Hi guys
I'm in the process of choosing a new machine to be placed under my
christmas tree :). I wonder, if anybody has some experiences with 64
bit machines and FlexBuilder? Does it run at all? What is the
performance like? Does it make use of lots of RAM?
Cheers
Ralf.
Hi Tim,
In a nut shell I have rows of prices and timeslots like a timetable?
Each timeslot is represented by a checkbox which is either hidden or
shown.
Keep on hitting brick walls on this one!
Cheers,
Simon
On 15 Dec 2008, at 02:57, Tim Hoff wrote:
Hi Simon.
Depends on what you
displayGroup = new Group();
var source2 : comp.FlowerPower2 = new comp.FlowerPower2();
displayGroup.addItem(source2);
addItem(displayGroup);
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mic chigwel...@... wrote:
comp:FlowerPower2 id=image1 / from comp/FlowerPower2.fxg is the
MXML way of doing things
Awesome!! I've been trying to figure that out.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Mic chigwel...@yahoo.com wrote:
displayGroup = new Group();
var source2 : comp.FlowerPower2 = new comp.FlowerPower2();
displayGroup.addItem(source2);
addItem(displayGroup);
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Hello Jeff!
Thank you for your answer. We are using LCDS 2.6.1. and Flex SDK 3.2.
Best regards,
Taze
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Vroom jvr...@... wrote:
Are you running the released version of 2.6? There was a bug in
RTMPS in that version which is fixed in a hotfix or in 2.6.1
please guys am stuck. can someone please give an example of a cfc with
hard coded username and password and show how to hook it up to my
login form and authenticate the user so that if there is login success
the viewstack child changes to admin. pleaseee i have read
through all the
InsideRIA is looking for contributors to write or screen cast about their
experiences with Cocomo. If you are interested, please contact me at
rtret...@oreilly.com.
Thanks,
Rich Tretola
http://www.insideria.com
http://blog.everythingflex.com
Hello.
am vinu.
Need Help,
I am developing a Audio recorder Widget using FMS and Flex . The size
of the widget should be small.
But the problem is that when i access the mic. the flash player
settings window does not appear because of the small size of my Widget
. Any workaround to get mic
when creating an install you can include files which get dumped in the
application directory. then on first time startup you use the file api to
copy it over. no you should not write info in the application directory as
permissions can be an issue, but copying from there is pretty simple.
I have
On Sunday 14 Dec 2008, Jim Hayes wrote:
apollocod...@yahoogroups.com mailto:apollocoders%40yahoogroups.com
It's fairly quiet though.
Most recent posts for at least one reply, however.
I think it's just good signal-to-noise :-)
--
Tom Chiverton
Helping to assertively differentiate customized
On Friday 12 Dec 2008, michael_corbridge wrote:
Adobe AIR Installer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We
are sorry for the inconvenience.
If you get that running an app, could you be missing an update to the AIR
runtime ? It's meant to auto update, but maybe you need to give it a
Hi!
I am trying to use keyboard shortcuts within a Tab in my SuperTabNav.
The Problem is that I did not get the focus when I click into my
Tab-Component. The Tab is a VBox and implements the
mx.managers.IFocusManagerComponent.
Code looks something like this:
mx:VBox
If you're using flexbuilder to package, then probably the easiest way is
to check copy non embedded files to output folder in project |
properties | flex compiler,
But I find this to be a bit messy at times.
If not, then you can kind of cheat. When you publish your .air file, it
will offer you the
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ssudhaiyer ssudhai...@... wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to display a table that has the column header and the first
column as static data. Since I receive the data column wise, and there
is no sensible way to reformat the data row wise, is there anyway I
can use
That's a tough problem that I've had to deal with before. Here is what I
figured out.
- You widget MUST be 216 x 140 (some people will argue you can do 215
wide, but in my testing sometimes that causes issues)
- The main issue that you will run into is... When the player window is
My sandbox type is local-trusted. According to the Flash Security
white paper, local-trusted has *at least* the priviledges of
local-with-networking.
localWithNetwork: This SWF file is a local file and has not been
trusted by the user, but it was
published with a networking designation. This
I asked this in an earlier post, but hoping Alex can ask Mike Chambers
about the status of the Apollo + Command Proxy project he started.
Does anyone know if Command Proxy access is available in Adobe AIR?
When Mike created his project he said that he had hopes for command
proxy access, when
I have a button defined in Flex that passes a parameter to a function when
clicked
MX:Button id=someButton click=fooFunction(barParameter)/
But I want to know the id of the button that triggered the event whilst
executing fooFunction.
I know that if I register an event listener in AS then I can:
pass event to your function as well. It is of type MouseEvent and is
already available to the click parameter, just needs to be passed in
like this:
MX:Button id=someButton click=fooFunction(event,barParameter)/
tom s wrote:
I have a button defined in Flex that passes a parameter to a
I have a pretty complicated UI with 2-3 layers of tab-like navigation.
So imagine if you will, a top level menu of 3-4 items, and then under
each of those another submenu of a few items. I want to be able to
create an URL to point to one of those subitems. Is there any way to
do this in flex?
Check out:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Deep_Linking
Cheers,
Nate
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:53 AM, ozziegt osman.ul...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a pretty complicated UI with 2-3 layers of tab-like navigation.
So imagine if you will, a top level menu of 3-4
Ok, so do you want to show only one row for each price; with the
time-slots all shown in a certain column (labelFunction or custom
itemRenderer). Or, do you want to show a new row for each time-slot as
well (AdvancedDataGrid)?
-TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Simon Bailey si...@...
Yes. More RAM is necessary for Flex. At least 2 GB.
Best,
Ashish
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Behalf Of Darrin Kay
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 4:23 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] FlexBuilder on 64bit machine any
Hi,
I use flex builder in 64 bit Linux. it improve performance by twice
Strongly I suggest it. It crashes less than 32 bit and works faster.
Deniz
Ooooh Deniz, that sounds tempting.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Deniz Davutoglu d...@7ist.com wrote:
Hi,
I use flex builder in 64 bit Linux. it improve performance by twice
Strongly I suggest it. It crashes less than 32 bit and works faster.
Deniz
I find it hard to believe you have read through all the tutorials
concerning flex/cf authentication and they are not clear.
I do not know ColdFusion. I have never used ColdFusion. I use PHP.
Nevertheless, I downloaded and installed the Developer version of
ColdFusion 8.0.1.
I did a google search
I read what you say, but I don't know how to do that. How do I include
it as part of the install? How do I copy it over? Does the AIR install
include some sort of scripting?
Also, on doing more research, I have found that it is not wise to
include files that I am talking about in app-storage and
I am fairly new to Flex but have a reasonable amount of experience with
test-driven development in Java and .NET.
I have been told that test-driving Flex development is not possible. I am
not convinced as I have been told similar things on other projects in the
past and then proven that they are
Because the events are dispatched in the MainApp. Your BasePanel dont
receive the event.
Application
+ MainApp
+ BasePanel
The event is dispatched on the MainApp layer, so, even using bubbles you
wont get
Hmm, that normally works to stop those warnings. Maybe Flex is not
recognizing @title as XML.
One solution would be to pass the entire node into your custom component
and pull out the attribute in there. This has other advantages, such as
making the entire item available in a event handler
I feel kind of stupid asking this, but I have been beating my head
against the wall and I know I am missing something obvious.
I created a sample app here (you can view source on it):
http://osmanu.com/flex/UrlParams/UrlParams.html?foo=bar
You will notice there are no URL parameters being
Hey Tim,
Think I have cracked it (thanks to your earlier reply), so in response
to your questions it's the prior option and I opted for using a
labelFunction. I had constructed my ArrayCollection of time slots to
accommodate a second ArrayCollection, so its within the labelFunction
that
I've had pretty good luck with it so far -
I have it running on 3 different laptops and 1 desktop PC - ALL are
64-bit Operating Systems. I should say that 2 machines are running
Vista x64 and 2 are running XP x64 Edition.
One weird part when running on Vista (if you are using ColdFusion) is
On Monday 15 Dec 2008, stinasius wrote:
please guys am stuck. can someone please give an example of a cfc
Tracy already explained how to do it, and you didn't follow that advice.
Why would anyone else offer further help ?
--
Tom Chiverton
Helping to appropriately utilize eyeballs
Hi Everyone,
I try to build some app which use mxml compiler. in windows everything
is ok when I compile .as file with mxmlc it creates swf file, but in
Linux when I try to compile same .as file wit mxmlc it cast me error
command not found. I checked all permissions and ownership are ok.
Does
I don't believe Flash natively reads URL parameters from the browsers query
string.
However, here are a few ways you can do it:
- Write a javascript (or serverside) method that takes the browsers query
string and the passes them in as flashvars.
- You CAN add a query string directly to
I have a 64 bit laptop, and Flex builder runs as a 32bit app. It still runs
like a rock star but it does not take full advantage of the 64bit.
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ralf Bokelberg
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:01 AM
BasePanel uses another EventDispatcher instance which is inherit from
UIComponent.
So U can try
var basePanel:BasePanel = your BasePanel instance;
basePanel.dispatchEvent(ev);
instead
var dipsatcher:EventDispatcher = new EventDispatcher();
dispatcher.dispatchEvent(ev);
And U should have a
It looks like mxmlc is not in your path. Try running 'which mxmlc' from
a terminal--that will tell you where it is if it *is* in your path (and
just won't print anything if it isn't). If it's not, set your PATH=
$PATH:$FLEX_HOME/bin, where $FLEX_HOME is the full path to your Flex sdk
(e.g., if you
ar1 is a repeater. sorry, should have been more thorough with my example:
[Bindable] private var _areas:XMLList;
mx:Repeater id=ar1 dataProvider={_areas}
spr:SubsectionText text={XML(ar1.currentItem)@title} /
/mx:Repeater
nope, i don't care if any changes ever get
1. We use FlexUnit for our development (well, a tweaked version of
FlexUnit) and I'm in the process of adding FlexCover to that. We use
test first as a guiding principle when writing code.
2. Our general architecture and therefore designs are geared to helping
us test the business logic that is
Hi
i've a problem..anibody can help me?
i created this class:
public class CompleteEvent extends Event
{
private var array:ArrayCollection
public function CompleteEvent(type:String,
array:ArrayCollection)
{
Yes, as nate says. Remember, you are callling an *html* file. Html is
dumb unless you code in javascript. Here are some snippets that you can
add to the html wrapper that pass querystring parameers into Flex.
First, declare a variable to hold the params:
var _sPassedUrlParms = new
If you have a Text field with selectable text, it's possible to scroll the
content by clicking on the text and dragging downwards. This leaves (in one
simple case I've made) the top line of text obscured, and an apparent blank
line at the bottom.
Is there any way to prevent this without making
Well, the documentation sure says so:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/core/Application.html#parameters
I had it working with swfobject using the getQueryParamValue function
in JS. I think I my just stick with that, and use swfaddress for my
deep linking. Still would like to know
The state remains if the field does not contain an mxml bind. For
example, this droplist below will keep the same state after close.
I'm just wondering why the mxml binds come back in overpowering
whatever the user entered and how to stop it. Is it possible to
disconnect an mxml bind?
I think you're just misreading the documentation. It's exactly as I
described before:
There are two sources of parameters: the query string of the Application's
URL, and the value of the FlashVars HTML parameter (this affects only the
main Application).
Within the query string of the
That didn't come out how I wanted it to. Let's try again.
I can see how the documentation can be confusing. When they say, Within
the query string of the application's URL, they simply mean the URL
pointing to the flash file itself. (ex:
http://foobar.com/UrlParams.swf?foo=bar)
Yea, that's
This message may help:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/112989
HTH
Steve
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ozziegt osman.ul...@... wrote:
I feel kind of stupid asking this, but I have been beating my head
against the wall and I know I am missing something obvious.
I've run into this before. It appears to be a bug with leading. If you
set it to zero, this won't happen, but the lines of text will be a
little too close together. You can probably monkey patch it.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Michael Prescott
michael.r.presc...@... wrote:
If you have a
I don't believe you need to disconnect an mxml bind.
Here is a quick and dirty example:
main.mxml
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=vertical
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import customcomponents.MyForm;
You should be able to use BrowserManager instead of altering your HTML.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of valdhor
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:18 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Application.application.parameters
So uncomment that line or change it to return a known bindable variable and see
if the warning goes away. I would have thought the error would have @title
instead of title in it.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of stoff0
Sent: Monday, December
How much data do you really need to load in the tree? If it's only a
thousand or so records, while that may be a lot to some, it's fine to load
at once and forget lazy loading. If the data is sent to client via AMF then
the size over the wire isn't that big either, and most likely the additional
You can still use a command proxy architecture with Adobe AIR 1.5 in
the same way you could use it with previous versions of Adobe AIR.
It is just a proof of concept, so I havent really done any additional
work on it (besisde, c# / .net development is not much fun on Mac).
You can grab the
Typically, you want to test in local-trusted instead of local-with-networking
and use relative paths to all assets (and have those assets in the local
filesystem). Then when you deploy those files to a server in the same folder
configuration, everything should just work.
If you use an
Thank you both for your tips. I think I will just embed the SQL
statements into the application and not go through the hassles that
you both speak of. I think this will be cleaner from a deployment
perspective.
Jim
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jim Hayes j...@... wrote:
If you're using
HTTP session timeout at the server is the only sure-fire way to detect a client
has left. Catching Javascript events at the client and attempting to notify the
server may shortcut this process _when_ it works - but it provides no
guarantees that it will. Even if your Javascript is able to put a
Everyone,
Why is there a blue border shown when using a textarea and it has been
clicked on? To show it is in focus? Great, but why?
How can this be removed? No, switching to Gumbo is not an option.
How would you display a few paragraphs of text within you
applications? Dis the designers of
Hi Taze,
Do these errors only occur during the SSL handshake (you can look for
SSLHandshakeException in your stack traces)?
Are you using a CA certificate or a self-signed cert, and what algorithm, etc.?
Also, do you know if this is happening for connections from AIR clients running
on Windows,
selectable=false
-TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, cox.blair blair@... wrote:
Everyone,
Why is there a blue border shown when using a textarea and it has been
clicked on? To show it is in focus? Great, but why?
How can this be removed? No, switching to Gumbo is not an option.
Because.
Our design/usability folks think that is best.
You should use Text, not TextArea for non-editable text.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of cox.blair
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:41 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
Well there you go, I was using the wrong component. Thanks!
--
Blair
From: Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:45:56 -0800
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Conversation: [flexcoders] Textarea, why the blue
How could I use relative URLs when I am purposely loading from a
different domain. Again, I need to run the Application SWF from the
filesystem and load the module from http://localhost (or some other
domain).
As far as setting the SecurityDomain.currentDomain, I have tried doing
that, only to
One could hack around this by faking state, no? Have the client open a
socket to the server and the server can just manually heartbeat it so
that the connection is not dropped (the client of course must read off
and discard the heartbeats). We're doing this (and more along the same
lines) at
I have a date in a server in Australia: 22/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
I am using this label function for the grid to try and fix the time zone
issue but my date always comes back to me as 21/12/2008 in the datagrid. I
really just wan the exact date from the database regardless of where I am in
the
public var myXML:XML = new XML();
public var XML_URL:String = ../xml/FlowerPower4.fxg;
public var myXMLURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(XML_URL);
public var myLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(myXMLURL);
myLoader.addEventListener(complete, xmlLoaded);
private function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
I did this but I get error.Please help me.
this.parentApplication.parentApplication.currentState = 'test1'
Thanks
Mark
Thank you very much Maciek,
it realy sove my problem just with one exception you need to add :$PATH
in end of the line other wise it resets your entire path variables.
Correct : PATH=/usr/lib/Adobe_Flex_Builder/sdks/4.0/bin:$PATH;
wrong : PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/Adobe_Flex_Builder/sdks/4.0/bin;
Thanks for all the replies. Yeah I thought about it over lunch and it
occurred to me that I might only get the params when I reference the
.swf file directly. I think I will stick with my current
implementation using swfobject.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ozziegt osman.ul...@... wrote:
Thanks.
Since I am using swfobject, I am going to also use swfaddress, and
maybe use the wrapper to BrowserManager found here:
http://developer.iconara.net/objectlib/flex-browsermanager-swfaddress.html
My question now is whether or not there is a benefit in using
BrowserManager instead of using
We have had success in onBeforeUnload, make the final request, and
then in onUnload, create a 500ms loop in JS which gives the networking
layer enough time to put the request on the wire before the flash is
torn down.
This was for a logout call, and it worked pretty well except in Safari
(it
I was unclear you needed to load from different domains. I don't know how you
would get your current configuration to work when deployed over HTTP unless the
module and main swf were on the same domain, and in such a case, relative URLs
would be better.
I think you are caught in one of those
What error did you get?
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Mic
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 12:31 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Should I be able to load a .fxg file as XML?
public var myXML:XML = new XML();
public var
Checkout BrowserManager. You may want to use it elsewhere in your app.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of ozziegt
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 11:13 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Application.application.parameters
Both ways should work (unless you've got some supremely weird shell).
One way prepends the sdk bin directory to the path, the other appends it
(so, for example, if you already had another executable named mxmlc in
your path, the first would pick the Flex mxmlc, and the other would use
the existing
Hi all,
I have an application which uses resource bundles to change the languages
dynamically.
I'm having issues with special characters in the French language like ê ç etc
showing up as empty little square boxes.
I have seen an example where the characters ç are entered in a resource
I had a similar behavior but it cleared up after I verified that the target
system had a font installed that could display the accented characters.
- Ivo
From: Wildbore, Brendon b.j.wildb...@massey.ac.nz
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Just as an FYI, I am using that binding syntax in many places without
any warnings.
Oh, and in case it has not been said you cannot bind to an XMLList.
This will not work:
[Bindable] private var _areas:XMLList;
Make it an XMLListCollection.
Tracy
Pass the date as a string.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Paul Kukiel
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:17 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.
I have a
Hi All
I am working on change password option for the user, I am reading
password content from external XML Files and then depending upon the
added value I need to overwrite the external XML's files passsword
entry. I am using following code for changing it but it is not
working, My XML file is in
I'm working on timezone support within flash that I'm going to release as
open source very soon. I'll update this thread when I do.
But Tracy is right, you can always just pass a string from the server.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote:
Pass the date
Hi Gregor,
I've recently started to implement FlexUnit myself (not tweaked yet, but it
will be) - I'd like to hear about your experiences with FlexCover when
you've played with it a bit, as I'm interested in adding it to my workflow
but the documentation is a little lacking I think. Any chance
Im not 100% sure, but I don't believe flex can write to the server directly.
You will most likely have to employ a server side http service to achieve this.
Also if you are going to be storing sensitive info in an xml file, you should
encrypt the passwords and security answers
My colleague is hitting an OutOfMemory error when building an
application library with compc from ant. We've previously had to set the
fork attribute to true (as suggested here and there for OutOfMemory
errors) and set the maxmemory attribute to 512m. However, now he's
getting the error again, and
Don't call new EventDispatcher(), it won't be any real use. The main
reason you would want to create an instance of EventDispatcher itself is
when you're building a class that is an IEventDispatcher, but inherits from
a base class that is not an IEventDispatcher, because we don't have multiple
Hi Brendon
We are working on the encryption part but do you think it is not possible to
overwrite stuff on server with Flex. If thats the case i have used amfPHP
for tarnsferring data to server, then do you think amfPHP is the only option
i left with I guess right.
Any other guidance will be
Hi Anuj,
All the investigation I have done points to it not being possible in flex
(non-air flex). So amfPHP is a logical option for you, especially if you have
already had experience with it.
Cheers
Brendon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Hi Ivo,
Thanks for that. I can confirm that the system I am testing on can display the
characters, but for some reason is not when I pull it from the resource
bundle... it's a real puzzler.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Wildbore, Brendon wrote:
Thanks for that. I can confirm that the system I am testing on can
display the characters, but for some reason is not when I pull it from
the resource bundle… it’s a real puzzler.
when you open the rb in notepad or whatever, can you read the text? btw the rb
You're awesome! Thanks a bunch... I had tried to change the encoding previously
but it worked this time...
I just needed to retype the text with the accents.
Thanks again
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, markflex2007 markflex2...@...
wrote:
I did this but I get error.Please help me.
this.parentApplication.parentApplication.currentState = 'test1'
http://www.magnoliamultimedia.com/flex_examples/Amys_Flex_FAQ.pdf
Q3
Thanks Tracy,
I knew I was going to get this answer. I already got this working
with strings as a test sample looks like I have to convert the rest
of the app. Surely others are feeling my pain with this issue.
And Nate I look forward to seeing what you have come up with when its
Why does Flex do this?
If I get a date out of the db and want to deal with it as a date, surely
this should be possible. How can the flash player determine it needs to
change it to a different date.
There must be some other option rather than converting to a string.
Regards
Dale
I've had a fair bit of experience wrestling date problems in Flex; Aside
from the fact that SchemaManager marshalls xsi:Date as Zulu time instead of
local (which isn't technically incorrect, just annoying as hell for us
aussies), every time there's a problem it's because Flex is doing the right
I'm trying to get my blog on adobe feeds.
I've submitted my blog to the feed (19nates.com) and received an e-mail from
adobe that
says Your site has been added to Adobe Feeds: http://feeds.adobe.com;.
I click on my ping link and I get flerror 0 message Thanks for pinging MXNA!.
When I try
I guess I really don't understand what the problem is here?? I have a
smalldatetime (or a datetime) in a MSSQL database. I setup a value object in
AS to have the date field as a Date object. I go get the date from
ColdFusion using RemoteObject. The cfc sets up a CF value object with the
date as a
If you're in the US, you're unlikely to run up against these issues at all.
The problem is, computers think about dates and times attached to timezones,
but most of the time our clients do not. That and Flash has no date-only
object, whereas people want to use dates instead of datetimes all over
Here's what it comes down to...
The Date class in flash doesn't natively allow you to have a timezone other
than your local timezone and UTC.
Take this example (my computer is in PST time):
var myDate:Date = new Date(Mon Dec 15 12:00:00 GMT-0400 2008);
trace(myDate.toString());
The problem is that somehow.
If the server serving that date is in a different location to you, flash
player says, well I wont show that date I just got from the database, I'll
adjust it to your time. This is totally useless, so for example if Im
logging actions in an audit, the date in those
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