[flexcoders] RE: Flex, Thermo, Flash - Why Thermo? Make Flash & Flex Happy Together...

2008-02-01 Thread Justin Winter
to pay attention to designers. (A perfect example these days is Apple) I'm sure things will improve in future versions of both applications! Wish we could fast forward to Flex 5 and Flash CS5. Justin Winter Useflexmore.com

[flexcoders] Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) & Flash CS3 - Thermo

2008-01-31 Thread Justin Winter
plication to do something that Flash already does pretty well if flash and flex could only work better together? I think this gets back to my earlier point of how Flex 2+ has introduced the need for another step which is the translation between the two environments. Justin Winter useflexmore.com

[flexcoders] Re: Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) & Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-31 Thread Justin Winter
Jon, that is really interesting and I need to digest the concept a bit more to see if it will help my workflow situation. In my case I kinda need to go the other way though: Flash CS3 > Flex not Flex > Flash CS3 I've got my live project here if anyone is interested in checking it out: http://www

[flexcoders] Re: Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) & Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-31 Thread Justin Winter
ly doesn't seem like there is much usefulness having a designer do anything else. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but I'd love to hear a better way to overcome the traditional workflow changes since Flex 2. Best regards. Justin Winter useflexmore.com

[flexcoders] Re: Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) & Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-30 Thread Justin Winter
Alex, Thanks for the quick reply! Is this issue documented anywhere? Is there any workaround you could think of? I'm struck again and again with the same situation where a designer puts together a application shell in flash and rebuilding that design again, piece by piece in Flex is a huge workf

[flexcoders] Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) & Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-30 Thread Justin Winter
I recently came across a runtime error in my Flex application (Error#2025) which took a couple of days to narrow down. There seems to be a bug in the Flash FocusManager Class unless I'm missing something here.Using a few of the Flash Components and the Flex PopUpManager Class,when clicking Tab, thi

[flexcoders] Custom Scrollable Accordion Menu Control - V1 Demo & Source

2007-12-03 Thread Justin Winter
ol thing is the way the menu cascades tweens instead of tweening both containers at the same time like the accordion. Also, if anyone wants to make any comments on my blog, you can read through my painful dev process here: http://www.useflashmore.com/blog <http://www.useflashmore.com/blog> C

[flexcoders] Custom Scrollable Accordion Menu Control - V1 Demo & Source

2007-12-03 Thread Justin Winter
ol thing is the way the menu cascades tweens instead of tweening both containers at the same time like the accordion. Also, if anyone wants to make any comments on my blog, you can read through my painful dev process here: http://www.useflashmore.com/blog <http://www.useflashmore.com/blog> C

[flexcoders] Re: Newbie compile issue rattling my brain

2007-11-27 Thread Justin Winter
Here you go: The lower-case "c" in your object was throwing an error and I put this all in an Application instead of a module. http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%">

[flexcoders] Re: This has to be a bug right? If not, please explain...

2007-11-27 Thread Justin Winter
calling validateNow(), but it can be expensive. > > > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Justin Winter > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:10 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subjec

[flexcoders] Re: This has to be a bug right? If not, please explain...

2007-11-27 Thread Justin Winter
Is there a better, more appropriate way to validate certain properties, like "height", after adding children to a UIComponent or subclass of UIComponent? Coming from AS2 I find it confusing that there isn't an easy way to access the height of a container after adding children. If later during r

[flexcoders] This has to be a bug right? If not, please explain...

2007-11-27 Thread Justin Winter
added to a creationComplete handler function: var vBox:VBox = new VBox(); for(var i:int = 0; i < 10; i++) { var tmpBtn:Button = new Button(); tmpBtn.label = "BUTTON: " + i; vBox.addChild(tmpBtn); } this.addChild(vBox); trace('VBOX HEIGH

[flexcoders] XML Navigation Menu

2007-11-12 Thread Justin Winter
I'm building a Menu component that will recursively traverse an XML file that might look similar to this: The navigation should be able to handle any depth branch and should be able to scroll a sub menu if there are too many nodes to fit in the par

[flexcoders] Re: Dynamically convert a String to a Class?

2007-09-30 Thread Justin Winter
You would want to do something like this: getDefinitionByName("flash.display::Sprite") the "getDefinitionByName" function is in the "flash.utils" Package. Here are few good resources to check out too: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/utils/package.html http://www.kirupa.com/foru

[flexcoders] viewStack and radioButtonGroup maintaining state problem

2007-09-29 Thread Justin Winter
There seems to be a problem with with multiple radioButtonGroups on different viewStacks maintaining state when switching back and forth with a tabNavigator. I am trying to create the basic component MXML component below and after clicking back and forth between the tabs the default radio buttons (