Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Decoursey
So you are saying this is acceptable behavior for an application? On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Friday 29 Feb 2008, Paul Decoursey wrote: I just imported some projects from Flex 2 into Flex 3 and it wiped out my html-templates... I spent hours tweaking those files

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Decoursey
Why did you respond then? Why am I responding now? On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 03 Mar 2008, Paul Decoursey wrote: So you are saying this is acceptable behavior for an application? I couldn't, in this case, care less what Builder does as we don't use

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Decoursey
the conversation then shut up! On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Damien Legros wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did you respond then? Why am I responding now? Stop complaining, you imported an existing project to a new program version without making

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Decoursey
I'm sorry, but nobody even regarded it as an issue. I only responded with rudeness when it was forced upon me. On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Decoursey
, Fidel Viegas wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the thread... I had backups. It's a bug. When you import any other project into eclipse or Flex builder it doesn't delete files from your project as part of the import. The reason I

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder complaint

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
very funny. Although that is exactly what I did, it is not a solution to an obvious oversight by Adobe. On Feb 29, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Dale Fraser wrote: Get them out of backup or SVN. Regards Dale Fraser From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul

[flexcoders] Flex Builder complaint

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
I just imported some projects from Flex 2 into Flex 3 and it wiped out my html-templates... I spent hours tweaking those files and all that work is gone.

Re: [flexcoders] Carousel component - help yourself

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Decoursey
the left right arrows don't always work. cool component however . On Feb 22, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Giles Roadnight wrote: Hi All A friend needed a carousel compnent the other and I had a pretty good idea of how to implement it so I went ahead and had a go one evening. I'm really pleased

Re: [flexcoders] closeButton.explicitHeight

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Decoursey
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Decoursey Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:08 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] closeButton.explicitHeight Adobe, Why have you done this in the Panel closeButton.explicitWidth = closeButton.explicitHeight = 16

[flexcoders] closeButton.explicitHeight

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Decoursey
Adobe, Why have you done this in the Panel closeButton.explicitWidth = closeButton.explicitHeight = 16; Paul

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Component Kit Help!

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
Is there a way to validate a SWC? Or to see what classes are in them and can be loaded by Flex? On Feb 19, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Paul Decoursey wrote: I've been having a lot of trouble lately with the Flex Comp Kit. I can't seem to get even the simplest thing to be seen in Flex. I do see

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
into your flex application. http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/creating-and-importing-flash-assets-into-flex/ Hope this helps. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, pretty much exactly the code I have in place. Three things I see wrong here.. 1

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
the Flash assets into your flex application. http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/creating-and-importing-flash-assets-into-flex/ Hope this helps. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, pretty much exactly the code I have in place. Three things I see

[flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
Ok, I'm loosing my mind here. I think that there might be a problem with my Flash app, but I need confirmation... I've exhausted every other avenue. I have this fla(http://client.devilsworkbook.com/assets2.fla) generating this swf (http://client.devilsworkbook.com/assets2.swf) and I'm

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
mime type is wrong... I have no control over it, you'll have to adjust it client side. On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: file wont open and it saves as a word document - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:14:44 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols file wont open and it saves as a word document - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] net To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:58:52

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
which is what you need. - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:26:33 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols They are symbols already are they not? Anyway I think that my Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
bill my client for this time. Paul On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Paul Decoursey wrote: How do you access in Flex then? This still doesn't work for me either. Paul On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: BestBuyLogo BestBuyCar - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
How do you access in Flex then? This still doesn't work for me either. Paul On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: BestBuyLogo BestBuyCar - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:21:51 PM

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Implementing Office 2007 menus

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
For losers like me that have no idea what Office 2007 is like, are there any real world examples that we can experience this with that won't cost us our children? On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Fidel Viegas wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 8:15 PM, lytvynyuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9 symbols

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
}/ /mx:WindowedApplication assets2 is in root so ya u could add it in a forder but this works and i tried it - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:18:42 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cannot embed Flash9

Re: [flexcoders] do you need CS Degree to get a job?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
My experiences have been similar. I do consulting and get most of my work by having good connections. I don't have a degree at all. I went to school just never finished it, never needed to, and frankly don't see any advantage to doing so. I do occasionally get requests for my resume,

[flexcoders] Flex Component Kit Help!

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Decoursey
I've been having a lot of trouble lately with the Flex Comp Kit. I can't seem to get even the simplest thing to be seen in Flex. I do see an UninitializedError in top level that I can't seem to find any information on anywhere... does this mean something? Paul

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe SDK, why flex comps accept bind in properties and custom comps dont?

2008-02-08 Thread Paul Decoursey
Is your property bindable? On Feb 7, 2008, at 2:39 PM, danielvlopes wrote: Hello, i observe a strange behavior when i try extend label component to do a character counter. I try pass to my comp something like this: com:MyLabel max={myTextArea.lenght} / max is a custom property, i create

Re: [flexcoders] excel like evaluator for TextInput controls?

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Decoursey
I have not seen one, it sounds like a very useful thing. I'd imagine it would be a fairly big undertaking depending on how far you want to take it. I have not really looked at this too much, but this might be a potential starting point, http://www.solve-et-coagula.com/?p=9 looks like this

[flexcoders] Cannot connect to debugger anymore

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Decoursey
I'm on a Mac, OS X 10.5, and Flash Player was just updated to 9,0,115,0, not by choice... I didn't see it in the list of updates that were packaged in an Apple Update. Anyway, I had to go and get the debug version and install that but still no dice. Flex Builder cannot connect, it

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot connect to debugger anymore

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Decoursey
debugger so it would not connect. The port that u need to unblock is 7935 - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:42:13 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Cannot connect to debugger anymore I'm on a Mac, OS X

Re: [flexcoders] Cannot connect to debugger anymore

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Decoursey
likely the port is blocked. - Original Message From: Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:13:20 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cannot connect to debugger anymore I don't have Antivirus, and from what I can tell the firewall

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a game in Flex

2007-12-08 Thread Paul Decoursey
[Embed(source=path/to/image.png)] private var image:Class; or reference the image with an Image component. or ... well, look through the docs, there are a lot of ways to use images in flex. On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:28 PM, pirzadaz_ali wrote: Hi, I have Chess board and pieces images in png

Re: [flexcoders] AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
Ted Patrick just wrote an interesting intro to AMF that I found informative. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/11/abcs-of-amf.php Paul On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice

Re: [flexcoders] Web Service Enumerations...Is this a bug?...need help!

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
Have you tried Hotfix 3? That had a lot of updates to web service code. I did notice a lot of odd things similar to what was described when I updated to hotfix 3(I didn't install hotfix 2 until that time). Most of the issues were due to Flex actually handling the SOAP calls as they

Re: [flexcoders] Thumb Nail and Indexing

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
I'd suggest something like FFMpeg or TeleStream FlipFactory for the video files. For the SWF and FLV you can load back into the Flex app and generate thumbnails that way. Paul On Nov 30, 2007, at 12:48 PM, dranoel1967 wrote: I am wanting to create a thumbnail image of files uploaded to my

Re: [flexcoders] Subversion clients

2007-11-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
I've used subclise and I really don't care for it. I have not tried subversive. I've reverted to just using the command line on the Mac. i used to use SVNX, which isn't that bad, in fact I might even recommend it. Paul On Nov 30, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Mike Krotscheck wrote: We currently

Re: [flexcoders] Guid datatype in Flex

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Jehanzeb Musani wrote: Hello, I am calling a webservice written in .NET. The webservice requires MessageId of type Guid to uniquely identify the messages. Can anyone tell me whether Flex supports Guid datatype or not? It does not. If it does not, the how

Re: [flexcoders] Guid datatype in Flex

2007-11-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
can use to get a unique id. UIDUtil.createUID() Hth, ---nimer From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Decoursey Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:42 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Guid datatype in Flex On Nov 29, 2007

Re: [flexcoders] editing Flash symbols in Flex

2007-11-21 Thread Paul Decoursey
I'm thinking the only way to do that is if the fill color is exposed as a property of the movieClip. On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:57 PM, g.shah3 wrote: I've got a Flex app where I load symbols from a Flash-designed swf file. Then I want to be able to change the fill color of the symbols

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flex + dll

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
I think the idea is to use a cross platform solution like .swc or .swf in some cases. On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:00 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 20 Nov 2007, Josh VanderBerg wrote: that uses JNI to talk to a DLL. It would be nice if AIR provided for some sort of native interface... The

Re: [flexcoders] Animated PNG

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
The patents for GIF ran out a few years ago. And does anybody support mpng? On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Robert Thompson wrote: I fully realize there may be patent issues with Adobe using animated GIF. However, what about Animated PNG? I've considered this subject for some time, and I am

Re: Time to clear the Air Adobe -- Re: [flexcoders] Animated PNG

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
want to muck up perfect vector animation with crappy bitmap animation? -r Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patents for GIF ran out a few years ago. And does anybody support mpng? On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Robert Thompson wrote: I fully realize there may be patent issues

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Animated overSkin (how to use more than one frame of a symbol)

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
Does anything other than the size change with the state change? Because you could just animate the height and width property of the component on MouseOver event. Paul On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Mark Ingram wrote: Hi Juan, I’ve had a look at the example and I’ve got it working. But

Re: [flexcoders] The best java backend

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Decoursey
We use XFire with Spring... we haven't moved to CXF, which is what Xfire has become, but I'd imagine that it is just as easy to use as xfire was with Spring. With that setup we can support both WS and REST at the same time using the same codebase. On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:47 PM, rydellfinn

Re: [flexcoders] Comparing Date

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Decoursey
try it by accessing the Date.time property for you math operations. On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:36 PM, flexawesome wrote: Hey, I am working on Comparing the Date, the following code does work with declare :*, however I would like to declare to :Date, but it doesn't work. Does anybody know how

Re: [flexcoders]SWFLoader Security Sandbox issue

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Decoursey
I'm going to say try loading the crossdomain.xml explicitly and see if that fixes it. Security.loadPolicyFile(http://static.chatopica.com/crossdomain.xml;); Paul On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:45 PM, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: I'm trying to load in a swf from another domain (chatopica chat

Re: [flexcoders]SWFLoader Security Sandbox issue

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Decoursey
content() at chatTest/__swfLoader1_init() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent () at mx.controls::SWFLoader/contentLoaderInfo_initEventHandler() On Nov 12, 2007 1:43 PM, Paul

[flexcoders] tab loop issue

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Decoursey
I have a Form that has a bunch of fields and then a small part of it in another Form that is defined in a separate mxml file. When the user tabs through the file everything is fine until it gets to that sub form, where it get stuck in a loop. Now I'm not sure it's because I have a nested

Re: [flexcoders] WITH construction ?

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Decoursey
in that properties of a object declared in the With construct are referenced in the following manner. With (object) { .x = 20; } Note the '.' ! Thanks Regards Samuel On Nov 5, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Paul Decoursey wrote: I think that with should be avoided, it greatly reduces the readability

Re: [flexcoders] PDF rendering in Flex

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Decoursey
I think that is probably your best bet at this point. It is possible to read a PDF in flex, but rendering it is a bit tricky. First if it's compressed you'll have to unzip parts of it. Once you have it decoded you could execute the drawing commands on a UIComponent and display the text

Re: [flexcoders] WITH construction ?

2007-11-05 Thread Paul Decoursey
I think that with should be avoided, it greatly reduces the readability of your code and makes maintaining it more difficult. On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Brent Dearth wrote: var o:Object = {a: 20, b: twenty}; trace (o.a + + o.b); with (o) { a = 40; b = forty; } trace (o.a + +

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Decoursey Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:38 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG! Subclipse doesn't work with Flex Builder, and I wouldn't use Eclipse for anything else. I'll check it out though. I do think all

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Justin Patrin wrote: Not for me with subclipse. On 11/1/07, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you have you html-template checked into SVN and you do a build it doesn't copy your .svn files? On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Andriy Panas wrote: Hi

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
, Jim Hayes wrote: Paul, do you have the project | properties | flex compiler | copy non-embedded files into output directory checkbox checked (it’s the default) ? -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Decoursey Sent: 02

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Justin Patrin wrote: Not for me with subclipse. On 11/1/07, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you have you html-template checked into SVN and you do a build it doesn't copy your .svn files? On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Andriy Panas wrote: Hi

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Decoursey
My FB rejected 1.0.x. I do have it installed on my Mac version and I find that it kind of sucks, but it's not entirely their fault. I cannot use it for the most part because it seems to do everything based on the root repository and I don't have access to that. I only have access to

Re: [flexcoders] Taming Time and Date in Flex

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Decoursey
On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:08 PM, markcavins wrote: I am looking to find some examples to create a clock that counts down from 3 minutes to zero and when the clock hits zero it will refresh the application. I would also like this clock to be clickable so that it to would refresh the app. I have

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 3 release date

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Decoursey
I thought the price for Flex was dropping today? I don't see any change on Adobes site. On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:26 PM, Matt Chotin wrote: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/10/flex-3-beta-2-lower-price-flex- builder.php

Re: [flexcoders] Re: HotFix 2 breaks web service results of type xsd:anyType

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Decoursey
Have you tried Hotfix 3, that has a ton of Web Service fixes. I know for us that fixed a lot of issues, but also raised a bunch more. On Nov 1, 2007, at 2:57 PM, cheftimbob wrote: Still looking for help with this if anyone has a clue. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, cheftimbob

[flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Decoursey
Please tell me that Flex Builder 3 will not copy .svn directories into the build or at least that we can specify what to include or exclude. This has been one of the biggest time wasters for me for the past year and a half (prior to that I wasted my time more efficiently on many more

Re: [flexcoders] Wrapper .svn copies BUG!

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Decoursey
:// labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Ant_Tasks On 02/11/2007, Paul Decoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me that Flex Builder 3 will not copy .svn directories into the build or at least that we can specify what to include or exclude. This has been one of the biggest time wasters

Re: [flexcoders] Date oddities

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
Odd, I've always had to adjust for the timezone, and I've always built on XP or OSX. I just assumed that was the way it was supposed to be. On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Scott Melby wrote: My application uses many dates. Dates are always passed between the back end web service and the

Re: [flexcoders] Date oddities

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
. Maybe your XP builds were resulting in dates that had timezoneOffset = 0. If this is the case, the adjustment would have no effect and you would not notice that you didn't need it. If that is not the case, then I am really confused. Thanks again Scott Paul Decoursey wrote: Odd, I've

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

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
What about us folks in the middle of the country, they are always pandering to the coasts. How about Minneapolis or Chicago. On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Ben Marchbanks wrote: Yes, another vote for Atlanta.. Douglas Knudsen wrote: Atlanta!?!? :) DK On 10/30/07, *Matt Chotin*

Re: [flexcoders] Where in the Tomcat directory do I place my .jar files?

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
Not really the right list for this, but WEB-INF/lib is where you would put jars. On Oct 30, 2007, at 4:10 PM, CO_China_Girl wrote: My team and I are building an application that consists of a Flex front-end and a Java back-end. We know that compiled Java classes should go under Tomcat's

Re: [flexcoders] Date oddities *** SOLVED ***

2007-10-30 Thread Paul Decoursey
- Thanks for the response. Maybe your XP builds were resulting in dates that had timezoneOffset = 0. If this is the case, the adjustment would have no effect and you would not notice that you didn't need it. If that is not the case, then I am really confused. Thanks again Scott Paul

Re: [flexcoders] Multiple File Uploads and OSX Leopard

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
What do you mean borked and what do you mean multiple file uploads? Don't you do one at a time? I don't have Leopard yet, but in a few days I will. Paul On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Mike Krotscheck wrote: I’m seeing blog reports that Multiple File Uploads are borked on Flash Player 9

Re: [flexcoders] MXML vs. pure ActionScript

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
I like both. For some things, like components I prefer AS only. But for larger apps I prefer mxml simply because I can visualize the app better. I don't think that there is any one better way to do it, it depends on your strengths and your needs. Paul On Oct 29, 2007, at 1:02 PM,

Re: [flexcoders] application not expanding to fit content

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Decoursey
100% height in html rarely works. the height of the div is the problem. It has been my experience the it will not expand to what it could. I have seen some workarounds out there where if you set the body to 100% height and all parent tags also to a height then it works, but I have now

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to set Script time limit in Flex 2 (or 3)?

2007-10-28 Thread Paul Decoursey
I had thought that too, but think about it, if you have a script that runs for a minute users are not going to be happy. You need to break that up into smaller parts so that the UI can update and the user doesn't think it's broken. In fact I like the default of 15 seconds, it helps me to

Re: [flexcoders] Getting Debugger window when running flex application

2007-10-28 Thread Paul Decoursey
I think that this is because the beta player installs to a different file than the official release. I think that flex is checking for the official release and doesn't find it. I don't think there is a way to turn off this warning, at least I haven't found one. I've reverted back to the

Re: [flexcoders] Changing the width to 100%

2007-10-28 Thread Paul Decoursey
try percentWidth verses witdh On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:36 AM, George Georgiou wrote: Hi there, This is a very simple but I can't get it work. I have a panel and I want to change it's with to 100% by means of ActionScript. Here's what I do: public function changeWidth():void {

Re: [flexcoders] Re: getElementByID equivalent

2007-10-26 Thread Paul Decoursey
this[buttonName].height = On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:14 AM, suman.karumuri wrote: Hi Tracy, Thanks for the response. But i am constructing a string called Button1, Button2 ... ButtonN and I want to access the element with the id in mxml document called Button1 which gives me a type

Re: [flexcoders] crossdomain.xml... real or not-so-real security?

2007-10-26 Thread Paul Decoursey
The use case I've heard that makes sense to me that does provide security is this. Say you have a bunch of FLVs stored on your server and you let some people access those from their site. And at some point you discover that someone has been abusing that privilege and racking up huge

Re: [flexcoders] Re: OT: Netiquette Question

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Decoursey
Where are you now? I have to say though, you have to really love your job to put up with that. No company I would work for would pull that kind of crap on me. I work how I want, when I want, and I need full access the the internet to do my job. FREEDOM! On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:08

Re: [flexcoders] Re: OT: Netiquette Question

2007-10-24 Thread Paul deCoursey
pixelgeek wrote: OOI why do you use the digest ? Its easier to browse through a single mail message than it is to read 100+ emails. I think the point to the 100+ emails is you can quickly scan the subjects for what might be of interest. And if you have threading enabled in

Re: [flexcoders] Re: OT: Netiquette Question

2007-10-24 Thread Paul deCoursey
pixelgeek wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul deCoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the point to the 100+ emails is you can quickly scan the subjects for what might be of interest. Questioning a persons use of a feature of this site because you don't see

Re: [flexcoders] Re: OT: Netiquette Question

2007-10-24 Thread Paul deCoursey
droponrcll wrote: I subscribe to multiple yahoo forums and find the Digest the easiest way to deal with all of the traffic. As long as we're making suggestions about how others use the forume ;- ), is there anything you can do about that mammoth disclaimer of yours. It usually dwarfs

Re: [flexcoders] Simple SimpleButton 2nd try

2007-10-23 Thread Paul deCoursey
I think that you can add a SimpleButton to a UIComponent and then add that UIComponent to the Application. But you should know that a SimpleButton has no skin and unless you define it's states it will not appear on the stage. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you possibly saying that I can't add

Re: [flexcoders] Simple SimpleButton 2nd try

2007-10-23 Thread Paul deCoursey
Those layers were a big stumbling block for me, but once I understood it I don't have any problems with it. I also agree that better examples would be useful/helpful and if Adobe were to want to hire an experienced developer to write some Do you know if there are any plans in the future of

Re: [flexcoders] What event does VideoDisplay send on wrong data?

2007-10-23 Thread Paul deCoursey
http://www.adobe.com/fake.flv returns a 404 response but the others do not. A 404 would be a connection error, but the others are not errors, but vaild data. Peter DeHaan wrote: Bjorn, Can you please file a bug in the Flex bug base at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/? It seems that the

Re: [flexcoders] not kosher to call function from inline renderer?

2007-10-17 Thread Paul deCoursey
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:08 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] not kosher to call function from inline renderer? Paul deCoursey wrote: The inline component doesn't have that method in scope. Try {this.parentDocumen t.blobToImage. ... spoke too soon

Re: [flexcoders] not kosher to call function from inline renderer?

2007-10-17 Thread Paul deCoursey
on an mx.controls.* it may not be the same. It would seem to me that if you got the scope wrong, you'd get an runtime error, so I can't figure out why he's in the situation he is. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul deCoursey Sent

Re: [flexcoders] Flex app security on IIS

2007-10-17 Thread Paul deCoursey
This is a bug that I have reported before. The upload request does not share the session with the other requests on the system. ie, cookies are not sent that have not been set by any other upload requests. In some cases I've been able to use URL-Rewriting to share the session, but it's a

Re: [flexcoders] not kosher to call function from inline renderer?

2007-10-16 Thread Paul deCoursey
The inline component doesn't have that method in scope. Try {this.parentDocument.blobToImage Paul Hastings wrote: don't know if it's not kosher or i'm flubbing something but i keep getting Call to a possibly undefined method blobToImage. errors from something like this (trying to

Re: [flexcoders] Detecting optional elements in XML

2007-10-07 Thread Paul deCoursey
Use e4x, most e4x expressions return an XMLList. Then check if the result has a length greater than 0. Some of the alternatives are actually more work computationally, as they do the test for existence and then run the query later if it exists. Here is an example of where I use it. var

Re: [flexcoders] Scrubbing in a MP3-file

2007-09-27 Thread Paul deCoursey
Just a guess, but do you have a package declaration in the SoundPlayer.as file? Arleston Lueders wrote: Newbie question: I'm trying to import/include the SoundPlayer.as to my Flex app. mx:Script source=SoundPlayer.as/ And after this in a panel Im putting the code: SoundPlayer source=

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Very strange runtime behavior - if logic doesn't work?????

2007-09-27 Thread Paul deCoursey
You don't have another class or var with the name includeBase that might be conflicting? That's the kind of thing that has tripped me up in the past. In the debugger can you verify the value of includeBase? Paul dbronk wrote: hmmm... I thought I did post a test case. I didn't send in a

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Paul deCoursey
I have been getting caught up with with one for a few weeks now, I keep forgetting to specify the namespace. I actually think this is a bug, but I haven't checked the Ecma requirements yet. In XPATH and the like if you don't specify a namespace in the query it will return all elements

Re: [flexcoders] e4x question

2007-09-26 Thread Paul deCoursey
. What also doesn't make sense is that attributes don't have a namespace unless declared per attribute. They do not inherit from the element, which is what XML Schema defines, but since Schema really doesn't come into play here this can be expected. It's all totally bizzare. Paul Paul

Re: [flexcoders] XSLT in Flex

2007-09-25 Thread Paul deCoursey
I'm guessing that XSLT for AS3 isn't going to come anytime soon. You will probably have to write a translator that just iterates through the xml. droponrcll wrote: I have two components I'd like to use in my Flex piece that were developed by two different companies. They both use

Re: [flexcoders] SVG Embed Issues

2007-09-25 Thread Paul deCoursey
I may be totally wrong, but I think (total guess here) that the SVG is read by Batik and converted to SWF when embeded. Try loading the file in the Batik viewer and see if it generates any errors. Daniel Cascais wrote: Hi, I'm working with a large set of SVG maps that are being embedded

Re: [flexcoders] XMLList!!

2007-09-24 Thread Paul deCoursey
.item.child(koala).(text()==Y) figo2324 wrote: Hi people, i need your help, i have a xmllist object so i need to query this xmllist, im doing it in this way var jo:XMLList=myDataProvider.data.item.(koala==Y); where myDataProvider.data = data item pruebaccct/prueba koalaX/koala /item

Re: [flexcoders] Could people watch their subject lines ?

2007-09-19 Thread Paul deCoursey
Tom Chiverton wrote: I'm as much a fan on Monty Python as anyone else, but trying to scan down a list of messages with subject lines like Re: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] RE: [SPAM] is a total pain :-) I think it's just you, none of us are seeing this... maybe you are just

Re: [flexcoders] SOAP Service Issue, kind of a big bug

2007-09-17 Thread Paul deCoursey
element is null, where is the Object? Any ideas? Paul Paul deCoursey wrote: Paul deCoursey wrote: Ok I have this WSDL: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? wsdl:definitions targetNamespace=http://examples.decoursey.com; xmlns:soapenc12=http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding

[flexcoders] Re: WebService problem

2007-09-14 Thread Paul DeCoursey
@yahoogroups.com, Paul deCoursey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this issue when calling a WebService operation. If I have in the schema an object that extends string the operation will fail and crash teh browser. The idea is to send an object like this (represented in xml): collection uuid

Re: [flexcoders] Does Adobe have plans for OplenGL Primitives or not?

2007-09-07 Thread Paul deCoursey
That would be cool, but I can't see that happening. I'd imagine that adding any OpenGL support would add a significant amount of bloat to the player. I think that it has become fairly universal, I don't see why they couldn't make a go for it. but then there is always papervision, and the

Re: [flexcoders] its possible convert (not split) String to Array ?

2007-08-31 Thread Paul deCoursey
JSON, what you need is a JSON parser. I believe there is one on google code... http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ Paul Marcio Napoli wrote: Hey All, If i have one String that represents Array of Arrays (same sintax). Its possible convert in Array object? private var

Re: [flexcoders] Want to export data to and Excel File

2007-08-30 Thread Paul deCoursey
NavigateToUrl should work. This is really more of a general Web Development question though. The real work would need to be done on the server in some sort of web application. You need to set the header of the response to the correct mimetype so that the browser can decide what to do with

Re: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's

2007-06-14 Thread Paul deCoursey
Troy Gilbert wrote: I largely prefer many of Visual Studio's (particularly 2005) features to FlexBuilder, though do like some of FlexBuilder/ Eclipse's features as well. Of course, the features I like most about Visual Studio don't seem to be intrinsic to the way it does things, more

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Parameter passing !! I am shocked

2007-06-08 Thread Paul deCoursey
When you set it to null it removes the reference the current scope or context, and when you pass it into that function it is in a different scope from this. had you done this.obj = null, then it would have been completely de-referenced and eligible for garbage collection. --- In

Re: [flexcoders]Is there a way to dispatch an event or call a function in a Sequence?

2007-06-08 Thread Paul deCoursey
just a guess, but could call the function form the effectEnd Effect.html#event:effectEnd event on that last item in the sequence? dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: I've setup a transition to animate my menu when the user clicks on a menu item. After the animation I want to call a function to

[flexcoders] Metadata question

2007-06-08 Thread Paul deCoursey
Does anybody know if it's possible to define our own metadata and access that info at runtime? For example, I'm writing a XML-Object binding framework and I'd like to add some metadata to some generated classes that I can access at runtime. The data I'd like to add is info about how the

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