So did I.
I just wanted to try it out.
It may have helped that Ive been using flex for
years but Im sure I just followed the whole course
and can't remember do any work-rounds or anything
like that.
I thought, for a free training set is was actually
really good. I don't really know of
Ive used it since it was first out there.
I don't know what's happening to it, but I kind of
guess that it might no longer be being developed.
Maybe it's one of the things that will end up
going open source so we can take it on
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The samples are ok, but it's the actual langue I
dislike.
I just doesn't feel very complete to me.
I really don't want to take a step back when I was
in fact hoping to be getting a new version of
action script that moved the main language even
further forward.
The whole situation just
You can. Just build skins that allow you set css styles from cc on them.
I for one don't want the out of the box skins to be full of css stuff. Just
makes the components needlessly large and messy.
Keep it simple and clean and if you need more css then build skins that
allow you to use
Hi and welcome. You're going to enjoy flex Im sure. It's a great framework
and I think fun to work in.
Anyway books.
Flex 4 Bible, nice big book that covers lots and a good place to start
I liked the flex 3cookbook so assume flex 4 one will be a winner also, but
it's not available in uk
Lol so I take it Matt is out of the office then J
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Pete
Sent: 08 June 2010 10:42
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] out of office
Lol - real soon!
I've put you in my blocked list
I didn't know cf9 had lcds 3 tom?
tinylion development design
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Chiverton
Sent: 22 January 2010 09:47
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Adobe pulls Single
, just use their services and
recommend them.
Hope this helps
Regards
Glenn williams
Tinylion uk
Ps - to other UK flex users, take a look at their site. They offer some
really great services.
tinylion development design
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
, but it always feels so
wasteful.
Glenn Williams
tinylion development UK
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of EECOLOR
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:51 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders
why exactly cant you tell if all services have returned and been successful?
I think synchronous is a real problem - what if the service never returns?
you must have a fault/result methods of the call, you must know the number
of calls per order?
be interested to know more info to see if
i've wished since first using air I could access other applications with use
of their COM toolkits.
Glenn
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
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Behalf Of Zoltan Csibi
Sent: Friday, April
It drives me mad this one.
There really is no justification in UK users paying over the odds.
Glenn
(skint in the UK)
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
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Page
Sent:
when I'm building URLS for services I store the URL in the model and have
the build code in a command.
you could also put the build logic into the model with the URL holding
variable
Glenn
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
From:
I'm not so sure really.
I do have some logic in the model.
when I build URLS, I build them in the delegate before making the service
call.
as building URLs is service specific (i.e. the service could change, and do
we really want the model to know about that?). on the other hand I
Have a read of this
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_upd
ate.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_upda
te.html
Glenn
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
From:
and maybe this
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403184sliceId=1
Glenn
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of byte.sensei
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008
Adding new Documents to Dynamic Help in FB3:
is this possible?
Glenn
www.flex-ria.com
www.tinylion.co.uk
www.our-little-secret.com
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are you asking how to reset an arraycollection back to zero values?
Glenn
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Behalf Of Alex Harui
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 5:30 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: How can I clear an
Take a look at this
http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/stateful-skins-in-flex-3e-color-transitio
ns-in-buttons-now-possible
Glenn
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Behalf Of jfrumar
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:03 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
ok, I've just found out an application we are developing needs to talk to a
second app
that has an ODBC/DDF interface toolkit. what are my options?
Will ColdFusion talk to ODBC/DDF? if so then all is well, and it's time to
learn CF.
cheers
I've been asking them this for ages mate,
I've posted on loads of forums and email Adobe direct and have no firm
answer
Glenn
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Behalf Of Troy Gilbert
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
this is how I did it.
create a new project in 3 final.
then copy the code I'd written in 3 beta and assets into new project.
the problem I had was with the files in the old project that aren't code
(configs n stuff)
Glenn
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
So true,
I set up my blog a while ago www.flex-ria.com and have had zero time to
write to it. I so want to add some stuff
about the applications we're developing but who has the time??
I WILL get around to it soon.
Glenn
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL
://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/developers/
if you do end up using then, let Luke know I passed on the information
Glenn Williams
tinylion development
30, 2008 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] UK rapid adressing web api
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:glenn%40tinylion.co.uk
wrote:
Hi
anyone know if there is a rapid addressing (from postcode) web service
with an actionScript/flex api.
we
I've found a great service.
Works a treat and staff really helpful, Costs are not too bad also.
to find out more contact:
Luke Sparey
+44 (0) 1905 888 558
http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/developers/
if you do end up using then, let Luke know I passed on the information
Glenn Williams
Hi
anyone know if there is a rapid addressing (from postcode) web service
with an actionScript/flex api.
we are about to need to add this function to our current app and any
heads-up would help
cheers
glenn
definitely no difference on vista 64 64 sp1
works like a charm
Glenn
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Behalf Of nofearalpha
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:02 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Builder Pro slow
ps.
i use the plug-in version with eclipse 3.4m4
Glenn
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Behalf Of nofearalpha
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:02 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Builder Pro slow with Vista SP1
works amazingly fast here - vista 64 sp1.
i did find it was better using the latest eclipse (3.4m4 or m5 I think,
can't remember without looking)
geez - I always worry when people start shouting 'how crap something is' -
you really need to chill
I think I'll stay with a well supported os for
are not just language references, there's lots more than
that. You really should take a look.
Glenn Williams
tinylion:development/
Custom Compound components with States and Transform:
My question is probably best asked using the standard Log-In example that
seems to be used all over the place.
You have a panel with several components, this panel has states and the
states transform when changed.
Ok, all simple.
Ok,
So I worked out what I was doing wrong.
As my custom component was not in fact based on the original Panel
class, but a custom panel (lets call it myPanel, in the name space
'lion'), the custom component being started like this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
lion:myPanel
Just wanted to say this.
Having bought and read many Flex actionScript books over the years,
I hadn't really given Adobes documentation much of a look (apart from
the liveDocs that is, which I couldn't live without.). Well, I had a
free afternoon today, so I thought I'd have a read through the
Cocomo's progress with excitement). I for
one will jump on this library as soon as I'm able, I can hardly wait.
Glenn Williams
tinylion:development/
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In the latest nightly build of the Flex SDK is the as3 compiler code!
The ActionScript 3 compiler, asc, is now open-source! Added the source
code for Flex 3's asc.jar, at branches/3.0.x/modules/asc. This code
came from ssh://asteam.macromedia.com/hg/asc-flex3 and is what built
the asc.jar that
Well, it's gone to the repository at least. soon come
I have to say, I find the ribbon bar a joy to use.
there was very small adoption time, and I actually now work faster in
office than ever before. This really is (imho) something Microsoft UI
team has got exactly right. It's not just the UI but how passes
selections back to the application (every
Having just sat and read the specs document over a cuppa, I'm even
more impressed with the Ribbon controller (fluid user interface). the
document is quit a piece of work. As i guessed in my last post, this
is worth a read just for some of the design ideas it puts across.
LOL, ok i just read back my post. king of the typo!!
I meant to say microsoft...'it's just so easy to knock them'. sure you
got what i meant tho.
Service Capture.
http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/
it's a great little tool, and costs only around $30. You'll wonder how you
ever managed with it.
This is just a personal recommendation.
Glenn
image001.png
Hi everyone,
I just need to get something straight in my head.
Given code along the following lines:
(pseudo code)
Package
{
Imports.
public class fooAudio
{
[Embed(source=some.mp3)]
private static var someMP3 : Class;
private
HBox children alignment?
hi
i use the one of the following methods depending what i need
mx:HBox
foo
mx:Spacer width=100% /
bar
/mx:HBox
OR
mx:Hbox
!-- objects left aligned--
mx:HBox horizontalAlign=left
.
. objects
.
/mx:HBox
!-- objects right aligned--
mx:HBox width=100%
hi
i use the one of the following methods pending on what i need
mx:HBox
foo
mx:Spacer width=100% /
bar
/mx:HBox
OR
mx:Hbox
!-- objects left aligned--
mx:HBox horizontalAlign=left
.
. objects
.
/mx:HBox
!-- objects right aligned--
mx:HBox width=100%
Looking into the .actionScriptProperties file in the root of my project, I
can see this is where the compiler options are set. My question is this,
it's is ok for me to change these values here rather than using the dialog.
Also is it ok to have line returns between options, just making them
Which Event is fired on mouse click on the 'popupbutton' (right hand
button) from a PopUpButton. click() is the main Left Hand button. I
just can't seem to see in liveDoc's what's happening on the right.
Thanks
Glenn Williams
tinylion:dev/
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From: Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:50:07 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] itemRenderer in folder other than source root
Ok, this must be simple by i can't see
: Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:46 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: itemRenderer in folder other than source root
No, the class path is complete (no src)
main mxml in root, views in com.foo.foo.foo.views, renderers
Well, I've finally gotten to the bottom of this.
I knew it should have been working.
I'd forgotten that I'd been testing the last nightly build of the SDK
flex_sdk_3_192625
With this SDK it was always throwing an error, but as soon as I
switched back to M4Beta3 all was well. LOL,
Thanks for
RECAP:
flex_sdk_3_192625
Take this example
adding an itemRender to a List with itmeRenderer not in source root
a file foo.mxml that's in the folder com\blah\blah\view\foo.mxml has
element
mx:List id=myListNav
itemRenderer=com.blah.blah.renderer.ListRenderer /
ListRenderer.mxml is in in
Am I correct in thinking that the conditional compile feature of
builder 3 is only for actionScript classes, and not MXML markup?
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2007/10/conditional_compilation_in_mox_1.html
I think it's early day's for this feature. Lot's of improvements can
be made, but at least we now know the direction it's heading.
This is the kind of functionality that's essential if the framework is
to really make it's way with application developers, rather than more
traditional web
Sorry when I said right hand button I meant the component button on
the right hand side of the PopUpButton Component (not mouse button),
the one with the arrow that triggers the second UIcomponent to be created.
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/conditionalcompilation.pdf
Cheers Mate,
lol, i must have looked at the docs 100s times. strange how sometimes
you just don't see it. I kind of assumed the open event was triggered
after the poppedUp UIComp was created. Thanks for that.
No, couldn't get it to work.
It's fine using the class path in the now I've added the Renderer using AS
with an initialize event on the List
mx:List id=myListNav initialize=onInit() /
script...
public function onInit():void
{
No, couldn't get tit to work.
It's fine using the class path in the now I've added the Renderer using AS
with an initialize event on the List
mx:List id=myListNav initialize=onInit() /
script...
public function onInit():void
{
I'll give it another try. Maybe i was just typing my class path incorrectly.
This was the first thing i tried and was my expected method, just didn't
work. I bet it was just typo.
I'll have another look
thanks
11b. Re: itemRenderer in folder other than source root
Posted by: Johannes
Glenn Williams
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logs off (and the state is
set to LOGGEDOFF) then logs back in again. I need to be able to reinitialize
all components to their 'first run' values then the user logs back in.
Any ideas?
Hope I'm making sense here.
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tinylion:dev/
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