[flexcoders] Determining Domain In Flex

2007-04-09 Thread John Kirby
I think I know the answer to this ... but hoping there is a better way. I have an application which connects to various SOAP services *outside* my application domain. No problem, I use a Proxy service from my domain to handle it. However, like most application url's I can launch via

[flexcoders] Flash Video On Mobile Devices

2007-02-24 Thread John Kirby
Maybe someone from Adobe can comment on this... What are the plans/road map for extending Flash Lite to support Streaming Video (e.g., Flash 9 codec)? Thanks, .j -- /Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right./ - Henry Ford

[flexcoders] Flex UG in Denver?

2007-02-01 Thread John Kirby
Anyone know of a Flex Users Group in Denver... or would like to start one? .j -- /Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right./ - Henry Ford

Re: [flexcoders] Drag-Resize MDI Example

2007-01-29 Thread John Kirby
/page/andrewtrice?entry=enhanced_flex_mdi_interface Regards, Dave. Cynergy Systems, Inc. On 1/14/07, *John Kirby* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a Flex 2 Drag-Resize MDI/Panel example? -- /Whether you think that you can

Re: [flexcoders] Drag-Resize MDI Example

2007-01-29 Thread John Kirby
=enhanced_flex_mdi_interface Regards, Dave. Cynergy Systems, Inc. On 1/14/07, *John Kirby* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a Flex 2 Drag-Resize MDI/Panel example? -- /Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right./ - Henry Ford

[flexcoders] Setting Initial NetStream Sound Volume

2007-01-25 Thread John Kirby
I am trying to dynamically set the sound volume when different video is played via: stream = new NetStream(nc); var st:SoundTransform = stream.soundTransform; st.volume =( 40) * .01; _volume = st.volume; Here is the volume control mx:VSlider id=volumeSlider height=73

[flexcoders] Animated Gif Loader

2007-01-19 Thread John Kirby
Doug McCune has just posted an animated gif loader which works like SWFLoader. No more IFrame hacks. http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/17/animatedgifloader -- /Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right./ - Henry Ford

[flexcoders] Drag-Resize MDI Example

2007-01-14 Thread John Kirby
Anyone know of a Flex 2 Drag-Resize MDI/Panel example? -- /Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right./ - Henry Ford

[flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Kirby
After seeing the Steve Jobs MacWorld demo (http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event) of the new iPhone which runs a Mac OS X (light)... I can't help but think that flex apps can't be far behind? I can't wait to start! Anyone at Adobe care to comment on a flash/flex mobile version

Re: [flexcoders] Since flex 2.0.1

2007-01-08 Thread John Kirby
I don't know the cause of these errors but I have my own recompile errors since moving to 2.0.1 (Mac). It would be nice if someone from Adobe would post documentation on what has changed in the API since the last release so we can all debug our legacy applications. I for one have an

Re: [flexcoders] Since flex 2.0.1

2007-01-08 Thread John Kirby
sure you do a clean build just to make sure all remnants of the 2.0 build are removed in favor of the 2.0.1 code base. That's found under Project - Clean... in Flex Builder. Regards, Dave. Cynergy Systems, Inc. On 1/8/07, * John Kirby* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compiling modules

2007-01-08 Thread John Kirby
Thanks for the examples. Question... if you are passing parameters to a module I assume your url syntax is the same as a SWFLoader (myswf.swf?foo=bar) ... but module has no parameter property? How do access passed parameters to a module? phillips1021 said the following: See:

Re: [flexcoders]Eclipse 3.2.1 installed now how to install Flex Builder 2.0.1 plugin

2007-01-05 Thread John Kirby
I see there is an updater for 2.0.1 for Windows. So where do you get the Mac version 2.0.1? I still just see the trial version (which I already have) Also any word on the transferring the windows license to Mac? .j Kevin Newman said the following: I was able to get Flex Builder 2.0

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flex 2.0.1 feedback from the trenches

2007-01-05 Thread John Kirby
Not very clear messages in debugging when taking a 2.0 project and recompiling with 2.0.1. I have two types of errors: 1023: Incompatible override. This maps to and import statement: import com.iml.weatherflex.Forecast; I assume it is catching the tighter types passed via a function?

[flexcoders] New signature of IFlexModuleFactory.create() in 2.0.1 ?

2007-01-05 Thread John Kirby
I have a compile error in 2.0.1 Mac but not in Mac Beta : 1144: Interface method create in namespace mx.core:IFlexModuleFactory is implemented with an incompatible signature in class _weathercharts_mx_managers_SystemManager. Has the API been tweaked in this area since Beta? I do use

[flexcoders] Programmatic load of SWFLoader Not working

2007-01-02 Thread John Kirby
I have an application with multiple tabs. Inside one tab (via Canvas) I have a SWFLoader to a chart component. I want to have the option to either load the SWF via clicking on the chart tab, or jump to a particular chart (under this tab) via another component in another tab (via a button

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2 for Mac Release Coming Within 7 Days

2007-01-02 Thread John Kirby
I understand your Windows license is transferable to Mac for the upcoming commercial release? Is this still true? (Matt) .j Paul Whitelock said the following: I received the reply copied below regarding the problem that I had with the beta for Flex 2 Mac expiring unexpectedly and thought

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Disable Application Blur in Popup window

2006-12-15 Thread John Kirby
On 12/14/06, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug - Tried this after the PopUp create Application.application.setStyle(modalTransparencyBlur, 0); Still a blur Doug Lowder said the following: There's a style on mx.core.Application called modalTransparencyBlur that seems

[flexcoders] Disable Application Blur in Popup window

2006-12-13 Thread John Kirby
I'm sure this is a simple answer... (hopefully). I have some TitleWindows launched via the PopUpManager. If the modal is set to true it blurs the Application. What I want to do is have the modal functionality of a window without the blur sometimes? Can this be done? How? .j -- /Whether

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Disable Application Blur in Popup window

2006-12-13 Thread John Kirby
back and forth. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure this is a simple answer... (hopefully). I have some TitleWindows launched via the PopUpManager. If the modal is set to true it blurs the Application. What I want

Re: [flexcoders] FLV Duration

2006-12-04 Thread John Kirby
Via onMetaData you should be able to get duration. Have you tried something like this? private function playStream():void { stream = new NetStream(nc); stopTimer(); videoHolder = new

Re: [flexcoders] To Adobe - new release improvements??

2006-11-28 Thread John Kirby
When the 2.01 update comes out... will it be for BOTH Mac and Windows? Does anyone know if they are now on the same release train? leds usop said the following: Im not from Adobe but thanks to Matt CHotin, I have been given the oppportunity to play with the prerelease 2.01 update... They

Re: [flexcoders] Custom Tooltips in actionscript

2006-11-23 Thread John Kirby
Rich - There is a good example in the Flex docs under Using the ToolTip Manager Basically you create an listener on the UIControl which catches the toolTipShow event and fires a callback method. Do what you need to do in the call back mx:button id=myButton toolTip= some default text /

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Custom Tooltips in actionscript

2006-11-23 Thread John Kirby
Below is how I handle custom components in a tooltip. weather.WeatherToolTipManager extends ToolTipManager. WeatherToolTip Extend ToolTip . Just create a WeatherToolTip object and use the setComponentClass(UiComponent) to store the custom componet. Then pass the tooltip to the create custom

[flexcoders] Custom Progress Bar

2006-11-05 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I want to use the Progress Bar as component in a video player to show how much of the movie has played. Can you subclass the Progress Bar to do this? I was planning on creating a timer and a listener to update the progress bar. Has anyone done something like this? Thanks. --

Re: [flexcoders] JUST SAY NO to creationPolicy=all !

2006-10-31 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Greg - I was thinking more "in depth" discussion along this like there is in the Java community. But I know Flex is young... I'd just like to see more detail on the hows and whys? Also it would be nice if the ActionScript profiler

Re: [flexcoders] JUST SAY NO to creationPolicy=all !

2006-10-30 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Gordon - Good advice. I also assume that there are even greater savings (load time) if one of these controls uses a SWF loader? Gordon Smith said the following: rant Several times a week someone complains that they can't seem to set data into controls on

Re: [flexcoders] JUST SAY NO to creationPolicy=all !

2006-10-30 Thread John Kirby
following: Yes, but that introduces more complications, so I'd tend to go that route only on a very large app where the user may never navigate to some functionality. - Gordon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On Behalf Of John Kirby Se

Re: [flexcoders] JUST SAY NO to creationPolicy=all !

2006-10-30 Thread John Kirby
access something in those panes from the main app. We've also had a fair number of framework bugs that turn up only when you load an app into another app, although I think we've fixed most of those that we're aware of. - Gordon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.co

[flexcoders] Unzip On The Fly With AS3

2006-10-29 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I came across this very cool Unzip framework for ActionScript 3 http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip .j -- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

Re: [flexcoders] CVS in Flex...Fixed

2006-10-27 Thread John Kirby
in for cvs-sserver. For Mac users you'll need a current version of OpenSSL which was already there for me :-). No sure what Windows uses... but it works with windows and the info is on the site. Also I found this: http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/links.html Nice Theme extension for Eclipse/Flex. .j

[flexcoders] Flex/Eclipse Performance Tuning

2006-10-27 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I have been playing with the Flexbuilder.ini to get better performance. I found this article: http://eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t61618.html I have a robust environment with plenty of memory (4.5 Mb) and I found this author's recommendation spot on. So if you have a

[flexcoders] Flex 2 Mac Beta Hanging In Browsers... Looks Like The Flash Player

2006-10-26 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I copied my test program to Windows... runs perfectly. The Windows version is also Flash 9.0 r16 So some how the flash player on Mac appears to be causing the problem. So I ran the flash uninstaller program then installed the 9.0 r 16 debug version from the Adobe site. Dam...

[flexcoders] Flex 2 Mac Beta Hanging In Browsers... Go back to Windows?

2006-10-26 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote OK... I had this running last night. Today when I compile my application then run on either Safari or FireFox 2.0 the application hangs with the spinning wheel of death. I'm on 10.4.8 So I did a clean uninstall/install. Made a hello world simple app/project of a panel with a

[flexcoders] Flex 2 Mac Beta Hanging ... Solved

2006-10-26 Thread John Kirby
This was an interesting journey... it was definitely the Flash player. The problem of hanging seemed to only affect a Flex app? It even hung on the Flex Explorer app. Other non-Flex Flash sites worked fine. So to finally make it work I did another uninstall of the Flash player. Then

[flexcoders] CVS in Flex

2006-10-26 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I'm trying to set up my first commits to my CVS repository. I have my CVS view repository enabled and I can see my repository. According to the docs you commit by right-mouse click on the resource in the Navigator. From here it says go to either Team--Commit or Team --

[flexcoders] Flex for mac public beta install error

2006-10-25 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Anyone else getting the error that the installer can't install in the Application folder because of permissions? The installer should prompt you for user/password (like a regular install)? .j Stefan Ernst said the following: Awesome! Now it'd be interesting to know

Re: [flexcoders] Flex for mac public beta is out!

2006-10-25 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Thank God! Now I can develop on my Mac. Ditto on the license transfer... I hope so :-) .j Stefan Ernst said the following: Awesome! Now it'd be interesting to know if I'm going to be able to use my Windows license for the mac version later. :p Cheers, Stefan.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex for mac public beta install error

2006-10-25 Thread John Kirby
at the very end of the Flash Player Plugin install. Flex Builder and the Player seem to work fine, though. HTH Randy Nielsen Flex Documentation Manager --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting the error that the installer can't install

[flexcoders] Flex 2 Beta Mac Performance

2006-10-25 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Is anyone having sluggish performance...especially while editing? I 've already crashed? Configuration: 10.4.8 G5 dual 2.7 with 4.5 mb memory. .j -- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Deployment Best Practices

2006-10-24 Thread John Kirby
On 10/23/06, David Mendels [EMAIL PROTECTED]com wrote: Hello, Roger's blog might be helpful: http://blogs.adobe.com/rgonzalez/flex/ -David From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com]

Re: [flexcoders] Security Sandbox and SWF Loader

2006-10-23 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote The crossdomain.xml file needs to be on the server providing the rss feed. I have have a similar application. What I did is have the flex app fetch the rss feed and using local connection pass the data to the yahoo map ( I do some data manipulation). I use a proxy

[flexcoders] Flex Deployment Best Practices

2006-10-23 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I'm about to deploy my first Flex application. I have tried to modularize my components as much as possible. What I'm looking for is some best practices on when/why you create RSLs, SWFs, etc to "break up" your application so it runs efficiently. I know there are some

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Set Focus on TextInput

2006-10-18 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Figured it out. You need to set focus to the TextInput reference at the container level via creationComplete. mx:TitleWindow creationComplete="myTextInputId.setFocus()" boy_trike said the following: This does NOT seem to work for a popup. Is there another trick to

[flexcoders] Set Focus on TextInput

2006-10-17 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I'm having a brain f*rt. In 1.5 you could do a Selection.setFous(textInput id) from a show attribute for the container where the TextInput component resided. This would place the cursor inside the TextInput field How is this done in Flex 2.0? Thanks. .j -- Whether you

Re: [flexcoders] Set Focus on TextInput

2006-10-17 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Claus - Thanks! Claus Wahlers said the following: I'm having a brain f*rt. In 1.5 you could do a Selection.setFous(textInput id) from a show attribute for the container where the TextInput component resided. This would place the cursor inside the TextInput field

[flexcoders] Mouse Events in Flash with Yahoo Maps

2006-10-08 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I have created a SWF (flash 8) for a Yahoo map where so far when you double click on the map it sets a marker and records the lat/long and can pass that info to my flex app via local connection. This double click trapping is done through a myMap. which uses some getTimer() to

Re: [flexcoders] Reverse Geocoding

2006-10-06 Thread John Kirby
for flash lite for example. thanks man On 10/3/06, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED]net wrote: I did find this for free: http://geocoder.ca It returns back an xml document.  I was hoping since Yahoo/Google derived lat/long from address they could

Re: [flexcoders] Re: loading animated gifs at runtime

2006-10-03 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote There is a hack for this: http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/08 By creating an IFRAME you can load an animated gif. I did it here: http://infinitymedialabs.com/weather/WeatherFlex.html Click on Radar. This is still under construction but check out dieitte's blog... he has

[flexcoders] Reverse Geocoding

2006-10-03 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Does anyone know how in either Yahoo or Google maps to have the lat/long and then do a reverse Geocode to get a city, state, zip? Thanks -- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List

Re: [flexcoders] Reverse Geocoding

2006-10-03 Thread John Kirby
h zip code database subscriptions. I never did find anyone giving it away for free, but that were more than reasonable. Shan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com] On Behalf Of John Kirby Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Problem with IFrame

2006-10-01 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I tried using Brian's example in a TabNavigator except the html appears at the bottom of the page instead og inside the tab containing the IFrame. Paul Andrews said the following: - Original Message - From: "Ali Mills" [EMAIL PROTECTED]com To: [EMAIL

[flexcoders] TitleWindow Close Button

2006-09-25 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I am try do trap an event when the mouse is over the close button (x) on a TitleWindow. Anyone know how to reference this object? Thanks -- Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List

Re: [flexcoders] adding effects in action script

2006-09-25 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote I think this should work? var imageFade:mx.effects.EffectsInstance; imageFade = fadeIn.createInstance(imgNewImage); imageFade.play(); David Harris said the following: Hi I am creating an Image in Script and then adding it to a tile. I have added an event listner to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: private constructors in flex

2006-09-23 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote But if your goal is to create a Singleton pattern...check this out: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=singleton_in_as3 Gordon Smith said the following: I'm afraid that AS3 doesn't allow a constructor to be private. - Gordon

Re: [flexcoders] Re: ToolTip Timers

2006-09-19 Thread John Kirby
instead? -TH --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam - Thanks... I've looked at that. The problem is I'm creating custom components in my tooltip. So I was trapping the create event to use my own custom tooltip which implements IToolTip. This worked

Re: [flexcoders] Gauges in Flex Charting

2006-09-18 Thread John Kirby
Title: quote Check this out: http://www.maani.us/gauge Ely Greenfield said the following: Hi Pramod. Building a guage in Flex/Flash should be pretty simple. Take two assets (background + needle), slap them together, and give the component a minimum, maximum, and value