Re: [flexcoders] Re: Application Idea

2009-05-15 Thread Jules Suggate
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Re: [flexcoders] Application Idea

2009-05-13 Thread Jules Suggate
a application on based on that idea in flash or flex. Thanks, kanu -- -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562

Re: [flexcoders] Application Idea

2009-05-13 Thread Jules Suggate
. - Original Message - *From:* kanu kukreja kanukukr...@gmail.com *Sent:* Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:00 PM *Subject:* [flexcoders] Application Idea Hello, I'm looking for an idea, so that i can create a application on based on that idea in flash or flex. Thanks, kanu -- -- Jules

Re: [flexcoders] Common base class for components

2009-01-29 Thread Jules Suggate
] *On Behalf Of *Jules Suggate *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:56 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Common base class for components Hi list, anyone know if it's possible to have all our components inherit from a common base component of our own making

Re: [flexcoders] Common base class for components

2009-01-29 Thread Jules Suggate
at 05:25, Fotis Chatzinikos fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com wrote: why do not you make your components implement an interface with these methods you describe? On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jules Suggate julian.sugg...@gmail.comwrote: Just to resume this thread, what I meant

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Common base class for components

2009-01-29 Thread Jules Suggate
: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Jules Suggate julian.sugg...@... wrote: Just to resume this thread, what I meant was to still use MXML and all the Flex components, but to introduce common functionality to all our Views (mxml files). Perhaps it's better to think

Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error

2008-12-17 Thread Jules Suggate
doing something wrong here? Thanks for your help! Ken -- Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562

Re: [flexcoders] Test-driven development in Flex

2008-12-17 Thread Jules Suggate
Hey, a fellow Kiwi? Cool :) I am based out of Christchurch... Having used Cairngorm plenty in the past, I always found it pretty excellent, just a little out of date these days perhaps -- your changes sound (IMHO) sane and reasonable, as does your decision to go with Cairngorm if you are

[flexcoders] Common base class for components

2008-12-17 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi list, anyone know if it's possible to have all our components inherit from a common base component of our own making? There are some things in our app that every View component will have to do at loadtime, and it'd be nice to just write that code once and have all the other components inherit

Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error

2008-12-17 Thread Jules Suggate
. Paul - Original Message - *From:* Jules Suggate julian.sugg...@gmail.com *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:36 PM *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error Valdhor already gave you all the info you need, but I like the sound of my own fingers

Re: [flexcoders] Test-driven development in Flex

2008-12-16 Thread Jules Suggate
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Re: [flexcoders] Test-driven development in Flex

2008-12-16 Thread Jules Suggate
for TDD AFAIK. Hope this helps :) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 21:23, Jules Suggate julian.sugg...@gmail.com wrote: Having good results with FlexUnit here, using Parsley IoC instead of Cairngorm or what-have-you because of the advantages to mocking/testing with IoC/Dependency Injection (when

Re: [flexcoders] Screen Resolution

2008-12-12 Thread Jules Suggate
changing any widths and heights manually. Thanks in Advance. Poornima Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. -- Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-10 Thread Jules Suggate
Funny, I have a very similar example at my end that I wrote just now to prove to myself what was happening. I should have checked my email first ;-) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 16:22, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a trivial example using dispatchEvent to show the synchronous

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-10 Thread Jules Suggate
Sorry, I mean With /synchronous event dispatch/, triggering an event 100 times will mean the listeners get invoked 100 times, even if the last invokation completely overwrites the work of the previous 99. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 23:31, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For several years

Re: [flexcoders] speed of the for each looping

2008-12-10 Thread Jules Suggate
Sorry, couldn't resist commenting on the term cognitive cruft! I love it! :)) On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37, Maciek Sakrejda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I decided to actually try my test above, and on 100 items, the for-each version takes ~50 milliseconds, versus ~25 milliseconds

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-10 Thread Jules Suggate
For several years before using flash I used a proprietary GUI OO tool that had a similar (though less sophisticated) event mechanism. In that system event dispatch did not actually take place until the code block had completed - only then would handlers be invoked. This was particularly

Re: [flexcoders] Best language for remoting

2008-12-10 Thread Jules Suggate
Stay away from WCF and webservices unless you want the pain of arguing with MS geeks about why they can't use SOAP 1.2.. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:01, Sceneshift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, When building larger applications with bigger database interactions, which is considered

Re: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-09 Thread Jules Suggate
. Paul - Original Message - From: Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts boom head explodes heh! I have been happily thinking the whole time that events really

Re: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-09 Thread Jules Suggate
- Original Message - From: Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts How can something be asynchronous but not concurrent? Asynchronous means that control returns from

Re: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-08 Thread Jules Suggate
] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 6:49 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts Anyone used Parsley MVC? I'm a bit confused by it. There's the standard MVC FrontController

[flexcoders] Parsley MVC :: some thoughts

2008-12-07 Thread Jules Suggate
Anyone used Parsley MVC? I'm a bit confused by it. There's the standard MVC FrontController class, which exposes a method dispatchEvent() for app-wide notifications. It also has a concept of interceptors which is nice... so far so good. BUT... that dispatchEvent() call executes *synchronously*.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and iTunes Cover Flow

2008-12-04 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi Ravichandran, Yep, check out http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/03/coverflow-flex-component/ :) J On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 01:40, Ravichandran J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, Do any articles, books or video tutorials are there to leanr about coverflow in flex. Thanking you,

Re: [flexcoders] Detect a databinding

2008-12-03 Thread Jules Suggate
don't have any idea how Flex remove theses listeners. Maybe it is a voodoo approach. :) Regards, On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Marco, first up you have to ask yourself why you want this feature? There may be another way to solve the problem. However

Re: [flexcoders] Detect a databinding

2008-12-02 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi Marco, first up you have to ask yourself why you want this feature? There may be another way to solve the problem. However, here's what I know of your specific question... Last time I checked (Flex 3 beta 2) there was no *official* way to inspect the bindings on a component at runtime.

Re: [flexcoders] application structure

2008-12-02 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi Tom, You've hit on one of the classic anti-patterns of Flex programming: Application.application.blah type stuff. While this is regrettably somewhat 'normal', that doesn't mean it's ok :) As you probably have guessed, it leads to code that is really hard to change later on as it is all

[flexcoders] Flex and SOAP 1.2

2008-12-01 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi, looking for *any* way to consume SOAP 1.2 webservices (esp. WCF ones with binding type wsdlHttpBinding) without requiring us to handcode any of the interfaces on the client side That means: we want to give some tool a WSDL URL, and then can code against the webservice with no further work

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Removing an item from a sorted ArrayCollection?

2008-11-25 Thread Jules Suggate
Yeah, I second this suggestion. IViewCursor is your friend :) And I know I haven't added much to the discussion -- but I want to contribute, not just leech off everyone! You guys are too quick to reply! :) On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 16:15, gabriel montagné [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Nov

[flexcoders] Memory leaks in Flex SDK

2008-11-25 Thread Jules Suggate
Hi all, I know this is a multennial subject, but I just checked Adobe's JIRA and found three confirmed memory leaks in the Flex SDK :( They are: + Memory leak in SWFLoader: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-18076 + BindingUtils don't use weak event listeners, creating potential memory

Re: [flexcoders] Removing an item from a sorted ArrayCollection?

2008-11-25 Thread Jules Suggate
Bjorn, are you certified? Perhaps that's your problem ;^) On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 21:57, Ashish Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I want to be Flex Certified. from where i can get the Demo Test Papers. Thanks Ashish On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:51 PM, bjorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Newbie binding question

2008-11-25 Thread Jules Suggate
Have you tried just doing [Bindable(dataChanged)] instead of [Bindable(name=dataChanged)]? On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 17:32, Michael Prescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh sorry, I omitted the the getter from my example - but yes, I have getters. (The IDE warns you that [Bindable] doesn't do

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Architecture question using Move Effect and Events

2008-11-25 Thread Jules Suggate
This is a good solution -- I was going to suggest that in the handleMouseRollOver function you can check currentTarget to see if it's an instance of UITextField, Label or whatever, thus waiting until the event has bubbled to the grandparent. But that requires hardcoding the types into an if(..)

Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-24 Thread Jules Suggate
there is something I don't know about the 'Plugin' version of the installer. We are doing exactly this but we are targeting windows only (C# app + Flash 9 ActiveX msi). Steve On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, long-time-no-post :) I've a gnarly

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-24 Thread Jules Suggate
/)? This would give you a bridge between your AIR application and the local Java implementation. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, long-time-no-post :) I've a gnarly one here. I contract to a VC funded startup

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-24 Thread Jules Suggate
luck negotiating a case by case runtime distribution agreement with Adobe for bundling the AIR runtime with an AIR application? Hope you guys can shed some light on this! Cheers, Jules On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 22:33, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, sorry for my late reply. Merapi

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-24 Thread Jules Suggate
/air-runtime-notice). Has anyone had any luck negotiating a case by case runtime distribution agreement with Adobe for bundling the AIR runtime with an AIR application? Hope you guys can shed some light on this! Cheers, Jules On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 22:33, Jules Suggate [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-24 Thread Jules Suggate
Yeah, we've accepted that already :) But perhaps I shouldn't throw cross-platform around so loosely -- our initial Beta is Mac/Win only... On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:24, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Jules Suggate wrote: client. Unfortunately AIR's APIs

[flexcoders] Embedding Flash Player

2008-11-21 Thread Jules Suggate
, not conjecture based on Adobe's licensing page making passing reference)? Hope this hits someone's cache! Cheers, Jules -- Jules Suggate Owner and Technical Lead Uphill Sprint Limited +64-21-157-8562