[flexcoders] 360 Flex Community Survey - Only 3 Questions.

2007-10-23 Thread Tariq Ahmed
All, I noticed a posting on the 360 Flex blog regarding a survey they'd like more feedback on regarding what people want in a conference, and what 360 should be prioritizing on. It's just 3 questions: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yGMLUk_2f4IRYXqoobzijRuQ_3d_3d

[flexcoders] Flex 2 API for Yahoo! Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Tariq Ahmed
There's a suggestion on the Yahoo Developer Network for a Flex 2 API for Yahoo Maps. All of you want it, even if you don't think you do. :) So throw in that vote! http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=ydnfid=3208

[flexcoders] Ted Patrick vs Scott Barnes

2007-01-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Came across an interesting article today regarding a little show down between Ted Patrick and Scott Barnes. http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/MS_Adobe_war_in_blogosphere/0,339028227,339273152,00.htm

[flexcoders] *** 1st Bi-Annual Flex Coders Pulse Survey ***

2007-01-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
In order for Evangelists (both independent supporters of Flex, Flex activists, Community Experts, and Adobe employed Evangelists) to focus their efforts, this survey is designed to capture the pulse of the Flex Ecosystem. Please invite as many people as you know to fill it out. Whether you're

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing

2006-10-05 Thread Tariq Ahmed
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com [mailto: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Fl

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing

2006-10-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I'd agree to that. The marketing effort seems to heavily rely on the development community doing that job for them. Things like labs and DevNet are KEY to maximizing technology adoption - but people need to know about it in the first place. To Restate Adobe's Goal: 1 000 000 Flex Developers

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing

2006-10-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
the developer support by Adobe (and Macromedia before them)is phenomenal. Flex will move forward quietly until it hits it's tipping point, then adoption will surge ahead. Don't worry too much about promoting Flex - let your applications do that for you. Paul - Original Message -

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Marketing

2006-10-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
If Adobe will let me use the Flex logo I'll create mousepads, mugs, decals, jackets, hats, license plate holder, you name it! I'll even volunteer to have the logo tattooed on me. :) Tariq Ahmed wrote: I agree Paul. But... It definitely helps sell the case of Flex when

Re: [flexcoders] SQL Server and Flex 2

2006-10-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Joe, the first learning step to just get something going is to write .NET/ASP pages that output simple XML that your Flex app consumes. In the Flex Docs lookup stuff on "HTTPService". Using HTTPService you can just connect to any URL that spits back XML, and then in Flex you can work with

Re: [flexcoders] Reverse Geocoding

2006-10-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
There's a $40 product from ZipInfo.com http://www.zipinfo.com/products/z5ll/z5ll.htm Rich Tretola wrote: I found one for $5,but the link in on my machine at the office. I will send it tomorrow. Rich On 10/3/06, Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]com wrote:

[flexcoders] ADOBE: Version of Distributable Player is Incorrect

2006-09-01 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Adobe, - I'm working with my customer to get Flash 9 installed on all their desktops. - It took our I.T dept days to get a push package going that silently uninstalled Flash 8 and installed Flash 9 The problem now is the distributable version of the Flash Player is 9.0.0.296, and Flex

Re: [flexcoders] Flex / Coldfusion / Combobox / Retrieve selected data value

2006-08-23 Thread Tariq Ahmed
How about cvcompanyValue.selectedItem.data michrx7 wrote: Ok, so I've created a combo box with id cvcompanyValue, then I call my coldfusion cfc and return a query with two fields "data" and "label". Data holding a list of company IDs and label holding the corresponding company

[flexcoders] Flex2-IIS-7.0.2 HTTP 405 on /flex2gateway/

2006-08-10 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Anyone encounter this issue before? When using a RemoteObject, which works fine on my development environment - doesn't work on this one server. Flash Remoting is enabled in the CF Admin. Looking at the IIS Log FIle, the 405 is coming from invoking /flex2gateway/ On machines that work,

Re: [flexcoders] Flex2-IIS-7.0.2 HTTP 405 on /flex2gateway/

2006-08-10 Thread Tariq Ahmed
ere? Maybe that instance wasn't updated correcly. Joo Fernandes On 8/10/06, Tariq Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]net wrote: Anyone encounter this issue before? When using a RemoteObject, which works fine on my development environment - do

[flexcoders] [Flex2] Setting Legend direction programmatically?

2006-08-09 Thread Tariq Ahmed
So I have a legend: mx:Legend id=chartLegend direction=horizontal / And depending on certain events, I programmtically manage the legend items (new Legenditem(), chartLegend.addChild type deal). And that all works fine. The only issue is that the direction is always vertical. Doing a

Re: [flexcoders] [Flex2] Setting Legend direction programmatically?

2006-08-09 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Uhh ignore this posting. I seem to have a habit of figuring it out a minute after a post a question. :) Tariq Ahmed wrote: So I have a legend: mx:Legend id="chartLegend" direction="horizontal" / And depending on certain events, I programmtically mana

Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid Problem

2006-08-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
### test.mxml ?xml version="1.0"? mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" mx:Model id="someData" source="some.xml"/ mx:DataGrid dataProvider="{someData.item}" mx:columns mx:Array mx:DataGridColumn dataField="code" headerText="Code"/ mx:DataGridColumn dataField="desc"

[flexcoders] Programmatically creating legenditems

2006-08-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey all. Anyone care to share a snippet of creating LegendItems in AS? Thx. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group

[flexcoders] Using Repeater to produce multiple chart series? [Flex 2]

2006-08-02 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey all, does anyone have a simple example on how to produce multiple series in a chart based on an arraycollection? mx:LineChart id=linechart dataProvider={chartData} mx:horizontalAxismx:CategoryAxis categoryField=time//mx:horizontalAxis

[flexcoders] Re: Using Repeater to produce multiple chart series? [Flex 2]

2006-08-02 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Figured it out. The approach to use is with actionscript to dynamically create LineSeries objects, and add them to the LineChart's series array. I'll post an example. Tariq Ahmed wrote: Hey all, does anyone have a simple example on how to produce multiple series in a chart based

[flexcoders] Faces of Flex - ending the week with something fun

2006-07-14 Thread Tariq Ahmed
You see the names almost daily; from blog postings to emails in the forums. I thought it would be fun to put some faces to these names. This is only a small sampling of the many heros of the community, many of the Adobe crew were on vacation so I got what I could and hope to add more 'brand

Re: [flexcoders] can I use older ver of CF with Flex 2

2006-07-14 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hi Clint, I can't give a definitive answer. But back in the early early early days when for Flex 2 there was just going to be a CF-Flex Adapter, I tested to see if Flex 2 would work without any upgrades/patches - and for simple stuff it worked. Though no idea what issues you'll run into with

Re: [flexcoders] Faces of Flex - ending the week with something fun

2006-07-14 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hook a brotha up yo! :) Tracy Spratt wrote: Tariq, that is so much fun! I gotta get in there too! Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:46 PM

Re: [flexcoders] PAIN - Debugging ColdFusion CFC Flex service call

2006-06-27 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hi Erich. For Flex 1.5 use the Flash Trace Viewer: http://www.alexisisaac.net/flash/articles/flash-7-trace-viewer.html It was my best friend for monitoring traffic to and from Flex and CFCs. For Flex 2, as well as 1.5..there's my new best friend: ServiceCapture:

[flexcoders] ** ANNOUNCEMENT: The International Registry of FlexCoders **

2006-06-27 Thread Tariq Ahmed
In late 2005 Adobe announced a goal at MAX 2005 of increasing the Flex development community from roughly 5000 to over a Million by around the year 2010. The key driver of this initiative is Flex 2 and it's tiered licensing model. The bigger the community, the better is for you, therefore

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Moderation + we're not moving to a new forum this week (or next) either :)

2006-06-16 Thread Tariq Ahmed
There are a few other Flex Lists out there: http://groups.google.com/group/Flex2-General http://groups.google.com/group/Flex2-CF http://groups.google.com/group/Flex2-Builder http://groups.google.com/group/FlexJobs http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/flex/ Scott Langeberg wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex2 :: Seperate Mailing List :: Component developers - Framework Devlopment

2006-05-19 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I've actually quietly made some new Flex mailing lists; I've let it simmer while waiting for Flex 2 to become final. I don't think too granular of lists works well as there's too much overlap in a lot of things. But I do see one problem arising with one super list like this - not only are

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2b3 - Tree Problems

2006-05-18 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Sure. There's also a Job Postings on http://www.cflex.net, and http://groups.google.com/group/FlexJobs Faisal Khan wrote: I was wondering where one would post in order to hire a Flex developer. Is this an appropriate forum? Thank you. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ:

Re: [flexcoders] how to implement the copypaste of chart in flex

2006-04-29 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Not possible as far as I know. Snag-It is your next best bet. anjicn wrote: I want to add the copypaste support for charts in order to let user select any chart, copy it and then paste it to some other editors like Office Word or MS Paint for further use. Is it possible to do so, or

[flexcoders] CFLEX.Net - Welcomes Posters....

2006-04-27 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Greetings All! For years I've sought out ways to achieve RIAs combined with the reality of rapid development and high pressure deadlines. This became a reality for me when Flex was released, and I have been championing its cause ever since. Flex is near and dear to my heart, and more

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and Testing

2006-03-31 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well you're talking about load testing. In terms of functionality and regression testing I recently posted about this topic: http://www.dopejam.com/shownewsitem.cfm?NewsID=215 We did some analysis. QuickTest Pro from Mercury is the only QA testing tool that officially will support Flex 2.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex job posting * * * RESUME and Sample Sites Attached

2006-03-28 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Ya if anyone has a job posting just email and I'll hook it up. I'm still in the process of enabling anyone to post anything, but between the job, kid, wife, commute, and carpal tunnel I wish I had more time! Some interesting tidbits... CFlex gets about 2500 visitors a day or 19K hits/day. Top

Re: [flexcoders] Developing Rich Clients book

2006-02-27 Thread Tariq Ahmed
It's an excellent book I have to say, but keep in mind that it was written for Flex 1.0, so some of the examples break in 1.5, and a lot of them need to be re-written for 2.0. Besides the examples, it's the concepts that are very important, and provide the reader of what features are available

Re: [flexcoders] Proxy Server Issue ( lc_id is undefined )

2006-02-27 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Regarding lc_id, I've seen that problem when using IIS. Check the IIS config - it needs the execute perms to be set to scripts and executables. shahnavaz Alware wrote: Hi All, I have a following situation Server A Flex Application Server B Proxy Server (Apache)

Re: [flexcoders] DG Display with data returned as a list.

2006-02-16 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Are you saying you just want to show the results of your query in the datagrid, or something more complex? Code it looks like you just want to show the results of the query. If that's the case check out: Flex 1.5:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DG Display with data returned as a list.

2006-02-16 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Personally I do as much up front work in CF as I can, mostly because I'm more familiar with CF than I am Flex, and manipulating data in CF is just so damn easy... .:) Making some assumptions here, but the basic idea something like: cfset returnArray = arrayNew(1) cfset completeList =

Re: [flexcoders] Web app built on the top of Flex 2 frawemork only requires Flash 9 player to be preinstalled, right?

2006-01-26 Thread Tariq Ahmed
There was mention of a Flash 9 by Mike Downey on Sept 27th 2005. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flashteam/archives/2005/09/its_that_time_a.cfm hank williams wrote: Andy, I think you misunderstand. There is no flash 9 announced or anywhere on the publicly known horizon. 8.5 will be released

Re: [flexcoders] Double database Insertions with initialize

2006-01-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well the first thing to determine is, is qiAdminListFileNumAdd() being called twice. Eg open up your net connection debugger and see if a call is being made twice, or on the result handler pop up an alert and see if that alerts occurs twice, etc... My guess is that is the case. And my super

Re: [flexcoders] How do I generate useful CFC Errors?

2005-12-29 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Ya I do something similar. All my cfc's extend a basic root CFC that contains a function that generates a common return structure which has the following elements: - Msg, a message for the user - isError, a flag indicating if an error occured or not. - returnStatus, a return code (eg OK,

Re: [flexcoders] Error executing database querry

2005-12-26 Thread Tariq Ahmed
One of the practices I've been using in Flex development using CF is to build a function test page that can be used to test functions in the CFC's that your Flex app will be calling. This makes it easier when debugging to verify if everything on the CF side is good and get the detailed CF

Re: [flexcoders] Pass array to CFC through Web Service

2005-12-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well it looks like your function called remUpdateAssignments() has a return type of boolean, and isn't returning one as such. So I'm guessing your function signature looks something like: cffunction name=remUpdateAssignments returnType=boolean ... cfargument name=aAssignments type=array

[flexcoders] Adobe: impressing again

2005-12-20 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Nice! The acquisition of Macromedia looks to have been a winner. In October, Macromedia's last quarterly results announcement as an independent company showed it was still growing strongly after the announcement of its acquisition: sales came in at $127.9 million, up 18%, and net income came

Re: [flexcoders] Can you do a slideshow with flex

2005-12-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Sure, that would be pretty basic. Check this out: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2005/11/flex_15_flickr.cfm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example lets say I want to make a page that has a slide show like this page?

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Empty Arrays Returned from CFC

2005-12-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey Brad, have you tried using the NetConnection Debugger or Flash/Flex Trace panel to see what the data looks like coming into Flash? Flex Trace Panel: http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=8F0C9A56-D3C1-55A6-0EAE917D5A7E6D86 Flash debug panel:

Re: [flexcoders] Themes (was TemplateMonster.com)

2005-12-09 Thread Tariq Ahmed
On the topic of themes... I never really looked into themes since that wasn't a priority. But was thinking it'd be great to start making an open library of themes for Flex2. Has anyone produced graphical skins or an entire theme that includes skins for Flex2? Has the process changed from

Re: [flexcoders] TemplateMonster.com

2005-12-08 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Title: TemplateMonster.com I've bought templates from them before. It's essentially a zip file with all the raw assets so that you can apply to your own situation (sample HTML code that put all the graphics together, Photoshop files, FLAs, etc...). As far as I know they don't have anything

Re: [flexcoders] getting Flex pages to work in Firefox

2005-12-08 Thread Tariq Ahmed
1.7? I'm guessing you mean 1.0.7. 1.5 is the latest as far as I can tell. I tested with 1.5 and it works fine. I'm going to go with Renaun's theory in that Flash may not be installed. Any _javascript_ errors, or what do you see when you do a view source? Maybe security settings are

Re: [flexcoders] Poll: Flex developer US$ rate?

2005-11-18 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I love of course how recruiters and companies want people with the latest and greatest skills. I had a recruiter send me a requisition back in June looking for someone with 5 years of Flex 2 and Flash 8 Pro experience. Uh ya. David Mendels wrote: Hi, I know of folks charging from

Re: FW: [flexcoders] Flex / Jrun Instability?

2005-11-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Oh for the lc_id stuff, I believe that's a result of an IIS setting where you set the execute permission to Scripts only. Change it to Scripts Executables. Rawdyn wrote: From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On

[flexcoders] persistant CFC connection in Flex?

2005-11-14 Thread Tariq Ahmed
In Coldfusion you can invoke a CFC, and it will live throughout the execution of that page. cfobject component=foo name=myComp cfscript myComp.init(x,y,z); .. .. someInfo = myComp.getMe(something); //results of which are based on the initialization of the above someResult =

[flexcoders] Microsoft's Web. 2.0 Draws Skepticism

2005-11-11 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Considering the recent discussion, and Scott's latest blog post I thought you guys would find this interesting... http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2005/tc_pcworld/123503 "Though the powers that be at Microsoft seem to have finally grasped the impact of the Internet on the future of

[flexcoders] It's Time to Flex My Zorn: Flex 2.0 Flex Builder 2

2005-11-11 Thread Tariq Ahmed
It's Time to Flex My Zorn: Flex 2.0 Flex Builder 2 Flex 2.0 will change the web development sphere forever http://au.sys-con.com/read/142730.htm Very nice article Mr Barnes! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a

Re: [flexcoders] Flex prototype - production approach

2005-11-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I'll second the A approach. I'm a firm believer in the iterative development approach (sometimes called the prototyping model, lightweight methodology, etc...), as opposed to the waterfall approach (define, analyze, scope, design, build, test, implement, support). No matter how much

[flexcoders] Processor Speed vs Video Card Speed

2005-11-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey guys. Has any testing been done, or does anyone know what will affect performance more: Processor Speed or Video Card speed? I'm at a new job (left eBay 3 weeks ago), the goal at the new gig is to re-engineer the application here (or at least make it way more usable). The application is

Re: [flexcoders] Processor Speed vs Video Card Speed

2005-11-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
, but no one should be developing above 30fps in Flex anyway. CPU first, RAM second. - Original Message - From: Tariq Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Processor Speed vs Video Card Speed Hey guys. Has any testing

Re: [flexcoders] Flex2: pricing info

2005-11-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well if your company wants to get serious about AJAX be prepared to blow some serious dough. Because you'll of course want to boost the productivity of your developers by using IDE's, tools, libaries, out of the box components, etc... E.g the TIBCO Ajax Accelerator/General Interface starts

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 8.5 installation file

2005-10-24 Thread Tariq Ahmed
The AX (ActiveX) version should be the debug version I imagine. Torben Nielsen wrote: Hi, I have some experiments that I am making for a client with Flex 2. He would of course like to see them, but he will need Flash Player 8.5 to see them. I looked in the Flex 2 Folder

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Macromedia Labs site

2005-10-18 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I think there's a business opportunity to create a CF based Wiki; I've had to integrate a PHP one because there aren't any good CF based ones out there. But I just want to comment that for MACR to make one; the decision would be to divert resources. Frankly I'd rather see MACR focusing on

Re: [flexcoders] Re: CFC Cashing

2005-10-05 Thread Tariq Ahmed
This may help: http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=965 kg4awg wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Farland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the CFC as a web service? Ya, im calling it from flex as a webservice, however I

Re: [flexcoders] Flex DataGrid with large recordset

2005-10-02 Thread Tariq Ahmed
I have always had list performance issues. Flash 8 helped a bit. But to reproduce just change your datagrid tag to this: mx:DataGrid creationComplete="event.target.dataProvider = largeArray" height="100%" The scroll will act chunky. Turn on variable height and column wrapping, a few more

[flexcoders] Flash 9 Wishlist

2005-10-02 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Just copying and pasting this: It's that time again! Flash 9 wishlist... Believe it or not, we're already getting to work on the *next* release of Flash. We're very proud of the work that we've done in Flash 8 but we also know that there are several things that just couldn't make it into

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Server Alternatives

2005-09-28 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Yo. Well as mentioned there was HUGE sticker shock when MM doubled the price, and a lot of complaining. But MM is aiming at large Enterprises that can afford it. Similarly you can complain to Ferrari to drop the prices of their cars... but if you wanna role with the high end you gotta shell

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Server Alternatives

2005-09-28 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well I don't know if I would venture to "dirt cheap". What other systems are you referring to? If you're enterprise, and building mission critical apps, and especially if it affects financial performance and need to be SOX compliant you're basic setup is: - 1 Development WS - 1 QA Server -

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Server Alternatives

2005-09-28 Thread Tariq Ahmed
party version that is equivalent in functionality. I am not necessarily looking for a branded product, I just want to get the job done. Anupam. --- Tariq Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo. Well as mentioned there was HUGE sticker shock when MM doubled the price, and a lot of complaining

Re: [flexcoders] Changing Stylesheets

2005-09-20 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Kinda, but not really, depending, but... :) Read this thead: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg04781.html Jeremy Crane wrote: Is it possibly to switch stylesheets within an application? I have an application where I want to load the appropriate

Re: [flexcoders] Images in datagrid

2005-09-20 Thread Tariq Ahmed
You need to make a cell renderer. Check out: http://www.richinternetapps.com/archives/48.html Jeremy Crane wrote: Is it possible to place an icon in a datagrid? I have a tree setup that is drag enabled so I can drag the node over to a datagrid ( sort of a favorites

[flexcoders] MACR +3.35

2005-09-16 Thread Tariq Ahmed
A I love it. Not only does Macromedia make awesome products, but the stock this year has been kicking ass. +3.35 today! Nice! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today!

[flexcoders] Screen Cap a frame from a webcam?

2005-09-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey All. I'm thinking of building a little proof of concept. Part of it is to take a snapshot image from a webcam. So I did some searching and found this awesome post from Abdul: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg10143.html Which is good, the first example works great

Re: [flexcoders] URL vars

2005-09-13 Thread Tariq Ahmed
How are you calling your test.cfm page? http://whatever/test.cfm?Var1=val1var2=val2 etc..? And when you say shoot, like cflocation shoot, or in your cfm you're embedding the .mxml.swf? If you have debugging turn on, you'll see on your test.cfm page what URL var's exist. Jeremy Rottman

[flexcoders] Custom Component Instantiation Sequencing?

2005-09-12 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey all. I'm not really sure what to accurately name the topic of this relatively simple question - but I'll roll with Custom Component Instantiation Sequencing. - Got a Tab Navigator. - I have a generic component I made which I use in various locations. It generates a summary of some

Re: [flexcoders] Custom Component Instantiation Sequencing?

2005-09-12 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Man... everytime I post to the list, I figure it out a few minutes later. Using creationComplete instead of initialize did the trick. What threw me off is it working fine being called from the main app, and the behavior changing when called from another component. Tariq Ahmed wrote

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Easiest way to connect to mysql?

2005-08-25 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Well from a Coldfusion perspective... it's extremely easy. In the Coldfusion administrator you set up a Datasource to your mySQL Database. CF comes with a mySQL driver out of the box, all you do is give it a name (eg mySQLDS), server, port, username, pw, etc... then in CF you make a file

[flexcoders] Developers Toolbox

2005-08-25 Thread Tariq Ahmed
A cool summary of various editors and tools Flash developers can use, but definitely can be taken advantage of by Flexers. http://www.webpronews.com/webdevelopment/webgraphics/wpn-25-20050825FlashDeveloperToolbox.html Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2.0

2005-08-21 Thread Tariq Ahmed
All that's known on Flex 2.0: http://www.cflex.net/showfaq.cfm?#Question364 ie... not a whole lot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you or somebody tell us more details about Flex 2.0? (new features, release date, pricing, types of licences, IDE, ...) Message: 1

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a new Flex component

2005-08-17 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Title: Creating a new Flex component Hi Michel, I would suggest looking at some examples to start off with. Eg the Gauge Component, clock Component, etc... http://www.cflex.net/showfiles.cfm?ChannelID=1lkpFileGroup=codelibrary Michel Bertrand wrote: Hello ! I would like

[flexcoders] Solid Analysis of RIA Offerings...

2005-08-16 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey all, I'm receiving some upper management friction in terms of continuing to push Flex deeper into the Enterprise. I'm basically looking for a document anyone has written that makes a quantitative analysis of the various RIA offerings (most importantly Flex, Laszlo, and Ajax) and makes the

Re: [flexcoders] can flex build dynamic form

2005-08-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Dynamic forms can be done. There's some articles out there that may help: http://www.waldosmeets.com/index.cfm?entryID=546 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexprimer_03.html And the iteration::two book also talks about it. http://www.iterationtwo.com/flexbook/index.html

Re: [flexcoders] Calling ArrayStructures in CFCs from Flex

2005-08-15 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Absolumont! Tracy Spratt wrote: Message Im sure Tarik will be happy to post it on CFLEX.net. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:09 PM To:

Re: [flexcoders] An interesting problem with models....

2005-08-10 Thread Tariq Ahmed
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed Sent: 10. elokuuta 2005 7:54 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] An interesting problem with models A model, remoteobject, and a list walk into a bar, and the bart

[flexcoders] An interesting problem with models....

2005-08-09 Thread Tariq Ahmed
A model, remoteobject, and a list walk into a bar, and the bartender ... j/k I got a weird problem that I've narrowed down into a simple reproduceable test case. Got a simple model: mx:Model id=sectionModel region revenue=1/ region revenue=2/ region revenue=3/ region

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Install on IIS

2005-08-04 Thread Tariq Ahmed
and reinstalling CF. What is the best resource available to install flex to work with CF under IIS (no MM Docs) Thanks Agha Mehdi IDT - eBusiness Program Manager From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed Sent

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Install on IIS

2005-08-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
One other thing. Try setting your Execute Permissions to Scripts and Executables. Mehdi, Agha wrote: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Install on IIS That's exactly where I have the flex files. Agha Mehdi IDT - eBusiness Program Manager -Original Message-

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Install on IIS

2005-08-03 Thread Tariq Ahmed
] On Behalf Of Tariq Ahmed Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:27 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Install on IIS One other thing. Try setting your Execute Permissions to Scripts and Executables. Mehdi, Agha wrote

Re: [flexcoders] calendar/schedule tool one day view

2005-07-29 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hi Doug! We've spent done some thinking about this as well. If you ever get it done, I'll buy it off you. :) A datagrid is the closest out of the box component I think. But if you look at what Outlook can do it's beyond grid in that you can have multiple adjacent items in a cell, and items can

Re: [flexcoders] flex with coldfusion cfc's

2005-07-28 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hi Jeremy, I didn't see a CFC attached. But in general you define an mx:RemoteObject, and in a really basic sense: ##jeremy.mxml mx:Application init=myRO.getSomething().send() mx:RemoteObject id=myRO endpoint=@ContextRoot()/flashservices/gateway source=jeremy mx:method

Re: [flexcoders] Running an auction with Flex

2005-07-25 Thread Tariq Ahmed
eBay has a developer program which is for the most part free unless you start doing some high vol stuff. http://developer.ebay.com/index_html The API is XML/WebServices. They have a sandbox where you can test building tools for listing items, retrieving status, etc... And then to actually

Re: [flexcoders] Boolean passed in RemoteObject

2005-07-25 Thread Tariq Ahmed
You could change your type=String and default= And just do some investigating to see what's going on cfif isBoolean(Arguments.pointConsigneReculNocturne) .. .. .. all is well cfelse all is not well, output information to a log file to see what's going on. /cfif Ghislain Simard wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and CFCs -- problems displaying recordsets in datagrids

2005-07-24 Thread Tariq Ahmed
a fuseaction as close as possible. I realize this will lead to very tight dependency on CF, but I'm committed at this point. Do you see any other drawbacks to this approach? -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Tariq Ahmed Sent: Sat 7/23/2005 1

[flexcoders] Adobe Anticipates MacroDobe transaction will close in fall of 2005

2005-07-24 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Adobe Anticipates Adobe-Macromedia Transaction Will Close in Fall 2005 Filed under: Graphic Design News J.Rodriguez @ 11:21 pm Adobe announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday declared effective the registration statement on Form S-4 containing the joint proxy

Re: [flexcoders] Using Value Objects CFC's

2005-07-23 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Hey Malcolm. Well CFC's generally only accept datatypes they understand: boolean, string, numeric, array, struct, etc... This article may give you a head start: http://www.flexingcfmx.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=D36D5CE5-FB00-283B-A23A89CB46949A4D Malcolm wrote: Hi yo'll I am using Remote

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and CFCs -- problems displaying recordsets in datagrids

2005-07-23 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Good stuff! - Well I don't know if there's really a standard with respect to CF to Flex communications. Certainly there are naming convention standards that I see being adopted from the Flash/Java development side of things, and having things returned in a non-predictable manner can cost

[flexcoders] IBM pushing rich internet client project for Eclipse

2005-07-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
IBM pushing rich internet client project for Eclipse Computer Business Review - UK Following up its distribution of the OpenLaszlo rich internet client on its alphaWorks emerging technology website, IBM Corp and Laszlo Systems Inc are now jointly proposing an IDE project for Eclipse. ...

Re: [flexcoders] Using setInterval to close a popup leaves drop shadow...

2005-07-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
instances not all //without this the drop shadow stays... annoying to find the answer to this one doLater(this, "deletePopUp"); } then i call it like... popup.closePopUp() On 7/22/05, Tariq Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I've got a popup TitleWindow that aut

[flexcoders] Collected Maelstrom Examples...

2005-07-22 Thread Tariq Ahmed
Someone put together an exhaustive list of some amazing Flash Player 8 examples: http://www.franto.com/blog2/collected-links-to-maelstrom-examples This motion sensing + interactive video capability is incredible (webcam required): http://www.kneib.biz/f8files/webcamsetpixel2.html

Re: [flexcoders] dynamically creating children suggestions?

2005-07-21 Thread Tariq Ahmed
How about expanding on your XML to group filter items so that you only have to display a subset at a time... eg using a tab navigator and/or a deferred instantiation strategy? Robert Brueckmann wrote: Im getting XML back from the database. The XML contains a bunch of