Re: [flexcoders] Which AIR SDK to use with Flex? [1 Attachment]
The link Read the ActionScript Compiler 2.0 (PDF, 20Kb)file http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/flashplayer/pdfs/adobe-actionscript-compiler-20-release-notes.pdf explains that ... it does not support mxmlc compc compiling Flex applications Maybe its because some of Flex code is now run by Apache Foundation. John On 23/10/2014 16:26, Dave Glasser dglas...@pobox.com [flexcoders] wrote: On the download page for the AIR SDK: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/air-sdk-download.html It says: Note: Flex users will need to download the original AIR SDK without the new compiler. and provides separate links to SDKs that are about 15% smaller. Does anyone know the reasoning behind this? Are there compatibility reasons not to use the main AIR SDK that has a compiler? I'm still compiling my SWF with the compiler from the Flex SDK.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Future Scope of Flex
Think the person was simply referring to the vocabulary and syntax, since they're both based on the ECMA standards. Not sure it deserved an ad hominem attack. It's a pretty accurate statement that someone who knows ActionScript won't be baffled by JS. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:50 AM, danielpr...@yahoo.com [flexcoders] flexcoders@yahoogroups.com wrote: js is almost exactly like Actionscript. Typical of a JS advocate, no real knowledge of object oriented structures and concepts. Bet this is by another manager type that doesn't know an array from a variable (actually that WOULD be the same level of knowledge in this case wouldn't it.) -- John Hall jh...@cactusware.com http://www.cactusware.com
Re: [flexcoders] Problem with Flash 13
Might check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23703920/flash-sandbox-security-error-just-started-popping-up-in-the-last-day-dead-in-wa On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Jairo França ja...@tgi.inf.br [flexcoders] flexcoders@yahoogroups.com wrote: After updating to Flash player 13 I'm receiving the following error: SecurityError: Error #3769: Security sandbox violation: Cannot send HTTP headers when using navigateToUrl(). Any idea? Thanks --- Este email está limpo de vírus e malwares porque a proteção do avast! Antivírus está ativa. http://www.avast.com -- John Hall jh...@cactusware.com http://www.cactusware.com
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Alex I pointed someone to this on Flashcoders: http://www.mail-archive.com/flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com/msg58770.html Do you have any new views on where Flash is heading? John On 20/12/2012 05:50, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Well, there are several pieces. ActionScript is a language. It is really only the dozen classes or so in the “top-level” in the ASDoc. String, int, RegEx, Array, Vector, a few functions like unescape, etc, plus a bunch of keywords and stuff like “var”, “class”, plus a grammar of how you put it all together. It hasn’t changed much in years, other than the addition of Vector. There are no plans to improve on its specification by adding things it is missing compared to other languages like Java such as method overloading, or mutiple inheritance. Instead, Adobe is tossing out the whole specification and developing a next-generation of ActionScript. It will have some of the same things you see in the current ActionScript, but there will be new keywords and grammar. The goal is to give up on backward compatibility in order to get significant speed improvements by making the language easier to execute at runtime. ActionScript currently only runs in a Virtual Machine embedded in the FlashPlayer or AIR. Both runtimes provide additional APIs that allow you to draw stuff and get network i/o, etc. The current APIs use ActionScript 3 syntax and are focused primarily on Sprites, Shapes and MovieClips on a display list. New features were added in every major release. Now, Adobe is working on embedding a new Virtual Machine that runs the next-generation ActionScript in the FlashPlayer and AIR. The focus is on gaming, and a new set of APIs that talk to a 3d rendering engine is being devloped in the next-generation ActionScript syntax. There will be no support for the old Sprites/Shapes/MovieClips and display list. However, the old virtual machine that runs ActionScript 3 will continue to be embedded in the FlashPlayer and AIR that run on tradtional desktops/laptops. I would not expect it to be co-existent on mobile versions of AIR because the new focus is on the captive runtime workflow where you pre-process your ActionScript code and the runtime libraries into a device-dependent executable. So, given all of that, you can continue to deliver ActionScript 3 content in AIR or FlashPlayer on desktops/laptops “forever”. And unless you have heard otherwise from the PDF team, they probably won’t eliminate support for Flash in PDF on desktop/laptops soon. I think Apache Flex exists because folks have found the Flex workflow easy and productive and also safe because it uses structured programming, and former Flex customers are now pitching in to continue to evolve Flex as much as we can given the constraints of the current environment. The problem for many is that, because Adobe is not evolving the ActionScript 3 language, VM and runtime APIs related to it, folks see it as a dead end and no longer want to develop apps on it. I can see their point, but there is a reason why DOS is still around on some custom handheld devices: it works, it is well known, and has a small footprint for a constrained environment. Flash/AIR and Flex on ActionScript3 continue to be excellent ways to create apps quickly, but it has been difficult to convince customers to stick with it. Anyway, so far, the most interest in Apache Flex seems to be around trying to leverage the Flex workflow to create apps that run on the HTML/CSS/JS stack (without Flash). It will have growing pains for sure, but to me, a question about CPU load is premature. There is 1000’s of people from all over the world working on improving the runtime environment for HTML/CSS/JS. They have made significant advances in the past several years and I don’t see a cap on it. So any pain points you experience now are likely to be solved in the near future. If you can continue to use Flash/AIR and let others suffer through the growing pains, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, put on some pads and join the battle. On 12/19/12 9:29 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: Thank you again. Although ActionScript is not being developed for the FlashPlayer, is it possible that it may still be developed separately for use in AIR? I could deliver content through AIR instead of PDFs. My problem is that the FlashBuilder / Flash Professional workflow is such a seductive one, with that easy marriage of graphics and code, that I don't want to lose it. I have used C++ to produce graphical programs and the AS3 route is a godsend in comparison. One wonders Is HMTL5 going to use any less CPU cycles than AS3, once it is doing similar work? John On 18/12/2012 05:38, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Things get lost in translation, but one goal
[flexcoders] Chart Horizontal axis length
How can I determine the length of the Horizontal Axis of a Chart. I know how to get the width of the Chart. What I am looking for is the length or width of the Horizontal Axis. Thank you, this has really stumped me.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
That is a very interesting diagram showing a way forward for Flex users. I have only used ActionScript Projects, rather than Flex, and have mainly been concerned not to lose a way to deliver my SWFs. I can see myself developing in JavaScript but not wishing to go back near the beginning with programming, and liking the way SWCs are used in my projects, I rather want things to stay as they are. On that subject, will later FlashPlayers have separate Virtual Machines for: (1) interpreting AIR (legacy) and (2) Browser (legacy) as well as (3) new code which is CPU dependent machine code? I understand that PDFs have their own built-in player and, according to Dave Merchant on Acrobat.com, we don't know what tje future of that might be. It would be a great shame to lose the PDF SWFs since if they worked properly with the PDF container it would be the best way to deliver high quality Text/Photo/Video/SWF combinations. At the moment the SWFs and PDF container don't thoroughly know about each other. Have I got that right about the PDF SWF player? Forgive my delayed posts but I have been teaching three days a week and busy winding up the apprentices assessments for the end of term. It's a great thing that Adobe have continued to keep you involved with the project. John On 21/12/2012 21:43, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Actually, I’m not just hanging in there, I’m still paid by Adobe to spend all of my time on Flex. My teammates are now folks like you who have spare cycles to contribute to the future of Flex. Apache Flex just “graduated” to being an official “top-level” project at Apache which means it will be around for as long as folks want it to. Adobe has no say in its future. Working in Apache has been interesting because these new contributors have lots of diverse knowledge and experience. The Apache Flex community is now investigating was to leverage a cross-compiler that can take in ActionScript and spit out JavaScript and allow you to use a Flex-like workflow to create RIAs that run without Flash. My thoughts on that topic and prototype is written up here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototype On 12/21/12 12:50 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote:
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Brilliant. Thank you. I am pleased that existing SWF's will run in an embedded VM in the new player. Do you think the next-generation of ActionScript will be similar enough to make migration easy? and Is FlashBuilder likely to be the IDE that creates code for the new VM? John On 20/12/2012 05:50, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Well, there are several pieces. ActionScript is a language. It is really only the dozen classes or so in the “top-level” in the ASDoc. String, int, RegEx, Array, Vector, a few functions like unescape, etc, plus a bunch of keywords and stuff like “var”, “class”, plus a grammar of how you put it all together. It hasn’t changed much in years, other than the addition of Vector. There are no plans to improve on its specification by adding things it is missing compared to other languages like Java such as method overloading, or mutiple inheritance. Instead, Adobe is tossing out the whole specification and developing a next-generation of ActionScript. It will have some of the same things you see in the current ActionScript, but there will be new keywords and grammar. The goal is to give up on backward compatibility in order to get significant speed improvements by making the language easier to execute at runtime. ActionScript currently only runs in a Virtual Machine embedded in the FlashPlayer or AIR. Both runtimes provide additional APIs that allow you to draw stuff and get network i/o, etc. The current APIs use ActionScript 3 syntax and are focused primarily on Sprites, Shapes and MovieClips on a display list. New features were added in every major release. Now, Adobe is working on embedding a new Virtual Machine that runs the next-generation ActionScript in the FlashPlayer and AIR. The focus is on gaming, and a new set of APIs that talk to a 3d rendering engine is being devloped in the next-generation ActionScript syntax. There will be no support for the old Sprites/Shapes/MovieClips and display list. However, the old virtual machine that runs ActionScript 3 will continue to be embedded in the FlashPlayer and AIR that run on tradtional desktops/laptops. I would not expect it to be co-existent on mobile versions of AIR because the new focus is on the captive runtime workflow where you pre-process your ActionScript code and the runtime libraries into a device-dependent executable. So, given all of that, you can continue to deliver ActionScript 3 content in AIR or FlashPlayer on desktops/laptops “forever”. And unless you have heard otherwise from the PDF team, they probably won’t eliminate support for Flash in PDF on desktop/laptops soon. I think Apache Flex exists because folks have found the Flex workflow easy and productive and also safe because it uses structured programming, and former Flex customers are now pitching in to continue to evolve Flex as much as we can given the constraints of the current environment. The problem for many is that, because Adobe is not evolving the ActionScript 3 language, VM and runtime APIs related to it, folks see it as a dead end and no longer want to develop apps on it. I can see their point, but there is a reason why DOS is still around on some custom handheld devices: it works, it is well known, and has a small footprint for a constrained environment. Flash/AIR and Flex on ActionScript3 continue to be excellent ways to create apps quickly, but it has been difficult to convince customers to stick with it. Anyway, so far, the most interest in Apache Flex seems to be around trying to leverage the Flex workflow to create apps that run on the HTML/CSS/JS stack (without Flash). It will have growing pains for sure, but to me, a question about CPU load is premature. There is 1000’s of people from all over the world working on improving the runtime environment for HTML/CSS/JS. They have made significant advances in the past several years and I don’t see a cap on it. So any pain points you experience now are likely to be solved in the near future. If you can continue to use Flash/AIR and let others suffer through the growing pains, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise, put on some pads and join the battle. On 12/19/12 9:29 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: Thank you again. Although ActionScript is not being developed for the FlashPlayer, is it possible that it may still be developed separately for use in AIR? I could deliver content through AIR instead of PDFs. My problem is that the FlashBuilder / Flash Professional workflow is such a seductive one, with that easy marriage of graphics and code, that I don't want to lose it. I have used C++ to produce graphical programs and the AS3 route is a godsend in comparison. One wonders Is HMTL5 going to use any less CPU cycles than AS3, once it is doing similar work? John On 18/12/2012 05:38, Alex Harui wrote
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
On 21/12/2012 18:52, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives To not allow existing SWFs to play where they currently play would “break the web” and Adobe has no interest in doing that. The next generation of AS is supposed to be easy to migrate to if you just want to get your code to run, but there is a chance that to fully leverage the performance benefits of the new language you will have to learn some new constructs and refactor existing code. FlashBuilder will definitely be the IDE for developing applications for the new VM and new AS. That's all good to know. Looks like I am all set for a while, at least. I noticed you still hanging in there... http://incubator.apache.org/flex/team.html Thanks again. John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Thank you again. Although ActionScript is not being developed for the FlashPlayer, is it possible that it may still be developed separately for use in AIR? I could deliver content through AIR instead of PDFs. My problem is that the FlashBuilder / Flash Professional workflow is such a seductive one, with that easy marriage of graphics and code, that I don't want to lose it. I have used C++ to produce graphical programs and the AS3 route is a godsend in comparison. One wonders Is HMTL5 going to use any less CPU cycles than AS3, once it is doing similar work? John On 18/12/2012 05:38, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Things get lost in translation, but one goal of the parallel frameworks is to not leverage things that get lost in translation. Otherwise, since JS and AS are ECMA-based, the translation works pretty well. Keep in mind that, while Adobe is no longer investing in ActionScript 3 on the Flash Player, and not developing Flash Player for mobile devices, and AIR may not run on all mobile devices, where the FlashPlayer is today, it will likely be there “forever”. So, if alll of your users are using desktops/laptops that have browsers that have Flash, you can continue to use Flex and/or ActionScript 3 to build applications and they will likely run there not just in five years, but even after that. There is no time-bomb in the players that will go off and stop running. Even though ActionScript Next and FlashPlayer Next are not compatibile with ActionScript 3, the AS3 VM will ship in the FlashPlayers that Adobe ships in the future. There is the possibility that the browser vendors will stop supporting plugins, but I would imagine they will keep a compatibility-mode somehow. I think there is too much Flash content out there and to block it from existing desktops/laptops would “break the web” and I don’t expect the browser vendors or Adobe take such a risk. There would be too much negative press. That doesn’t mean that new computers with new OS’s may not support Flash (that’s what Apple did with IOS), and many home users may forgo traditional computers for tablets in the future, so keep that in mind as well. I don’t know the PDF market that well, but again, I would expect PDFs to continue to support Flash “forever” as well. At least for the readers on traditional desktops/laptops. On 12/17/12 10:48 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: Thank you. That's interesting and very helpful. One does wonder if a separate translation tool would do the job faithfully, and so creates doubt. For someone that wants to use SWFs in PDFs to deliver educational content that is fully interactive, what workflow would you suggest using for the next three to five years? John On 17/12/2012 16:31, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Adobe has no plans that I know of to get ActionScript to work with HTML5 in the same way that Google is proposing Dart as an alternative to JavaScript. The Apache Flex project is working on a compiler that will translate ActionScript to JavaScript. In addition, the link I posted proposes a component framework that would enable you to build or prototype your app in Flash using FlashBuilder and ActionScript and then run a separate tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate it to JavaScript where it will run and leverage HTML or HTML5 components. Alternatively, the same ActionScript to JavaScript compiler would let you write the script portions of your website as ActionScript using FlashBuilder and have separate HTML files, then use the same separate tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate the ActionScript to JavaScript. And maybe variations will be created that can output to various JS frameworks. At this time, there are no plans to change FlashBuilder to integrate the translation workflow. Adobe’s focus for FlashBuilder is on building ActionScript gaming and premium video projects that run on the Flash player. I suppose if the JS workflow became wildly popular and Adobe could see a revenue stream by supporting such a workflow things might change, but I wouldn’t count on it. There is a better chance that someone in Apache Flex will start creating plugins for Eclipse to support the workflow or one of the other tool vendors will provide an integrated workflow. The future of ActionScript 3 in Rich Internet Applications (as opposed to ActionScript “Next” as mentioned in the Flash roadmap) is actually being given more attention by Apache Flex than Adobe. If you want to continue to use ActionScript 3 to develop RIAs, I would encourage you to get involved
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
On 17/12/2012 05:12, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Adobe has spent the year donating the Flex SDK and Falcon compilers to the Apache Software Foundation. While Adobe has a small set of people contributing to Flex in Apache and a team that shipped Flash Builder 4.7 and is working on subsequent Flash Builder release, Adobe is not leading the development of Flex and has not been for a full year. The future of Flex is in the hands of the Apache Flex community. This document should have made Adobe’s plans clear: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html I followed this link through to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Under Flash Player Next this says... and provide a foundation on which Flash can move forward over the next decade. Does this imply ActionScript working collaboratively with HTML5 or is it an alternative to HTML5? I am asking because I am hoping Flash Builder will continue to offer me a way forward (AS3+HTML5). John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Thank you. That's interesting and very helpful. One does wonder if a separate translation tool would do the job faithfully, and so creates doubt. For someone that wants to use SWFs in PDFs to deliver educational content that is fully interactive, what workflow would you suggest using for the next three to five years? John On 17/12/2012 16:31, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Adobe has no plans that I know of to get ActionScript to work with HTML5 in the same way that Google is proposing Dart as an alternative to JavaScript. The Apache Flex project is working on a compiler that will translate ActionScript to JavaScript. In addition, the link I posted proposes a component framework that would enable you to build or prototype your app in Flash using FlashBuilder and ActionScript and then run a separate tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate it to JavaScript where it will run and leverage HTML or HTML5 components. Alternatively, the same ActionScript to JavaScript compiler would let you write the script portions of your website as ActionScript using FlashBuilder and have separate HTML files, then use the same separate tool outside of FlashBuilder to translate the ActionScript to JavaScript. And maybe variations will be created that can output to various JS frameworks. At this time, there are no plans to change FlashBuilder to integrate the translation workflow. Adobe’s focus for FlashBuilder is on building ActionScript gaming and premium video projects that run on the Flash player. I suppose if the JS workflow became wildly popular and Adobe could see a revenue stream by supporting such a workflow things might change, but I wouldn’t count on it. There is a better chance that someone in Apache Flex will start creating plugins for Eclipse to support the workflow or one of the other tool vendors will provide an integrated workflow. The future of ActionScript 3 in Rich Internet Applications (as opposed to ActionScript “Next” as mentioned in the Flash roadmap) is actually being given more attention by Apache Flex than Adobe. If you want to continue to use ActionScript 3 to develop RIAs, I would encourage you to get involved with the Apache Flex project. On 12/17/12 2:16 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: On 17/12/2012 05:12, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives Adobe has spent the year donating the Flex SDK and Falcon compilers to the Apache Software Foundation. While Adobe has a small set of people contributing to Flex in Apache and a team that shipped Flash Builder 4.7 and is working on subsequent Flash Builder release, Adobe is not leading the development of Flex and has not been for a full year. The future of Flex is in the hands of the Apache Flex community. This document should have made Adobe’s plans clear: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html I followed this link through to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html Under Flash Player Next this says... and provide a foundation on which Flash can move forward over the next decade. Does this imply ActionScript working collaboratively with HTML5 or is it an alternative to HTML5? I am asking because I am hoping Flash Builder will continue to offer me a way forward (AS3+HTML5). John -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
Re: [flexcoders] wrong mac debug fp version???
Make sure you use the correct Adobe uninstaller - some were for specific versions. I had a problem previously because my IDE didn't have the path set to run Firefox and the standalone player ran instead, so check your IDE. Flashlight lets you know which player versions you have available... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashlight-1/?src=api John On 29/08/2012 14:26, Csomák Gábor wrote: Hi! I've downloaded the mac debug flash player. the installer said 11.4, but the installed version (capabilities.version) is 10.3. 183.23. can this happen?? is it occur at anybody else? I even uninstalled Flash Player with Adobe's uninstaller, then reinstalled it, and it is still that way.. Thanks, Gabor
Re: [flexcoders] Loading the IDE (Flash Builder) error
Hahahaha. New cafeteria menus promote tighter bun control in schools. 2012/5/11 Davidson, Jerry jerry.david...@illinois.gov ** Whoops. I once asked a guy about “gun control”, but I used a “B” instead and was told to go to the gym. ** **
Re: [flexcoders] Loading the IDE (Flash Builder) error
2012/5/10 Davidson, Jerry ** I spoke too soon. We are suing ClearCase and I can’t check out and update a module now without the error. Sue the pants off them I say! John
Re: [flexcoders] robotlegs
Thanks Robert. It has really good reports. I was trying not to overcomplicate things but it certainly feels like a good way to go. John On 11/05/2012 17:39, Robert VanCuren Jr wrote: I starting using robotlegs about a year ago and I really like it. It's by far my favorite framework (mvc, dependency injection) for as3. I have used it for pure as3 and flex projects. As far as using it for small projects, it can be worthwhile because of the convenience methods that it provides. It's also pretty easy to add robotlegs to a project you have already started. On Thursday, May 10, 2012, John McCormack wrote: Hi there. I am about to start some small AS3 projects. I do like the idea of the structure that robotlegs offers and am considering whether to invest the time to get into it. Please let me know if... a) you use robotlegs and like it. b) you consider it worthwhile for small projects. Thanks John
Re: [flexcoders] robotlegs
Thanks Rob. Those last minute changes being easy to make was mentioned in the last entry here for a 100 line project... http://knowledge.robotlegs.org/discussions/questions/898-why-use-robotlegs-more-elaborate-explanation-than-the-book-gives-needed Because my programs are quite small I wondered if it was overkill but I am really attracted by the structure and I am reassured by yours and Rob VanCuren's comments, so thank you both. John On 11/05/2012 19:10, Rob Romanek wrote: I've been using it since the beginning of the year. All though it can seem like it adds a layer of complication on small projects I have found that even on those when last minute changes came up they were easy to accommodate because of the structure implicit in the framework. cheers, Rob On 2012-05-11, at 1:20 PM, John McCormack wrote: Thanks Robert. It has really good reports. I was trying not to overcomplicate things but it certainly feels like a good way to go. John On 11/05/2012 17:39, Robert VanCuren Jr wrote: I starting using robotlegs about a year ago and I really like it. It's by far my favorite framework (mvc, dependency injection) for as3. I have used it for pure as3 and flex projects. As far as using it for small projects, it can be worthwhile because of the convenience methods that it provides. It's also pretty easy to add robotlegs to a project you have already started. On Thursday, May 10, 2012, John McCormack wrote: Hi there. I am about to start some small AS3 projects. I do like the idea of the structure that robotlegs offers and am considering whether to invest the time to get into it. Please let me know if... a) you use robotlegs and like it. b) you consider it worthwhile for small projects. Thanks John
[flexcoders] robotlegs
Hi there. I am about to start some small AS3 projects. I do like the idea of the structure that robotlegs offers and am considering whether to invest the time to get into it. Please let me know if... a) you use robotlegs and like it. b) you consider it worthwhile for small projects. Thanks John
Re: [flexcoders] Debug Woes - Redux
Just wondering... If you copy the variable's value to the variable 'temp' and test that, what do you see? John On 27/03/2012 21:34, Davidson, Jerry wrote: It's happening again. This never happened when I was using Flex 3.5. Make a change in the code. Do a Project | Clean. Make sure the debugging session is over. Do a File |Refresh. Start a debugging session and watch it go past a line: *if*(adjInc 0) /// for negatives/ adjInc = 0; Watch both lines (value at his point in this test is -43) execute. After the assignment watch the value not change to zero, but stay at -43. Repeat above steps 2-3 times with no difference. Shut down Flash Builder and start it again and repeat. No change. I've only got a little hair left and don't think I can pull any more out. 1)How can I force Flex to recognize code? 2)How can I force Flex (Flash Builder 4) to execute -- as in making an assignment -- the code? Jerry Davidson
Re: [flexcoders] Debug driving me crazy
I had something similar once, due to the fact that I thought I was including a certain AS3 file but was , in fact, using SWC code instead. So perhaps your code isn't coming from the place you think it is. John On 27/03/2012 15:26, Davidson, Jerry wrote: In debug mode of Flex (4.5) I have a variable that shows up in the variable view, but doesn't exist in the function I'm stepping through. Further, one that does exist doesn't show up. After the assignment failed (no errors): *var*exemptFlg:Boolean = *false*; *if*(inData.inpExemptFlg) exemptFlg = inData.inpExemptFlg; control jumps to the end of the function bypassing all the rest of the code. Originally, this variable was exempt and that shows up in the Variables view despite it being changed to exemptFlg. After that change, I cleaned the project, File | Refresh the project and closed Flash then reopened it. The phantom variable still appears and the current one doesn't. Help. Jerry Davidson
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives
Out of interest... why does ZK marketing material never mention HTML5? They used to say direct RIA though I can't see that on the site anymore. I thought HTML5 was the new buzzword and that it would make sense to state it at least 3 times on every page? John 2012/1/17 Ron G rgri...@sinclairoil.com ** Hi Joaoak: You can make the coupling as tight or loose as you want. Each UI object can have a client side widget that is primarily the appearance, and a server side component that should contain the more complex logic. So, you can hide as much as want by placing it in the server side component as Java code, or keep in the client side widget as JS. In fact, since you indicate you are moving to HTML5, ZKoss actually might be a good choice, since it relies heavily on jQuery, which is considered a favorite HTML5 library. The difference is ZK lets you choose where client side logic is stored - as JS on the client or Java on the server. Another type of HTML5 approach won't offer that. Ron
Re: [flexcoders] Re: date problem?
Months start at 0 and go up to 11.
Don't ask me why.
John
2012/1/12 luvfotography ygro...@all-digital-links.com
**
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Date.html#methodSummary
says:
If you pass two or more arguments, the Date object is assigned a time
value based on the argument values passed, which represent the date's year,
month, date, hour, minute, second, and milliseconds.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, luvfotography ygroups@... wrote:
Why does:
trace((new Date(2012,01,15)).toString());
and
trace((new Date('2012','01','15')).toString());
return:
Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 GMT-0800 2012
February??
--
John
*You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment without
me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do print, I
hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an additional
page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?*
Re: [flexcoders] Re: date problem?
Or maybe the person that wrote the Java Date class is from Venus and
the person that wrote the Actionscript one just copied him. You might get
quite some support on the Java assertion...
John
2012/1/13 Rick Winscot rick.wins...@zyche.com
**
I'm suspicious… I think that the person that wrote the Date class is from
Venus.
Cheers,
Rick Winscot
From: John Fletcher fletch...@gmail.com
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:03:28 +0100
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: date problem?
Months start at 0 and go up to 11.
Don't ask me why.
John
2012/1/12 luvfotography ygro...@all-digital-links.com
**
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/Date.html#methodSummary
says:
If you pass two or more arguments, the Date object is assigned a time
value based on the argument values passed, which represent the date's year,
month, date, hour, minute, second, and milliseconds.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, luvfotography ygroups@... wrote:
Why does:
trace((new Date(2012,01,15)).toString());
and
trace((new Date('2012','01','15')).toString());
return:
Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 GMT-0800 2012
February??
--
John
*You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment
without me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do
print, I hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an
additional page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?*
Re: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes.
You could take a page from the book of most routers. When you click reboot on the web interface there is generally a message like this will take about 2 minutes and a progress-bar type thing which edges towards complete. This is not actually polling the device in anyway, in fact usually this takes longer than the device actually takes to reboot (safe margin of error). Eventually it refreshes the page and says now you can log in or takes you to the login page. I would be transparent about the fact that it's going to take ages. Like even a countdown timer instead of a progress bar perhaps. John 2012/1/10 Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com ** On 10/01/2012 22:39, Guy Morton wrote: The OP has said what it's doing - a firmware update. It takes 2-3 minutes. It's not a db transaction. Ah, I missed that. In that case the bar with enter_frame/timer will do the trick. Thanks for the explanation. Paul On 11/01/2012, at 4:01 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: On 10/01/2012 16:46, Venkat M wrote: My application will try to connect to a java framework, which in turn calls some scripts to execute on a server. If it is a firmware update script that is called, it will typically wait for 2-3 minutes before the update on the server is complete. So I have to keep user understand that process is going on (or else, they may think the system is hanged or not responding with 2 minutes of spinning), to provide some understandably, I am thinking of static pooling a progress bar for 2-3 (standard time which we know) minutes that looks more user friendly. What say? I have never worked on a server that took two or three minutes to update. Usually more than a few seconds is considered unacceptable. Where there have been operations performed on the server that take a long time, I usually have status changes informing the user what is happening. For example, on one system, multiple printouts initiated by differrent users were queued for printing. Each job included a processing element, so the jobhas various statuses QUEUED/ACTIVE/PRINTING/PRINTED/PAUSED/CANCELLED and the user had access to those statuses. I don't know if such a system would apply here, or you just have a very bad database server doing incredibly slow updates. What is your server doing? Paul * Cheers, Venkat. * -- *From:* Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com p...@ipauland.com *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:13 AM *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes. On 10/01/2012 09:17, claudiu ursica wrote: Are you sure it is exactly 2 minutes? DO you really need to show progress? A spinning animation might suit you better, keep it spinning until the load is done. It would just look like the application had hung. As Rick suggested, two minutes is a very long time. What is it that takes two minutes to be ready? If it's a database query, I'd suggest sorting out the server, because two minutes is a ridiculous amount of time to be waiting for a result. It really looks like your application has a fundamental problem. Paul C -- *From:* Venkat M venkat_...@yahoo.com venkat_...@yahoo.com *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:09 AM *Subject:* [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes. Hi, I have a scenario in my application. I know that the wait time for the response is 2 minutes. Can someone let me know how we can run a progress bar for 2 minutes loading from 0% to 100% in the same 2 minutes? Or Is there a better way to indicate the wait for 2 minutes? (This is a fixed wait time) * Cheers, Venkat. * -- John *You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment without me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do print, I hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an additional page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?*
Re: [flexcoders] How to access IP camera with Adobe air?
Cool. Do you understand Italian? Maybe you should ask the author. I think different cameras have different ways of getting access to the stream depending on the vendor. But really I'm not sure; there are smartphone apps which let you control major brands of camera and I always wondered how they do that. Of course you could always try and get the relevant HTML page inside air but I don't think that is what is happening in the link. John 2012/1/11 markflex2007 markflex2...@yahoo.com ** IP camera can provide a line with mjpeg format. I am not sure how air can access it. I like do something similar with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-ELum2iyA in the demo. one air app can access many ip cameras. Please give me a idea.Thanks Mark -- John *You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment without me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do print, I hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an additional page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?*
Re: [flexcoders] FlexPMD / cut and paste detector - is it alive ?
No but I've noted down to look into this tool soon. John 2012/1/8 Rick Winscot rick.wins...@zyche.com ** I'm a heavy PMD / CPD user… I'll do what I can. Cheers, Rick Winscot From: tom.chiverton ya...@falkensweb.com Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:34:54 - To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] FlexPMD / cut and paste detector - is it alive ? Does anyone else use the FlexPMD / FlexCPD tools ? There's a bunch of unanswered questions over at http://forums.adobe.com/community/opensource/flexpmd (not all from me !) including one from the start of November. Tom -- John *You're old enough to make your own decisions about the environment without me telling you what you should and shouldn't print. But if you do print, I hope this signature doesn't cause the message to go onto an additional page. Because that would be kind of stupid, wouldn't it?*
[flexcoders] Bug tracking Jira / Apache
This might be of interest to anyone who logs bugs in Flex: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4097963
Re: [flexcoders] You are the product
The general consensus is that a. People hate Flash. ( dont really know why!!! after reading all the HTML 5 vs Flash articles... ) / Developers hate javascript ( atleast the people who like the OOP paradigm! ). b. Developers love AS3. ( Its the next best thing to chocolate! ) / People love nice UI. Maybe people hate the things we create with Flash, such as heavyweight advertisements you can't easily stop - but that's the programmers fault. Personally, I am interested in educational applications, so AS3 is great: very powerful with amazing potential. Just look at what Away3D manage to do: http://away3d.com/showcase/ Isn't AIR is the obvious choice, and not Flash, when you want avoid browser multiplicity? John
Re: [flexcoders] Flex to HTML5 Conversion tool?
There's another key issue - who wants to work with machine converted code? Sounds like a nightmare. John 2011/12/1 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com ** Just to throw in my two cents... I would not hold out any hope for any solution that will magically convert your Flex app to a HTML/JS app. Not in 6 months, not in 6 years. I don't want to be a downer, but I just don't see it happening. Sure, we may see some tech demos that work on super simple Flex apps, but I think that's about as far as you'll get. You also might get tools that let you write a new app in MXML/AS, specifically with targeting HTML/JS in mind, and that might work well. But I have almost no confidence that you will ever be able to take an existing, large Flex app and magically get it to run well as an HTML app. I'd of course love to be proven wrong. My advice is that if you really need to target HTML/JS is to build it new from scratch. It's a harsh reality, and you're going to hate a lot of the toolchain, language, and process, but if you really do have the requirement that you need to have an HTML/JS app, you might as well just rip off the band-aid in one go instead of holding out hope for a holy grail solution. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com wrote: ** Check out another possibility - using haXe for converting an MXML/Actionscript project to HTML5/Javascript. The syntax is extremely similar to Actionscript, so you could convert the MXML (via the option with the compiler to save the generated Actionscript from MXML) to haXe code, and the Actionscript too. ** ** Jason Merrill Instructional Technology Architect II** * Bank of America* Global Learning ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ___ ** ** *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *ganaraj p r *Sent:* Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:13 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex to HTML5 Conversion tool? ** ** If my understanding is right, Adobe is working on it currently. So you might have to wait for another 6 months or so. ** ** If that time frame is not suitable for you, I suggest you rewrite the project in HTML 5. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Sells, Fred fred.se...@adventistcare.org wrote: I am looking at the same problem. A very long time ago I designed a tool called ezX that was similar to Flex but not nearly as robust. That was an Xwindows tool and has since gone the way of the dinosaur. I’m still researching but I think a tool like pyjamas pyjs.org might be a building block. You could write an xml parser to handle the mxml to dom and then use the dom to generate pyjamas class definitions (which you would probably have to tweak by hand). I’m not sure about the action script. Source parsing is too tricky and I don’t know if the byte code is easy to handle. Might be better to outsource that overseas. Let me know what you decide *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Venkat M *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:56 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Flex to HTML5 Conversion tool? *Hi Group,* * * *I have a quick question.* *I have a web application that was developed using 100% flex (AS included).* *Now to be on the safe side we want to evaluate the options of converting the same on to HTML5. * * * *Do any one know of any tools that can help in the process of converting from flex (developed) to html5 version?* *Your help will be greatly appreciated.* Cheers, *Venkat.* ** ** -- Regards, Ganaraj P R -- This message w/attachments (message) is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or proprietary. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, and then please delete and destroy all copies and attachments, and be advised that any review or dissemination of, or the taking of any action in reliance on, the information contained in or attached to this message is prohibited. Unless specifically indicated, this message is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any investment products or other financial product or service, an official confirmation of any transaction, or an official statement of Sender. Subject to applicable law, Sender may intercept, monitor, review and retain e-communications (EC) traveling through its networks/systems and may produce any such EC to regulators, law enforcement, in litigation and as required by law. The laws of the country of each sender/recipient may impact the handling of EC, and EC may
[flexcoders] Git and Flash Builder
Anyone here using Git and Flash Builder? John
[flexcoders] States are single-use
The problem with states and skinstates is that they are single use. I'm adapting a desktop app to mobile and I want to support portrait and landscape views. According to a couple of pages on the net you should create a portrait skin state and a landscape skin state. Sounds good, but I am already using my skin states for something else, some real lifecycle states of this component like active, inactive, expired, etc. I'm not going to multiply all my states and create activeportrait, expiredportrait - sounds like code bloat to me. Anyone else encounter this kind of problem and can point me to the best way forward? John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Why Flex now?
Yes you bring up an important point - namely there are public websites and services that also do cool things, that need to focus on standards compliance and SEO and everything. These over time will become a best fit for HTML5 if they aren't already. Flex isn't great for SEO. Then there are applications, that are simply programs which happen to use the browser as a delivery mechanism, where generally the entity writing the application also controls the browser or computer being used to use the application. Sometimes they are called enterprise applications but I don't think this categorisation is true in all cases. They are really a different kettle of fish and more often a good fit to Flex. John 2011/11/18 Angelo Anolin angelo_ano...@yahoo.com ** 95% of organizations and businesses bottom line is to be able to deliver projects and applications with the least amount of time and budget. We are able to deliver software faster, better and more responsive using Flex/Flash technology running on the web than any other implementation out there. I think Adobe forgot to mention that enterprise grade applications are far different from fancy web sites powered by HTML5, CSS, JS, etc.. Bottom line is if you are able to deliver software better, and you have very satisfied users, use that technology. Just read this post and somehow rings true.. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ -- *From:* Tomislav i...@svemir.net *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:08:58 AM *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: Why Flex now? That statement is updated today. Checkout the same link: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Rick Schmitty flexcode@... wrote: I've been a Flex developer since it's first beta however many years ago. Today I just saw this response from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html *Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise application development? *In the long-term, *we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development*. We also know that, currently, Flex has clear benefits for large-scale client projects typically associated with desktop application profiles. Given our experiences innovating on Flex, we are extremely well positioned to positively contribute to the advancement of HTML5 development, starting with mobile applications. In fact, *many of the engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to work on our HTML efforts *. We will continue making significant contributions to open web technologies like WebKit jQuery, advance the development of PhoneGap and create new tools that solve the challenges developers face when building applications with HTML5. Emphasis mine. If anyone has followed any game or application development where 'many members' of the team are switched to the next greatest thing, that normally means there are few maintenance developers for the existing product and not much new innovation to it. The company wants its best and brightest working on its future, not supporting its past. Combine that with the facts that Adobe bought PhoneGap and released Edge preview. It's not hard to put all these facts together and see that long term they want an IDE framework for app development in HTML5. Perhaps Flex5 will be an HTML5 version of Flex as they start putting together html5 components Outside of having to support IE6 why would you choose to start a project in Flex today?
Re: [flexcoders] No, Flex Flash Are Not Dead
Ermm, that post only repeats what adobe just said, but with a different headline. And highlights a sentence in red, for special value-add. John 2011/11/16 turbo_vb timh...@aol.com ** http://www.tricedesigns.com/2011/11/16/no-flex-flash-are-not-dead/
Re: [flexcoders] Why Flex now?
Yeah I thought about that too, it's kind of weird because there's this just-released talk from MAX on adobe.tv about the Spoon project and how much mutual trust was required and how it took a year of hard work to get where they are, where Adobe will trust them to contribute patches and stuff; now all those people must feel a bit stupid for doing all that work to convince Adobe, since someone just decided to hand over the entire responsibility for the code anyway. But maybe it will work out because now the Spoon project has an organised structure ready to go, which is handy. Reading into these things, it seems that some higher-level people made business decisions which by necessity happen suddenly, and everyone else in the company found out just as suddenly as us. The article you mention probably genuinely was the plan at the time it was written. There is quite a strong feeling that HTML5 simply can't replace Flex yet; and as for future it is pure conjecture, no-one knows. Who knows, maybe the community will do a better job with the Flex codebase than Adobe themselves did? If you watch the Spoon talk you read about the incredible problems faced by contributors who contributed patches but no-one at Adobe ever reviewed them or contributed them - now this might all change for the better. Let's see what happens... Here's the link by the way: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2011-develop/open-source-flex-what-the-spoon-project-means-to-you/ Oh - I just noticed a notice on the Spoon site about it: http://www.spoon.as/2011/adobe-announces-intention-to-donate-flex-sdk/. So apparently they are excited - fair enough they wanted to be able to actually commit their changes and now they will be able to. I would encourage everyone to stay calm and see how things develop over the next six months. By then we'll start to see whether the Apache project takes off. I think there's a distinct possibility that Adobe will try and translate Flash Builder into Flash or HTML5 Builder (with a classier name of course) - after all you've got a lot of Flex-skilled people that would immediately buy it. John 2011/11/15 Farid Shahlavi fshahl...@gmail.com ** This is basically all the rats abandoning ship in my opinion, here's an article from just over a month ago from Adobe that completely contradicts what they announced last Friday, how is this possible that they didn't have foresight to see this coming,?! http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/08/flex-where-were-headed.html Farid On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Haykel BEN JEMIA hayke...@gmail.comwrote: ** Because today HTML5 is not yet ready and will not be ready for the next 5-10 years in my opinion. There are still many things you can only do in Flash and many other that are very difficult to do with HTML5. In my opinion HTML5 is a hype anyway, some new tags, css and js elements and functions. Browser-compatibility, layout, animation, video and much more is handled very easily with Flex/Flash. Should we replace the strong-typed and compiled AS 3 language with JavaScript? I'm working on a video chat application that uses FMS and P2P multicats, can you do that with HTML?? Personnally I don't think Flex is dead, the Flex community will continue to implement it and there will be some companies offering support for it. Only when Adobe stops the development of the Flash player for the Desktop I will say that Flash is really dead. Let's help the Spoon project and make Flex better than ever! Haykel Ben Jemia Allmas Web RIA Development http://www.allmas-tn.com On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Rick Schmitty flexc...@gmail.comwrote: ** I've been a Flex developer since it's first beta however many years ago. Today I just saw this response from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html *Does Adobe recommend we use Flex or HTML5 for our enterprise application development? *In the long-term, *we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development*. We also know that, currently, Flex has clear benefits for large-scale client projects typically associated with desktop application profiles. Given our experiences innovating on Flex, we are extremely well positioned to positively contribute to the advancement of HTML5 development, starting with mobile applications. In fact, *many of the engineers and product managers who worked on Flex SDK will be moving to work on our HTML efforts*. We will continue making significant contributions to open web technologies like WebKit jQuery, advance the development of PhoneGap and create new tools that solve the challenges developers face when building applications with HTML5. Emphasis mine. If anyone has followed any game or application development where 'many members' of the team are switched to the next greatest thing, that normally means there are few maintenance developers for the existing product and not much new innovation
Re: [flexcoders] Errors during build - ASDoc Configuration
Cool. If it really happens exactly every other time, then that is good information to work with. Does it matter if you just restarted the IDE? Does it matter if you did a clean or just saved a file with build automatically on, etc? When you restart your machine? Then you need to determine whether it's the first build or the second build that is suffering - if it's the first then something might be happening out of order and is only there by the time the second build comes. If it's the second then the first might be leaving junk around like hanging on to resources or something. Though I suppose if you're using Flash Builder it shouldn't really be your responsibility to spend hours debugging it. Regards, John 2011/11/7 Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.com ** Both my co-worker and I get this message on every other build in debug mode. It’s strange, it doesn’t happen every time, just every OTHER time we run in Debug mode. ** ** Errors occurred during the build. Errors running builder 'Integrated External Tool Builder' on project 'KPL-R v4'. The file does not exist for the external tool named ASDoc Configuration [Builder]. The file does not exist for the external tool named ASDoc Configuration [Builder]. ** ** Any ideas on how to fix this? Re-installing is not easy because our licenses are managed via enterprise Tivoli pushes and it’s a lot of red tape to make it happen. ** ** Thanks, ** ** Jason ** ** -- This message w/attachments (message) is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or proprietary. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, and then please delete and destroy all copies and attachments, and be advised that any review or dissemination of, or the taking of any action in reliance on, the information contained in or attached to this message is prohibited. Unless specifically indicated, this message is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any investment products or other financial product or service, an official confirmation of any transaction, or an official statement of Sender. Subject to applicable law, Sender may intercept, monitor, review and retain e-communications (EC) traveling through its networks/systems and may produce any such EC to regulators, law enforcement, in litigation and as required by law. The laws of the country of each sender/recipient may impact the handling of EC, and EC may be archived, supervised and produced in countries other than the country in which you are located. This message cannot be guaranteed to be secure or free of errors or viruses. References to Sender are references to any subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation. Securities and Insurance Products: * Are Not FDIC Insured * Are Not Bank Guaranteed * May Lose Value * Are Not a Bank Deposit * Are Not a Condition to Any Banking Service or Activity * Are Not Insured by Any Federal Government Agency. Attachments that are part of this EC may have additional important disclosures and disclaimers, which you should read. This message is subject to terms available at the following link: http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. By messaging with Sender you consent to the foregoing.
Re: [flexcoders] ALEX HAURI please help
Deepa, I'm not sure that such a subject line conforms to mailing list etiquete; in any case if you want someone's help, may I suggest that you first take care to spell his name correctly. People tend to like their own names. Regards, John 2011/11/3 deepa_pathuri deepa_path...@yahoo.co.in ** i want to implement undo and redo operations. i am dragging image from one container to other and i want to facilitate a undo and redo for it. can some body please tell me how to acheive it?
Re: [flexcoders] Re: is there another flexcoders list?
I only came to this list because I tried posting on the forums and never got a single reply. And I saw heaps other unanswered questions. Hopefully they are getting better... John 2011/10/7 valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com ** Of course, all the most knowledgeable people are still here because they can't stand the chatter over there ;-} --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeffry Houser jeffry@... wrote: This list started to die after Adobe launched their new forums. I think that was a couple of years ago. Adobe, basically, stopped directing people to this list and instead started directing them to the forums. So, that is where you'll find the traffic. On 10/7/2011 9:44 AM, Gustavo Duenas wrote: Hi, is there another list, it's been ages since someone just answer me...it is just me or everyone else has migrated to some other list? Gus -- Jeffry Houser Technical Entrepreneur 203-379-0773 -- http://www.flextras.com?c=104 UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! -- http://www.theflexshow.com http://www.jeffryhouser.com http://www.asktheflexpert.com -- Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust
[flexcoders] Re: Chart data disappears when printing with a print-specific output format
aha I figured it out, the series array is getting mucked up/changed around
by the print specific line chart. You have to duplicate it, see
http://www.saltwebsites.com/2011/flex-print-specific-chart
John
2011/10/11 John Fletcher
I followed the advice at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7c80.html
to
print using a print-specific output format in Flex 4.5, however this
causes the data to disappear from my chart! Try the code below - is this a
bug or is there a simple solution? One interesting side-effect is that after
you print and the data disappears from your chart, you can still hover over
the empty chart and get the dataTips pop up! :-)
John
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx=http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009;
xmlns:s=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark
xmlns:mx=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx
width=800
height=600
fx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.charts.LineChart;
import mx.printing.FlexPrintJob;
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
[Bindable]
public var expensesAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection( [
{ Month: Jan, Profit: 2000, Expenses: 1500, Amount: 450 },
{ Month: Feb, Profit: 1000, Expenses: 200, Amount: 600 },
{ Month: Mar, Profit: 1500, Expenses: 500, Amount: 300 },
{ Month: Apr, Profit: 1800, Expenses: 1200, Amount: 900 },
{ Month: May, Profit: 2400, Expenses: 575, Amount: 500 } ]);
protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
if (printJob.start()) {
var lc:LineChart = new LineChart();
lc.height = mlc.height;
lc.width = mlc.width;
lc.dataProvider = mlc.dataProvider;
lc.series = mlc.series;
lc.seriesFilters = mlc.seriesFilters;
lc.horizontalAxis = mlc.horizontalAxis;
lc.verticalAxis = mlc.verticalAxis;
addElement(lc);
printJob.addObject(lc);
printJob.send();
removeElement(lc);
}
}
]]
/fx:Script
s:HGroup
mx:LineChart id=mlc dataProvider={expensesAC} showDataTips=true
mx:horizontalAxis
mx:CategoryAxis categoryField=Month/
/mx:horizontalAxis
mx:series
mx:LineSeries yField=Profit form=curve displayName=Profit/
mx:LineSeries yField=Expenses form=curve displayName=Expenses/
mx:LineSeries yField=Amount form=curve displayName=Amount/
/mx:series
/mx:LineChart
s:Button label=print click=button1_clickHandler(event)/
/s:HGroup
/s:WindowedApplication
[flexcoders] Chart data disappears when printing with a print-specific output format
I followed the advice at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7c80.html
to
print using a print-specific output format in Flex 4.5, however this
causes the data to disappear from my chart! Try the code below - is this a
bug or is there a simple solution? One interesting side-effect is that after
you print and the data disappears from your chart, you can still hover over
the empty chart and get the dataTips pop up! :-)
John
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx=http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009;
xmlns:s=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark
xmlns:mx=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx
width=800
height=600
fx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.charts.LineChart;
import mx.printing.FlexPrintJob;
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
[Bindable]
public var expensesAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection( [
{ Month: Jan, Profit: 2000, Expenses: 1500, Amount: 450 },
{ Month: Feb, Profit: 1000, Expenses: 200, Amount: 600 },
{ Month: Mar, Profit: 1500, Expenses: 500, Amount: 300 },
{ Month: Apr, Profit: 1800, Expenses: 1200, Amount: 900 },
{ Month: May, Profit: 2400, Expenses: 575, Amount: 500 } ]);
protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
if (printJob.start()) {
var lc:LineChart = new LineChart();
lc.height = mlc.height;
lc.width = mlc.width;
lc.dataProvider = mlc.dataProvider;
lc.series = mlc.series;
lc.seriesFilters = mlc.seriesFilters;
lc.horizontalAxis = mlc.horizontalAxis;
lc.verticalAxis = mlc.verticalAxis;
addElement(lc);
printJob.addObject(lc);
printJob.send();
removeElement(lc);
}
}
]]
/fx:Script
s:HGroup
mx:LineChart id=mlc dataProvider={expensesAC} showDataTips=true
mx:horizontalAxis
mx:CategoryAxis categoryField=Month/
/mx:horizontalAxis
mx:series
mx:LineSeries yField=Profit form=curve displayName=Profit/
mx:LineSeries yField=Expenses form=curve displayName=Expenses/
mx:LineSeries yField=Amount form=curve displayName=Amount/
/mx:series
/mx:LineChart
s:Button label=print click=button1_clickHandler(event)/
/s:HGroup
/s:WindowedApplication
Re: [flexcoders] Flex line chart
Generally you have to reconstruct the data into an appropriate format for a Flex chart, you can do that server-side or client-side before giving it to the chart. John 2011/9/13 Brendan Meutzner bmeutz...@gmail.com ** I've re-read your post 3 times, and still can't make sense of how your data is structured. Is there any way you can post an example of the structure? There's always a way to massage the data to fit into the charting... Brendan On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:06 AM, chinwesley wesleyc...@hotmail.comwrote: ** I want to create a line chart in Flex. I know how to create a simple one but the one I need to create needs to have 6 series (lines). The problem is that when I get the data from MYSQL, there is 6 xFields (one for each line) that are the same. eg. Western Cape - January, Western Cape - February, Western Cape - March, etc (for 6 months). That means that instead of there being only 9 xfields (province (south african provinces)), there is now 54 of them because they are being populated with all the values and not the unique ones. The same thing will happen with the line series becuase the line series will have 6 of the January's, 6 of the February's and so on. I just want to have 9 xfields and not 54 and 6 months and not 9 of each. Is there a way to solve this please? Regards, Wesley
[flexcoders] i18n labelFunction
I've got a Spark ButtonBar with a labelfunction which goes like this
private function lab(s:String):String {
return resourceManager.getString('main', s);
}
The labels don't update when I change locale. How can I acheive this? Is
this a problem with labelFunction on all elements?
John
[flexcoders] Why is CSS replaced by skins in Flex 4.x?
I understand the advantages of skins, they are working pretty well for me. But what disappoints me is the inability to add some padding on an element, or change the height of a button, via CSS. It seems ridiculous to me to create entire skin files just to change some small aspects of a certain element. Skins are great, but couldn't we have skins AND CSS? Why are many CSS properties missing on elements? It would make my code so much more lightweight. John
Re: [flexcoders] Axis Scale problem on Dual Axis Chart
As far as I can see your problem boils down to this:
The problem is that when certain events in the application happen, the min
and max of one of the axis is reset to 0, 100. To avoid this I can set the
min and max values, but I would like to avoid this as the axis should auto
scale just like it does when it is first created
or in other words: The application is setting the min and max, but I don't
want them to be set, I want them to autoscale.
There are two solutions:
1) Stop the min and max from being set in the first place. Find out what is
causing it - the stylesheet you are loading? Then modify this.
2) Set the min and max to NaN after they have been set. This re-enables
autoscaling.
Regards,
John
2011/8/30 Deidre
I have a simply dual axis chart similar to the samples found all over the
internet. The chart has a line series on one Linear vertical axis and a
column series on another Linear vertical axis. The problem is that when
certain events in the application happen, the min and max of one of the axis
is reset to 0, 100. To avoid this I can set the min and max values, but I
would like to avoid this as the axis should auto scale just like it does
when it is first created.
Here is some sample code to show the problem. The code is basically a
chart with a button. When the button is clicked a new styleSheet is loaded
and it is then that the axis is set to 0, 100.
code
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
s:WindowedApplication
xmlns:fx=http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009;
xmlns:s=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark
xmlns:mx=library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx
showStatusBar=false
fx:Script
![CDATA[
*import* mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
*import* mx.core.FlexGlobals;
[
*Bindable*]
*public* *var* SMITH:ArrayCollection = *new* ArrayCollection([
{date:
*22-Aug-05*, close:41.87},
{date:
*23-Aug-05*, close:45.25},
{date:
*24-Aug-05*, close:42.77},
{date:
*25-Aug-05*, close:48.02},
]);
[
*Bindable*]
*public* *var* DECKER:ArrayCollection = *new* ArrayCollection([
{date:
*22-Aug-05*, close:157.59},
{date:
*23-Aug-05*, close:160.3},
{date:
*24-Aug-05*, close:150.71},
{date:
*25-Aug-05*, close:156.88},
]);
*private* *function* onButtonClick():*void*
{
StyleManager.getStyleManager(FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.moduleFactory).loadStyleDeclarations(
*style01.swf*,*true*);
}
]]
/fx:Script
s:VGroup width=100% height=100% horizontalAlign=center
s:Button label=Click click=onButtonClick() /
mx:ColumnChart id=myChart width=100% height=100% showDataTips=true
mx:horizontalAxis
mx:CategoryAxis id=h1 categoryField=date/
/mx:horizontalAxis
mx:verticalAxis
mx:LinearAxis id=v1 /
/mx:verticalAxis
mx:verticalAxisRenderers
mx:AxisRenderer placement=left axis={v1} /
mx:AxisRenderer placement=right axis={v2} /
/mx:verticalAxisRenderers
mx:series
mx:ColumnSeries id=cs1
horizontalAxis=
{h1}
dataProvider=
{SMITH}
displayName=
Smith
yField=
close
mx:verticalAxis
mx:LinearAxis id=v2 /
/mx:verticalAxis
/mx:ColumnSeries
mx:LineSeries id=cs2
horizontalAxis=
{h1}
verticalAxis=
{v1}
dataProvider=
{DECKER}
displayName=
Decker
yField=
close /
/mx:series
/mx:ColumnChart
mx:Legend dataProvider={myChart} direction=horizontal/
/s:VGroup
/s:WindowedApplication
/code
The style sheet which is loaded is basically a blank stylesheet which is
compiled to swf.
/* CSS file */
@namespace s
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark;
@namespace mx
library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx;
global
{
font-family: Verdana;
}
[flexcoders] Reopen bug in Flex JIRA
I reported a bug. The Adobe guy that handled it (Peter deHaanhttps://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=pdehaan) misunderstood my report and closed it as cannot reproduce. Now I've added a sample project to demonstrate the bug but the issue is still closed and I guess it won't gain anyone's attention anymore. What should I do in such a case? https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-27873 John
Re: [flexcoders] Launch a .bat
Air lets you run programs on the local machine in the desktopProfile (you have to do a little research on that) so I guess .bat would work too. John 2011/8/5 Pete pete313...@yahoo.com ** Actually, there was something nagging at me all day yesterday and I remembered what it was today. There is a windows specific way maybe... Might only work in Air... Check out http://www.fluorinefx.com/ I use it to do AutoDial on voip phones using the appropriate command line options. I guess it'd do a batch file too. Windows specific because it needs you to install some dll's. Regards Pete On 03/08/2011 15:54, cjacquel73 wrote: Hello, Is it possible to launch a .bat from the web application in Flex ? Thx, Chris,
[flexcoders] Question about using [RemoteClass(alias=...)]
I have an ActionScript class that creates a custom Review object, like so:
/ Review.as
/ Taken from one of Adobe's online samples
package samples.restaurant
{
import mx.formatters.DateFormatter;
// [RemoteClass(alias=samples.restaurant.Review)]
[Bindable]
public class Review
{
public function Review(source:Object=null)
{
// some date formatting stuff happens here
}
public var restaurantId:int;
public var restaurantName:String;
public var restaurant:Object;
public var reviewDate:Date;
public var reviewer:String;
public var rating:Number;
public var title:String;
public var reviewText:String;
public var email:String;
}
}
This class lets me take an ArrayCollection of generic Objects from the
server, loop through it with something like new Review(source[i]) and get
a bunch of Review objects in an ArrayCollection. Works perfectly.
I also need to be able to write a Review object (a Java object) to the
server, so I add [RemoteClass(alias=samples.restaurant.Review)] above
the ActionScript class declaration. This way I can declare a public var
review:Review, call an addReview(review) on my RemoteObject service, and
my server receives a Review Java object. This works perfectly too.
The problem is that once I add this [RemoteClass(alias=...)] line, doing
new Review(source[i]) no longer works as expected. Given the same
ArrayCollection of generic Objects as before, new Review(source[i]) will
still create a Review object, but now all its properties are null.
If I comment out the [RemoteClass(alias=...)] line I can properly cast
generic objects to Review objects again (but then I am no longer able to
send a Review Java object to the server).
Is this the way it's supposed to work? (I hope I've stated my problem
clearly.) How can I accomplish both tasks using a single Review.as class?
Thanks for any help, folks.
John
PS. I am using the Flex 3.5 SDK.
[flexcoders] Re: Question about using [RemoteClass(alias=...)]
Forgive me, I be a dingbat...
By setting the [RemoteClass(alias=...)] line, the thing I got back from
the server was not an ArrayCollection of generic Objects, but of strongly
typed Review (AS) objects, which didn't need any casting.
All solved now. Nothing to see here...
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:52 PM, John Mesheimer john.meshei...@gmail.comwrote:
I have an ActionScript class that creates a custom Review object, like so:
/ Review.as
/ Taken from one of Adobe's online samples
package samples.restaurant
{
import mx.formatters.DateFormatter;
// [RemoteClass(alias=samples.restaurant.Review)]
[Bindable]
public class Review
{
public function Review(source:Object=null)
{
// some date formatting stuff happens here
}
public var restaurantId:int;
public var restaurantName:String;
public var restaurant:Object;
public var reviewDate:Date;
public var reviewer:String;
public var rating:Number;
public var title:String;
public var reviewText:String;
public var email:String;
}
}
This class lets me take an ArrayCollection of generic Objects from the
server, loop through it with something like new Review(source[i]) and get
a bunch of Review objects in an ArrayCollection. Works perfectly.
I also need to be able to write a Review object (a Java object) to the
server, so I add [RemoteClass(alias=samples.restaurant.Review)] above
the ActionScript class declaration. This way I can declare a public var
review:Review, call an addReview(review) on my RemoteObject service, and
my server receives a Review Java object. This works perfectly too.
The problem is that once I add this [RemoteClass(alias=...)] line,
doing new Review(source[i]) no longer works as expected. Given the same
ArrayCollection of generic Objects as before, new Review(source[i]) will
still create a Review object, but now all its properties are null.
If I comment out the [RemoteClass(alias=...)] line I can properly cast
generic objects to Review objects again (but then I am no longer able to
send a Review Java object to the server).
Is this the way it's supposed to work? (I hope I've stated my problem
clearly.) How can I accomplish both tasks using a single Review.as class?
Thanks for any help, folks.
John
PS. I am using the Flex 3.5 SDK.
[flexcoders] 360Flex DC is coming up soon! Don't miss it!
Hey Flexcoders list! I just wanted to pop in and make sure everyone knew that 360|Flex was coming up fast in Washington DC. September 19-22 The full session details have been posted as a PDF here. http://360flex.com/downloads/sessions.pdf and you can check out the schedule here: http://360flex.com/downloads/schedule.pdf This past spring in San Jose we had close to 400 attendees, we're hoping to meet or better yet, BEAT that number in DC! It's gonna be a great time, with content that will blow you mind. There's several on this list that can back me up on that :) At any rate, hope you all can make it, here's a special discount just for Flexcoders members! flexcodersrocks saves you 10% off the $699 registration price. By the way, $699 is for 4 days of content. 40+ sessions, from over 30 speakers, many from this list even! Check out the line up. See you in DC! John Wilker Co-Founder, 360|Conferences twitter: jwilker http://twitter.com/jwilker johnwilker.com | Ignite Denver http://ignitedenver.org| Denwherehttp://denwhere.com| 360|Flex http://360flex.com | 360|iDev http://360idev.com “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee
Re: [flexcoders] RobotLegs Framework
Have a look at John Lindquist's video - 3rd one down: http://pv3d.org/ John Patricia Han wrote: Hi Everyone, Have you used Robotlegs framework? Please share your experience with me. (compare with Cairngorm or PureMVC) Thanks, Pat
Re: [flexcoders] Reference for flex tutorial
This is very through: Professional Flex 3 from www.wrox.com p2p.wrox.com isbn: 978-0-470-22364-2 This does tutorials Adobe Flex 3 Training from the Source isbn-13: 978-0-321-52918-3 www.adobepress.com John sony antony wrote: Hi, Could any one please suggest me a book I can refer for flex which could cover possibly everything in it.?? Thanks, Sony.
[flexcoders] FB3/Eclipse - CSS design view not showing images
Anyone encounter this? I'm using Eclipse with the Flex Builder 3 plugin. I'm trying to skin a horizontal scrollbar with some images. I just discovered the CSS design view/editor and thought it was exactly what I need. The problem is that I choose my images and hit refresh, but they don't show up. It displays the little blue icon all stretched out (like a missing image icon). Anyone? Thanks! John
Re: [flexcoders] Embed FlashPlayer in C++ app tutorial?
Rodney, I would be interested too if you find anything. I have considered overlaying a transparent AIR app to add content to my C++ programs. Just a thought. John Rodney Smith wrote: Are there any tutorials on how to embed Flash Player in a C++ app on both Mac and Windows (for the purpose of using Flex in/for the user interface)? Will it suffer performance degradation like in a browser (compared to standalone Flash Player). (Yes, I Googled and found the C# example). -- 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.com Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJnNWZ0MTltBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNzIwNwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNzdG5ncwRzdGltZQMxMjcwNDc0NjEx (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest mailto:flexcoders-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=email%20delivery:%20Digest | Switch to Fully Featured mailto:flexcoders-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com?subject=change%20delivery%20format:%20Fully%20Featured Visit Your Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders;_ylc=X3oDMTJla3B0ODVqBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNzIwNwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNocGYEc3RpbWUDMTI3MDQ3NDYxMQ-- | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ | Unsubscribe mailto:flexcoders-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [flexcoders] Scotland: Any Flash/Flex/AS3 conferences?
I don't know of any here in the north (CA26 3QS). Two years ago I went to an Adobe event in London for AIR and that was very good. If there were more I would go. I recently attended Seb Lee-Delisle's course on Papervison3D in Brighton and that was also good. http://sebleedelisle.com/ I am sure Flash On the Beach would be worthwhile. It's always sold out. Please let me know if you hear of anything. John Clark Stevenson wrote: Is there any events on in Scotland or the North of England at any point during the year which i could attend? It seems Flash on the Beach is the only UK conference i have heard about, but lets face it, if im going to save up to visit anywhere, its not going to be to Brighton for a few days of geek speak!!!
Re: [flexcoders] User manual
Hi Christophe, The user manual exists in printed form (4 books, about 15cm thick) but it has no index in the back, which makes it hard to use. I have it, but the pdf format is better. John Christophe wrote: Hello, Does the user manual is still existing for a flex application ? Or did the FAQ is sufficient ? Thank you, Christophe, -- 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] SecureSWF obfuscation
I use SecureSWF and have found it fine, however I think the idea is that you push the settings as far as you can to get the best obfuscation. So far I have found that if I untick the main application name, it's okay - the main instance on the timeline... I have a SWF called Tangrams.swf and under Identifiers renaming I untick Tangrams. On the other Tab, Labels, I also untick Tangrams. The SWF' is okay after that. John method_air wrote: Hi there, What swf obfuscator do you use and recommend? We would like to run the obfuscator in linux as a command line. I'm getting Flex runtime errors using SecureSWF with Identifier renaming. Anybody else experiences issues with this product, or have a workaround? 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] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)
Very interesting stats., and it's hat's off to Tom Chiverton and Tracy Spratt. Thank you to them. How about a star burst to show which topics led to the most subsequent activity? John Doug McCune wrote: Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do front-end development. BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to write something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with this, drop me a line. Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com wrote: And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, working on it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server crashed :P Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 primo...@gmail.com mailto:primo...@gmail.com wrote: Wow ! The UI looks really nice :) 2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com Hey guys, Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this list: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/ The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow. I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself. Doug
Re: [flexcoders] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)
And an specially big thank you to Alex Harui and Matt Chotin from Adobe for their Herculean work rate. John Doug McCune wrote: Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do front-end development. BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to write something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with this, drop me a line. Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com wrote: And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, working on it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server crashed :P Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 primo...@gmail.com mailto:primo...@gmail.com wrote: Wow ! The UI looks really nice :) 2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com Hey guys, Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this list: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/ The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow. I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself. Doug
Re: [flexcoders] flexcoders stats and charts (and full data download)
Interesting. I wonder if the threads are getting shorter - a sign of the times, perhaps. I was thinking it might be useful to know about all the ones that people have appended the tag 'SOLVED'. I wonder if someone at Adobe might pick this up and create a searchable database of solutions. Imagine clicking on keywords and having the threads highlighted, with a solution tagged on the end. A suitable AIR project perhaps, using the 11meg downloaded message list. In my situation, just to keep control, I delete earlier months of messages once I get over 4000. It would be nice to be able to find all those wise words about a topic of concern. John Doug McCune wrote: I've got the numbers for longest threads too, just didn't include those stats in the post. Here are the top 5 threads for all time and for the past year. For all time: Splitting FlexCoders into smaller, focused groups - 137 messages Will Microsofts new Silverlight Player kill our beloved Flex? - 129 messages Flex 1.5 price - 103 messages Choice of backend systems - 82 messages SEO Compatibility - 66 messages For only 2009: Flex Builder on Linux being scrapped - 38 messages New Adobe Forums coming! - 37 messages Question about a Flex component - 34 messages Roles Based UI - 33 messages Ribbon in FLEX - 30 messages On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk mailto:j...@easypeasy.co.uk wrote: Very interesting stats., and it's hat's off to Tom Chiverton and Tracy Spratt. Thank you to them. How about a star burst to show which topics led to the most subsequent activity? John Doug McCune wrote: Seems to be back up, god I hate servers, but I guess that's why I do front-end development. BTW, I'm going to be investigating getting a full dataset of the Adobe Flex forums too and will likely do some similar visualizations once I figure out how to get the data. Looks like the forum software Adobe uses (from Jive) has webservice access and I should be able to write something to pull all the data. If anyone has any experience with this, drop me a line. Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com wrote: And of course instantly my server decides to go down. I'm aware, working on it. Sorry for the check this out, oh wait, server crashed :P Doug On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM, primo411 primo...@gmail.com mailto:primo411%40gmail.com mailto:primo...@gmail.com mailto:primo411%40gmail.com wrote: Wow ! The UI looks really nice :) 2009/11/3 Doug McCune d...@dougmccune.com mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com mailto:d...@dougmccune.com mailto:doug%40dougmccune.com Hey guys, Last night I put together a post that details some of the stats for this list: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/11/03/flexcoders-mailing-list-stats-pretty-graphs-full-dataset/ The post also contains a download of the entire archive of all flexcoders messages (up through last night). The file is a CSV file and contains the sender name, subject, and date of every message ever posted to the list. It contains 148,826 posts. I also have the full database archive (it's in MS Access format) that contains all the full-text of the messages, but that file is 1.5 gigs so I'm not posting it for download, but if someone has some ideas about what to do with it I can probably get it to you somehow. I know we had a long discussion back a long time ago about whether the list was declining in traffic, whether it should be split up, yadda yadda. I finally got around to getting a really good complete dataset to play with. Hope you enjoy the post and let me (and the rest of us on the list) know if you do anything cool with the data yourself. Doug
Re: [flexcoders] Re: AIR from a Flex ActionScript Project? SOLVED
Michael,
I had problems getting the ActionScript project code into the AIR
application.
The original Document Class from OriginalProgram.AS would not run
because it was no longer automatically on the display list and so its
stage variable was null.
I emptied the code from the constructor into a new function called main,
added an instance to the stage, see below, and completed the
construction via main().
It could then proceed since stage was no longer null.
My background colour has changed and the aligment isn't working but it
looks very promising.
Thanks again.
John
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute creationComplete=start();
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private var prog:OriginalProgram;
public function start():void {
prog=new OriginalProgram; // An instance of the
original Document Class
nativeWindow.stage.addChild(prog); // The constructor needs the
prog.stage variable set, and
prog.main(); // then this can
now run all the original constructor code.
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:UIComponent id=container /
/mx:WindowedApplication
Michael wrote:
John,
Though your code is in ActionScript, you should just be able to use the MXML
WindowedApplication tag just at the very top-level, and initialize your main
ActionScript UI within an mx:Script tag.
Something like:
mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
applicationComplete=init();
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function init():void
{
// Fire up all your AS stuff here
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:WindowedApplication
Finally, I left out a step (4) in my previous message. Steps 1-3 are
sufficient to run your AIR app in the debugger, but to distribute your AIR
application you typically need to generate and sign a .air file. Flex
Builder can do that; from the raw SDK, you should check out the adt tool.
Hope this helps,
Michael Portuesi
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack j...@... wrote:
Thanks Michael,
I will give this a try.
Currently, within FB3 I can create an AIR project and it does these
things for me but the output is structured similarly to a Flex project
but my projects are ActionScript projects built within FB3 and so the
conversion isn't quite the same.
Perhaps I should be looking to convert from AcitionScript to Flex as an
intermediate step: by minimizing the mxml and calling my main Document
Class from the main mxml class and then modify that for AIR.
It's annoying because from within Flash Prof. I can publish as AIR, but
that's a conversion step backwards.
John
Michael wrote:
John,
You can convert your Flex project to an AIR application pretty easily.
There's three basic steps involved:
1) Your application should be declared as inheriting from
WindowedApplication, rather than Application in your main myapp.mxml file.
mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; xmlns=*
!-- declaration of your app top-level fixtures goes here --
/mx:WindowedApplication
2) Create an AIR app descriptor file. Here's an example. Name it
myapp-app.xml and place in the same folder as your main myapp.mxml file.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
application xmlns=http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5.1;
idcom.myapp.tester/id
version0.1/version
filenametester/filename
nameFlexUnit Test Runner/name
initialWindow
contenttester.swf/content
visibletrue/visible
systemChromestandard/systemChrome
transparentfalse/transparent
width1024/width
height768/height
/initialWindow
/application
There is detailed documentation on the AIR app descriptor format on the
Adobe site:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappsflex/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7ff1.html
3) Use the AIR MXML compiler (amxmlc rather than mxmlc) in your build
scripts. If you're using Flex Builder, you can add an AIR Project Builder
to your in the Project Properties Builders pane.
That should be enough to get you started. Good luck.
Michael Portuesi
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Is there any easy way to publish a Flex ActionScript Project as an AIR
file.
This project, by its nature, has no mxml tags.
John
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reflexactions wrote: FYI The Adobe docs do describe how to create a pure AS (i.e. not using MXML) AIR application. I haven't found that, although I have found lots of other references. Unfortunately the Adobe PDF help files overlap and they have no dates, so things are hard to find. Some of my problems were because I was using various properties of the main Class and when it because an AIR application it wasn't the main class any more. If possible, please point me to the particular document it's in. Thanks John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: AIR from a Flex ActionScript Project? SOLVED
Much appreciated! John reflexactions wrote: Developing Adobe AIR 1.5 Applications with Flex: See section Creating your first AIR application with the Flex SDK See the para Write the application code Note: SWF-based AIR applications can use a main class defined either with MXML or with Adobe® ActionScript® 3.0. This example uses an MXML file to define its main class. The process for creating an AIR application with a main ActionScript class is similar. Instead of compiling an MXML file into the SWF, you compile the ActionScript class file. When using ActionScript, the main class must extend flash.display.Sprite. Also see Create the AIR application descriptor file --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack j...@... wrote: reflexactions wrote: FYI The Adobe docs do describe how to create a pure AS (i.e. not using MXML) AIR application. I haven't found that, although I have found lots of other references. Unfortunately the Adobe PDF help files overlap and they have no dates, so things are hard to find. Some of my problems were because I was using various properties of the main Class and when it because an AIR application it wasn't the main class any more. If possible, please point me to the particular document it's in. Thanks John -- 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: AIR from a Flex ActionScript Project?
Brilliant support!
I did hope to do it like this, by instantiating an instance of my
previous main document class within ![CDATA[ tags but that didn't work
I will try these out in the next couple of days.
I also downloaded the AIR help file you pointed me to.
Thank you.
John
Michael wrote:
John,
Though your code is in ActionScript, you should just be able to use the MXML
WindowedApplication tag just at the very top-level, and initialize your main
ActionScript UI within an mx:Script tag.
Something like:
mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
applicationComplete=init();
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function init():void
{
// Fire up all your AS stuff here
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:WindowedApplication
Finally, I left out a step (4) in my previous message. Steps 1-3 are
sufficient to run your AIR app in the debugger, but to distribute your AIR
application you typically need to generate and sign a .air file. Flex
Builder can do that; from the raw SDK, you should check out the adt tool.
Hope this helps,
Michael Portuesi
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack j...@... wrote:
Thanks Michael,
I will give this a try.
Currently, within FB3 I can create an AIR project and it does these
things for me but the output is structured similarly to a Flex project
but my projects are ActionScript projects built within FB3 and so the
conversion isn't quite the same.
Perhaps I should be looking to convert from AcitionScript to Flex as an
intermediate step: by minimizing the mxml and calling my main Document
Class from the main mxml class and then modify that for AIR.
It's annoying because from within Flash Prof. I can publish as AIR, but
that's a conversion step backwards.
John
Michael wrote:
John,
You can convert your Flex project to an AIR application pretty easily.
There's three basic steps involved:
1) Your application should be declared as inheriting from
WindowedApplication, rather than Application in your main myapp.mxml file.
mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; xmlns=*
!-- declaration of your app top-level fixtures goes here --
/mx:WindowedApplication
2) Create an AIR app descriptor file. Here's an example. Name it
myapp-app.xml and place in the same folder as your main myapp.mxml file.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
application xmlns=http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.5.1;
idcom.myapp.tester/id
version0.1/version
filenametester/filename
nameFlexUnit Test Runner/name
initialWindow
contenttester.swf/content
visibletrue/visible
systemChromestandard/systemChrome
transparentfalse/transparent
width1024/width
height768/height
/initialWindow
/application
There is detailed documentation on the AIR app descriptor format on the
Adobe site:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappsflex/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7ff1.html
3) Use the AIR MXML compiler (amxmlc rather than mxmlc) in your build
scripts. If you're using Flex Builder, you can add an AIR Project Builder
to your in the Project Properties Builders pane.
That should be enough to get you started. Good luck.
Michael Portuesi
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack john@ wrote:
Is there any easy way to publish a Flex ActionScript Project as an AIR
file.
This project, by its nature, has no mxml tags.
John
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Is there any easy way to publish a Flex ActionScript Project as an AIR file. This project, by its nature, has no mxml tags. John
[flexcoders] ActionScript Project in AIR
Hi List, I have an ActionScript AS3 project that I build in Flex Builder 3 and want to convert it to AIR I started a new desktop project but it is built as an alternative to mxml format. The classes and assets have been imported all the project. Creating an instance of my original class inside !CDATA[ ] doesn't work, neither does pasting the code into !CATA block or setting my original class as the default. How do I get my original main class to be called from the mxml AIR file? Is anyone doing this or are you using mxml projects in the first place? John
Re: [flexcoders] How to make the effect smooth
I have the numbers 0 to 9 typed into Flash file, broken down into vector
graphics.
They scale up okay, but I treat each digit as a movieClip imported into
Flex from a swc.
Placing the digits is a lot of work, but you don't need a particular font.
John
Chet Haase wrote:
Scaling text is a funny thing. Generally, you won’t get what you’re
asking for – smooth-scaling. The problem is that to display text in
any reasonable way (in a way where it won’t look completely ugly),
graphics engines use things like font metrics, point sizes, font
hints, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, and anything else they can to make it
look readable. This is quite different from simple graphic objects.
This means that when you ‘scale’ a text string, it will always try to
display itself in a point size that’s appropriate to the scale factor.
And that means it’s going to snap as it scales up and down, as it hits
different point sizes.
This problem is related to why the text would simply disappear in Flex
3 when a text component was rotated or faded – by default, we would
use a device font, and that engine just couldn’t display the text in
any reasonable manner when it was transformed or faded. (the
workaround was to use an embedded font – I’m just illustrating the
problems here…) This is different in Flex 4, since we use the new
Flash player 10 text engine that uses software rendering for text and
avoids the device rendering issues. But still, you’ll get a much
different looking text string when rotated than you will when it’s not
rotated, because various font display tricks break down when they’re
not linearly displayed.
The only workaround for this I know of is to attempt to capture the
text as an image and scale that instead. In this case, draw your text
component to some bitmap and swap it out for the duration of the effect.
But even that won’t give you a nice result. That is, you’ll get smooth
scaling of the graphics (including the text), but the text won’t look
very good (for the simple reason that text drawn without all of the
font tricks mentioned above tends to look horrible, and scaled bitmaps
of the text will look even worse), and if you swap this scaled version
of the text out for the real text when the effect finishes, you’ll get
a snapping artifact, as we go from the bitmap display of the text to
the real display of the text at the appropriate point size. I’m pretty
sure this isn’t what you want either.
The best way I know of to deal with this harsh text reality is to work
around it, and they way you do it depends on your situation. For
example, you might just fade the text out at the start of the effect,
scale up the text area, then fade it back in when it’s done. This way
you’ll get good text display at the beginning and end, and will avoid
the snapping artifacts as it scales. You could also do things like
capture the text into a bitmap and scale it, but also apply a blur
and/or fade, so that the user can see the text, but in such a way that
the difference between the animated version and the before/after
version is less jarring.
Hope that helps.
Chet.
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]
*On Behalf Of *ilikeflex
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*Subject:* [flexcoders] How to make the effect smooth
Hi
I am using the below sample to increase the width and height but i
want that the text should also transit smoothly.
Any pointers???
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
!-- Simple example to demonstrate the Zoom effect. --
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
mx:Parallel id=expand target={textBox}
mx:AnimateProperty property=scaleX fromValue=1 toValue=2
duration=2000 /
mx:AnimateProperty property=scaleY fromValue=1 toValue=2
duration=2000 /
/mx:Parallel
mx:Parallel id=contract target={textBox}
mx:AnimateProperty property=scaleX fromValue=2 toValue=1
duration=2000 /
mx:AnimateProperty property=scaleY fromValue=2 toValue=1
duration=2000 /
/mx:Parallel
mx:Panel title=Zoom Effect Example width=95% height=95%
horizontalAlign=center
paddingTop=5 paddingLeft=10 paddingRight=10 paddingBottom=5
!--
mx:HBox backgroundColor=blue width=75 id=textBox
mx:Text width=100% color=0xFF fontWeight=bold
text=1234567890/
/mx:HBox
--
mx:TextInput backgroundColor=blue fontWeight=bold
color=0xFF id=textBox text=1234567890
/mx:TextInput
mx:ControlBar
mx:Button label=Expand click=expand.end(); expand.play();/
mx:Button label=Contract click=contract.end(); contract.play();/
/mx:ControlBar
/mx:Panel
/mx:Application
Thanks
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Re: [flexcoders] FlexBuilder Shortcuts
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Question about how to learn Flex 3
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[flexcoders] SWF to save scores via php: how different is IIS to unix?
My SWFs sends scores to a php script. This script locks an xml file and saves the sorted scores in it. When the SWFs and php are served from a Unix environment it works fine. These SWFs might be deployed on a Unix server, an IIS server or across a school network ( Microsoft?). Can anyone offer any advice as to how different the php script needs to be to run from the different servers? If not, can you possibly point me to a good source of information? Thanks, John
Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging
Vamsi, flex builder 3.0 My Flex Builder was updated to 3.02 some time ago. Such an update might cure link problems with the system but I suspect your code is picking up something that won't run in the debugger. I suspect that your SWF is not getting built properly. Your build process may not be using the code you think it is. Try a version of your SWF that has almost nothing in it. Start to add back content to the point where it fails. Comment out everything, including variable that load symbols etc., Just have the very first class with one line in it - perhaps just to set a variable. Try to step through that. You might try out a decompiler to see if your code contains the modules you think it does. By the way, I found FlashPlayers here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players\Release C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players\Debug C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\Player\10\win C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\Player\win The file NPSWF32.DLL is also used in some cases (Firefox?) When I ran the msdos command line window and did a dir npswf32 /s files.txt I found that the collected entries in files.txt were numerous - i.e. possibly unused versions sprinkled about. John
Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging
Hi Vamsi, I don't know if I can help but I can give it a try. First, which versions of Flex Builder and FlashPlayer do you use? Can you debug any other SWF - one from some time ago? I just tried this: I right clicked the taskbar and ran Task Manager. On the Processes tab I clicked the Image Name to put them in order. I then ran an actionscript project from within Flex Builder. In the processes list I had FlashUtil10.exe appear - having them in order helps see it come and go. I right-clicked FlashUtil10.exe for its properties which showed that it was stored in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash Do you get any such program appear when you run your SWF? If so, what are its properties? Are you running the version you expect? Find its place in filing system, go to ti with Windows Explorer and look at its properties. When I do this mine says Adobe Flash Player Helper 10.0 r2 John vamsi krishna wrote: Hi John, Thank you for your help. But my problem is not resolved. Can you suggest me any other way. --- On *Sat, 4/7/09, John McCormack /j...@easypeasy.co.uk/* wrote: From: John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, 4 July, 2009, 11:10 PM Hi, You may have other versions of the FlashPlayer - I found lots of versions when I had trouble - Firefox an IE use different programs. The uninstaller should be used, not the control panel: http://kb2.adobe. com/cps/141/ tn_14157. html http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html This may not be the latest version. Anggie Bratadinata over at Flash_tiger@ yahoogroups. com http://in.mc77.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Flash_tiger%40yahoogroups.com posted about this uninstaller, you might try that. http://www.revounin staller.com/ http://www.revouninstaller.com/ Also, change between IE, Firefox, or standalone (html off) to see if another debugger helps. Try searching the registry for flashplayer to see if any others exist and consider renaming them. Perhaps it's an issue to do with the local connection. Presumably you are hitting F11 to debug. John vamsi_vitla999 wrote: Hi I have strucked up with an debugger issue. Please help me out in resolving in this issue. when i tried to debug an application. it gives me an Pop up window stating that Failed to connect : session timed out Ensure that 1.You compiled your flash application with debugging on 2.You are running the debugger version of flash player. I tried to install flash player. and reinstalled flex builder but no use. Please help me out Thank you In Advance Vamsi - - -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. comYahoo http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_2/*http://cricket.yahoo.com.
Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging
Sorry Vamsi, I copied FlashUtil10.exe to the desktop and ran it. It's just an updater that runs at the same time. Try again! I just ran a debug version of a SWF outside of the IDE and it runs FlashPlayer.exe which appears in the TaskManager list as version 9.0 r124 from here C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Flex Builder 3 Plug-in\Player\win Browse to there and check yours. When I right-click it has debugger as a menu item. Does yours? In the past I have found that a module in the library (SWC) was getting called, replacing the newer code that I was expecting to be called and that caused a similar problem because that code was not a debug version. I suspect that your SWF is not getting built properly, so try a version of your SWF that has almost nothing in it and start to add back content to the point where it fails. Try setting your SWF to run on an earlier version of the player to see if that version pops up and runs. Is the SDK version setting okay? Is it possible that some security problem is blocking access - I can't help you there but it's possible. John John McCormack wrote: Hi Vamsi, I don't know if I can help but I can give it a try. First, which versions of Flex Builder and FlashPlayer do you use? Can you debug any other SWF - one from some time ago? I just tried this: I right clicked the taskbar and ran Task Manager. On the Processes tab I clicked the Image Name to put them in order. I then ran an actionscript project from within Flex Builder. In the processes list I had FlashUtil10.exe appear - having them in order helps see it come and go. I right-clicked FlashUtil10.exe for its properties which showed that it was stored in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash Do you get any such program appear when you run your SWF? If so, what are its properties? Are you running the version you expect? Find its place in filing system, go to ti with Windows Explorer and look at its properties. When I do this mine says Adobe Flash Player Helper 10.0 r2 John vamsi krishna wrote: Hi John, Thank you for your help. But my problem is not resolved. Can you suggest me any other way. --- On *Sat, 4/7/09, John McCormack /j...@easypeasy.co.uk/* wrote: From: John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, 4 July, 2009, 11:10 PM Hi, You may have other versions of the FlashPlayer - I found lots of versions when I had trouble - Firefox an IE use different programs. The uninstaller should be used, not the control panel: http://kb2.adobe. com/cps/141/ tn_14157. html http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html This may not be the latest version. Anggie Bratadinata over at Flash_tiger@ yahoogroups. com http://in.mc77.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Flash_tiger%40yahoogroups.com posted about this uninstaller, you might try that. http://www.revounin staller.com/ http://www.revouninstaller.com/ Also, change between IE, Firefox, or standalone (html off) to see if another debugger helps. Try searching the registry for flashplayer to see if any others exist and consider renaming them. Perhaps it's an issue to do with the local connection. Presumably you are hitting F11 to debug. John vamsi_vitla999 wrote: Hi I have strucked up with an debugger issue. Please help me out in resolving in this issue. when i tried to debug an application. it gives me an Pop up window stating that Failed to connect : session timed out Ensure that 1.You compiled your flash application with debugging on 2.You are running the debugger version of flash player. I tried to install flash player. and reinstalled flex builder but no use. Please help me out Thank you In Advance Vamsi - - -- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/flexcoders /files/flexcoder sFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share. acrobat.com/ adc/document. do?docid= 942dbdc8- e469-446f- b4cf-1e62079f684 7 https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/ flexcoders% 40yahoogroups. comYahoo http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_2/*http://cricket.yahoo.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group
Re: [flexcoders] Problem With debugging
Hi, You may have other versions of the FlashPlayer - I found lots of versions when I had trouble - Firefox an IE use different programs. The uninstaller should be used, not the control panel: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html This may not be the latest version. Anggie Bratadinata over at flash_ti...@yahoogroups.com posted about this uninstaller, you might try that. http://www.revouninstaller.com/ Also, change between IE, Firefox, or standalone (html off) to see if another debugger helps. Try searching the registry for flashplayer to see if any others exist and consider renaming them. Perhaps it's an issue to do with the local connection. Presumably you are hitting F11 to debug. John vamsi_vitla999 wrote: Hi I have strucked up with an debugger issue. Please help me out in resolving in this issue. when i tried to debug an application. it gives me an Pop up window stating that Failed to connect : session timed out Ensure that 1.You compiled your flash application with debugging on 2.You are running the debugger version of flash player. I tried to install flash player. and reinstalled flex builder but no use. Please help me out Thank you In Advance Vamsi -- 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] general tips: port javascript to as3
Thanks, Yes, I'm using the flash/flex api now. I like this lib's functionality better than what I can currently see available in flex, but I couldn't find a version of markerclusterer in actionscript.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
Howard, once something gets traction, then licenses and boxes can be bought. In spite of our stripped to the bone status, money somehow appears for projects that have to get done. Howard Fore wrote: How were you going to buy Flex Builder even if it was going to be available on Linux?
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
I was thinking the same... thomas parquier wrote: As eclipse is java based, how does fb happen to be incompletely ported to linux ? What about opening source of fb ? There must be some java developers who will be able to work on fb.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
Well most or all decisions are based on emotion, despite what we rationalists think, but I take your point. I'd like to write something here thats actually useful and might contribute a tiny item to the knowledge pile at Adobe, without boring everybody with personal details- 1) windows + Adobe puts me over budget at home, and I am accustomed to using all-open software, and one of the appeals of Flex Builder on Linux was I could learn it without forking over money. and yes it galls me to send money to MS. 2) My company is a Linux shop and no license money is available for experimental projects; CTO wants Java and the only way I can convince him Flex/Flash is better is to show something else that works. 3) I need to see what its like developing without the Flex Builder framework. I am already the only one in the building who uses an IDE or visual debugger. Just as I had no idea how Sun was going to make money on Java ( opposed to IBM who does) I don't know how Adobe can make money giving away tools, but it sure looks like open tools are going to win the battle in the long run, and proprietary tools will lose market share. Maybe Adobe can sell the visual designer stuff? Open source software people are so wary of proprietary tools because we have seen over and over how tool sets get munged over time, or even abandoned, how open tools have vastly better tech support, and now finally with Eclipse, open tools are achieving parity with the visual IDE stuff from vendors. It seemed to me that Adobe was following a semi-open model with Flex, for instance open bug reporting, and that attracted me in the first place. and so forth John daxdr9 wrote: If your willing to drop Flex because they don't sell an IDE for Linux, you're basing a technical decision on emotion.
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
Paul Andrews wrote: A really difficullt viewpoint to understand. FB != Flex - there's always the SDK - most people don't use the design view that much - do they? won't I lose the debugger too? as noted I have to try it... Linux doesn't have the Design View. but you do seem happy to bet your customers come only from the linux world. not going to specify any OS for customers, building Flash for web interfaces. I don't have a problem with open source, but many people see it as a mantra for ife, ... mostly it depends on what you have invested in, I've let my Windows investment drop in favor of Linux, and I'm not sorry. I have yet to meet anyone outside the geek/software development world using Linux, well we ARE talking about development platforms, not end user platforms. Anyway netbooks and Android phones are colonizing the lower Windows space - food for a business discussion elsewhere.
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
If Adobe drops Linux support for Flex, then I will probably drop Flex. I won't maintain a Windows or Mac box at home, and my company really doesn't want to invest in any more Windows apps. I don't want to invest myself in technology I can't run independently of whoever I happen to be working for today. Seeing the fickleness of the corporate owners of development tools is what sent us to Linux and open source tools in the first place. We can't bet our products on some whim of Adobe. My current all-Linux proof-of-concept project will be blown out of the water, and I'll have to get up to speed on Java. -grieving already John and at a time when Linux is gnawing away at laptop market from below and the desktop market is dying...
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
Guy I could use the bare SDK of course. I hadn't really tried it before because the Flex Builder Eclipse plugin seemed like a good idea. And there is *some* support for it in the community, I don't know how much. You're right I should try that before I give up. blame Adobe is not quite right, trust is more like it. Watching Java slowly worm its way out of Sun's grasp to the point where its now more or less open-source should provide a positive prediction for the eventual outcome, but Adobe ain't Sun, but then Sun ain't either now. Does Adobe have the right corporate culture to nurture an open-source project? I like the way they are running Flex otherwise, but maybe I indulged in wishful thinking on the Linux support. John Guy Morton wrote: Wouldn't you still be able to build your own IDE using the free SDK? As I understand it a lot of people do this now to avoid having to buy FB, and I imagine Linux users would be relatively common within that group. If sales for a linux version of FB are too low to justify the ongoing cost of development, you can hardly blame Adobe for that. Their support for *nix is better than most. Guy
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?
well thanks for that Matt, I'll wait for announcements. John Matt Chotin wrote: I'm going to continue to stay out of the fray, but just to be clear, that conversation is about Flex Builder, not the SDK. We will always support developers on Linux, it's a question of what we tools beyond the SDK we provide. We'll be looking to share more information on our plans in a few weeks. Matt
[flexcoders] 360|Whisperings online Technical articles, looking for authors.
For those that don't know me, I'm John Wilker, co-founder of 360|Conferences (360|Flex, and 360|iDev). Tom Ortega and I have created a new venture to go along with our community oriented conferences. 360|Whisperings ( http://www.360whisperings.com). For those of you who own Amazon Kindles you know that Whispernet is the delivery medium for purchased content. We've created a site where people can come and browse the available content and instead of subscribing for all you can eat, simply purchase the articles that they want. Subscriptions are great, but you have to get your money's worth. We're looking to go more the iTunes route, for a buck or two, get the same quality article you would from a pay site or journal, knowing it's quality content, and not have to pay for the content you don't want or need. We're not just going to be limited to the Kindle (and the iPhone/iTouch technically) but that's a good turn key place to start. Our goal is to offer content in as many formats as we can (PDF, ePub, Mobi, PRC, etc) so that everyone can get access. We'll take care of editing and marketing the content and reporting on sales. The split is 60/40 us, in exchange for the stuff I just mentioned. Our conference sites will link to and highlight content as well as the primary site itself. I know it seems like small change, and it is to start, but the more articles we get, the more momentum this offering builds. We've got a few folks signed on right now, coming up with article ideas. We're hoping to get a few more folks for the official launch so that we've got a good library set up and ready for folks. Why subscribe to sites and journals, and have no idea how much value you'll get from the content? Just pay for what you want. We're looking for technical content on any topic; CF, FLex, Flash, AIR, Java, etc.
Re: [flexcoders] Polling vs. Timeout error vs. ???
if you only have to reload the data every 3 minutes, you should be fine using a timer. You won't get the 'script running too long' error as a result of using a timer. That error happens basically when code takes too long to process or goes into an infinite loop. john On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:34 AM, flexaustin wrote: I think I asked this question before but my searches for my messages come up empty (search in this forum is awful). I have a Flex application that I need to do polling. Because of the implementation/install of our app I cannot use any push technology. So my solution, which I am not sure will work, is to create a timer on my the main stage that every 3 minutes tell the app to it needs to make another httpservice call. My question is can this be done or if I create a timer that loops forever will I get a Timeout error script has been running blah blah or what ever the time error says? Or I could create a timer and have it run and when it sends out a request create a new timer and kill/delete/remove the last timer? Any other way to accomplish this?
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Developer Needed (Fulltime)
On this group's header they say we should use the flexjobs newsgroup but I tried to post some Flex job openings there and they've been waiting for approval for two days. Not sure if the thing is dead...the last post was in Feb. There also seems to be a Google Flex jobs list. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nate Beck Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Developer Needed (Fulltime) LinkedIn is a great place... and http://flex.org/jobs http://flex.org/jobs On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:42 PM, geeky developer geekydevelo...@gmail.com mailto:geekydevelo...@gmail.com wrote: Just a curosity sake, Does anyone recommend any good website for looking for a Flex Developer job. If anyone can recommend any good website except Monster or Dice which is dedicated to Flex developer hiring , that will be helpful, Thanks On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.com mailto:ndcoll...@gmail.com wrote: Hehe, well, everything costs more in Chicago... we do have a 10.25% sales tax On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:06 PM, flexaustin flexaus...@yahoo.com mailto:flexaustin%40yahoo.com wrote: Senior guys in Austin are 90k. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Nick Collins ndcoll...@... wrote: Good luck getting a senior level Flex dev for that pay range. Most senior level guys I know are getting between 100-120k. Granted, that's in Chicago, not the middle of Utah. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:37 PM, joshbuhler joshbuh...@... wrote: Rain in American Fork, Utah is currently looking for a (preferably senior level) Flex developer. This is a full-time position, with great benefits. Details can be found at: http://mediarain.com/us/employment/flexdeveloper http://mediarain.com/us/employment/flexdeveloper -- Cheers, Nate http://blog.natebeck.net http://blog.natebeck.net
Re: [flexcoders] Cant receive socket data
hmmm. I could easily append some bytes and see what happens, but not 'til Monday when I go back to work. Thanks! Maciek Sakrejda wrote: Interesting. We ran into this issue with URLStream: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-748 -- maybe your problem is related? Actually, searching Adobe JIRA for XMLSocket turns up a number of bugs that sound vaguely like what you're experiencing... -Maciek
[flexcoders] Cant receive socket data
I have a Flex 3.0 app which can connect to a remote socket server, and
send it XML, but nothing happens ( no event fires, no error in debugger)
in Flex when the server returns data. The remote server is appending a
nullbyte to the xml message, and thinks its sending the data.
Ideas?
-
the server code ( perl) snippet:
my $NULLBYTE = pack( 'c', 0 );
if ( $1 eq new ) {
print STDOUT request is: $1 sending xml data\n;
print CONNSOCK $simdata ;
print CONNSOCK $NULLBYTE;
}
the flex code snippet:
| var socket:XMLSocket = *new *XMLSocket();
socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connected);
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataReceived);
socket.connect(localhost, 8989);
*private function *connected(event:Event):*void*
{
socket.send(xmldata);
}
*private function *dataReceived(dataEvent:DataEvent):*void*
{
trace(dataEvent.data);
var xml:XML = *new *XML(dataEvent.data);
}
Thanks
John
|
Re: [flexcoders] Cant receive socket data
yikes, please ignore extraneous asterisks in snippet.
this is corrected:
-
the server code ( perl) snippet:
my $NULLBYTE = pack( 'c', 0 );
if ( $1 eq new ) {
print STDOUT request is: $1 sending xml data\n;
print CONNSOCK $simdata ;
print CONNSOCK $NULLBYTE;
}
the flex code snippet:
var socket:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connected);
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataReceived);
socket.connect(localhost, 8989);
private function connected(event:Event):void
{
socket.send(xmldata);
}
private function dataReceived(dataEvent:DataEvent):void
{
trace(dataEvent.data);
var xml:XML = new XML(dataEvent.data);
}
Thanks
Re: [flexcoders] Cant receive socket data
Thanks - but I added this code and no change. The events don't fire.
socket = new XMLSocket();
configureListeners(socket);
private function configureListeners(dispatcher:IEventDispatcher):void {
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, closeHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connectHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
ioErrorHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
progressHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR,
securityErrorHandler);
}
private function closeHandler(event:Event):void {
trace(closeHandler: + event);
}
etc etc etc copied from
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/net/XMLSocket.html#includeExamplesSummary
Maciek Sakrejda wrote:
You are an optimist: you are not listening for
flash.events.IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR or
flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR from the XMLSocket.
Re: [flexcoders] Cant receive socket data
More debugging: If I send connect, request data (a short XML text which the server is looking for), then connect again, The data comes through. Note: I am watching in a packet sniffer and I never see the policy file come across any port, though I am able to connect. Note2: if I remove the nullbyte from the perl code no data ever appears. -puzzled John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: binding not updating for ArrayCollection when item changes?
Thanks Josh! I haven't tried to implement this yet but so far it makes
sense.
Thanks again,
John
On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Josh McDonald wrote:
In your custom control, change this:
public function set dataProvider(dp:ArrayCollection):void {
_dp = dp;
trace(this fires when the AC is created, but not when it's
contents change);
}
to something like this:
public function set dataProvider(value : ArrayCollection) : void
{
if (_dp == value)
return;
if (dataProvider)
dataProvider.removeEventListener(CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE,
handleUpdatedProvider);
_dp = value;
if (dataProvider)
dataProvider.addEventListener(CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE,
handleUpdatedProvider, ???, ???, true); // Weak listener!
handleUpdatedProvider(null);
}
private function handleUpdatedProvider(event : CollectionEvent) : void
{
//... do stuff
}
Note that this is just typed out of the top of my head, probably
full of typos, and you need to put the default options in place of
??? when attaching the listener :)
-Josh
2009/3/13 John Robinson jrobi...@nycap.rr.com
Yeah, I've been directly updating the properties. Here's the weird
part... if I use the ArrayCollection as a dataProvider for a List
control, it updates. If I use it for a custom control that I've
created, it does not.
Example:
This works as expected:
mx:List dataProvider={model.users}/
This does not:
jr:customComponent dataProvider={model.users}/
//pseudo component source
customComponent
mx:Script
private var _dp:ArrayCollection;
public function set dataProvider(dp:ArrayCollection):void {
_dp = dp;
trace(this fires when the AC is created, but not when it's
contents change);
}
/mx:Script
/customComponent
Thanks again!
John
On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:44 PM, valdhor wrote:
How do you update a given UserVO's userData? Do you directly access
the public properties?
I have never done it this way - I use getters and setters...
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
private var _id:int = -1;
private var _username:String = null;
private var _enabled:Boolean = false;
private var _userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(id:int, username:String,
enabled:Boolean, userData:XMLList)
{
_id = id;
_username = username;
_enabled = enabled;
_userData = userData;
}
//accessor methods
public function get id():int {return _id;}
public function get username():String {return _username;}
public function get enabled():Boolean {return _enabled;}
public function get userData():XMLList {return _userData;}
//mutator methods
public function set id(id:int):void {_id = id;}
public function set username(username:String):void
{_username = username;}
public function set enabled(enabled:Boolean):void {_enabled
= enabled;}
public function set userData(userData:XMLList):void
{_userData = userData;}
}
}
I have a strange issue with data binding not updating when an
item in
an ArrayCollection is changed. I'm using Cairngorm and have the
following setup. In my ModelLocator I have a 'users'
ArrayCollection
that contains 'UserVO' objects. I have a two views that binds
their
dataProvider to the 'users' AC in the ModelLocator. My UserVO
looks
like so:
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
public var id:int = -1;
public var username:String = null;
public var enabled:Boolean = false;
public var userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(user_id:int, uName:String,
enabled:Boolean,
d:XMLList)
{
id = user_id;
username = uName;
enabled = enabled;
userData = d;
}
}
}
I first have a command that loads all of the users and
populates the
AC. This updates the bindings as expected. I then have a second
command that loads the userData portion for a given user. Once
retrieved, I update the given UserVO's userData, but this
time, the
bindings fail to update.
I feel like I've seen this before but can't find where or what
the
workaround might be. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation
that
this should or shouldn't work.
Thanks!
John
--
Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for
thee.
Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
- j...@joshmcdonald.info
- http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
- http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: binding not updating for ArrayCollection when item changes?
Yeah, I've been directly updating the properties. Here's the weird
part... if I use the ArrayCollection as a dataProvider for a List
control, it updates. If I use it for a custom control that I've
created, it does not.
Example:
This works as expected:
mx:List dataProvider={model.users}/
This does not:
jr:customComponent dataProvider={model.users}/
//pseudo component source
customComponent
mx:Script
private var _dp:ArrayCollection;
public function set dataProvider(dp:ArrayCollection):void {
_dp = dp;
trace(this fires when the AC is created, but not when it's contents
change);
}
/mx:Script
/customComponent
Thanks again!
John
On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:44 PM, valdhor wrote:
How do you update a given UserVO's userData? Do you directly access
the public properties?
I have never done it this way - I use getters and setters...
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
private var _id:int = -1;
private var _username:String = null;
private var _enabled:Boolean = false;
private var _userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(id:int, username:String,
enabled:Boolean, userData:XMLList)
{
_id = id;
_username = username;
_enabled = enabled;
_userData = userData;
}
//accessor methods
public function get id():int {return _id;}
public function get username():String {return _username;}
public function get enabled():Boolean {return _enabled;}
public function get userData():XMLList {return _userData;}
//mutator methods
public function set id(id:int):void {_id = id;}
public function set username(username:String):void
{_username = username;}
public function set enabled(enabled:Boolean):void {_enabled
= enabled;}
public function set userData(userData:XMLList):void
{_userData = userData;}
}
}
I have a strange issue with data binding not updating when an
item in
an ArrayCollection is changed. I'm using Cairngorm and have the
following setup. In my ModelLocator I have a 'users'
ArrayCollection
that contains 'UserVO' objects. I have a two views that binds
their
dataProvider to the 'users' AC in the ModelLocator. My UserVO
looks
like so:
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
public var id:int = -1;
public var username:String = null;
public var enabled:Boolean = false;
public var userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(user_id:int, uName:String,
enabled:Boolean,
d:XMLList)
{
id = user_id;
username = uName;
enabled = enabled;
userData = d;
}
}
}
I first have a command that loads all of the users and
populates the
AC. This updates the bindings as expected. I then have a second
command that loads the userData portion for a given user. Once
retrieved, I update the given UserVO's userData, but this time,
the
bindings fail to update.
I feel like I've seen this before but can't find where or what
the
workaround might be. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation
that
this should or shouldn't work.
Thanks!
John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: binding not updating for ArrayCollection when item changes?
Nice catch! That didn't seem to be causing the problem but thanks for
pointing it out.
I've simplified the case in that I'm not calling the web service
anymore, just flipping the enabled property but binding still is not
updating. Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John
On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:53 AM, valdhor wrote:
I don't know if this is your problem but one thing I noticed is youu
have an ambiguous set of your enabled property. You have
enabled = enabled;
which (I assume) is to set the enabled property of your class to the
enabled parameter that is passed in. This won't work. You should have
this.enabled = enabled;
or change one of the parameter names.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John Robinson jrobi...@... wrote:
I have a strange issue with data binding not updating when an item in
an ArrayCollection is changed. I'm using Cairngorm and have the
following setup. In my ModelLocator I have a 'users' ArrayCollection
that contains 'UserVO' objects. I have a two views that binds their
dataProvider to the 'users' AC in the ModelLocator. My UserVO looks
like so:
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
public var id:int = -1;
public var username:String = null;
public var enabled:Boolean = false;
public var userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(user_id:int, uName:String,
enabled:Boolean,
d:XMLList)
{
id = user_id;
username = uName;
enabled = enabled;
userData = d;
}
}
}
I first have a command that loads all of the users and populates the
AC. This updates the bindings as expected. I then have a second
command that loads the userData portion for a given user. Once
retrieved, I update the given UserVO's userData, but this time, the
bindings fail to update.
I feel like I've seen this before but can't find where or what the
workaround might be. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that
this should or shouldn't work.
Thanks!
John
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[flexcoders] binding not updating for ArrayCollection when item changes?
I have a strange issue with data binding not updating when an item in
an ArrayCollection is changed. I'm using Cairngorm and have the
following setup. In my ModelLocator I have a 'users' ArrayCollection
that contains 'UserVO' objects. I have a two views that binds their
dataProvider to the 'users' AC in the ModelLocator. My UserVO looks
like so:
package com.jrobinson.model.VO
{
[Bindable]
public class UserVO
{
public var id:int = -1;
public var username:String = null;
public var enabled:Boolean = false;
public var userData:XMLList = null;
public function UserVO(user_id:int, uName:String,
enabled:Boolean,
d:XMLList)
{
id = user_id;
username = uName;
enabled = enabled;
userData = d;
}
}
}
I first have a command that loads all of the users and populates the
AC. This updates the bindings as expected. I then have a second
command that loads the userData portion for a given user. Once
retrieved, I update the given UserVO's userData, but this time, the
bindings fail to update.
I feel like I've seen this before but can't find where or what the
workaround might be. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation that
this should or shouldn't work.
Thanks!
John
[flexcoders] problem with HTTPS
A business requirement for our company is to upload sensitive files over SSL. We have got the uploads working fine over HTTP but are recieving the following error over HTTPS: [IOErrorEvent type=ioError bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text=Error #2038: File I/O Error. URL: https://www.elitehealth.com/secure/patient/eliteonline/webService/upload.php;]. We are aware that the issue is probably due to a misconfiguration with our cross-domain-policy, but are inexperienced with this specific requirement. Any thoughts? We're open to hiring someone to help us with this problem if the solution is fairly complex. Thanks, John
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Detect exeptions - help!!
Thanks Steve, I will give it a go. My problem with the communication was that I didn't know the order of messages between exe and swf and so couldn't fix it. Perhaps I can now. John valdhor wrote: John Yes it does. It acts as a proxy between whatever application you are using and whatever you are trying to contact. It automagically sets up Firefox and Internet Exploiter. For other apps you may need to manually set the proxy to the local machine and port. BTW. My name is Steve - Valdhor was my ADD alias back in my university days ;-} --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, John McCormack j...@... wrote: Thanks valdhor, Does Charles manage to capture the local host traffic? I want to capture the messages between an exe and an Adobe swf file. John valdhor wrote: My favorite (The one I own) is Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com). The two things that made it my pick is that it is cross platform and that it understands AMF (ie. it will show you the returned objects and what they contain - invaluable for debugging remote objects) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneworld95 oneworld95@ wrote: John -- WireShark (free download from http://www.wireshark.org/) is my current favorite. It shows all the network traffic and can be filtered based on IP, etc. I've blogged about it here with instructions on using it: http://devharbor.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-wireshark-to-sniff-http-packets.html - Alex C --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneworld95 oneworld95@ wrote: Thanks, Alex. It's not hanging on the Flex side -- the server response is never received. Using WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/), I was able to see it's not hanging at all, but continually sending messages to the Java servlet but getting nothing back in reply. That's what led me to investigate the Java code more closely. The BufferedImage object was receiving some JPG images that it couldn't handle; so it spun away for a while before throwing an exception. For whatever reason, the exception never made it back to the Flex side. All is well now: I took out the BufferedImage object and am passing the InputStream directly to the Java Advanced Imaging API code, which resizes the image and writes it to disk. One issue: JPG images with CMYK color spaces come out with their colors mangled; but that's a limitation of the server code and has nothing to do with Flex. - Alex --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: It would be unusual for Flex to hang waiting for the server. Use a network monitor to see what's going on. Is Flex really hung? You can't hit a button or anything? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oneworld95 Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Detect exeptions - help!! I've run into a very frustrating situation and need your help: - Flex uploads a file to the server - The server reads it into a Java BufferedImage object. - However, Java sometimes takes 40 seconds or longer to reply - In some cases it has difficulty reading the file. In the cases of problems, Flex just hangs. It doesn't reply with anything. Is it timing out? Any help appreciated. -- 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 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: Detect exeptions - help!!
Thanks Alex. I had a peek at your blog and followed the link for localhost but they say it doesn't work at for the local ip address of 127.0.0.1 - on Windows. All the same, thank you for telling me about it, it sounds really good. I shall give it a go for other purposes. I wonder if Charles will capture localhost traffic? John oneworld95 wrote: John -- WireShark (free download from http://www.wireshark.org/) is my current favorite. It shows all the network traffic and can be filtered based on IP, etc. I've blogged about it here with instructions on using it: http://devharbor.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-wireshark-to-sniff-http-packets.html - Alex C --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneworld95 oneworl...@... wrote: Thanks, Alex. It's not hanging on the Flex side -- the server response is never received. Using WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/), I was able to see it's not hanging at all, but continually sending messages to the Java servlet but getting nothing back in reply. That's what led me to investigate the Java code more closely. The BufferedImage object was receiving some JPG images that it couldn't handle; so it spun away for a while before throwing an exception. For whatever reason, the exception never made it back to the Flex side. All is well now: I took out the BufferedImage object and am passing the InputStream directly to the Java Advanced Imaging API code, which resizes the image and writes it to disk. One issue: JPG images with CMYK color spaces come out with their colors mangled; but that's a limitation of the server code and has nothing to do with Flex. - Alex --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: It would be unusual for Flex to hang waiting for the server. Use a network monitor to see what's going on. Is Flex really hung? You can't hit a button or anything? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oneworld95 Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Detect exeptions - help!! I've run into a very frustrating situation and need your help: - Flex uploads a file to the server - The server reads it into a Java BufferedImage object. - However, Java sometimes takes 40 seconds or longer to reply - In some cases it has difficulty reading the file. In the cases of problems, Flex just hangs. It doesn't reply with anything. Is it timing out? Any help appreciated. -- 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: Detect exeptions - help!!
Thanks valdhor, Does Charles manage to capture the local host traffic? I want to capture the messages between an exe and an Adobe swf file. John valdhor wrote: My favorite (The one I own) is Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com). The two things that made it my pick is that it is cross platform and that it understands AMF (ie. it will show you the returned objects and what they contain - invaluable for debugging remote objects) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneworld95 oneworl...@... wrote: John -- WireShark (free download from http://www.wireshark.org/) is my current favorite. It shows all the network traffic and can be filtered based on IP, etc. I've blogged about it here with instructions on using it: http://devharbor.blogspot.com/2009/02/using-wireshark-to-sniff-http-packets.html - Alex C --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneworld95 oneworld95@ wrote: Thanks, Alex. It's not hanging on the Flex side -- the server response is never received. Using WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/), I was able to see it's not hanging at all, but continually sending messages to the Java servlet but getting nothing back in reply. That's what led me to investigate the Java code more closely. The BufferedImage object was receiving some JPG images that it couldn't handle; so it spun away for a while before throwing an exception. For whatever reason, the exception never made it back to the Flex side. All is well now: I took out the BufferedImage object and am passing the InputStream directly to the Java Advanced Imaging API code, which resizes the image and writes it to disk. One issue: JPG images with CMYK color spaces come out with their colors mangled; but that's a limitation of the server code and has nothing to do with Flex. - Alex --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: It would be unusual for Flex to hang waiting for the server. Use a network monitor to see what's going on. Is Flex really hung? You can't hit a button or anything? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oneworld95 Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Detect exeptions - help!! I've run into a very frustrating situation and need your help: - Flex uploads a file to the server - The server reads it into a Java BufferedImage object. - However, Java sometimes takes 40 seconds or longer to reply - In some cases it has difficulty reading the file. In the cases of problems, Flex just hangs. It doesn't reply with anything. Is it timing out? Any help appreciated. -- 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] Detect exeptions - help!!
Alex, Can you recommend a particular network monitor? I would like to catch all the local connection messages - i.e. between a Windows exe and Flash swf working on the same PC. John Alex Harui wrote: It would be unusual for Flex to hang waiting for the server. Use a network monitor to see what’s going on. Is Flex really hung? You can’t hit a button or anything? *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *oneworld95 *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:25 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Detect exeptions - help!! I've run into a very frustrating situation and need your help: - Flex uploads a file to the server - The server reads it into a Java BufferedImage object. - However, Java sometimes takes 40 seconds or longer to reply - In some cases it has difficulty reading the file. In the cases of problems, Flex just hangs. It doesn't reply with anything. Is it timing out? Any help appreciated. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:flexcoders-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: flexcoders-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder debugger problems
If the SWF takes a long time to build you will see that. I sometimes got that when it couldn't find the debugger, but not recently. It's sometimes slow waiting for something to be loaded/decoded, or even when waiting at a breakpoint. Because the two programs don't run independently IE may show no content when interrupted by Flash/Flex. John Curtis Barrett wrote: I'm running into an odd problem with the Flex Builder debugger. About 4/5ths of the times that I click the debug button I get a nice, white IE page. It has the loading icon down at the bottom and aside from that, nothing. When I click stop in flex builder the page goes away and when I click disconnect then the page finishes loading my flex app. It is starting to get particularly frustrating when I have to stop it and relaunch it 5-9 times before I get a working window. Once it comes up all is fine and dandy. Has anyone had anything similar happen? I am on a trial version of flex builder and I have reinstalled it to see if it would help at all. Thanks in advanced, Curtis Barrett
