[flexcoders] AIR write file - prepended with irregular character

I am creating XML files to File.applicationStorageDirectory and the file gets created without error. Unfortunately there is an irregular character at the beginning of the file contents which does not exist in the XML. How can I prevent this ? òOpenShipments xmlns=x-schema:OpenShipments.xdr

[flexcoders] scriptTimeOut limit

I set the scriptTimeLimit to 120 but it is being ignored - Is there no way to override the 60 second limit ?

[flexcoders] Yesterday's Adobe PR on Flash Indexing for Google

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/? ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20080630006649newsLang=en

Re: [flexcoders] Need array example

= event.currentTarget if(obj.text == something){ myModel[obj.id] = obj.text } } Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 Chilcoat, Dee wrote: I need an example of copying fields in an array

[flexcoders] Adding Components from other Projects

I have a small app (A) that uses Flash Vars to control various display properties. These Vars are passed in via the URL and PHP. Its designed as a small portal to be embedded into clients' web pages. I want to build a style explore type app (B) to allow users to select a style of app A - view it

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thinking about going to the dark side....Apple Mac Book

At the risk of firing up this debate to a frenzy, what about runing macOSX on a PC box ? http://www.psystar.com/ Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 David Pariente wrote: Well, i

Re: [flexcoders] What do you use to print reports?

is to generate the reports in HTML, but it´s far from good for printing. What do you use for showing and printing reports? Guilherme Stiebler -- Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC

[flexcoders] Re: on the fly XML string change and keep CDATA wraps....

I think I use escapes to successfully build the CDATA wrapper for text like so. !\[CDATA\[ + new text + \]\] --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The compiler is still recognizing the cdata tags. Try: xml.info.circleText = ![CDATA[ + new text + ] + ]

[flexcoders] Update all ItemRenderers in TileList

I have a TileList with itemRenders for which I would like to update the toolTips dynamically. After the list is displayed related data is retrieved at which time I would like to trigger an updateDisplayList for each of the IR. Resizing the the application window triggers the update but what's

[flexcoders] Set Style of default itemEditor

I am using the default TextInput itemEditor for a data grid and not having much luck changing its style. Currently its inheriting the text color from its parent (titleWindow) which is #ff. I have tried event.currentTarget.editedItemRenderer.setStyle(color,#00); and...

Re: [flexcoders] Re: GIS and Flex

it in the UI. Thanks Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it on http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups -- Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com

[flexcoders] Persistent Shared Object

){ trace(o+'='+adminSO.data[o]) // returns [object Object]=undefined } } What am I missing here ? - this same method has worked great in another project Thanks -- Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and PHP Issue. Please help!!!

then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] Circle Canvas

help me... -- Thanks Regards Swaminathan. M -- Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] An ArrayCollection question ?

=shopping Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- Ben Marchbanks

Re: [flexcoders] An ArrayCollection question ?

Try, Alert.show(acDept[i].DeptID.toString()); Ben Marchbanks ::: magazooms ::: digital publishers, taking print beyond paper.. http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 markflex2007 wrote: Hi, I have a ArrayCollection acDept that saved the data passed from coldfusion

Re: [flexcoders] Upload with parameters

anyone else experienced something similar to this? Thanks in advance, Fidel. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] question on text encoding

is we have UTF8 encoding for the project, and sometimes text appears as a black rectangle. Ideally I would like to run a function at focusOut that would confirm .text. Thanks for your time Jeff -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http

[flexcoders] SWF sound continues to run after display object removed ??

Using FB2 - I am loading a SWFloader with swf file provided by various clients - since we have no control over how these are produced there is no option to use localConnection to control these SWF. These are simple animations, many with sound. I understand there are methods available if the files

Re: [flexcoders] Problem sending swedish characters from flex to php (amfphp)

into php and to Flex also works like a charm. Im guessing its something to do with my phpenconding when recieving the characters from Flex or something with amfphp. Any ideas would be greatly appreaciated. Btw, im using Flex2/3, Amfphp 1.9beta2, and a mySQL db. /Eric -- Ben Marchbanks

[flexcoders] Tilelist scrolling out of control during D/D !

the scrolling from going to all the way up or down - hence there is no drop to any row other than the first or the last. Okay - what am I doing wrong here - any ideas ? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital

Re: [flexcoders] Problem reading German characters from XML

received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

[flexcoders] magnifying glass component

Anybody know if there is a flex magnifier/zoom component available ? I am looking to produce a magnifying glass effect similar to this flash version http://www.usflashmap.com/component/flash_magnifying_glass.htm

[flexcoders] Trouble with try/catch for loader error

I am using Ely' SuperImage with the preload to cache feature. I am having some through with loading one set of images to the cache and not having much luck trapping the error. The following try/catch is totally ignored - what am I doing wrong ? here's a snippet

Re: [flexcoders] SVG and CSS Styles

obvious I'm overlooking. Anyone have a simple example of how to apply a style to an element of an SVG graphic in Flex? -Matt -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com

[flexcoders] [SOLVED] TileList drag/drop error yet again

the duplication the tileList performs totally as expected. Thanks for the keen eye Alex ! Alex Harui wrote: can you post a test case? *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ben Marchbanks

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for component to generate PDF files

component must run on the client, which eliminates server-based solutions like Apache FOP. It must represent the graphics as vector elements. An image of the graphics is not acceptable as it will be coarse and pixellated when the user zooms in. Thank you. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy

Re: [flexcoders] How do you get the Event.COMPLETE to work with Ely's SuperImage?

? Any thoughts? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

[flexcoders] TileList drag/drop error yet again

I'm back with the same tileList D/D error I reported earlier only this time I am using AC as the dataProvider per recommendations (Alex) - error message is the same dropIndicator.x = cc listItems[rowNum].length listItems[rowNum][colNum] ? listItems[rowNum][colNum].x : colNum * columnWidth;

Re: [flexcoders] TitleWindow and Open/Close Effect

an effect run when I open and close a TitleWindow. I set the showEffect/hideEffect but nothing happens. Is this the wrong effect property for open and closing a window? If so what effect property should I use ... or how can I do this? tks -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Preserving History when leaving and returning to Flex

. Note: one workaround to this would be to open a new window by using _blank for the target of NavigateToURL(), but in my scenario this is undesirable. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital

[flexcoders] FlexBook anyone ?

resizing the book is not a problem, however any resizing performed after initializing really destroys the page caching . Pages appear and disappear during page tease / turns events and general page mayhem breaks out ! Anyone with FlexBook experience ?? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

[flexcoders] SOLVED Re: FlexBook anyone ?

Once I changed the calculated resize of the book to an [integer] instead of a [number] all the children began to play together nicely ! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ben Marchbanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to implement the animated book from Quietly Scheming and have been

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Viewstack problems

. mx:Model id=myModel record FirstName{myDataSource.FirstName}/FirstName /record /mx:Model Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 johantrax wrote

[flexcoders] Traverse a Model

I have a model which I would like to walk to get key/values to update the server with any changes. The following works fine to get each value,but is there a simple way to get the key as well ? for each(var item in myModel){ trace(item) }

[flexcoders] Flex / AIR and Google OpenSocial

Are there any opportunities to utilize Google's new OpenSocial with Flex / AIR ? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 --

[flexcoders] Smooth Scrolling Effect with Viewstack

transition where both children are technically visible (adjoining) during the change. Is there a method using viewstack or other layout component to produce a continuous scrolling type effect between a set of separate custom components ? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Canvas layout / style

rather do it with styles if I could though. Thanks -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] There has been an I/O Error: Error #2038

on Windows server 2003 enterprise. IIS 6 Anyone know why this is happening? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] Visual modelling program - which direction should I take? Z-order info?

! Cheers, -Josh -- This is crazy! Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone... She'll never leave Fred and we know it. :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:josh%40gfunk007.com -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Desde pagina Flex = mostrar archivo PDF (From Flex to PDF)

PDF format and allow many more opportunities for interactive features and annotations. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [flexcoders] Re: FLEX / AIR app with touchscreen

%40yahoogroups.com, Ben Marchbanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if it would be possible to produce controls using 2 simulataneous mouseDown events, such as touching the screen with 2 finger and pinching to zoom-in, given a touchscreen device running Flashplayer ? -- Ben

[flexcoders] FLEX / AIR app with touchscreen

Anyone know if it would be possible to produce controls using 2 simulataneous mouseDown events, such as touching the screen with 2 finger and pinching to zoom-in, given a touchscreen device running Flashplayer ?

Re: [flexcoders] RIA Developer Camp at Adobe San Francisco

-- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How do you add more fonts to the drop down selection of a RichTextEditor ?

('./fonts/Munsterm.ttf'); src:url('./fonts/Muse Display SSi.ttf'); src:url('./fonts/MVSans Bold.ttf'); src:url('./fonts/Myopia.ttf'); fontFamily: MyFonts; } Please Help this thing is driving me nuts :( Thank you for all the help, Sean. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy

[flexcoders] Capture literal HTTPservice error returned from server

I would like to capture the literal error message returned from a server when making an HTTPservice request with resultFormat = e4x. Using fault allows me to handle the error gracefully - say when the result is not proper XML. But I would like to view the full error message from the server, for

[flexcoders] Item Renderer to Display Font List

= data.family fontI.setStyle(fontFamily, f) trace(f) } ]] /mx:Script mx:Text text = {data.label} id=fontI / /mx:HBox Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Item Renderer to Display Font List

Actually found the solution - set the rowCount of the comboBox to be equal to the number of items in the dataProvider rowCount = {fontsList.length()} seems to have resolved the issue. Ben Marchbanks wrote: I am using the following item render to display a font list and render each

[flexcoders] Re: ColorPicker colorField

I'm not having much luck either. My colorField is derived from e4x formatted result to query of a colorChart table. Here are all the particulars. mx:ColorPicker x=271 y=352 width=47 height=52 change=colorize(Number(colorPicker.value)) id=colorPicker dataProvider={colorsList}

[flexcoders] TileList problem - here we go again - drag/drop error

dropIndicator.x = cc listItems[rowNum].length listItems[rowNum][colNum] ? listItems[rowNum][colNum].x : colNum * columnWidth; Any suggestions ? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com

Re: [flexcoders] Re: ColorPicker colorField

++){ cArr.push(L[i].HEX.toString()) } myColorPicker.dataProvider = cArr; } Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com

Re: [flexcoders] TileList problem - here we go again - drag/drop error

Leave it to me - I 'm an XML terrorist ! Once Tracy showed me how to use it I became a fanatic. Okay - I'll remove the move.enabled so then would a simple solution be to convert XML to AC to avoid having to write all the custom D/D ? or is this just a fact of life ? Ben Marchbanks

[flexcoders] Anomalies with ViewStacks

and then added to the viewstack ? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com

Re: [flexcoders] XMLList

to pass a variable in this sentence, some suggestion please... thanks so much coders -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 -- Flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] TileList Binding Issue

another and then editing items in the new list. None of the suggestions from several experts made any difference. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC

Re: [flexcoders] Filtering XML best practices

Related to filtering - it would be nice if one could sort XML using something like var newXMLList = myXMLList.(myField.sort()) Otherwise is there any shortcut method for sorting XML on client-side ?? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http

[flexcoders] Using viewStack as dataProvider for List

Is it possible to use a viewStack as a dataProvider for a List or DataGrid ?. TabBar, LinkBar, etc.. have limitations that I could resolve by using itemRenderers and a list. I am not having much luck experimenting with the idea.

[flexcoders] Global variable - Best Practice

I have an application in which I current set a [Bindable] variable baseURL to the application URL. I have been accessing this variable from other components in the app using this.parentDocument.baseURL. This is a clunky solution since components may have their own children so I windup with

[flexcoders] file not included in bin

I have a project that for some reason stopped including a file in the bin folder when debugging or doing a clean build. In particular the style.css. Now I have to manually add it to the 'bin' folder each time I update the web server. here is a snippet of my project folder Project assets

Re: [flexcoders] SetFocus() question

Change the setFocus() call to be triggered by the alert close event rather than being called along with the Alert.show. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC

[flexcoders] vulgar fractions - display as ?

What's the best way to handle vulgar fractions so when they return from the database they display properly? I have a UI that will convert text strings to vulgar fractions when a user enters 1/2 for example. This is a client requirement and I use AS to do the substitution. They are then pushed to

Re: [flexcoders] vulgar fractions - display as ?

been there, done that... Gordon Smith wrote: My guess is that your XML should use UTF-8 encoding. - Gordon *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ben Marchbanks

Re: [flexcoders] vulgar fractions - display as ?

Database is set to UTF-8 - at every point where unicode should be set, it is UTF-8 Paul Hastings wrote: Ben Marchbanks wrote: been there, done that ... and the db itself? that the db tools can see these displayed correctly doesn't mean the data is unicode (especially w

[flexcoders] What's the secret - close button TitleWindow

Okay I give up. How you you make the close button ALWAYS visible for a titleWindow ? I have defined the custom icon for all states yet the button only appears on mouseOver. The user needs to know there's a close button there without having to mouseOver don't you think ?

Re: [flexcoders] What's the secret - close button TitleWindow

Okay - here's a clue - I was using swf as skins for the button - when I changed to png as skins it works as expected. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC

Re: [flexcoders] What's the secret - close button TitleWindow

to render funny. *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ben Marchbanks *Sent:* Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:22 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] PDF in Flex

have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http

Re: [flexcoders] PDF in Flex

I doubt that adding PDF support to Flex would come at such an expense. Apollo requires Adobe Reader for PDF rendering which does all the heavy lifting. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http

Re: [flexcoders] Convert htmlText to plain text

some light on that too. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information

Re: [flexcoders] [SOLVED] itemRenderer null object error

=customcontentbuttonOff fontWeight=bold fontSize=10 verticalCenter=-1 horizontalCenter=0 alpha=1.0/ /mx:Canvas -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Re: [SOLVED] itemRenderer null object error

in what occasion. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Ben Marchbanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After experimenting I found the solution was to change the event trigger from initialize to render. Happy to have resolved the problem but still puzzled why

Re: [flexcoders] scrollToIndex with TileList

in the forums and have tried validateNow(). Nothing works. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone found the fix? The tilelist has 8 rows and 7 columns. Vertical scrollbars are on. six rows are visible in the container and i am trying to scroll down to the 7th row. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy

Re: [flexcoders] Struggle with TileList refresh

and reopen the editor all the changes appear in the editor window !. Trying the workaround used in Scenario 1 does not refresh the list. Is there not a fool-proof method to force TileList to always reflect a change in its dataProvider ? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Struggle with TileList refresh

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Marchbanks Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 9:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Struggle with TileList refresh H after rewriting the process to use XML the result is the same. itemRenderer just will not refresh

Re: [flexcoders] REPOST - Character encoding in a DataGrid

- this is usually how non-standard characters get introduced. The article above explains why. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 zzberthod wrote: Hello

Re: [flexcoders] TextArea number of lines.

Look at TextLineMetrics class. It may give you a method to do what you want. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918 uday kiran wrote: How can I

Re: [flexcoders]How to parse bad XML into valid XML

is malformed. Is there a class or property that will unmalform the xml so I can use it as an xml object? -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] pdf||word images in a datagrid column

. - Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC

Re: [flexcoders] Upload file along with other associatred data?

Try creating URLvariables var params:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); params.id = memberID; then add the variables to the request.data request.data = params; Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com

Re: [flexcoders] Is anybody else getting duplicate messages?

. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo HTMLControl capabilities

Hey Mike - Can we assume that all the controls over PDF that are exemplified in the Adobe Digital Edition will be included in the full release of Apollo ? Only thing I would like to see added to the API is ability to apply animated effects to PDF pages. ( Page flip) Ben Marchbanks

Re: [flexcoders] PDF Files

. Thanks, Greg -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http://www.magazooms.com Greenville, SC 864.284.9918

Re: [flexcoders] FileReference.upload, URLVariables,uploadDataFieldName not working as expected.

What server-side does your server-side script / code look like. Most likely this is where the problem lies. BTW:You can always rename your upload on the server side which is very easy and reliable. -- Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http

Re: [flexcoders] Storing / retrieving rich text

Actually I want an XML formatted result from the server. What I don't want is for the rich text to be interpreted as an XML string when applying it to the text control as htmlText. All the white space in the XML string gets rendered as white space in the text control while it does render

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Storing / retrieving rich text

Wrapping the text in ![CDATA causes the CDATA to be interpreted literally and rendered along with the text. setting the resultFormat to text makes it much more difficult to handle the text and distribute it to the appropriate display objects. Barring any easier solutions at this point it

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Storing / retrieving rich text

fine for now. Are you writing rich text back to your data source ? Are you implicitly adding the !CDATA ? wrapper or is this wrapper automated ? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http

Re: [flexcoders] Newbie alert - Trying to populate combobox w. httpservice

you have to define the labelField when binding to dataProvider that has no label field. mx:ComboBox id=cbEdition labelField=myItem dataProvider={ xmlEdition.lastResult.action.item} / Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com

Re: [flexcoders] problem in parsing xml return by HTTPservice, could it be namespace issue

You try what I used to solve the same kind of problem event.result.record[0].myFieldName where my XML looks something like this records record myFeldNamemyValue/myFieldName /record /records Thanks to Tracy Spratt for revealing access to the XML more directly via event.result !

Re: [flexcoders] Filter using ComboBox HeaderRenderer in DataGrid

headerRenderer probably behaves the same as itemRenderers in that they are children of the parent document from which they spring In that case you would refer to the actionScript in the parent document using the parent prefix this.parentDocument.myActionScript(); HTH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Drag/Drop - Datagrid. Target is off?

that that the 'drop zone x coordinate is offset by the same x offset of the popup canvas. The quick fix was to remove the x offset for the popup but I would like to know if there is a solution to allow for the centered popup window with drag and drop. Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming

Re: [flexcoders] Examining web service results structure

Hey Tracy, Can you elaborate more on exactly how you would do this ? sample snippet. You gave me the same advice in my attempt to count the records returned from a request. Thanks Ben Marchbanks Tracy Spratt wrote: Don't bind directly to lastResult. Instead, use a result handler

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Examining web service results structure

Thanks Tracy - I had actually hacked through to arrive at the endpoint of your illustration - which is very clear. I understand now how this gives you full access to the results. Next questions: how would you bind this result to a dataGrid or AC ? Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Examining web service results structure

Okay finally nailed it myArrayCollection.source = ArrayUtil.toArray(event.result.record); Hopefully tomorrow's success will come much easier ! Ben Marchbanks ::: alQemy ::: transforming information into intelligence http://www.alQemy.com ::: magazooms ::: digital magazines http

Re: [flexcoders] eval() function removed in AS 3.0 ??

Thanks Tracy - you are the man - I would never have figured that one out ! Works like a charm.. Tracy Spratt wrote: Actually, eval() in AS has never been a full eval like in Javascript. I has only been able to evaluate a reference to an object. The direct replacement(was in AS2

Re: [flexcoders] to form or not to form that is my question

I was wondering the same - everything seems to work just fine without using form and formItems. I found that the form component seem to make it more difficult to create and size the layout objects. I am not using either and have no problems using just textInput and labels instead. Ben

Re: [flexcoders] lastResult.records.record.length=null when there's actually 1

- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Marchbanks Sent: 27 November 2006 19:21 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] lastResult.records.record.length=null when there's actually 1 myRequest.event.result.length ?? Not sure I

Re: [flexcoders] lastResult.records.record.length=null when there's actually 1

myRequest.event.result.length ?? Not sure I understand how to use event.result to get the count of the records returned. Tracy Spratt wrote: And avoid using lastResult except for binding. Instead use event.result. Tracy From: