[flexcoders] Web Services: Nearing Wit's End

2007-03-10 Thread Shibli Zaman
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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
btw, the way this thing works is by feature request (voting system). at least at the company i work for. so if you aren't asking for it ask for it now. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform On 3/9/07, dorkie dork from dorktown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a must have

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread shaun
dorkie, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: btw, the way this thing works is by feature request (voting system). at least at the company i work for. so if you aren't asking for it ask for it now. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform On 3/9/07, dorkie dork from

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread hank williams
Wow Shaun, Lots of stuff to vehemently disagree with. Your overstating the importance of a db on the client. Well, he may be. But let me just say this. For the last 20 years, most desktop apps have use a client side database. Generally in the MS world it used to be a library called Jet that

Re: [flexcoders] Mac style drop-down sheet

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Wills
Hmm something like this link? http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/2006/05/mac_os_x-lookin.cfm Or something more specific to drop-downs? Michael ashifsayani wrote: Hi, I'd seen a posting where someone created a mac style drop-down sheet in Flex. I can't seem to find the link

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

2007-03-10 Thread Michael Wills
Hi Shibli, I defer to the experts on the details (I'm new to Flex) but I have gotten other services to work. A web service debugger has been a great asset in that development. Two popular ones are Charles (http://www.xk72.com/charles/) and Service Capture

RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread Agent RR-007
I don't it should be that difficult to built database connectivity like zinc uses. That way it can communicate with stand alone dbs like ms access, etc... Thanks, Rob -Original Message- From: Troy Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: 3/9/07 12:30 PM Subject:

[flexcoders] Selecting child components in TabNavigator

2007-03-10 Thread Vyshakh Venugopal
hi all, am a newbie to flex, I tried the nested tab navigator with custom canvas components in it. But i faced to show the componenets upon a button click event happened in another componenet. the tabnavigator.selectChildIndex is not working with this since its a user defined componenet.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
I don't it should be that difficult to built database connectivity like zinc uses. That way it can communicate with stand alone dbs like ms access, etc... But then you have to deal with setting up installing that database on the user end. If it was built in to Apollo, it would be much easier.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
i agree. it should be built in. at some point the Apollo team realized they needed to include built in support for HTML container and support css, etc. and not rely on outside technology being there. thats its strong point in that if it is built in we don't have to worry about installing

[flexcoders] Changing currentState based on a url

2007-03-10 Thread flexjeremy
Hi guys, I'm WOAH new to flex. My company is seriously starting to look at it now. So I have the mind numbing task to work out a few things. What I'm trying to do is change the currentState based on a URL that I passthrough using flashvars i.e. cfoutputflashvars,'RequestType=

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Data Services Question, Java backend

2007-03-10 Thread Allen Riddle
You could use Flex's JMS messaging capabilities. Check out the messaging-config.xml and check out the mx:Consumer component. I still haven't used the Data Management services with Data Services, but if the new data is coming from a source other than your Flex app, I think using the Flex messaging

RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo

2007-03-10 Thread Matt Chotin
Please don't for this feature, we already know enough of the use-cases. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dorkie dork from dorktown Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:39 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re:

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Data Services Question, Java backend (HTTPAdapter?)

2007-03-10 Thread bruce1976
Thanks, I'll do look it up. Ideally, I would like to do one of the following: 1) Use Flex Messaging Service, and have my Java backend act as a producer (but I don't want to setup a JMS topic). or 2) Use a HTTPAdapter (for lack of a better term) that will allow remote producer of data to send

RE: [flexcoders] Changing currentState based on a url

2007-03-10 Thread Alex Harui
Eventually, you'll probably want a more full-featured URL handling mechanism. A third-party has a pretty good one here: http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/urlkit -Alex From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of flexjeremy Sent:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: newbie dataGrid question .

2007-03-10 Thread Alex Harui
I can't think of anything better, but I'll guess that by the time you hit production you'll want to define the columns yourself so the headers for price aren't in lower case, and you guarantee a particular order for the columns.. You'll need to think about how you'll figure that out. Maybe the

RE: [flexcoders] mx:Script error ?

2007-03-10 Thread Alex Harui
Try a new project, or build one of the samples. You may need to re-install. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Groups Mail Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders]

[flexcoders] Regexp wont work cause of the b labels

2007-03-10 Thread tonyx_788
Hi all i'm looking for a regular expression for mi app im using CDATA inside my XML so when i try to make a filter search it wont work cause of the B or i before the text lets say in my xml i have something like this: name![CDATA[bAcademia./b]]/name it dont work if i type academia but if i put

[flexcoders] Re: Need help in dynamically updating datagrid

2007-03-10 Thread devil_love_99
Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the selected item in the combobox contains the key/filter value for the php query? Thats true Tracy. In the change event of the combo, invoke send() on the HTTPService, passing in the key(s). In a result handler function, assign the returned

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

[flexcoders] Flex CacheKeyUtils error on JBoss Portal

2007-03-10 Thread johan.wasserman
I am trying to deploy a Flex app on JBoss portal using the Flex tag library JBoss Portal 2.6.0 Developer Release 1 JBoss AS 4.0.5 GA Flex 2.0.1 jsp: %@ taglib uri=FlexTagLib prefix=mm % mm:mxml source=/login.mxml/ Portlet code: package com.jboss.portlet.login; import

[flexcoders] Re: Need help in dynamically updating datagrid

2007-03-10 Thread devil_love_99
Hey thanks for the replies. I found out that the problem is with the type of request being made. Somehow same code is working with GET requests but not POST. Is it a known bug?? Cheers

[flexcoders] n00b question on dynamic generation of UI components

2007-03-10 Thread systemsforge
Just wondering, is it possible to completely programmatically generate all interface elements at runtime in Flex (i.e. do you HAVE to have any compile time MXML or can you dynamically generate your entire UI on the fly using AS if you so wish). Simple example, want to generate forms for CRUD. I

[flexcoders] Line or Edge Renderer

2007-03-10 Thread Keith Sutton
Has anyone built or seen an implementation of a line (renderer) which responds to click events, dragging, tooltips etc? We are building graph (nodes and edges not pie charts) display application and need a way of accessing the edges/lines and underlying data. I have checked SpringGraph

Re: [flexcoders] Passing complex objects (e. g. collection of name-value pairs) to server via either URLLoader or HTTPService using POST method

2007-03-10 Thread Sergey Kovalyov
Can AMFPHP convert Flex ArrayCollection of Objects to PHP Array of PHP Objects?.. On 09 Mar 2007 16:04:39 -0800, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOAP webservices can do that. You don't have to convert to XML first, you can send your complex Actionscript object directly to the WDSL

[flexcoders] Re: Selecting child components in TabNavigator

2007-03-10 Thread bhaq1972
do you have any code to show. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Vyshakh Venugopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, am a newbie to flex, I tried the nested tab navigator with custom canvas components in it. But i faced to show the componenets upon a button click event happened in

RE: [flexcoders] n00b question on dynamic generation of UI components

2007-03-10 Thread Gordon Smith
Your application file itself should be MXML. In other words, you should have at least an mx:Application tag, or you'll run into various problems. But every other component instance can easily be programmatically created using 'new'. I'm not very knowledgeable about states, but I'm pretty sure that

Re: [flexcoders] n00b question on dynamic generation of UI components

2007-03-10 Thread Benjamin Schwehn
systemsforge wrote: Just wondering, is it possible to completely programmatically generate all interface elements at runtime in Flex (i.e. do you HAVE to have any compile time MXML or can you dynamically generate your entire UI on the fly using AS if you so wish). You sure can, matter of fact

[flexcoders] Displaying single bar/column (Type: 100%)

2007-03-10 Thread ichgehe
You certainly know the charting components BarSeries or ColumnSeries They are great, if you need exactly this kind of view. But I am currently in a bit of a problem, because I need a column-/bar component which only is able to show ONE bar or column for a series of data. You probably say:

[flexcoders] Undo/Redo system design

2007-03-10 Thread boo1975boo
Hello I develop some complex interface with XML object based data model. The model is similar to Cairngorm's ModelLocator. It allows me to implement undo/redo system, holding in separate XML object changes in main data model reflecting users gestures. However, as far as I know, common

[flexcoders] Cairngorm app with HTTPService

2007-03-10 Thread achegedus
I'm having a hard time learning Cairngorm, but I'm determined to figure it out!! My current problem is with my HTTPService. In my Delegate, I'm calling the service like this: public class ContactListDelegate { private var responder : IResponder; private var service : Object;

[flexcoders] Re: Regexp wont work cause of the b labels

2007-03-10 Thread Paul DeCoursey
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tonyx_788 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all i'm looking for a regular expression for mi app im using CDATA inside my XML so when i try to make a filter search it wont work cause of the B or i before the text lets say in my xml i have something like this:

[flexcoders] popup menu icons duplicated

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Hastings
i've got a popup button that loads a menu w/some icons labels via this function upon creation complete for that button: private function initMeasurementMenu():void { var measurementMenu:Menu = new Menu(); var dp:Object = [{label: measure angle, icon:measureAngleIcon}, {label:

[flexcoders] Chrome behind content?

2007-03-10 Thread Jesse Warden
I'm extending Canvas. His base class, Container, decrees on line 4608 that all children are behind chrome. I want the opposite. I want my chrome BEHIND the content; I want the content IN FRONT of my chrome. However, since Container does all kinds of crazy over-writting of DisplayObject

Re: [flexcoders] popup menu icons duplicated

2007-03-10 Thread Doug McCune
Yeah, I ran into this one. I'm going to bet that you're setting the dataprovider of the popupmenubutton with Object objects (as opposed to XML or something else). There's a bug in the component. Try setting the type property of the Object to an empty string. So your code might look like this: