from:"slangeberg"


Here's the code I used to initiate the drag - Thumbnail is just a component
with an image and metadeta:

   var dragProxy:Thumbnail = new Thumbnail();

 // Call the DragManager doDrag() method to start the drag.
 // For information on this method, see
 // the Initiating the drag section.
 DragManager.doDrag(dragInitiator, ds, event, dragProxy);


Here's the handler to capture the 'dragDrop' event:

private function onDragDrop(event:DragEvent):void  {...}

Is there any way to access the dragImage from that DragEvent?


I want to create an item at the exact location of the thumbnail that's
visible when performing drag/drop. So, I would like to access the drag proxy
created by the DragManager within the dragDrop event (unless I need to do it
differently!).




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[flexcoders] Possible to access dragImage within a DragEvent?


I want to access the thumbnail created in drag/drop operations, to create an
item exactly where you see this thumbnail on stage.

I initiate drag/drop here, where Thumbnail is basically a component with an
Image and metadata. I want to be able to access the Thumbnail that is
created and dragged around:

   var dragProxy:Thumbnail = new Thumbnail();

   DragManager.doDrag(dragInitiator, ds, event, dragProxy);

So here's where I capture the 'dragDrop' event:

private function onDragDrop(event:DragEvent):void  {...}

Is there any way to access the dragImage from this DragEvent? Better way to
do this?

Thanks,

: : ) Scott

Re: [flexcoders] Staging an AS3 for Flash 8?


Sorry Nate,

You can't run an AS3/VM2 (Flash 9) .swf under the AS2/VM1 player (Flash 8).
Same as you can't run a flash 7 movie in the flash 6 player.

RE:


 I can't use getURL on myspace due to the new FP9 security features.

Flash 9 uses URLLoader, and not getURL().


I'm afraid I don't have any advice for you, because I use the auto-updater
supplied with SWFObject, but that requires javascript...

Anyone know if you can run a flash 9 movie in the flash 8 player with
limited functionality?

Thanks,

-Scott

On 5/7/07, jnbeck86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I have a flash embed that gets hotlinked on many of the social
networks (MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, etc...). I want to port my flash
application to AS3 to benefit from the new features it entails.
However, my analytics report that only 86% of my users are using Flash
Player 9.

I want to keep my current Flash 8 version of my player as a Legacy
version.

What I'm trying is a swf that can load EITHER of the two versions
based on the version of Flash Player. I have an AS2 version (with a
note telling the user they should upgrade FP), and an AS3 version.

Here's the problems that I'm running into:

1) I can't seem to get an AS3 swf to run underneath a Flash 8
published app. Using attachMovie or a loader.
2) I cannot use any javascript as my flash piece is being embedded on
servers that I don't have access to.
3) I can't use getURL on myspace due to the new FP9 security features.

I could have sworn I've seen this done before.

I'll send cookies :D

 





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Re: [flexcoders] flex passing values


Simplest approach is to have one .mxml file that contains two other
components, such as Input.mxml and Output.mxml.

I tend to follow the Cairngorm approach, even if just by using a Singleton
ModelLocator, which allows you to store values such as _searchString - input
by user - globally.

Input.mxml would set _searchString and Output.mxml can be notified, when
change occurs there.

- Scott

On 5/7/07, Kulsum Arif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I am new to flex and want to design a search page:
Basically once user gives his input, the search page should go away
and teh results should appear.

I tried doing 2 mxml files for this and passing values as query
string
params. The 2 page setup works but I am not able to pass values as
query strings.

Homepage.mxml is the page with the search input. on click of a
button
here the control should go to SearchByTitle.mxml. Here is the code
snippet.

public function SearchByTitle():void
{
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(SearchByTitle.html?
search='+txtTitleSearch.text+'), '_self');
}

How do I read the value in SearchByTitle mxml ?

I have also been reading that a flex application should have only
one
application file and the rest should be components.

I would greatly appreciate a quick response.

Thanks,
Kulsum

 





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Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid column header - wordWrap - but not break whole words

2007-05-02 Thread slangeberg


I did fumble around a bit with the header renderer, and that is probably the
ultimate way to go. However, I was able to come up with a pretty low-tech
solution, for the time being:

http://blog.criticalpile.com/?p=13

-Scott

On 4/27/07, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  On 4/28/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] slangeberg%40gmail.com
wrote:
 Any one come up with a strategy so that labels in the DataGrid column
 headers (or elsewhere) can wrap, but not be broken in the midde of a
word?

That's the behaviour of the built-in TextField object and I don't
think anything can be done about it. You could maybe write your own
header renderer and write the word-wrapping logic yourself (and
truncate words that are longer than the available width).
 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-05-02 Thread slangeberg


If you ever watch the developer videos on Channel 9, you'll see that many MS
devs have macbooks (or whatever they're called) sitting on their desks!

-Scott

On 4/29/07, dorkie dork from dorktown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


  the problem with microsoft is they live in a bubble. they live in their
own little world where only windows exists. well, at the college i visit
half the people have macs. i am in a college coffee / study shop with about
150 people and half have macs. this all changed when the mac books came out
last year. long time windows users switched. my roomate uses a mac and loves
it. not everyone uses windows.

i dont' trust their cross compatible promises either. what if they do make
version on mac. anyone remember ie on mac? they need to prove they have
changed the way they do things (and think) before i would ever trust them.

since i'm ranting, it seems, that users opinions don't matter. all they
need to do is listen to their users and i do not get that from them. vista
is an example of them living in a bubble. so as the web changes i do not
think silverlight will progress when they do not listen to the users.



On 4/29/07, simonjpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Does C# kill Java?
 Does IE kill Firefox?
 Does SQLServer kill Oracle?
 Does Windows kill UNIX?
 Will Silverlight kill Flex?

 From my 20 odd years of software development, during which time the
 Microsoft hegemony has been at its apogee, none of the above are true.
 In fact if you want a really scalable enterprise platform you would
 choose the right hand side of the list above rather than the left.

 Where Microsoft win hands down is in Office Applications and desktop
 operating systems. Excel is quite possibly the best piece of desktop
 software ever written (Word being the worst) and long may it reign as
 such. Windows is crap, but it's more than good enough for your
 average user and most Microsoft desktop products are actually pretty
 good (c'mon, be generous).

 I regret deeply that the rest of the world doesn't have a house full
 of beautiful, stable, simple Macs like I do, but the reality is that
 they don't as Jason points out. Instead the three or four computers
 the normal person interacts with in their daily lives are almost
 exclusively running Windows (even the ATM machines and tills at the
 supermarket). Not a pleasant truth, but a truth nonetheless. If you
 are looking for broad adoption and commercial success as a software
 company you start with Windows.

 The wonderful reality, however, is that the software industry, like
 all others in the history of human endeavour, thrives on competition
 and there is space for more than one company/product/offering to
 survive. Adobe are not going to be Microsoft. THANK GOD! They have
 and in my opinion will always have, a distinct and separate offering.
 If they can't retain that differentiation then they don't deserve to
 remain in business and the market will take care of them.

 So this is a bit of a silly thread as far as I am concerned. The
 answer for me is clearly No for all the same reasons that Microsoft
 haven't killed any of the other things on the list at the top. They
 might try, but I think they should be more worried about Google and
 web based desktop software than Adobe and the flash player.

 Simon

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  Hey Jason,
 
  Even if 90% of internet's users are running Windows, how many
  millions aren't..
  If you can deploy applications that is guaranteed to only be used by
  Windows users, well good luck to you.
 
  Here we target creatives in the advertising industry and I don't have
  that luxury.
 
 
 
 
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  One person wrote:
   Everybody uses Windows, almost all the workstations are windows.
 Macs
   have IE working OK.
 
  Another responded:
  Think again.
  Think again? What kind of an argument is that? People keep
  brining up certain technlogies not working on Mac OS or Linux as a
  bad thing. Personally, I've never bought into the, that technology
  does not support obscure browser X or non-Windows operating system
  Y and therefore is doomed to fail argument. As much as I wish it
  were not true, Microsoft is one example of a company who has time and
  again developed solutions for Windows only and been

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Bug in Flex while setting DataGridColumn.width programatically?

2007-04-30 Thread slangeberg


Manfred, can you post a link to this fix?

Thanks,

-Scott

On 17 Apr 2007 07:31:29 -0700, manfred.maierhofer 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  After recompiling a few times it works properly.
I spend a whole day to fix this issue.

Thanks a lot for your hint,
Mane

 





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Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid column header - wordWrap - but not break whole words

2007-04-30 Thread slangeberg


Is there any reason why you can't set the headerRenderer in AS3? I'm getting
the following error (and this is just pointing at the 'default' class - I
want to extend it):

var col:DataGridColumn = new DataGridColumn();
col.headerRenderer = IFactory(DataGridItemRenderer);

---

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
dii.controls.dataGridClasses::HeaderRenderer$ to mx.core.IFactory.
   at com.dii.modelPro.view::GridFactory$/getColumns()
   at com.dii.modelPro.view::GridFactory$/getGrid()
   at com.dii.modelPro.view.projectDetails::DetailItem/::render()
   at MethodInfo-4641()
   at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
   at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
   at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()

-Scott

On 4/27/07, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  On 4/28/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] slangeberg%40gmail.com
wrote:
 Any one come up with a strategy so that labels in the DataGrid column
 headers (or elsewhere) can wrap, but not be broken in the midde of a
word?

That's the behaviour of the built-in TextField object and I don't
think anything can be done about it. You could maybe write your own
header renderer and write the word-wrapping logic yourself (and
truncate words that are longer than the available width).
 





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Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid column header - wordWrap - but not break whole words

2007-04-30 Thread slangeberg


Ok, disregard. Fix should be:

col.headerRenderer = new ClassFactory( HeaderRenderer );

As found here:

http://www.returnundefined.com/tags/as3/

-Scott

On 4/30/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Is there any reason why you can't set the headerRenderer in AS3? I'm
getting the following error (and this is just pointing at the 'default'
class - I want to extend it):

var col:DataGridColumn = new DataGridColumn();
col.headerRenderer = IFactory(DataGridItemRenderer);

---

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert
dii.controls.dataGridClasses::HeaderRenderer$ to mx.core.IFactory .
at com.dii.modelPro.view::GridFactory$/getColumns()
at com.dii.modelPro.view::GridFactory$/getGrid()
at com.dii.modelPro.view.projectDetails::DetailItem/::render()
at MethodInfo-4641()
at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2()
at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher()

-Scott

On 4/27/07, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   On 4/28/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] slangeberg%40gmail.com
 wrote:
  Any one come up with a strategy so that labels in the DataGrid column
  headers (or elsewhere) can wrap, but not be broken in the midde of a
 word?

 That's the behaviour of the built-in TextField object and I don't
 think anything can be done about it. You could maybe write your own
 header renderer and write the word-wrapping logic yourself (and
 truncate words that are longer than the available width).
  





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[flexcoders] DataGrid column header - wordWrap - but not break whole words

2007-04-27 Thread slangeberg


Any one come up with a strategy so that labels in the DataGrid column
headers (or elsewhere) can wrap, but not be broken in the midde of a word?

EX:

Actual
Response

NOT:

Actual
Respons
e


Thanks,

: : ) Scott

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Mapping xml objects to custom classes? [new subject]

2007-04-09 Thread slangeberg


Right now, my problem is using XML as a dataprovider in DataGrids. The
sorting is really messed up, when you use xml. I've tried using plain
objects containing the same values as the XML, and sorting works perfectly.
It looks like this is due to the comparison functionality seeing each row as
XML and probably having no good way to compare two. Then again, I'm not sure
why it works better with Objects, other than the parameters all being
strings. Yet, numeric sort still works fine, even with the string values!

So, anyone have any good approaches to making the data sortable using
XML(?), or do I just map to plain Objects, (which is what I'm going to do,
in the next hour!).

Eventually Paul, I will probably be interested in mapping XML to classes,
when setting up real ValueObjects for server transfer. My employer really
likes POX!

-Scott

On 06 Apr 2007 20:01:55 -0700, Paul DeCoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Not yet, but this is something I've been thinking a lot about. I've
started working on some proof of concept code. What are your specific
requirements? Perhaps I could start work on this project with your help.

Paul

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Anyone know of any AS3 systems for mapping XML to custom classes,
such as
 this Castor? Seems like a cool idea (and I could use it right now ;) :

 http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html


 -Scott

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Apr 6, 2007 4:21 PM
 Subject: Java Castor - AS3
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com

 Anyone know of any AS3 systems for mapping XML to custom classes,
such as
 this Castor? Seems like a cool idea (and I could use it right now ;) :

 http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html

 : : ) Scott

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[flexcoders] Java Castor - AS3

2007-04-06 Thread slangeberg


Anyone know of any AS3 systems for mapping XML to custom classes, such as
this Castor? Seems like a cool idea (and I could use it right now ;) :

http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html

: : ) Scott

[flexcoders] Mapping xml objects to custom classes? [new subject]

2007-04-06 Thread slangeberg


Anyone know of any AS3 systems for mapping XML to custom classes, such as
this Castor? Seems like a cool idea (and I could use it right now ;) :

http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html


-Scott

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From: slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Apr 6, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Java Castor - AS3
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Anyone know of any AS3 systems for mapping XML to custom classes, such as
this Castor? Seems like a cool idea (and I could use it right now ;) :

http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html

: : ) Scott

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Re: [flexcoders] VBox, constraint based layout not clipping content

2007-03-30 Thread slangeberg


The trick I just used for this is to set maxHeight on the 'scrolling'
container. Will allow dynamic height add, to point, before scrolls kick in.

-Scott

On 3/9/07, scott_flex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Any particualar reason why a Vbox won't correctly clip content and show
scrollbars when the object is using constraint based layout positioning?

I'm adding up to 50 child objects to the vbox and want the scrollbars
to appear so the user can scroll to see them all.

If i set the height, and width everything works as expected, so i've
manually tapped into the resize event on my parent canvas and manually
set the height and width to get the effect of a constraint based
layout. Doesn't seem like i should have to do this.

If i used the top,left,right,bottom properties, my VBox just expands
its size to include all child objects added... which then forces the
scroll bars on it's parent container, not what i want.

Maybe i'm doing something wrong...

 





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Re: [flexcoders] What's your average amount of memory usage in Eclipse?

2007-03-29 Thread slangeberg


Yeah, mine is regularly that high (~300MB) or even more. I set my limit to
the exact same (768MB), and it's been running much better! So, no crashes,
here. You may want to look at all your installed plug-ins. They don't always
play nice. I had most problems with a PHP plug-in, but it may have just been
a combination of them!

-Scott

On 29 Mar 2007 08:08:26 -0700, Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


   I'm using the FB plugin and have had crashes occurring in Eclipse
regularly over  the last few days,

With weird erros about not being able to open workspaces and what nots.



I upped my memory to 768m in eclipse.ini and was wondering what other
people's javaw.exe is running at in memory usage?

Mine's been hovering around 300mb and it just seems wrong.





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Re: [flexcoders] What's your average amount of memory usage in Eclipse?

2007-03-29 Thread slangeberg


-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx768m


On 3/29/07, dorkie dork from dorktown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


  can you guys post your eclipse ini or just the line of code that you
changed? i have a couple of different memory values i'm not sure which to
change.

On 29 Mar 2007 09:40:46 -0700, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Yeah, mine is regularly that high (~300MB) or even more. I set my
 limit to the exact same (768MB), and it's been running much better! So, no
 crashes, here. You may want to look at all your installed plug-ins. They
 don't always play nice. I had most problems with a PHP plug-in, but it may
 have just been a combination of them!

 -Scott

 On 29 Mar 2007 08:08:26 -0700, Brian Holmes  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
 I'm using the FB plugin and have had crashes occurring in Eclipse
  regularly over  the last few days,
 
  With weird erros about not being able to open workspaces and what
  nots.
 
 
 
  I upped my memory to 768m in eclipse.ini and was wondering what other
  people's javaw.exe is running at in memory usage?
 
  Mine's been hovering around 300mb and it just seems wrong.
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [flexcoders] What's your average amount of memory usage in Eclipse?

2007-03-29 Thread slangeberg


I posted eclipse.ini from the eclipse folder. Not sure if/how you can change
these for a FlexBuilder (not plug-in) install.

-Scott

On 29 Mar 2007 11:43:46 -0700, dorkie dork from dorktown 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  forgot to mention, this file is FlexBuilder.ini in the C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 2 directory. not sure what that minheap deal is or
does.

On 3/29/07, dorkie dork from dorktown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 thats odd. i must have changed it at some point in the past.
 -vmargs
 -Xms256M
 -Xmx768M
 -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20

 @*Dimitrios - i agree. i had to do this when i was working with java
 environment and flex builder plugin. took down the number of crashes
 completely. *

 On 29 Mar 2007 11:38:25 -0700, slangeberg  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
-vmargs
  -Xms256m
  -Xmx768m
 
 
 
  On 3/29/07, dorkie dork from dorktown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  wrote:
  
 can you guys post your eclipse ini or just the line of code that
   you changed? i have a couple of different memory values i'm not sure which
   to change.
  
   On 29 Mar 2007 09:40:46 -0700, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   wrote:
   
  Yeah, mine is regularly that high (~300MB) or even more. I set
my limit to the exact same (768MB), and it's been running much better! 
So,
no crashes, here. You may want to look at all your installed plug-ins. 
They
don't always play nice. I had most problems with a PHP plug-in, but it 
may
have just been a combination of them!
   
-Scott
   
On 29 Mar 2007 08:08:26 -0700, Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

I'm using the FB plugin and have had crashes occurring in
 Eclipse regularly over  the last few days,

 With weird erros about not being able to open workspaces and
 what nots.



 I upped my memory to 768m in eclipse.ini and was wondering what
 other people's javaw.exe is running at in memory usage?

 Mine's been hovering around 300mb and it just seems wrong.





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Re: [flexcoders] Data binding will not be able to detect changes... ?

2007-03-27 Thread slangeberg


It's because the .default node is not bindable (it's an anonymous element of
an xml object). Doesn't the warning mention something about not implementing
the IEventDispatchable (or other!) interface?

What is the best practice for this?

I know you could point a bindable property to that node itself, but may not
be what you're looking for, such as:

[Bindable] var default: ObjectProxy;

//this should get picked up by bindings
default = DALocationsXML.default;

-Scott

On 27 Mar 2007 06:45:50 -0700, Greg Morphis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I've got an XML List
with information something like:
locations
default
location address1=123 Street locationid=1234 ... /
/default


I have it declared in my Model as an XMLLIst: public var
DALocationsXML:XMLList;

and in one of my views, I'm trying to load the data into a List..
dataProvider={MyModel.getInstance().DALocationsXML.default}

I don't have an error but I have a warning telling me
Data binding will not be able to detect changes to XMLList default,
need an XML instance.

How can I knock this warning out?
 





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Re: [flexcoders] Registration point woes

2007-03-26 Thread slangeberg


I've started adapting Schall's code, and am getting close (view source):

http://criticalpile.com/lab/DynamicRegistration/DynRegMain.html

However, I just noticed that my alignment seems to be off, if you enter
arbitrary numbers, rather than using the arrows on the number steppers!
Also, I'd like to design this to use some kind of proxy, so you can still
utilize the flex framework effects such as Move and Rotate. Any ideas /
improvements accepted, as I haven't had time to look at it lately!

-Scott

On 3/26/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   You could adapt this for use:

http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm


Jason Merrill
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Behalf Of *Daniel Holth
*Sent:* Sunday, March 25, 2007 7:29 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [flexcoders] Registration point woes

 I'm developing my first Flex component, and I'm having some trouble
with registration points and images. I'm loading data from flickr,
and have a custom class that extends mx:Image.

I'm trying to create a rollOver effect that will increase the size of
the clip from its CENTER, but right now the registration point is the
top left... I've dealt with this issues in Flash, but I can't seem to
figure out a way to do it in Flex. I tried changing my custom
component to be a canvas, and adjust the position of the image by
width/2 and height/2 but then it only shows a quarter of the Image.

Could someone help me out on how to get Images/components to scale or
register from their actual center, not the top left?

Thanks!
-DC

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem

2007-03-26 Thread slangeberg


You don't experience this with IE? This has followed me no matter where I've
worked, what server I'm dealing with! What am I doing wrong here (other than
using IE)?

-Scott

On 26 Mar 2007 01:59:50 -0700, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


On Friday 23 Mar 2007, slangeberg wrote:
 Hmm, i've had this experience on both Apache  IIS. I'm not talking
about a
 server cahce, I believe this is browser related. Upload SWF to server,
and
 do not see change in browser till cache is cleared. No one else
experiences
 this?

We don't, no.
Maybe your web server is sending funny headers, or your web browser has
odd
settings.

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem

2007-03-26 Thread slangeberg



went away after I reset IE to check every time far a new file



Ah yes, that's right. I used to do that, but it doesn't gaurantee that my
users have the same settings. Hence, my dilemma!

Thanks,

-Scott


On 26 Mar 2007 07:15:48 -0700, Paul DeCoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I used to have this issue, but I found it went away after I reset IE
to check every time far a new file. It also made a big difference to
make sure that the server was sending the correct caching headers.
Check the HEAD on a request to determine if it is sending the correct
expires header. I only do this for development. Production
environments should be able to run without problems if there are
browsers caching things.

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slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You don't experience this with IE? This has followed me no matter
where I've
 worked, what server I'm dealing with! What am I doing wrong here
(other than
 using IE)?

 -Scott

 On 26 Mar 2007 01:59:50 -0700, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 wrote:
 
  On Friday 23 Mar 2007, slangeberg wrote:
   Hmm, i've had this experience on both Apache  IIS. I'm not talking
  about a
   server cahce, I believe this is browser related. Upload SWF to
server,
  and
   do not see change in browser till cache is cleared. No one else
  experiences
   this?
 
  We don't, no.
  Maybe your web server is sending funny headers, or your web
browser has
  odd
  settings.
 
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Re: [flexcoders] If im using the same code twice, should i re-use?

2007-03-25 Thread slangeberg



-*will it be ok to create a class that
just handle the service?



Not just ok, but great!

*does it really worth considering we

are using the code just 2 times?
*why?



Just wait till you need to modify anything about that service, like the URL.
Who wants to track down multiple instances that could just live in one
place?

Ounce of prevention = Pound of cure!

-Scott

On 25 Mar 2007 16:07:21 -0700, Yaison Alcantara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


  Hi coders,
This is a newbie question, finding its way to The enlightenment of
Best-Practices and Re-use. Consider this case:

Custom Component A
--+
mx:Script
![CDATA[
//...logic for comp A
private function getRecords():void{
var params:Object = new Object();
params.method = 'company.getRecords';
params.table = 'Employees';

srv.send(params);
}
]]
/mx:Script

mx:HTTPService id=srv
url=http://company.com/dbmanager//

//components for comp A...
-+

|
|
|-*will it be ok to create a class that
just handle the service?
*does it really worth considering we
are using the code just 2 times?
*why?
|-*when should I re-use?
|
|

Custom Component B
--+
mx:Script
![CDATA[
//...logic for comp B
private function getRecords():void{
var params:Object = new Object();
params.method = 'company.getRecords';
params.table = 'Employees';

srv.send(params);
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:HTTPService id=srv
url=http://company.com/dbmanager//

//components for comp B...
-+

that was all i hope you get the main idea. any tips, guidance, etc..
will be graceful.

thanks
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[flexcoders] Re: Caching problem


Much better approach!

Now, my question is, what do people do to prevent caching of swf files
themselves?

Here's the setup: I'm deploying a business app, and want all users to see
the update to the SWF. However, I don't want to tell everyone to clear their
cache. Should I just pass a version number to the swf request, to update to
that point, ie - point to:

$vers = 1.0.2;

$path = /flash/myMovie.swf?vers= . $vers;

object file=$path...etc.

Is there a best practice for this kind of thing? I'm also curious how this
will apply to Module development in Flex. How do I make sure that people
have current modules, without blasting their cache, every time?

Thanks,

-Scott


On 3/14/07, Thomas Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I'm sure someone has already mentioned this but you could always append
the
date in milliseconds to the query string as well.

Like so:

var date : Date = new Date();

url:String = resource + ?d= + date.UTC();

- Original Message -
From: slangeberg  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; Flashcoders mailing list
flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com 
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem

 That'll work with any cache-busting you need to do. I use it in testing,
 to
 un-cache the swf file itself, when viewed on server. Ie: send rand var
in
 url and if it's present, pass it in to swf call (swfobject + php, here):

 var so = new SWFObject( ProductBuilder.swf?rand=?=$rand?,
 product_builder, 100%, 100%, 9, #FF);

 Saves me the 'pain' of going through some menu to clear browser's cache,
 not
 to mention losing your browser's cache, in order to update one element!

 -Scott

 On 14 Mar 2007 08:44:42 -0700, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Wow! O_O' Works flawlessly!! :-D

 Many thanks for that trick dude!

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
 slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  With Flash, I've learned to do the lo-tech method of attaching
 random
  numbers to the path. Simple, but it's been effective!:
 
  url:String = resource + ?rand= + Math.floor(Math.random() *
 10);
 
  -Scott
 
  On 14 Mar 2007 08:07:52 -0700, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Hi there!
  
   I have an xml file that needs to be loaded eventually using a
   URLRequest. I'm trying to avoid loading a cached file using these
   headers:
  
   urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader(Cache-
   Control, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate));
   urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
   (Expires, Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:19:41 GMT));
   urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
   (Pragma, no-cache));
  
   It works ok in firefox and IE6.0.2900 , but I still obtain a
 cached file
   in IE6.0.3790+ and IE7.
  
   Do I need to add any more headers? or what's the problem here?
  
   Thanks in advance
  
  
  
 
 
 
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Re: [flexcoders] OS X Dock implemented in Flex


Doug used Ely Greenfield's(?) fish-eye to great effect:

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/03/02/

-Scott

On 3/23/07, Janis Radins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Thats funny, I just created my version of the very same thing :)
http://www.mediaverk.lv/trash/macMv0.5

2007/3/23, Allen Riddle  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Hey everyone, my coworker created an OS X dock in Flex for our use in
 our application. He just posted it on his web site. If enough people dig it,
 he's going to post the code so everyone can partake. Check it out.



 http://www.timothyhuertas.com





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Re: [flexcoders] Compiling themes / modules / CSS using Flex Builder?


Modules are compiled by creating a module, and adding it to the project's
Application list. I'm assuming you're referring to the Module tag in v2.0.1.

-Scott

On 23 Mar 2007 05:57:04 -0700, Bryan Clover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:


  Hi All,

I have been able to use the command-line compilers to compile themes,
modules, etc.

But, I was wondering if there's a way to do this within Flex Builder? I've
read through the Flex
documentation, but I can't seem to find any detailed information on how to
do this. Am I
missing something?

Is it even possible? If so, can anyone point me to a step-by-step example?

Thanks in advance,
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wrote:


On Friday 23 Mar 2007, slangeberg wrote:
 Now, my question is, what do people do to prevent caching of swf files
 themselves?

We use a web server / accelerator that isn't broken :-)
Seriously - if you change a file on disk, and your web server serves up
the
now non-existant file, you have big problems.

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Re: [flexcoders] FDS + stand-alone .swf files?

2007-03-21 Thread slangeberg


Awesome. Thanks for the heads-up!

-Scott

On 21 Mar 2007 13:11:00 -0700, Peter Farland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Not true, you can compile using the Flex SDK with the -services command
line switch to point to an FDS services-config.xml file.

 --
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Behalf Of *slangeberg
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:49 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [flexcoders] FDS + stand-alone .swf files?

 Just read an old article from Forta ( CF + flex 2 ) where he mentions
that using FDS in Flex 2 will still require the server to publish the swf.
Is this true, or can you use locally compiled / stand-alone .SWF files with
FDS?

Thanks,

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Re: [flexcoders] Runtime Memory Problems

2007-03-16 Thread slangeberg



Only after I hit a saturation
point (Around 2.5Meg) would it Garbage Collect. My machine has 2Gig
of Ram.



You're worried about a Flex app using 2.5MB memory? That's nearly nothing.
I've seen apps use upwards of 100M, and that's still not much compared to
2GB.

If you look at the articles online and perhaps posts within this list,
you'll see that there are indeed thresholds within the player, to kick in
garbage collection, but in this instance, i don't see the issue.(?)

-Scott


On 15 Mar 2007 08:41:48 -0700, One Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Description:
We are creating a web-app built with Flex 2.
This app uses some very large image files (From around 256K to over
600K)
We have an image viewer section of our Flex app that will allow the
user to move from one image to another.
I was noticing that with our app in IE7 that memory useage would
climb each time we grabbed a new image but even after letting it set
for several minutes the memory usage would not go down. It was acting
as if Garbage Collection was not getting called. So I added all kinds
of code to make sure that we were letting go of the previous images
to allow Garbage Collection to work.

After 3 days of trying to track down the problem I decided to create
a smaller Flex app that only used our image viewer control to limit
the number of variables in the problem. After a few hours I still
could not figure out the problem so I replace our image view with a
standard mx:Image tag. The problem still existed after doing this.
Having take our code out of the picutre I decided to compare results
in FireFox. FireFox would Garbage Collect fairly quickly and the
problem did not seem to exist using my test Flex app in FireFox.

From what I can tell, IE7 and Flash (version 9.0.28.0) do not seem to
work well at allowing Garbage Collection to work.
I have the same version of Flash installed in FireFox 2.0.0.2 and
there does not seem to be any problem there.

The code below is what I used in my mxml file. To test it you will
need to point to some kind of large images that you have access to.
The images that I was using are on an internal network and so are
unavailable to anyone on the outside.

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application
layout=absolute
xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
initialize=init()

mx:Script
![CDATA[

public var urls:Array = new Array();
public var index:int = 0;
[Bindable] public var tempUrl:String;

private function init() : void
{
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07026/07026_00115.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07026/07026_00116.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07026/07026_00117.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07026/07026_00118.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07026/07026_00119.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00473.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00474.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00475.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00476.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00477.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00478.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/07751/07751_00479.jpg; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0002.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0003.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0004.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0005.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0006.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0007.JPG; );
urls.push( http://10.7.2.8/42401/42401_0008.JPG; );
index = 0;
setCurrentIndex();
}

private function setCurrentIndex() : void
{
img.source = urls[index];
}

private function previous_Click() : void
{
if( --index  0 )
{
index = urls.length-1;
}

setCurrentIndex();
}

private function next_Click() : void
{
if( ++index = urls.length )
{
index = 0;
}

setCurrentIndex();
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Grid width=100% height=100%
mx:GridRow width=100% height=30
mx:GridItem width=100% height=100%
mx:Button label=lt; click=previous_Click()/
mx:Button label=gt; click=next_Click()/
/mx:GridItem
/mx:GridRow
mx:GridRow width=100% height=100%
mx:GridItem width=100% height=100%
mx:Image id=img source={tempUrl} width=100%
height=100%/
/mx:GridItem
/mx:GridRow
/mx:Grid
/mx:Application

I can't find a way to post my images so I hope this description is
good enough.

In IE7 the memory would climb each time I would move to the next
image. On the left of this graph I loaded several images and then let
IE7 sit. After a few minutes, and memory staying where it was, I
continued click next to load images. Only after I hit a saturation
point (Around 2.5Meg) would it Garbage Collect. My machine has 2Gig
of Ram.

The next rise in the graph is where I kept loading images over and
over until the memory usage was about the same as just before the
garbage collection happened the previous time. I let that sit for a
while and then tried to load one more image. That caused the garbage
collection to happen.

The next

Re: [flexcoders] Determining the idle state of a flex application


Could use the built-in idle event:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/managers/SystemManager.html#event:idle

-Scott

On 3/3/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Does anyone have any suggestions for monitoring idleness of a Flex
application?

The way my app works, pretty much any request to the server will renew a
cookie for another 30 minutes.. so I could just have flex make a generic
request every 10 minutes or so to avoid idling out, but I don't want to do
that.

What I'd like to do is perform that request - say every 5 minutes - if
there has been any kind of activity in the flex app.. keyboard or mouse
activity.. that way the server session stays active, and then if the user
has been idle for more than 20 minutes (no keyboard or mouse activity) to
actually blank the flex app window and pop up a login window, forcing the
user to reauthenticate.

I'm just not entirely sure of the best way to go about this.

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Re: [flexcoders] Caching problem


With Flash, I've learned to do the lo-tech method of attaching random
numbers to the path. Simple, but it's been effective!:

url:String = resource + ?rand= + Math.floor(Math.random() * 10);

-Scott

On 14 Mar 2007 08:07:52 -0700, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hi there!

I have an xml file that needs to be loaded eventually using a
URLRequest. I'm trying to avoid loading a cached file using these
headers:

urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader(Cache-
Control, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate));
urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
(Expires, Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:19:41 GMT));
urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
(Pragma, no-cache));

It works ok in firefox and IE6.0.2900, but I still obtain a cached file
in IE6.0.3790+ and IE7.

Do I need to add any more headers? or what's the problem here?

Thanks in advance

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Form Handling?


I think the Form docs show an example of binding the inputs to a Model, but
you could substitute another object/class  in its place.

-Scott

On 14 Mar 2007 07:54:00 -0700, Brian Dunphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Not a native feature built in to Flex I don't think, however one way
to accomplish this would be to loop through each of the children of
the Form (referenced by id), and then loop through each of the
children of the that child, see if they are of type TextInput,
TextArea, ComboBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, etc -- and then store the
id/value of that child in an ArrayCollection for sending later.

Does that sound like what you're after?

Brian


On 3/14/07, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists%40kevinmerritt.com
wrote:






 When handling form submission. Is there a way to grab all the fields
 wrapped in a specific Form tag and send them as an object to a function
much
 like a GET or POST works in HTML.

 a form example:

 mx:Form id=userForm
 mx:FormItem label=Login ID required=true 
 mx:TextInput id=username width=100 restrict=^ /
 /mx:FormItem
 mx:FormItem label=User Name required=true
 mx:TextInput id=firstname width=75
 mx:TextInput id=lastname width=75 /
 /mx:FormItem
 /mx:Form

 mx:ControlBar
 mx:ButtonBar id=adduser dataProvider={buttonlist}
 itemClick=clickHandler(event);/
 /mx:ControlBar

 can I grab all the values of the submission in as userForm.values (or
 something like that) OR do I have to get each one individually as

 username.text
 firstname.text
 lastname.text

 ...blah, blah...


 thanks, Kevin





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Re: [flexcoders] standalone exe


Double-click your .SWF.
- Select 'File' menu
- Select 'Create Projector...'

-Scott

On 14 Mar 2007 09:36:03 -0700, Chad Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Can flex apps be run as a standalone flash executables?



This way no browser is needed.

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem


That'll work with any cache-busting you need to do. I use it in testing, to
un-cache the swf file itself, when viewed on server. Ie: send rand var in
url and if it's present, pass it in to swf call (swfobject + php, here):

var so = new SWFObject( ProductBuilder.swf?rand=?=$rand?,
product_builder, 100%, 100%, 9, #FF);

Saves me the 'pain' of going through some menu to clear browser's cache, not
to mention losing your browser's cache, in order to update one element!

-Scott

On 14 Mar 2007 08:44:42 -0700, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Wow! O_O' Works flawlessly!! :-D

Many thanks for that trick dude!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 With Flash, I've learned to do the lo-tech method of attaching
random
 numbers to the path. Simple, but it's been effective!:

 url:String = resource + ?rand= + Math.floor(Math.random() *
10);

 -Scott

 On 14 Mar 2007 08:07:52 -0700, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi there!
 
  I have an xml file that needs to be loaded eventually using a
  URLRequest. I'm trying to avoid loading a cached file using these
  headers:
 
  urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader(Cache-
  Control, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate));
  urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
  (Expires, Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:19:41 GMT));
  urlRequest.requestHeaders.push(new URLRequestHeader
  (Pragma, no-cache));
 
  It works ok in firefox and IE6.0.2900, but I still obtain a
cached file
  in IE6.0.3790+ and IE7.
 
  Do I need to add any more headers? or what's the problem here?
 
  Thanks in advance
 
 
 



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Re: [flexcoders] Web Services: Nearing Wit's End

2007-03-10 Thread slangeberg


Give me your url and the calls your trying to make. I'll see if i can set up
a sample for you!

Oh yeah, service capture is indeed awesome. 30 day trial will be enough to
convince you to pay the $30. It's been worth closer to $1-2K in savings of
lost time debugging server transfers, for me! Best part it picks up Remoting
connections and is only one I know of. However, the Xray Connector is
probably a viable free alternative. You'll need to search for the AS3
XRayLog code, as I don't know where I got it.

Interface:
http://osflash.org/xray?s=xray
http://www.rockonflash.com/xray/flex/Xray.html

-Scott

On 10 Mar 2007 01:12:57 -0800, Shibli Zaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   I've followed every single tutorial on consuming Web Services in Flex
and not a single one works with anything other than simple demo web services
available on the net. I've followed all the different methods documented and
followed each and every step in detail. Now, I'm at the point that I am
appealing for someone to take a look at my WSDL file and tell me what I am
doing wrong. If you're interested in helping me out please let me know.
Thanks. --Shibli

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Problems with The E4X approach to XML processing

2007-03-05 Thread slangeberg


I think in the docs, these should be returning XMLList, technically. Not
sure if it evals to XML in typeof().

-Scott

On 3/5/07, greg h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hi Allen,

Glad to be of help.

btw ... you wrote:
it seems like that the return type is ArrayCollection or XMLList(I'm not
sure)

I did some tests using the ActionScript typeOf() operator and all values
returned from the E4x operators are showing as typeOf XML.

For example, I popped the following into the MXML from my last post:

mx:TextArea text={typeof(blockXML.block[0])}  /

I did a few more statements than just the one above, and regardless of the
nodeKind(), typeOf() consistently returned XML.

Best regards,

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm strategy question

2007-03-05 Thread slangeberg


Actually, SoundManager doesn't seem to fit MVC. You have no view and no user
input, correct? Why not just use a Command (or whatever patterns fit)
structure without worrying too much about Cairngorm..? Cairngorm's great and
all, but it is intended to manage large applications with many views, in the
end.

Looking back at your orig. post, looks like Command/Event structure may be
just fine, but that also doesn't mean you need to use the CairngormCommand
(if such exists). maybe what you really want is a state machine that fires
some events (probably). That state machine could very well sit in your model
and fire events. Or not!

You might want to take a look at the concept of CRC's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-Responsibility-Collaboration_card) as a
starting point. In the end, KISS works!

-Scott

On 05 Mar 2007 19:15:18 -0800, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Thanks guys,

I still dont know what I am going to do, but it is very helpful to
hear the arguments. Sometimes it is really helpful just to get other
peoples views. Obviously this is a bit of a gray area and there is no
*wrong* answer here, which is why nuance and opinion are quite
helpful.

Regards,
Hank


On 3/5/07, JWOpitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwopitz%40gmail.com wrote:
 I should probably clarify a few things. If you have MVC, and I had to
 qualify a SoundManager class as one of those, I would probably see it
 first as a command class. Manager type classes generally are of this
 nature anyway. But that can easily be argued to say Sound is also a
 view type nature too and there is enough supporting information to be
 so. Maybe this is more about personal preference as I can see both
 sides.

 As to why I don't like the Model doing command-ish like things is that
 again it is not its responsibility. Now that is not too say that it
 can't dispatch events. In fact when you have a [Bindable] class, it
 automatically dispatches propertyChange events. So that is perfectly
 acceptable in my book. In fact if you look in the flex2 reference
 material and search metadata, it explains how this works internally
 and how you can do it manually. I do not, however, like methods in
 the Model aside from getters/setters.

 Many of the developers on my team, however do like to stick methods
 (not getters/setters) in the model. I don't like it and advocate
 against it. For instance we have a customizable dataGrid where users
 can add various column types with specific data. I suggested having a
 command-type class build columns for it. However, my teammates wanted
 to have a method in the model. For what reasons I do not now. All I
 know is that although I love democracy in terms of politics, I cannot
 stand it in application development. Sorry for that. Just a rant and
 rave for a sec. Back to the point though, to maintain consistency
 with the MVC framework, some sort of ColumnManager would be
 appropriate and would be in the command family.

 I am not any kind of MVC purist and occasionaly bend the rules or do
 something questionable with regards to what we have been discussing.
 But when developers start deviating dramatically from the core
 purposes of what a model is, what a command is, what a view is, then I
 will raise an eyebrow and possibly a stink.

 Again my 2 cents. Hope it helps in your decision making.

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Troy
Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  Coming from a game development background, I always consider sound to
be
  apart of the view. Generally, I consider anything directly consumed
 by the
  user to be view while internal state that has meaning independent
 of the
  view is the model.
 
  So, while your sound player does maintain state (the currently playing
  sound, the current position in the sound being played), you need to
 answer
  for yourself whether that state is on par with (to use a trivial
 example)
  the contacts in an address book or the position of a scroll bar on a
 text
  box. If the sounds are used to convey information about state, then it
  sounds to me they're more like scrollbars. If the sounds *are* your
 state
  that you're concerned with (like an audio editing application), then
 they
  should be in the model.
 
  Another way to judge it: if you were going to persist the current
 state of
  your application to disk, would you worry about persisting the state
 related
  to sound? Or to put it another way: if I was forced to manipulate
 the data
  in your application through an API instead of a UI, do I care about
the
  sounds or are they only there for the pleasure of the human audience?
 
  Troy.
 
 
  On 3/5/07, hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Thanks,
  
Make a SoundManager Singleton class that extends the
 EventDispatcher.
That way if you make use of the basic Flex events, you can then
have
the soundManager instance assign its event handlers.
   
   This is the way the code currently works.
  
As for using the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Dynamically creating item IDs

2007-03-02 Thread slangeberg


Believe you need to pass the event object:

mx:TextInput preinitialize=assignID(event)/

But, that's a pretty good idea!

-Scott

On 3/2/07, bhaq1972 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  maybe your trying to do something like this

mx:TextInput preinitialize=assignID()/

private function assignID(event:FlexEvent):void
{
//read your xml file and get id
var sID:String = assign your id from your xml file here;

//assign this textinput's id
event.currentTarget.id = sID;
}

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Trice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 What do you mean? That statement very vague. Can you create
variables
 dynamically... yes. Can you use reflection and introspection into
 classes... yes. Can you create UI components at runtime... yes.



 Can flex compete with ajax... absolutely.



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 what do you mean by 'id'

 On 3/1/07, thetexaspsycho2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.commailto:
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 , thetexaspsycho2003
 thetexaspsycho2003@ wrote:
 
  Is there a way to dynamically create an item's ID? For example
pulling
  it in from a XML file?
 

 I guess from the lack of replies there is no way of doing this. If
so,
 this is very disappointing. The ability to create IDs on-the-fly
is
 very helpful in other technologies, such as AJAX.




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Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread slangeberg


Oh yeah, did he say:

limited to 2g


As in a 2GB POST limit? That doesn't seem like much of a limit. I may

question the logic of posting a 2G file! If that's not the current limit,
what is?

Tom, what's the current method you're referring to, for 'sending' files to
server?

-Scott

On 3/2/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, Impudent1 wrote:
 So am I to take this that Apollo will not let me deal with a remote
 filesystem? If I cannot read/write files from a workstation to a server,
or
 deal with a remote data connection, Apollo suddenly seems really useless
 for my app :(

You can always send the file to the server, same as you can now from Flex.

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Re: [flexcoders] Circular Binding


What is the effect of this code? Were you able to do simple binding that way
to both items?

-Scott

On 3/1/07, raz_gilad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hi

Does anyone knows how Circular Binding works? I've used the follwing
action script code and I've expected it to go into endless loop - but it did
not. Any idea why ?

   BindingUtils.bindProperty(item,Threshold,txtin,text);
   BindingUtils.bindProperty(txtin,text,item,Threshold);

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Re: [flexcoders] Can Flex really compete with AJAX?


You can do this in AS3:

   var b:Button = new Button();
   b.id = myid + 2;
   trace( b.id: +b.id );

However, i'm guessing he means in the mxml, which i've experienced myself.
Hence you cannot do:

Button id={'myid'+1} /

-Scott

On 3/1/07, Nick Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  What do you mean by dynamic id? I mean, you can pretty easily loop
through a list of items in an XML file and assign one of their values as the
id of the dynamically created object. Heck, I do this all the time with
Actionscript 2 to create menus and such from an XML file.

On 3/1/07, thetexaspsycho2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   I mean, creating something as simple as a dynamic ID is crucial in
 creating truly dynamic content.


 





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Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide


Uh, you're still going to have 'at least' all those capabilities (talking to
networked service) already existing in Flex.. What kind of functionality /
library / language are you comparing this to?

-Scott

On 3/1/07, Impudent1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Just taking a quick look and this concerns me:

Apollo provides a file I/O API that lets applications read and
write files and directories on the user's computer...

The Flex framework for Apollo
includes components for working with files and directories,
but these are graphical components for navigating the file
system and selecting files and directories. They do not pro-
vide direct access to the more fundamental file I/O
operations

Apollo will eventually provide a complete security model for
managing access to local resources, such as the file system...


So am I to take this that Apollo will not let me deal with a remote
filesystem?
If I cannot read/write files from a workstation to a server, or deal with
a
remote data connection, Apollo suddenly seems really useless for my app :(



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Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide


Binary sockets, for one.. Any other ideas out there?

-Scott

On 3/1/07, Impudent1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  slangeberg wrote:
 Uh, you're still going to have 'at least' all those capabilities
 (talking to
 networked service) already existing in Flex.. What kind of functionality
/
 library / language are you comparing this to?

Well I still have not seen how this will dovetail into the offline/online
ability shown in say the ebay desktop app. If it can for example hold a
users
file uploads in the local cache and then on connect it will relogin/sync
to the
database and upload. And in doing this are we going to be limited to
sending
files to a remote server ala http post type commands with php etc and
limited to
2g because of it and sandbox issues?

From the text it seemed that all the flex apollo components would give is
file
selection and nav, not anything to do with user permissions, finding size
of a
dir , appending to files, changing attribs etc.

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[flexcoders] scaling + ( localToGlobal and globalToLocal ) = Working??

2007-02-28 Thread slangeberg


I am trying to port Darron Schall's implementation of the
DynamicRegistration for Flex 2 (haven't seen a way to set registration
points in Flex 2).

I have rotations working fine on dynamic registration points, but it's not
working with scaling (scaleX, so far).

So, does Flex 2 still take scaling into account when computing localToGlobal
and globalToLocal (as Flash 8 appears to have)? Such as:

   var b:Point = new Point( xreg, yreg  );
b = target.localToGlobal(a);
   b = target.parent.globalToLocal(a);

full method:

   public function set scaleX(value:Number):void
   {
   trace( \n ** set scaleX(  + value );

   var a:Point = new Point( xreg, yreg );
a = target.localToGlobal(a);
   a = target.parent.globalToLocal(a);
   trace( a: +a );

   target.scaleX = value;

   var b:Point = new Point( xreg, yreg  );
b = target.localToGlobal(a);
   b = target.parent.globalToLocal(a);
   trace( b: +b );

   trace( pos before : +target.x + ,  + target.y );
   target.x -= b.x - a.x;
   target.y -= b.y - a.y;
   trace( pos after : +target.x + ,  + target.y );
   }

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[flexcoders] FDS + stand-alone .swf files?

2007-02-27 Thread slangeberg


Just read an old article from Forta ( CF + flex 2 ) where he mentions that
using FDS in Flex 2 will still require the server to publish the swf. Is
this true, or can you use locally compiled / stand-alone .SWF files with
FDS?

Thanks,

: : ) Scott

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best way for editing massive amounts of data?

2007-02-26 Thread slangeberg


What's your main concern with this issue? Simplicity? Performance? What are
you going for? Worried that someone may lose their data half-way through, or
something? You could do a sort of proxy where you store the user's data
locally, then upload the entire thing on submit. Then, you're preserving
their entry, if they accidentally leave the page, or something. I would say
no way to double-clicking fields to edit... Perhaps breaking up the
procedure into sub-panels, ala an Accordian or TabNavigator? I'm more
worried with usability in these kinds of things.

-Scott

On 2/24/07, gotgoose09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I guess no one here has had this problem before?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
gotgoose09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm web-enabling by using Flex 2 a project that has many fields for
 each record in the database. A typical UI screen has upwards of 35
 fields in it. This application has to be easy to use. e.g. explained
 over the telephone to customers who use it.

 I was thinking that one way to make editing fields consistent would be
 to have the user double click the data field, popping up a window with
 the right kind of input to edit the data, whether it is a TextInput,
 TextArea, DateField, etc. Then, if the user presses the submit
 button, the data would be saved to the database, but if the user
 presses the cancel button, the data would not be saved and they would
 return to the large form.

 Does anyone have experience in this type of application? Anyone have
 their own opinion on the matter?

 Thanks in advance! :)


 





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Re: [flexcoders] Finding out when an arraycollection in my model is set

2007-02-26 Thread slangeberg


You can use simple binding, via {} brackets.

MyComp dataProvider={model.library} /

Or, you can use the ChangeWatcher:

ChangeWatcher.watch( model, library, onLibraryChange );

function onLibraryChange(){ /*do stuff*/ }

-Scott

On 2/24/07, Webdevotion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hello,

How can I now when my arraycollection in my modellocator is filled with
items ?
I tried using collectionEvent.collection_change, but it does not fire when

setting my AC like this in my command, after the remoting result handler:

model.library = new ArrayCollection(data.result);

What is the correct way ? ( I'm using Cairngorm )

 





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[flexcoders] Image scaling / smoothing

2007-02-23 Thread slangeberg


Not sure if I've seen a solution to this on-list, so here's one I was
pointed to, that works swimmingly!:

http://blog.739saintlouis.com/2007/02/05/scaling-an-image-with-smoothing/

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Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread slangeberg

Hey everyone,

I know there exists an article/whitepaper from Adobe outlining the new AS3
VM2(?), but I can't find it. Anyone know where that is? I think it would be
helpful for this gentleman's situation.

Thanks,

-Scott

On 2/22/07, ravi kumar gummadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I am basically a Java guy, recently into Flex. It may be due to the sudden
paradigm shift from serial programming ( incl Threads) to Event Based
Programming, that I find many features totally new and surprising.

I read in a article that Flash/Flex is based on AMPED (Asymmetric-Multi
Process Event Driven) Architecture. In this kind of architecture , We have a
single thread dispatching the events and the control gets transferred
between the Events and the main thread. ( These are my vague conclusions
from what I have read and understood, Correct me if I am wrong! )

So if the event dispatched doesn't have a IO/Network operation, the
control reaches back to the EventDispatcher only after the eventhandler
method is totally complete. But if our eventhandling mechanism has a huge
data crunching operation , doesn't that freeze the client?

1.
Lets say I have 2 things to be done, Doing a animation and some huge data
operation simultaneously!
In Java, what we usually do is spawn a new thread for doing the animation
(or) doing the data operation! This takes care of the scenario.

Now in Flex, We dispatch events, Lets say, OperateDataEvent and
AnimateEvent, both of them have some handlers (ODEHandler, AEHandler
respectively). Now when we do something like this,
dispatchEvent(new OperateDataEvent()) and dispatchEvent(new
AnimateEvent())
How does the control flow??
Does this fully complete the DataOperationEvent first and then return to
animateEvent ! Since its a single thread model, I guess it should be done
so! But then it doesnt sound logical for any matured programming languge to
cripple an application from doing another task and make it wait.

2.
Second thing is, How does the Timer/setInterval actually function in the
Flex architecture, Is it a separate 'thread' ( Oops!this Java hangover is
not gonna leave me ! ) Is it advisable to have big operations inside the
timerHandler which may result in periodic glitches in the application.

3
Can anyone give a good resource of the AVM structure and design and how it
differs from JVM!

Thanks in advance

Cheers,
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Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-22 Thread slangeberg

Ok, here it is. Right on my desktop, wouldn't you know!:

(not it, but worth looking)
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/actionscript3_overview.html

(this is it!)
http://www.onflex.org/ACDS/AS3TuningInsideAVM2JIT.pdf

=Scott

On 2/22/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hey everyone,

I know there exists an article/whitepaper from Adobe outlining the new AS3
VM2(?), but I can't find it. Anyone know where that is? I think it would be
helpful for this gentleman's situation.

Thanks,

-Scott

On 2/22/07, ravi kumar gummadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I am basically a Java guy, recently into Flex. It may be due to the
sudden paradigm shift from serial programming ( incl Threads) to Event Based
Programming, that I find many features totally new and surprising.

1.
Lets say I have 2 things to be done, Doing a animation and some huge
data operation simultaneously!
In Java, what we usually do is spawn a new thread for doing the
animation (or) doing the data operation! This takes care of the scenario.

3
Can anyone give a good resource of the AVM structure and design and how
it differs from JVM!

Thanks in advance

Cheers,
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Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?

2007-02-16 Thread slangeberg


Yeah, sorry. I'm not 100%, but you should be able to reference your loaded
movie by that class type (your document class), from within Flex. I believe
another gentleman referred to that, in this thread. Hold on, I did it, with
a loader... I'll try to attach code.

The proxy is just a design idea, meaning you define an interface to your
movie in your class, instead of referencing elements within the movie from
Flex. Then, the only thing that will break your flash / flex connection is
to break that interface. For instance, your map(?) class could have
functions like:

showPlat( id:Object );

where the class implementation can decide what to do with the call, instead
of having your flex app nose through the contents. That's a good design
practice to get into:

'Always code to interfaces, not implementations.'

Ok, so here's one of those do as I say, deals.. Also, my implementation may
be a bit different here, than what we were talking about. This was a quick
fix to enable custom loading logic, for the default Flex 2 application
loading bar. In this case, I'm actually assigning the class under the
'linkage' option of my library clip (progress bar) to point to:
com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol, and publishing in Flash 9. Then, when
you instantiate the class in Flex 2, you'll get a direct link. In your case,
i would suggest a document class, for the entire movie.

//I just used this class to enable me to access a loading bar quick. If this
was going to
//scale / change, I would have defined public methods to update this view.
//I swear!!
package com.tc.view.preload
{
   import flash.display.*;
   import flash.text.TextField;

   [Embed(source=/library.swf, symbol=
com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol)]
   public class ProgressBarSymbol extends Sprite
   {
   public var progress_bar:MovieClip;
   public var loading_text:TextField;
   }
}

//And instantiated in Flex 2 by using:

var bar:ProgressBarSymbol = new ProgressBarSymbol();
this.addChild( bar );

Hope this gives ideas, not confusion!

-Scott

On 2/16/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Hello Scott (in particular) :)

You mentioned a Proxy - what you do mean by this exactly?

Is this supposed to be some custom class that I write?  If so, what is
supposed to be contained within it?

I did read up on the Document Object, and I am now doing my Flash 9 FLA
files with a custom Document Class, representing the Root Timeline.  I am
pretty sure I did it right, since I am getting no compile errors.

But my question is, is the AS3 Class File I used for the Document Object,
strictly used for the FLA file?  Or is this also used inside of Flex
Builder, after I bring the external SWF file in?

This is where I am getting a little confused.

All the articles I find on this topic, covers the Flash side of things -
and they never take that next step, and tell you how to reference it inside
of Flex.

If you have anything else on this topic, I'd really be grateful for your
help.

Thanks,

Mike

 --
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *slangeberg
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
embedded SWF's?

If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at the
root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would set
up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
proxy. Sorry I don't have the implementation in front of me, but I believe
it's possible.

So, if previous code was correct, could do something like:

var platProxy:YourProxy = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
YourProxy
platProxy.hideAll();
platProxy.showByID( {id:'plat_xxx'} );

Just an idea!

-Scott

On 2/14/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Oh man, you are kidding me!

 See, this particular SWF is a Plat Overview of a subdivision - and there
 are 140 Lots, each individually defined as a unique MovieClip.

 So, if I need access to each MovieClip programmatically, I will have to
 define 140 variables?

 Now that would be a bummer :-(

 Could you clarify on that?

 Thank you for the information nevertheless - I was actually going to try
 the getChild method next, so that saves me some time.

 Mike

  --
 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *Matt Wicks
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
 embedded SWF's?

  You need to get the object as a display object
 var xxx:MovieClip = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
 MovieClip

 Matt
  On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:13, Mike Anderson wrote:

   Hello all,

 I have a Flash Player 9, AS3 version of a SWF that I am bringing into
 Flex, using the SWFLoader Component.

 Once I bring the SWF in, I am creating a MovieClip

Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?

2007-02-16 Thread slangeberg


Mike,

I tried setting up a document class for Flash 9, but when you place named
items on stage, you get this error:

ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property square_mc on
com.cpile.flextoflash.FlexToFlashMain.
   at flash.display::Sprite/flash.display:Sprite::constructChildren()
   at flash.display::Sprite$iinit()
   at flash.display::MovieClip$iinit()
   at com.cpile.flextoflash::FlexToFlashMain$iinit()

Adobe guys, is this correct? My understanding from looking around is that
with the document class in Flash 9, you can only add items to the stage
through code. That seems to negate a lot of the advantage of using a
graphical interface... ok, so you could have a clip in your library that has
the stage set up... hmmm that may do it! I'll write back when I have
something. Otherwise, what i have sent is an effective way to access items
on the stage.

-Scott

On 2/16/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Yeah, sorry. I'm not 100%, but you should be able to reference your loaded
movie by that class type (your document class), from within Flex. I believe
another gentleman referred to that, in this thread. Hold on, I did it, with
a loader... I'll try to attach code.

The proxy is just a design idea, meaning you define an interface to your
movie in your class, instead of referencing elements within the movie from
Flex. Then, the only thing that will break your flash / flex connection is
to break that interface. For instance, your map(?) class could have
functions like:

showPlat( id:Object );

where the class implementation can decide what to do with the call,
instead of having your flex app nose through the contents. That's a good
design practice to get into:

'Always code to interfaces, not implementations.'

Ok, so here's one of those do as I say, deals.. Also, my implementation
may be a bit different here, than what we were talking about. This was a
quick fix to enable custom loading logic, for the default Flex 2 application
loading bar. In this case, I'm actually assigning the class under the
'linkage' option of my library clip (progress bar) to point to:
com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol, and publishing in Flash 9. Then,
when you instantiate the class in Flex 2, you'll get a direct link. In your
case, i would suggest a document class, for the entire movie.

//I just used this class to enable me to access a loading bar quick. If
this was going to
//scale / change, I would have defined public methods to update this view.

//I swear!!
package com.tc.view.preload
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;

[Embed(source=/library.swf, symbol=
com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol)]
public class ProgressBarSymbol extends Sprite
{
public var progress_bar:MovieClip;
public var loading_text:TextField;
}
}

//And instantiated in Flex 2 by using:

var bar:ProgressBarSymbol = new ProgressBarSymbol();
this.addChild( bar );

Hope this gives ideas, not confusion!

-Scott

On 2/16/07, Mike Anderson  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello Scott (in particular) :)

 You mentioned a Proxy - what you do mean by this exactly?

 Is this supposed to be some custom class that I write?  If so, what is
 supposed to be contained within it?

 I did read up on the Document Object, and I am now doing my Flash 9 FLA
 files with a custom Document Class, representing the Root Timeline.  I am
 pretty sure I did it right, since I am getting no compile errors.

 But my question is, is the AS3 Class File I used for the Document
 Object, strictly used for the FLA file?  Or is this also used inside of Flex
 Builder, after I bring the external SWF file in?

 This is where I am getting a little confused.

 All the articles I find on this topic, covers the Flash side of things -
 and they never take that next step, and tell you how to reference it inside
 of Flex.

 If you have anything else on this topic, I'd really be grateful for your
 help.

 Thanks,

 Mike

  --
 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *slangeberg
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
 embedded SWF's?

 If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at
 the root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would
 set up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
 proxy. Sorry I don't have the implementation in front of me, but I believe
 it's possible.

 So, if previous code was correct, could do something like:

 var platProxy:YourProxy = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
 YourProxy
 platProxy.hideAll();
 platProxy.showByID( {id:'plat_xxx'} );

 Just an idea!

 -Scott

 On 2/14/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Oh man, you are kidding me!
 
  See, this particular SWF is a Plat Overview of a subdivision - and
  there are 140 Lots, each

[flexcoders] Flash 9 - Flex 2 interface (previously): Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?

2007-02-16 Thread slangeberg


Any Adobe or other people who have some resources out there for interfacing
Flash 9 - Flex 2 apps? This seems to be a critical area, as Flash 9 IDE
release looms..

Here's some interesting info on using Flash 9, but still not a solution to
the Flex interface.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash9_as3_preview.html


-Scott

On 2/16/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Mike,

I tried setting up a document class for Flash 9, but when you place named
items on stage, you get this error:

ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property square_mc on
com.cpile.flextoflash.FlexToFlashMain .
at flash.display::Sprite/flash.display:Sprite::constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite$iinit()
at flash.display::MovieClip$iinit()
at com.cpile.flextoflash::FlexToFlashMain$iinit()

Adobe guys, is this correct? My understanding from looking around is that
with the document class in Flash 9, you can only add items to the stage
through code. That seems to negate a lot of the advantage of using a
graphical interface... ok, so you could have a clip in your library that has
the stage set up... hmmm that may do it! I'll write back when I have
something. Otherwise, what i have sent is an effective way to access items
on the stage.

-Scott

On 2/16/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Yeah, sorry. I'm not 100%, but you should be able to reference your
 loaded movie by that class type (your document class), from within Flex. I
 believe another gentleman referred to that, in this thread. Hold on, I did
 it, with a loader... I'll try to attach code.

 The proxy is just a design idea, meaning you define an interface to your
 movie in your class, instead of referencing elements within the movie from
 Flex. Then, the only thing that will break your flash / flex connection is
 to break that interface. For instance, your map(?) class could have
 functions like:

 showPlat( id:Object );

 where the class implementation can decide what to do with the call,
 instead of having your flex app nose through the contents. That's a good
 design practice to get into:

 'Always code to interfaces, not implementations.'

 Ok, so here's one of those do as I say, deals.. Also, my implementation
 may be a bit different here, than what we were talking about. This was a
 quick fix to enable custom loading logic, for the default Flex 2 application
 loading bar. In this case, I'm actually assigning the class under the
 'linkage' option of my library clip (progress bar) to point to:
 com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol, and publishing in Flash 9. Then,
 when you instantiate the class in Flex 2, you'll get a direct link. In your
 case, i would suggest a document class, for the entire movie.

 //I just used this class to enable me to access a loading bar quick. If
 this was going to
 //scale / change, I would have defined public methods to update this
 view.
 //I swear!!
 package com.tc.view.preload
 {
 import flash.display.*;
 import flash.text.TextField;

 [Embed(source=/library.swf, symbol=
 com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol)]
 public class ProgressBarSymbol extends Sprite
 {
 public var progress_bar:MovieClip;
 public var loading_text:TextField;
 }
 }

 //And instantiated in Flex 2 by using:

 var bar:ProgressBarSymbol = new ProgressBarSymbol();
 this.addChild( bar );

 Hope this gives ideas, not confusion!

 -Scott

 On 2/16/07, Mike Anderson  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Hello Scott (in particular) :)
 
  You mentioned a Proxy - what you do mean by this exactly?
 
  Is this supposed to be some custom class that I write?  If so, what is
  supposed to be contained within it?
 
  I did read up on the Document Object, and I am now doing my Flash 9
  FLA files with a custom Document Class, representing the Root Timeline.  I
  am pretty sure I did it right, since I am getting no compile errors.
 
  But my question is, is the AS3 Class File I used for the Document
  Object, strictly used for the FLA file?  Or is this also used inside of Flex
  Builder, after I bring the external SWF file in?
 
  This is where I am getting a little confused.
 
  All the articles I find on this topic, covers the Flash side of things
  - and they never take that next step, and tell you how to reference it
  inside of Flex.
 
  If you have anything else on this topic, I'd really be grateful for
  your help.
 
  Thanks,
 
  Mike
 
   --
  *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups.com]
  *On Behalf Of *slangeberg
  *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
  *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
  embedded SWF's?
 
  If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at
  the root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would
  set up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
  proxy. Sorry I don't have

Re: [flexcoders] svn and flex not getting along


I'm not entirely tracking you, but my approach is to only include those
items in the /bin that are not already under source-control within the
regular project (com, assets, etc.). Then, when I add items (like PHP) into
the bin that I do want, I add them to source-control. I just don't include
anything else. Also, it kind of sounds like you have the _svn (.svn) files
in source control? I wouldn't include those, either..
I think what's happening is you're adding entire directories at a time to
source control. This will drag along those _svn and everything else, if
they're already set up. I only add selected items (class files, etc. -
shift-select, if necessary) to source control and don't have these
collisions.

-Scott

On 2/15/07, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Hi Scott,

I have to include the bin folder since we have a lot of php in there, I've
stopped source controlling the html-template folder, but it appears that
flex is copying stuff from my project folder into the bin folder still

my project folder is

_svn
/com
/.project
/html-template
/main.mxml

etc..

and flex appears to copy into my bin folder

com

so of course SVN gets confused since I have another com folder from my dev
folder copied into my bin folder with its _svn folder intact...


so I need to completely remove the _svn folder from my root dev folder so
its not source controlled and flex won't mess with it ?

Grant




...
*› b l u e t u b e i n t e r a c t i v e.*
.: grant davies
.: 404.428.6839 (c)
.: 708-983-1577 (F)
› [EMAIL PROTECTED]
› http://www.bluetube.com/bti
› A Tribal Chicken Designs Affiliate http://www.tribalchicken.com/


 --
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *slangeberg
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:18 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] svn and flex not getting along

 You have html-template in version control? I don't include that or any of
the eclipse/flex files (.project, etc.) - and no problems, here. I also
don't include the /bin folder, until I create custom files, such as
index.html, js, css (html), etc...

-Scott

On 2/13/07, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Sorry for the double post but I hijacked by accident..

 I figured out my issue is svn and flex based on this post :

 
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/172588.html
 http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/172588.html


 somehow a stale main.swf got into our html-template folder and then was
 copied into our bin folder and all hell breaks loose,  has there been a fix
 yet for flex so it ignores svn folders when copyng ?  a quick google search
 didn't reveal much..


 Cheers,
 Grant


 ...
 *› b l u e t u b e i n t e r a c t i v e.*
 .: grant davies
 .: 404.428.6839 (c)
 .: 708-983-1577 (F)
 › [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 › http://www.bluetube.com/btihttp://www.bluetube.com/bti
 › A Tribal Chicken Designs Affiliate http://www.tribalchicken.com/





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Re: [flexcoders] svn and flex not getting along


Also, there is a SVN plug-in (Subclipse - Tigris.org) for eclipse that I
highly recommend. Seems to work much more cleanly than TortoiseSVN, which I
use in Explorer, but have a lot of conflicts, corruptions, etc. Probably
user error, but the eclipse plugin doesn't give me nearly as much grief!

-Scott

On 2/15/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I'm not entirely tracking you, but my approach is to only include those
items in the /bin that are not already under source-control within the
regular project (com, assets, etc.). Then, when I add items (like PHP) into
the bin that I do want, I add them to source-control. I just don't include
anything else. Also, it kind of sounds like you have the _svn (.svn) files
in source control? I wouldn't include those, either..
I think what's happening is you're adding entire directories at a time to
source control. This will drag along those _svn and everything else, if
they're already set up. I only add selected items (class files, etc. -
shift-select, if necessary) to source control and don't have these
collisions.

-Scott

On 2/15/07, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Scott,

 I have to include the bin folder since we have a lot of php in there,
 I've stopped source controlling the html-template folder, but it appears
 that flex is copying stuff from my project folder into the bin folder still

 my project folder is

 _svn
 /com
 /.project
 /html-template
 /main.mxml

 etc..

 and flex appears to copy into my bin folder

 com

 so of course SVN gets confused since I have another com folder from my
 dev folder copied into my bin folder with its _svn folder intact...


 so I need to completely remove the _svn folder from my root dev folder
 so its not source controlled and flex won't mess with it ?

 Grant




 ...
 *› b l u e t u b e i n t e r a c t i v e.*
 .: grant davies
 .: 404.428.6839 (c)
 .: 708-983-1577 (F)
 › [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 › http://www.bluetube.com/bti
 › A Tribal Chicken Designs Affiliate http://www.tribalchicken.com/


  --
 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
 Behalf Of *slangeberg
 *Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:18 PM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] svn and flex not getting along

  You have html-template in version control? I don't include that or any
 of the eclipse/flex files (.project, etc.) - and no problems, here. I also
 don't include the /bin folder, until I create custom files, such as
 index.html, js, css (html), etc...

 -Scott

 On 2/13/07, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Sorry for the double post but I hijacked by accident..
 
  I figured out my issue is svn and flex based on this post :
 
  
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/172588.htmlhttp://chattyfig
  .figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/172588.html
 
  somehow a stale main.swf got into our html-template folder and then
  was copied into our bin folder and all hell breaks loose,  has there been a
  fix yet for flex so it ignores svn folders when copyng ?  a quick google
  search didn't reveal much..
 
 
  Cheers,
  Grant
 
 
  ...
  *› b l u e t u b e i n t e r a c t i v e.*
  .: grant davies
  .: 404.428.6839 (c)
  .: 708-983-1577 (F)
  › [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  › http://www.bluetube.com/btihttp://www.bluetube.com/bti
  › A Tribal Chicken Designs Affiliate http://www.tribalchicken.com/
 
 
 


 --

 : : ) Scott

  





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attachment: small.jpg
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm: ArrayCollection(ValuObject)-Event on changing data?


Main docs:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/

Meta-tags:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=1652.html

-Scott

On 2/14/07, martywolf11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  i dont know whats so funny, but whatever.
so it seems the [ArrayElementType(cairngorm.vo.FriendVO)] line
doesnt do any good?
i just took that line from an example, because i am pretty new to
cairngorm and all that stuff.
by the way, which docs are you referring to? do you mean the docs
according event handling?

thanks for the help,

greetz marty

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dang,

 You got me excited with:

 [ArrayElementType(cairngorm.vo.FriendVO)]
  public var friends:ArrayCollection;
 
  But, according to the docs, this only applies to type: Array. I
tried it
 and compiler does not appear to pick up on this restriction, for
 ArrayCollection (I tried adding item not of type in
[ArrayElementType()] and
 it threw no errors).

 -Scott



 On 2/14/07, martywolf11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  hello,
 
  In my ModelLocator class i defined an ArrayCollection:
 
  [Bindable]
  [ArrayElementType(cairngorm.vo.FriendVO)]
  public var friends:ArrayCollection;
 
  storying the FriendVO object works perfectly, but now i want an event
  to fire up whenever i add a new FriendVO object, delete it or
change it.
  i just tried to use the following command for that:
 
  MyModelLocator.getInstance().friends.addEventListener(
  CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE,createFriendsList);
 
  which should invoke the method createFriendsList()
 
  private function createFriendsList():void
  { Alert.show(create friendslist); }
 
  but it is never called, not even when i do
  MyModelLocator.getInstance().friends = new ArrayCollection();
 
  can anybody tell me what i am doing wrong?
  i really would appreciate any info.
 
  thanks,
 
  marty
 
 
 



 --

 : : ) Scott


 





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Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?



Cool new feature of Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3 Preview: Document
Class.

Install Flash 9 Preview, create a new document, and in the Properties
Panel, you'll see a new field, Document Class. You can enter the name of
an AS3 class here, as long as it's in your class path, and it will serve as
the main class of your swf. The class you uses must extend MovieClip or
Sprite (or something else that extends one of those).


src: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=820
also:
http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+9+document+classie=utf-8oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a

Very easy to set up. From Flash 9:

New document - File -Publish Settings - Flash (tab) - AS version -
Settings (button) - Document Class: Enter full class definition (w package)
pointing to your class that extends Sprite or MovieClip (i believe).

This class becomes your main interface to movie.

-Scott

On 2/15/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Hey guys,

Could you elaborate more on the Document Class, or maybe post some code
snippets demonstrating how this all works?  I am really not familiar with
that whole topic, but it sounds like this is what I am looking for.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Mike

 --
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *slangeberg
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
embedded SWF's?

If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at the
root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would set
up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
proxy. Sorry I don't have the implementation in front of me, but I believe
it's possible.

So, if previous code was correct, could do something like:

var platProxy:YourProxy = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
YourProxy
platProxy.hideAll();
platProxy.showByID( {id:'plat_xxx'} );

Just an idea!

-Scott

On 2/14/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Oh man, you are kidding me!

 See, this particular SWF is a Plat Overview of a subdivision - and there
 are 140 Lots, each individually defined as a unique MovieClip.

 So, if I need access to each MovieClip programmatically, I will have to
 define 140 variables?

 Now that would be a bummer :-(

 Could you clarify on that?

 Thank you for the information nevertheless - I was actually going to try
 the getChild method next, so that saves me some time.

 Mike

  --
 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 *On Behalf Of *Matt Wicks
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
 embedded SWF's?

  You need to get the object as a display object
 var xxx:MovieClip = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
 MovieClip

 Matt
  On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:13, Mike Anderson wrote:

   Hello all,

 I have a Flash Player 9, AS3 version of a SWF that I am bringing into
 Flex, using the SWFLoader Component.

 Once I bring the SWF in, I am creating a MovieClip variable and
 assigning to it, the SWFLoader.content. Here is a quick code example:

 var platObject:MovieClip = mySWFLoader.content;

 So once that assignment is made, you can execute certain built-in
 methods available to any Flash Movie - for example:

 platObject.play ( );
 platObject.loaderIn fo.[etc]
 And so on...

 That is all well and good - but what about MovieClips that reside in the
 Root Timeline? In this particular SWF File, I have a MovieClip called
 platMovieClip - and I am trying to access it's properties and methods
 from within Flex. For example, I'd like to toggle the visibility, so I
 tried this code:

 platObject.platMovi eClip._visible = false;

 When I try this command, I get an error that says the property
 platMovieClip is unknown or something to that effect...

 If we can't access the assets that reside in SWF Files, then what is the
 whole point of all this? Or maybe there is something that I am
 overlooking - but as far as I can tell, the platObject should represent
 the SWF...

 Could any of you shed some light on this topic for me? This
 functionality is VERY important to the success of my website launch.

 Thanks in advance,

 Mike





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Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?


I haven't done much experimentation. I think when I used it, I created
variables on the class that just pointed to items named the same on stage,
so i think you could access those, if declared public. Please let us know
what you find!

+=Scott

On 2/15/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   A, wonderful!

Okay, with all that said, if I create a custom class, extending lets say a
MovieClip, in any other situation I would have to declare all of my
MovieClips contained within the main Movie, as Public Variables if I hoped
to control them programmatically correct?  You know, just like creating
custom classes within Flex, and in order to access the Controls residing in
the MXML file, you have to create Public Variables with the same names, and
cast them as their proper types (i.e.. Button, Slider, TitleWindow, etc.)
If I am wrong on this, could you correct me? :-)

And if so, it would be because of all these declared Variables, that would
cause them to be exposed  allow me to access them from within Flex correct?

Since we are using AS3 across the board, will Flex then have native
access to all the Objects contained within the SWF File?

What I'd love to do, is use Flex Effects and Transitions to control how
the MovieClips that reside on the SWF, behave and interact in the main
application.

In the meantime, I will read up as much as I can on this topic - thanks
again for pointing me in the right direction.

Mike

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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *slangeberg
*Sent:* Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:58 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
embedded SWF's?

 Cool new feature of Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3 Preview: Document
 Class.

 Install Flash 9 Preview, create a new document, and in the Properties
 Panel, you'll see a new field, Document Class. You can enter the name of
 an AS3 class here, as long as it's in your class path, and it will serve as
 the main class of your swf. The class you uses must extend MovieClip or
 Sprite (or something else that extends one of those).

src: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=820
also:
http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+9+document+classie=utf-8oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a

Very easy to set up. From Flash 9:

New document - File -Publish Settings - Flash (tab) - AS version -
Settings (button) - Document Class: Enter full class definition (w package)
pointing to your class that extends Sprite or MovieClip (i believe).

This class becomes your main interface to movie.

-Scott

On 2/15/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hey guys,

 Could you elaborate more on the Document Class, or maybe post some code
 snippets demonstrating how this all works?  I am really not familiar with
 that whole topic, but it sounds like this is what I am looking for.

 Thanks in advance for your help,

 Mike

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 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups.com]
 *On Behalf Of *slangeberg
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:53 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
 embedded SWF's?

  If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at
 the root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would
 set up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
 proxy. Sorry I don't have the implementation in front of me, but I believe
 it's possible.

 So, if previous code was correct, could do something like:

 var platProxy:YourProxy = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
 YourProxy
 platProxy.hideAll();
 platProxy.showByID( {id:'plat_xxx'} );

 Just an idea!

 -Scott

 On 2/14/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Oh man, you are kidding me!
 
  See, this particular SWF is a Plat Overview of a subdivision - and
  there are 140 Lots, each individually defined as a unique MovieClip.
 
  So, if I need access to each MovieClip programmatically, I will have
  to define 140 variables?
 
  Now that would be a bummer :-(
 
  Could you clarify on that?
 
  Thank you for the information nevertheless - I was actually going to
  try the getChild method next, so that saves me some time.
 
  Mike
 
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  *On Behalf Of *Matt Wicks
  *Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 AM
  *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
  embedded SWF's?
 
   You need to get the object as a display object
  var xxx:MovieClip = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
  MovieClip
 
  Matt
   On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:13, Mike Anderson wrote:
 
Hello all,
 
  I have a Flash Player 9, AS3 version of a SWF that I am bringing into
  Flex, using the SWFLoader Component.
 
  Once I bring the SWF

Re: [flexcoders] getting a warning with a repeater


Throw a cast in each one:

personID={YourClassThatHasPersonIDAndOtherDesiredProperties(
employee.currentItem).PersonID}

It's giving you that warning because 'employee.currentItem' is a POO (plain
ol' Object).

I'm doing the same thing on current project, and instead of setting all
those properties, my component in the repeater has a VO that it binds to,
internally, so I do something like:

mx:Repeater id=employee dataProvider={directReportCollection}
   v:employeeElement
itemVO={ItemVO(employee.currentIndex)}
 ...
/
/mx:Repeater

As long as directReportCollection is collection of ItemVO's (or whatever),
you're golden. Then, your empEl can get all those properties off ItemVO,
which has a nice, tidy interface defined...

;) Scott

On 2/15/07, shelleybrowning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hello,

I have an application that uses the repeater to create multiple
instances of a custom mxml component (employeeElement).

mx:Repeater id=employee dataProvider={directReportCollection}
v:employeeElement
itemNum={employee.currentIndex}
hasDirectReports={employee.currentItem.Manager}
employeeName={employee.currentItem.FullName}
jobTitle={employee.currentItem.JobTitle}
personID={employee.currentItem.PersonID}
personUUID={employee.currentItem.PersonUUID}
numDirectReports={numDirectReports}
asgUUID={employee.currentItem.asgUUID}
dakDB={dakDB}
isDirectReport=true
goDownHeirarchy=goDownHeirarchy(event)/
/mx:Repeater

The dataProvider for the repeater is directReportCollection which is
an ArrayCollection that has been declared as bindable.

I'm getting the following warning when the code runs. The
employeeElements are rendered. But I don't like not undertanding
why the warning is being posted. Or want this to come back and bite
me later...

Here is the warning:
warning: unable to bind to property 'PersonUUID' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'FullName' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'Manager' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'PersonID' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'asgUUID' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'JobTitle' on class 'Object'
(class is not an IEventDispatcher)

repeating for each instance of the component within the repeater.

I double/triple checked that everything was declared as bindable
within the custom component as well as the collection array. I
imported IEventDispatcher into the custom component, but that didn't
do anything.

Any suggestions?
PS: using Flex 2.0.1 and this code is within a module.

Thanks,

Shelley Browning
Intermountain Healthcare

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: getting a warning with a repeater


Ha, now that you mention it, I am getting a warning on one of my repeaters.
It's a binding warning, but not same as yours...

-Scott

On 2/15/07, shelleybrowning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Scott,

I was writting a lenthly response as to different things I've tried
and still getting the warning. I decided to try an example from the
docs by Adobe. I get a 'warning' from their example as well.

It seems that warning is just stating that the data is bound to the
repater and not the object within the repeater.

The following example returns:

warning: unable to bind to property 'name' on class 'Object' (class
is not an IEventDispatcher)

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application
xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;

viewSourceURL=src/RepeaterStatic2/index.html
width=285 height=185

!--
This is a static data model but you could just as
easily bind to dynamically loaded data.
--
mx:ArrayCollection id=productsAC

mx:Object name=Whirlygig price=5 freeship=false/
mx:Object name=Tilty Thingy price=15 freeship=true/

mx:Object name=Really Big Blocks price=25
freeship=true/
/mx:ArrayCollection

mx:Panel
title=Repeater: emulating a for..in loop
paddingBottom=10 paddingLeft=10 paddingRight=10
paddingTop=10



mx:Repeater id=productsRepeater
dataProvider={productsAC}
mx:RadioButton
id=buttonsArray
label={productsRepeater.currentItem.name}

/
/mx:Repeater

/mx:Panel
/mx:Application

I'm going to move on for now... thanks for the response!

Shelley

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Throw a cast in each one:

 personID={YourClassThatHasPersonIDAndOtherDesiredProperties(
 employee.currentItem).PersonID}

 It's giving you that warning because 'employee.currentItem' is a
POO (plain
 ol' Object).

 I'm doing the same thing on current project, and instead of
setting all
 those properties, my component in the repeater has a VO that it
binds to,
 internally, so I do something like:

 mx:Repeater id=employee dataProvider={directReportCollection}
 v:employeeElement
 itemVO={ItemVO(employee.currentIndex)}
 ...
 /
 /mx:Repeater

 As long as directReportCollection is collection of ItemVO's (or
whatever),
 you're golden. Then, your empEl can get all those properties off
ItemVO,
 which has a nice, tidy interface defined...

 ;) Scott

 On 2/15/07, shelleybrowning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hello,
 
  I have an application that uses the repeater to create multiple
  instances of a custom mxml component (employeeElement).
 
  mx:Repeater id=employee
dataProvider={directReportCollection}
  v:employeeElement
  itemNum={employee.currentIndex}
  hasDirectReports={employee.currentItem.Manager}
  employeeName={employee.currentItem.FullName}
  jobTitle={employee.currentItem.JobTitle}
  personID={employee.currentItem.PersonID}
  personUUID={employee.currentItem.PersonUUID}
  numDirectReports={numDirectReports}
  asgUUID={employee.currentItem.asgUUID}
  dakDB={dakDB}
  isDirectReport=true
  goDownHeirarchy=goDownHeirarchy(event)/
  /mx:Repeater
 
  The dataProvider for the repeater is directReportCollection
which is
  an ArrayCollection that has been declared as bindable.
 
  I'm getting the following warning when the code runs. The
  employeeElements are rendered. But I don't like not undertanding
  why the warning is being posted. Or want this to come back and
bite
  me later...
 
  Here is the warning:
  warning: unable to bind to property 'PersonUUID' on
class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
  warning: unable to bind to property 'FullName' on class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
  warning: unable to bind to property 'Manager' on class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
  warning: unable to bind to property 'PersonID' on class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
  warning: unable to bind to property 'asgUUID' on class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
  warning: unable to bind to property 'JobTitle' on class 'Object'
  (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
 
  repeating for each instance of the component within the repeater.
 
  I double/triple checked that everything was declared as bindable
  within the custom component as well as the collection array. I
  imported IEventDispatcher into the custom component, but that
didn't
  do anything.
 
  Any suggestions?
  PS: using Flex 2.0.1 and this code is within a module.
 
  Thanks,
 
  Shelley Browning
  Intermountain Healthcare
 
 
 



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Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?

2007-02-14 Thread slangeberg


If you are using Flash 9, you can use a document class (I believe) at the
root level and have Flex reference it by that. Your document class would set
up an API, so you don't have to peer into the movie itself. Basically a
proxy. Sorry I don't have the implementation in front of me, but I believe
it's possible.

So, if previous code was correct, could do something like:

var platProxy:YourProxy = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as
YourProxy
platProxy.hideAll();
platProxy.showByID( {id:'plat_xxx'} );

Just an idea!

-Scott

On 2/14/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Oh man, you are kidding me!

See, this particular SWF is a Plat Overview of a subdivision - and there
are 140 Lots, each individually defined as a unique MovieClip.

So, if I need access to each MovieClip programmatically, I will have to
define 140 variables?

Now that would be a bummer :-(

Could you clarify on that?

Thank you for the information nevertheless - I was actually going to try
the getChild method next, so that saves me some time.

Mike

 --
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Matt Wicks
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in
embedded SWF's?

You need to get the object as a display object
var xxx:MovieClip = platObject.getChildByName('instancename') as MovieClip

Matt
 On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:13, Mike Anderson wrote:

  Hello all,

I have a Flash Player 9, AS3 version of a SWF that I am bringing into
Flex, using the SWFLoader Component.

Once I bring the SWF in, I am creating a MovieClip variable and
assigning to it, the SWFLoader.content. Here is a quick code example:

var platObject:MovieClip = mySWFLoader.content;

So once that assignment is made, you can execute certain built-in
methods available to any Flash Movie - for example:

platObject.play();
platObject.loaderInfo.[etc]
And so on...

That is all well and good - but what about MovieClips that reside in the
Root Timeline? In this particular SWF File, I have a MovieClip called
platMovieClip - and I am trying to access it's properties and methods
from within Flex. For example, I'd like to toggle the visibility, so I
tried this code:

platObject.platMovieClip._visible = false;

When I try this command, I get an error that says the property
platMovieClip is unknown or something to that effect...

If we can't access the assets that reside in SWF Files, then what is the
whole point of all this? Or maybe there is something that I am
overlooking - but as far as I can tell, the platObject should represent
the SWF...

Could any of you shed some light on this topic for me? This
functionality is VERY important to the success of my website launch.

Thanks in advance,

Mike


 





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Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: ArrayCollection(ValuObject)-Event on changing data?

2007-02-14 Thread slangeberg


Dang,

You got me excited with:

[ArrayElementType(cairngorm.vo.FriendVO)]

public var friends:ArrayCollection;

But, according to the docs, this only applies to type: Array. I tried it

and compiler does not appear to pick up on this restriction, for
ArrayCollection (I tried adding item not of type in [ArrayElementType()] and
it threw no errors).

-Scott



On 2/14/07, martywolf11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  hello,

In my ModelLocator class i defined an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]
[ArrayElementType(cairngorm.vo.FriendVO)]
public var friends:ArrayCollection;

storying the FriendVO object works perfectly, but now i want an event
to fire up whenever i add a new FriendVO object, delete it or change it.
i just tried to use the following command for that:

MyModelLocator.getInstance().friends.addEventListener(
CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE,createFriendsList);

which should invoke the method createFriendsList()

private function createFriendsList():void
{ Alert.show(create friendslist); }

but it is never called, not even when i do
MyModelLocator.getInstance().friends = new ArrayCollection();

can anybody tell me what i am doing wrong?
i really would appreciate any info.

thanks,

marty

 





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Re: [flexcoders] svn and flex not getting along

2007-02-13 Thread slangeberg


You have html-template in version control? I don't include that or any of
the eclipse/flex files (.project, etc.) - and no problems, here. I also
don't include the /bin folder, until I create custom files, such as
index.html, js, css (html), etc...

-Scott

On 2/13/07, Grant Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   Sorry for the double post but I hijacked by accident..

I figured out my issue is svn and flex based on this post :


http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2006-September/172588.html

somehow a stale main.swf got into our html-template folder and then was
copied into our bin folder and all hell breaks loose,  has there been a fix
yet for flex so it ignores svn folders when copyng ?  a quick google search
didn't reveal much..


Cheers,
Grant


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Re: [flexcoders] coords on dragged object

2007-02-13 Thread slangeberg


Take a look at DragEvent...

-Scott

On 2/12/07, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  ok, I have a List populated from a AC of objects.  I have drag+drop
setup to drag one of the items from the list and drop it onto a VBox
contained view.  I need to get the x-coord relative to the object being
dropped.  Anyone have a idea?  in 1.5 I used a undocumented piece
DragManager[_dragProxy] to get it, of course that bit me in the backside
now, eh?  I used this to get the mouse coord relative to the dragged object,
combined with the mouse coord relative to the stage I can get the x-coord of
the object dropped.  Diggning through the docs so far, I can't seem to find
this.

--
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http://www.cubicleman.com
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Re: [flexcoders] Any tips on how to do enable only vertical Sprite Drag and Drop ?

2007-02-11 Thread slangeberg


This example is Canvas, but...

dragRule is vertical bar beneath the 'dragger' handle.

  mx:VRule id=dragRule
   x=182 y=64 height=315/

   mx:Canvas id=dragger
   width=10 height=20
   x={ dragRule.x-dragger.width/2 } y=62
   mouseDown={
 dragger.startDrag( false,
  new Rectangle( dragRule.x-dragger.width/2, dragRule.y,
dragRule.width, dragRule.height-dragger.height ) );
   }
   mouseUp=dragger.stopDrag()
   

- Scott

On 2/10/07, helihobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hello,

Can anyone post a top on how to to enable only vertical Sprite Drag and
Drop ?

In other words, when the user drags a sprite, he can only drag it
vertically accross the stage and not in any other direction ... !!!

Thanks for the help,

Sean.

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Scroll Position

2007-02-10 Thread slangeberg


May not be precise, but it should be something like:

var myPos:uint = 250;
myCan.verticalScrollPosition = myPos;

-S

On 2/10/07, jmfillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I have canvas whose content scrolls verticaly about 3 pages. However,
I don't want this to always start at the top, but is dependant on the
user. The question is, how do I set the vertical scroll position to
something other than the top, while still allowing the user to scroll
up or down as needed?

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2 + Wiimote + PaperVision 3D = good times

2007-02-09 Thread slangeberg


No, if you read his articles, or watch the right movie (can't remember!)
you'll see he wrote a socket server (C++?) that communicates with the Wii.
Then, flash hooks up with a binary socket and reads from that.

-Scott

On 2/9/07, Kevin Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  slangeberg wrote:
 By way of bytearray.org http://bytearray.org:

 http://blog.je2050.de/2007/02/02/wiiflash-and-papervision3d/

 : : ) Scott
I must have missed it. Does the Wii support Flash Player 9 now?

Kevin N.

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: any interest in an alternative to QTP to automate Flex apps?

2007-02-08 Thread slangeberg


Brian,

I am very interested in in a testing library like you speak of, and was
wondering what you thought of Matt's reply? Does your current system utilize
mx.automation and/or are you considering leveraging this?

Thanks,

-Scott

On 2/7/07, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   I am not looking to derail any interest in you guys building
alternatives, but would like to point out that the Flex team did a large
amount of work to enable the kind of functionality you're looking for (minus
the tool).  Check out the mx.automation packages and you'll see the
infrastructure that is in place to solve problems like using semantic events
instead of x/y coordinates, etc.  Admittedly, this is the portion that we
consider the more interesting IP rather than the plugin that enables QTP to
leverage this functionality (and what you need to pay to use).  If you have
FDS or are willing to invest money in the APIs even if not in QTP itself,
I'd encourage you to build on top of this system.  Interest from other
vendors is increasing as well and I hope that we'll see offerings in
addition to QTP in the future (they will be built using this framework).



As I stated previously we will continue to examine licensing options for
things like the automation package, but do not expect any changes in the
short term.



Matt


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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *brian.knorr
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:02 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: any interest in an alternative to QTP to
automate Flex apps?



I took a look at imacros...my only concern is that it uses WINCLICK to
automate flash apps. This means everything is x/y coordinate based. We
want to interact with the actual ui components, finding them by their
properties or type. For example here is a short snippet of a simple
test we are using...I added the comments in order to explain what is
going on:

//find the first ComboBox in the app
var comboBoxOperator:ComboBoxOperator = flexOperator.find(ComboBox) as
ComboBoxOperator;

//select the option with the specified label
//upon user selection the app fires an event that sets a label component
with the text 'You selected: X'
comboBoxOperator.select(MasterCard);

//find the label with the specified properties and assert the correct
selection was made
assertEquals(You selected:
MasterCard,LabelOperator(flexOperator.find({id:myLabel})).text);

Thoughts?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Allen
Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've posted on here before about this topic. I think this is something
 that lacks in the Flex community. Just curious if you or your company
 have looked at a product called imacros. I downloaded the demo and it
 was pretty decent. It's a lot cheaper than QTP. It also lets you
script
 out tests. I've also wondered if it was possible to get Ruby's Watir
 tool to work with Flex, that would be my first choice if so. Cool
 suggestion, we'd use it.



 

 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com]
On
 Behalf Of Simeon Bateman
 Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:56 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] any interest in an alternative to QTP to
 automate Flex apps?



 I am interested in this. I had been playing with the thought of using
 the FA Bridge to allow you to use Selenium to test your applications.
 Then you could use the Firefox plugin to record our actions and test
the
 movie.

 Not sure how feasible it is but even that would start with having a
 testing framework in flex to tie into.


 simeon

 On 2/7/07, brian.knorr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:


 Automating functional tests is critical to the way we develop software
 at my company. And there are two big things that stop us from using
QTP.

 1) It's record and playback - we want to write test scripts
 2) It costs a lot of money - we want a tool that is free and community
 driven

 At my company we are writing several applications in Flex2 and are
 building out an as3 library that allows us to write test scripts in
 as3 to drive the Flex ui as if the user was interacting with it. If
 you are familiar with the Java Swing testing tool called Jemmy, it's
 very similar in design.

 Is there any interest out there for a tool like this? I am about to
 create a sourceforge project, but first wanted to get a feel for the
 need.

 Thanks,

 Brian


 





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[flexcoders] Flex 2 + Wiimote + PaperVision 3D = good times

2007-02-08 Thread slangeberg


By way of bytearray.org:

http://blog.je2050.de/2007/02/02/wiiflash-and-papervision3d/

: : ) Scott

Re: [flexcoders] Connection from Flex Builder 2.0 to VSS

2007-02-06 Thread slangeberg


I scoff at standalone flexbuilder, unless you're not a programmer! Not sure
why you wouldn't want to be able to extend your IDE. Kind of like the
original FF vs. IE conflict.

The only con I've found is when you get any kind of collisions between
plug-ins. Not common, and the ones that gave me problems, I was able to
remove, because I wasn't using them (php eclipse?).

-Scott

On 2/6/07, Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


   I have had no cons so far... The pros seem to be that other Eclipse
plugins work.

Shan

Raz Gilad wrote:

 I've tried and v2.0.1 does not solve the problem.
Any idea on the pros / cons of the moving towards FB plugin.

 - Original Message 
From: Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 6:27:40 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Connection from Flex Builder 2.0 to VSS

 I never got 2.0 working with the VSS plugin. I had to install Eclipse,
the VSS plugin and the FB 2.0 plugin.

This might be fixed in 2.0.1, but I never tried it, being satisfied with
the FB plugin.

Shan

raz_gilad wrote:

 Hi

Did anyone succeed in connecting the flex builder to Visual source safe?
Is the usual Eclipse plug-in org.vssplugin_ 1.6.1 works in this
environment? How?

Thanks




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Re: [flexcoders] Intellectual property or licensing of posted/blogged work

2007-02-06 Thread slangeberg


That's an awesome topic and I'd love to hear more about it.

My current understanding is that any published work comes under copyright
protection, and that would necessitate permission from the author before
incorporation into a commercial work, if there is no explicit licensing info
provided.

-Scott

On 2/6/07, engkee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I have to commend you all for posting a lot of wonderful components
and extensions to Flex... eg. Ely's calendar, Doug and Jason's tab
navigator extensions, Ben and Trey's reflection effect, Alex's
distortion effect, just to name a few.

Unfortunately, in these day and age, I would have to ask... am I
allowed to incorporate those wonderful works in commercial products?
Am I even allowed to look at the source code, if I work for a company
producing commercial software, without violating some IP issues.

Most of them are not explicitly associated with any specific
licensing terms.

Sure would be nice if there could be some standard practice of
associating these works with a common license, eg. the Creative
Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)

Maybe there already is some presumed license or disclaimer
for published works. If so, please send a pointer.

Just a thought.

-Engkee

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Intellectual property or licensing of posted/blogged work

2007-02-06 Thread slangeberg



If no license is specified, then I would assume they are in the public
domain and are available for free use.



I would suspect that's a dangerous assumption. I realize that if you're
posting code on a blog, than you can expect someone to probably copy it, but
in a court, I understand that any original work belongs to the creator and
to use it without permission violates their copyrights. Look at it as me
posting a beautiful photo on my blog. That doesn't give people free use to
take and resell it.  If you followed that through, I would be able to say
that anything I find on the internet (without some copyright notice) I can
use any way I see fit.

Check it out:


In the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States,
copyright has been made automatic (in the style of the Berne Convention)
since March 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1, 
1989http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989,
which has had the effect of making it appear to be more like a property
right. Thus, as with property, a copyright need not be granted or obtained
through official registration with any government office. Once an idea has
been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium
(such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape or a letter), the
copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights.
However, while a copyright need not be officially registered for the
copyright owner to begin exercising his exclusive rights

src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#United_States_copyright_law


-Scott

On 2/6/07, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 If no license is specified, then I would assume they are in the public
domain and are available for free use.

At 03:31 PM 2/6/2007, you wrote:

I have to commend you all for posting a lot of wonderful components
and extensions to Flex... eg. Ely's calendar, Doug and Jason's tab
navigator extensions, Ben and Trey's reflection effect, Alex's
distortion effect, just to name a few.

Unfortunately, in these day and age, I would have to ask... am I
allowed to incorporate those wonderful works in commercial products?
Am I even allowed to look at the source code, if I work for a company
producing commercial software, without violating some IP issues.

Most of them are not explicitly associated with any specific
licensing terms.

Sure would be nice if there could be some standard practice of
associating these works with a common license, eg. the Creative
Commons ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/)

Maybe there already is some presumed license or disclaimer
for published works. If so, please send a pointer.

Just a thought.

-Engkee

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AIM: Reboog711  | Phone: 1-203-379-0773
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Re: [flexcoders] why doesn't this flex app load?

2007-02-05 Thread slangeberg


I got it to work in FF once. Only after viewing with IE tab in FF! However,
couldn't recreate, again.

-Scott

On 2/5/07, Pan Troglodytes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  In a related thread, I uploading a test Flex app to a free web host I
found.  Well, I noticed something tangential to the original discussion that
has me curious.  When I go to this site in Firefox, it often doesn't load
the Flex app.

http://three.fsphost.com/flex2/pngbug/PNGBug.html

In IE it works every time.  Buy in FF, it will just sit there at the teal
screen that usually says loading.  I have confirmed that it's not just FF
on my machine, either.  I've tested in FF 1.5 and 2.

Can anyone tell why it's doing this?  If it's an issue that can happen
with this ISP, it's an issue that can happen with others.  Is it something
wrong with the way their webserver is handling out the data or something?  I
never have a problem opening the app locally using FF.  And I can get it to
load SOMETIMES in FF if I hit back then forward and reload or go to another
page and hit back and reload.  So that seems to point to more of a client
issue.  But the same app works fine all the time on other servers.  I'm
pretty stumped.

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread slangeberg


Sorry if i missed first half of thread, but isn't the point to create
desktop apps - whether online or not? You should see a significant
performance increase, if your app is resource intensive, and you will gain
access to the filesystem, without using sketchy third-party systems or .NET
wrappers. Yes I said sketchy. Simply because my experience with anything but
.NET wrappers has indeed been 'sketchy', sometimes at best. However, one
problem I see is that Apollo isn't planned to be a replacement for these
wrappers, when deploying to a CD. I'm hoping to see some work-arounds for
this in the future, or perhaps never working with CD-based apps ever again!

-Scott

On 2/5/07, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 I'll just throw this out there.
 One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't
connected is in an airplane.  Every airport I've been in recently has had
wi-fi.  I assume this is becoming standard.  I think Adobe is shelling out a
lot of effort just for the sake of providing people the ability to work in
an airplane.  There must be something else to it that I do not yet see.


At 11:46 AM 2/5/2007, you wrote:

At one point about 2 years ago, i was asked to develop a simple CF app
that helped
managers write some 'weekly status reports' that were rolled up to upper
management
and then some of those items were rolled up even further up the tree etc.

it died a miserable death after a while because many of the managers
complained that
they wrote their status while traveling - sitting on planes, in airports
etc when they had no
connectivity... so yes, in my mind there are plenty of applications for
offline storage of
data and uploading when connected.

Mitch

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Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At 11:10 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote:

 Many users are still disconnected. Nomad users are still common
 place. Most sales people are getting out o the road in order to
 create opportunities as opposed to staying in the office. Few rural
 areas are 100% covered by high speed (wifi,gprs,gsm,3G) access. The
 concept of disconnected apps is becoming more and more intriguing
 for business and the demands for such apps more and more numerous.

 I can't fathom needing an Internet connection while driving. Nor
 can I imagine going to a client / potential client who doesn't have
 Internet Access. Is it really that common?


 The prospect of using an embedded db like sqlite(open source, cross
 platform dll) to store data, Apollo being able to natively exploit
 that data directly on the client when disconnected, and update the
 central data store when connected; is one simple but enormous
opportunity.

 Apollo offers an embedded DB? I haven't heard that yet.


 I'm seriously hoping that Apollo is not just for partially
 disconnected applications.

 I still don't get it, though. I'm open to hearing the ideas. Of
 course, I still think such a conversation would be better off on the
 Apollo Coders list.



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Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer
AIM: Reboog711  | Phone: 1-203-379-0773
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My Company:  http://www.dot-com-it.com
My Podcast:  http://www.theflexshow.com
My Blog:  http://www.jeffryhouser.com
Connecticut Macromedia User Group:  http://www.ctmug.com







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Re: [flexcoders] MouseUpSomewhere event, whence hast thou gone?

2007-02-05 Thread slangeberg


I'd first try adding the listener to the stage of the item, else you can
place listener on the application itself.. something in ballpark of (sorry
if not exact spelling, objects, etc):

myHBox.stage.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, onMsUp );

-Scott

On 2/5/07, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I'm converting a Flex 1.5 app to 2.0.  Under 1.5 I used a event on a
HBox called MouseUpSomewhere.  Seems this is no more in 2.0.  Any ideas
what it is now called?  Or maybe another way to get this same functionality
to work?  I can't use mouseOut.  I need a event that fires when the user
releases the mouse button whilst over a different component.

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Re: [flexcoders] File I/O Error - Error #2038

2006-12-01 Thread slangeberg


Check the coldfusion server's admin page. There probably is a setting on
production server limiting file upload size.

-Scott

On 11/6/06, kristian_wright2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  I've seen a few posts on this error but none of them seem to solve my
issue.

I'm trying to upload some files via a FileReference object, with a CF
backend. The CFC works fine with smaller files (eg under 300k), but
with files over this size, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

When it doesn't work, I get the following I/O Error:

IOErrorEvent
type=ioError
bubbles=false
cancelable=false
eventPhase=2
text=Error #2038: File I/O Error.
URL: my URL

The server side script is working, as I can try and upload a smaller
file, and it works. But when I'm getting the I/O error, the app stops
before it even reaches the CFC. I've set a Progress listener to the
FileUpload object, and it seems to just slow down and eventually stop,
throwing the I/O error before file upload has reacherd the total bytes
of the file.

Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Thanks,
K.

 





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Re: [flexcoders] IE 7 Vista


IE7 currently runs the Flash 9 plugin, so not sure why this wouldn't apply
to Vista, as well.

-Scott

On 11/30/06, Jack Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



A few questions for the experts.

My questions below are the result of what issues, if any, a typical
end-user of
Flex 2.0 applications will have.  These are consumer end-users, not
end-users
within a controlled environment where an IT person can set up there PC.

In other words, the average Joe or Jane PC user.

First . . . .

Is Flex 2.o be compatible with IE 7?  If it is not at this time, does any
one have
a timeline of when it will be?

Second . . . .

Will Flex 2.0 be compatible with MS Vista?  Again, if not is there a
projected
timeline.

Flex 2.0.1 may be addressing these, but either I missed it or it has not
posted.

As I recall, currently, Flex 2.0.1 is expected 1st quarter 2007.  Right ?

Thanks,

*Jack*

 





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Re: [flexcoders] My flex app's content on google search


Check out this article on 'progressive enhancement':

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/progressive_enhancement.html

Basically, your content is on the page, whether flash is present or not.

-Scott

On 11/30/06, mrinal wadhwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hi All,

I know that something similar has been discussed here before but I am new
to Flex and need some more clarity.
I am making my personal website in Flex (just so that I could learn flex)
, the website will have my blog and my picture gallery  now here's what
I want to do:


   1. Google should index all my blog posts
   2. When some one searches for some content that is present on my
   site he/she should get a link that takes him or her to the exact content and
   not to my applications home


Thank you all for your help,
Mrinal

 





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Re: [flexcoders] Re: My flex app's content on google search


No, your page needs to generate the content, which is imported to Flash at
runtime.

Sorry if the original link didn't cover the entire gamut. This may have a
better overview:

http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/02/27/using-alternate-content-flash/

-Scott

On 11/30/06, mrinal.wadhwa  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hmm .. progressive development .. that's ok for the static content on
my website but .. my goal here is to get the content of my blog
indexed .. I was planning to keep this content in an xml and make it
visible on the flex site using HTTPService .. I cant update the html
page every time I update my blog.

:?

Thank you for the help,
Mrinal

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,
slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Check out this article on 'progressive enhancement':

 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/progressive_enhancement.html

 Basically, your content is on the page, whether flash is present or not.

 -Scott

 On 11/30/06, mrinal wadhwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hi All,
 
  I know that something similar has been discussed here before but I
am new
  to Flex and need some more clarity.
  I am making my personal website in Flex (just so that I could
learn flex)
  , the website will have my blog and my picture gallery  now
here's what
  I want to do:
 
 
  1. Google should index all my blog posts
  2. When some one searches for some content that is present on my
  site he/she should get a link that takes him or her to the
exact content and
  not to my applications home
 
 
  Thank you all for your help,
  Mrinal
 
 
 



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