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;
}
Hi Tyler,
Since your swfloaders are applications you can listen for the
applicationComplete event via the swfloader.content property. This event
fires when all children have issued creationComplete events (including your
viewstack). You don't have to worry about using a timer.
Set up your
I have been building an application with binding and observers. I have
found situations where things were not happening, but these were
usually due to some fault in what I wanted to happen. I have not tried
to trap changes to an array collection. But my approach would be to
simplify the logic.
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
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Andriy Panas wrote:
c) install new Eclipse IDE on the top of old Eclipse IDE
installation folder and this makes a trick.
d) use eclipse's built in update system
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On:
i use windows XP,
and i use usb bluetooth.
do you have a book for me that tell me about this?
thanks before.
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Blog : gunadiw.blogsome.com
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To:
On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, nextadvantage wrote:
Bump...
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html
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Helping to interactively leverage enterprise materials
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lynda.com have a two really nice videos that'll take you through the
basics..
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Ryan
On 01/03/07, swain_will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello group,
I'm just starting out with Flex 2. I'm coming from a coldfusion
background, and will want to focus on integrating Flex and CFMX.
I've got the
Is there a way to do this dynamicly?
In my app I don't know what icon's there will be. They are provided by
an CMS-system.
Thank you!
I'm using RemoteObject to invoke a server-side Java POJO method that
returns an object of type com.foo.Expr. I have Expr.java and Expr.as
with Expr.as annotated with [Bindable] and
[RemoteClass(alias=com.foo.Expr)]
I try to reference the returned value in the result handler in my mxml
as
Try setting the menu bar color: to white in the style explorer and
you will see that it changes the bar color text to white and the drop
down text to white making it un-readable. Aaron
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On Thursday 01 Mar 2007,
Thanks Mike that helps...
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You could use Timer, but this would also work. You may want to
switch it to
use a Singleton.
Usage:
var myTraceBack:CommunicationManager = new CommunicationManager();
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, gunadi bowo wrote:
i use windows XP,
and i use usb bluetooth.
Does the bluetooth keyboard work without Flex, i.e. with Notepad ?
If not, it's not Flex's fault, and we can't help.
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On:
On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, xzhao006 wrote:
windows 2003 server. The reason we did this is try to improve the
running performance. But we didn't know whether this could be the
reason for decreasing the running speed.
Well, did moving it make it faster ?
Are your application or database servers
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, nextadvantage wrote:
Try setting the menu bar color: to white in the style explorer and
you will see that it changes the bar color text to white and the drop
down text to white making it un-readable. Aaron
Even if you change the background color to be not-white ? :-)
The moving didn't make it faster. On the other hand, I am wondering: Can
this cause running slower?
On 02 Mar 2007 05:24:34 -0800, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, xzhao006 wrote:
windows 2003 server. The reason we did this is try to improve the
running
hello friends i am new to flex i have developed one sample appn in flex using
php and mysql as a backend , now i can get the values from the database and
show in to the data grid. but i can only see that data in the
grid.(http://192.168.1.2/flex/bin/example.html) in my system which i developed
Well, i thought i would answer myself... I certainly cannot find a
built in way to automatically scroll to a display object inside a
VBox.
So, here's my hack at it:
private function scrollObjectIntoView
(vBox:VBox,scrollToObject:DisplayObject):void
{
var startViewPosition:int =
...ActionScript 3 CookBook from OReilly, fast read and really helpful
for basics on AS... i came from C# and .net development. I was
TOTALLY new to Flex and AS, i needed to learn both... i still need to
learn both :)
I can also ditto for the lynda.com training, i just purchased the one
Yes, creating the class instances was the problem area. I managed to
work around this issue by creating the instances in chunks on an
interval. So once my web service returns, rather than iterating over
the whole collection and doing the conversions I start an interval
that runs every half second,
On Thursday 01 Mar 2007, swain_will wrote:
and I've read various of the articles on the Adobe site, and obviously
I've found this list. Are there any other resources I should be
You're away of the cf-talk mailing list at houseoffusion.com and Adobe's
blogregator ?
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What if we wanted white background color :(
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wrote:
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, nextadvantage wrote:
Try setting the menu bar color: to white in the style explorer and
you will see that it changes the bar color text to white and
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, Xia Zhao wrote:
The moving didn't make it faster. On the other hand, I am wondering: Can
this cause running slower?
Could do, if the network between the two is congested, or you are transferring
large result sets.
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Helping to synergistically integrate
Don't forget that Apollo will let us use our own installers. There's no
reason you couldn't install your own database in addition to the Apollo
application.
Shan
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:20 PM
To:
Excellent, thanks Ryan - I was unaware of lynda.com
will
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Behalf Of Ryan Barrett
Sent: 02 March 2007 08:44
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Starting out - recommendations
lynda.com have a two
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, nextadvantage wrote:
What if we wanted white background color :(
Then it stands to reason you can't have the same text color on the same
component, no ?
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Helping to autoschediastically syndicate collaborative content
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I'm sure most people here are partial to Flex - but does anyone know any
major differences? Pros/Cons - I've never seen anything about Laszlo
until I picked up a Flash book last week. Just curios to see what other
developers think.
[:D]
One thing to look at would be dispatch a HEADER_RELEASE event on the
datagrid. Its not the most straightforward fix, and will take a little
tweaking to get to work right, but it is doable.
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL
On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, Steve Gustafson wrote:
Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED as I am rapidly approaching a deadline.
One - try it first with a straight MXML DataGrid rather than constructing one
in AS.
Two - your ComboBox DP doesn't match the name of the Array you declared.
public
On Friday 02 Mar 2007, nathanpdaniel wrote:
I'm sure most people here are partial to Flex - but does anyone know any
major differences? Pros/Cons - I've never seen anything about Laszlo
until I picked up a Flash book last week. Just curios to see what other
developers think.
When I look last
Loop through the properties on the event.result to see if it does
contain the same public properties as you Expr.as class.
Michael Ramirez
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wrote:
I'm using RemoteObject to invoke a server-side Java POJO method that
returns an
How are you loading your data (RemoteObject or HTTPService)?
Are you database and application in the same domain?
Michael Ramirez
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ravi chandran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello friends i am new to flex i have developed one sample appn in
flex using php and
Hey,
I'm looking for a nice fire effect, but can't seem to find one in AS3.
Is there someone willing to share some code to accomplish this ?
Tutorials are more than welcome too.
tnx
Yup...I have no AS experience so this looks handy.
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of scott_flex
Sent: 02 March 2007 13:39
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Starting out - recommendations
...ActionScript 3 CookBook from
I tested the database connect from my local machine. It works fine.
Is it also possible beacuse I adopted Caringorm into Flex project? I noticed
that it seems that the processes of updating models are running slow on the
server. Any idea about this?
On 02/03/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am Tom. CF-TALK is a great resource.
Thanks.
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom Chiverton
Sent: 02 March 2007 14:21
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Starting out - recommendations
On Thursday 01 Mar
Although it's not fire, you could have a look at my presentation on
procedural effects at LFPUG this month - it'd be easy enough to adapt to do
fire.
http://www.lfpug.com/smoke-fire-and-water-creating-realistic-procedural-bitmap-effects/
HTH,
Alias
On 02/03/07, Webdevotion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have there been any performance studies between using a standard swf
connecting to an internal ColdFusion server using the flex2gateway vs using
FDS with the JavaAdapter?
To this point we have been using only FDS with a Java/Hibernate backend
using the JavaAdapter but are looking at ColdFusion
by default charts compute their gutterLeft and gutterRight dynamically,
but if you need to get two charts to align, you can set them to explicit
values. You lose a little bit of flexibility in axis/label layout...it
will fit the axes to the space available rather than choosing the best
space
I just went through the same exercise, and ended up using the
recommended method, which is creating your own Sort object...
The basic working is to
1. take a collection (either arraycollection or xmllistcollection) as
dataprovider
2. define a Sort object for it (you do this by creating
The ObjectProxy is returned when the player de-serializes a server side
class which it does not recognize. (It would ordinarily return just an
Object, but that is wrapped by an ObjectProxy if you have the
makeObjectsBindable property set since plain old Object does not support
binding events).
See the Flex resources list I just posted.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Will Swain
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:56 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Starting out - recommendations
In the debugger:
event.result seems to be of type ObjectProxy
It shows a child of type Object that in turn contains a root Object
corresponding to a data member of my Expr class called root of a type
called Node.
In addition to this child object, event.result also shows a root
child Object.
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
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,
I converted this into as3:
*
http://as3.betaruce.com/tut/fire/fire_f8.html
*
Hi all,
I have two questions I am trying to figure out.
1. I have a client who has specifically requested an intro be played at
the start of the application( I have tried talking them out of it). I was
thinking I could use flash 9 ide as the intro was built in it. Can I just
load the flex app
Google is your friend.
Google Actionscript Fire Effect and it comes up with this:
http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/fire/
And this:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flash-script-fire-effect
Easy to adapt to AS3 and Flex
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Global Technology Operations,
Is the following possible with FDS?
DataService_1 - references data retrieved from a DB view (MYVIEW)
DataService_2 - references data of a component of (MYVIEW)
If i update a record with DataService_2 I want DataService_1 to be
aware that it needs to auto refresh.
Is this possible to setup
BTW, I also fiddled with dispatching the HEADER_RELEASE event, before I
used a custom sort, and one problem is, that its behavior depends on
whether the column to be sorted was the last sorted column or not. If it
was the previous sort column a header release event will reverse the
sort order, if
do you know how can access the onMetaData, from VideoDisplay component.
i use the VideoDisplay to play a stream flv file from a FVS, and i have problem
with this component from Flex on buffering percent left from 100%, and with
metadata :(
i search for information on doc's flex, googleing on
Tnx, I actually found that presentation today : )
Are you talking about the id=... attribute on MXML tags? All it does
it autogenerate a public var in the class. For example, if you write
mx:Button id=b/
in an MXML component then the autogenerated AS class has the instance
var
public var b:Button;
So if you plan on dynamically
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
I believe the BindingManager has logic to prevent endless loops arising
from accidental circular bindings.
- Gordon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of raz_gilad
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:20 PM
To:
Hey, guys, I don't know if any of you out there are SAP consultants, but
what I'm doing isn't anything out of the ordinary conceptually. I'm just
consuming a Web Service using one of SAP's standard BAPI's called
BAPI_SALESORDER_GETLIST.
When I debug it, I can see that everything goes fine and it
I've attempted to model this after an Adobe example found here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/textcontrols_060_19.html
I'm trying to take that example and apply it to set the height of a
control, based on logic in the TitleWindow popup. When you close the
TitleWindow, I want the
I have an address i'm trying to load the yahoo maps with a particular
address loaded initially. when I trigger it from a button click it
works fine but if I try to trigger it from a completion Complete I get
debugging errors and cant figure this one out... How can I modify this
to get the getMap()
Hi People !
We're new to Flex and having some fun with it!
Just trying to run mxmlc from command line in Windows XP and get
*Error: could not find a JVM.
*Have just installed the JDK1.6 and JAVA_HOME is set to \jdk\bin
Does anyone have any tips please
Thanks for your help
Prema
slangeberg wrote:
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?
fwiw , this is an internal video approval system app, and 2g is nothing for
even
I've become a big believer in iterative development and in starting my Flex
apps by working on the U/I. Then, only after I can freeze the U/I, do I
start on the backend.
It's easy enough to drag some controls into an application, but I'm not as
sure the best ways to populate the controls with
Rick Root wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for monitoring idleness of a Flex
application?
I'm assuming you're using Flex 2.0--if you're using the Flex Framework
as a basis for development (as opposed to rolling your own ActionScript
3.0-only project), this functionality is actually
I've been hard coding sample data into ArrayCollections.
I bet there are better ways, though.
At 05:19 PM 3/2/2007, Clarke Bishop wrote:
I've become a big believer in iterative development and in starting
my Flex apps by working on the U/I. Then, only after I can freeze
the U/I, do I
OK, thanks for your response. Haven't tried this yet, but will do. Just a quick
question, if I use do the way you recommend with a custom sort object, can the
user still use the headers to change the sort column/direction? This is what I
want.
Thanks,
Adam
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HI all,
Hi Ely,
Anyone know of a way to retain the effective HitArea
of a pie series after adding datatip call outs and
explode? It seems that after adding perwedgeexplode
and callouts, the hitarea for each wedge is dminished.
Or will it be better to add the callouts as sort of
annotation
Yes, but you should provide for the sorting of these columns too,
otherwise your sort competes against the builtin...
Alternatively, you could detach your custom sort whenever a different
header is clicked (meaning resetting the sort property of the
collection) - but I think you can have much
Wow, that is a great thing to know. I was going to point Rick to my
example on cflex.net which uses ordinary mouse and KB activity and a
Timer to initiate timeout processing, but a SystemManager idle event
looks much more elegant. I'll update my example when I get a chance.
Thanks,
Tracy
How are u calling mxmlc? by using ant and calling the mxmlc.exe ? or calling
via the mxmlc.jar ?
Dimitrios Gianninas
Optimal Payments Inc.
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Mike and Stephie
Sent: Fri 3/2/2007 3:27 PM
To: FlexCoders
Subject: [flexcoders]
yes thats correct. typo.
regrds
bod
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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:
The Apollo team is considering integrating a SQL database into the
Apollo runtime.
- Gordon
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Behalf Of Shannon Hicks
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:00 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE:
I agree that it would be nice to be able to call super-super-...-methods
but the language simply wasn't designed to allow that. If the upcoming
Ecmascript standard supports it, ActionScript will support it, otherwise
it probably won't.
As for hacking classes to do something they weren't compiled
I believe that you need to dispatch an event from the PopUp with all
of the information that you want to pass to the main Application. Here
is an example of what I think you want to do:
FILE: heightEvent .as
package
{
import flash.events.Event;
public class heightEvent extends
Hello all, I am curious about the meaning of default-channels in the
proxy-config.xml. I was under the assumption I could set up the
channels, and fail over would occur based on the channel that is being
used. For example, if I want to run SSL on production, but not while
developing, could I have:
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 :(
There's no reason that you'd even need
I added it in the the Library path tab. Or i should add it int source path?
Thanks
Terius
Troy Gilbert wrote:
You've added the SWC to your project? Go to the Project Properties and
its on one of the build related tabs.
Troy.
Hello everyone,
I am looking for some beta testers for a simple task manager written in
Flex 2. To participate you need some form of IIS on your server or dev
box. The server side scripts are written in classic ASP.
Main features of the product:
1. Share action items with team members
Tom Chiverton wrote:
Does the bluetooth keyboard work without Flex, i.e. with Notepad ?
If not, it's not Flex's fault, and we can't help.
If it's something that's not handled natively by Windows (for instance,
Bluetooth keyboard or mouse), getting it to work with Flex is probably
beyond the
Hi All,
I am developing a flex app, for the first time. I have three main
components. A combo-box, datagrid and a graph. The combobox is
populated using httprequest to a php page which provides data from
mysql database. My problem is I need to populate the datagrid and
update graph depending on
Simplest is to have your PopUp call a method on the Main app in the
closeDialog method. I have an example of this on cflex.net. But best
practice is probably to have the title window emit an event, and in the
handler, use event.target to get the value you want.
Tracy
Gentlepeople,
A few days ago I have installed a demo license of flex builder and in
general I like it very much. Nevertheless, ever since, my Eclipse
blows up (either heap size or stack overflow) at regular occasions. I
don't think I have been able to work with it for longer than an hour
I replied earlier, but my post has never shown up. Anyway...
I didn't know anything about modules, but did some reading about them.
Seems ideal for what I'm going to be doing, but I'll tackle that later.
So I implemented the listeners like you described, and it worked great.
I'm now able to
You'll have to determine why an ObjectProxy is being created...
typically it's because an anonymous Object was returned and RemoteObject
had makeObjectsBindable=true (which it is by default).
As for why an anonymous Object was returned - either something like a
java.util.Map was returned instead
Hello,
I've created an application that contains a custom hierarchy
chart/drawing (think org chart). The code for this chart is
contained in a module. The size of the container changes based on
the # of items in the hierarchy. I'm having two problems.
Printing
I've seen posts that
Thank you very much for this response. I think this is still a bit over my
head at this point
(I have only done tutorials, and none of the tutorials interact with a database
the way I will
be) but I will give it a stab and see what I can do with it.
I was looking at an article on Ben
Thanks Gordon,
That's pretty much everything I needed to know.
tonio
I'm afraid the metadata is missing in the VideoDisplay component, or better
yet, they forgot (?) a piece of code in the VideoDisplay
class.
[Event(name=metadataReceived, type=mx.events.MetaDataEvent)]
and
[Bindable(metadataReceived)]
You can listen to the metadataRecieved event through
Hi Andriy,
I found this article a little over a year ago, and I haven't looked back
since:
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t18678.html
It describes how to externalize the location of your eclipse plugins so that
upgrading the IE doesn't cause you to have to re-install everything you
have.
Flash Player 9 already has all you need for building libraries to
connect to all sorts of remote filesystems: sockets, binary and
otherwise.
Agreed, I was hoping that Apollo would deal with the heavy lifting on some of
this stuff vs giving front end components was the main gist of my
Was wondering if someone might know why a variable that is declared
[Bindable] might loose is binding capabilities if you pass a reference of it
to another class for processing and then modify the reference?
- Shannon
I wasn't familiar with modules, but I read up a bit on them. Sounds
ideal for what I will be doing, but maybe I'll tackle that later.
So I changed my event listeners like you described. That part works
great! I no longer have to take the 'hacky' approach of trying again
every 1 second after the
I'm having trouble retrieving the cuePoints that are embedded in an
.flv file. Looking at the .flv itself, I can see the cuePoints with a
name (and type navigation) near the beginning of the file but I can't
seem to access these with
videoDisplay.cuePoints
or
OK, this was easier than anticipated. I didn't realise the DataGrid would
detect the sort on the ArrayCollection and update it's sort arrow based on this.
My code:
import mx.collections.Sort;
import mx.collections.SortField;
var s:Sort = new Sort();
s.fields = [new
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