Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 1.5 SSL implementation solution required

[Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.com [flexcoders]]

Randall is correct. I use ES6 along with Babel and Webpack happily with my
React coding. If you want to dig in and get your hands dirty, check out
Gluestick  (https://www.drivenbycode.com/getting-started-with-gluestick/) .
It is an excellent (IMHO) CLI tool for scaffolding out a React site to get
started and learn how to use the platform.

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Randall Tinfow rtin...@yahoo.com
[flexcoders]  wrote:

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> 6
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> Not a big deal for this weenie.
>
> RT
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Re: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 SSL implementation solution required

[Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.com [flexcoders]]

Another good alternative is React

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Dan Pride danielpr...@yahoo.com
[flexcoders] <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> Flex 4.6 is really qood, but given the industry move away from flash you
> may want to consider Angular2, its basically flash without the bitmap.
> That may be overstating it a bit, but its a lot more similar to
> actionscript 3 than it is to javascript 4 framework stuff.
> At Last ! something approaching the sophistication of actionscript has
> finally appeared on the sceen !
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> Why on God's green earth would you be using a technology that is now
> nearly 15 years old?!?!
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Srinivasulu Thottempudi
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>
> Dear flex developer,
>
> How to build the Flex 1.5 application ?
>
> Our flex application working in tomcat and installed SSL certificate. It
> is fine
>
> Our flex application we are calling the methods thorough RemoteObject.
> After installed SSL Methods are not calling.
>
> We are changed in flex-config.xml ,  URL but it is not
> taking this URL.
>
> Please help me or you can call me on this number.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
> 09849939734
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Re: [flexcoders] Flex 1.5 SSL implementation solution required

[Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.com [flexcoders]]

Why on God's green earth would you be using a technology that is now nearly
15 years old?!?!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Srinivasulu Thottempudi
srinivas...@sankhya.net [flexcoders]  wrote:

>
>
> Dear flex developer,
>
> How to build the Flex 1.5 application ?
>
> Our flex application working in tomcat and installed SSL certificate. It
> is fine
>
> Our flex application we are calling the methods thorough RemoteObject.
> After installed SSL Methods are not calling.
>
> We are changed in flex-config.xml ,  URL but it is not
> taking this URL.
>
> Please help me or you can call me on this number.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas
> 09849939734
>
>
>
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Re: [flexcoders] Using Squiggly under Oracle's Weblogic 11g

[Nick Collins]

My first though is that it is likely something to do with the context of
the application. Likely you are not using the WAR as the root context, so
that will change the pathing. Your best bet is to use relative paths if
possible .


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:06 AM, rabi...@yahoo.com wrote:

 **


 I'm working on a Flex 3 project that incorporates the Squiggly library for
 spell checking. On its own, it works as desired. When I try to package the
 application as a war file for deployment under Oracle's Weblogic 11, I
 cannot get the app to work. The problem appears to be the location of the
 dictionary files; I've tried putting the 'dictionaries' directory in a top
 level 'assets' directory, I've used a 'resources' directory, I've even
 tried putting the directory (and the AdobeSpellingConfig.xml file) in the
 WEB-INF directory, but with no luck.  Anybody out there have any success
 doing something similar?
  

Re: [flexcoders] Compiling and debugging against a remote Coldfusion server

[Nick Collins]

Again, to kind of echo what Brendan said, if this guy can't figure out
simple remoting to a Coldfusion server, I would question my choice.
Coldfusion is by far the simplest, most plug and play remoting to Flex
there is, and there is plenty of documentation available showing you
exactly how to do it. The one caveat with working with a remote server is
that you need to make sure you configure your channelset if you are setting
up your remoting in Actionscript as opposed to using the MXML tag.


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Brendan Meutzner bmeutz...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 Do you have a code repository for the ColdFusion content setup? (ie.
 Subversion, CVS, TeamSite, etc...)

 I have never debugged against a remote ColdFusion server, but it looks
 possible:


 http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusionBuilder/Using/WS0ef8c004658c1089-31c11ef1121cdfd6aa0-7fef.html

 You'll need to have RDS enabled on your remote server... instructions here
 if you already have CF installed... I am not sure if you need to have
 included it during the ColdFusion install, or if you can simply enable
 after the fact.


 http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/disabling-enabling-coldfusion-rds-production.html

 If you have a code repository, then you could check out your central CF
 code to any development or production machine allowing you to keep that
 common set of files you desire.  Then you can have your development
 versions of ColdFusion using this code, and allowing you to setup the debug
 environment locally.  To my knowledge, you're not going to be able to run
 MS Access on the Mac environment, however, that's not a big deal... just
 host the MS Access content on a remote server, and setup your local CF
 development version to have a datasource pointing to the remote database.

 I use Mac for my development environment, and target Windows and Linux
 production servers.  Having the code repository allows me to develop
 locally with my Mac environment, with local CF, database and Flex
 content... when I'm ready, I simply synchronize with repository and then do
 the same on my production versions to get the most up to date code.
  Setting up the local Mac dev environment with CF and Flex is very straight
 forward.  You use the same services-config.xml, remoting-config.mxml files
 as you have on the production server to define end points for RemoteObject
 calls, so everything in seamless when the code hits the server.  In your
 Flex project properties, you target your local version of the
 services-config.xml file (which sits in the
 .../Coldfusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex-config directory locally) and when the
 application compiles, it uses the defined configuration here.  Once it is
 on the server, you have the same version of the file running on your
 ColdFusion instance and everything is fine.

 In short, take the time and make the effort to get a proper development
 version running, and don't try to develop against remote servers.
  Regardless of Windows or Mac, you want all of your developers to use
 remote development environments.  I've worked on teams with mixed OS
 environments like this, and it's possible to do.

 If you're interested, and have the budget, I can spend a couple hours with
 you to get the right environment setup.  All of the Flex development I've
 done since 2004 is against ColdFusion backends and I'm more than familiar
 with it.  If you think we can solve this with general questions via this
 forum, then I'm happy to help here as well... but there's only so much you
 can solve with generalizations vs. actually seeing your setup and being
 able to help hands on.

 I hope this helps a bit, and feel free to continue to ask questions...


 Brendan


 On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Mark Fuqua m...@availdata.com wrote:

 be


  

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Mobile Android 4 (ICS)

[Nick Collins]

 actually listen for a RESIZE event on the view, then check if the width of
the view is greater than the height. If it is, landscape, if not, portrait.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:

 **


 I got my hands on an android 3 tablet and the same thing happens there.  I
 was also able to test on an android 2.3 phone and it does not happen there.
  So, anything in android 3 or 4 and orientation changes that I should be
 aware of?

 Thanks!

 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 One other thing I tried.  If I stop the autoOrient and manually flip my
 orientation via code, the same thing happens.  Usually when an app stops in
 debug mode you get the [Unload SWF] trace line but I'm not getting that so
 it makes me think it's just suspending it?

 This is super frustrating though.

 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 Let's compare really quick... I'm just listening for the
 orientationChange event and switching states in my view accordingly.  (Code
 below)  Is that basically how you handle it as well or are you doing
 something different?

 I'm adding this event listener:

 stage.addEventListener( StageOrientationEvent.ORIENTATION_CHANGE,
 handleOrientationChange );

 and here's the handler:

 private function handleOrientationChange(
 event:StageOrientationEvent=null ):void
 {
 if( stage )
  {
 if( stage.orientation == rotatedLeft || stage.orientation ==
 rotatedRight )
  currentState = landscape;
 else
 currentState = portrait;
  this.invalidateDisplayList();
 }
  }


 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 I have been doing active development with Flex 4.6 on my HTC Inspire 4G
 (running IceColdSandwich/Android 4.0.4) with no such problems. The only
 problem I have had is that Flash Builder doesn't always see the device as
 still being in debugging mode, even though the device indicates that it is.
 Solved by simply disconnecting the USB cable, then reconnecting it.

 I have also been developing on my ASUS Transformer Prime tablet running
 ICS with no orientation issues.

 Nick


 On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 I'm in the middle of writing a flex mobile app and when I debug in the
 emulator it's fine but on my phone (Verizon Google Nexus) when I rotate to
 landscape it dies.  If I start up in landscape, it's fine until I switch 
 to
 portrait, then it dies.  In either case, there is no error in the debug
 console.  I'm using autoOrientstrue/autoOrients which.

 I don't have an iPhone so I haven't been able to test there yet but
 I'm curious if anyone else has seen this.  I've written other mobile apps
 when I had a Galaxy S 1 and I had no issues there.  Is there something 
 else
 I need to do for ICS or is this a bug?

 Thanks!

 -Jake





  

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Mobile Android 4 (ICS)

[Nick Collins]

protected function view_resizeHandler(event:ResizeEvent):void

 {

  if (widthheight)

  this.currentState=landscape;

  else this.currentState=portrait;

 }

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.com wrote:

  actually listen for a RESIZE event on the view, then check if the width
 of the view is greater than the height. If it is, landscape, if not,
 portrait.


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 I got my hands on an android 3 tablet and the same thing happens there.
  I was also able to test on an android 2.3 phone and it does not happen
 there.  So, anything in android 3 or 4 and orientation changes that I
 should be aware of?

 Thanks!

 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 One other thing I tried.  If I stop the autoOrient and manually flip my
 orientation via code, the same thing happens.  Usually when an app stops in
 debug mode you get the [Unload SWF] trace line but I'm not getting that so
 it makes me think it's just suspending it?

 This is super frustrating though.

 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 Let's compare really quick... I'm just listening for the
 orientationChange event and switching states in my view accordingly.  (Code
 below)  Is that basically how you handle it as well or are you doing
 something different?

 I'm adding this event listener:

 stage.addEventListener( StageOrientationEvent.ORIENTATION_CHANGE,
 handleOrientationChange );

 and here's the handler:

 private function handleOrientationChange(
 event:StageOrientationEvent=null ):void
 {
 if( stage )
  {
 if( stage.orientation == rotatedLeft || stage.orientation ==
 rotatedRight )
  currentState = landscape;
 else
 currentState = portrait;
  this.invalidateDisplayList();
 }
  }


 -Jake


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nick Collins ndcoll...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 I have been doing active development with Flex 4.6 on my HTC Inspire
 4G (running IceColdSandwich/Android 4.0.4) with no such problems. The only
 problem I have had is that Flash Builder doesn't always see the device as
 still being in debugging mode, even though the device indicates that it 
 is.
 Solved by simply disconnecting the USB cable, then reconnecting it.

 I have also been developing on my ASUS Transformer Prime tablet
 running ICS with no orientation issues.

 Nick


 On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.comwrote:

 **


 I'm in the middle of writing a flex mobile app and when I debug in
 the emulator it's fine but on my phone (Verizon Google Nexus) when I 
 rotate
 to landscape it dies.  If I start up in landscape, it's fine until I 
 switch
 to portrait, then it dies.  In either case, there is no error in the 
 debug
 console.  I'm using autoOrientstrue/autoOrients which.

 I don't have an iPhone so I haven't been able to test there yet but
 I'm curious if anyone else has seen this.  I've written other mobile apps
 when I had a Galaxy S 1 and I had no issues there.  Is there something 
 else
 I need to do for ICS or is this a bug?

 Thanks!

 -Jake





  

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Mobile Android 4 (ICS)

[Nick Collins]

I have been doing active development with Flex 4.6 on my HTC Inspire 4G
(running IceColdSandwich/Android 4.0.4) with no such problems. The only
problem I have had is that Flash Builder doesn't always see the device as
still being in debugging mode, even though the device indicates that it is.
Solved by simply disconnecting the USB cable, then reconnecting it.

I have also been developing on my ASUS Transformer Prime tablet running ICS
with no orientation issues.

Nick

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:

 **


 I'm in the middle of writing a flex mobile app and when I debug in the
 emulator it's fine but on my phone (Verizon Google Nexus) when I rotate to
 landscape it dies.  If I start up in landscape, it's fine until I switch to
 portrait, then it dies.  In either case, there is no error in the debug
 console.  I'm using autoOrientstrue/autoOrients which.

 I don't have an iPhone so I haven't been able to test there yet but I'm
 curious if anyone else has seen this.  I've written other mobile apps when
 I had a Galaxy S 1 and I had no issues there.  Is there something else I
 need to do for ICS or is this a bug?

 Thanks!

 -Jake

  

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Replacing double slash with a single slash

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Valdor,

Thanks for the reply, I've just tried this code but no joy... :(

var doubleSlash : RegExp = //g;
var slash : RegExp = //;
winMessage = winMessage.replace( doubleSlash, slash );

I'm sure it's easy when you know how :)


Nick



On 8 November 2011 19:24, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com wrote:

 **


 As I understand it the backslash character is special in both the regex
 and the replacement string, so it has to be double escaped in both places.
 That means, for every single backslash you want to match or insert, you
 have to put *four* backslashes in the regex or replacement string.


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nick Middleweek nick@... wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I'm trying to replace a double slash with a single slash and am having a
  little trouble, has anyone done this before?
 
  Here's what I've got thus far...
 
  var doubleSlash : RegExp = /(\\)(\\)/g;
  var slash : RegExp = /(\\)/;
 
  winMessage = winMessage.replace( doubleSlash, slash );
 
 
  Cheers,
  Nick
 

  

[flexcoders] Replacing double slash with a single slash

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm trying to replace a double slash with a single slash and am having a
little trouble, has anyone done this before?

Here's what I've got thus far...

var doubleSlash : RegExp = /(\\)(\\)/g;
var slash : RegExp = /(\\)/;

winMessage = winMessage.replace( doubleSlash, slash );


Cheers,
Nick

[flexcoders] Creating an unconvential Air app like kuler

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

How does one create an Air app that has a non-rectangle window like Kuler?

And is it possible to create an Air app that has multi windows?


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Util, Helper, Worker, etc Classes

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a good list of Class types, their naming and usage
conventions?

I'm trying to find the difference between say a Worker or Helper Class, when
to use each and what other standards there are?


Cheers,
Nick

[flexcoders] Can't see scrollbars on an MX list in a Spark TitleWindow

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Are there any obvious reasons why my MX List won't show scrollbars. It's
tucked inside a Spark TitleWindow.

The list has verticalScrollPolicy = on, width and height = 100% and the
TitleWindow is width = 400, height = 250.

There is enough data so the List should render scrollbars.


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Re: Can't see scrollbars on an MX list in a Spark TitleWindow

[Nick Middleweek]

Mmmm, I must be doing something silly, I've also tried this using MX only
components, so MX:TitleWindow with an MX:List.

Here's my code: http://pastebin.com/ZkzPQBgJ

... and I'm not getting any Scrollbars on the List... height = 100%,
TitleWindow.height=250.


Can anyone see what I'm missing?


Cheers,
Nick



On 9 September 2011 16:31, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 Are there any obvious reasons why my MX List won't show scrollbars. It's
 tucked inside a Spark TitleWindow.

 The list has verticalScrollPolicy = on, width and height = 100% and the
 TitleWindow is width = 400, height = 250.

 There is enough data so the List should render scrollbars.


 Thanks,
 Nick

Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Alex,

Not sure if I've overlooked something but how can the blue focus rectangle
help?


Cheers,
Nick



On 8 September 2011 03:11, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 **


 I think I’d just hack it in.  You can probably hang it off of the DG when
 not used and grab it from there when needed.  The parent of the blue focus
 rectangle is shared among all Flex components in an app.

Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Doug, what's that?



On 7 September 2011 20:48, Douglas Knudsen douglasknud...@gmail.com wrote:

 **


 also keep in mind virtualization use in Lists.  Just one more cog in The
 Wheel That Depends

 Douglas Knudsen
 http://www.cubicleman.com
 this is my signature, like it?


 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote:

 **


 Alex,

 That's a good idea... What's your thoughts on approach to implement a
 shared Button?

 Would you create it at the parent view level and inject into the IR's
 using some kind of IFactory or perhaps attach it to the data property?


 Cheers,
 Nick



 On 7 September 2011 17:27, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 **


 Yes, it is a set of trade-offs.  Deferring until you know you need it is
 best for memory and startup time, but you have to pay for the adding later.
  You can cache the button so you don’t always create a new one.  You can
 even share a button between all renderers if you want.



 On 9/7/11 5:42 AM, ganaraj p r ganara...@gmail.com wrote:






 With toggling the visibility property you are creating 1 Button per Item
 Renderer.

 When you are creating an object each time a user's mouse is over it, and
 then deleting it when its out, you are creating 'n' number of objects and
 deleting them , the new objects need to be garbage collected.

 The initial load is going to be more ofcourse, but then its a set number
 since you are only going to be creating a set number of buttons.

 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk
 wrote:






 Alex,

 Just checking/ thinking... But if I go down the visibility route and
 addChild( x ) up front in createChildren() would I be consuming more initial
 memory than if I addChild( x ) as and when I needed it?

 In my case, I have 15 columns, using the same renderer and 40 rows so
 that's 600 extra buttons that would be created that are initially set
 visible = false;

 I'm assuming they are all in memory and when scrolling, this could impact
 scroll performance.


 Or is adding/ removing children dynamically and making each Item Renderer
 go through it's update cycle more expensive?


 Cheers,
 Nick




 On 6 September 2011 19:48, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:






 States are still available in the MX way.  You can also hide and show
 instead of add and remove.

 Known children should be created in createChildren or in states.  But
 otherwise, you have to create them when you know you need them.  The List
 components create them in updateDisplayList since that’s when they finally
 know how many to create.



 On 9/6/11 10:48 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk 
 http://n...@middleweek.co.uk  wrote:






 Thanks for this... So I'm extending UIComponent, does this mean I'm doing
 it the MX way?

 Cheers...


 On 6 September 2011 14:38, Haykel BEN JEMIA hayke...@gmail.com 
 http://hayke...@gmail.com  wrote:






 Hi Nick,

 if you use Spark components and the child components you want to add are
 fixed and known, e.g. a 'close' button that should be visible on mouse-over,
 then I would use skin states and manage visibility of the components in the
 skin.

 Haykel Ben Jemia

 Allmas
 Web  RIA Development
 http://www.allmas-tn.com





 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk
 http://n...@middleweek.co.uk  wrote:






 Hi,

 I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components
 after the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

 During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()*but 
 where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or
 a mouseClick event?

 Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
 function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
 invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


 Thanks,
 Nick


 --
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 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui




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Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Douglas, Thanks...

So as a rule of thumb, add all children that I know I need up front and
show/ hide them using visibility in e.g. onMouseOver/ Out.

Or set a dirty flag and then invalidateDisplayList(), then from within
updateDisplayList(), check the dirty flags and addChild( x ) in there...


cool.
thanks!


p.s. yeah I like it :)



On 6 September 2011 20:35, Douglas Knudsen douglasknud...@gmail.com wrote:

 **


 ze MX way, yes.  So, um, I suggest you look at the visible property.
  Adding the child once in createChildren() then managing the visible
 property sounds better in the long run. If you really must add/remove the
 button, I'd say use updateDisplayList(), a good place for adding/removing
 dynamic children.

 There's a crap ton of info on the life cycle, here is one such source

 http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf68641-7ff0.html


 Douglas Knudsen
 http://www.cubicleman.com
 this is my signature, like it?

Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Alex,

Just checking/ thinking... But if I go down the visibility route and
addChild( x ) up front in createChildren() would I be consuming more initial
memory than if I addChild( x ) as and when I needed it?

In my case, I have 15 columns, using the same renderer and 40 rows so that's
600 extra buttons that would be created that are initially set visible =
false;

I'm assuming they are all in memory and when scrolling, this could impact
scroll performance.


Or is adding/ removing children dynamically and making each Item Renderer go
through it's update cycle more expensive?


Cheers,
Nick




On 6 September 2011 19:48, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 **


 States are still available in the MX way.  You can also hide and show
 instead of add and remove.

 Known children should be created in createChildren or in states.  But
 otherwise, you have to create them when you know you need them.  The List
 components create them in updateDisplayList since that’s when they finally
 know how many to create.


 On 9/6/11 10:48 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 Thanks for this... So I'm extending UIComponent, does this mean I'm doing
 it the MX way?

 Cheers...


 On 6 September 2011 14:38, Haykel BEN JEMIA hayke...@gmail.com wrote:






 Hi Nick,

 if you use Spark components and the child components you want to add are
 fixed and known, e.g. a 'close' button that should be visible on mouse-over,
 then I would use skin states and manage visibility of the components in the
 skin.

 Haykel Ben Jemia

 Allmas
 Web  RIA Development
 http://www.allmas-tn.com





 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk
 wrote:






 Hi,

 I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components after
 the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

 During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()*but 
 where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or
 a mouseClick event?

 Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
 function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
 invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


 Thanks,
 Nick


 --
 Alex Harui
 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

  




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Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Alex,

That's a good idea... What's your thoughts on approach to implement a shared
Button?

Would you create it at the parent view level and inject into the IR's using
some kind of IFactory or perhaps attach it to the data property?


Cheers,
Nick



On 7 September 2011 17:27, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 **


 Yes, it is a set of trade-offs.  Deferring until you know you need it is
 best for memory and startup time, but you have to pay for the adding later.
  You can cache the button so you don’t always create a new one.  You can
 even share a button between all renderers if you want.



 On 9/7/11 5:42 AM, ganaraj p r ganara...@gmail.com wrote:






 With toggling the visibility property you are creating 1 Button per Item
 Renderer.

 When you are creating an object each time a user's mouse is over it, and
 then deleting it when its out, you are creating 'n' number of objects and
 deleting them , the new objects need to be garbage collected.

 The initial load is going to be more ofcourse, but then its a set number
 since you are only going to be creating a set number of buttons.

 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk
 wrote:






 Alex,

 Just checking/ thinking... But if I go down the visibility route and
 addChild( x ) up front in createChildren() would I be consuming more initial
 memory than if I addChild( x ) as and when I needed it?

 In my case, I have 15 columns, using the same renderer and 40 rows so
 that's 600 extra buttons that would be created that are initially set
 visible = false;

 I'm assuming they are all in memory and when scrolling, this could impact
 scroll performance.


 Or is adding/ removing children dynamically and making each Item Renderer
 go through it's update cycle more expensive?


 Cheers,
 Nick




 On 6 September 2011 19:48, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:






 States are still available in the MX way.  You can also hide and show
 instead of add and remove.

 Known children should be created in createChildren or in states.  But
 otherwise, you have to create them when you know you need them.  The List
 components create them in updateDisplayList since that’s when they finally
 know how many to create.



 On 9/6/11 10:48 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk 
 http://n...@middleweek.co.uk  wrote:






 Thanks for this... So I'm extending UIComponent, does this mean I'm doing
 it the MX way?

 Cheers...


 On 6 September 2011 14:38, Haykel BEN JEMIA hayke...@gmail.com 
 http://hayke...@gmail.com  wrote:






 Hi Nick,

 if you use Spark components and the child components you want to add are
 fixed and known, e.g. a 'close' button that should be visible on mouse-over,
 then I would use skin states and manage visibility of the components in the
 skin.

 Haykel Ben Jemia

 Allmas
 Web  RIA Development
 http://www.allmas-tn.com





 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk 
 http://n...@middleweek.co.uk  wrote:






 Hi,

 I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components after
 the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

 During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()*but 
 where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or
 a mouseClick event?

 Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
 function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
 invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


 Thanks,
 Nick


 --
 Alex Harui
 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

  




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[flexcoders] Re: Flex 4: MouseOver not firing on a UIComponent Item Renderer

[Nick Middleweek]

OK, well I've settled with the white background for now...





On 5 September 2011 11:36, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 We're using Flex 4 and have an Item Renderer that extends UIComponent.

 We're adding a TextField that's added in createChildren().

 In the Constructor(), I'm adding the listener:

 this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, this_onMouseOver);


 ...And in the listener function, I'm adding a button:

 indicator = new Button();
 indicator.width = 20;
 indicator.height = 20;
 indicator.label = ...;
 this.addChild(indicator);

 this.invalidateDisplayList();


 The problem is that the MouseOver event is ONLY firing when I mouse over
 the TextField and not the 'background' of the IR.

 If I draw a rectangle in updateDisplayList:

 // draw rect
 this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF, 1);
 this.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
 this.graphics.endFill();

 ... the MouseOver event DOES fire on the red background.

 Is there a way of achieving this without drawing a rectangle? I did think
 of setting the rect to white but this doesn't seem like the correct
 approach.


 Thanks for any help...

 Nick


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[flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components after
the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()* but
where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or a
mouseClick event?

Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


Thanks,
Nick


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[flexcoders] Using RemoteClass meta tag

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Am I right in thinking the [RemoteClass] meta tag is used for mapping
ActionScript Objects to Server-Side Objects AND vice versa?

I've been reading the Adobe docs and I can't figure out at what point the
RemoteClass meta tag kicks in to aid conversion.

Does anyone have a super simplified explanation of the process?

For the record: I'm using WebOrb for .Net on a project - Existing services
are working and we're generally calling a service using parameters but in
the Responder's result() method our code is just casting var myObject :
MyClass = evt.result.myObject as MyClass;


Because it's using casting I can't see where the [RemoteClass] is actually
of any use?


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Jeff,

The component I'm working on is an Item Renderer for an Advanced Data Grid.

I'm currently creating the button on onMouseOver() and then removing the
button on onMouseOut().

commitProperties() doesn't come into play unless I guess, I set a flag on a
setter and then call invalidateProperties() from the setter but would that
make any real difference? I mean, is it the same calling addChild(myButton)
from onMouseOver() function handler or from within commitProperties?

Does anything naturally happen (life cycle wise) after commitProperties() is
invoked?


Thanks,
Nick



On 6 September 2011 13:09, Jeffry Houser jef...@dot-com-it.com wrote:

 **



  I hav used commitProperties() in the past. Although some people will use
 commitProperties to call createChildren() if new children are needed to be
 created.

  However, I'd be cautious about creating children based on the
 update_complete event.  It seems like an unnecessary way to force yet
 another full render of the component..

 On 9/6/2011 5:28 AM, Nick Middleweek wrote:


 Hi,

  I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components
 after the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

  During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()*but 
 where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or
 a mouseClick event?

  Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
 function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
 invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


  Thanks,
 Nick


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Re: [flexcoders] What is the a correct lifecycle phase to add new child components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Thanks for this... So I'm extending UIComponent, does this mean I'm doing it
the MX way?

Cheers...


On 6 September 2011 14:38, Haykel BEN JEMIA hayke...@gmail.com wrote:

 **


 Hi Nick,

 if you use Spark components and the child components you want to add are
 fixed and known, e.g. a 'close' button that should be visible on mouse-over,
 then I would use skin states and manage visibility of the components in the
 skin.

 Haykel Ben Jemia

 Allmas
 Web  RIA Development
 http://www.allmas-tn.com





 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote:

 **


 Hi,

 I've been trying to find the correct 'place' to create new components
 after the parent component is UPDATE_COMPLETE.

 During initialisation, we create child components in *createChildren()*but 
 where/ when should we create them for e.g. in response to a mouseOver or
 a mouseClick event?

 Is it simply 'ok' to *this.addChild( *myNewButton *)* in a MOUSE_EVENT
 function handler or should I be setting some dirty flag to trigger off an
 invalidation and then add the button in a lifecycle override function?


 Thanks,
 Nick


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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 4: MouseOver not firing on a UIComponent Item Renderer

[Nick Middleweek]

brilliant, this worked:

   this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF, 0); // zero = alpha off.


Thanks!



On 6 September 2011 15:54, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:

 **


 Something has to draw onto every pixel, otherwise the mouse hit passes
 through to underneath.  You can set the alpha to 0 and it will still work.
  You can also set background=true and pick a backgroundColor on the
 TextField and not have to draw the fill.



 On 9/6/11 2:18 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 OK, well I've settled with the white background for now...





 On 5 September 2011 11:36, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 We're using Flex 4 and have an Item Renderer that extends UIComponent.

 We're adding a TextField that's added in createChildren().

 In the Constructor(), I'm adding the listener:

 this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, this_onMouseOver);


 ...And in the listener function, I'm adding a button:

 indicator = new Button();
 indicator.width = 20;
 indicator.height = 20;
 indicator.label = ...;
 this.addChild(indicator);

 this.invalidateDisplayList();


 The problem is that the MouseOver event is ONLY firing when I mouse over
 the TextField and not the 'background' of the IR.

 If I draw a rectangle in updateDisplayList:

 // draw rect
 this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF, 1);
 this.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
 this.graphics.endFill();

 ... the MouseOver event DOES fire on the red background.

 Is there a way of achieving this without drawing a rectangle? I did think
 of setting the rect to white but this doesn't seem like the correct
 approach.


 Thanks for any help...

 Nick


 --
 Alex Harui
 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

  




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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 4: MouseOver not firing on a UIComponent Item Renderer

[Nick Middleweek]

Thanks for the tip...

If I bumped up to GroupBase, does that mean I can use Spark skinning as well
or is this not related?






On 6 September 2011 16:31, turbo_vb timh...@aol.com wrote:

 **


 You might try bumping up from UIComponent to GroupBase and set
 mouseEnabledWhereTransparent = true;

 -TH


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aharui@... wrote:
 
  Something has to draw onto every pixel, otherwise the mouse hit passes
 through to underneath. You can set the alpha to 0 and it will still work.
 You can also set background=true and pick a backgroundColor on the TextField
 and not have to draw the fill.
 
 
  On 9/6/11 2:18 AM, Nick Middleweek nick@... wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
  OK, well I've settled with the white background for now...
 
 
 
 
 
  On 5 September 2011 11:36, Nick Middleweek nick@... wrote:
  Hi,
 
  We're using Flex 4 and have an Item Renderer that extends UIComponent.
 
  We're adding a TextField that's added in createChildren().
 
  In the Constructor(), I'm adding the listener:
 
  this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, this_onMouseOver);
 
 
  ...And in the listener function, I'm adding a button:
 
  indicator = new Button();
  indicator.width = 20;
  indicator.height = 20;
  indicator.label = ...;
  this.addChild(indicator);
 
  this.invalidateDisplayList();
 
 
  The problem is that the MouseOver event is ONLY firing when I mouse over
 the TextField and not the 'background' of the IR.
 
  If I draw a rectangle in updateDisplayList:
 
  // draw rect
  this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF, 1);
  this.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
  this.graphics.endFill();
 
  ... the MouseOver event DOES fire on the red background.
 
  Is there a way of achieving this without drawing a rectangle? I did think
 of setting the rect to white but this doesn't seem like the correct
 approach.
 
 
  Thanks for any help...
 
  Nick
 
 
  --
  Alex Harui
  Flex SDK Team
  Adobe System, Inc.
  http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
 

  

[flexcoders] Flex 4: MouseOver not firing on a UIComponent Item Renderer

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

We're using Flex 4 and have an Item Renderer that extends UIComponent.

We're adding a TextField that's added in createChildren().

In the Constructor(), I'm adding the listener:

this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, this_onMouseOver);


...And in the listener function, I'm adding a button:

indicator = new Button();
indicator.width = 20;
indicator.height = 20;
indicator.label = ...;
this.addChild(indicator);

this.invalidateDisplayList();


The problem is that the MouseOver event is ONLY firing when I mouse over the
TextField and not the 'background' of the IR.

If I draw a rectangle in updateDisplayList:

// draw rect
this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF, 1);
this.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
this.graphics.endFill();

... the MouseOver event DOES fire on the red background.

Is there a way of achieving this without drawing a rectangle? I did think of
setting the rect to white but this doesn't seem like the correct approach.


Thanks for any help...

Nick


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Re: [flexcoders] Licence component

[Nick Collins]

I don't know of any free component, but you may want to investigate either
Zarqon ( from Cliff Hall, the creator of PureMVC ), or NitroLM.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:14 AM, isa_loyer isa_lo...@yahoo.fr wrote:

 **


 Dear Flexer,

 I'm developping an AIR application.
 I'd like include licence system to protect my soft.

 Do you if free component exist or do you have an idea to do that?

 Thanks for help

  

[flexcoders] Setting a custom Air app version/ release number

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

When I install the Air app that I've just created using Export Release Build
I can see a version number in the installation window but it's always set to
the same value... How can I change this? Are there any rules or gotchas
around it as well? Other Air apps I've installed have custom version numbers
and this would be handy for releases...


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Setting a custom Air app version/ release number

[Nick Middleweek]

ah nice one Rob, thank you.




On 6 September 2010 14:09, Rob Parkhill rob_parkh...@yahoo.com wrote:



 There is a version number section in the XML for the application. Same
 place where you can enter app name and such.

 Rob

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 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Mon, September 6, 2010 5:22:17 AM
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Setting a custom Air app version/ release number



 Hi,

 When I install the Air app that I've just created using Export Release
 Build I can see a version number in the installation window but it's always
 set to the same value... How can I change this? Are there any rules or
 gotchas around it as well? Other Air apps I've installed have custom version
 numbers and this would be handy for releases...


 Thanks,
 Nick


  




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[flexcoders] FB4: DataGroup not resizing when dataProvider is updated

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

I'm new to FB4 and am working with another chap creating a component. We've
got a DataGroup who's dataProvider is increased when a button is pressed.

When the DataGroup is set to a fixed height, i.e. 200 we can see the
itemRenderer components being added on screen but with the DataGroup.height
= 100%, the itemRenderers are being placed ontop of each other. The Layout
of the DataGroup is set to VerticalLayout.

Has anyone had any success with anything similar?


Thanks in advance and happy bank holiday!

Nick

[flexcoders] NumericInput UI control

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

Up until now I've been using a NumericStepper Control for number entry
fields... My client has been suggesting changes to the default behaviour of
the Control to the point where it's almost not worth using a NumericStepper
anymore...

What does everyone use for numeric data entry fields?

I need to support standard number formatting, decimals, negative and
positive values...


Any initial thoughts or should I just extend TextInput and roll my own
control?


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Semi-dial / speedo-type control in flex

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I thought there was a dial or speedometer control built into Flex 3?

Does anyone have any references to one if I'm mistaken?


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Player Security - Local SWF accessing local and network?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Hopefully the Player Security subject hasn't scared you off but I'm stumped
with an issue. When I'm creating a little demo app or any Flex app really,
I'm accessing the local file system for an .xml settings file and a search
will access a remote HTTP or Web Service so I'm accessing both local and
remove resources.

I do a Release Build, test and it works.

I zip it up, send to my product owner and he gets a security error.

I've tried directing him to
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.htmlto
tick Always allow, restart the browser, reload the flex app via the
.html file but still no joy. Security error.

Does anyone know why this works on my machine but not his? Is it because I'm
using the Flash Debug player?

Are there any rules around making a SWF be Security.LOCAL_TRUSTED ?

I'm on Vista Business, my PO is on Windows 7.


Cheers,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Player Security - Local SWF accessing local and network?

[Nick Middleweek]

Cheers Alex - I'll continue playing with the settings and report back...

Thanks...



On 3 August 2010 18:48, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 The settings manager and/or flashplayertrust files make the sandbox rules
 LOCAL_TRUSTED instead of one of the other LOCAL_XXX sandboxes.  I think you
 have to specify locations to trust in that dialog.  AlwaysAllow option may
 be for internet hosted SWFs

Re: [flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

[Nick Middleweek]

Guys, I missed this one... Thank you for your replies... I'll check out the
code and see what works. I did end up writing a string parser but I'm now
curious to see how RegEx stands up to the task.


Cheers,
Nick


On 29 July 2010 23:30, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Ouch, actually, it has a flaw, but I'm not sure you need a fix for that,
 but it's possible to fix it, if you want. It only checks for the double
 quotes, when it checks for the non-quoted words, but it checks for both
 single and double quoted groups of words. If you need both single and double
 quotes however, the expression is going to be a tid bit longer... but if you
 don't need, then it'd be shorter in fact:

 /(.*[^])|(\s[^\s]+(?!\s))/g

[flexcoders] Mouse coordinates on DragEvent = DragManager.MOVE

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Has anyone been able to obtain the MouseX and MouseY in the drop phase of
drag drop?

I've tried the following but nothing is giving... :(


var mouseEvent_X : int = MouseEvent( event ).localX;
var mouseEvent_Y : int = MouseEvent( event ).localY;

var relatedObject_X : int = DatesItemRenderer(
event.relatedObject ).x;
var relatedObject_Y : int = DatesItemRenderer(
event.relatedObject ).y;

var dragEvent_X : int = DragEvent( event ).stageX;
var dragEvent_X : int = DragEvent( event ).stageY;

var point : Point = new Point( this.contentMouseX,
this.contentMouseY );



Thanks for any help on a friday afternoon!

Nick

[flexcoders] Re: Mouse coordinates on DragEvent = DragManager.MOVE

[Nick Middleweek]

Got it...

var point : Point = new Point( this.contentMouseX,
this.contentMouseY );
point = contentToGlobal( point );




On 30 July 2010 14:22, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 Has anyone been able to obtain the MouseX and MouseY in the drop phase of
 drag drop?

 I've tried the following but nothing is giving... :(


 var mouseEvent_X : int = MouseEvent( event
 ).localX;
 var mouseEvent_Y : int = MouseEvent( event
 ).localY;

 var relatedObject_X : int = DatesItemRenderer(
 event.relatedObject ).x;
 var relatedObject_Y : int = DatesItemRenderer(
 event.relatedObject ).y;

 var dragEvent_X : int = DragEvent( event ).stageX;
 var dragEvent_X : int = DragEvent( event ).stageY;

 var point : Point = new Point( this.contentMouseX,
 this.contentMouseY );



 Thanks for any help on a friday afternoon!

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[flexcoders] How to split a String on spaces but including Quoted Phrases?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I haven't been able to work out regex yet so apart from looping and parsing
a string manually, is there anyway of parsing the following string...

flex action script parse string function

into the following Array...

[0] = flex
[1] = action script
[2] = parse
[3] = string
[4] = function


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] How to detect the decimal point character?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm doing some custom bits on the Flex 3 NumericStepper and I need to
prevent more than decimal point being entered into it's textField. Is there
a way to detect the character used? e.g. Germany uses a comma...

Or should I do something like this... How future proof, multi-lingo is
that?

var decimalCharacter : String = Math.PI.toString().substr( 1, 1 );


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Re: who know flex builder2 download location??

[Nick Collins]

Flex Builder 2 doesn't either. You would need to have Flex 1.5... and Flex
Builder at that point was basically Dreamweaver. Good luck working with
that!

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:02 AM, sevengeon seveng...@yahoo.co.kr wrote:



 i want programming use as2.0 on FlashPlayer 8

 but fb3 is not support as2.0 sdk..

 so i need fb2.. or any other solutions..


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 valdhor valdhorli...@... wrote:
 
  Why?
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 sevengeon sevengeon@ wrote:
  
   i want flex builder2..
  
 

  

[flexcoders] How to remove the DateField textInput border?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Has anyone been able to modify the border of the TextInput component of the
Date field?

I'm trying to set it to ZERO.

I've tried extending the DateField - MyDateField and specifying the
borderThickness in updateDisplayList using
this.textInput.setStyle(borderThickness, 0);


... to be honest, I'm not even sure if that's the correct approach? is there
a way to do it through code?


Thansk in advance!!

Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Capturing ENTER key in a Numeric Stepper

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Andrew.

Can you trap the ENTER (keyCode = 13) on a Numeric Stepper? I've been
failing to do this... :(

When a user presses the ENTER key, I want to perform an operation, such as a
search... So I'm thinking I need to somehow trap the ENTER key and dispatch
a custom event.


Mmmm... Any ideas?


Cheers,
Nick





On 11 July 2010 03:46, Andrew cottag...@gmail.com wrote:



 In my applications I use the change event to fire events( like
 change='doThisThing()'). Seems to work for the number stepper just fine.


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nick
 Middleweek n...@... wrote:
 
  Hello,
 
  I've got a form with a few fields on, one being a numeric stepper. On the
 TextInput, I can test the enter key being pressed using the enter event
 but there doesn't appear to be an equivalent for the numericstepper...

  




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Re: [flexcoders] Capturing ENTER key in a Numeric Stepper

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi dork, how you doing?... Thanks for the info on this...

Have you managed to achieve this when using a NumericStepper for your form
objects? i...@ve just this out as an example:
http://flexmusings.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/using-default-button/

And it works when pressing ENTER in either of the TextInputs but if I pop a
NS control on the form and press ENTER from within that it doesn't invoke
the defaultButton?...

Here's my code: http://pastebin.com/65HwfuGf


Cheers for the help...


Nick





On 11 July 2010 01:26, dorkie dork from dorktown 
dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com wrote:



 the canvas tag has a defaultButton property that will dispatch a click
 event on your submitSearch button. i'm not sure what the eq would be in flex
 4.

 On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote:



 Hello,

 I've got a form with a few fields on, one being a numeric stepper. On the
 TextInput, I can test the enter key being pressed using the enter event
 but there doesn't appear to be an equivalent for the numericstepper...

 Has anyone managed to acheive this and how did you do it please?

 On enter, I want to dispatch a submitSearch event but can't seem to detect
 this for the NS control..


 Any ideas will be great..


 Cheers,
 Nick


  




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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Capturing ENTER key in a Numeric Stepper

[Nick Middleweek]

Andrew - cheers. My problem was that I am working with a custom Numeric
Stepper, I had extended the base control it so it could support null entries
and to be quite restrictive with the inputs... 0-9, delete key, backspace,
etc... I forgot to include ENTER.. doh! :-)

After your post, I decided to go back to basics and testing and
trace(event.keyCode.toString()) on the keydownHander...


Cheers, it's all sorted. I'm now firing out my own FlexEvent.ENTER from my
custom numberstepper.


nice! :-)




On 11 July 2010 15:31, Andrew cottag...@gmail.com wrote:



 I would probably have an event handler to deal with ALL keystrokes, and
 within that have a switch statement. One case of the switch statement would
 be

 case '13':
 var searchValue:int = myNumericStepper.value;
 doTheSearch(searchValue);
 break;

 So when the enter key click is captured, the code goes and looks at the
 number stepper and sends whatever its current value is to the search
 function.


 a

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nick
 Middleweek n...@... wrote:
 
  Hi Andrew.
 
  Can you trap the ENTER (keyCode = 13) on a Numeric Stepper? I've been
 failing to do this... :(
 
  When a user presses the ENTER key, I want to perform an operation, such
 as a search... So I'm thinking I need to somehow trap the ENTER key and
 dispatch a custom event.

  




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[flexcoders] Capturing ENTER key in a Numeric Stepper

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

I've got a form with a few fields on, one being a numeric stepper. On the
TextInput, I can test the enter key being pressed using the enter event
but there doesn't appear to be an equivalent for the numericstepper...

Has anyone managed to acheive this and how did you do it please?

On enter, I want to dispatch a submitSearch event but can't seem to detect
this for the NS control..


Any ideas will be great..


Cheers,
Nick

[flexcoders] focusrect on custom components?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Does anyone know the right way of applying the focusrect to a composite
component, instead of the individual components that make it up?

I've got a custom comp made up of about 4 basic UI objects and when I click
inside it I want the whole component to look as if it's received the focus
and not the individual component...

I've just started looking into the NumericStepper for an example but it
seems quite involved... Do I carry on hunting or is there an easy way? :-)


Cheers,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] User Interface Design Groups

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I wil get it compiled an upload to a site and post a follow up - thanks for
the message :)


Cheers,
NIck



On 7 July 2010 22:21, dorkie dork from dorktown 
dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com wrote:



 nick,
 i know the perfect group, its called flexcoders. ...or flashcoders. most
 flash platform developers come from a design background and have a passion
 for the best UI experience.

 so post it here!! :)

 design and UI xp IS part of the flash platform...

Re: [flexcoders] Input formatter?

[Nick Middleweek]

Ok, cool... Thanks Scott...

I was hoping there'd be a built in way that I can apply to different
objects, I'm using it on the DateField object...

I'll check that link out and have a hunt around...



Nick




On 7 July 2010 04:23, Scott h...@netprof.us wrote:



  Sorry, my bad.  I missunderstood.  You’ll need to either extend the
 textinput or use a custom component already created for this.  I’ve seen a
 few but I can’t find the one I used last winter…  I did find this one on
 Adobe.  It’s for 2.01 but it should work ok.
 http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetailextid=1049969



 GL.



 Sj

[flexcoders] User Interface Design Groups

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I've been working on a little composite search UI component but it needs
polishing off and I wondered if there were any groups out there that could
help with this sort of thing? Does anyone know of any?


Cheers,
Nick

[flexcoders] Input formatter?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

Is it possible to have a data entry/ input formatter?

For example, I have a DateField and I want to override the data entry so
that they can only type 1 or 2 numbers followed by a slash, then 1 or 2
numbers followed by a slash, then 4 numbers.

Is there such thing in Flex as an Input Data Formatter or something similar?

How do others handle this?


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Input formatter?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi scott,

Thanks for the link, this only seems to format the 'string' when I focus out
the field... What I'd like is on every key press, the entry field validates
the character at each position... So taking this as an entry format...

DD/MM/, or perhaps I should write it as #0/#0/ where a # represents
an optional number and 0 means any number.

The users can type 10 and if they type 7 as the third character, it
automatically puts in the slash character and uses  as the fourth
character, typing slash now should pad out the month into 07 and then the
next 4 numbers would represent the year...

I'm after a data entry filter to help the users not enter invalid entries.


Thanks,
Nick




On 6 July 2010 13:10, Scott h...@netprof.us wrote:



  Yes, you can use formatters…
 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=formatters_2.html  
 Bind the component to the variable.

[flexcoders] Data Import Web Service... Where has it gonein FB4?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can get FB3's Import Web Service feature in FB4?

I just want to import all the Value Objects from my WSDL but the FB4 Connect
to Web Service feature seems to create a load of bloated code. Perhaps I'm
just used to the FB3 version and I need to adjust my thinking but what are
other peoples thoughts on this?

It was quite easier previously, import the WSDL, copy the value objects and
plumb in the SchemeType declarations...


Cheers,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Data Import Web Service... Where has it gonein FB4?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Unless I'm mistaken but I think that is the same as selecting Connect to
Web Service... from the Data menu ?

I was hoping to get to the FB3 import Web Service feature...


Cheers,
Nick



On 25 June 2010 15:29, claudiu ursica the_bran...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Data Services Tab, usually near Problems one or Data Button /Connect to
 Web Service

 C

Re: [flexcoders] setting the border thickness on a Spark mx.controls.VBox ?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hey Alex,

I had my Flex 4 project set to use both Halo and Spark. I was using
mx.controls.VBox but couldn't set the borderThickness.

I ended up switching project to Flex 3.5 SDK and just sticking with
mx.controls... so I've got round it but it'd be handy to know how to set a
borderThickness on a VBox when using Spark + Halo under SDK v4...


Is it possible?


Cheers,
Nick



On 23 June 2010 17:07, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 Which theme?



 On 6/22/10 3:24 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 Hi,

 Sounds a bit contradictory - Spark and mx.controls but I'm using Flex 4 but
 working on some Flex 3 code and can't update to Spark at the moment. I'm
 struggling to find out how to set the border thickness of my VBox to 10.

 Has anyone acheived this ?


 Thanks,
 Nick






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[flexcoders] setting the border thickness on a Spark mx.controls.VBox ?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Sounds a bit contradictory - Spark and mx.controls but I'm using Flex 4 but
working on some Flex 3 code and can't update to Spark at the moment. I'm
struggling to find out how to set the border thickness of my VBox to 10.

Has anyone acheived this ?


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] how to place cursor in textinput

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Assuming your login window is popped up using the PopupManager you can set
the loging window component to implement IFocusManagerContainer.

mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
width=355 height=217
implements=mx.managers.IFocusManagerContainer
creationComplete={init();}
.
.
.
import mx.managers.IFocusManagerContainer;
.
.
.
private function init():void
{
   focusManager.setFocus(login_userName);
}
.
.
.

PopUpManager.createPopUp() :
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/managers/PopUpManager.html#createPopUp%28%29


Hope that helps...


Nick
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On 17 June 2010 06:34, venkatreddy_006 venkatreddy_...@yahoo.com wrote:



 Hi everyone,

 i was setthe focus to the TextInput component, (this is component in login
 window). This highlights my TextInput component, but it is not place
 cursor in textinput
 Regard's
 VenkatReddy s

[flexcoders] Different effects

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm reading up about Flex Effects... Can anyone explain the difference
between the three types:

1). MaskEffect
2). TweenEffect
3). CompositeEffect.


I'm guessing that Tween is animation and Composite is a combined effect such
as move and resize.


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Defining layouts in Spark controls

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Is there another way of defining the layout on a Spark control? It seems we
have to do this...

s:Panel title = Range Search
s:layout
s:VerticalLayout/
/s:layout

/s:Panel


Is there a nicer way?... Something like... layout = {new VerticalLayout()}


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] removeEventListener - is it important?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my head into the Flex (3) component architecure and am
reading through the source code of mx.controls.DateField. I've noticed quite
a calls (eight of them) to addEventListener but there are none to
removeEventListener.

Is it not important to clear up after yourself?...

It is a good idea to remove any handlers that will no longer be used. This
removes references to objects so that they can be cleared from memory. -
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=events_05.html


So; when I create a DateField, a number of event handlers are attached to
it, so if I remove that DateField from the stage, are the event handlers
still attached and therefore the DateField is referenced by these handlers
and therefore won't get GD'd ?

Mmmm


Cheers,
Nick

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Re: [flexcoders] removeEventListener - is it important?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the reply... I think it's important too but can't understand why
the DateField Class in the Flex SDK doesn't do it?

Digging a little deeper... Here's the Constructor of the DateField...

/**
 *  Constructor.
 */
public function DateField()
{
  super();
  addEventListener(Event.REMOVED_FROM_STAGE, removedFromStageHandler);
}


The removedFromStageHandler() function, seems to be doing some clean ups, so
I guess that's kind of like it's .dispose() method.


Nick




On 2 June 2010 12:44, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 If you are adding handlers to events dispatched by the objects that are
 going to be removed along with the listener, then why not? However, it is
 true that Flex components have no dispose() or similar methods.

[flexcoders] Has the Flex 4 component architecture changed much from Flex 3?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Has the Flex 4 component architecture changed much from Flex 3?

I was recommended to get the Flash Builder 4 Flex 4 Bible to learn about
writing components but I'm still working with Flex 3 projects and
realistically, I probably will be for a couple more years...


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Has the Flex 4 component architecture changed much from Flex 3?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Paul,

Although I'll be working with Flex 3 for a couple more years, any new
projects will be Flex 4.

More importantly though, in what way has the component architecture changed?


Cheers,
Nick



On 1 June 2010 11:29, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote:



 On 01/06/2010 11:00, Nick Middleweek wrote:

 Hi,

 Has the Flex 4 component architecture changed much from Flex 3?

 I was recommended to get the Flash Builder 4 Flex 4 Bible to learn about
 writing components but I'm still working with Flex 3 projects and
 realistically, I probably will be for a couple more years...


 If that's the case, I'd stick with Flex 3 books for the moment. Things have
 certainly changed.

 Thanks,
 Nick


  

Re: [flexcoders] Get URL that user typed in

[Nick Middleweek]

i think you're after the HTTP referrer.

You can access this information server-side and I believe some of the data
is available from JavaScript so from Flex, just reach out.

HTH,
Nick


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On 28 May 2010 04:49, Scott h...@netprof.us wrote:



  Is there any way to get the URL that the user typed in to get to the
 website?



 For example, if the user loads IE, Chrome, etc… and goes to
 http://www.mysite.com is there anyway that I can pull that information in
 FB?



 I know I could do this in Apache but I want do something a little more
 dynamic.  If I have multiple URLS pointing to my server I’d like to know
 what the original URL was to provide the correct content.



  Thanks!



 Scott
  

[flexcoders] Changing the dataProvider for a ComboBox doesn't seem to work properly

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I have a ComboBox with it's dataProvider set to an Array( =, , ,
 );

If a TextInput is changed, I want to change (or update) the ComboBox
dataProvider to use this Array( =,  );

And if that TextInput is blank (), then I want to switch it back to Array(
=, , ,  );

I've tried declaring two private var arrays and switching the
ComboBox.dataProvider on the change event of the TextInput but strange
things happening and it seems the dataProvider isn't refreshed properly
until I clicked on the ComboBox and select an item. I've tried using
validateNow.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?


Thanks,
Nick


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[flexcoders] advanced flex architecure books?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend any Advanced Flex/ Actionscript books out there that
can teach me all about the writing components properly, using mx_internal,
the Flex life cycle and anything else so I can know everything about Flex
and it's inner workings :-)

Maybe quite a lot to ask but I've often said You don't know what you can do
until you know how to do it...

Are there any must read books to master Flex, the framework and writing
components, etc (the right way)?


Cheers,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] How to store information in Cookies ???

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Cookies are pretty easy to use, I did something very similar, storing the
selected value from a Menu.

First things first, download the CookieUtil library and plug it into your
project.

Then you can use CookieUtil.setCookie and CookieUtil.getCookie to set and
get the values.


Hope that helps,
Nick

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On 27 May 2010 10:14, Nini7016 Nini7016 nahloulaha...@hotmail.com wrote:



 Hello :)

 I have a menu item et i would like to store these information in
 CookiesI didn't work with Cookies before :( :( ...Do you have any
 example please please ...
   there is a code for the menu item :
  menuitem label=Option icon={newproject}
 menuitem label=View icon={newproject} 
 menuitem label=Proprities icon= id=18
 type=check toggled=false/
 menuitem label=Macroimage icon= id=19
 type=check toggled=false/
 menuitem label=UDDI  Navigator icon= id=20
 type=check toggled=true/
 /menuitem
 /menuitem

And when the user modifie these infomation by checking an option, i
 would like to store these information .

   Any idea please ...???

   Thank you very much :):):)

Re: [flexcoders] How to store information in Cookies ???---Thank you :) Nick , Do you have an example of what you have done

[Nick Middleweek]

Yeah sure...

/**
 * Resets the ADG zoom feature to the browser-cookie stored
value or to 100%
 * if there isn't one and then saves 100% to the browser-cookie.
 *
 * @param event The Event Object.
 * @return void
 */
private function zoomMenuReset ( event : Event ) : void
{
var numIndex : Number = 0;
var strCookieScale : String = '';
var objCookieScale : Object;
objCookieScale = CookieUtil.getCookie(
'intFontScalePercentage' );

if ( objCookieScale == null )
strCookieScale = 100; //If there's no cookie then we
default it to 100%
else
strCookieScale = objCookieScale.toString();

for each ( var Obj : Object in zoomMenu.dataProvider )
{
if ( Obj.scale == Number( strCookieScale ))
break;
else
numIndex++;
}

zoomMenu.selectedIndex = numIndex;
zoomScale.label = zoomMenu.dataProvider[
zoomMenu.selectedIndex ].label;
intFontScalePercentage = zoomMenu.dataProvider[
zoomMenu.selectedIndex ].scale;
zoomScale.close();
CookieUtil.setCookie( 'intFontScalePercentage',
intFontScalePercentage.toString(), 120 );
}


HTH,
Nick



On 27 May 2010 11:48, Nini7016 Nini7016 nahloulaha...@hotmail.com wrote:



 Thank you very much Nick

 Could you give an example which shows how do you have done to restore your
 selected value please :) It will be very helpful for me :)

 Thank you very much

 --
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 From: n...@middleweek.co.uk
 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:51:00 +0100
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to store information in Cookies ???


  Hi,

 Cookies are pretty easy to use, I did something very similar, storing the
 selected value from a Menu.

 First things first, download the CookieUtil library and plug it into your
 project.

 Then you can use CookieUtil.setCookie and CookieUtil.getCookie to set and
 get the values.


 Hope that helps,
 Nick

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 http://blog.middleweek.co.uk } );




 On 27 May 2010 10:14, Nini7016 Nini7016 nahloulaha...@hotmail.com wrote:


  Hello :)

 I have a menu item et i would like to store these information in
 CookiesI didn't work with Cookies before :( :( ...Do you have any
 example please please ...
   there is a code for the menu item :
  menuitem label=Option icon={newproject}
 menuitem label=View icon={newproject} 
 menuitem label=Proprities icon= id=18
 type=check toggled=false/
 menuitem label=Macroimage icon= id=19
 type=check toggled=false/
 menuitem label=UDDI  Navigator icon= id=20
 type=check toggled=true/
 /menuitem
 /menuitem

And when the user modifie these infomation by checking an option, i
 would like to store these information .

   Any idea please ...???

   Thank you very much :):):)






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 8 http://clk.atdmt.com/FRM/go/232102477/direct/01/
  




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[flexcoders] Setting UI components in a composite component to private?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

When we create a composite component, such as an itemRenderer, based on an
HBox and there's a button and TextInput inside, those sub-components are
public, is there a way to specify they're private?


Thanks,
Nick

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[flexcoders] Intuitive search UI ideas?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has done any good search UI components? I'm about
to start one for a project but I'm raising questions early about the
handling of date/ numeric ranges and perhaps multiple ranges of fields
values.

Our normal search panels are generally just a bunch of fields that the user
would type values into and then hit search. The standard server search logic
would combine the results using that AND that AND that.

I'm now thinking what if the user wants a more refined search such as ( ( (
sex = male ) AND ( age  25 ) ) OR ( ( sex = female ) AND ( age  20 ) )
) which would return all males above 25 and all females above 20. Now using
a 'standard' search screen, this isn't possible.

Does anyone have any examples or ideas on how to present such custom query
options to the user and keeping it relatively easy and nice :)


Cheers,
Nick



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Re: [flexcoders] The Flex DOM?

[Nick Middleweek]

Cheers Jake - thanks for the reply.

@Oleg: I was trying to find out if there was a 'DOM' within Flex to easily
access to the Containers and other Objects but I guess the more correct way
to ask, would've been to question how Flex manages components but I didn't
want to open the doors about the component life cycle. Apologies if I got
the terminology wrong - I'm still getting my head round certain things and I
saw a thread yesterday about looping through dynamically added TextInputs to
which Valdor replied and it made me think how I used to do similar
operations with JavaScript and the HTML-DOM and was thinking could I apply
similar concepts?... (I've got another question and it's not abut squares :)
but I'll create another thread).

@Paul - I'll have a quick search, thanks.


Cheers guys,
Nick




On 24 May 2010 22:30, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:



 It's kind of like a DOM.  It's just a hierarchical relationship of
 components and controls.


 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote:



 Hi,

 Might be a silly one but Flex doesn't have a DOM does it... or does it?

 I'm pretty sure I've seen a debugger app that shows a hierachical view
 starting from the Application level and displays all the containers and
 objects within.


 Thanks,
 Nick


  




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Re: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size

[Nick Middleweek]

Can you expand a little on the page layout you ha.ve that needs to change?..
You might be able to just use CSS to position some DIV tags in a fluid
layout and your SWF is in one DIV, your IFRAME in another and when the
browser resizes, the browser handles the moving using relative positioning.

So maybe forget that you've got an IFRAME and SWF, this fluid layout concept
will apply to any HTML objects such as two images.

Hope that helps somehow... (unless I've misread your problem?)


Cheers,
Nick

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On 24 May 2010 20:35, Battershall, Jeff jeff.battersh...@dowjones.comwrote:



  There’s a lot on this subject out there but not the definitive answer I’m
 looking for – so I thought I’d see what Flex Coders has on the subject.



 I need to be able to re-position some HTML content (an IFrame) relative to
 the screen coordinates of my Flex app, when the browser is re-sized.



 Can anyone point me in the direction of the best solutions to this?

Re: [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based on Visible Property of the Control

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Angelo,

If you don't set a width on the column it will default to 100.

What I think you'd need to do is create a customComponent for your item
Renderer, most likely based on an HBox with your link buttons inside that.

On the creationComplete event of the itemRenderer you could get the actual
width of the HBox, check that the itemRenderer is in row ONE of the data
grid (or it is the actual first row - see the API) and then fire out a
custom Event with the width value attribute and then set the column width
from the parent component. You might also be able to reach the DataGrid
Column from within the itemRenderer itself.

I'm saying only do this on row one, just to optimise it, otherwise it'll run
for ever row in the DG, which would hinder performance.


Hope this helps, ask if you need anymore help.


Cheers,
Nick




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On 21 May 2010 14:09, Angelo Anolin angelo_ano...@yahoo.com wrote:




 Thanks for this tip.

 But, I came across another thing.

 How would I set the width of the column so that it matches the width of the
 itemrenderers inside it?

 Apparently, setting the width to 100% for the datagrid column is not
 allowed.

 Thanks.

 Angelo
 --
 *From:* Christopher McArthur cmcart...@riotgames.com
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Thu, 20 May, 2010 17:14:06
 *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based
 on Visible Property of the Control



  the includeInLayout property may also be helpful to you in this case,
 try:

 includeInLayout={outerDocument. fncVisible( )}



 *From:* flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com]
 *On Behalf Of *Angelo Anolin

 *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:46 PM
 *To:* flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com

 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based on
 Visible Property of the Control





 Hi FlexCoders,



 I have declared an in-line item renderer in my datagrid:



 mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Test textAlign=center sortable=false

   mx:itemRenderer

 mx:Component

   mx:HBox horizontalAlign=center 

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 visible={outerDocum
 ent.fncVisible( )} width={???}/

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 /

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 /

   /mx:HBox

 /mx:Component

   /mx:itemRenderer

 /mx:DataGridColumn





 as you may see, I am determining the visibility of the link button via a
 function.  What I want to achieve is that if the linkbutton contrl is
 invisible, the width should be 0, but if it is visible, then width should be
 100.



 How do I pass in a function for the width of the control whether it's
 visibility is set to true or false?



 Thanks.




  

[flexcoders] Looping to addChild TextInputs, then removeAllChildren, are they GC'd?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

If I looped ten times and added ten Ten TextInputs to the 'stage' (addChild)
they would remain in memory until they were removed (removeAllChildren) and
then Garbabe Collected? Right?

Let's say I created an Array and changed my loop to add them to the 'stage'
(addChild) *AND* put the object reference into the Array. If I then removed
them from the stage, am I right in thinking they'd remain in memory because
they are referenced by the Array so therefore wouldn't be GC'd?

I'm trying to tick some boxes in my head about how the inners of Flex works
so if by reading this you think I might benefit from reading soemthing, I'd
appreciate some links to articles.


Thanks guys,
Nick

[flexcoders] The Flex DOM?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Might be a silly one but Flex doesn't have a DOM does it... or does it?

I'm pretty sure I've seen a debugger app that shows a hierachical view
starting from the Application level and displays all the containers and
objects within.


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Re: var myVar : Function = new Function ? examples?

[Nick Middleweek]

Thanks for the replies and those important points Oleg - nice!



On 21 May 2010 08:57, ouaqa abenef...@gmail.com wrote:



 If it may help, this is how I usually manage my remote connections.
 Before you say it's off-topic, I think it might answer your question :

 public class LCRemoteConnectionManager
 {

 private static var serverRemoteObject : RemoteObject ; // = null


 private var onGetCelluleFormatListResultFunction : Function ;
 private var onGetCelluleFormatListResultFaultFunction : Function ;

 /*
  some irrelevant stuff
 */

 public function getCellulesFormats (AGetFormatListResultFunction : Function
 ,AGetFormatListResultFaultFunction : Function ) : void
 {
 if (serverRemoteObject === null)
 { this.createServerRemoteObject() ; }

 this.onGetCelluleFormatListResultFaultFunction =
 AGetFormatListResultFaultFunction ;
 this.onGetCelluleFormatListResultFunction = AGetFormatListResultFunction ;

 serverRemoteObject.getCellulesFormats();
 }

 private function getCellulesFormatsResult (AEvent : ResultEvent):void
 {
 if (this.onGetCelluleFormatListResultFunction != null)
 { this.onGetCelluleFormatListResultFunction(AEvent) ; }
 else
 { Alert.show(LCRemoteConnectionManager : getCellulesFormatsResult :
 onGetFormatListResultFunction is null) ; }
 }

 So I assign myFunction variables like any others (myFunction = someFunction
 )
 and then, I call it like any other. The only problem is that I need to know
 how to use someFunction when calling myFunction.

 good luck


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nick
 Middleweek n...@... wrote:
 
  Hello,
 
  I can't find any examples on how to create Functon variables?
 
  Does anyone have any to hand please?
 
 
  Thanks,
  Nick
 
 
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[flexcoders] var myVar : Function = new Function ? examples?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hello,

I can't find any examples on how to create Functon variables?

Does anyone have any to hand please?


Thanks,
Nick


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Re: [flexcoders] var myVar : Function = new Function ? examples?

[Nick Middleweek]

ok, thanks Oleg...

I was going to use the approach for my URLLoader complete event handler
function, I was hoping to keep things a bit neater and just pass the .data
through to my Cairngorm Command.

What are your thoughts on the idea?

something like this...


private funtion loadXML(path:String) : void
{
   var myReq : URLRequest = new URLRequest(path);
   var myLoad : URLLoader = new URLLoader();

   var completeHandler : Function = function (evt : Event) : Type { //
handle data load  }


  myLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler)
  myLoad.load(myReq);

}


Cheers,
Nick


On 20 May 2010 11:46, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 You cannot construct a function like that. What you can do is more like
 this:

 var f : Function = function (arguments) : Type { function body }
  




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Re: [flexcoders] flash 4 and flex 3

[Nick Collins]

Flash 4 could net you some big money by selling it to the Smithsonian? j/k

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:23 AM, cholid cholid cholid_rid...@yahoo.comwrote:



 Hi all
 What advantages of flash 4 compare with flex 4?
 thanks
 cholid_ridwan

  

Re: [flexcoders] how to style a ComboBox - Dropdown ?

[Nick Middleweek]

ok, cool... Thanks Alex,

Does it say that in the docs? I can't see it and have been stumped on
similar things like this before when a styleProperty refers to another
.stylename

Cheers,
Nick




On 13 May 2010 18:30, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 It depends on the dropdown.  The default is List.



 On 5/13/10 7:46 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 Hi, I'm trying to find all the CSS options that are available so I can
 style up my ComboBox - Dropdown menu. Looking at the Language Reference I
 can see all the Styles available for hte ComboBox itself but one of the
 properties is called dropdownStyleName. What I'm stumped with now, is where
 to look in the Adobe Flex docs on what options I'm allowed to use to create
 a CSS style which I can then assign to CompboBox.dropdownStyleName ? Cheers,
 Nick





 --
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 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
  

Re: [flexcoders] how to style a ComboBox - Dropdown ?

[Nick Middleweek]

ah ha... ComboBox.dropdownFactory = Class factory that creates an
mx.controls.List




On 13 May 2010 19:45, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 ok, cool... Thanks Alex,

 Does it say that in the docs? I can't see it and have been stumped on
 similar things like this before when a styleProperty refers to another
 .stylename

 Cheers,
 Nick





 On 13 May 2010 18:30, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 It depends on the dropdown.  The default is List.



 On 5/13/10 7:46 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 Hi, I'm trying to find all the CSS options that are available so I can
 style up my ComboBox - Dropdown menu. Looking at the Language Reference I
 can see all the Styles available for hte ComboBox itself but one of the
 properties is called dropdownStyleName. What I'm stumped with now, is where
 to look in the Adobe Flex docs on what options I'm allowed to use to create
 a CSS style which I can then assign to CompboBox.dropdownStyleName ? Cheers,
 Nick





 --
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 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
  

[flexcoders] Resource bundles/ locales?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm looking at Resource bundles and Locales and trying to get an
understanding of how they are working in a project I've just come from. Has
anyone seen this before?...

We have a component who's label was bound to a Class.property...

mx:Button id=me label={Labels.SAVE_LABEL} /

In the Labels Class, we have a bunch of properties, the .save looking as
below...

public static var SAVE_LABEL : String = labels::search.save;


... and we also have ResourceBundles project which has multiple locale
folders; there is a labels.properties file in each which have many key-value
pair's including this one...

.
.

search.save=Save
.
.
.


This seems pretty neat and better than using
label={...@resource(bundle='labels', key='search.save')} everywhere. Has
anyone seen this before and do you know how it is working?


Thanks,
Nick

[flexcoders] Re: Resource bundles/ locales?

[Nick Middleweek]

OK, found the answer to this one... Basically, the static vars are being
looped and replaced with the actual bundle.properties key-value.

Hope this helps someone, it did me :)



On 11 May 2010 14:42, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm looking at Resource bundles and Locales and trying to get an
 understanding of how they are working in a project I've just come from. Has
 anyone seen this before?...

 We have a component who's label was bound to a Class.property...

 mx:Button id=me label={Labels.SAVE_LABEL} /

 In the Labels Class, we have a bunch of properties, the .save looking as
 below...

 public static var SAVE_LABEL : String = labels::search.save;


 ... and we also have ResourceBundles project which has multiple locale
 folders; there is a labels.properties file in each which have many key-value
 pair's including this one...

 .
 .

 search.save=Save
 .
 .
 .


 This seems pretty neat and better than using
 label={...@resource(bundle='labels', key='search.save')} everywhere. Has
 anyone seen this before and do you know how it is working?


 Thanks,
 Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Resource bundles/ locales?

[Nick Middleweek]

Yep - it's funny what you find when you spend a little longer digging
around... But I thought it was some undocumented waay of using resource
bundles... Pretty cool stuff.

Cheers Andriy :)

Nick




On 11 May 2010 16:01, Andriy Panas a.pa...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hi Nick,

 Have a closer look at the source code that you are dealing with, you
 are telling us only half of the story.

 Search for IResourceManager, resourceManager and getString in your source
 code.

 --
 Best regards,
 Andriy Panas
  

Re: [flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

This is exactly what I'm trying to do :)  I'm documenting my code but am
trying to clear up at the same time... Although I'm tryping in the ASDocs
comments myself and in my Eclipse I've got a little toolbar that generates
ASDocs comments for the current file... It doesn't though tell me if there
are any errors or if it's an unused Class... So perhap you mean something
else?

Is there a Flex project to ASDocs generator?


Cheers Oleg...

Nick



On 23 April 2010 00:01, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Not a real answer: document them with ASDocs - it will try to document
 everything - will certainly find errors in unused classes - will argue
 with you about those classes - you will know what to delete - bonus, you
 will get documentation for the project :)
  

Re: [flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

[Nick Middleweek]

Cheers Aaron... Thanks!


On 23 April 2010 01:48, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote:



 FlexPMD would probably do the trick:
 http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/FlexPMD

 Aaron

Re: [flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

[Nick Middleweek]

Ah ok, thanks Oleg...

Cheers for the other tip - link-report, I'l give that a try too.


Nick



On 23 April 2010 09:46, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hi, yes, just as Aron said. I was simply judging from
 my previous experience - usually the old classes would contradict to the
 other classes in one way or another. So the ASDoc would find the
 contradiction and spit it at you :)
 If somehow the PMD wont do that, you can always compile with -link-report -
 that will print only the classes used.

 Best.

 Oleg

Re: [flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

[Nick Middleweek]

FlexPMD only works on projects that do not have spaces in the the path
name...

Hopefully they fix that one soon...



On 23 April 2010 10:00, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:

 Ah ok, thanks Oleg...

 Cheers for the other tip - link-report, I'l give that a try too.


 Nick




 On 23 April 2010 09:46, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hi, yes, just as Aron said. I was simply judging from
 my previous experience - usually the old classes would contradict to the
 other classes in one way or another. So the ASDoc would find the
 contradiction and spit it at you :)
 If somehow the PMD wont do that, you can always compile with -link-report
 - that will print only the classes used.

 Best.

 Oleg

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow.title won't update from a setter

[Nick Middleweek]

Thanks Amy...

I'm now doing that and silly me forgot to use super.commitProperties() after
the .title in commitProperties().

That took a while to work out :)


Cheers,
Nick




On 22 April 2010 20:05, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:





 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nick
 Middleweek n...@... wrote:
 
  Alex,
 
  That has fixed it but has now made me realise I'm initialising my private
  var _iFormID : String = ;
 
  And the first time I was opening the Popup, I was setting the .iFormID =
 ,
  so the setter was *not* getting called. I'm now initialising it to null
 and
  it's working fine...

 It might be _slightly_ better practice to call invalidateProperties() in
 the setter, rather than calling validateNow() from outside the component.

 HTH;

 Amy

[flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Is there a quick way to find Classes that I no longer need? I'm sure I've
asked this before but I can't find the thread... Unless I thought about
asking it but didn't  :-)

I'm going through a project, some of it was inherited and some I don't know
if I need anymore... Is there a good way of doing this from Eclipse or
otherwise?

I'm using the FB4 plugin with the 3.4 SDK.


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] TitleWindow.title won't update from a setter

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

When tracing the setter, it is definately getting called. I'm currently just
trying to set this.title from the iFormID setter.

Here's my setup...

I have an MXML ArrayCollection with the CreateVendorDialog component inside
of the Array so it's created but not displayed (not sure if this is goood
practice but I picked it up along somewhere :) The component
ID=createVendor)

In my main Application I have a controlbar with two buttons, Create Vendor
and Create Vendor from iForm, they both call the same function but one
passes an extra string.

private function createVendorDialog(iFormID : String = ) : void
{
   createVendor.iFormID = iFormID;
   PopupManager.addPopUp(createVendor);
   //createVendor.title  = test;
}

The iFormID setter is getting called and this.title is being set but it's
not rendering. The only way I can get it working is to put this code in the
TitleWindow MXML component but that's a bit hacky isn't it?...

mx:TitleWindow
title = {(iFormID.length  0) ? 'Create Vendor by iForm' :
'Create Vendor'}
.
.
.
 /

Perhaps I need to take a step back somewhere?...


Thanks,
Nick



On 21 April 2010 07:39, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 Are you sure your setter is getting called?  If so, when is it called?
  Maybe it is being called inside commitProperties after
 super.commitProperties.



 On 4/20/10 3:07 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






 Hi,

 I've got a small MXML Component based on TitleWindow which I'm opening with
 PopupManager that has a setter and getter called iFormID.

 In the setter I have this code...

 public function set iFormID ( value : String ) : void
 {
 if ( _iFormID == value )
 return;

 _iFormID = value;


 if(iFormID.length  0)
 {
 this.title = Create Vendor;
 }
 else
 {
 this.title = Create Vendor by iForm;
 }

 }


 I am find that the title remains blank, but then if I close the PopUp and
 open it again, the last value the .title should have been is now visible...

 Is there some a refresh issue with TitleWindow.title?

 If I set the .title outside of the component, after I've used PopupManager,
 then it's set as expected but I want to control the .title from the setter
 function.


 Does anyone have an idea what I should be doing?

 I've also tried setting a dirty_flag, calling invalidateProperties() and
 setting the .title from within commitProperties() but no joy there either...


 Thanks for any help...
 Nick






 --
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 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
  

Re: [flexcoders] TitleWindow.title won't update from a setter

[Nick Middleweek]

Alex,

That has fixed it but has now made me realise I'm initialising my private
var _iFormID : String = ;

And the first time I was opening the Popup, I was setting the .iFormID = ,
so the setter was *not* getting called. I'm now initialising it to null and
it's working fine...


Thanks for your help...


Nick




On 21 April 2010 18:09, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 Interesting.  Try calling validateNow after addPopUp.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Find tree node in groupingcollection?

[Nick Middleweek]

Thanks Amy... Reading the docs a bit closer, that does make sense...

GroupingCollection inherits from HierarchicalData which implements
IHierarchicalData and the source of HierarchicalCollectionView is of type
IHierarchicalData.

Great stuff, thanks again!


Nick




On 19 April 2010 16:00, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:



 HierarchicalCollectionView has methods for getting the parent node. Just
 cast your GroupingCollection to HierarchicalCollectionView.
 http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/search/label/AdvancedDataGrid

 HTH;

 Amy

Re: [flexcoders] Re: GroupingCollection.getParent() doesn't exist?

[Nick Middleweek]

ok - thanks Amy! :)

So if were to extend GroupingCollection and create MyGroupingCollection, I
could then have a public function on MyGroupingCollection that in turn calls
the getParent() protected function of GroupingCollection.


Cheers,
Nick



On 19 April 2010 16:09, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:



 Check a reference on Actionscript 3 for the definition of protected.

 HTH;

 Amy


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nick
 Middleweek n...@... wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Does anyone know why the getParent() command listed in the docs doesn't
 seem
  to exist?
 
 
 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/collections/GroupingCollection.html#getParent%28%29
 
  I've trying to use it like this...
 
  refreshParent = GroupingCollection(model.groupingCollection).getParent();
 
 
  Thanks,
  Nick
 

  

[flexcoders] Using Flash Player 10 in Full Screen mode, check this out!

[Nick Collins]

http://blog.nc-design.net/post.cfm/flash-player-10-hardware-acceleration-fail

The gist is that in certain circumstances, the Flash Player has problems
with its full screen mode.

[flexcoders] TitleWindow.title won't update from a setter

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I've got a small MXML Component based on TitleWindow which I'm opening with
PopupManager that has a setter and getter called iFormID.

In the setter I have this code...

public function set iFormID ( value : String ) : void
{
if ( _iFormID == value )
return;

_iFormID = value;


if(iFormID.length  0)
{
this.title = Create Vendor;
}
else
{
this.title = Create Vendor by iForm;
}

}


I am find that the title remains blank, but then if I close the PopUp and
open it again, the last value the .title should have been is now visible...

Is there some a refresh issue with TitleWindow.title?

If I set the .title outside of the component, after I've used PopupManager,
then it's set as expected but I want to control the .title from the setter
function.


Does anyone have an idea what I should be doing?

I've also tried setting a dirty_flag, calling invalidateProperties() and
setting the .title from within commitProperties() but no joy there either...


Thanks for any help...
Nick

[flexcoders] Cairngorm/ Command/ AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() ?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'm working on a cairngorm flex app and have been told to put all business
logic inside the CG Command.

At the end of the CG Command, I need to get the ADG to expand it's grouping
nodes for a particular node.


What is the correct way of solving this problem because from my Command, I
can't 'see' the view.

Should I update the model from the Command and have a ChangeWatcher on the
view to run the AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() code?

Is there a right and wrong way of solving this?


Thanks,
Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm/ Command/ AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() ?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi Jake,

Thanks for the info... I know this sounds crazy but because of project/
company politics we have extreem difficulty getting 3rd party libraries on
the project.

Are there any preferred alternative ways?


Cheers,
Nick



On 18 April 2010 19:11, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:



 Download cairgorm extensions.  It has classes called Callbacks which
 basically notifies the view after a command has finished.  It's perfect for
 this situation.

 -Jake



 -- Sent from my Palm Prē

 --
 On Apr 18, 2010 1:02 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:



 Hi,

 I'm working on a cairngorm flex app and have been told to put all business
 logic inside the CG Command.

 At the end of the CG Command, I need to get the ADG to expand it's grouping
 nodes for a particular node.


 What is the correct way of solving this problem because from my Command, I
 can't 'see' the view.

 Should I update the model from the Command and have a ChangeWatcher on the
 view to run the AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() code?

 Is there a right and wrong way of solving this?


 Thanks,
 Nick

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm/ Command/ AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() ?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hey Jake,

Cheers for the response... I've gone with a ChangeWatcher approach. Update
the model from the command and I've dropped in the ChangeWatcher in the
view, seems to be working but was curious who others would solve this...

I'll look into CG Extensions though, cheers for the idea!


Nick





On 18 April 2010 20:29, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:



 Wel, just tell them it's an upgraded version of the cairngorm SWC.  You can
 just replace the SWC in the project and it'd be all good


 -Jake


 -- Sent from my Palm Prē

 --
 On Apr 18, 2010 1:46 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:



 Hi Jake,

 Thanks for the info... I know this sounds crazy but because of project/
 company politics we have extreem difficulty getting 3rd party libraries on
 the project.

 Are there any preferred alternative ways?


 Cheers,
 Nick



 On 18 April 2010 19:11, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:



 Download cairgorm extensions.  It has classes called Callbacks which
 basically notifies the view after a command has finished.  It's perfect for
 this situation.

 -Jake



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 On Apr 18, 2010 1:02 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:



 Hi,

 I'm working on a cairngorm flex app and have been told to put all business
 logic inside the CG Command.

 At the end of the CG Command, I need to get the ADG to expand it's
 grouping nodes for a particular node.


 What is the correct way of solving this problem because from my Command, I
 can't 'see' the view.

 Should I update the model from the Command and have a ChangeWatcher on the
 view to run the AdvancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf() code?

 Is there a right and wrong way of solving this?


 Thanks,
 Nick


   

[flexcoders] Find tree node in groupingcollection?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

Does anyone know the best way to find the tree node in the grouping
collection for the selected row in an AdvancedDataGrid ?

Hope that makes sense... I've got an ADG with a grouping collection for the
provider and I've got a selected row, what I would like to do is get the
next level up and reference the tree node so i can then
vendorComplexSearch.advancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf(treeNode, false);
vendorComplexSearch.advancedDataGrid.expandChildrenOf(treeNode, true); to
force a refresh only on that tree node without collapsing the whole
AdvancedDataGrid.


Thanks for any help...

Nick