Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-01-18 Thread Sam Lai
On 18 January 2012 02:05, Merrill, Jason jason.merr...@bankofamerica.comwrote: The problem isn’t even that large companies are in bed with Microsoft (that is a problem), but it’s that they have many many existing legacy enterprise apps that only work or have only been tested to work in IE,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex version of excel spreadsheet?

2010-06-30 Thread Sam Lai
This is also possible using Excel Web Services if using SharePoint is an option. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx How flexible does this solution need to be? Do they need to be able to load any arbitrary Excel file into the web app, which are in turn available to users? Or

Re: [flexcoders] Idea For An Application - Universal Social Network Accesor - Is this possible?

2010-03-25 Thread Sam Lai
On 25 March 2010 03:21, James garymoorcroft_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: In my air app I have a twitter feed in which all of a users tweets will be displayed if they eneter their twitter name and click load. I want to expand on this so that I can also get data from facebook and perhaps Bebo and

Re: [flexcoders] flash builder beta 2 sn?

2010-01-18 Thread Sam Lai
From http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/?tabID=details#tabTop How long can I use Flash Builder 4 beta 2? The beta 2 release of Flash Builder 4 will run for 60 days from installation before timing out. You may continue your use of beta 2 after the first 60 days by entering a valid

Re: [flexcoders] Local Windows services calls from Air

2009-12-31 Thread Sam Lai
Using the ability to call operating-system specific apps in AIR 2.0 (currently in Beta), you can do that either by writing your own Windows app, or using VBScript/PowerShell. 2009/12/31 method_air loudj...@hotmail.com: Is there a way to call out to a local Windows service (ie COM etc) from

Re: [flexcoders] Free Flash :-D

2009-10-23 Thread Sam Lai
Not directly helpful, but they did make Flex Builder 3 pretty much immediately available to universities (staff and students) once it was released. I had to re-register though, so I have a key for FB2 and FB3. So if history is anything to go by... fingers crossed P.S. I was surprised to find out

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3: AIR Local Database

2009-10-22 Thread Sam Lai
2009/10/23 jwc_wensan jwcaldw...@zingit.com: In all the articles I have read and some examples, it only talks about using SQLite as the database on the users' PC/Mac.  Is that the only database that can be used locally? Because AIR has support for sockets, there are ongoing projects to give

Re: [flexcoders] what is wrong with this code?

2009-10-10 Thread Sam Lai
2009/10/10 funandlearning3 funandlearni...@yahoo.com: public var str:String = Area = ; public var area:Number = Math.PI * Math.pow(3, 2); str = str + area; I am getting an error that str and area variable do not exist... Is the last line located elsewhere in your code? Does the code appear

Re: [flexcoders] Mac OSX and Flex builder

2009-09-29 Thread Sam Lai
2009/9/29 cuttenv cutt...@yahoo.com: Anyone know what aum.flexbuilder.osx and why it needs rosetta?? :) Extremely random guess, I don't have a Mac around - but aum might be Adobe Update Manager?

Re: [flexcoders] Custom icon in air installer

2009-09-28 Thread Sam Lai
You mean the icon in this dialog? http://blogs.adobe.com/simplicity/2009/07/revised_air_152_install_experi.html I don't think you can. The AIR install dialogs are fairly rigid in terms of customisation, presumably to keep the install experience uniform across the platform. 2009/9/26 Dave Cates

[flexcoders] anonymous access to bugs.adobe.com gone?

2009-09-14 Thread Sam Lai
I can't seem to access bugs.adobe.com without signing up for an account anymore. I used to be able to browse and search for bugs, but now all I'm getting is a login required message. There is still a message in there that says I should be able to search without registration, so I hope this is a

Re: [flexcoders] Dot NET or JAVA example to give output as WSDL

2009-09-07 Thread Sam Lai
2009/9/7 Suresh G suresh@gmail.com: Hi All, Thanks a lot for your answers My Main need is... I have remote SQL server need to connect using flex and give the output in various charts... For which i found flashbuilder 4 is easy but i am blank... i thought if i can generate a WSDL file

Re: [flexcoders] Dot NET or JAVA example to give output as WSDL

2009-09-07 Thread Sam Lai
2009/9/8 Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com: 2009/9/7 Suresh G suresh@gmail.com: Hi All, Thanks a lot for your answers My Main need is... I have remote SQL server need to connect using flex and give the output in various charts... For which i found flashbuilder 4 is easy but i am blank... i

Re: [flexcoders] Dot NET or JAVA example to give output as WSDL

2009-09-06 Thread Sam Lai
If you are developing the .NET web service using the standard method, it would have generated a WSDL for you which is accessible at the web service URL (ends with .asmx). As far as I know, SQL server does not do web services natively (maybe with the Data Services component...). 2009/9/6 Suresh G

Re: [flexcoders] Re: this group isn't very good

2009-08-03 Thread Sam Lai
I got a message saying 'click here to request to be migrated to the new message search' (paraphrased) when looking at another Yahoo! Group, and found this in their blog (http://www.ygroupsblog.com/blog/2009/07/08/bug-update-782009/) so I think they're getting on to this, probably after they fix

Re: [flexcoders] AIR html component

2009-07-28 Thread Sam Lai
browser.domWindow where browser is the mx:HTML component. Don't know if you can call them via that interface though; maybe the 'javascript:my_js_function()' in the location bar trick works? 2009/7/29 hworke kanps...@gmail.com: Hi if I load www.google.com in a HTML component like this mx:HTML

Re: [flexcoders] newbie question : putting a semicolon in a mxml property

2009-07-12 Thread Sam Lai
Not if there is just a single line of script within the quotation marks. If you wanted to do something like this though, mx:Button label=some label click=t1.text = t2.text; doSomethingElse(); t3.visible = false; / Then you do need the semi-colons. Most people just have the semi-colon there out

Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript on JSR223

2009-07-09 Thread Sam Lai
Doesn't GWT do something similar, converting the necessary Java code to Javascript? Maybe that part can be reused as AS code. Granted, you will lose the typing in the validation code, but I would presume that GWT would've thought about that and mitigated the security issues there? P.S.

Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript on JSR223

2009-07-09 Thread Sam Lai
A hack would be to use the GWT code and Flash's ExternalInterface to validate via the Javascript produced by GWT and loaded in the browser. I don't know how much you have to commit to GWT before you can use it though; haven't used it before. 2009/7/10 Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com: Doesn't GWT

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flash MiniBuilder: online AS3 IDE

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Lai
I guess Victor fixed a few things after you tried it valdhor, because it works fine for me. I'm using Chrome and I believe the release player though, so that might be why. Pretty cool, would be nice to have a bit more response from the compiler when compiling though. What are the big plans for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: dynamic image gallery

2009-07-05 Thread Sam Lai
Add a Label to thumbnail.mxml and show the image path to see that it is getting that. Then hard-code an image path in thumbnail.mxml. This will help you isolate the problem. 2009/7/6 stinasius stinas...@yahoo.com: someone please help point out what am doing wrong in the code. would really

Re: [flexcoders] Re: dynamic image gallery

2009-07-05 Thread Sam Lai
Does an image appear if you hardcode the image source in thumbnail.mxml? 2009/7/6 stinasius stinas...@yahoo.com: i have tried to do as you asked, added a label to the thumbnail.mxml and the labels show up as expected. still haven't seen why those images cant show in the Horizontal list.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: getting the xml data from a dispatched event

2009-07-03 Thread Sam Lai
.pnlCreateBreakfast.coverflow.Panelcreatemealitem1006 How can I access the object data, it's in a file thats under the folder /com/nutrition/file.mxml --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: I'd add a trace statement just before it to see what type of object event.target is - it could be that the target is the UI

Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection Does Not Show Items In Order When Passed to .NET WebService

2009-07-03 Thread Sam Lai
? I wonder if it is possible to bind your datagrid directly to the e4x XML? That way you can pass the entire XML doc back to .NET via the web service, and hence you can re-create the dataset using dataset.readXML. From: Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com

Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection Does Not Show Items In Order When Passed to .NET WebService

2009-07-02 Thread Sam Lai
How is it being parsed in .NET? You can parse it into a hashtable, or better yet, use a pre-defined object. Not sure why the order is different, but it is probably fragile to rely on the order in this case. 2009/7/2 Angelo Anolin angelo_ano...@yahoo.com: Hi FlexCoders, I have an array

Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection Does Not Show Items In Order When Passed to .NET WebService

2009-07-02 Thread Sam Lai
, the first item becomes the last one in the array list, and sometimes the order is not well. In any case, I am finding a solution on how I would be able to pass an ArrayCollection to .NET and be able to parse it properly. Thanks. From: Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com

Re: [flexcoders] The Blueprint Eclipse plug-in is live on Adobe Labs

2009-07-01 Thread Sam Lai
I'm surprised at the lack of reaction for this on this list. I'm impressed - looks to be quite useful; just need to add it into my workflow. The examples are good when dealing with completely unfamiliar classes, but I often forget what a certain property/method in a certain class does/returns,

Re: [flexcoders] getting the xml data from a dispatched event

2009-07-01 Thread Sam Lai
I'd add a trace statement just before it to see what type of object event.target is - it could be that the target is the UI component, and not the data object. //throws error on this line trace(event.target); customMeals.addItem((event.target as mealitem).mealDetails); 2009/7/2 Jason B

Re: [flexcoders] ArrayCollection/Min Max Problem

2009-06-30 Thread Sam Lai
Maybe your trace statement is in the wrong place? Seeing your code would help in solving the problem. Another way to solve these problems is to sort the data (sub)set, then just pull the first and last elements. Depending on what you want to do with the data after, this may be faster. 2009/7/1

Re: [flexcoders] (SOT) Opportunity for FB ? (Hey! Adobe !)

2009-06-19 Thread Sam Lai
I highly doubt this will happen, mainly because the flagship user of bugzilla is Mozilla, a web browser company with deep investments in HTML5, CSS and JS. Their community probably wouldn't be very receptive either. From a personal perspective, I don't think it is a good idea either - Flash UIs

Re: [flexcoders] Subversive Client install on full FB3

2009-06-14 Thread Sam Lai
You need to get the URL to the automatic configuration script, then put that into a web browser. Depending on your browser, you will either have to download it then open it in notepad, or it will just display it. The script is basically javascript, telling the browser which proxy address *and

Re: [flexcoders] Charting dataFunction issues

2009-06-12 Thread Sam Lai
Can you try removing some of those series to isolate the problem? Also, can we see the console output from the trace statements in seriesDataFunction? Maybe the values are out of bounds? Some sample data would be useful too if that's possible. 2009/6/12 Jake Churchill j...@cfwebtools.com:

Re: [flexcoders] Read HTML content ???

2009-06-11 Thread Sam Lai
You can access the HTML DOM of that page like this, and get whatever you want, just like you can in JS: var forms:* = browser.domWindow.document.getElementsByTagName(form); var loginForm:* = null; for each (var f:* in forms) { if (f.innerText.toLowerCase().indexOf(login) = 0) {

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex and Reporting

2009-06-09 Thread Sam Lai
Is FlashPaper still supported? Never actually used it, not quite sure how it works, just that it lets you view documents inside of Flash. 2009/6/10 Tim Hoff timh...@aol.com: Crystal Reports is great for generating data driven .Net reports.  But, if you wanted to generate a wysiwyg type of

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and .NET

2009-06-07 Thread Sam Lai
2009/6/8 Angelo Anolin angelo_ano...@yahoo.com: I feel that this is probably not the BEST way of doing this.  I tried initially to pass an XML delimmited string, but .NET seems to read XML differently(?) from Flex. I'd say XML would be a good way of doing it. What kind of errors are you

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and .NET

2009-06-07 Thread Sam Lai
and the dataset is immediately bound to the Crystal report? Thanks. Regards, Angelo From: Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 8:49:36 Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex and .NET 2009/6/8 Angelo Anolin angelo_anolin

Re: [flexcoders] May I install Flex 3 builder and new Flash builder in same computer

2009-06-01 Thread Sam Lai
You can install a separate copy of Flash Builder 4 standalone and it will remain separate from any Flex Builder 2 or 3 installations. Also, workspaces created in Flex Builder 2 or Flex Builder 3 are not supported by Flash Builder 4. Lastly, Flash Builder 4 can import existing Flex Builder

Re: [flexcoders] AIR Computer Locking

2009-06-01 Thread Sam Lai
Should probably check to see if that point is still valid everytime too, in case I'm on a dual monitor setup with the external monitor being the primary one, then standby the machine, yank out the external monitor then resume. I wonder what you could do if I don't unlock my machine immediately

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Coding Standards

2009-05-24 Thread Sam Lai
The conventions/standards/guidelines for Flex SDK are here - http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions 2009/5/25 Romeo Obane ro...@vhubs.com: Hope this helps http://blog.dclick.com.br/2007/02/13/adobe_flex_coding_guidelines_english/pt/ I'm currently basing my

Re: [flexcoders] NEED more than 15 menu item in Context Menu ????

2009-05-24 Thread Sam Lai
Is the Flex app loaded in the IE ActiveX control, or the Flash Player ActiveX control? If it is IE, any of the tricks to hide the context menu in the normal IE browser should work. Never tried doing this myself though. On 5/23/09, Dharmendra Chauhan chauhan_i...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Lot for

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe Flash Help Urgent

2009-05-19 Thread Sam Lai
Instead of stabbing in the dark, try installing Fiddler on the Windows client machine. It shows you all the calls any browser makes, the HTTP headers and responses, everything basically. Then compare the results before and after changing the web server configuration. If it is anything like what

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Job Offer ! - WTF?!

2009-05-14 Thread Sam Lai
The factory workers must be over the moon that they make the same as their managers! On 5/15/09, Wally Kolcz wko...@isavepets.com wrote: How funny. pay to apply and make less than most of us already do. From: valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com Sent:

Re: [flexcoders] Is this very bad?

2009-05-14 Thread Sam Lai
I've gotten something similar occasionally too. I think the Java runtime has just gotten itself confused; usually restarting FB3 fixes it. On 5/15/09, markgoldin_2000 markgoldin_2...@yahoo.com wrote: When I open Builder: Error opening the editor. Assertion failed:

Re: [flexcoders] Job Offer !

2009-05-14 Thread Sam Lai
Maybe it has just taken the email addresses from the publicly available archives and faked the email headers? In that case it's more annoying than a security breach. On 5/15/09, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, valdhor valdhorli...@... wrote: Amy

Re: [flexcoders] create a file in system using AIR

2009-05-10 Thread Sam Lai
. I know how i can create directories at desktop and documents. But i want to create a text file at the location i want lets say C:\test\test1\hello.txt How i can achieve that? Thanks, kanu On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote: See 'the second way' under

Re: [flexcoders] Collaborative project: realtime ActionScript WMA converter

2009-05-09 Thread Sam Lai
This should be possible in theory, given Microsoft Silverlight has just added support for doing this exact thing in Silverlight 3 (and there is a project for providing Ogg Vorbis support going on). Who knows what the licensing implications here are though. The only WMA decoder I know of that has

Re: [flexcoders] create a file in system using AIR

2009-05-09 Thread Sam Lai
See 'the second way' under the 'Referencing a file or directory' section. http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Articles:Adobe_AIR_Local_File_System_Access#Reading_and_writing_files 2009/5/10 kanu kukreja kanukukr...@gmail.com: I know how i can create a file in documentsDirectory,

Re: [flexcoders] McAfee slowdown of the application load

2009-05-06 Thread Sam Lai
It would probably have to do with the McAfee IE addon, site advisor I believe? Basically it checks every link to see if they are malicious, among other things. They are typically written poorly (or maybe the IE infrastructure is bad) hence funny issues like this, and the need for an IE safe mode.

Re: [flexcoders] VBox that scrolls without a scrollbar

2009-05-05 Thread Sam Lai
Or set the scrollbar skin to a null classreference? I think that works, otherwise using a 1x1 pixel transparent skin definitely will. On my phone, so don't have the exact style names with me, but it should be in the docs. On 5/6/09, Charles Parcell pokemonkil...@gmail.com wrote: I have a VBox

Re: [flexcoders] Newbie question: Custom Components and Custom Events

2009-05-04 Thread Sam Lai
Looks like the USER_SUBMIT variable or constant in your UserEvents class is not static, but you're accessing it in a static way. They should be static, so add they keyword static before the var keyword when you declare USER_SUBMIT and it should all work. On 5/5/09, Alan Rother

Re: [flexcoders] Would anyone know what Capabilities.os shows for Windows 7 ?

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Lai
Seeing as no one seems to have replied, I gave it a shot. In a Flex app running in AIR, it just contains Windows. I'm running Windows 7 Beta Build 7000. 2009/4/30 Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com: I don’t have a copy handy, and I’m doing some code on DVD that will need to run for some years

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Lai
Creepy. Although it's just a patent; there's no evidence it has been implemented in Vista/7. Is there? Personally, I'm more concerned about Google, given their primary source of profit is advertising, and they store a substantial amount of my email from the past 5 years, plus know nearly every

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Lai
One more thing - I know I contradicted my earlier post, but there was just too many things wrong with the last link. Apologies. 2009/5/1 Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com: Creepy. Although it's just a patent; there's no evidence it has been implemented in Vista/7. Is there? Personally, I'm more

Re: [flexcoders] Error with Flex Builder

2009-05-01 Thread Sam Lai
Did you open a project in FB, then closed FB, removed a disk, and now re-opened FB? It sounds like it is from a drive which can exist but have no disk in it, e.g. a CD/DVD, a card reader. If it is on a hard drive, and is recurring, might be worth checking the health of your hard drive. 2009/5/2

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?

2009-04-30 Thread Sam Lai
2009/5/1 Kelly dek...@gmail.com: I am not sure why it's so hard. Most other Eclipse plugins work fine on Linux 32 and 64 Bit. It's probably not the editor bits that are hard, but the debugging bits which have to reach outside of the Java world to work. Ditto with the profiler bits I'd say,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder on Linux been scrapped ?

2009-04-30 Thread Sam Lai
Why do conversations about Linux always devolve into an MS-bashing thread, often based on unfounded assumptions? Take it off-list. 2009/5/1 Kelly dek...@gmail.com: Microsoft deep scans your hard drives and transmits home. This is admitted in their patents. This is data mining on a level

Re: [flexcoders] getItemIndex ......returning -1

2009-04-27 Thread Sam Lai
, development services available From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sam Lai Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] getItemIndex ..returning -1 I'm on my phone

Re: [flexcoders] getItemIndex ......returning -1

2009-04-26 Thread Sam Lai
Flex is looking for a string in the array with the value 'specific course name'. In your arraycollection though, you have objects (not strings), which within them hold multiple strings (TITLE, DESC, REQ). The only way to match again the title field of every object in the array is to use a for

Re: [flexcoders] getItemIndex ......returning -1

2009-04-26 Thread Sam Lai
if (courses.getItemAt(index).TITLE == specific course name) { index = i; break; } } Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com Sent by: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 04/26/2009 12:59 AM Please respond to flexcoders@yahoogroups.com To flexcoders@yahoogroups.com cc Subject Re: [flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] bug in Flex regarding to import

2009-04-26 Thread Sam Lai
Assuming you're using both xxx.Webservice and zzz.Webservice in the same class, you need to use the full name to refer to those classes in your code, otherwise Flex won't be able to work out what you're referring to. So instead of: var w1:Webservice; var w2:Webservice; use: var

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Menu Basic Question

2009-04-26 Thread Sam Lai
1 thing that might help is that ViewStack children all have to inherit from Container I think. So are the children subclasses of VBox, Canvas or similar? On 4/27/09, Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com wrote: Google: flex viewstack example Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services

Re: [flexcoders] chart axis renderers inside data area

2009-04-23 Thread Sam Lai
...@web-attitude.fr: Maciek, pushing axisrenderer to annotationElements array doesnt seem to work. Sam, setting negative gutters works (any negative gutter does the same) but not completely : axe is rendered in area, but only stroke and ticks, no labels... thomas 2009/4/22 Sam Lai samuel

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expiration date

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Lai
An additional consideration there is what happens if the user is offline? It might be that your app can't be used offline anyway, so then it's not an issue. 2009/4/22 lehaianh1986 lehaianh1...@yahoo.com: Thank all, I read carefully all replies. Sent a request, then analyze a response to know

Re: [flexcoders] Web-based application to access local files

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Lai
The only web-deployed, no-install tools you can use that has access to the local file system is Java and ActiveX as you have discovered. Both will throw security warnings, because no web app has unfettered access to your computer by default, and none should (who knows what kind of havoc they could

Re: [flexcoders] chart axis renderers inside data area

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Lai
Can you have negative gutters? Probably not; I have enough trouble as it is trying to get rid of all the space used by the axes - I've made the axes invisible via numerous style/property settings, but there's still one or two pixels of space being allocated to it. 2009/4/22 Maciek Sakrejda

Re: [flexcoders] problem with mx:horizontalAxisRenderers

2009-04-14 Thread Sam Lai
Well if there's not enough space, there's not much you can do. How do you want to show it? 2009/4/14 Vikram Singh vikisingh...@yahoo.in: Hello Friends, there are many items on X-Axis so can't see clearly name of each and every item. I have tried to implement mx:horizontalAxisRenderers to

Re: [flexcoders] adobe team: do you get the Windows crash reports when we send them?

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Lai
If you're talking about the dialogs that come up with Eclipse crashes, then I highly doubt it. But if Microsoft sees an abnormally high number of reports for, say about the Flash plugin, they'll probably get on the phone and work it out with Adobe given how important that is for most users.

Re: [flexcoders] adobe team: do you get the Windows crash reports when we send them?

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Lai
this, but it's annoying. On 4/14/09, arieljake arielj...@yahoo.com wrote: Nope, I am referring to this: Adobe AIR Debug Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: If you're talking

Re: [flexcoders] Flash speed test - please participate - only 1 click required !

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Lai
Tom, Could you make the stats available after you complete the test, and also do something on the page so we know the test is running, and not just hung (e.g. A running counter)? Maybe that will give people some more confidence that it is doing what it claims to be doing. P.S. Can't stand

Re: [flexcoders] check for daylight savings time

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Lai
There's probably a web service out there you could call, or you could just write some server side code to read that information from the server. I'm on my phone so don't have any links, but a Google search should be able to get you something. On 4/14/09, Dennis Falling dfall...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] CodeProject for Flex?

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Lai
The Flex cookbook is kind of similar, although the content there tends to be shorter, for smaller tasks and more about code than the explanation on how it does what it does. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepageproductId=2 2009/4/9 g_odds g_o...@yahoo.co.uk: I've

Re: [flexcoders] Re: New Adobe forums coming!

2009-04-08 Thread Sam Lai
I'm not on the forums, but they should be sending out the mailing-list header in each email which allows you to create a filter to apply labels to in Gmail. When viewing a message in Gmail from the forums, click on the 'show details' link, and there should be a - mailing list

Re: [flexcoders] Getting field names in array collection

2009-04-04 Thread Sam Lai
Just use the for statement but in a for each manner, e.g. for (var fieldName in someObject) { trace(fieldName); } It's one of those subtle tricks in ECMAScript (which could've been named better, or maybe more intuitive with different syntax, e.g. Python's.) (that's the general idea - code

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flash player fails to install on vista!

2009-04-04 Thread Sam Lai
I get up again to installed --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: This just sounds like the tech support calls I get from customers. Given you're a developer, I expected better - What was the error message, how

Re: [flexcoders] Flex, SharePoint and SQLServer

2009-04-04 Thread Sam Lai
1. could work, because you can use Flex to get the data via SharePoint's HTTP APIs. May make it difficult to query; not sure what options are available in the SharePoint API. 2. You would need some kind of service in between to mediate, i.e. to provide a HTTP API to SQL Server. Either something

Re: [flexcoders] Re: New Adobe forums coming!

2009-04-03 Thread Sam Lai
Nope - I believe it will look like this: http://adobeforums.adobe.com/index.jspa 2009/4/3 Radley che...@eoptica.com: I just took a look @ adobeforums.com tonight (thurs night). Is that what the new forums will be like? -radley On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Matt Chotin wrote: I think that

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adding tabs dynamically

2009-04-02 Thread Sam Lai
: TabNavigatorObj.addChildAt(this, TabNavigatorObj.getChildren().length - 1); --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: How are you adding the tabs to the tabnavigator? 2009/4/2 markgoldin_2000 markgoldin_2...@...: I am having a problem adding tabs to tabnavigator. While I

Re: [flexcoders] Why does percentWidth / percentHeight not work with popups?

2009-04-02 Thread Sam Lai
I can confirm the issue and had to manually size it via the resized event. Maybe it's because the popup is not part of the window/app's display list, but instead a separate controlled by PopupManager? On 4/3/09, skuteboarding m...@mark-ingram.com wrote: I'm trying to create a popup at 100% of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: New Adobe forums coming!

2009-04-02 Thread Sam Lai
I hope not - I used to be a forum trawler, but lately I've become quite fond of having the content pushed to my email, as opposed to me having to go get it. Also makes it easier to read on a mobile (yes, I don't have an iPhone). Some forum software offer a mailing list interface too - not sure if

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Ribbon in FLEX

2009-04-01 Thread Sam Lai
2009/4/2 Cole Joplin cole_jop...@yahoo.com: Scott uses Microsoft's participation in standards bodies and knowledge of gui research that clearly expresses an authority posture to legitimize his point. The typical posts here are overtly subjective developer opinions taken with a grain of salt.

Re: [flexcoders] Adding tabs dynamically

2009-04-01 Thread Sam Lai
How are you adding the tabs to the tabnavigator? 2009/4/2 markgoldin_2000 markgoldin_2...@yahoo.com: I am having a problem adding tabs to tabnavigator. While I am going in one order tabs are generated in a different then mine. Here is some code although it's simplified: // Scan thru

Re: [flexcoders] Flash player fails to install on vista!

2009-04-01 Thread Sam Lai
This just sounds like the tech support calls I get from customers. Given you're a developer, I expected better - What was the error message, how is it not installing? 2009/4/2 Cato Paus ca...@brannsikring.no: Hi all, this is veard, I have a clean install(Windows Vista Ultimate) on my laptop

Re: [flexcoders] Re:Separate browser sessions in AIR

2009-03-30 Thread Sam Lai
Thanks for the responses everyone. Amy: For some browsers yes, but nevertheless, it would be a nice capability for AIR to have. No idea how it works for other browser controls. Wesley: The site I'm logging into is a third-party site that I have no control over. Martyn: This is with the mx:HTML

[flexcoders] Separate browser sessions in AIR

2009-03-29 Thread Sam Lai
Hi everyone, I've got a Flex-based AIR app that manages accounts and stores a number of usernames and passwords for a particular website. On a user's request, the app launches a new window with a mx:HTML control, opening the website and allows users to log in. The problem is, all instances of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Which mobile device can run flash ?

2009-03-26 Thread Sam Lai
Would the Adobe Mobile Central app give you any information? The one that is, I think, bundled in with CS4? I seem to remember it had a database of a wide range of phones, with info such as the screen size and... other stuff when it was announced. Sam On 26/03/2009, Tom Chiverton

Re: [flexcoders] Hi! And a question about installing an AIR app

2009-03-18 Thread Sam Lai
Yes, you need admin rights for both installing the runtime and the apps. You can just deploy the installed files I think, but you lose the uninstall functionality, and possibly the updating functionality. The former isn't that important to you anyway if your desktops are managed. Haven't tried

Re: [flexcoders] Disabling internet explorer keys like f5, f1 etc and firing flex application keys

2009-03-18 Thread Sam Lai
As a sidenote - I'm not sure what Buzzword does, but I wouldn't be very happy if a flex app overrode my platform-specific keyboard shortcuts. For example, I would expect the browser to refresh if I pressed F5 whenever I'm in the browser, not do whatever custom action you overrode it to do. I

Re: [flexcoders] Ribbon in FLEX

2009-03-13 Thread Sam Lai
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101679411033.aspx?pid=CL100796341033#2 Kind of like the toolbar for picking controls in Adobe Dreamweaver (unless they've changed it in recent versions). Unfortunately I haven't heard of any Flash implementations, only Silverlight implementations. You

Re: [flexcoders] Control remote desktop with Flash

2009-03-11 Thread Sam Lai
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enrls=com.microsoft%3A*q=vnc+flash 2009/3/12 Carlos Rovira carlos.rov...@gmail.com: Hi all! I need a way to control remote desktops within a Flex Application. I have a client with an ActiveX solution and we want to change their collaborative applications to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Find the middel of the screen

2009-03-11 Thread Sam Lai
You can get the screen resolution from the Capabilities object - see here http://www.thedesilva.com/2008/06/finding-client-machine-capabilities-using-flex-flash/. From that you can work out the middle of the screen. However, a word of warning - I have no idea how Flash and/or different operating

Re: [flexcoders] Flex support for writing pad ( input device for Chinese )

2009-03-10 Thread Sam Lai
It should, assuming the user is using some kind of handwriting recognition software, such as the one built into Vista. It could be a focus issue, or maybe a browser thing - can the user input Chinese characters into normal web forms? 2009/3/10 bsyyu ben.s...@gmail.com: I design a web

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Tree - Moving Nodes

2009-03-09 Thread Sam Lai
You could do what MindManager does and make the left half of the node dropzone for reordering, and the right half for making the node a child of the drop node. Not sure how easy it would be to implement that though in Flex. On 3/10/09, Jim Hayes j...@primalpictures.com wrote: I had thought that

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder 3 on Windows XP

2009-03-07 Thread Sam Lai
As far as I know, FB3 doesn't use Windows Installer, so that utility probably won't help. InstallAnywhere is written is Java, so maybe its worth reinstalling Java to see if that'll help? 2009/3/7 hsam949 hsalam...@ccny.cuny.edu: I tried that, but when I run the utility Flex does not show up,

Re: [flexcoders] Launching Air application from ASP .NET

2009-03-05 Thread Sam Lai
user. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sam Lai samuel@... wrote: ASP.NET executes applications as a different user with a different set of permissions. If you are writing to local storage, it would be in a different location than what you would expect if you are running the app

Re: [flexcoders] Launching Air application from ASP .NET

2009-03-04 Thread Sam Lai
ASP.NET executes applications as a different user with a different set of permissions. If you are writing to local storage, it would be in a different location than what you would expect if you are running the app as yourself. Where are you writing to? Can I ask why you are doing this? What does

Re: [flexcoders] Re: try, catch, finally ...

2009-03-04 Thread Sam Lai
I thought Alex said before that exceptions don't appear for users running the standard Flash Player (i.e. not the debug one). Hence the user won't even know something went wrong; rather the app will probably just enter some unknown/unusable state and effectively freeze. There are cases for using

Re: [flexcoders] jQuery for Flex - a Behavior Injection Framework

2009-03-02 Thread Sam Lai
I think you forgot the link (or my phone's playing tricks with me). http://code.seanhess.net/?p=156 Nice work btw. I'm going to have to think about how it fits in with Flex and my current workflow, but I'll give it a shot in my new project :) On 3/3/09, Sean Clark Hess seanh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] HandCursor (pointing version)

2009-03-02 Thread Sam Lai
I'm not sure that they look the same cross-platform and/or cross-browser. But if you're on Windows, they're in C:\Windows\Cursors. There's probably some app out there that converts .cur files to .pngs. 2009/3/3 djhatrick djhatr...@yahoo.com: I am having bugs with handCursor, where can i find

Re: [flexcoders] question for flex coders

2009-02-26 Thread Sam Lai
Because in the line, return publishDate.format(dateItem[dateColumn.dataField]); dateItem[dateColumn.dataField] is an XML object, not a string, and the date formatter doesn't like that. Try adding toString() after it and it should work, i.e. return

Re: [flexcoders] Tons of errors using FlexBuilder on Ubuntu

2009-02-25 Thread Sam Lai
2009/2/26 Kelly dek...@gmail.com: I keep trying to use it in Ubuntu but without much success. It crashes a lot. I am using 8.10 though. What do the Eclipse logs say? They might help in working out what's wrong. Which version of Java are you running as well while you're at it. There are

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