row,
 and also how box E extends across multiple columns. That use of dual column
 and row spanning makes it difficult. If you allow the components to be
 forced into either rows or columns then it will be much easier.

 Doug



 On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi All Attached is the rough sketch i am about the UI i have to implement.
 Right now they are just empty pictures, but the user can drag them on the
 stage and can resize the images placed on the main screen. My requirement if
 user drops a new image on the screen all the other images adjust themselves
 to accommodate the new image. Also if user enlarge or shrink one image (like
 in the sketch user is trying to shrink image B), all the other images adjust
 themselves on the main stage . Please let em know if you have any questions.
 Thanks a lot for your help
 Anuj



 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Rick

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and Scene7, Flexstore license, List etiquette

2008-09-02 Thread Doug McCune

Thanks Dad :)

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hey guys,

 I guess this is what I get for going on vacation last week huh?

 Clearly most of you guys saw the threads last week (and even today frankly)
 that I think went well over the line of what should be considered
 acceptable
 list behavior. I'd like to remind everyone that the words you post here are
 basically going to live on forever in search engines, mail archives, etc.
 Try not to write things that are going to embarrass you in the future. And
 while in general I don't have a problem with foul language (one need only
 hang out with me briefly) I think this forum is not the place for it, and
 ask that if you take the time to type it out, you take the time to take a
 deep breath and use those backspace and delete keys. OK, play nice, issue
 closed.

 Robert was saying that there's a Scene 7 webinar and it will talk about
 Flex
 and developers may want to pay attention. I think most of you should go and
 attend but that's because I think that Scene 7 offers interesting
 opportunities for various ecommerce solutions. I do not see Scene 7
 competing with most of what you guys do (at least as far as I know). If
 however you have a system that you sell to large ecommerce sites that does
 high-end image manipulation including color changes and various transforms,
 I think you may be a competitor. Other than that, I don't believe Scene 7
 competes with what most Flex developers do.

 Doesn't mean Adobe doesn't end up competing with customers. I always feel a
 total tinge of guilt when I see a really cool product out there and know
 that Adobe will compete in that area too. Adobe is a public company that
 needs to grow, that means that we will not be contracting our areas of
 focus, we will be expanding. We obviously have a huge stake in image
 software, it is reasonable to assume that we will be going into the web
 version of that pretty heavily (most folks would agree we'd be pretty
 stupid
 not to). If you look at where Acrobat is successful (and as much as folks
 hate Reader for being slow, it's really really successful) it is in
 business
 productivity. You can imagine we'll be continuing along those lines (see
 acrobat.com). So that's two examples, I'm sure there are others.

 Last question was on Flexstore license and whether you can use it as the
 basis for commercial software or whatever. Answer: yes. You can use
 Flexstore to do whatever you want. I think all the samples we post on dev
 center where source is available, you can treat that as being open to doing
 whatever you want where it says see accompanying license.

 Hope this helps,

 Matt
 Adobe
 Flex Product Manager

Re: [flexcoders] Custom Tool Tip

2008-09-02 Thread Doug McCune

FYI, toolTipClass has some issues, not sure if this has been fixed in a
newer SDK build, but you can read about the problem and a monkey-patch
solution here:
http://www.returnundefined.com/2008/07/simple-monkey-patch-to-fix-tooltipmanagertooltipclass

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Subclass ToolTip, make the appropriate changes, then change
 ToolTipManager.toolTipClass or catch TOOL_TIP_CREATE event and supply the
 tooltip there.



 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *deepa_pathuri
 *Sent:* Monday, September 01, 2008 11:09 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Custom Tool Tip



 can some body help me with creating a custom tool tip.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: What is Flexcoders?

2008-09-01 Thread Doug McCune

Guys, it's labor day. Can we all please just go outside and get drunk? Spend
time with your loved ones and let's all stop being obsessed with a dumb
mailing list argument. Go eat a hamburger, drink about 12 beers, and realize
that none of this nonsense matters.

Doug

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   I think those posts have ended, at least by me.

 I said very clearly in one post to that I would make an effort to stay
 focused on [flexcoders] which is why i've been using that name when
 referring to something.

 my last post was on FDT Enterprise - that's all.  and then the ball came
 swinging again.

 the issue is over for me.

 as for ol which i won't mention by full name you just mentioned it, the
 whole reason I brought that up is because i've been trying to decide for
 months on the best way to invest flexcoding time into place where it won't
 just die one day due to some big change in the industryand that's where
 my inquiry all began...in just that

 so i don't think it's off topic if i [flexcode] and want that code to be
 able to work with other runtimes, so that one day i don't wake up and a few
 years of investment in time and money are gone.

 i made that point, from then on it was 1 person angry with me, then another
 polite, then the fo remark / better to deal with something sooner rather
 than later.

 can we go back to my /end which was made so clear in the topic heading to
 stop this, because Josh clearly said No I won't (get off my back I asked).

 -r


 On Sep 1, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Guy Morton wrote:

 Of course, having said that, we do need to draw the line somewhere. eg if
 you were to have a
 situation where one list member was:
 * going on and on about the  same topic excessively despite the annoyance
 that this was
   causing many other list members

 * padding replies with unrelated rants about pet topics

 * making ongoing recommendations of other technologies, like say, Open
 Laszlo

 * writing posts long on rhetoric but short on relevant facts

 I think at some point then, someone might have to tell them to pull their
 heads in.

 What do you think?

 Guy


 On 29/08/2008, at 8:55 AM, Tim Hoff wrote:


 Fair enough and thanks for the opinion. Yes, the previous Silverlight
 discussion also fits into this category. Don't get me wrong, my opinion
 is just one in this group and the delete key is my friend also. Just
 trying to keep it somewhat real.

 Thanks Guy,
 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Guy
 Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I don't think anyone is much interested in personal rants, but there
  is a decent-sized grey area of topics that some people believe are
 off-
  topic and want to suppress (my recent discussion with the MS product
  manager for Silverlight being one example). Personally, I think
  considered rational discussion about Flex in the context of other
  technologies is something every developer should take at least a
  passing interest in.
 
  The vast majority of the email that lands in my flexcoders folder is
  of no immediate interest to me and I'm sure others must have the same
  experience on such a busy list for a product with such a broad range
  of applications. As a result, I think tolerating the odd thread that
  doesn't specifically relate to coding in Flex isn't that hard.
 
  I'd encourage those who are prone to trying to kill off threads they
  don't personally like to consider that developers are a broad church
  and that we should perhaps keep an open mind about what others choose
  to contribute, so long as it relates to Flex in some significant way.
 
  If a discussion doesn't interest you, use the delete key!
 
  Guy
 
 
  On 29/08/2008, at 7:35 AM, Tim Hoff wrote:
 
  
   Hi All,
  
   This is the text from the original FlexcodersFAQ.txt file:
  
   1. What is Flexcoders?
  
   Flexcoders is a forum where developers can ask questions about Flex,
   FlexBuilder, and Flex-related technologies (like Cairngorm and
   FlexUnit). The community is made up of everyday Flex developers as
   well as Adobe employees. However, this is not an official Adobe-
   sponsored forum, it is moderated by the community. However the
   original moderators who are still actively involved are folks from
   iteration::two, now members of Adobe Consulting.
  
   In light of some recent threads, that have clearly been personal
   comentary, instead of flex-related technology questions, I thought
   that it might be useful at this time to reinforce the spirit of this
   list, and to also ask the list how others feel about personal rants
   posted here. Are there others that feel that the number of off-
   topic threads has increased to the point that it's getting out of
   hand and that the appropriate place for these type of posts should
   be personal blogs; instead of this list? I realize that this isn't
   a technology question in itself, but it seems that people are hoping

Re: [flexcoders] LMBFAO

2008-08-29 Thread Doug McCune

As general list etiquette, could we all try to not keep changing the subject
line of threads when replying? If you change the subject line mid-thread, it
often messes up the threading of email applications like gmail, which makes
the list much harder to read.

Thanks,
Doug

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   Do you mean, LMBFAO ???

 On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Tim Hoff wrote:

 LMAO

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-29 Thread Doug McCune

God forgive me, for I have sinned. I am responding to a thread I know
I absolutely should not have replied to. Sorry for encouraging the
ranting, I just couldn't not reply when this amazing email came into
my inbox. Robert, I'll address each paragraph one at a time and tell
you exactly why this message, as well as the ones you have been
sending in the last day or so, are in fact complete spam and worthy of
the comments you have received.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Flash, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime

Simply incorrect. OpenLaszlo has been around for years and has always
targeted both the Flash runtime and AJAX. That's what it does and
that's what it has always done. You write an app and you can target
Flash or DHTML. There it no support for Silverlight, there is no
support for Flex (what woudl that even mean?), I don't know what you
are suggesting when you claim they support Quicktime but that
doesn't even make sense. If you are going to make wild claims please
back them up with references so we can verify. I also want to point
out that this sentence and only one other short sentence later in this
message (also completely factually incorrect) are the only two parts
of this email that have anything at all to do with the subject of this
thread.

 First of all to the gentlemen suggesting I'm slamming the list. I am not and 
 I take offense at that. Don't accuse me when I am responding to someone else. 
 I posted only 2 original posts and they were in the best interest of the 
 [flexcoders] community, some agreed, some did not. Do not accuse me of 
 spamming unless you are from Adobe and moderating this list.

This has nothing to do with the topic you posted. If you have a gripe
about someone's reply then reply to that. By creating a new thread and
filling it with completely unrelated paragraphs like this you are in
fact spamming the list.

 Second of all, I've been continuing to research this, and have a simple 
 answer to the Runtime Wars that are very real and goign on and are a part 
 of the acquisition of Scene7 which DIRECTLY RELATES TO FLEXCODERS. Don't 
 question, Mr. Person who accuses me of spamming, my motives when I'm trying 
 to get to the bottom of this.

Completely unrelated to the subject you posted.

 Thirdly, OpenLazlo.org has also scene the shifting going on in the industry 
 between Silverlight and Flex/Swf, Quicktime SDK, and others and has begun and 
 open source solution. So there you have it. Do not accuse me and get 
 aggressive without doing your own research.

Again, OpenLazlo has been around for years, I assume most people on
this list know about it. And even if not this post does not provide
any new information whatsoever, and instead only provides misleading
and factual incorrect information.

 I'm in this to better our investments in time and money (for those who care 
 about it). If you continue to defame me with an accusation of Spamming you 
 better back it up with an Original Posting by me that is off topic. I am not 
 Spamming, and if you feel I have, show me, and If it's true I will stop it. 
 But I intend to get to the bottom of this legally or otherwise.

Fine, cheers, have fun. But this post does not have any information
regarding the topic you posted, so please keep the personal monologues
under wraps unless you are talking about something. You want an
original posting that is off-topic? THIS ONE.

 EVERYONE BE AN INDIVIDUAL: Don't let anyone sucker you into thinking for you. 
 Do your own research and look to OpenLaszlo.org which appears to be a noble 
 effort recognizing the struggles going on in Adobe with the resignation of 
 the CEO last Fall.

Again, OpenLazlo is not new. It has nothing to do with the Adobe CEO
at all. Do your own research before spamming with incorrect
information please.

 [flexcoders] should be aware that they have multiple options and One blasted 
 person trying to tape my mouth shut by claiming I'm spamming had better be 
 from Adobe and not just another developer trying to cut-down free speech that 
 IS ON TOPIC WITH THE FUTURE of our Investment in Time and Money. Do any of us 
 want to waste 4 years only to find out it was for not?

I don't think anyone is denying there are multiple options, we're just
saying that you going off on long rants without any information of
substance is getting annoying.

 If you claim I'm spamming the list by providing a URL, my URL earlier posted 
 was so I could present the research I'm doing w/o posting to this group and 
 offending people like you who just get in the way.

No, we're claiming you're spamming the list by messages exactly like these.

 I like the earlier posting of the individual lady who said, let it live, or 
 feed it. The comments thereafter were uneeded and more contrary to the 
 policies of polite procedure of this group than trying to inform. others. 
 I've been there, I've been screwed by a large company

Re: [flexcoders] What is Flexcoders?

2008-08-28 Thread Doug McCune

Personally I like a good back and forth, even if it's non directly code or
question specific. Part of what I like about this list is the playful
arguing that creeps into some of these discussions. But sometimes
personalities clash a little (which I don't mind at all) and sometimes
people get a little overzealous. There's a fine line between having a fun
sarcastic argument and egging someone on who shouldn't be egged on. I know
in this most recent thread I've been responsible for egging the dude on more
than I should have, which led to post after post, which I didn't quite
realize would happen.

But should the original post never have been posted? I don't know about
that. I think a discussion about Adobe competing with developers is a decent
one to have, and one that is appropriate for this list. The way the thread
evolved (or in fact, the very way it started) made that discussion
impossible. But that's not to say that this list shouldn't be used for those
kinds of topics. This one certainly got out of hand, but so it goes
sometimes. Tim, your attempt to try to end the thread as it devolved into
ridiculousness didn't work, but I think we all sort of realized that we
should just stop replying. I know that I've watched the past few messages on
the topic stream through my inbox and have been itching to fire back
ridiculous responses, but decided that it was best to just keep my mouth
shut. These things work themselves out.

So in the end we have some ranting threads every once in a while, but we
also encourage lively discussions (many of which greatly benefit the
community), and I prefer that rather than a strict business-only atmosphere.
In the end I don't think there's much you can do (or should do), other than
give some helpful reminders about keeping things on-topic like you've done.
But if people ignore that they ignore that. And I don't have a problem just
ignoring threads in my inbox, so I haven't yet found the amount of off-topic
noise to be overwhelming.

Doug

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi All,

 This is the text from the original FlexcodersFAQ.txt file:

 *1. What is Flexcoders?*

 *Flexcoders is a forum where developers can ask questions about Flex,
 FlexBuilder, and Flex-related technologies (like Cairngorm and FlexUnit).
 The community is made up of everyday Flex developers as well as Adobe
 employees. However, this is not an official Adobe-sponsored forum, it is
 moderated by the community.  However the original moderators who are still
 actively involved are folks from iteration::two, now members of Adobe
 Consulting.*

 In light of some recent threads, that have clearly been personal comentary,
 instead of flex-related technology questions, I thought that it might be
 useful at this time to reinforce the spirit of this list, and to also ask
 the list how others feel about personal rants posted here.  Are there others
 that feel that the number of off-topic threads has increased to the point
 that it's getting out of hand and that the appropriate place for these type
 of posts should be personal blogs; instead of this list?  I realize that
 this isn't a technology question in itself, but it seems that people are
 hoping that by ignoring those that are abusing the list, that they will go
 away.  This doesn't appear to be the case.

 Thanks in advance for your responses,
 -TH

Re: [flexcoders] Need Help and Guidance desperately

Oh wow, that's actually a really flexible layout requirement that I don't
think you can achieve with any of the components out there right now (ie
TileList, Tile, combination of HBox and VBox, or even FlowBox). I think you
may have to lose of of the desired functionality and allow the content to be
binned into distinct rows or columns more tightly. The first image in your
attachement is doable in the FlowBox I believe, but the second screenshot is
much harder. Notice how box C extends down into a second row, and also how
box E extends across multiple columns. That use of dual column and row
spanning makes it difficult. If you allow the components to be forced into
either rows or columns then it will be much easier.

Doug

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Hi All Attached is the rough sketch i am about the UI i have to
 implement. Right now they are just empty pictures, but the user can drag
 them on the stage and can resize the images placed on the main screen. My
 requirement if user drops a new image on the screen all the other images
 adjust themselves to accommodate the new image. Also if user enlarge or
 shrink one image (like in the sketch user is trying to shrink image B), all
 the other images adjust themselves on the main stage . Please let em know if
 you have any questions.
 Thanks a lot for your help
 Anuj



 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:38 PM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Rick
 I will try to sketch my requirement and send it to you soon. That might
 help to find what i am looking for.
 Thanks for your suggestion.
 Anuj


 On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Rick Winscot [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

The seconds link was to a flow layout that would set you in the right
 direction... The other option was the first link which uses static
 positioning. Really, it depends on what you want the user experience to be
 like. If you could sketch out the solution – we could throw some code
 around.

 Rick Winscot


 On 8/25/08 10:24 PM, anuj sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




 Hi Rick
 Thanks for the reply. Are there any recommendations about which layout
 component or container should i use or do i need to create my custom
 component for achieving this target. I am not sure which way to handle that
 layout. Please help me out
 Again Thanks a lot.
 Anuj

 On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:18 PM, anuj181 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




 Hi
 I am using HBOX container to load images letting user drag image from
 one HBOX and dropping them in another (2nd)HBOX. I need to calculate
 the real estate of the HBOX in which the image has been dropped (i-e
 2nd HBOX). The reason is that because I need the dropped image to get
 placed in an empty space within the 2nd HBOX.
 Is there any way I can calculate which space is empty in the HBOX and
 let my objects (images) to be placed only in the empty spaces within
 the HBOX (not the sapce already occupied by the placed images).Once
 the HBOX is full then I need to code in a way that images starts
 shrinking(upto some level) to accommodate more images.
 Please help me out in figuring out this problem. Any type of
 help/documentation/links in this direction will be highly appreciated.
 Thanks
 Anuj

Re: [flexcoders] Whitepaper and Webinar -- Please read the Scene7.com posts Objectively

Well, as long as we've got public defenders like yourself who will contact
the Department of Justice, I feel safe. Let's do a class action lawsuit for
buzzword and photoshop express while we're at it.

[sorry, sometimes I just can't help poking threads that I know I should just
let die]

Doug

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   Looks like my thoughts have been confirmed, by someone.

 Selling development tools and having a developer community is one of the
 best kept secrets in the Evangelist style of Marketing.

 The first time a FLEX developer bids on a project and the client tells them
 they are using Adobe Scene7, that's when the issues begin, and once they
 begin, they will get worse.

 Prior to the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe was a fairly even player with
 Photoshop, Illustrator and PDF, primarily and imaging and document firm.

 Now, if Scene7.com does what I think it will be doing, and as you seem to
 have confirmed below, it is going to take the momentum of the Flash Player,
 begun by FutureWave Technologies (an honorable group), Macromedia (an
 honorable group), and take that into the Developer Arena *Capitalizing on
 the all the wide-spread knowledge that Flash and more recently FLEX
 developers have provided for them.*

 Shortage of work is a relative term.  *Ask any developer who has bid on
 eLance.com and you'll understand the dynamics of bidding against others for
 contracts.*

 If it turns out that Adobe begins to take the momentum achieved by it's
 predecessors, namely it's acquisitions (which is has a right to), and it's
 developers (which, if Scene7.com turns out to be as you describe and I
 believe it will), then it is an ETHICAL ISSUE that will not go away, and I'm
 giving fair-warning to any developer out there (and yes, I do have the
 experience I've said I do to the gentleman out there that questioned that).

 I've been through thousands of pages of an unamed companies documents to
 find out how they really work, and how they really look at Developers.
  Adobe appears to be on that same road, and the more signs I see of it, the
 more I will support other efforts.

 For those inclined to be offended easily, I'd ask not to shout against me
 or anyone else giving an opinion, but For your own sakes, keep an eye on
 ACTIONS not WORDS.  You'd be surprised what larger corporations,
 especially ones that we all know the name of [not Adobe] that gained their
 momentum on the backs of the developer community, only to turn against them
 with hidden DLL API's, hacks against licensed technology to make it perform
 poorly under their platform, etc. (again this is not Adobe as I just said).

 However, when a Consumer Software company, which Adobe was, starts changing
 Acrobat to have an SDK (that's their right) and but then goes beyond that to
 provide a far better Plug-in, only made possible by the light weight plug-in
 efforts of FutureWave, and for the past few years gaining momentum on the
 development efforts and expensive purchases of development tools ; when
 that line is blurred it will ultimately turn out bad for the developer.

 For the gentleman who said shortage of jobs again, that's not the issue
 as I just explained in eLance.com / The issue is that people will Buy and
 will Trust Adobe more than a developer or even a small development firm when
 it comes to bidding online.  Local efforts are different.

 If the below turns out to be true of FLEX vs. Scene7.com (a potential guise
 of a Consumer mid-level Product Manager), then the FLEX, and more especially
 the ActionScript component and development community as a while since
 Macromedia's aquisition *will have at that point been betrayed** and yes,
 at that point, or any sign of it (in the form of Actions, not Promises, do
 not trust the promises of a large Corp. unless you've tried them true), if
 there is that sign or signs, then yes it's time to get on with it and get
 out and support more honorable people like Apple and Steve Jobs.*

 At this point I wish Macromedia never sold to Adobe.com / This isn't
 looking pretty for the FLEX community.  I'll certainly keep my Lexis-Nexis
 handy and press contacts (and in several years, if it turns bad, the FTC and
 DOJ).

 -r

 On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Battershall, Jeff wrote:


 At this point, Adobe is not likely to abandon Scene7 due to developer
 concerns.  The way I see it, Adobe has been taking on consulting
 engagements for some time, just like IBM does, and I think having an
 offering of best of breed off-the-shelf solutions fits in well with
 that strategy.  I don't think it interferes with the prosperity of Adobe
 solution providers or individual developers, in fact having such solutions
 available may make more possible to deliver on projects by not having to
 reinvent functionality.  It is what it is and there's no shortage of work,
 so let's get on with it.

 Jeff

 -Original Message-
 *From:* flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] How do I remove the arrow for a node in the Tree

that's controlled by two different styles: disclosureClosedIcon and
disclosureOpenIcon

Doug

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, randalma2120 [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

   I created a Tree with new icons for folderOpen and folderClosed but I
 still have the arrow. Can someone show or point me to how to remove this.

 Used this is the CSS

 Tree {
 defaultLeafIcon: Embed(icons/application.png);
 folderOpenIcon: Embed(icons/minus.png);
 folderClosedIcon: Embed(icons/plus.png);
 }

 Data is simple:

 mx:XMLList id=treeData
 node label=Students
 node label=Report 1 /
 node label=Report 2/
 node label=Report 3/
 node label=Report 4/
 node label=Listing by Program
 node label=Report 1 /
 node label=Report 2/
 node label=Report 3/
 /node
 /node
 /mx:XMLList

Re: [flexcoders] 3596: Duplicate variable definition -- not sure why I'm getting it here