Re: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
Not if you want a swf that can be controlled from AS3. From the FAQ: What version of Flash Player is required to display Flash documents created by FlashPaper? Flash documents can be displayed by any browser with Flash Player 6 or higher installed. Some features, like text search, are only

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Replaying an Embedding SWF

2008-05-31 Thread EECOLOR
*[Embed(source=applicationContext.xml, mimeType=application/octet-stream)] public class EmbeddedContent extends ByteArray * Greetz Erik On 5/30/08, kenny14390 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked into your ByteArray method but I couldn't find enough documentation online to show how to do it.

[flexcoders] Panel with no borders. How To?

2008-05-31 Thread Manu Dhanda
Hii I need a panel with no border or say with border with ZERO width. How can I get this done? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Panel-with-no-borders.-How-To--tp17573772p17573772.html Sent from the FlexCoders mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [flexcoders] Panel with no borders. How To?

2008-05-31 Thread Josh McDonald
new Canvas(); ;-) On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manu Dhanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hii I need a panel with no border or say with border with ZERO width. How can I get this done? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

[flexcoders] Re: Panel with no borders. How To?

2008-05-31 Thread Cato Paus
Hi First off all you have this: borderStyle=none and you can do this to: borderStyle=none borderThickness=0 borderThicknessBottom=0 borderThicknessLeft=0 borderThicknessRight=0 borderThicknessTop=0 and finaly: paddingBottom=0 paddingLeft=0 paddingRight=0 paddingTop=0 play with these params.

[flexcoders] Re: data object in itemrenderer is null ...kind of solved

2008-05-31 Thread max.bruchmann
Hmm no wasn't the issue. The problem was that I had a in my itemrenderer component mx:Image...source={flagSource} ... script ... public function get flagSource():Class { if(data.rating==0) return aSource; } /script after chaning this to: mx:Image...source={getFlagSource(data)} ...

Re: [flexcoders] Panel with no borders. How To?

2008-05-31 Thread Josh McDonald
Seriously though, what's your actual end goal? What is it about Panel you want to keep? -J On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: new Canvas(); ;-) On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Manu Dhanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hii I need a panel with no

[flexcoders] Two questions: Nested applications styles colllisions, flashvars injection

2008-05-31 Thread mydarkspoon
Hi all, I'm targeting here 2 problems I've been struggling with for quite long time regarding nested SWFs. The first, which is more nasty and 5 times more evil is using different styles for 2 flex applications where one application is loaded into the shell app. The behavior I'd like to have is

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
Microsoft could always avoid mistakes by licencing Flash and Flex technology from Adobe.. ;-) Scott, I won't beat the drum, since I'm probably alone in thinking this: It's difficullt to see posts by a Microsoft Product Manager as being intended to help the flex community. Silverlite and

[flexcoders] Re: The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Jeff Houser
I just re-read the whole thread; and am unsure how Scott's post could be construed as inappropriate. Someone said I thought X, and that was wrong; so Scott posted the appropriate info. He wasn't the one who brought up the topic of Silverlight. I agree that adding a sig with his title would

[flexcoders] Re: Drilldown ideas

2008-05-31 Thread markgoldin_2000
Yes, that took care of Blur. But still, the surface of the screen is changed when a popup gets on it. Is there a way to keep it unchanged? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get rid of the popup window's blur effect by setting the

[flexcoders] Reusing anothers cached rsl framework

2008-05-31 Thread Hyder
I'm developing a website in flex. It uses some basic components... dg, button, tabnav, etc. When I export the framework as a swz file, it shows to be about 523KB (its framework 477: sdk3). If this framework is cached by another domain, will flash player reuse that framework or will it force the

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread bubbamorse
Wow! I'm amazed to see the meandering (and aggressiveness of some folks) within this thread Paul - Scott offered a simple straight forward answer to a question (i.e. a informational and meaningful post). Sobecause someone works for Microsoft you choose to lambast their writings and

[flexcoders] Referring to external assets from within Flash swf

2008-05-31 Thread Giles Roadnight
Hi All This is a little complicated so I hop eI can make it clear! we have a flex applciation that loads xml and displays pictures and videos. These live in assets/images/*.jpg asets/videos/*.flv assets/presentation.xml and are referred to exactly as above. When this applciation is to be

Re: [flexcoders] Re: The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Josh McDonald
Frankly Microsoft would be idiots not to have at least a few lurkers on the list. However, I think Silverlight it a joke. It's a shame the talented engineers at Microsoft aren't allowed to develop anything without the business tying it to Windows in some way. -J On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:53 AM,

Re: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Sherif Abdou
probably a bad idea but maybe you can try Adobe Captivate 3? Launch the PowerPoint then have it record it. I really don't know but just a suggestion. - Original Message From: Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 3:39:54 AM Subject:

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Josh McDonald
Overreacting maybe, but not silly. Microsoft has many years of playing nicely ahead of them before they get benefit of the doubt. -J On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! I'm amazed to see the meandering (and aggressiveness of some folks) within this thread

[flexcoders] book errata

2008-05-31 Thread Mark Volkmann
Is there an errata page for the book Adobe Flex 3 - Training from the Source?

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
I guess I'm the agressive one. I've seen other products where former practictioners of product A have moved to rival company B and return to their former haunts to help out company A's customers with their insight. You would have to be naive to consider that the product manager for

Re: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
Captivate is AS2.. - Original Message - From: Sherif Abdou To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex? probably a bad idea but maybe you can try Adobe Captivate

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Troy Gilbert
Overreacting maybe, but not silly. Microsoft has many years of playing nicely ahead of them before they get benefit of the doubt. We don't have to give MS the benefit of the doubt... just Scott. And over the last year or so, I've not seen anything from Scott that would suggest we should give

[flexcoders] Re: How to convert Powerpoint presentation tp Flex or Flash?

2008-05-31 Thread Anthony DeBonis
We have used both flashSpring and dreamsoft on a Coldfusion server to take a upload PPT and convert them into swf files that get pulled back into the Flex application. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, markflex2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ppt file and want to play it with Flex.

[flexcoders] Re: The BlazeDS server ?

2008-05-31 Thread Anthony DeBonis
CF can do RemoteObject no problem out of the Box. You can use BlazeDS if you want to do messaging... push or pull/ publish subscribe. It also allows you to call Java/pojo from Flex and other features too. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, markflex2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Do I

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Jeffry Houser
One of my friends, a long time ColdFusion Developer has been doing a lot of work with Ruby lately. Are you saying it's wrong for him to talk to me about Ruby? I'm not grokking the basis of your argument. Paul Andrews wrote: I guess I'm the agressive one. I've seen other products where

RE: [flexcoders] Reusing anothers cached rsl framework

2008-05-31 Thread Alex Harui
It will use the one you've asked for. If it has been cached by another domain, it will not be downloaded again. I don't think there are good stats on which version is more popular. We'll probably never bake the framework into the player as that would bloat the player, and not allow us to

RE: [flexcoders] Referring to external assets from within Flash swf

2008-05-31 Thread Alex Harui
We try to fix up relative paths in Image and SWFLoader in order to handle more complicated scenarios. URLLoader doesn't, so that may be the difference. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giles Roadnight Sent: Saturday, May

RE: [flexcoders] Two questions: Nested applications styles colllisions, flashvars injection

2008-05-31 Thread Alex Harui
There is no good way to have a loaded SWF keep its own styles. There might be in 3.x later this year. Since you own both SWFs, I'd simply have a handshake between the loader and the loaded app. Sublcass App, override its parameters property and have it query the loading Apps

RE: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Alex Harui
Yes, the output is an AS2 SWF. But at least it is a SWF. You can control it from AS3 via 3rd party techniques that use LocalConnection or ExternalInterface and a shim SWF From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews

[flexcoders] MXML namespace

2008-05-31 Thread Mark Volkmann
Why does nearly all MXML use the mx prefix to refer to elements in the MXML namespace instead of making that be the default namespace? When you make it the default, the MXML looks much cleaner.

[flexcoders] MXML schema

2008-05-31 Thread Mark Volkmann
Is there an official XML Schema for MXML? If so, where can I get it?

[flexcoders] problems with displacementmap filter

2008-05-31 Thread thekluito
Hi, i'm tryin' to flip an image using the displacementmap filter (I know I have other ways to ahieve the same results, but i really do need a BitmapFilter). I'm using a white-to-black gradient, but the closest I can get is with the following code: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application

[flexcoders] dataGrid and checkBox

2008-05-31 Thread Laila Towailib
*what is the best way to add a checkbox field to each row of a datagrid and read what is checked ? I really need this for my project.*

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
No. I just think that when it's the head of a rival technology company technology, it's different. Clearly, it's not the general view so there's no point in making more of it. I wouldn't have been been bothered. It seems I shouldn't be bothered anyway, it seems. Paul - Original Message

Re: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
Yes, you'll find a debate about that on the flashcoders forum! - Original Message - From: Alex Harui To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to convert a powerpoint to AS3 swf for loading in Flex? Yes, the output

Re: [flexcoders] The different between generial Flex 3 and Flex 3 Profesional?

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Andrews
oops too much red wine. I was going to say I wouldn't have been been bothered if it had been anyone but a senior MS guy. Don't worry about resurrecting this argument, I'm crawling back under my stone on this one. Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To:

[flexcoders] yoyo Tween Function in Flex?

2008-05-31 Thread Sherif Abdou
Is there a similiar function in flex like the flash tween yoyo(), basically all the yoyo() does in flash is it returns the target back to its original positions. Thanks.

re[flexcoders] presenting coordinates for use with a plot chart

2008-05-31 Thread cakey
I currently have a plot chart which pulls it's data from an array, within each element of that array is an 'x' and 'y' element which the chart uses as it;s x and y fields. However I need to manipulate this data, and in it's current format is is unwieldy to do this. The code needs to be able to

Re: [flexcoders] New to flex, wonder why one works and the other doesn't...

2008-05-31 Thread Joseph Balderson
This one was interesting, at first glance looks like it should work, until I actually tried it. Turns out TeatArea inherits from UIComponent, but it does not inherit from Container, which contain methods for adding and removing Flex children. So you cannot add an Image to a TextArea using