Re: [flexcoders] XMLListCollection DataGrid Performance vs Any Other DataProvider Type

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
I don’t know of any links off-hand. I would simply create a class with the set of properties you are interested in, then take the XML and parse it into instances of that class. You can try to get XMLDecoder to do it, but sometimes it is more efficient just to write your own converter. On

Re: [flexcoders] [FB4] Creating a simple Sprite inside a Component

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
It depends. Just like in Flex 3, there are some “rules” to being a child component in the Flex framework and Wprites are generally too low-level to be used everywhere. There is documentation and examples on writing a custom component and various methods you have to implement to get the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
Global exception handling is in FP 10.1 and AIR 2.0. There should be better printing APIs in AIR 2.0 as well. These new features are not leveraged in the Flex framework because they were not committed until too late in our schedule for Flex 4.0, but they were committed before Jobs starting

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread mitek17
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-444 Created: 06/21/07 03:43 PM Is it already available? 10.1 is still pre-release beta with no API available for GEH. Almost 3 years...And counting. Printing improvements in Flex 4? Well, we have to trasnform 300 000 lines of code into Flex 4 first to

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 29 Apr 2010 21:08:42 you wrote: Hi, I want to share this (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) with the people who hasn't read it before and maybe read your comments on this topic. /me puts down his smart phone with a full Flash player with great performance That

[flexcoders] Re: Prevent number splitting into two lines when using space as thousand separator

2010-04-30 Thread Jukka
Hey, thanks. Thought everything (even making my own custom logic for checking if the values are higher than 999) but this. :D So adding numberformatter.thousandsSeparatorTo = #xA0;; instead of thousandsSeparatorTo = ; did the trick. :) Thanks again. :) Cheers, Jukka --- In

[flexcoders] setters on my repeated custom component fire twice

2010-04-30 Thread chuckjr
I am using a repeater to display thumbnails. The repeated component is a custom component includes a setter for the image property. When the setter runs, it loads an external image. The problem is that when I change the repeater's data provider, it appears that the setters for the images fire

[flexcoders] Re: XMLListCollection DataGrid Performance vs Any Other DataProvider Type

2010-04-30 Thread jamesfin
This code will convert for you... You need to replace the xmllist.myxmldata with your own xml structure names. private function convertXmlToArrayCollection( myxml:String ):ArrayCollection { var xml:XMLDocument = new XMLDocument(

[flexcoders] Re: Binding and square brackets

2010-04-30 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Richard Rodseth rrods...@... wrote: I'm interested in getting rid of Data binding will not be able to detect changes when using square bracket operator without introducing an ArrayCollection. The view displays data for the seven days of the week. Not using

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Battershall, Jeff
Mike, Adobe get cracking - are you kidding me They've just released a slew of new products in the last two months; they're nearly done on FP 10.1, Air 2.0, and forged an important alliance with Google. What more do you want them to do before you can say they've gotten cracking? Jeff

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, mitek17 mite...@... wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Seth Caldwell wiz@ wrote: Steve is employing several tactics used by politicians. The iphone is not open. iPhone is a device, not a technology. Technology should be open, device

[flexcoders] Re: setters on my repeated custom component fire twice

2010-04-30 Thread chuckjr
I forgot to say that I'm using Flex Builder 3.

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread PFD Studio
The talk about openness is completely disingenuous. Flash/Flex/ActionScript is vastly more open than any of the relevant Apple technologies. Moreover, what Jobs really wants is for Quicktime to be the video technology of choice. I believe Apple will eventually have to cave to market pressure

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Binding and square brackets

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Rodseth
without introducing an ArrayCollection The data is an array and always changes atomically. Wrapping it in an ArrayCollection is certainly one option. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
There are no printing improvements in Flex 4. AIR 2.0 supposedly has some new APIs you can use instead of our print code and it might have landed in 10.1 but I haven’t verified. GEH is doc’d here:

Re: [flexcoders] RobotLegs Framework

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Lapasa
I can testify, robotlegs is pretty good coming from 2yrs+ of doing Cairngorm. A lot less boiler plate code that's for sure. Dependency Injection for mock objects makes it great for the devs on my team to develop views when the service layer is not quite ready yet. Give the best practices a good

[flexcoders] How to do the majic of scrolling?

2010-04-30 Thread Wally Kolcz
I want the contents of the main Application to scroll Vertically so I can have an extra long web site. I added a scroller to the content area of an Application Skin and I see the application...but despite putting 3 containers that exceed the height of my laptop, the scroller is grayed out. Any

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Wally Kolcz
I get it, Steve, no Flash on iWhatever...now just shut up.. My job and life will move right along. Wasn't he supposed to be dead by now or something...or did he replace his cancer with a iBodyPart...what a douche. On 4/30/2010 11:50 AM, PFD Studio wrote: The talk about openness is

Re: [flexcoders] How to do the majic of scrolling?

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Harui
Try setting minHeight=”0” on the scroller On 4/30/10 12:14 PM, Wally Kolcz wko...@isavepets.com wrote: I want the contents of the main Application to scroll Vertically so I can have an extra long web site. I added a scroller to the content area of an Application Skin and I see the

[flexcoders] Flashbuilder hang loading workbench

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Rodseth
Not a good way to end the week. FlashBuilder hangs loading the workbench. Spinning beach ball, must Force Quit. Is there some cache I can delete to get up and running again? I saw a similar post on the flex forums from a few days ago, but no one has responded.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
Oh dude, come on, that's low. Either agree or disagree with what he says (I agree with most of it - HTML5 et al can replace the need for a lot of what Flash often does, and it's support is growing and standards are good for all of us) but don't make it personal. Guy On 01/05/2010, at 5:17

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 30/04/2010, at 6:22 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 29 Apr 2010 21:08:42 you wrote: Hi, I want to share this (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) with the people who hasn't read it before and maybe read your comments on this topic. /me puts down his smart

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 1:50 AM, PFD Studio wrote: The talk about openness is completely disingenuous. Flash/Flex/ActionScript is vastly more open than any of the relevant Apple technologies. How do you figure that HTML5 is less open than Flash? Moreover, what Jobs really wants is for

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 30/04/2010, at 12:10 PM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: I've got this same link from my friend, and it's funny how it serves the facts... well, flash was in fact the first to use h.264 codec for video on the web (could be that some other existed before, but the HTML5 wasn't the first, that's

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Oleg Sivokon
mitek17 This is just a thought regarding matrix transformation applied to visual components in flex framework. Firstly, you cannot make it bindable, but not so fast... I find i perfect! Trying to animate flex components and make it smooth is a pain, especially because of binding and all the extra

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 30/04/2010, at 7:50 AM, Seth Caldwell wrote: Steve is employing several tactics used by politicians. The iphone is not “open”. Their app store is a money making machine and they guard it fiercely. If their web browser was able to deliver flash content, there would be no need to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 11:37 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: Guy Morton. I've said that before, he is not wrong, he's just serving the facts in a way that will most likely give you a wrong impression. He never says that h.264 codec is proprietary, but after reading what he says you may think it

[flexcoders] MS - The future of the web is HTML 5

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-weighs-in-the-future-of-the-web-is-html5/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx So, I wonder if the Steve/Apple bashing will now move on to MS-bashing? I'm guessing not... Reposted here for posterity, from

Re: [flexcoders] MS - The future of the web is HTML 5

2010-04-30 Thread David Adams
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-weighs-in-the-future-of-the-web-is-html5/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx So, I wonder if the Steve/Apple bashing will now move on to

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Guy Morton Oh, I haven't seen your previous reply. Sorry. AS3 and h.246 codec support were available in 2005... just so you know. Also, there's a free version of Visual Studio (which I like and use a lot, and the same way you can say that MS development tools are free), however, this wasn't my

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
I think you are blurring the boundaries between networked applications and web applications. Web applications run in a web browser and ideally use web standards to make their content 100% interoperable on different devices and platforms. That's a foundational idea of the web, after all.

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Amy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton g...@... wrote: Oh dude, come on, that's low. Either agree or disagree with what he says (I agree with most of it - HTML5 et al can replace the need for a lot of what Flash often does, and it's support is growing and standards are good for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Angelo Anolin
Just my 2 cents. The way I see it, I'd rather focus on creating better, bigger and greater applications with Adobe/Flex which my users/customers will love rather than sulk in a corner because some guy is imposing his stupidity on what I can provide. From:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: XMLListCollection DataGrid Performance vs Any Other DataProvider Type

2010-04-30 Thread Angelo Anolin
I know a bit of converting my XML data into array collection which I can use as DP for my data-based controls. I want to get some good examples on what Alex posted to convert the xmllistcollection to class instances. I was just thinking cause, xmllistcollection can be definitely bound as a