Re: [flexcoders] Upload subfolder images component
Are you talking about an AIR app, or a browser app? In AIR this should be possible, but I don't think there is a component for it. In a browser app I don't think this is possible due to security restrictions. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, method_air loudj...@hotmail.com wrote: Lets say you have a root folder, with 20 subfolders (ie created by a camera), each containing images. Click 'Upload' on the root directory and all the subimages are uploaded. Is there a (Flex) component that will do this? Thanks, Philip -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] mvc pattern for flex
In my opinion http://www.robotlegs.org/ is the way to go. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Fernando Wermus fernando.wer...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I was looking at Aconcagua. but there is a line of new code since a year and a half. Puremvc seems to be a kind of big compared to Cainrgorm. Which options have you choosen as the best for MVC in Flex? I know Caingorm and I dont like. thanks in advance -- Fernando Wermus. www.linkedin.com/in/fernandowermus
Re: [flexcoders] Uploading An Image Without Browse
When you say take a snapshot, what do you mean? On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, James garymoorcroft_...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Is there any way to let a user upload an image from an air app without having them browse for it? I want to let my users enter their name into a text input, take a snapshot and then the image will be uploaded to my server as whatevernametheuserhasentered.jpg Is there any way to do this and does anyone know of any similar examples? All I can find is uploading via the browse function. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Framework Choice
http://www.robotlegs.org/ http://www.robotlegs.org/Although your final choice may come down to personal opinion, I find that Robotlegs is the best overall framework out there. It is solid, supports modules and is easy to learn. It also has great docs, a solid reference implementation and plenty of examples. Perhaps most important though, it has one hell of a great community that will bend over backwards to help you. Steve On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote: I have been tasked with architecting a large application for a company a friend of mine works at. I will also do some of the coding and act as a mentor, teaching people on staff the ins and outs of Flex. In the past, I've always used Cairngorm and Cairngorm w/ UM Extensions for a framework. I wrote a very basic app w/ Mate once just to learn it and I didn't really like it. So, my question to everyone here is what Framework would you chose? Keep in mind, the people I'll be working with are relatively new to flex and the application is going to end up being quite large. Down the road it will likely have an AIR counterpart. We might use modules but for now I'm staying away from that because it adds another layer of complexity that in the initial stages is not needed. My thoughts on this are that Cairngorm would be easier to learn for them and they had talked about brining more people on in the future for this project. If that's the case, it would likely be easier to find people familiar with Cairngorm than some of the alternatives. But, I don't want to rule out any of the alternatives if they might actually be a better choice. Opinions please. Thanks! -Jake Churchill
Re: [flexcoders] What book in Flex would you guys recommend for a newbie ?
The community is great at helping people who have specific questions. A newbie is on their own until they at least learn the basics and can ask meaningful questions. For example, if you haven't figured out the difference between MXML and AS3, then you need to do some self study before asking questions. As to the question of which books, I would say you would learn a lot from just about any of them. It kind of depends one what your goal is. If you want to learn to use the Flex framework then maybe http://flexinaction.com/. If you are still trying to learn AS3 then Essential ActionScript 3.0 is a great start. Steve On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, fred44455 fred44...@yahoo.com wrote: I already asked questions on this forum but I rarely get feed backs. I was told that the Adobe community was a fantastic one but I guess it is very much like linux if you are a newbie you are on your own. Anyway I would appreciate a recommendation on a good book to learn Flex. Also I was told to learn AS3. What Actionscript are you guys referring to? The AS3 for Flex seems to be totally different with mx classes than the AS3 for Flash. So I would appreciate that you guys let me know which one I need to learn. Thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Flex stress Testing
Not positive I fully understand, but you might check out http://www.cloudpuncher.com/index.htm (coming soon unfortunately). On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:40 AM, as sass apar...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, we want to implement a load test in fact. We want to test our system for concurrent sessions/users. For example, in FlexMonkey for one user it does the functional test. But i want to do a load test for 1000 or 1 concurent users that sending amf request to the server and trace the results about time. As a conclusion, the thing that i want is, a kind of merged version: FlexMonkey functionality + load test for Flex application that sending amf requests from different buttons, actions to server. --- On *Fri, 2/26/10, Peeyush Tuli peeyus...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Peeyush Tuli peeyus...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex stress Testing To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:30 AM it seems like you want to test your system for concurrent sessions/users. I am not sure how does that relate to flex which is a client technology. Do you intend to stress test your back end/server infrastructure like webservices, LCDS/Blazeds infrastructure? On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:36 PM, as sass apar...@yahoo. comhttp://mc/compose?to=apar...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, everybody,, i want to learn how to flex user-stress testing. For example, i want to test how my system shows feedback after 1 users enter the system. How can i trace the request and response?Which tool can accept my needs? Thank you...
Re: [flexcoders] use local flash dll instead of installed one for embedded flex app
Are you using f-in-box (http://www.f-in-box.com/)? We are using it and it allows you to use a local player version rather than the installed one. Steve On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Amitabh Ghatak amita...@ivycomptech.comwrote: hi, i’ve created a flex app that is embedded in a VC++ container app (thru activex). we’re facing a lot of headaches in terms of versioning (QA efforts, stability etc). is there any way i can use a specific version of flash dlls only shipped for my app (and placed in my app’s install directory regardless of the system’s installed flash version? also, could there be any EULA issues? thanks amitabh *Amitabh Ghatak* Architecture Council *IVY Comptech Private Limited* Cyber Spazio, Road No 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500033, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA -- This email is sent for and on behalf of Ivy Comptech Private Limited. Ivy Comptech Private Limited is a limited liability company. This email and any attachments are confidential, and may be legally privileged and protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient dissemination or copying of this email is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender by replying by email and then delete the email completely from your system. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender. This communication is not intended to form a binding contract on behalf of Ivy Comptech Private Limited unless expressly indicated to the contrary and properly authorised. Any actions taken on the basis of this email are at the recipient's own risk. Registered Office: Ivy Comptech Private Limited, Cyber Spazio, Road No. 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 033, Andhra Pradesh, India. Registered number: 37994. Registered in India. A list of members' names is available for inspection at the registered office. --
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trying to build slideshow functionality with wipe effects.
Most of the time when I do any page transitions I take a bitmap of the current page and display that over everything. Then swap the content below this. Finally applying the effect to the bitmap. If you need the 'next' page to do the effect (like a slide in effect) then you take two bitmaps. Using bitmaps this way isn't always the simplest, but it can help with performance of the effect. Steve On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Todd tpreka...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I've seen that. Not useful to me. There's not wiple/slide in transition. All that sample is doing is loading a selected image from the list into the main viewing component, and adding a little Fade effect to it. I need something that will actually bring the Image in from the right or left, which will involve being able to actually MOVE components somehow. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jason B nos...@... wrote: Have you seen this example slideshow by Adobe? http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/photoviewer/PhotoViewer.html --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Todd tprekaski@ wrote: Hello All, I've built a slideshow feature in our application. One of the requirements was that the images transition to the next with a nice wipe/slide effect. I built up two solutions, both with drawbacks: 1) Used a view stack, added a repeater that added a VBox and Image for each photo to display. I was able to get the appropriate slide/scrolling effect to work by attaching show and hide effects on a VBox that contained the image. This worked really well when there was 10 imgeas. However, when I loaded 200 images...ouch memory management nightmare up to 1 gig of memory being used before crashing. Next solution, I tried something simpler: 2) Used a HorizontalList component and built some code to scroll through all the images. This worked much better from a memory management perspective, however, I've LOST the ability to have the transitions of sliding from one image to the next. My questions: 1) Has anyone seen any code that uses the List (HorizontalList) components for sliding/moving images into the main view area? How do you get the effects to work with moving the itemRenderers around (this doesn't seem possible?) 2) Anyone tried writing a component where there's a main view area, and an area to the left and right where you buffer images off screen for the sake of wiping/sliding them in? Then when you move to the next image, the main image slides left, the left (off-screen image container) is then moved to the right, and he the right image slides into the middle. This is a sort of recycling of components. Seems like a lot of work and would be prone to bugs. I'm open for any other ideas on making a slideshow with these sliding/scrolling transitions. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] clearing the flex cache?
If you are talking about the flex framework swz files then just go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html and uncheck Store common Flash components to reduce download times. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:32 PM, jedierikb jedier...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to clear my cache of all the flex libraries used by my browsers. I would like to do this to see the speed of my flex apps loading the flex rsls for the first time. Are there instructions for how to do clear my flex cache? I tried deleting the files listed at the paths listed here http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=rsl_09.html, but even when they are trashed (on windows vista), my flex app still seems to find the libraries somewhere locally(I do not see the framework and rsl libraries download). (side note: i am not linking the flex libraries into my own code... I am linking to them as rsls.) -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] f_in_box memory issues
What methods are you using to determine the memory usage? We use f_in_box and I don't think we have seen that kind of discrepancy before. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, ag_rcuren robert.vancuren...@gmail.comwrote: I am currently using f_in_box for a project I am working on. I was doing some profiling and noticed that when using f_in_box virtual memory usage is super high. When running our app stand alone in the flash player we are seeing virtual memory usage of around 20 megs vs. running in f_in_box it is around 120 megs. This is over 5 times worse. I was hoping some one might have some insight or may have worked with f_in_box before and dealt with this issue. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Re: NEED more than 15 menu item in Context Menu ????
We grab the right click in our .NET app and display that. I belive we capture the event from the control so the native Flash menu isn't shown. This works really well. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Dharmendra Chauhan chauhan_i...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Samuel, Thanks for the reply. Its running inside Flash Player ActiveX control.so no java script heck can be applied..I completely stuck at this point..Need some ideas around it. Any other UI components can be used to get similar functionality. Regards, Dharmendra --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: Is the Flex app loaded in the IE ActiveX control, or the Flash Player ActiveX control? If it is IE, any of the tricks to hide the context menu in the normal IE browser should work. Never tried doing this myself though. On 5/23/09, Dharmendra Chauhan chauhan_i...@... wrote: Thanks Lot for the Reply. My FLex Application is not running inside browser , It is running inside DOt Net container as a Active X control. the idea you suggested required default context menu to be hidden ..is it possible to hide it ? If yes then I Can open some custom window on right click and design. I am not sure how concrete this idea is.. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Yves Riel riel@ wrote: What about intercepting the right-click at the browser level and displaying your own contextual menu? However, you might have some browser incompatibility to look at. http://blog.another-d-mention.ro/programming/right-click-and-custom-cont ext-menu-in-flash-flex/ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dharmendra Chauhan Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:03 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] NEED more than 15 menu item in Context Menu Hi, I really need to have more than 15 menu item displayed on Context Menu. I desperately need some workaround or ideas to achieve this My client has invested thousands of dollar in Flex Project, he definitely need more than 15 menu item.If this project failed , client will NEVER think to invest in flex. Had I been aware of this limitation before I would have thought some solution by now.This comes as a surprise to me at the last moment ,just fews days before Prod Date. Pls gents help me get rid of this ...PLEASE provide some ideas. Thanks in advance. Thanks, Dharmendra -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Sent from my mobile device -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration
No offence was intended, I was trying to state that as a selling point. The number of users who already have the SWZs should be icing, the real substance should be the benifit to every user visiting your site/app. Obviously if you only expect users to visit once or twice the benifit doesn't work out. The problem with Adobe including the files with the first install is that there are new files for each update of the Flex Framework. I am currently on my third set of SWZs in my production environment. I would like to see Adobe host the files as an added benifit to using them. I would also be interested in seeing some stats on the number of installed players that have one or more SWZs cached as it would be additional info to help sell the idea to clients. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Yes, I know how it works...my point is that it's hard to sell to my current clients if for most it's going to translate into a bigger download for first time users. This is why stats as to how many users are likely to already have the different versions of the RSLs would be handy. I realise this is probably strategically sensitive for Adobe as they want to encourage use of RSLs as it improves the Flex download size story longer term. Someone made the suggestion somewhere that when users upgrade or install the player, Adobe ought to download and install all the current RSLs as well. That seems a very sensible idea to me. Even if they were a separate download available at the time (or available as a Flash player professional version) it would be better than forcing developers distributing apps to do it. We have app size as an imperative that we have to work with. Guy On 22/04/2009, at 4:19 AM, Steve Mathews wrote: It would only be bigger the first download (assuming the user has 9.0.115.0 or later). After that it would be smaller each time. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Well...yes, it's great if I do it...for the community n'all...but my users *are* sensitive to the download size. If it were the same size either way, of course I would do it (as would everyone) but the fact that it's BIGGER as RSLs means I bet LOTS of developers DON'T do it, hence my question... Guy On 21/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009, g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Maybe it's worth doing if 50%+ of users will get the benefit, but if only 10% will benefit it seems unlikely to be a way to increase the general happiness. I think you are looking at it wrong. Assuming 200k is nothing on a modern connection - I don't know anything about your users of course :-) With RSL you either load quicker (win) or have to download app+RSL (same as non-RSL), plus you have the benefit of making your (and others !) future RSL deployments more likely to be win. -- Helping to synergistically streamline proactive cross-platform seamless ubiquitous interfaces as part of the IT team of the year, '09 and '08 Tom Chiverton Developer Tel: +44 0161 618 5032 Fax: +44 0161 618 5099 tom.chiver...@halliwells.com tom.chiver...@halliwells.com 3 Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB www.Halliwells.com http://www.halliwells.com/ This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word ?partner? to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.Halliwells.comhttp://www.halliwells.com/ .
Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration
Fantastic! On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Matt Chotin mcho...@adobe.com wrote: We’re hosting the RSLs starting with Flex 4, you’ll see them hosted in the public beta. When we feel comfortable with the RSL penetration stats as far as being consistent and accurate and explainable we’ll begin publishing them. Matt On 4/21/09 11:01 PM, Steve Mathews happy...@gmail.com wrote: No offence was intended, I was trying to state that as a selling point. The number of users who already have the SWZs should be icing, the real substance should be the benifit to every user visiting your site/app. Obviously if you only expect users to visit once or twice the benifit doesn't work out. The problem with Adobe including the files with the first install is that there are new files for each update of the Flex Framework. I am currently on my third set of SWZs in my production environment. I would like to see Adobe host the files as an added benifit to using them. I would also be interested in seeing some stats on the number of installed players that have one or more SWZs cached as it would be additional info to help sell the idea to clients. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Yes, I know how it works...my point is that it's hard to sell to my current clients if for most it's going to translate into a bigger download for first time users. This is why stats as to how many users are likely to already have the different versions of the RSLs would be handy. I realise this is probably strategically sensitive for Adobe as they want to encourage use of RSLs as it improves the Flex download size story longer term. Someone made the suggestion somewhere that when users upgrade or install the player, Adobe ought to download and install all the current RSLs as well. That seems a very sensible idea to me. Even if they were a separate download available at the time (or available as a Flash player professional version) it would be better than forcing developers distributing apps to do it. We have app size as an imperative that we have to work with. Guy On 22/04/2009, at 4:19 AM, Steve Mathews wrote: It would only be bigger the first download (assuming the user has 9.0.115.0 or later). After that it would be smaller each time. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Well...yes, it's great if I do it...for the community n'all...but my users *are* sensitive to the download size. If it were the same size either way, of course I would do it (as would everyone) but the fact that it's BIGGER as RSLs means I bet LOTS of developers DON'T do it, hence my question... Guy On 21/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009, g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Maybe it's worth doing if 50%+ of users will get the benefit, but if only 10% will benefit it seems unlikely to be a way to increase the general happiness. I think you are looking at it wrong. Assuming 200k is nothing on a modern connection - I don't know anything about your users of course :-) With RSL you either load quicker (win) or have to download app+RSL (same as non-RSL), plus you have the benefit of making your (and others !) future RSL deployments more likely to be win. -- Helping to synergistically streamline proactive cross-platform seamless ubiquitous interfaces as part of the IT team of the year, '09 and '08 *Tom Chiverton * Developer Tel: +44 0161 618 5032 Fax: +44 0161 618 5099 tom.chiver...@halliwells.com 3 Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB *www.Halliwells.com http://www.halliwells.com/ * This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word ?partner? to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit *www.Halliwells.com http://www.halliwells.com/ *.
Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration
It would only be bigger the first download (assuming the user has 9.0.115.0 or later). After that it would be smaller each time. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Well...yes, it's great if I do it...for the community n'all...but my users *are* sensitive to the download size. If it were the same size either way, of course I would do it (as would everyone) but the fact that it's BIGGER as RSLs means I bet LOTS of developers DON'T do it, hence my question... Guy On 21/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009, g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Maybe it's worth doing if 50%+ of users will get the benefit, but if only 10% will benefit it seems unlikely to be a way to increase the general happiness. I think you are looking at it wrong. Assuming 200k is nothing on a modern connection - I don't know anything about your users of course :-) With RSL you either load quicker (win) or have to download app+RSL (same as non-RSL), plus you have the benefit of making your (and others !) future RSL deployments more likely to be win. -- Helping to synergistically streamline proactive cross-platform seamless ubiquitous interfaces as part of the IT team of the year, '09 and '08 Tom Chiverton Developer Tel: +44 0161 618 5032 Fax: +44 0161 618 5099 tom.chiver...@halliwells.com tom.chiver...@halliwells.com 3 Hardman Square, Manchester, M3 3EB www.Halliwells.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office together with a list of those non members who are referred to as partners. We use the word ?partner? to refer to a member of the LLP, or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.Halliwells.com.
Re: [flexcoders] Expiration date
A very quick and dirty way would be to just save the first date it is launched (to a text file or better yet to a db) then check it on startup. Once time runs out just tell the user and exit. Of course the user could uninstall/reinstall to get around this, so it isn't a fool-proof solution. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, lehaianh1986 lehaianh1...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi all, I have small AIR project, now it is beta version. I will send it to some testers. So, I want to write some code to set expired date for it. Example as set this soft to stop working 1 month from first use, or set the number of using soft is 100 times. Any one can guide me some steps to do it? Thank in advanced Hai Anh -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flash speed test - please participate - only 1 click required !
For anyone who cares, I ran swfScan on the swf and it only does what is advertised. A quick look at the page source and I didn't see anything fishy there either. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, tom93438 tcs2...@gmail.com wrote: Wow ! There is some serious paranoia here. This page does exactly what I described in my original email, and nothing more. I created it to learn something, which I plan on sharing back with this community. I've been posting to this list for a while, so I would sort of hope that there could be a little more trust. Feel free to inspect the page, etc. But everything you need to know is in my original post (at bottom of this email). @Cato - I hope you realize that this kind of scare mongering will seriously diminish the number of testers, and hence the quality of the data that I will be able to share back with you all... :( cheers tom --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Cato Paus ca...@... wrote: DO NOT TEST THIS... Trojan Horse Detected on page! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tom93438 tcs2201@ wrote: One other test that would also be useful: Please hit: http://flatim3000.appspot.com/?fps=24 Does the same as before, but tests for 24 fps. thanks tom --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tom s tcs2201@ wrote: Hi All, I'm doing some tests to see how 'fast' the Flash Player is in a variety of environments. Please click the link to take part: (you don't have to do anything other than click the link) http://flatim3000.appspot.com It's totally malware free. If you're interested, see below for details. Please hit it as many times as you like, from as many different environments as you can :) I'll share the results when I'm done. cheers tom details = The SWF: 1. attempts to set the frame rate to 1000 2. listens for enter_frame 10,000 times 3. records how long (2) takes 4. computes the actual FPS 5. send the data to a server, along with details on OS, Browser, FP version, IP Any suggestions/improvements - let me know... -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Flash Player or IE bug
I ran into an issue and I think it is being caused by the Flash Player. The basics of the issue is that if you close a browser window while the player is downloading a file, sometimes it causes IE to completely quit working. Once this happens you have to close IE entirely to get it to work again. I have posted a page with instructions on how to reproduce this here: http://artjumble.com/FlashIETest.html I have confirmed this on XP and Vista with IE 7. Anyone else run into this, know of any workarounds/fixes? (I know, use FF...)
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Apps on Flash 10 Crashes Browser
I do know for a fact that player 10 crashes when it runs out of memory. In player 9 you get errors when you attempt to do something and it can't get enough memory. I would like to know if this is going to be fixed soon also. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Don Kerr fusionp...@yahoo.com wrote: Still no resolution on Flash Player 10 bugs that crash IE7, IE8, firefox. It is a memory error. All my Flex 3 apps work fine with Flash Player 9, but crash the browser when the user upgrades to Flash 10. There are many bugs reported on this in adobe's bug tracker, but I do not see any status on a bug fix that indicates anything is being done to fix it. Does anyone else have problems with their Flex 3 apps when the user accesses them via Flash Player 10? Is anyone aware of any Flex 3 code that doesn't work in Flash 10 that might be causing the crashes? Any updates on any pending patches/hot fixes from Adobe? Don -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] 3D flip effect
I used this and it worked great: http://www.tink.ws/blog/papervision3d-effects-for-flex-source On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Ryan Graham ryan.gra...@phoenix.eduwrote: I believe so... the docs suggest you have to hack it since the registration point is always top left. Do a translation in the negative by half the component's width and height (this will get you centered), rotate it, then do the reverse translation to put it back in it's original spot. This was working fairly reasonably for me in an ENTER_FRAME handler with an image: img.transform.matrix3D.appendTranslation(-1 * img.width / 2, -1 * img.height / 2, 0); img.transform.matrix3D.appendRotation(1, Vector3D.Y_AXIS); img.transform.matrix3D.appendTranslation(img.width / 2, img.height / 2, 0); That'll just rotate infinitely -- it would be up to you to turn this into a reusable effect... HTH, Ryan -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Russ Ferguson Sent: Thu 2/12/2009 4:46 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] 3D flip effect Thanks. Im targeting air 1.5. it seems to be working but I want to rotate from center and not from the top left hand corner. I think it has to do with matrix3D Any thoughts? Thanks ...russ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Graham Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:09 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] 3D flip effect Yeah, it's possible with 3.2. As long as you are targeting FP10, check out the x, y, z, rotationX, rotationY, and rotationZ on DisplayObject in the docs... If you're targeting FP9, it's a much more manual process to organize the math and such... HTH, Ryan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Russ Ferguson Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:55 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] 3D flip effect Hi, Im looking to rotate a canvas in 3d space. I know you can do this with gumbo but I wanted to see if you can do it with the 3.2 sdk. All the examples I have found rotate on a slider. Im looking to rotate during a transition. Thanks. ...russ This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Events and Child SWFs
You are assigning the listener to the wrong object. this is your child
swf, but it is the parent that dispatches the event. Depending on the rest
of the app this.parent might work. So:
this.parent.addEventListener(inDeleteMode, deleteModeHandler);
Steve
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:44 AM, stldvd stl...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I've got a parent application with a 'delete' button. When it's
clicked, I want to set a flag in a child swf, which is loaded via SWF
loader.
So in the parent app on the button's click event I'm dispatching an event:
dispatchEvent(new Event(inDeleteMode));
In the child SWF's init function I've got this:
this.addEventListener(inDeleteMode, deleteModeHandler);
And then the deleteModeHandler function (stubbed in for testing):
private function deleteModeHandler():Boolean
{
Alert.show(got it!);
return true;
}
It ain't working. Can someone see what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
David
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Re: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help
One trick to help while trying to get this working is to use a wildcard for the namespace so use *:: So if you just want to shortcut to the columnList (this would assume you don't need any of the rest of the xml). xmlResult..*::columnList; On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Wally Kolcz wko...@isavepets.com wrote: If I set it your way, then what do I then do with the dot notation to get to the XMLList? -- *From*: Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com *Sent*: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 8:34 AM *To*: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject*: RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help columnList will need to be prefixed with the ns:: also. As will all nodes. I'd advise setting the default namespace as I posted, to make the expressions easier. Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available -- *From:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wally Kolcz *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:23 AM *To:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help Thanks for being patient and helping me. I really need to read more about XML and Flex/AS3. I am so used to RemoteObjects. Based on what was posted from Ryan: var ns:Namespace = new Namespace( http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security ); trace(xmlResult.ns::loginResult.toXMLString()); How can I step down to the columnList? I tried var xlNames:XMLList = xmlResult.ns::loginResult.columnList; but it came up blank too... -- *From*: Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com *Sent*: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:28 AM *To*: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject*: RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help Good, you are on the way. You are only one step from your columnList. Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available -- *From:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wally Kolcz *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:54 AM *To:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help Ok, I tried both approaches and they gave me this. loginResult xmlns= http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security; xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:xsi= http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns:xsd= http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; columnList xmlns=http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon; stringuniqname/string stringrole/string stringfirstName/string stringlastName/string /columnList data xmlns=http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon; ArrayOfAnyType anyType xsi:type=xsd:stringwkolcz/anyType anyType xsi:type=xsd:stringadmin/anyType anyType xsi:type=xsd:stringWally/anyType anyType xsi:type=xsd:stringKolcz/anyType /ArrayOfAnyType /data /loginResult -- *From*: Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com *Sent*: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:44 PM *To*: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject*: RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help Yes, darn it, missed that, Ryan is correct, there will a namespace problem. You can define a default namespace, and not have to use the prefix in all of the expressions. default xml namespace = http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security;; But you will still need to get the expression right. Look close at your expression and at your xml. Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available -- *From:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Graham *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2009 4:01 PM *To:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help Looks like you're having namespace issues. The default namespace is http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security;, so you need to use this when drilling down. Something like: var ns:Namespace = new Namespace( http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security ); trace(xmlResult.ns::loginResult.toXMLString()); You can do this for all nodes with a namespace defined. HTH, Ryan *From:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wally Kolcz *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2009 1:42 PM *To:*flexcod...@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* re: [flexcoders] XML walkdown Help *Here is a more accurate output on the Blue Dragon server:* loginResponse xmlns= http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/cfc/prmc/PRMCProjects/edu/umich/security; xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:xsi= http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns:xsd= http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; loginResult columnList
[flexcoders] Re: This is kind of Wonderfl
And I jacked the url: http://wonderfl.kayac.com On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Steve Mathews happy...@gmail.com wrote: Spotted a post over at Techcrunch about wonderfl.kayack.com . Looks like a pretty cool project. And if the creator(s) happen to see this, a big thumbs up! Steve
[flexcoders] This is kind of Wonderfl
Spotted a post over at Techcrunch about wonderfl.kayack.com . Looks like a pretty cool project. And if the creator(s) happen to see this, a big thumbs up! Steve
[flexcoders] Issue with load progress of RSL in custom preloader
I am using framework version 3.1 and I have created a custom preloader for my application. I want a smooth progress bar during this load so I figured I would just watch the load of the RSLs as they seem to be the biggest chunk of data (for now at least). I know this would miss some loading and the init phase, but I am not worried about that right now. The problem seems to be that the RSL progress event only fires for one of the RSLs that loads. So although the event says rslTotal = 2, the rslIndex is only ever 0. So I get a nice progress for one RSL, then it sits at 100% while the second one loads. Anyone run into this issue before and have a workaround? PS. I switched to the 3.2 framework and things got even stranger. It loaded the swf RSL, then the swz of the same rsl, then the swf again and didn't fire the complete event at all. Needless to say, I scrapped that idea and went back to 3.1. Steve
Re: [flexcoders] recompiling framework shared library?
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, -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Parsley MVC :: some thoughts
The only way for a listener to not get called synchronously is if it is specifically setup to do that. For example in Flex you can call a method using callLater which will call it on the next frame. If you are not using Flex you can do the same thing by creating a timer with a duration of 1 and calling the method within the timer's handler. If you look through the Flex code you will see a lot of use of callLater as it works great for allowing data to update before you act upon it. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For several years before using flash I used a proprietary GUI OO tool that had a similar (though less sophisticated) event mechanism. In that system event dispatch did not actually take place until the code block had completed - only then would handlers be invoked. This was particularly important since the system also supported database access and transaction handling so it's particularly important to have discrete units of work that form part of a transaction without interruption. So I don't think that the synchronous event despatch mechanism is as obvious as it appears to some and I think it should really be a delayed propogation. I agree. For me at least, this was completely non-obvious and now that I know, feels plain bizarre. If asked before this thread, I would have answered that dispatchEvent() returned instantly and event handlers were invoked some other time such as after the current code block, or during the Player render cycle (but that would mean event handlers always executed in the next frame, perhaps causing problems with animations). That would give an implicit atomicity around the currently executing code and allow the VM to do smart things like rolling up multiple events of the same type within a given code block (or frame) into a single invokation of each listening handler. This way, triggering an event 100 times will mean the listeners get invoked 100 times, even if the last invokation completely overwrites the work of the previous 99. That's what I would have thought, too, considering how obsessive the Flex team seems to be about optimizing. This was especially hard to debug in my case because the listener wasn't called immediately. I wonder if that's because it was in a different class...? -Amy -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Easy question... i think.
It only imports what is being used. Using the wild card(*) just says you may want to use any of the classes in that package, but only the ones you actually use will be compiled. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 AM, flexaustin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if I use import statements like import allofsomething.* vs. import allofsomething.lessofall.evenlessofall.onlyONEofall; ** in this example I would only be using onlyOneofall in my code. Does the more specific import reduce my .swf file size? Or does the compiler only import what is actually being referenced, thus in this example onlyOneofall. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player
Good question. As I haven't installed our app in quite some time, you could go to www.flypaper.com and install the demo to see what it looks like (just make sure you remove your ActiveX player before you run the installer). Steve On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi guys, sorry about my slow response. I was enjoying my weekend :) We have decided to continue on this line of inquiry, partly due to your answers. Steve, you mentioned kicking of a silent install of the Player if it's not found. How silent can you make it? From memory, the player install sequence has a few dialog boxes and progress bars... is the distributable installer sequence less obvious, or are these dialogs just part of the overall installation experience for your users? We'd be happy enough with the latter, but the former would be even better :-) Thanks again! On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 07:12, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it was less than great because someone here applied online several times but could not actually get the installer. Then we had a chat with Lee Brimelow (http://theflashblog.com/) http://theflashblog.com/, he passed our request on and we got the installer within a day or two. So I would recommend talking to him or another evangelist to help the process. Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: How easy was it to get the licence to distribute the flash player? Anecdotally, I'd heard this was rather hard to do in practice, but maybe this has changed since I last enquired a couple of years back. This has always been a stumbling block for various solutions I've tried over the years. -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 21 November 2008 15:48 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player You can get a license to distribute the installer from Adobe. Then just silently install the player you need when installing your application. Unless there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, long-time-no-post :) I've a gnarly one here. I contract to a VC funded startup formed to create a cross-platform desktop client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs are not low-level enough (e.g. you can't burn a CD with AIR). We've looked at Zinc, Shu Player, Janus and the rest but Zinc and Janus don't support MacOS very well and the legal issues around Shu Player make us wary of using it. This is a consumer-facing app and needs to be squeaky clean. How about embedding the NPAPI FP10 in a Java process? That would be cross-platform, and we could use NPRuntime to interact seamlessly from Java. The Flash Player license allows us to automate download of the FP10 installer, however these are the problems we still face: · If a user doesn't have the player installed, there will be a two-step install process (one for the player, one for our app), which is sooo 90s · We can't legally change the install location of the NPAPI plugin, so if we automate downloads of the NPAPI FP10 and the user doesn't have Mozilla installed it's unclear what we should do · Not sure if we can specify the kind of Player (NPAPI vs ActiveX) to download from adobe.com if the user is on Windows Even for the base case (a user with Mozilla and the NPAPI FP10 plugin installed prior to install of our app), should we talk this over with Adobe legal? Has anyone heard of Adobe entering into custom licensing agreements for this kind of thing (and I mean, actual bonafide true stories, not conjecture based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? Hope this hits someone's cache! Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562 __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahttp
Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player
You can get a license to distribute the installer from Adobe. Then just silently install the player you need when installing your application. Unless there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi list, long-time-no-post :) I've a gnarly one here. I contract to a VC funded startup formed to create a cross-platform desktop client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs are not low-level enough (e.g. you can't burn a CD with AIR). We've looked at Zinc, Shu Player, Janus and the rest but Zinc and Janus don't support MacOS very well and the legal issues around Shu Player make us wary of using it. This is a consumer-facing app and needs to be squeaky clean. How about embedding the NPAPI FP10 in a Java process? That would be cross-platform, and we could use NPRuntime to interact seamlessly from Java. The Flash Player license allows us to automate download of the FP10 installer, however these are the problems we still face: - If a user doesn't have the player installed, there will be a two-step install process (one for the player, one for our app), which is sooo 90s - We can't legally change the install location of the NPAPI plugin, so if we automate downloads of the NPAPI FP10 and the user doesn't have Mozilla installed it's unclear what we should do - Not sure if we can specify the kind of Player (NPAPI vs ActiveX) to download from adobe.com if the user is on Windows Even for the base case (a user with Mozilla and the NPAPI FP10 plugin installed prior to install of our app), should we talk this over with Adobe legal? Has anyone heard of Adobe entering into custom licensing agreements for this kind of thing (and I mean, actual bonafide true stories, not conjecture based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? Hope this hits someone's cache! Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562
Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player
Well it was less than great because someone here applied online several times but could not actually get the installer. Then we had a chat with Lee Brimelow (http://theflashblog.com/) http://theflashblog.com/, he passed our request on and we got the installer within a day or two. So I would recommend talking to him or another evangelist to help the process. Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How easy was it to get the licence to distribute the flash player? Anecdotally, I'd heard this was rather hard to do in practice, but maybe this has changed since I last enquired a couple of years back. This has always been a stumbling block for various solutions I've tried over the years. -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 21 November 2008 15:48 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player You can get a license to distribute the installer from Adobe. Then just silently install the player you need when installing your application. Unless there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, long-time-no-post :) I've a gnarly one here. I contract to a VC funded startup formed to create a cross-platform desktop client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs are not low-level enough (e.g. you can't burn a CD with AIR). We've looked at Zinc, Shu Player, Janus and the rest but Zinc and Janus don't support MacOS very well and the legal issues around Shu Player make us wary of using it. This is a consumer-facing app and needs to be squeaky clean. How about embedding the NPAPI FP10 in a Java process? That would be cross-platform, and we could use NPRuntime to interact seamlessly from Java. The Flash Player license allows us to automate download of the FP10 installer, however these are the problems we still face: · If a user doesn't have the player installed, there will be a two-step install process (one for the player, one for our app), which is sooo 90s · We can't legally change the install location of the NPAPI plugin, so if we automate downloads of the NPAPI FP10 and the user doesn't have Mozilla installed it's unclear what we should do · Not sure if we can specify the kind of Player (NPAPI vs ActiveX) to download from adobe.com if the user is on Windows Even for the base case (a user with Mozilla and the NPAPI FP10 plugin installed prior to install of our app), should we talk this over with Adobe legal? Has anyone heard of Adobe entering into custom licensing agreements for this kind of thing (and I mean, actual bonafide true stories, not conjecture based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? Hope this hits someone's cache! Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562 __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration No. 02622298 and registered office: 4th Floor, Tennyson House, 159-165 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PA, UK. VAT registration No. 648874577. This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning +44(0)20 7637 1010. Please then delete the e-mail and do not disclose its contents to any person. This email has been scanned for Primal Pictures by the MessageLabs Email Security System. __ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt ... [Message clipped]
Re: [flexcoders] For Each in XMLList
isNaN should work. http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/2/langref/package.html#isNaN() On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all; I have a function that can take either an object or an XMLList as an argument. I'm using for each (var prop in argument). This works great when the argument is an object, but when it is an XMLList, I'm having a hard time, because it's not taking the node name as prop. Instead, it's setting it as 0, 1, etc. I'm trying to get around this by using if (prop is Number), but this is returning false. How do you check to distinguish a string that contains a number vs. a string that does not contain a number? Thanks; Amy -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Sound issues in Player 10
I started getting reports that our product quit working in Flash Player 10 so I started investigating it. I found that loaded audio, video with audio and swfs with audio all quit working. So if you look at http://www.flypaper.com/product/quicktour.aspx with player 9 installed, then with 10 you can see that it doesn't work. In this case it is a loaded swf that has the animation and audio on the timeline. I have put together several test cases but all of them work fine. At this point I can't think of any reason this would quit working in player 10. Has anyone seen any issues like this, or can someone from Adobe give me some advice on tracking down the issue? I would log a bug in the tracker, but without a test case I can't really say what is wrong. Thanks, Steve
Re: [flexcoders] Sound issues in Player 10
I have seen it on XP/Vista in IE7 and FF3. I asked my artists to test on a Mac tonight. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just went there in Firefox and Safari on the Mac and heard the voiceover fine with my debug version of FP10. What browsers/OS's are you testing with? Matt On 10/22/08 2:57 PM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started getting reports that our product quit working in Flash Player 10 so I started investigating it. I found that loaded audio, video with audio and swfs with audio all quit working. So if you look at http://www.flypaper.com/product/quicktour.aspx with player 9 installed, then with 10 you can see that it doesn't work. In this case it is a loaded swf that has the animation and audio on the timeline. I have put together several test cases but all of them work fine. At this point I can't think of any reason this would quit working in player 10. Has anyone seen any issues like this, or can someone from Adobe give me some advice on tracking down the issue? I would log a bug in the tracker, but without a test case I can't really say what is wrong. Thanks, Steve -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Sound issues in Player 10
Thanks Matt.
I have tracked down the problem, but I don't exactly know why it wasn't
working. Basically it was around a poorly written bit of code like this:
private function loadBackgroundMusic():void{
var file:URLRequest=new URLRequest(background.mp3);
BackgroundMusic=new Sound(file);
BackgroundMusic.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,function(e:IOErrorEvent):void{});
BackgroundMusic.play(0,int.MAX_VALUE);
}
It seems that when the file is not found and the IO Error fires sound is
screwed up through out the swf.
Steve
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Steve,
Our team tested and it did reproduce. We are filing an internal bug on
this. It didn't reproduce on Mac for them, so it must be a Windows bug.
I'll see if we find out a workaround.
Matt
On 10/22/08 3:25 PM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have seen it on XP/Vista in IE7 and FF3. I asked my artists to test on a
Mac tonight.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just went there in Firefox and Safari on the Mac and heard the voiceover
fine with my debug version of FP10. What browsers/OS's are you testing
with?
Matt
On 10/22/08 2:57 PM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started getting reports that our product quit working in Flash Player 10
so I started investigating it. I found that loaded audio, video with audio
and swfs with audio all quit working. So if you look at
http://www.flypaper.com/product/quicktour.aspx with player 9 installed,
then with 10 you can see that it doesn't work. In this case it is a loaded
swf that has the animation and audio on the timeline. I have put together
several test cases but all of them work fine. At this point I can't think of
any reason this would quit working in player 10.
Has anyone seen any issues like this, or can someone from Adobe give me
some advice on tracking down the issue?
I would log a bug in the tracker, but without a test case I can't really
say what is wrong.
Thanks,
Steve
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[flexcoders] Case sensitive XML?
So I just figured out that e4x is case-sensitive, which really doesn't make any sense to me, but I'll assume there is a good reason. I did some searching but haven't found any good way to get around this and it is driving me batty. Let's say you have this node param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/Y9HMn6bd-v8hl=enfs=1; and you want to find the value attribute, but this node is included with other param nodes with the same attributes (as seen when embedding Flash). The problem is that this works for this case var node:XML = xmlDoc..param.(@name == movie); works here, but with this node PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=http://www.youtube.com/v/Y9HMn6bd-v8hl=enfs=1; it fails because param != PARAM. Is there a good way of handling this?
[flexcoders] Controls in line with horizontal scroll bar?
I need to build something that has a zoom control in line with my horizontal scroll bar. Here is a link to an image to better show what I am thinking: http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/code/controls/Scroll_Bars/scrollButtons.png In this image there are buttons on both sides of the horizontal scroll bar. I would like two buttons and a combo box to the left only. The question I have is what would be the best way to accomplish this? I have thought about extending canvas in a custom MXML Component, but then I can't figure out how to add children to that through MXML. I could write a complete custom container to do it, but that is more work than I would like to do. So does anyone have any other ideas I might look into? Or better yet, does anyone know of any components that already handle this? Thanks, Steve
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions
Somehow I missed this discussion, but I might be able to offer some relevant info. First off, I am the Sr. Team Lead of Flash/Flex development at www.flypaper.com. We created a product that creates presentation slides (we call them stories) that run in a Flex/AS3 runtime on the web. The application will also import PowerPoint slides for output. I don't know which conversion library we are using (one of our C# devs implemented it) but if our product isn't the solution you are looking for (give it a try, there is a 30 free trial) I would be happy to offer what guidance I can. Steve On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions Well, it seems to me that a slide presentation need not look like and behave just like Powerpoint, right? That just occurred to me while I was reading the messages here. Perhaps all that is needed is an existing component with the ability to move from one display to the next, one slide as it were. Making a slide show type program is fairly easy. It might be a great deal of work though to make the component look nice, like one might see with Powerpoint applications. What do you think? LOL depends what you mean by nice. The strength of powerpoint is in laying out screen components on a page with good control over their appearance and the availability of canned transformations and effects to add interest. That coupled with an ability to use layout templates and control how a presentation plays back and can be printed out makes Powerpoint what it is. Replicating all that in Flex is a lot of work. Making something similar is certainly doable. Making a tool that does a targetted subset of that is very doable, but it won't be powerpoint. Most of the thread has concentrated on converting powerpoint slides to run in flash, which is a completely different proposition from making a powerpoint-like tool in flex. What exactly are your goals here? Paul Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Couple questions Bruce, there are a mass of powerpoint to flash converters out there - google is your friend. The one I've worked with produced fairly large files and the output is an AS1/AS2 swf. If I were writing a slide player, I'd probably use Flex, though for a slide player it could probably just as well be all in actionscript so Flash or Flex is neither here nor there. One thing I should add - when I was researching powerpoint to flash converters a few months back - none of them produced AS3 swfs, so controlling the playback from Flex (or Flash AS3) is a little problematic - you'd need an intemediary AS2 swf to talk between the runtime systems. Some of the converters include players for playing back the converted files. Eventually I wrote a player using AS2. Good luck. Paul Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:01 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Couple questions Hello all, I had a few questions, where I could use some suggestions or opinions and ideas. One is regarding Powerpoint-like presentations online. If you were going to do something like this, would you use Flash or Flex - maybe these are not even the best choices? Are there extensions for Flash or Flex to convert a powerpoint file to something that would play in the Flash Player? Actually, I'm not sure if there even are any extensions for Flex like there are for other Adobe products, but I bet there are. Next, I noticed that there is a nice AIR application for reading Flexcoder messages. I'm only aware of one, the only additional thing I'd want is the ability to post to the group from the AIR application. Can anyone suggest some good sources for a variety of AIR applications? Lastly, are there any script collections of free or commercial Flex MXML/Actionscript applications that one could check out, such as what there are at http://hotscripts.com and other similar places. thanks, Bruce -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] What is the framework caching mechanism?
Does anyone know what mechanism is used to cache the Flex framework RSLs (swz files)? Is it just the browser's cache, or does the player cache them in a different way? Also if the files are served without a caching policy from the server (for example if they are served from a CDN) will they cache? Thanks, Steve
[flexcoders] Security dialog not displaying
So this issue keeps coming back to me and I figured I would throw a line out to see if anyone has any ideas. This primarily happens on Vista, but sometimes on XP. I have a swf with use-network set to true. So if you try to run the swf from your local computer you should get the dialog saying you can't do that unless you change your security settings. Problem is that this dialog doesn't always come up and you just sit there looking at a white screen. Anyone know if there is a way to fix this, or if there is a bug logged against this issue? Thanks, Steve
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Framework - To cache or not to cache? - Specific case
First off I don't understand this line I suspect that the app would need to be marked as a trusted file using Flash Player Settings Manager, otherwise it would result in Security Sandbox violation. Secondly you seem to be listing configuration (i.e. work on your side) as a negative. In my opinion you should only consider your user's point of view to make the determination. Your calculations are pretty accurate as to the size differences and you seem to have a good understanding of the possible scenarios that users will face when visiting your app. I would say that in this case you should BOTH look into modularizing your app and implementing the framework RSLs. This will give users who have the framework a better experience, and by using modules give all your users a better experience. Setting up the framework caching is so simple that it seems odd that you would not do it for an application of this size. Steve On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM, tenni5fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have read previous posts on Flex framework caching, did some experiments with different compiler options and searched Google. Many posts advocate using the framework cache in general, however what is your opinion for this specific case. I am working on the app having 1.6Mb in size when compiled with Flex framework statically linked. If I use framework RSL, the app size goes down to 1.2Mb. The goal I'm trying to achieve is to have the app downloaded as fast as possible the first and subsequent times users visit the site. Originally I thought it would be a good idea to use framework caching - the first time users would incur slight penalty 0.1Mb (1.2+0.5 vs 1.6) vs subsequent downloads of 1.2Mb. Unless a framework is cached already by visiting some other app (I think the percentage of our users having the framework already cached by visiting other website is very small). That penalty of 0.1M does not seem as much, but should result in longer than 10% delay because there will 2 separate http requests. The bigger concern is that after the first visit our users will already have the application cached in the browser cache and will load the app from there when they subsequently visit. Of course the cache could be cleared, or we can release a newer version, but in majority of cases users should be getting the app from the cache. Another drawback of using cache is extra deployment configuration (ant build scripts and deploying .swf and .swz) and more importantly running the app from Flash Player would require different security permissions because the app would first download the framework into cache if it's not present. I suspect that the app would need to be marked as a trusted file using Flash Player Settings Manager, otherwise it would result in Security Sandbox violation. With all that said, I think in general it is worth caching the framework, but in this particular case I see more disadvantages than advantages. Maybe in a year or so when enough people get the framework cached on the FP cache, it'll be worth it, but for now I don't see worth doing it because my goal is to minimize the download time of the app the first time a user visits our website and caching actually makes it longer. So I'll be turning my attention to modules. What is your opinion for this case? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] passing parameters flex to .net window application
If the Flex is hosted inside of the .net app you can use ExternalInterface.If the Flex is running separately from the app I would recommend a Socket connection. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM, aravinda88 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can i passing parameters flex to .net application? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Framework RSLs -- Any Reason Not To Use? Any Problems Related to Their Use?
I have a live project that uses the framework RSLs. The one issue that I 'believe' might be related is that I am getting a delay on start up of the swf. I hope to get the time to investigate this in the next couple weeks and will report back here if I can confirm the delay is from having the framework as an RSL. Steve On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 Sep 2008, greg h wrote: 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)? Nope - we looked the issues mentioned here, and decided to do it. IMHO it should be the default way of deploying public Flex applications - the more people with the framework in the cache the better for all of us. -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Re:Looking for a Flex forum.
I think he was talking about a Forum Implementation made in flex, like PHPBB implemented in PHP. :) Yes, that is what I understand. I too am speechless. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Michael Schmalle [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I think he was talking about a Forum Implementation made in flex, like PHPBB implemented in PHP. :) Mike On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, 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* *Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal * Innovative Learning Blog* *** subscribe. -- 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] Where are the AIR resources?
It turned out to be an issue on my part. I figured it out and got it working. As to security, now that my Flex swf is in the app directory, can't someone just drop a new one in there and my AIR app think it is secure? Do I need to verify swfs and html loaded from the app directory? On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where's the HTML page loaded from? Domain security rules apply to that too. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:20 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Ok, so after all this discussion (thank you by the way) I came to the realization that what I needed to do is be running my Flex swf as trusted. So I moved it and all my in-house created support swf to the app directory so they are installed with the app. So far so good, as I already had support for loading my resources from a different path by setting a var in the embed code. Now I have a new issue in that when you hit Esc in my Flex swf I call both a ExternalInterface call and an fscommand to let the container know about it. I had it working where my hosting html page was getting these calls, but now it doesn't seem to be. I would have expected it the other way around where as non-trusted the calls would get lost and as trusted they would work. Any ideas? On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure there is a way to do that right now. It might be a planned feature for a future AIR release. You can try it though. This post: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emalasky/archives/2008/04/remote_plugins.html#more implies that you can't and should use loadBytes instead. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:58 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Alex, Yes, it isn't an error, just the security dialog because my swf has -use-network=true but it is running locally. In theory I can compile a 'local' version, but there are some webservices that I would like to consume even on the desktop. Also, I don't think telling the user to trust the app-storage folder is a good solution. You mention getting it into the same directory as the main swf. Can you expand on that comment? Thanks On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't say what error you are getting, but I'll bet it is that a localWithNetworking swf can't access local assets. Good thing we have that security check otherwise if you downloaded a spyware SWF, someone would be stealing your identity. So, no matter what, if you suck down SWF bits and launch them locally, please find a way to validate them against a man-in-the-middle attack. We have a SHA library you can use. Once you truly trust the SWF bits, the next question is why your SWF needs network access. If it doesn't, turn it off and you won't get warnings. If it does need network access, I think your choices are to find a way load it into a trusted directory (users can opt to trust certain directories, or you somehow get it into the same directory as the main SWF), or proxy the network I/O or file system I/O through the main app. I don't think HTMLLoader or an intermediary HTML file is going to help. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:48 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Let me give some specific examples so hopefully we can get this to work. What I am creating is a player for a custom file type. The file is basically a zip (with different extension) that when opened is extracted to the app-storage location. This is just resources. Next I have a Flex based swf that can actually run with these resources. What I was thinking is that I could just copy this swf (and some others that it loads) into the app-storage directory and load it. So what I have started with is a Flex based AIR application that registers as the default for the file extension, loads the file and extracts it to the app-storage. After I copy (mannulay for now) the external Flex swf and an html page to the app-storage, I load the html into AIR using the HTMLLoader. Eventually I would like to be able to update the external swf and some of the other supporting swfs, so please keep that in mind when making recommendations. Thanks for the help, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so I'm clear. You have a AIR SWF based on Flex that is using HTMLLoader to load another Flex
Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
Ok, so after all this discussion (thank you by the way) I came to the realization that what I needed to do is be running my Flex swf as trusted. So I moved it and all my in-house created support swf to the app directory so they are installed with the app. So far so good, as I already had support for loading my resources from a different path by setting a var in the embed code. Now I have a new issue in that when you hit Esc in my Flex swf I call both a ExternalInterface call and an fscommand to let the container know about it. I had it working where my hosting html page was getting these calls, but now it doesn't seem to be. I would have expected it the other way around where as non-trusted the calls would get lost and as trusted they would work. Any ideas? On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure there is a way to do that right now. It might be a planned feature for a future AIR release. You can try it though. This post: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emalasky/archives/2008/04/remote_plugins.html#more implies that you can't and should use loadBytes instead. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:58 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Alex, Yes, it isn't an error, just the security dialog because my swf has -use-network=true but it is running locally. In theory I can compile a 'local' version, but there are some webservices that I would like to consume even on the desktop. Also, I don't think telling the user to trust the app-storage folder is a good solution. You mention getting it into the same directory as the main swf. Can you expand on that comment? Thanks On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't say what error you are getting, but I'll bet it is that a localWithNetworking swf can't access local assets. Good thing we have that security check otherwise if you downloaded a spyware SWF, someone would be stealing your identity. So, no matter what, if you suck down SWF bits and launch them locally, please find a way to validate them against a man-in-the-middle attack. We have a SHA library you can use. Once you truly trust the SWF bits, the next question is why your SWF needs network access. If it doesn't, turn it off and you won't get warnings. If it does need network access, I think your choices are to find a way load it into a trusted directory (users can opt to trust certain directories, or you somehow get it into the same directory as the main SWF), or proxy the network I/O or file system I/O through the main app. I don't think HTMLLoader or an intermediary HTML file is going to help. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:48 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Let me give some specific examples so hopefully we can get this to work. What I am creating is a player for a custom file type. The file is basically a zip (with different extension) that when opened is extracted to the app-storage location. This is just resources. Next I have a Flex based swf that can actually run with these resources. What I was thinking is that I could just copy this swf (and some others that it loads) into the app-storage directory and load it. So what I have started with is a Flex based AIR application that registers as the default for the file extension, loads the file and extracts it to the app-storage. After I copy (mannulay for now) the external Flex swf and an html page to the app-storage, I load the html into AIR using the HTMLLoader. Eventually I would like to be able to update the external swf and some of the other supporting swfs, so please keep that in mind when making recommendations. Thanks for the help, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so I'm clear. You have a AIR SWF based on Flex that is using HTMLLoader to load another Flex SWF off the web? Are the two SWFs supposed to be able to communicate? What error are you getting? FWIW, the Marshall Plan will allow an AIR/Flex SWF to load another Flex SWF off the web directly, but the loaded SWF will be untrusted and can't access AIR things like NativeWindow and the file system. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jim Hayes *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 4:58 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex I missed that bit (and was unaware of that in any case, never tried it so far), so
Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
Let me give some specific examples so hopefully we can get this to work. What I am creating is a player for a custom file type. The file is basically a zip (with different extension) that when opened is extracted to the app-storage location. This is just resources. Next I have a Flex based swf that can actually run with these resources. What I was thinking is that I could just copy this swf (and some others that it loads) into the app-storage directory and load it. So what I have started with is a Flex based AIR application that registers as the default for the file extension, loads the file and extracts it to the app-storage. After I copy (mannulay for now) the external Flex swf and an html page to the app-storage, I load the html into AIR using the HTMLLoader. Eventually I would like to be able to update the external swf and some of the other supporting swfs, so please keep that in mind when making recommendations. Thanks for the help, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so I'm clear. You have a AIR SWF based on Flex that is using HTMLLoader to load another Flex SWF off the web? Are the two SWFs supposed to be able to communicate? What error are you getting? FWIW, the Marshall Plan will allow an AIR/Flex SWF to load another Flex SWF off the web directly, but the loaded SWF will be untrusted and can't access AIR things like NativeWindow and the file system. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jim Hayes *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 4:58 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex I missed that bit (and was unaware of that in any case, never tried it so far), so I don't think I can offer any useful advice I'm afraid. Sorry about that, hopefully someone else can comment/advise. -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 05 August 2008 00:49 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? My AIR app is Flex based. I am using the HTMLLoader to load a (currently) standard html page with the Flex swf embedded. This HTMLLoader is in a new Native Window (in case that makes any difference). My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex this method runs the loaded html in a separate security/application domain. Would I benefit by creating a new Native Window with a html source (can I even do that?), then loading the Flex into that window? Thanks, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you loading it into an html based AIR app using the built in flash plugin? Or loading it via swfLoader into an AS/mxml based application? -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 04 August 2008 23:34 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Specifically I have a Flex based swf that I am loading into my AIR app. It is dynamically driven (i.e. external content) and is intended to be running on the web. So of course in it's compiler options I have -use-network=true. So when run from the desktop you get the security dialog asking if you would like to allow it. My question is, would it be possible to get around this? I trust the swf as I created and maintain it, but I would rather not have two versions of it (one for web, one for local). Thanks, Steve 2008/8/4 Dimitrios Gianninas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been building AIR apps recently, I always look at the online docs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html I usually ask my questions on this list...just a habbit. What questions do you have? *Dimitrios Gianninas* *RIA Developer and Team Lead* *Optimal Payments Inc.* -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 2:06 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? I am trying to learn more about building AIR apps, but it seems that when I run into a roadblock I have a lot of trouble finding information. I am subscribed to apollocoders, but that list is next to dead (although I did get a couple answers from there). Is this just a sign that hardly anyone is using the technology, or am I just missing where are the talk is? I am looking for any sites or lists where there is better info than just what is in the help docs. ... [Message clipped] __ This communication is from Primal Pictures Ltd., a company registered in England and Wales with registration
Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
Alex, Yes, it isn't an error, just the security dialog because my swf has -use-network=true but it is running locally. In theory I can compile a 'local' version, but there are some webservices that I would like to consume even on the desktop. Also, I don't think telling the user to trust the app-storage folder is a good solution. You mention getting it into the same directory as the main swf. Can you expand on that comment? Thanks On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't say what error you are getting, but I'll bet it is that a localWithNetworking swf can't access local assets. Good thing we have that security check otherwise if you downloaded a spyware SWF, someone would be stealing your identity. So, no matter what, if you suck down SWF bits and launch them locally, please find a way to validate them against a man-in-the-middle attack. We have a SHA library you can use. Once you truly trust the SWF bits, the next question is why your SWF needs network access. If it doesn't, turn it off and you won't get warnings. If it does need network access, I think your choices are to find a way load it into a trusted directory (users can opt to trust certain directories, or you somehow get it into the same directory as the main SWF), or proxy the network I/O or file system I/O through the main app. I don't think HTMLLoader or an intermediary HTML file is going to help. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:48 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Let me give some specific examples so hopefully we can get this to work. What I am creating is a player for a custom file type. The file is basically a zip (with different extension) that when opened is extracted to the app-storage location. This is just resources. Next I have a Flex based swf that can actually run with these resources. What I was thinking is that I could just copy this swf (and some others that it loads) into the app-storage directory and load it. So what I have started with is a Flex based AIR application that registers as the default for the file extension, loads the file and extracts it to the app-storage. After I copy (mannulay for now) the external Flex swf and an html page to the app-storage, I load the html into AIR using the HTMLLoader. Eventually I would like to be able to update the external swf and some of the other supporting swfs, so please keep that in mind when making recommendations. Thanks for the help, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so I'm clear. You have a AIR SWF based on Flex that is using HTMLLoader to load another Flex SWF off the web? Are the two SWFs supposed to be able to communicate? What error are you getting? FWIW, the Marshall Plan will allow an AIR/Flex SWF to load another Flex SWF off the web directly, but the loaded SWF will be untrusted and can't access AIR things like NativeWindow and the file system. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Jim Hayes *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 4:58 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex I missed that bit (and was unaware of that in any case, never tried it so far), so I don't think I can offer any useful advice I'm afraid. Sorry about that, hopefully someone else can comment/advise. -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 05 August 2008 00:49 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? My AIR app is Flex based. I am using the HTMLLoader to load a (currently) standard html page with the Flex swf embedded. This HTMLLoader is in a new Native Window (in case that makes any difference). My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex this method runs the loaded html in a separate security/application domain. Would I benefit by creating a new Native Window with a html source (can I even do that?), then loading the Flex into that window? Thanks, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you loading it into an html based AIR app using the built in flash plugin? Or loading it via swfLoader into an AS/mxml based application? -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 04 August 2008 23:34 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Specifically I have a Flex based swf that I am loading into my AIR app
[flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
I am trying to learn more about building AIR apps, but it seems that when I run into a roadblock I have a lot of trouble finding information. I am subscribed to apollocoders, but that list is next to dead (although I did get a couple answers from there). Is this just a sign that hardly anyone is using the technology, or am I just missing where are the talk is? I am looking for any sites or lists where there is better info than just what is in the help docs. Thanks, Steve
Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
Specifically I have a Flex based swf that I am loading into my AIR app. It is dynamically driven (i.e. external content) and is intended to be running on the web. So of course in it's compiler options I have -use-network=true. So when run from the desktop you get the security dialog asking if you would like to allow it. My question is, would it be possible to get around this? I trust the swf as I created and maintain it, but I would rather not have two versions of it (one for web, one for local). Thanks, Steve 2008/8/4 Dimitrios Gianninas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been building AIR apps recently, I always look at the online docs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html I usually ask my questions on this list...just a habbit. What questions do you have? *Dimitrios Gianninas* *RIA Developer and Team Lead* *Optimal Payments Inc.* -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 2:06 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? I am trying to learn more about building AIR apps, but it seems that when I run into a roadblock I have a lot of trouble finding information. I am subscribed to apollocoders, but that list is next to dead (although I did get a couple answers from there). Is this just a sign that hardly anyone is using the technology, or am I just missing where are the talk is? I am looking for any sites or lists where there is better info than just what is in the help docs. Thanks, Steve *AVIS IMPORTANT* *WARNING* Ce message électronique et ses pièces jointes peuvent contenir des renseignements confidentiels, exclusifs ou légalement privilégiés destinés au seul usage du destinataire visé. L'expéditeur original ne renonce à aucun privilège ou à aucun autre droit si le présent message a été transmis involontairement ou s'il est retransmis sans son autorisation. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire visé du présent message ou si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, veuillez cesser immédiatement de le lire et le supprimer, ainsi que toutes ses pièces jointes, de votre système. La lecture, la distribution, la copie ou tout autre usage du présent message ou de ses pièces jointes par des personnes autres que le destinataire visé ne sont pas autorisés et pourraient être illégaux. Si vous avez reçu ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur. This electronic message and its attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information, which is solely for the use of the intended recipient. No privilege or other rights are waived by any unintended transmission or unauthorized retransmission of this message. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you have received it in error, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it and all attachments from your system. The reading, distribution, copying or other use of this message or its attachments by unintended recipients is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender.
Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources?
My AIR app is Flex based. I am using the HTMLLoader to load a (currently) standard html page with the Flex swf embedded. This HTMLLoader is in a new Native Window (in case that makes any difference). My understanding is that because I can't load Flex into Flex this method runs the loaded html in a separate security/application domain. Would I benefit by creating a new Native Window with a html source (can I even do that?), then loading the Flex into that window? Thanks, Steve On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you loading it into an html based AIR app using the built in flash plugin? Or loading it via swfLoader into an AS/mxml based application? -Original Message- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* 04 August 2008 23:34 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? Specifically I have a Flex based swf that I am loading into my AIR app. It is dynamically driven (i.e. external content) and is intended to be running on the web. So of course in it's compiler options I have -use-network=true. So when run from the desktop you get the security dialog asking if you would like to allow it. My question is, would it be possible to get around this? I trust the swf as I created and maintain it, but I would rather not have two versions of it (one for web, one for local). Thanks, Steve 2008/8/4 Dimitrios Gianninas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been building AIR apps recently, I always look at the online docs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html I usually ask my questions on this list...just a habbit. What questions do you have? *Dimitrios Gianninas* *RIA Developer and Team Lead* *Optimal Payments Inc.* -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, August 04, 2008 2:06 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Where are the AIR resources? I am trying to learn more about building AIR apps, but it seems that when I run into a roadblock I have a lot of trouble finding information. I am subscribed to apollocoders, but that list is next to dead (although I did get a couple answers from there). Is this just a sign that hardly anyone is using the technology, or am I just missing where are the talk is? I am looking for any sites or lists where there is better info than just what is in the help docs. ... [Message clipped]
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex woes, wo-iz-o, i hate it (sometimes)
You can compile a class into an external swf and load that, then get the class out of it. Works great if you don't know what classes you need until runtime, but don't want to bloat your main swf. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Team Lead* *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* *www.flypaper.com* On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can tell the compiler to include any class you want, as well as whatever it thinks you want, right? Or is that only valid for SWCs? -Josh -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Framwork Caching and Referer URL
Bug created: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-16105 On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, this seems odd. Can you submit a small sample via the bugbase and we'll take a look? Let me know the bug # (mail me offlist). Matt On 7/14/08 5:14 PM, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something odd just happened. I enabled Flex framework caching in my project and all of a sudden my url changed to have /[[dynamic]]/1 or /[[dynamic]]/2 after the swf. After beating my head against the keyboard a few times I came up with a wild theory. Could it be related to the framework caching? So after a quick recompile... sure enough it was gone. So what the hell is this crap? Do I have to just parse it out of my url? Is there a better way to handle this? Is there documentation on this anywhere? ARRGGG! (the frustration is because I have a release in 2 days!) Thanks for ANY info. Steve Mathews Senior Team Lead Flypaper Studio, Inc. 2999 North 44th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85018 www.flypaper.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Flex Framwork Caching and Referer URL
Something odd just happened. I enabled Flex framework caching in my project and all of a sudden my url changed to have /[[dynamic]]/1 or /[[dynamic]]/2 after the swf. After beating my head against the keyboard a few times I came up with a wild theory. Could it be related to the framework caching? So after a quick recompile... sure enough it was gone. So what the hell is this crap? Do I have to just parse it out of my url? Is there a better way to handle this? Is there documentation on this anywhere? ARRGGG! (the frustration is because I have a release in 2 days!) Thanks for ANY info. Steve Mathews Senior Team Lead Flypaper Studio, Inc. 2999 North 44th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85018 www.flypaper.com
[flexcoders] Flash Player 10 and RTMFP
I was reading this FAQ located here: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_rtmfp_faq_070208.pdf Something doesn't click for me. It lists three examples of what solutions can be built, one of which is multi-player games. But near the bottom under limitations it states It only enables communication from the voice and video devices native on your computer (e.g. microphone and web-cam). So does this imply that multi-player games really means voice/video chat on top of a regular (i.e. socket connected) multi-player game? If so then I am not nearly excited for the tech as I was. :(
Re: [flexcoders] Re: way way OT: another flex?
Think you can convince them to do a contest? Build a great Flex app and win a Flex vehicle. On 6/19/08, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it wrong of me to ask the company to buy one though just because of the synergy? On 6/19/08 8:28 AM, simonjpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks more like the left-overs from the Range Rover parts bin... http://www.autobytel.com/images/carcom/06_LandRover_RangeRover/400/06_RANGE_ROVER_RngRvr_exfrpass34.jpg --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: found this serendipitously while googling for flex...i like the name but it looks like a mini cooper on steroids ;-) http://www.fordvehicles.com/flex/ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] ByteArray as VideoDisplay source
Nope, not possible. There is a feature request for it in the Player Bug DB. Go vote for it to 'hopefully' see it implemented. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-5 Steve On 6/19/08, Joshua Garnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to connect a VideoDisplay or Video object to a locally created ByteArray as opposed to a NetStream source? or perhaps how to sub-class NetStream in order to manually feed bytes from a ByteArray to the Video object? Essentially what I want to do is have a custom loading routine that I will write and then pass that data on manually to a Video object. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! --Josh
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Move and Resize effect on panel
Thanks Tim, this worked great.
On 6/16/08, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Steve,
Would usually use state transitions for this, with a shorter duration, but
the code below works the same way. Effects are smoothest when you set the
from and to values. Not as smooth if you are applying an effect on a
component that is percentage size based. For these, change
something else that has a fixed size, and let the framework do the work for
you. So, instead of applying the effects to panelRight, perform them on
middlePanel.
-TH
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application
xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
verticalScrollPolicy=
off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Script
![CDATA[
*
private
**function* showHideMiddle():*void*
{
middleVisible = !middleVisible;
}
[
*Bindable*]*
private
**var* middleVisible:Boolean = *true*;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Parallel
id=hideMiddlePanel
mx:Resize duration=1000 widthFrom=100 widthTo=0/
mx:Fade duration=1000 alphaFrom=1 alphaTo=0/
/mx:Parallel
mx:Parallel
id=showMiddlePanel
mx:Resize duration=1000 widthFrom=0 widthTo=100/
mx:Fade duration=1000 alphaFrom=0 alphaTo=1/
/mx:Parallel
mx:HBox
left=10 top=10 width=90% height=90%
verticalScrollPolicy=
off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Panel click=showHideMiddle() id=panelLeft width=100
height=100% layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelMiddle visible={middleVisible}
width=100 height=100%
hideEffect=hideMiddlePanel
showEffect=showMiddlePanel
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelRight
width=100% height=100%
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
/mx:HBox
/mx:Application
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a layout of three panels in an HBox. The first and second are
100px wide and the third is 100%. I need to show/hide the middle
panel. When this happens I would like the third panel to move/resize
to fill the space. The problem is I have tried using view
states/transitions and just moveEffect/resizeEffect, but it all looks
horrible. Below is an example of the layout. Is there a
better/different way to do this that would give me a nice effect?
Thanks.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
verticalScrollPolicy=off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function showHideMiddle():void
{
middleVisible = !middleVisible;
}
[Bindable]
private var middleVisible:Boolean = true;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Move id=middleMove duration=1000 /
mx:Resize id=middleResize duration=1000 /
mx:HBox left=10 top=10 width=90% height=90%
verticalScrollPolicy=off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Panel click=showHideMiddle() id=panelLeft width=100
height=100% layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelMiddle visible={middleVisible}
includeInLayout={middleVisible} width=100 height=100%
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelRight moveEffect=middleMove
resizeEffect=middleResize width=100% height=100%
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
/mx:HBox
/mx:Application
[flexcoders] Move and Resize effect on panel
I have a layout of three panels in an HBox. The first and second are
100px wide and the third is 100%. I need to show/hide the middle
panel. When this happens I would like the third panel to move/resize
to fill the space. The problem is I have tried using view
states/transitions and just moveEffect/resizeEffect, but it all looks
horrible. Below is an example of the layout. Is there a
better/different way to do this that would give me a nice effect?
Thanks.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
verticalScrollPolicy=off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function showHideMiddle():void
{
middleVisible = !middleVisible;
}
[Bindable]
private var middleVisible:Boolean = true;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Move id=middleMove duration=1000 /
mx:Resize id=middleResize duration=1000 /
mx:HBox left=10 top=10 width=90% height=90%
verticalScrollPolicy=off horizontalScrollPolicy=off
mx:Panel click=showHideMiddle() id=panelLeft width=100
height=100% layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelMiddle visible={middleVisible}
includeInLayout={middleVisible} width=100 height=100%
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
mx:Panel id=panelRight moveEffect=middleMove
resizeEffect=middleResize width=100% height=100%
layout=absolute
/mx:Panel
/mx:HBox
/mx:Application
Re: [flexcoders] Solution similair to f-in-box (actionscript - c#)
I have been working on the Flash side of an application like this for just over a year now. We originally were using the default C# COM object and later switched to f-in-box. Although ExternalInterface has held up like a champ (it can auto convert some basic types) it is a bit too slow for the hundreds of calls we are now making. We recently switched to using a socket connection and so far it is working out pretty good. As to your question about other wrappers, I don't think there are really any other viable ones out there. Steve Mathews Senior Team Lead Flypaper Studio, Inc. www.flypaper.com On 6/10/08, dievanmijislanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello flex'ers, I'm looking for solutions to integrate a flex/flash swf in a desktop C# .NET application. I've found one so far (www.f-in-box.com) and it works pretty okee, but I want to know if there are others. One big downfall of f-in-box is that you only can send strings between C# and actionscript via externalInterface. The reason why i'm so interested in this construction is that i want to have beautiful charts in my desktop application. Thanks in advance, Mikhail -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Arc, Bulge, Valley Pennant Text Warping Effects
You might want to check out http://www.txeff.com/#/welcome/. Not certain it will do exactly what you are looking for, but it is pretty powerful. On 4/24/08, shawn.makinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for someone with experience with applying these types of text effects to dynamic TextFields in Flash, but ultimately to be used in Flex. I'm assuming it would be done with Displacement maps, but am open to other methods. Please contact me if you are interested at shawn[at]squarefactor.com. Thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Module's button's labels getting cut of in projector fullscreen.
Yep, tried embedded fonts. Yep, buttons in the main app do not get cut off. Also, in any other mode (in a browser, in maximized window) the labels do not get cut. If I get the time I will put together a small example case and log it as a bug to the Flex bug db. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are fonts embedded? Buttons in the main app do not get cut off? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mathews Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:24 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Module's button's labels getting cut of in projector fullscreen. So I have a Module that is loaded just using the mx:ModuleLoader tag. The module has a few buttons that are in a canvas that is in a VBox that is in a HBox... etc. If the loading app is run standalone, or projector and calls the fscommand to go full-screen (not the video full-screen feature), the labels on the buttons get cut off. It is the bottom half that gets cut. I tried making sure the font was embedded, but that did not change anything. Has anyone seen this behavior and/or know of a workaround?
[flexcoders] Is there an easier way? [Embedding swf asset]
Ok, so going off the steps on this page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/embedding_assets/ I figured out how to embed a Flash library asset using the following steps: 1. Embed symbol as a Class (same as the link above). 2. Create a new instance of the Class as a Sprite. 3. Create a UIComponent, and add my Sprite to that. 4. Add the UIComponent to my Canvas. This seems more difficult that it should be. What am I missing?
[flexcoders] Module's button's labels getting cut of in projector fullscreen.
So I have a Module that is loaded just using the mx:ModuleLoader tag. The module has a few buttons that are in a canvas that is in a VBox that is in a HBox... etc. If the loading app is run standalone, or projector and calls the fscommand to go full-screen (not the video full-screen feature), the labels on the buttons get cut off. It is the bottom half that gets cut. I tried making sure the font was embedded, but that did not change anything. Has anyone seen this behavior and/or know of a workaround?
Re: [flexcoders] Anyone holding on to Flex Builder 2?
We are sticking to FB2 for now, but only because we have a v1 release at the end of the month. As soon as we release we will move to FB3 and the Flex 3 framework to take advantage of the framework caching. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Software Engineer* * * *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* 2999 North 44th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85018 www.flypaper.net On 4/11/08, jack_freud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if anyone has found a good reason to hold on to their installation of FB2, since FB3 even lets you compile against the 2.0.1 SDK? Also, has anyone found bugs in 3's behavior that weren't there in 2? We've had a couple things happen in apps that I could swear were working previously but I haven't gone back to check, just fixed changed them so they work again... -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Local file access
One of the noticeable differences between Silverlight and Flash is the way they handle local file access. In Flash we have to upload a file to the server before we can gain access to the file's contents. In Silverlight you get access to the file as soon as it is selected by the user. My question is if anyone knows if the way Flash does it is because of security concerns (meaning Silverlight might have to change), or not (meaning Flash 'could' change)? I have to say that I really like the way Silverlight handles it as there is no round-trip delay before a user can start using the file in your RIA. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Software Engineer* e [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* 2999 North 44th Street, Suite 200 Phoenix, AZ 85018 www.flypaper.net
Re: [flexcoders] Power point in FLEX
If you are looking just to create online presentations (not ppt) then check out www.flypaper.net. You can easily build presentations and output Flash. Disclaimer: I work for Flypaper Studio. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Software Engineer* e [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* www.flypaper.net On 2/20/08, Karthik pothuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Friends,* ** *I am new member to this group.* ** *Please drop your ideas on How to develop power point presentations in Flex on web browser.* ** *Microsoft powerpoint on web browser. To develop this which topics helps me ...* ** *Help me..* ** ** *Karthik..))* ** -- 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Click here.http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_4/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/
Re: [flexcoders] NetStream - any way to play bytes
This keeps coming up all over, and unfortunately the answer always seems to be no. *Steve Mathews* *Senior Software Engineer* e [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Flypaper Studio, Inc.* www.flypaper.net On 2/15/08, polestar11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is there any way that a Netstream class can play bytes in memory, rather than referencing a filename? Cheers Tracy -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash memory allocation
Garbage collection does not happen at your request. It is lazy and does it when it feels like it. You can use Flex Builder 3 beta which does have a 'force gc' button when running in debug. This can help you identify if you still have references, or if the gc just hasn't happened. Steve On Feb 13, 2008 6:45 AM, Guilherme Defreitas Juraszek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys I have a problem with Flash Runtime. While the flex application is running, the browser increase de memory utilization, but after close the tabs (inside flex app) the memory consume not decrease. I try to alter my code to myvar = null to force the Garbage Collector to clear, but not works fine. What's happening? Tks
[flexcoders] Global Error Catching
What would be the best way to catch errors globally? I do a lot of error catching as I track them down, but because my app is running inside of a .NET windows form, I need to capture any errors so that I can send the message up to the form for display. Is there any way to capture errors at the Application level of the mxml?
[flexcoders] Re: Getting the base parameter of the embed
I found what feels like a hack way of doing this. Still interested in any other ideas. The way I am doing it for now is by loading a swf and getting the path from the url property of the contentLoaderInfo. Then I parse out the part of the path that I need. This seems like it will be easily broken, so I would like to find a better way. On 1/31/08, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get the base parameter of the object/embed code from within my flex app? So for example, if I set my base to http://www.example.com/test; and my swf is actually hosted at http://www.example.com/shared;. Is there any built-in or easy way of getting the base prop?
[flexcoders] Getting the base parameter of the embed
Is there any way to get the base parameter of the object/embed code from within my flex app? So for example, if I set my base to http://www.example.com/test; and my swf is actually hosted at http://www.example.com/shared;. Is there any built-in or easy way of getting the base prop?
Re: [flexcoders] AS3: How to avoid loading the same asset repeatedly
I believe most people just go ahead and load again because the file
should be in the browser cache once it has been loaded.
I would also be interested in the performance effects of each method.
Steve
On 1/29/08, ronnlixx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Say i have 400 objects that contain the same loaded png, whats the
suggested way to avoid loading the same asset repeatedly?
Here's what I did, don't know if it's nuts though.
To avoid loading the same png every time I made a singleton of the
PhotoFrame class and return a copy of the origional png as a bitmap.
It works, don't know the performace difference between using a new
Loader vs creating cloned bitmaps each iteration.
What is the suggested way to avoid loading the same asset multiple
times?
for (var i:int=0; i 400; i++){
new Photo(photoXML, PhotoFrame.getInstance().frame);
}
public class PhotoFrame extends Sprite
{
private static var instance:PhotoFrame = null;
private var _loader:Loader = null;
public function PhotoFrame(){
_loader = new Loader();
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
onFrameLoaded);
_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
onLoadError);
_loader.load( new URLRequest(frame.png) );
}
public static function getInstance():PhotoFrame{
if(instance == null) instance = new PhotoFrame();
return instance as PhotoFrame;
}
public function get frame():Bitmap{
var image:Bitmap = Bitmap(_loader.content);
return new Bitmap(image.bitmapData.clone());
}
private function onLoadError(e:IOErrorEvent):void{
trace(e.text);
}
private function onFrameLoaded(e:Event):void{
trace('loaded');
}
}
public class Photo extends EventDispatcher
{
private var _frame:PhotoFrame;
public function Photo(photoXML:XML, frame:PhotoFrame){
_frame = frame;
addChild(_frame);
//...
}
}
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[flexcoders] -optimize compiler option
Is there any reason to not add -optimize=true to the compiler options? Can it cause issues anywhere?
Re: [flexcoders] Realtime 3D to FLV
We have done something like this. Our Flash/Flex is hosted inside of a Windows Form where we capture images then stream them into a custom converter that writes an avi. Then we use ffmpeg to convert the avi to flv. To the best of my knowledge, there isn't an existing library to do this. But if you find one I would love to hear about it. Steve On 1/23/08, Patrick Driggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I'm working on creating some Flex 2 applications for one of our products at work. One of the things we want to do is have the ability to capture video from one of our simulations, convert it to FLV, and then display it on a webpage later. We are looking for what products allow for capturing video as part of a .dll or other framework. If it can already handle saving it as a FLV, even better.f We're willing to pay money, so any products out there that may support this are open for research. Just to reiterate, a program like FRAPS won't do what we need, as it is a standalone application, we're looking for a library that we can link our code to that would provide the video capture. Sincerely, Patrick Driggett
Re: [flexcoders] addChild vs. addRawChild and performance
So you are saying that instead of using a Canvas as the container inside of my app, I could just use UIComponent or ScrollControlBase? Any idea of how much performance gain this could be? On 1/22/08, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be best to not use containers and just use UIComponent or ScrollControlBase -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:52 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] addChild vs. addRawChild and performance Someone posted recently describing that addRawChild adds DisplayObject in a way that they are not included in the size and layout of the container (if I understood correctly). Does anyone know if this would be better or worse for the overall performance of a Flex app? So if you did not need layout features of the framework, would it be better to add everything as raw children?
[flexcoders] addChild vs. addRawChild and performance
Someone posted recently describing that addRawChild adds DisplayObject in a way that they are not included in the size and layout of the container (if I understood correctly). Does anyone know if this would be better or worse for the overall performance of a Flex app? So if you did not need layout features of the framework, would it be better to add everything as raw children?
Re: [flexcoders] FB2: Cleaning Projects Annoyance
Are you using RSLs? Only time that I have to clean is when I create a new workspace and import projects that rely on each other. When I had RSLs I had to clean now and then to resolve some things, but it was by no means often. On 1/15/08, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me and the way I'm developing or do many of you find you have to clean your project often to get rid of old caches of code and files? It's very frustrating, it seems I have to clean my project because the compiler thinks some method is still written a certain way, or some XML file looks some other old way. I'm finding I have to clean my project several times a day sometimes in Flexbuilder 2. Is it just me and I'm doing something wrong? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
Re: [flexcoders] FB2: Cleaning Projects Annoyance
I am doing 99.99% actionscript, and as stated, I don't have to clean ever really. I don't believe it is an actionscript problem. On 1/15/08, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I'm doing a lot of Actionscript on this project, and it's becomming a real pain for sure. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Derrick Anderson *Sent:* Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:54 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] FB2: Cleaning Projects Annoyance i'm in no means a 'heavy' flex user, and in the few projects i have done, i have had issues with this. seems that if i were writing actionscript full time this would be a big pita. d. On Jan 15, 2008 4:40 PM, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me and the way I'm developing or do many of you find you have to clean your project often to get rid of old caches of code and files? It's very frustrating, it seems I have to clean my project because the compiler thinks some method is still written a certain way, or some XML file looks some other old way. I'm finding I have to clean my project several times a day sometimes in Flexbuilder 2. Is it just me and I'm doing something wrong? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO LLD Solutions Design Development eTools Multimedia Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
Re: [flexcoders] Re: big problem
I have been getting an error like that also recently. VerifyError: Error #1107: The ABC data is corrupt, attempt to read out of bounds. I believe my problem is quite different than this one, but I would like to know any more information on this error message. It doesn't really give any good information so it is pretty difficult to track down the issue. On 1/14/08, adnane_1979 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when you run the debug version of your app on the debugger player for 9,0,115,0? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of adnane_1979 Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 4:13 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] big problem I developed a flex 2 application, and i's been on production for a while now. But last week some of my clients were complaining that the application doesn't work anymore, after i've checked with them ,i found out that the application doesn't work with the new version of flash player 9.0.1115.0 When i've tried to run the application with this version of flash player ,I've got a blank page. So i dont know what to do now,should i change some thing on the code of the application it self or what? Please, if some body knows about this issue, help me, because it's very urgent. Thanks in advance With flash player 9.0.115.0 debug, i've got the following error: VerifyError: Error #1107: ABC sont corrompues, tentative de lecture en dehors des limites. Sorry,it's in french. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] dynamically creating a class from a className string
You can use hasDefinition to check for it. I have also run into a situation where classes aren't available for a few seconds (but after loading a swf). On 12/12/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: getDefinition -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *blc187 *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:39 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] dynamically creating a class from a className string im trying to dynamically create a new instance of a class from a string holding the class name in the following way: var cls:String = ((isMock == true) ? MockImplementation : RealImplementation); var clsToCreate:Object = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition (cls); serviceLocator = new clsToCreate(); to be sure the class is in the project and can be created, ive included the following lines to compile the 2 classes into the project (as discussed in this article: http://life.neophi.com/danielr/2006/07/flex_2_runtime_error_1065.html) private static const only2:MockImplementation = null; private static const only3:RealImplementation = null; however, i still run into the runtime error that says Error #1065: Variable MockImplementation is not defined. any thoughts on why it would still be undefined if the class is definitely compiled into the project?
Re: [flexcoders] Passing Parameters, is something like this possible with Flex?
Try something like this:
for( var i:String in elements ){
if( Application.application.parameters[i] )
this[i] = Application.application.parameters[i];
}
On 11/30/07, flexnubslice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Instead of posting a ton of :
if( Application.application.parameters.x)
this.x= Application.application.parameters.x;
if( Application.application.parameters.y)
this.y= Application.application.parameters.y;
... ad nauseam ... I was wondering if it was possible to do something
like this?
var elements:Array = [ a, b, c ];
for( var i:String in elements ){
if( Application.application.parameters.i )
this.i = Application.application.parameters.i;
}
I'm not too certain of the language constructs here being new to Flex,
help greatly appreciated! The highlighted line, it does not like.
Thanks!
Alex
Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC
Just so happens that I emailed Trevor (a.k.a. senocular) about the issue yesterday. He said that it has been added to the system as a high priority. Thanks for your help Alex. On 11/9/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked around and was given this link: http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/flex/?tab:plans=1 However, technically you have a Flash Player issue and not a Flex issue and they have different support options which you can see by chasing links from the link above. If none of the paid packages work for you, your only remaining courses of action are to: 1) continue to subdivide the app until it stops breaking and see if you can identify the change that causes the problem to reappear. 2) Find a way to quickly reproduce the problem 100$ of the time when deployed over the web. Then offer bribes to the Flash Player engineers if they can dig into it on their own time. -Alex -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:31 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC So what are support options for this situation? Looking at the Adobe site it appears that the only option is the Enterprise support package. I am just wondering if there is any other options than that. On 11/6/07, *Steve Mathews* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I don't have any mouse interaction going on currently. I do have a keyboard listener to handle navigating forward. As far as loading goes, I have a ComponentManager and a ComponentLoader class. The manager creates a ComponentLoader which uses a Loader to load the actual swf. Once it is finished loading the ComponentLoader sends the manager a reference to the Class from the swf. The manager then notifies a PresentationManager that the class has been loaded and is ready to be initialized. I had moved back to FlexBuilder2 so I haven't tried to take memory snapshots. I will do that soon though. On 11/6/07, *Alex Harui* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would see if you can use the app with as little interaction as possible. If you've made your app accessible then you can use the keyboard and skip using the mouse to execute the sequence in question (loading some page several times then using forceGC()). If that succeeds in reproducing the problem, I would take memory snapshots after loading the page and then another snapshot if you can get a forceGC() to not crash the player and see what is going away and take a closer look at those things. Also, how are you loading the SWFs? Maybe you've lost your hard reference to the SWF so they get collected when you don't want. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:22 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC Thanks for the idea Alex. I just finished looking through my code and can't find anything to indicate something should be available for GC before all listeners are cleaned up. The really confusing thing is that all the pieces of this system worked just fine before I started my overhaul of it. The changes I made were mainly in navigation (page to page) and some minor tweaks here and there. I just can't figure out how the changes I made could have gotten me to this spot. Any other ideas, theories or shots in the dark that I could look at? I am running out of ideas myself at this point. Thanks. On 11/5/07, *Alex Harui* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some version of the player used to crash when display objects that had rollover handlers under the mouse were removed and GC'd. I do not know the status of the fix. The workaround was to place a shield between the mouse and the display objects before removing them. In general, I would not remove objects such that they can get GC'd until any listeners they might have were removed. I would not suspect getDefinition. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Player crash on GC I have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I have an application that creates and displays a presentation (think PowerPoint). During an overhaul of the code the player started crashing. It seems to be related to garbage collection in some way as I can display the exact same page a few times in a row then it will crash say on the fourth time. Or using FB3 I can click the Force GC button after a few pages and the player will crash also. One area of concern is that these pages contain components which are just swf's with a class in them. I use getDefinition
Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC
So what are support options for this situation? Looking at the Adobe site it appears that the only option is the Enterprise support package. I am just wondering if there is any other options than that. On 11/6/07, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I don't have any mouse interaction going on currently. I do have a keyboard listener to handle navigating forward. As far as loading goes, I have a ComponentManager and a ComponentLoader class. The manager creates a ComponentLoader which uses a Loader to load the actual swf. Once it is finished loading the ComponentLoader sends the manager a reference to the Class from the swf. The manager then notifies a PresentationManager that the class has been loaded and is ready to be initialized. I had moved back to FlexBuilder2 so I haven't tried to take memory snapshots. I will do that soon though. On 11/6/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would see if you can use the app with as little interaction as possible. If you've made your app accessible then you can use the keyboard and skip using the mouse to execute the sequence in question (loading some page several times then using forceGC()). If that succeeds in reproducing the problem, I would take memory snapshots after loading the page and then another snapshot if you can get a forceGC() to not crash the player and see what is going away and take a closer look at those things. Also, how are you loading the SWFs? Maybe you've lost your hard reference to the SWF so they get collected when you don't want. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:22 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC Thanks for the idea Alex. I just finished looking through my code and can't find anything to indicate something should be available for GC before all listeners are cleaned up. The really confusing thing is that all the pieces of this system worked just fine before I started my overhaul of it. The changes I made were mainly in navigation (page to page) and some minor tweaks here and there. I just can't figure out how the changes I made could have gotten me to this spot. Any other ideas, theories or shots in the dark that I could look at? I am running out of ideas myself at this point. Thanks. On 11/5/07, *Alex Harui* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some version of the player used to crash when display objects that had rollover handlers under the mouse were removed and GC'd. I do not know the status of the fix. The workaround was to place a shield between the mouse and the display objects before removing them. In general, I would not remove objects such that they can get GC'd until any listeners they might have were removed. I would not suspect getDefinition. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Player crash on GC I have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I have an application that creates and displays a presentation (think PowerPoint). During an overhaul of the code the player started crashing. It seems to be related to garbage collection in some way as I can display the exact same page a few times in a row then it will crash say on the fourth time. Or using FB3 I can click the Force GC button after a few pages and the player will crash also. One area of concern is that these pages contain components which are just swf's with a class in them. I use getDefinition to instantiate the class. Although this has worked quite well up till this point, I worry that this is now part of the problem. Has anyone seen any issues with getDefinition or GC crashing the player? Thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC
Thanks for the idea Alex. I just finished looking through my code and can't find anything to indicate something should be available for GC before all listeners are cleaned up. The really confusing thing is that all the pieces of this system worked just fine before I started my overhaul of it. The changes I made were mainly in navigation (page to page) and some minor tweaks here and there. I just can't figure out how the changes I made could have gotten me to this spot. Any other ideas, theories or shots in the dark that I could look at? I am running out of ideas myself at this point. Thanks. On 11/5/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some version of the player used to crash when display objects that had rollover handlers under the mouse were removed and GC'd. I do not know the status of the fix. The workaround was to place a shield between the mouse and the display objects before removing them. In general, I would not remove objects such that they can get GC'd until any listeners they might have were removed. I would not suspect getDefinition. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Player crash on GC I have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I have an application that creates and displays a presentation (think PowerPoint). During an overhaul of the code the player started crashing. It seems to be related to garbage collection in some way as I can display the exact same page a few times in a row then it will crash say on the fourth time. Or using FB3 I can click the Force GC button after a few pages and the player will crash also. One area of concern is that these pages contain components which are just swf's with a class in them. I use getDefinition to instantiate the class. Although this has worked quite well up till this point, I worry that this is now part of the problem. Has anyone seen any issues with getDefinition or GC crashing the player? Thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC
Actually I don't have any mouse interaction going on currently. I do have a keyboard listener to handle navigating forward. As far as loading goes, I have a ComponentManager and a ComponentLoader class. The manager creates a ComponentLoader which uses a Loader to load the actual swf. Once it is finished loading the ComponentLoader sends the manager a reference to the Class from the swf. The manager then notifies a PresentationManager that the class has been loaded and is ready to be initialized. I had moved back to FlexBuilder2 so I haven't tried to take memory snapshots. I will do that soon though. On 11/6/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would see if you can use the app with as little interaction as possible. If you've made your app accessible then you can use the keyboard and skip using the mouse to execute the sequence in question (loading some page several times then using forceGC()). If that succeeds in reproducing the problem, I would take memory snapshots after loading the page and then another snapshot if you can get a forceGC() to not crash the player and see what is going away and take a closer look at those things. Also, how are you loading the SWFs? Maybe you've lost your hard reference to the SWF so they get collected when you don't want. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:22 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Player crash on GC Thanks for the idea Alex. I just finished looking through my code and can't find anything to indicate something should be available for GC before all listeners are cleaned up. The really confusing thing is that all the pieces of this system worked just fine before I started my overhaul of it. The changes I made were mainly in navigation (page to page) and some minor tweaks here and there. I just can't figure out how the changes I made could have gotten me to this spot. Any other ideas, theories or shots in the dark that I could look at? I am running out of ideas myself at this point. Thanks. On 11/5/07, *Alex Harui* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some version of the player used to crash when display objects that had rollover handlers under the mouse were removed and GC'd. I do not know the status of the fix. The workaround was to place a shield between the mouse and the display objects before removing them. In general, I would not remove objects such that they can get GC'd until any listeners they might have were removed. I would not suspect getDefinition. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Mathews *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2007 3:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Player crash on GC I have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I have an application that creates and displays a presentation (think PowerPoint). During an overhaul of the code the player started crashing. It seems to be related to garbage collection in some way as I can display the exact same page a few times in a row then it will crash say on the fourth time. Or using FB3 I can click the Force GC button after a few pages and the player will crash also. One area of concern is that these pages contain components which are just swf's with a class in them. I use getDefinition to instantiate the class. Although this has worked quite well up till this point, I worry that this is now part of the problem. Has anyone seen any issues with getDefinition or GC crashing the player? Thanks.
[flexcoders] Player crash on GC
I have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to figure out. I have an application that creates and displays a presentation (think PowerPoint). During an overhaul of the code the player started crashing. It seems to be related to garbage collection in some way as I can display the exact same page a few times in a row then it will crash say on the fourth time. Or using FB3 I can click the Force GC button after a few pages and the player will crash also. One area of concern is that these pages contain components which are just swf's with a class in them. I use getDefinition to instantiate the class. Although this has worked quite well up till this point, I worry that this is now part of the problem. Has anyone seen any issues with getDefinition or GC crashing the player? Thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Scale image
Try this one: http://www.senocular.com/index.php?id=1.372 It works great, and is skinable. On 10/22/07, Anzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make the bottom right corner of a picture dragable to scale the image. I am trying with http://www.rogue-development.com/objectHandles.xmland http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=154 but I would like to know if there are any other implementations. Thanks Anz
Re: [flexcoders] class fl.motion.MatrixTransformer not available in flex framework
I am pretty sure the fl classes are part of the CS3 IDE, not the flex framework. On 9/25/07, Paolo Bernardini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I try to use fl.motion.MatrixTransformer in a flex project the compiler complains that MatrixTransformer dose not exist. Is fl.motion.MatrixTransformer included in the flex framework?
Re: [flexcoders] Are you going to MAX?
Hey Jason, Out of curiosity, what city is your office located in, and any openings for someone with tons of Flash and elearning experience? :-) Oh, and I am going to MAX also. On 9/21/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony! There is Flex development going on here in a few places, but with over 200,000 employees worldwide, I wouldn't know specificially about Flex and online banking, and even if I did, I couldn't comment on future plans or strategies without getting fired. :) I work in an RD technical development group within the broader HR umbrella, focusing on learning solutions for various technology related business lines, so I don't touch the online banking world except when I check my own account. Sorry ;) Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Tony Alves *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2007 11:05 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Are you going to MAX? Hey Jason, Does BofA have any plans of moving their online banking to Flex? I was wondering why they have not moved some of it there yet? Just wondering. Regards, Tony Merrill, Jason wrote: I'm there! Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ flexcoders@ yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *ben.clinkinbeard *Sent:* Friday, September 21, 2007 9:44 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Are you going to MAX? Just curious how many people from the list will be in Chicago. Ben
Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
The first error says you need the TestSprite class to be defined like:
public class TestSprite extends Sprite
The second error I initially thought was because the application
addChild takes a UICompoent, but according to the help docs what you
have 'should' work. I would try casting it as a DisplayObject although
this probably isn't the correct way to fix it.
mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite as DisplayObject);
Steve
On 9/19/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to do a primarily Actionscript 3 written Flex app writing
within the Flex framework.
Following Moock's Actionscript 3.0: The Essential Guide examples, I have
set up a simple 3 file project, all files in the same folder. The app
attempts to draw a circle on the stage. See code and errors below:
//Application MXML file
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main()
/mx:Application
//EntryClass.as file
package
{
import mx.controls.Button;
import mx.core.Application;
public class EntryClass
{
public static function main():void
{
var testSprite:TestSprite = new TestSprite(12,
100, 100);
var mxmlApp:Application =
Application(Application.application);
mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite);
}
}
}
//TestSprite.as file
package
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
class TestSprite extends Sprite
{
private var _x:int;
private var _y:int;
private var _radii:int
public function TestSprite(size:int, posx:int, posy:int)
{
x = posx;
y = posy;
_radii = size;
graphics.lineStyle(1, 0xFFCC33);
graphics.beginFill(0xCC3300, 1);
graphics.drawCircle(0, 0, _radii);
graphics.endFill();
}
}
}
Before compiling, I get this error:
1084: class 'TestSprite' will be scoped to the default namespace:
internal. It will not be visible outside of this package.
After compiling, the debugger gives this error:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent.
at
mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi
ld()
What's happening here? Is there a better way to set this up? Thanks.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
GTO Learning Leadership Development
eTools Multimedia Team
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Loading code from swf (instantiating classes from external swf)
Well if you load their swf into your application domain they will have full access to your code. So it sounds like you don't need anything special, just tell them how to access the relevant parts of code they will need. On 9/19/07, b_alen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, actually my goal as an API provider is that I don't have to know anything about their code, not even the class name. I provide API that allows them to extend certain functionality of the application. I provide them public functions through objects in model locator. they can use how many classes they want in their swf, they just need to hook to that public methods I provide. I'm talking about post compile functionality extension with swf files containing the code. Alen --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well using the non-module approach (again, I haven't used modules so I can't speak for that method), you at least need to know what class to instantiate. It sounds like you are doing something very similar in concept to what I am. So I provide an API (interface) that an external developer builds their class to. All I need to know from them is what the fully qualified class path is. Steve On 9/18/07, b_alen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers guys, just one quick check, is it possible with these two methods: 1. I make an application and deploy it on the web. 2. You, knowing nothing about the application except the API I provide you, write the extension and submit it in form of swf on my server. 3. My application recognizes that the new extension has been submitted, it downloads it and uses the code from there. Let's say I have an employee management system, where different operations can be made on the employee. You write an extension where user can for example use their web cam in order to save a pic in the database. Now application is already up and running, and you submit this to the server, I don't have to recompile and know nothing about your part and all you need to know is my API. It's purely a hypothetical example but for the case above I would provide something like that probably: ModelLocator.empDataManager.addEmployeeDetail(id:String, name:String); ModelLocator.empDataManager.editEmployeeDetail(id:String, value:Object); you would call this from your swf like this: ModelLocator.empDataManager.addEmployeeDetail(webcam_pic, Webcam pic); ModelLocator.empDataManager.editEmployeeDetail(webcam_pic, picData); What do you think? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Steve Mathews happydog@ wrote: You can use LoadModule, which might be the best way to go. But I am doing a AS3 only project (no flex framework) and am doing this using applicationDomain.getDefinition which works great. On 9/17/07, Tom Chiverton tom.chiverton@ wrote: On Monday 17 Sep 2007, alen.balja@ wrote: I tried Google but I couldn't find anything, maybe it's pretty easy and maybe it's impossible. Anyone has any ideas? LoadModule -- Tom Chiverton Helping to continuously bully cross-media mindshares on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt
Re: [flexcoders] Loading code from swf (instantiating classes from external swf)
You can use LoadModule, which might be the best way to go. But I am doing a AS3 only project (no flex framework) and am doing this using applicationDomain.getDefinition which works great. On 9/17/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Google but I couldn't find anything, maybe it's pretty easy and maybe it's impossible. Anyone has any ideas? LoadModule -- Tom Chiverton Helping to continuously bully cross-media mindshares on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Loading code from swf (instantiating classes from external swf)
Well using the non-module approach (again, I haven't used modules so I can't speak for that method), you at least need to know what class to instantiate. It sounds like you are doing something very similar in concept to what I am. So I provide an API (interface) that an external developer builds their class to. All I need to know from them is what the fully qualified class path is. Steve On 9/18/07, b_alen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers guys, just one quick check, is it possible with these two methods: 1. I make an application and deploy it on the web. 2. You, knowing nothing about the application except the API I provide you, write the extension and submit it in form of swf on my server. 3. My application recognizes that the new extension has been submitted, it downloads it and uses the code from there. Let's say I have an employee management system, where different operations can be made on the employee. You write an extension where user can for example use their web cam in order to save a pic in the database. Now application is already up and running, and you submit this to the server, I don't have to recompile and know nothing about your part and all you need to know is my API. It's purely a hypothetical example but for the case above I would provide something like that probably: ModelLocator.empDataManager.addEmployeeDetail(id:String, name:String); ModelLocator.empDataManager.editEmployeeDetail(id:String, value:Object); you would call this from your swf like this: ModelLocator.empDataManager.addEmployeeDetail(webcam_pic, Webcam pic); ModelLocator.empDataManager.editEmployeeDetail(webcam_pic, picData); What do you think? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use LoadModule, which might be the best way to go. But I am doing a AS3 only project (no flex framework) and am doing this using applicationDomain.getDefinition which works great. On 9/17/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Google but I couldn't find anything, maybe it's pretty easy and maybe it's impossible. Anyone has any ideas? LoadModule -- Tom Chiverton Helping to continuously bully cross-media mindshares on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [flexcoders] Full Screen Mode
I for one would second the forced non-transparent background when full-screen. I really can't think of a good reason that you would even want full-screen with a transparent background. Steve Senior Software Engineer http://www.FreshBrew.com On 9/14/07, Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what I outlined in my e-mail (basically the security that's there already) does that. Require the user to be directly interacting with the Flash applet before allowing fullscreen (fullscreen API only works in keyboard/mouse events). The first time a Flash applet goes fullscreen from a domain name have the player itself prompt the user (similar deal as for webcams and mics). Hell, I'd be fine with disallowing transparent backgrounds in fullscreen apps, that's not something I want and I don't think that most legitimate users of fullscreen want a transparent window. Of course, couldn't your banner ad already do what you describe? Probably not since Flash-based banner ads usually sit in IFRAMES so they're blocked by security domain, but I don't have to go fullscreen to do what you describe: that's all inside the web browser's window and that already works fine. The only problems I could see with fullscreen would largely be griefing from the apps, just like what popups do, and you combat it in the same way: default to blocking it, prompt the user to unblock it, allow them to unblock it permanently site-by-site (which is inline with all of the other security restrictions in the Flash player). It just kinda baffles me that its easier to capture *video* and *audio* from the user's machine than it is to interact with them fullscreen. Seems kinda backwards if security/privacy is a focus! ;-) Troy. On 9/14/07, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can propose a way that users can know that their input is going to go to some other place on the screen or some hidden process in a browser, then we can allow keyboard access. Otherwise, my banner add will place a transparent window over your yahoo login and phish your password. Mean people suck, and prevent us from giving out functionality as we'd like to. We always opt for very conservative security in first releases of new functionality like fullscreen, until we can figure out how to relax some of those restrictions without inviting mean people to harm others. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Troy Gilbert *Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2007 9:26 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Full Screen Mode I know Adobe has heard an earful on this, but I'd like to stress it again since the issue has again been raised: Fullscreen mode without keyboard support is virtually worthless for almost any app other than playing fullscreen video. Now, I understand that fullscreen video is the primary reason for inclusion of this functionality. Fine. But Adobe needs to pay some serious attention to the world of online games which heavily use the Flash platform. Fullscreen games would be huge, but without keyboard support it simply won't happen. Fullscreen web apps like Picnik would be huge, but without keyboard support its limiting. I think the security requirement that an app can only go to fullscreen inside of a mouse or keyboard event is perfect. I think the security requirement that the ESCAPE key will *always* take the user out of the fullscreen is fine. I'd even be fine with the Flash Player popping open a confirmation dialog when the user wanted to go fullscreen just to be sure (with a corresponding always for this website option, just like popup blockers). But preventing all keyboard usage? It just renders fullscreen a completely worthless feature for our products. We would embrace it and brag about it and usher in some spectacular web-based experiences only possible because of the Flash platform, but simply won't be able to because we need a minimum amount of keyboard functionality (filling in a few forms, cursor keys, etc.). AIR isn't the answer for us as the whole reason we've gone with the Flash platform is the instant accessibility (no downloads). Please, please, please Adobe... please give us keyboard access in fullscreen! Please! Troy. On 9/14/07, *Nick Collins* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within the browser, no, but within AIR, yes. Since the Adobe AIR runtime sandbox extends to the local desktop, you can access the file system, and you can run full screen while still being able to use the keyboard and text inputs. On 9/14/07, *Yigit Boyar* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah; it is sth that annoyed me; like years ago the removal of file access at flash. (i guess it was flash 4 to 5) anyway; security comes first of course, but there must be a way to enable these options, like a certificate or sth else..
[flexcoders] Right-click menu alignment
I am trying to create a menu that has Cut/Copy/Paste items with the keyboard shortcuts listed on the right. The site http://www.scrapblog.com/ does this and it looks great. Problem is that I can't figure out how to get the perfect alignment like they did. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Steve
