[flexcoders] Re: Different approaches to Cairngorm view updates

2007-12-08 Thread mydarkspoon
Yes, it's even mentioned on Derrick's article, but it's just like using binding, ChangeWatcher, only with compile time checking for property's name. On the bottom line, it requires the view to know more than it should. Both approaches seems to solve it, but I'd like to see what other people than

[flexcoders] How much can AIR and the OS interact?

2007-12-08 Thread justSteve
I'm looking for an overview: Can AIR apps interact with services running locally? For example, could I create a .net DLL that permitted interaction with the clipboard at the native OS level? thx --steve...

[flexcoders] Re: programatically deselect cells in an AdvancedDataGrid (bump)

2007-12-08 Thread superabe superabe
On Dec 7, 2007 5:59 AM, superabe superabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know how to programmatically deselect cells, in an AdvancedDataGrids (Flex 3 Beta2). ? I can successfully use the selectedCells property of the ADG, with selectionMode set to multipleCells to select cells

[flexcoders] Use browser's function keys (F1,F5,F11 etc) for your Flex web-application

2007-12-08 Thread flex.fusion
Hi Guys, I want to provide keyboard support for my web-application. For normal keys I do not have any problem. But mainly I have 2 problems with flex implementation part: 1. I am unable to fire events on function keys. i.e. F1,F5 etc. I will appriciate any help from you guys. How can I block

RE: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Re: Loading Web Service from WebSphere

2007-12-08 Thread Randy Martin
My suggestion is that you use FB3 beta 2 and use the WSDL wizard to generate the classes necessary to use the webservice. I did this for two of our webservices, and I had to do only minor tweaks of the generated code to get it to work flawlessly. Pick from the menu in FB or Eclipse, Data | Import

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-12-08 Thread George
[personal thoughts] Working on Flex projects you have to overcome some 'bug' troubles yourself. Adobe developers couldn't has enough time to help everybody to find solutions, they have to work for tasks depending on priority like all software development teams. Nothing can be perfect we have

[flexcoders] Scale 9 Issues

2007-12-08 Thread polestar11
Hi there We are trying to skin our app and have added skins for ComboBoxes and Scrollbars. We have scale-9 set on the skin symbols for the arrow buttons but for some reason it is not being picked up in our Flex app. I have looked at the default AeonGraphical theme seen that the right side

Re: [flexcoders] How much can AIR and the OS interact?

2007-12-08 Thread hank williams
I'm looking for an overview: Can AIR apps interact with services running locally? For example, could I create a .net DLL that permitted interaction with the clipboard at the native OS level? No. You cannot access DLLs. Hank

[flexcoders] Re: Debugging code

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
I don't know how to say this gently, and perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think many folks here have the time or inclination to read through an entire program and debug it. Based on a quick read of the problems, it appears that you are having 4 issues some of which seem to be fundemental

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [flexcoders] How much can AIR and the OS interact?

2007-12-08 Thread Jeffry Houser
WebORB offers this functionality: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/blog/2007/07/weborb-air-edition.html However, if you're going to tie yourself into Windows anyway, perhaps WPF is a better solution? hank williams wrote: I'm looking for an overview: Can AIR apps interact

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
The good news is I believe that the folks at Adobe are convinced this is a bug. The bad news is I was told that they aren't going to fix it anytime soon, what with the new release coming out and the fact that there is an easy workaround and all. opinion It is my opinion, after looking at the

[flexcoders] Re: Loading Web Service from WebSphere

2007-12-08 Thread dafox_82
Nobody with some helpful tips? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, dafox_82 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm playing around with Flex and want to call a custom made Web Service in WebSphere. When I run my application, It seems that a lot of requests are done to the Web Service repeatably

[flexcoders] Re: Actionscript: Copy an Object or Dictionary

2007-12-08 Thread polestar11
Hi Tom That wouldn't work because item is the assigned object in the dictionary not the key, so what you would actually be saying is: newDict[item]=myDict[item], where item would be the key reference in newDict, while myDic[item] is undefined. I eventually gave up trying to iterate through a

SPAM-LOW: Re: [flexcoders] How much can AIR and the OS interact?

2007-12-08 Thread zcsibi
FluorineFx (www.fluorinefx.com) also offers similar functionality with the FluorineFx windows service. As the service itself has no .NET, MFC etc. dependency it is easy to deploy (of course you need .NET installed after deployment to do anything useful). The plan is to allow in future releases

Re: [flexcoders] Simple Code to load a jpg from a website, then load again and replace needed

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Freiman
What error are you getting. My guess is that the addChild() is blowing up because you're trying to add 'content' to the application when 'content' is already a child of the loader. A displayobject can only be a child of one displayobjectcontainer. Loaders are fairly low memory usage. I would

[flexcoders] Re: Loading Web Service from WebSphere

2007-12-08 Thread dafox_82
When I try to use the WSDL import wizard, I could see my operations resolved correctly, but when clicking Finish, I get the following error: The WSDL definition could not be parsed. The wizard cannot complete successfully. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Randy Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Warning 1096: Illogical comparison with null. Variables of type Boolean cannot be null.

2007-12-08 Thread Daniel Freiman
What adobe does is declare the property as type Object and then uses it as a Boolean. Thus is can be null, but you loose the strict typing of that object. Other than that, a boolean is either true or false, the default being false. There's no concept of an uninitialized boolean. - Dan Freiman

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
George: additional commentary We are not sitting around waiting for Adobe to hand us a fix. We are doing what needs to be done to get the applications finished. We like Flex, but if the level of effort to work around bugs becomes so time consuming as to make it easier or faster to switch to

Re: [flexcoders] Warning 1096: Illogical comparison with null. Variables of type Boolean cannot be null.

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Connolly
What adobe does is declare the property as type Object and then uses it as a Boolean. Thus is can be null, but you loose the strict typing of that object. Other than that, a boolean is either true or false, the default being false. There's no concept of an uninitialized boolean. - Dan

[flexcoders] ICAL Recurrence rules

2007-12-08 Thread kuroiryu42
I am wondering if there are any AS libraries that help with handling ICAL feeds.

Re: [flexcoders] trying to get flex + php + firebird to work

2007-12-08 Thread suomaf
Hello all, Again, please disregard, I found another example to follow and this time it works now. **note to self..must remember to commit after add new rows. cheers, suomaf Hello all, Please disregard the previous post, i found another example to follow this one at

[flexcoders] Question regarding textareas.

2007-12-08 Thread leech2k4
We are wanting to write a chat application in flash that needs to have very unique requirements so its a one off type of thing that an existing off the shelf wont help with. What we are looking for is each line of chat should have something like the following: x x 10:00pm - How are you today?

[flexcoders] Simple game question with Flex

2007-12-08 Thread pirzadaz_ali
Hi, I have board and pieces in PNG format (images) set in Flash 8 (downloaded trial version of Flash CS3 pro) . Now instead of using flash I want to use Flex (as developer in other languages) to code AS files to move my pieces etc. So basically I want to use Flash to set up my board with

[flexcoders] Re: Combining Menu, List, Form

2007-12-08 Thread jerlogan
Thanks for the response. My thinking was along the lines : If a menu allows a checkbox, it allows a flag to be set, so entering data for a form would not be inconsistent. This just allows user to look at the contents of the form and glide over to other menu items without actually entering the

[flexcoders] Re: DS - Data synchronization between 2 destinations?

2007-12-08 Thread gabrysb
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Vroom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are working on improving the ability to do these types of master/detail relationships in future LC DS versions with a single destination. Using one destination is obviously how you'd like to do it but you do run into

[flexcoders] SoundChannel position misreporting

2007-12-08 Thread bryter_daze
I have been unable to find anyone else who has come across this issue. I have checked through my code again and again, and have been unable to find the flaw. I am using a subclass of HSlider to control the position of an mp3. This, as you might know, involves calling channel.stop() and then

[flexcoders] Extending the RichTextEditor

2007-12-08 Thread Dave
I was just wondering if anyone had a sample of extending the RichTextEditor to support inserting images? I am looking at it and it seems you have to insert the html img tag into the HTML and you can figure out where by the selection property, but I also want to just add a button to the tool bar

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Scan document using Flex 2 or 3. Help please

2007-12-08 Thread jeff
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:25:47PM -, Abyss Knight wrote: I don't believe you can access other applications on the system directly unless they are other AIR/Flex applications that you've written. If you were able to do this, it would be a very large security concern. I like that

[flexcoders] flex newbie

2007-12-08 Thread Enrico Hofmann
hi i am new to flex, i include an run.as in my mx:script tag so like mx:Script source=run.as how can i set the application that it runs after the application is loaded? i allready include in the Windowed Applcation part an applicationComplete(callmyFunction()) but i get for all components

[flexcoders] Creating a game in Flex

2007-12-08 Thread pirzadaz_ali
Hi, I have Chess board and pieces images in png format separately. Now I want to use those images and create a chess game. Is it possible in Flex that I can make chess game from above images? like this game http://www.newsandentertainment.com/zfchess.html thanks

[flexcoders] Not able to load movie

2007-12-08 Thread tallak
Hi, I'm trying to develope a flex based h.264 movie player, but I have ran into some problems. I have followed the online tutorial http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html but the movie does not start and there is an error returned called

[flexcoders] Re: programatically deselect cells in an AdvancedDataGrid (bump)

2007-12-08 Thread David Spurr
In the standard datagrid (so I assume it's not different for the AdvancedDataGrid as I haven't played with it yet,) you just need to set the selected indices to an empty array. To all select all and select none as a global feature in our app I simply made a DataGridUtil class with static

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a game in Flex

2007-12-08 Thread Jeffry Houser
I have no doubt that this is possible. I envision this to be a big project, though. Did you have any specific questions? pirzadaz_ali wrote: Hi, I have Chess board and pieces images in png format separately. Now I want to use those images and create a chess game. Is it possible in

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a game in Flex

2007-12-08 Thread Paul Decoursey
[Embed(source=path/to/image.png)] private var image:Class; or reference the image with an Image component. or ... well, look through the docs, there are a lot of ways to use images in flex. On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:28 PM, pirzadaz_ali wrote: Hi, I have Chess board and pieces images in png

[flexcoders] Re: How can we use TransitionManager in Flex ... It is an ActionScript 3.0 Class

2007-12-08 Thread helihobby
Anyone ? Regards, Sean. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, helihobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its even documented in Adobe Air: http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/air/1/aslr/fl/transitions/TransitionManager.html So why can't we use it in Flex 2/3 ? :( The Pixelate and Blinds are

RE: [flexcoders] Strange Behaviour

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Harui
Flex prefers that you call removeChild on the old container before calling addChild on the new container. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parjan Arjan Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:37 AM To:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Combining Menu, List, Form

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Harui
Menu inherits from List. The struggle will be about eliminating the click-and-dismiss and roll over behaviors of Menu. If you look into states, you can probably get what you want by having Lists and Forms appear as needed. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Re: Strange Behaviour

2007-12-08 Thread reflexactions
Hmm, Well in general I have always assumed it wasnt necessary to do that becuase the Container addChildAt method specifically calls removeChild on the old container for you: override public function addChildAt (child:DisplayObject, index:int):DisplayObject { var

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Strange Behaviour

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Harui
Didn't know we'd gotten around to fixing that. Anyway, I ran the app and don't see any strange behavior. addChild is a 'move' and not a 'copy' as the button label implies. The best way to make a copy is to put the whole VBox sequence in its own MXML file and add a new instance of it.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Using DateField as itemEditor for DataGrid column

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Harui
What version of Flex are you using? Flex 3 Beta 2 and Flex 2.0.1 HotFix2 (which are the only versions you should be using) both throw exceptions with this example. DateField isn't really set up to handle XML when it is an item renderer. I sort of got it working like this:

RE: [flexcoders] How to disable menubar in Flex 2

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Harui
Can you call getMenuAt() and set enabled=false? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Steven Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:38 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to disable menubar in Flex 2