[flexcoders] Resize Text Area Control

2008-08-30 Thread litesh_b321
Hi Guys I want to resize the height of text area control as per the length of text dynamically. how i can do it ??? PlZ Help me out ThanX

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Datagrid item render tooltip issue

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Harui
I'm sorry you are leaving. If you had followed my recommendation and used the datatip mechanism, then I would have a much better idea of any problems you ran into, and in theory, you would have found that your custom class would be instantiated for every renderer regardless of the length of

RE: [flexcoders] Resize Text Area Control

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Harui
Fix the width, ask for the measuredHeight. You may have to use callLater in between. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of litesh_b321 Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 11:31 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Resize Text Area Control Hi

[flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
Hi all, I reopen this discussion because i got a case where i need to use vertical scrollbars from the explorer, i tried adding body { margin: 0px; overflow-x:hidden; overflow-y:scroll; } to the html, but then the scrollbar appears, but can't use. we are trying to avoid using the flex

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread Howard Fore
I'm having a hard time following your explanation of which scrollbar comes from where (And I've had my own scroll issues), but have you thought about modifying the html-template file to use HTML frames (or an iFrame) so the center frame/iframe would have the Flex app and the scroll bars? On Sat,

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Andrews
I think the OP needs scrollbars at the side of the design because the flex app is centered and floating inside the html page. Adding a scrollbar to the flex would have the scrollbar in the page and spoiling the design aesthetic. I guess the designer has a html background to match the design of

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
yah, its like that, the page is in the middle of the spaceand have some kind of shadows on the both sides. If i put scrollbars there design will broke. so i'm trying to find a way to put standard explorer scrollbar, i made them appear, but, they dont seem to work with flash content.

Re: [flexcoders] How do I make sure container's child components have applied new style before ImageSnapshot?

2008-08-30 Thread Ian M. Jones
Thanks Alex for your response. I tried all kinds of combinations of capturing the updateComplete event on different components as well as chaining callLaters with checking of properties etc, but couldn't get it to work without side effects. Eventually I found that all I needed to do was

[flexcoders] Re: Drawing shapes with holes and applyng them as mask in AS3

2008-08-30 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, gabriela.perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Troy. It works if I apply it as a circle or a rectangle... What I need is a rectangle with a hole in the middle. If you set a solid fill, then draw a rectangle, then drwa a circle, then put it on the stage

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
i will look for a solution to put scroll bars inside the app changing the design a little...sorry for designer :P thnx to everyone anyway :) - Mensaje original De: David Pariente [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Enviado: sábado, 30 de agosto, 2008 14:37:34 Asunto:

Re: [flexcoders] Drawing shapes with holes and applyng them as mask in AS3

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: gabriela.perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 3:45 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Drawing shapes with holes and applyng them as mask in AS3 Hi there. Im trying to make something that will sound very familiar to

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Andrews
David, Your designer may be able to force the scrollbars by adding an unobtrusive design element to the html (long one pixel wide image, or some CSS) to make the scrollbars operate. Paul - Original Message - From: David Pariente To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Andrews
Mission accomplished. Use this: style body {overflow:visible; height:1500px } /style In your html template for the project. Adapt to suit. Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:52 PM Subject: Re:

[flexcoders] Printing Problems

2008-08-30 Thread donvoltz
Would anyone be able to tell me why the following code creates a blank page. I am using Flex 3 on Mac OS 10.5 I am able to add the custom printing compoent to the application, the print dialog opens and it looks to be processing the print, however, I am left with 2 blank pages when it is done. In

Re: [flexcoders] Flex scheduling framework

2008-08-30 Thread Alan
I also have been curious about the framework - my impression is that it has been 'lead out to pasture' . Perhaps it's become obsolete or there isn't any demand for it. No doubt the Flex team is over-burdened ( what dev team isn't ) and working on more pressing issues. Maybe Adobe's

Re: [flexcoders] Flex scheduling framework

2008-08-30 Thread Vivian Richard
I agree with you in the point that Flex team is over-burdened and kind of abandoned the frame work. But I can guarantee this framework cannot be obsolete in the sense that there is a great demand for it. If you take a look at old emails you will be able to see that there are many

[flexcoders] What is the best way to measure htmlText at run time?

2008-08-30 Thread Aaron Miller
Hello, I have to create Text components at run time and assign some content to it's htmlText. I'm trying to figure out the best way to measure the content's height, but so far have not been very good at it. Ideally, I would like to use the same method Flex uses when the Text component is

[flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-30 Thread aceoohay
I found a little more information. This undesireable feature, aka bug manifests itself only if you make the combobox editable. I removed the editable=true and the problem goes away. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since creating a test case would be

[flexcoders] Flash skin for DataGrid sort arrow doesn't flip when sort order changes

2008-08-30 Thread rachelmaxim
Hello I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this and might know why it happens and how to fix it :) I skinned a DataGrid with Flash using the templates provided with Flash CS3. When I use that skin, the sort arrow in the Data Grid Header doesn't flip upside down when the sort order of the

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
I apologize to you Alex. You seem level headed, and I agree, after reading some of the things I have, perhaps it was perceived as Fire and Brimstone. One sure fact is, I've spent 3 years developing my own eCommerce Platform based on FLEX and an XML storage repository. To see the press

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
Alex, I appreciated your post. It was helpful. There have been others that have sent me a nice reply saying that it is good to keep any eye out, and for those that look into Scene7, they can make their own conclusions. I appreciated your time and post and thanked you. I wouldn't demand

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
I agree. Let's see what happens. Everyone here is an individual that can judge for themselves. I myself and quite concerned. I hope to be more informed than the Press Releases, White-paper and list of Clients already served by Adobe with a solution akin to the Hybrid or Flex Store and

RE: [flexcoders] What is the best way to measure htmlText at run time?

2008-08-30 Thread Jim Hayes
I seem to remember having some case where a textArea would not update it's size measurements until it was validated . I may well be wrong about this, but try : private function onUpdateComplete(): void { idContentText.validateNow(); trace('HTMLContentBox.onUpdateComplete:

[flexcoders] Want to build a SWF on the fly when someone requests it

2008-08-30 Thread kuntamayu
From my flex project, I want to create a swf file on fly - to save clients' data . Clients' data may contains Image, Text, Video, Audio and web link. How to save this data in a swf file at server side. ( We are using java for server side code ) Waiting for reply.

RE: [flexcoders] Using view stack to link to mxml

2008-08-30 Thread Pankaj Arora
Yes they are completely different swf files( there are 4 of them in total). One of them is main.swf which has few text boxes and buttons. On clicking button 1 hello2. swf is loaded and it access all the information from main.swf and similarly on clicking button2 another swf file hello2.swf is

[flexcoders] Re: Flash skin for DataGrid sort arrow doesn't flip when sort order changes

2008-08-30 Thread rachelmaxim
I seem to have solved the problem by exporting the arrow artwork as its own swf and then using that as the sort arrow skin, not sure why it won't work as part of the template though!

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a different way to look at this. Right now, Flash is still just and on-line technology in the view of most people. Even though AIR does a lot of things, people still don't think it is very important. Similar problem that Microsoft had with VB being considered only a desktop tech and

Re: [flexcoders] Using view stack to link to mxml

2008-08-30 Thread Pedro Sena
Pankaj, Do you have control (can alter the source) of all those swfs? I would recomend you to manipulate those swf files as flex modules instead of put all of them in yout html. That way you can easily send/receive data between them AND have the advantage to load them just when you need it, what

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C There is a different way to look at

[flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
Hi all, I wanna put an icon over a panel title, on the right side. I tried and tried, but it seems like the panel title allways get over my icon, even i put icon inside a canvas, add it from outside the panel element...seems nothing i try brings my icon over it :( If is impossible to do

Re: [flexcoders] Vertical Scroll Bar in Browser, can be done?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
I wish i could know the size in pixels of the pagebutit changes with the content. Is ok, i convinced designer to change design a little and use flex scrollbars :) Hope i don't have to make designer change too many things...:) thnx for the help :) - Mensaje original De: Paul

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
Have you tried bringing the index up of the Icon, so doing setChildIndex(name,int) - Original Message - From: David Pariente To: flexcoders Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title? Hi all, I wanna put an icon over a

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
oh, didn't know something like that existed... ...i thought that was a tab index...not a depth index... i will try :) thnx a lot - Mensaje original De: Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Enviado: domingo, 31 de agosto, 2008 1:33:39 Asunto: Re: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
ya to bring it to the top just do setChildIndex(nameOfIcon, numChildren-1); and do it somewhere so it is always up top like updateDisplayList or layoutChrome - Original Message - From: David Pariente To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:53 PM

Re: [flexcoders] Want to build a SWF on the fly when someone requests it

2008-08-30 Thread Toby Ashley
You'd most likely be better off storing your users' data / choices as XML or something, then build a SWF which can read in that XML and load / display the relevant text / video / audio / links / whatever. Rather than creating one SWF for each user, just create one SWF and pass it different XML for

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
mmm does it exists a setChildIndex function somewhere? i couldn't find it :( is it called something else? - Mensaje original De: Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Enviado: domingo, 31 de agosto, 2008 1:33:39 Asunto: Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
Oh sorry, it took me a while to find information on that method... Actually, if i add the icon child after the panel child, the icon should be already have a higher child number, right?? because i allways add them at the laschild position. So the icon should already be on the last child

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
ok try doing this or you can post some code. So override the layoutchrome method call the super function on it and in that method positon your icon and do the setChildIndex(icon, int). Now About the icon being the lastChild like you said, it depends where you created the icon. Did you override

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
mmm...i have no idea about overriding methods...but makes me so scared just to listen it :S i will post the code... if it's difficult i think i will better make a bitmap that looks like a panel...or something easier... this is the part of code, with the panel and the icon: mx:State

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
O i see what your doing, it wont work this way what you need to do is New ActionScript file, Extend the Panel and work from there, doing things in mxml isnt gona work for what you want. If you want post ur code on vadexFX.com and i'll help you there since posting code on mailing list is a pain.

[flexcoders] Re: Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread rachelmaxim
You're going to need to extend the Panel class to add the icon to the header. It's not as difficult as it sounds, check out this example as a starting point: http://dougr.net/?p=160 hth -Rachel --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, David Pariente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I wanna put

[flexcoders] Re: flex interface with coldfusion

2008-08-30 Thread rachelmaxim
All the suggestions made by other commenters are correct... to elaborate on that... You're going to want to write CFCs (ColdFusion components) with methods whose access attributes are remote. This exposes your CFCs to Flex. Then you can use the Flex RPC components to call the CFC. The easiest

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread David Pariente
mmm i saw some coding doing that on google... i think it will be easier for me just using some bitmaps, instead of a panel, as i actually don't need much from that panel. it's a pity that we cannot easily add content ANYWHERE as if there where layers (with canvas for example) :( maybe i try

Re: [flexcoders] Image over a panel title?

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
if you want then download the flex 4 sdk and use the new API in there. It does the same thing as degrafa and you can be one step ahead ;) - Original Message - From: David Pariente To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders]

[flexcoders] text markup - please help

2008-08-30 Thread natjai
Hello, I have a text paragraph (dynamic content) which contain certain words (need to be underlined) that need to respond to mouseover (or click) that pops open a datagrid/list. I can imagine constructing the paragraph with bunch of dynamically positioned textfields (some of which) that

[flexcoders] Anybody found a workaround for this compiler bug?

2008-08-30 Thread Kevin Benz
This is sapping our productivity and wondered if anybody had seen this or had any ideas? I certainly see the association with Font rendering as the obvious first instinct would be to question the font file however with two machines seeing the same behavior, a wider look seems appropriate. There is

Re: [flexcoders] text markup - please help

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
I do not think you can do that with the current Flash Player 9 but maybe with 10. There were a couple of threads a while ago about the same thing and there wasn't a real solution on this but I might be imagining things and be wrong. - Original Message - From: natjai To:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flex interface with coldfusion

2008-08-30 Thread Alan
cough As long as you don't have a mac ( reference to Coldfusion Application wizard not being supported on mac ) sigh Alan On Aug 30, 2008, at 9:19 PM, rachelmaxim wrote: There are many tutorials on Adobe's website that show the basics of using Flex and ColdFusion together.

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
I like you're opinion. Except the part about IBM and Microsoft developing similarly. I'm not a Microsoft lover, but I used to be, long story. But since I've recovered from the Ballmer dance most seen on YouTube, I kind of like them now. I've done 4 ASP.Net projects, and 2 very large

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
Actually the rumor was and may still be that Apple will buy Adobe. Now that would be good news to me. Steven Jobs is the one figure I've been following since I was a kid. Out of all the CEO's from the old Borland, to Microsoft, to Zinc (when AOL was a little DOS app.), he seems to be the

[flexcoders] Adobe has no love for Mac users?

2008-08-30 Thread Alan
So.. I'm all excited about integrating Flex and Coldfusion, only to find out there are features that don't exist on the mac. So far I've found Flex / Coldfusion Project set up is not supprted Coldfusion query builder For the love of God why? Alan

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Sherif Abdou
Apple will not buy Adobe, Microsoft would not let it without a fight and $22.7 billion is a big chunk of change and that's just the market cap now add a premium and they are looking at $30billion, that's amost 20% of Apple's market cap. Also, I really don't want them to ruin everything, i dont

Re: [flexcoders] OpenLaszlo.org supports Flex, Silverlight, AJAX, soon Quicktime, and also DHTML and W3C

2008-08-30 Thread Robert Thompson
I agree, I doubt it would happen, and MS isn't very successful at buying out large companies due to perceived risk of getting into a Sherman Act type of thing again. I'd rather Apple not also, I'm abandoning Adobe unless I hear something different. If I can't get my money back from

[flexcoders] Restraining chart as Module within a Panel

2008-08-30 Thread Mic
I have a canvas with 4 panels inside it. Each panel takes up a quarter of the canvas. When I populate the panels with modules that are charts, the modules are not constrained within the outer containers - the panels, but each chart module fills almost the whole canvas. How do I get the modules to

RE: [flexcoders] Printing Problems

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Harui
I'm surprised you aren't getting an error or warning in the console. I think the use of callLater doesn't work during a printjob and the job might eventually timeout (see Flash Player's printing classes for timeout limits). Usually, all external data needs to be pre-loaded and the whole print

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Harui
If you override keyDownHandler, you shouldn't need to call addEventListener since the base class will. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler

RE: [flexcoders] text markup - please help

2008-08-30 Thread Alex Harui
You can use html markup. See flash.text.TextField for the subset of html tags it uses. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherif Abdou Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:52 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] text markup - please help