[flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Steven
Still desperately trying to find a solution to this! How can I print a text field that contains more than one page worth of text over multiple pages? Thanks Paul From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: 29 November 2007 20:30 To:

[flexcoders] Modules + CSS issues, what are recommend practices

2007-12-02 Thread dave_defusion
We have an application with each core section of the application being a module (as some users will get access to a restricted set of the app sections). We have all the CSS declared (via mx:Style source=... / tags) in the application MXML file. We then compile using a link report to optimize each

[flexcoders] Re: Printing a large string over multiple pages

2007-12-02 Thread b_alen
I remember in AS2 I created an array of movieclips with print content and then print the array one by one. Each array entry was a movie clip object. I had to manually measure when the movieclip is to high, then create another one, etc. Now from the livedocs: The PrintJob class hasn't changed

[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread b_alen
Well it all depends on what your background knowledge is. Can you create simple if statements, while and for loops, and so on? Do you understand OOP? Maybe you want to get comfortable with AS3 first before developing Flex apps. And that's easier to learn in Flash, IMHO. Try making a simple

[flexcoders] How to delete cookies cache in mx.controls.HTML?

2007-12-02 Thread bjorn -
I've started experimenting a bit with Flex 3's HTML control for Air. It looks pretty nice, but I have not found out how to do things like deleting the cache or handling cookies. Is this something that is currently possible, or functionality that is intended for release later? If it's not

Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Take your time, read something: http://norvig.com/21-days.html Cheers Ralf.

Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Jehanzeb Musani
Hello Paul, I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I believe you need to know Flash internal and it's framework. You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like .NET and C++ and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-02 Thread Robert Thompson
My point was only to refer to the inherent exclusive danger of open source tools that Microsoft has had occasion to exploit, and that is the reliability of a construct if derivatives aren't controlled as there root. And I'm referring to the language not the classes. Requesting a feature change

Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Andrews
Sheriff has had 9 months opportunity to read books and tutorials. There's nothing like trying to do it yourself! Paul - Original Message - From: Jehanzeb Musani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to

[flexcoders] hiding nativewindow border while moving the window

2007-12-02 Thread maritakous
I know that it is not good to override user's settings but still: on windows XP if the user has unchecked the Desktop-Properties option Show window contents while dragging, there is a frame around my AIR NativeWindow. Is there any way I can override this behavior and still show the contents of the

[flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler

2007-12-02 Thread bouiaw
Hi, I try to find some information about MXML compilation at runtime on a Java based server. My goal is to create a CMS/eCommerce solution based on a Java core and a Flex front-end. You can find more informations on the wiki of the Igenko project : http://code.google.com/p/igenko/ The

[flexcoders] Flex Supporters in Hyderabad

2007-12-02 Thread krish_ov
Hi Team, We are looking for a flex developer / tutor. who can help us develop the applications in FLEX + .NET / PHP + MsSQL environment. Online tutoring also welcome. Awaiting for the help. Thanks Krishna

Re: [flexcoders] Re: It's DEMO time! - www.PlayerStreak.com

2007-12-02 Thread Aly Sidi
The only JavaScript I had to add was for the IFRAME support. You can see that if you do a viewsource on the page. PS: the league administration functions were the real tough part.. Thanks for looking -aly On Dec 1, 2007 12:33 PM, candysmate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the site. But

RE: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler

2007-12-02 Thread Gordon Smith
The MXML compiler will be open-source soon, and I assume that means you'll be able to run it on your server. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bouiaw Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 6:06 AM To:

RE: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Gordon Smith
My advice.. First learn the basics of OOP and AS, how MXML relates to AS, how to factor an application into multiple components, and how events work. You can learn a lot about these topics my experimenting with only a few simple components such as Canvas and Button. But once you understand these

Re: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?

2007-12-02 Thread Lex
Hi Gordon, Warnings are on, nothing displayed. I'm using Flex 3 if that's of any relevance. In the same thread, yes I did mean to write earlier that modifying contactform.url inside of initapp solved the problem. Regards. Alex - Original Message - From: Gordon

[flexcoders] AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread jovialrandor
I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls.Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly.I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However

Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler

2007-12-02 Thread DreamCode
Hey Sebastien/Gordon I'm not sure I understand what you're asking… mxml compilation at runtime? Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? As for the dynamic creation of content based on custom xml, that is quite nice. It's a big part of my current spare time project. The

[flexcoders] Re: AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
You neglected to mention what your backend was written in. Some of us might be able to help in .NET, others in PHP, and others in CF, not to mention Java. My own testing using Fluorine, a .NET implementaion shows about 80% decrease in time to load ~5,000 rows from the server to the client over

Re: [flexcoders] CSS usage?

2007-12-02 Thread Lex
Anyone? The livedocs site is a pain to navigate :/ Appreciated muchly! Alex - Original Message - From: Lex To: flex Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: [flexcoders] CSS usage?  If I go here and build a CSS sheet:

Re: [flexcoders] AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
Ted Patrick just wrote an interesting intro to AMF that I found informative. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/11/abcs-of-amf.php Paul On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice

RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-02 Thread Matt Chotin
I've moved this bug to https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13808 since it is not related to the ActionScript compiler, it's only in the Flex classes. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:14 PM To:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-02 Thread Matt Chotin
And I guess let me add a few other things. 1) With regard to the bug itself, I'm guessing that the issue is that first item in the collection to be sorted has the null value. This is causing an error because we can't determine what kind of comparator to use by default. If your first

[flexcoders] special characters in Feed content.

2007-12-02 Thread willfould
I have a flex app that chokes (gives [object Object]) when attempting to display data from a content element of an Atom feed that often contains HTML (special characters: '','',..etc.). I'd wrap the value in CDATA or use a regular expression to clean up the data, but the flex parser does not get

Re: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?

2007-12-02 Thread Dave Glasser
I had no idea that SimpleApplication existed; it's not in my Flex 2.01 api docs. But then I looked in the source tree and indeed, there is an mx.core.SimpleApplication class. But the source reveals that it's just an empty subclass of MovieClip, so it can't be used in place of the Application

Re: [flexcoders] AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread Ryan Campbell
What do you currently use for your server-side language? On 2-Dec-07, at 1:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls. Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly. I heard that using the

[flexcoders] Traversing RSS/ATOM feed

2007-12-02 Thread Jon Bell
Hello! I'm new to Flex and new to this group. Nice to meet everyone. I have a pretty simple problem. I just want to refer to a nested bit of XML in an atom feed. Go grab an ATOM feed: mx:DataGrid width=730 height=212 id=dgPosts x=0 y=0 color=#00

[flexcoders] Flex upload - preview data??

2007-12-02 Thread dewereb
Hi - I am working on a file upload process that needs to meet the following requirements: 1) User selects file they wish to upload 2) Application needs to put a preview of the data to be uploaded on the web page 3) User can then choose which rows they wish to upload from their uploaded file 4)

RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?

2007-12-02 Thread Dave Glasser
I was already aware of that, but forgoing the use of UIComponents is not really an option for me. I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. But absent that, I think the API docs should

[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread tomeuchre
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread DreamCode
I couldn't agree more on all counts After twenty some years of programming I can honestly say that starting out with assember was one of the best things i have done, although it would have been nice to have google back then. In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
Matt: Thanks for fixing the bug request. Yes, all nulls seem to sort high, but that means if you click the heading twice it always fails because the nulls sort to the top, and the sort algorithm fails on the second pass. One thing that could be done as a workaround, is to have the routine

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: DreamCode To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to bed before 4am once, gotten up after 8.30am once

[flexcoders] DISREGARD: FileReference on Mac - When will it be fixed?

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Whitelock
I figured it out -- I didn't realize that the data reported by FileReference depends on the OS on which Flash Player is running. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Whitelock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just tried Ubuntu and no joy there either -- maybe it shares the same code base as the

[flexcoders] Re: AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread jovialrandor
I am currently using J2EE as the server side language. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you currently use for your server-side language? On 2-Dec-07, at 1:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from

[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
As long as other old timers are sittin' around the diner tellin' lies I can add my two cents. My first language was in High School, Burroughs B200 machine language No assembly required. The question is not how best to teach yourself Flex, but how best to become a programmer. Is Flex the right

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Andrews
Actually the post has reminded me of a University lecture I had (many, many years ago) where the lecturer gave some incredibly low figure for the number of lines of code written daily by professional programmers. Nobody thought the figure could be so low - after all we cranked out programs at a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread DreamCode
I agree again. with everything, but unfortunately I don't have an IQ that breaks the bank, so in order for me to keep up with the talented ones I have to work harder :) --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 6:26 PM, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as other old timers are sittin' around

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
Set goals that interest you. Interest and 'passion' : ) assists learning. Ralf's url was a nice read. regards, Bjorn On 03/12/2007, at 1:55 PM, DreamCode wrote: I agree again. with everything, but unfortunately I don't have an IQ that breaks the bank, so in order for me to keep up

RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?

2007-12-02 Thread Gordon Smith
I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. We could make this work (although we won't have time before Flex 3 ships). Please file an enhancement request at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex if you

RE: [flexcoders] CSS usage?

2007-12-02 Thread Gordon Smith
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; mx:Style source=mystyles.css/ /mx:Application - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lex Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:44 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

RE: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler

2007-12-02 Thread Gordon Smith
Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? That's the impression I got of what Sébastien wants to do. all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code If you're creating components via their class name, with code like var someClass:Class =

[flexcoders] is change a program's namespace in run-time possible?

2007-12-02 Thread garylee0709
i try to use the code: use namespace ...to change some constants of program at run-time, it seems no working at all... is there a way to work this out? any replies will be greatly appreciated.

[flexcoders] How to make viewSource enabled

2007-12-02 Thread Girish
Hi, I want to make my project viewSource enabled. how can i do that. Regards Girish Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html

RE: [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages

2007-12-02 Thread Alex Harui
Look at the source for PrintDataGrid. You should be able to use the same pattern for TextArea From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 1:28 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject:

[flexcoders] ItemEditors and ItemRenderers (was Re: Datagrid tab order?)

2007-12-02 Thread Stephen Roy J. Tang
What I have is the Flex 2.0.1 patch for Flash CS3 Professional compatibility, are they compatible? i.e. I just install the hotfix 2/3 on top of it? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds like you are not using 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 or later. I cannot

Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler

2007-12-02 Thread DreamCode
I don't think the result of that is inside the acceptable levels for a content management system. but hey... what do I know I would. and I did for my project choose creating it in AS3 based on database/xml content. --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 7:26 PM, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] ***************************TWO WAY SSL AND REPORTING IN FLEX *********************************

2007-12-02 Thread yourName
Q1)Can any body tell how to implement TWO WAY SSL in flex/java application.. can any one send me link or sample code .. Q2) Plz tell me about reporting in flex which reporting can i use Thanks In Advance...

[flexcoders] Re: How to make viewSource enabled

2007-12-02 Thread garylee0709
select 'project ' from ur flex builder menu,then select 'publish application source', feel free to change any pre-settings. after that,add up 'viewSourceURL' property in ur Application MXML Tag with the the value,which if u use the pre-settings of flex builder it should then be

[flexcoders] Verifing URL before setting it to the source of VideoDisplay

2007-12-02 Thread Nadeem Manzoor
hello All I am in a big trouble, problem is i have developed a video player in flex. It works fine. But an incorrect URL is passed to the player , it troughs an error (connection Error) but after that it does not even load a correct flv. how can i solve this problem .. I know there must be a

[flexcoders]Support for PS3 and XBox 360

2007-12-02 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
What is the support for development on PS3 and XBox 360 platforms? Are our apps available through their integrated browser (not sure of the current players in each)? Could we use AIR to develop apps for these platforms? Availability of Flash Player 9 AS3 or AIR apps on these platforms would be of

[flexcoders] Using DateField as itemEditor for DataGrid column

2007-12-02 Thread carl_steinhilber
I'm having a problem using a DateField as a itemRenderer/editor for a column in a dataGrid. If I set the DateField as my itemEditor, everything works perfectly. But if I set the DateField as my itemRenderer and set rendererIsEditor to true the dataGrid renders completely blank (no data in *any*