[flexcoders] Contract job in Melbourne Australia

2012-05-02 Thread Guy Morton
Hi there Flexers, If anyone on this list is interested in a short term (1 month) job on a Flex project let me know off-list. Ideally, you'd be in Melbourne Australia, but if not, a close timezone would do. regards Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Flex alternatives

2012-01-16 Thread Guy Morton
A thought on cross-browser hell… If every web developer in the world today decided to drop support for IE, everyone would go get Chrome or Firefox. This would be a win-win, as they would get a better browser, and we would get a better development environment. Who's with me? Guy On 16/01

Re: [flexcoders] Timed Progress bar for 2 minutes.

2012-01-10 Thread Guy Morton
The OP has said what it's doing - a firmware update. It takes 2-3 minutes. It's not a db transaction. On 11/01/2012, at 4:01 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: On 10/01/2012 16:46, Venkat M wrote: My application will try to connect to a java framework, which in turn calls some scripts to execute on

Re: [flexcoders] You are the product

2011-12-17 Thread Guy Morton
solve a lot of problems. Yes, you will have to learn some new stuff. But, on the upside, you get a true cross-platform delivery - the ONLY one that delivers on all devices. Guy On 17/12/2011, at 8:36 AM, Scott Fanetti wrote: Except for the fact that HTML 5 apps look like shit compared

Re: [flexcoders] You are the product

2011-12-16 Thread Guy Morton
. Have you every noticed that 15 year old programs still run on Windows 7? I don't expect that from Adobe. But the heavy sell job on AIR followed by stepping at arms length from it irks me. Kevin 2011/12/16 Csomák Gábor csom...@gmail.com technology simply changes. i met a guy who

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and AIR on Mobile Platforms

2011-11-12 Thread Guy Morton
themselves as the tool provider for HTML5. Certainly there is a need for great tools in this area, so I hope they succeed in doing this. Also, you might note with interest their purchase of nitobi, who make PhoneGap. Guy On 13/11/2011, at 1:56 AM, e_val_soft wrote: I'd like to understand more about

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player may be not creating Shared Object on Mac

2011-08-29 Thread Guy Morton
Shared objects work fine on the mac. You need to give us more details if you want help. On 29/08/2011, at 5:00 PM, jitendra jain jitendra_jain_2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Guys, Today I have installed Flash Builder on Mac Machine. The code doesn't work .. I am using Shared Objects for

[flexcoders] Contract work

2010-08-19 Thread Guy Morton
will be able to work remotely. Please reply off-list, with details of your skills and experience, and desired hourly/daily/weekly rate currency. Thanks Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Why isn't fB4 smart enough to generate it's templates

2010-05-22 Thread Guy Morton
On 22/05/2010, at 11:05 PM, Patrick wrote: Drives me nuts, i create a new project, usually in Actionscript, and the software won't create my .html file correctly. The most annoying problem in the world. That's a pretty big call there Patrick... :-) Guy

[flexcoders] Flex in Visual Studio

2010-05-20 Thread guy
Anyone here using any of the Flex plugins for Visual Studio? Anyone got advice/recommendations about a good Visual Studio based setup? TIA Guy This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
you should try reading what they say in their posts, and try replying to what they are saying not what you *imagine* they're saying... Guy On 04/05/2010, at 11:40 AM, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote: Guy, There is no way in hell I'm going to write an application in HTML5 and Javascript

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
being a marginal case. :) And now I have no idea what you're talking about. Sorry. Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
by private organisations, like Adobe. They may publish their format spec to encourage use of it, but they don't hand over control of it to a standards organisation. So Flash is a published, but proprietary, format. HTML and SVG, are open formats. Guy On 04/05/2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffry

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
joke here). Also can't help but giggle when Steve talks about openness. This coming from the company that produces a phone where you can't even replace the battery or screen. Also, wasn't he the guy who tried to sue people for installing Mac OS on non Mac machines? Also, don't bitch

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-04 Thread Guy Morton
I agree that's a risk and would prefer to see some clear direction as to how patents covering h.264 will be enforced in the future. Flash decodes h.264 video so it will still get swept up in the same issues as HTML5 will, should those issues arise, so I don't see how Flash is the answer to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
Where does it say that Apple is dropping support for plugins like Flash on Mac OSX? I can't see that happening. I can't even imagine how they'd do it if they wanted to. Guy On 03/05/2010, at 10:00 AM, Laurence wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton g...@... wrote

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
I think you meant ludicrous... lubricious |loōˈbri sh əs| (also lubricous |ˈloōbrikəs|) adjective 1 offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire. 2 smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance. :-) On 04/05/2010, at 1:04 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: First time I explicitly

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
if you think Steve's a jerk. I'm sure no-one at Apple will care, for the moment at least. If Android becomes bigger than iPhone *because of Flash support*, then they might re-think. :-) Guy On 03/05/2010, at 11:17 PM, Battershall, Jeff wrote: Let’s not get carried away here – no way is Apple

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-02 Thread Guy Morton
. Technologies change, sometimes their fortunes rise and sometimes they fall. Flash has been the undisputed winner in the RIA wars up till now. Jobs is betting the future of the iP* platform on HTML5. Maybe he's wrong about it, but maybe he isn't. Time will tell. Guy On 03/05/2010, at 8:22 AM, Laurence

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-01 Thread Guy Morton
with their feet if Apple does stuff they don't like. For me, not supporting Flash on iP*s doesn't outweigh the other good things about the platform and devices, and I like the new emphasis on supporting web standards. Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
Oh dude, come on, that's low. Either agree or disagree with what he says (I agree with most of it - HTML5 et al can replace the need for a lot of what Flash often does, and it's support is growing and standards are good for all of us) but don't make it personal. Guy On 01/05/2010, at 5:17

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 30/04/2010, at 6:22 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 29 Apr 2010 21:08:42 you wrote: Hi, I want to share this (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) with the people who hasn't read it before and maybe read your comments on this topic. /me puts down his smart

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
is a good thing. Guy -pd

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
with him. Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
should carefully re-read his arguments so you understand them. It's not koolaid, it's a pina-colada, and he's making it plain you can take it or leave it. When the iphone first came out I loved it. I put an apple sticker on my motorcycle helmet after having been a PC guy my entire life. But now

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/05/2010, at 11:37 AM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: Guy Morton. I've said that before, he is not wrong, he's just serving the facts in a way that will most likely give you a wrong impression. He never says that h.264 codec is proprietary, but after reading what he says you may think

[flexcoders] MS - The future of the web is HTML 5

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-weighs-in-the-future-of-the-web-is-html5/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx So, I wonder if the Steve/Apple bashing will now move on to MS-bashing? I'm guessing not... Reposted here for posterity, from

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
types of applications on specific platforms or devices, but we should certainly start to reevaluate whether Flash really == Web Applications. Guy On 01/05/2010, at 12:38 PM, Oleg Sivokon wrote: Guy Morton Oh, I haven't seen your previous reply. Sorry. AS3 and h.246 codec support were

Re: [flexcoders] Re: With the latest eula agreement from Apple

2010-04-14 Thread Guy Morton
? Look ma! NO plugins, just HTML 5! Vale Flash, you have been good to us, but your time is drawing to a close. Steve Jobs has seen the future, and Flash ain't there. Guy On 14/04/2010, at 8:42 PM, Fotis Chatzinikos wrote: I do not think you read what i said... Just add an extra step

Re: [flexcoders] Re: With the latest eula agreement from Apple

2010-04-14 Thread Guy Morton
reality. That's my point. Guy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Adnan Doric Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Cc: Guy Morton Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: With the latest eula agreement from Apple

Re: [flexcoders] Re: With the latest eula agreement from Apple

2010-04-14 Thread Guy Morton
Mmmm. As Adnan said to me Good luck with that :-) I'm sure MS has the same dream of Silverlight everywhere. That ain't going to happen either. On 15/04/2010, at 1:42 AM, Gregor Kiddie wrote: I do agree that the main problem is that there isn’t really an excellent competitor to the App

Re: [flexcoders] Deep Object Copy?

2010-02-15 Thread Guy Morton
You can use ByteArray to deep copy an object. Can't recall off the top of my head the code but I'm sure you could find it via the Google. :-) On 16/02/2010, at 8:00 AM, Nick Middleweek wrote: Hi, Are there any working utilities/code out there that can help me with a deep object copy? I

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

2010-02-08 Thread Guy Morton
from right now. Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone. Guy On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote: Well after 10 years plus

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Size of an application

2010-02-06 Thread Guy Morton
. If size is an issue for you then you need to carefully look at what you include and perhaps consider using modules to split your app up a bit into pieces you can lazy-load. Guy On 07/02/2010, at 10:11 AM, Tracy Spratt wrote: I doubt that that question can be answered. Someone would have had

Re: [flexcoders] IP adress for Language

2010-01-20 Thread Guy Morton
You don't mention what sort of back-end setup you have but there is a free perl module for doing this called Geo::IP::PurePerl which uses a local .dat file to convert the client's IP to a country code. You can then use this info to derive a locale. I use it to find a local mirror for static

Re: [flexcoders] IP adress for Language

2010-01-20 Thread guy
The browser send an Accept-Language header with the request that you can read on the server-side. Quoting Kelly dek...@gmail.com: Its generally considered 'best practices' to set the language based on the browser settings rather then IP Address. Guy Morton wrote:   You don't

Re: [flexcoders] IP adress for Language

2010-01-20 Thread guy
something other than what we've derived. Guy Quoting Paul Hastings paul.hasti...@gmail.com: On 1/21/2010 5:39 AM, Kelly wrote: Its generally considered 'best practices' to set the language based on the browser settings rather then IP Address. no it's not. many users don't bother setting

[flexcoders] Building to FP10 breaks code that works if I build to FP9...why?

2010-01-18 Thread Guy Morton
()[/Users/guy/Documents/Flex Builder 3/../Dohickey.as:19] at com.my.package::Dohickey/create()[/Users/guy/Documents/Flex Builder 3/../Dohickey.as:11] Can someone explain why? Please? :-) Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Building to FP10 breaks code that works if I build to FP9...why?

2010-01-18 Thread Guy Morton
instance scope (because inline) : should be static or from an instance of Dohickey to work, I think. thomas parquier --- http://www.web-attitude.fr/realisations/ msn : thomas.parqu...@web-attitude.fr softphone : sip:webattit...@ekiga.net téléphone portable : +33601 822 056 2010/1/18 Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Flex on MAC

2009-12-30 Thread Guy Morton
Try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost You probably don't have localhost set up in your hosts file. You can open a terminal and edit your hosts file like so: sudo vi /etc/hosts then add 127.0.0.1 localhost and save. Guy On 31/12/2009, at 9:33 AM, DavidW wrote: I have installed

Re: [flexcoders] IE6 + SSL + Flex

2009-12-29 Thread Guy Morton
mostly develop apps that are for the general public, so I work to support all browsers. I still make a point of recommending the use of browsers other than IE when the opportunity arises though... Anyway, glad you found a workaround. Guy PS, you could also try serving your swf via http

Re: [flexcoders] IE6 + SSL + Flex

2009-12-28 Thread Guy Morton
content. Guy On 29/12/2009, at 2:37 AM, Julian Alexander wrote: Dear Venkat, Thanks for the direction, but unfortunately that just made it worse. Any other ideas? -Julian From: venkateswarlu naidu contactve...@yahoo.co.in To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, December 26

Re: [flexcoders] using system fonts in Flex

2009-12-08 Thread Guy Morton
Are you sure it won't pick up locally available fonts? I'm fairly sure it will. If you use CSS to define the font to use you can specify a list of fonts to degrade to, so if your preferred font is unavailable the next one on the list will be used. Have you tried that? Guy On 09/12/2009

Re: [flexcoders] using system fonts in Flex

2009-12-08 Thread Guy Morton
in a swf file... :-) Out of curiosity, why *can't* Flash do things like rotate text unless the corresponding font is embedded? Couldn't it just embed the necessary glyphs from the local font on an as-needed basis? Guy On 09/12/2009, at 10:16 AM, Alex Harui wrote: It will if he wants to use

Re: [flexcoders] When does 0.2 and 0.1 not equal 0.3?

2009-11-25 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, you've discovered the joys of floating point maths. Not a bug, just a fact of life for anyone working in just about every programming language there is. Work in integers if you want integer results, or use the functions under the Math class to round things to suit your needs. Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Error: Problem finding external stylesheet:

2009-11-23 Thread Guy Morton
My guess is that the path isn't right for your operating system. / is an absolute path referring to the root of your application, but you may need to specify it as a relative path instead, eg ../ diagrammer (or whatever) when running locally On 23/11/2009, at 7:47 PM, cholid cholid wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to save a bytearray to a database

2009-10-28 Thread Guy Morton
You should be able to store the data in binary format in your db...then you could use a binary encoding for transferring the data (like AMF) and leave the data in binary. Note I've not tried this myself but in theory it should work, no? On 28/10/2009, at 4:58 PM, bsyyu wrote: encode the

Re: [flexcoders] EVENT metatag handler

2009-10-24 Thread Guy Morton
try addEventListener(dragEnd,startPanAndZoom); addEventListener expects a string containing the event name as its first argument. On 25/10/2009, at 10:00 AM, hworke wrote: Hello developers, in a custom component, I defined an event in metatag like this [Event(name=dragEnd,

Re: [flexcoders] cannot convert mx.graphics::str...@205c5d61 to mx.graphics.IStroke

2009-09-04 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, thanks. I did find the answer shortly after posting here. On 03/09/2009, at 4:51 PM, Alex Harui wrote: Are you using modules? It is a common problem. Quick fix is to link IStroke in the main app. If you google you’ll see past threads on this topic. In a script block just do:

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and REST

2009-09-02 Thread Guy Morton
Many REST-ish APIs just use POST and GET anyway, as support for other HTTP verbs can be patchy. On 02/09/2009, at 10:10 PM, claudiu ursica wrote: TO go RESTfull you'll have to use all teh methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, which is kind of hard to do. You probably end up using lots

[flexcoders] cannot convert mx.graphics::str...@205c5d61 to mx.graphics.IStroke

2009-09-02 Thread guy
Any ideas why this would start occurring? Only thing that has changed is I've updated from 3.1 to 3.2. I've tried a clean and rebuild, to no avail. Main Thread (Suspended: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert mx.graphics::str...@205c5d61 to mx.graphics.IStroke.)

Re: [flexcoders] xml as dataprovider to datagrid

2009-08-01 Thread Guy Morton
Single item nodes get turned into objects, not arraycollections. This is a common source of confusion and pain. AFAIK, there is no easy way to deal with this - your code must anticipate the two data types. Guy On 02/08/2009, at 11:34 AM, shizny wrote: Hello, I'm having some really weird

Re: [flexcoders] Font types getting Over written

2009-06-01 Thread Guy Morton
but not working that well. :(( Thanks, Sony --- On Mon, 1/6/09, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: From: Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Font types getting Over written To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, 1 June, 2009, 3:25 AM That sounds like a caching

Re: [flexcoders] Re: HTTPService.send(params) and nothing happens?

2009-05-31 Thread Guy Morton
is actually being requested on the server (ie, do you have access to the server logs)? Looking at what is actually being requested via either Firebug or Fiddler is then your next step. Guy On 01/06/2009, at 5:49 AM, ciminop wrote: I tried that and the page does the same thing, which

Re: [flexcoders] Font types getting Over written

2009-05-31 Thread Guy Morton
That sounds like a caching issue to me. Things don't generally fail sometimes. On 01/06/2009, at 3:14 AM, sony antony wrote: Hi there.. I had a problem with font types in ma application I am using both Plain and Caps types of the same font. Formerly only the Plain was there. Now when I

Re: [flexcoders] Error 2044 - 2038 file io exceptions..

2009-05-31 Thread guy
Have you put in place the necessary crossdomain.xml files? Quoting [p e r c e p t i c o n] percepti...@gmail.com: I've looked all over the net and can't find a solution to this problem...seriously...why did I begin getting this error when it worked before...no i can't make any progress

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder not rebuilding source

2009-05-26 Thread Guy Morton
Do a clean and try again? On 27/05/2009, at 3:34 PM, Ron Wagner wrote: I've had this problem in the past and never got an answer. The problem is back. I'll be working on a project and constantly make micro changes and then debug, eventually the changes aren't compiled in anymore. In

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe Flash Help Urgent

2009-05-19 Thread Guy Morton
Look at your web server compression settings. SSL. caching. All are things IE screws up on a regular basis. Tell your users to download a browser that works. :-) On 19/05/2009, at 5:49 PM, saritha wrote: I have a web page with external swf file(.swf)in it. The external swf file loads

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Framework Cache Statistics

2009-05-14 Thread guy
longer to download. The whole concept is great, but the support and follow-through from Adobe has been too slow. It's hard to understand why when you have an automatically updating plugin that could be preemptively loading this stuff for us. Guy Quoting Matt Chotin mcho...@adobe.com: Hi

Re: [flexcoders] link examples to sell Flex apps to small business clients

2009-05-07 Thread Guy Morton
How about http://syd.webtrak-lochard.com/? On 08/05/2009, at 8:23 AM, Matt Garland wrote: Hi, I'd like to send an email with a variety of links to Flex apps. So: NO signing up, NO downloading, NO long start ups. Also data-rich apps and product showcases would be better than media

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

2009-04-30 Thread Guy Morton
cost of development, you can hardly blame Adobe for that. Their support for *nix is better than most. Guy On 01/05/2009, at 9:35 AM, john fisher wrote: If Adobe drops Linux support for Flex, then I will probably drop Flex. I won't maintain a Windows or Mac box at home, and my company really

Re: [flexcoders] How improve performance

2009-04-23 Thread Guy Morton
Use the profiler to see if you have a memory leak somewhere. Sounds like perhaps you are creating objects but not destroying them once you're done with them. Guy On 24/04/2009, at 6:03 AM, b.kotireddy wrote: Hi, In My application we are purly following Cairngorm framework. I am

Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration

2009-04-22 Thread Guy Morton
to help sell the idea to clients. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Yes, I know how it works...my point is that it's hard to sell to my current clients if for most it's going to translate into a bigger download for first time users. This is why

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-22 Thread Guy Morton
. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc. Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Guy Morton Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:10 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility

[flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration

2009-04-21 Thread guy
the user to download 500+kB of framework RSL. Maybe it's worth doing if 50%+ of users will get the benefit, but if only 10% will benefit it seems unlikely to be a way to increase the general happiness. Some good stats on this would be very useful... Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
question... Guy On 21/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009, g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Maybe it's worth doing if 50%+ of users will get the benefit, but if only 10% will benefit it seems unlikely to be a way to increase the general happiness. I think you

Re: [flexcoders] Signed RSL penetration

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
with. Guy On 22/04/2009, at 4:19 AM, Steve Mathews wrote: It would only be bigger the first download (assuming the user has 9.0.115.0 or later). After that it would be smaller each time. Steve On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Well...yes, it's

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
have guessed, it has stopped working for me again. The cause is a complete mystery. Guy On 16/01/2009, at 12:49 PM, Guy Morton wrote: And as mysteriously as it stopped working, it started working again *shrug* Guy On 16/01/2009, at 8:45 AM, Guy Morton wrote: To answer your other

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
. If I turn it off in the compiler, the link report doesn't have these entries, so it's clearly *trying* to include the accessibility features. They just aren't working. This is very frustrating. Guy On 22/04/2009, at 9:38 AM, Alex Harui wrote: Not sure. Do a full clean and rebuild

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
of and can't see anything obvious. Guy On 22/04/2009, at 9:38 AM, Matt Morgan-May wrote: What version of the Flex SDK are you running? Have you tried it against a different install of the SDK? I have to say that yours is the only case I've heard of this happening, so my guess is that it's got

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
is that it's got something to do with either some kind of corruption, or the project's config files. - m From: Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Accessibility stopped working

2009-04-21 Thread Guy Morton
I'm developing on a mac. I tired restarting the computer anyway. :-) How would I set a breakpoint in the accessibility classes? Guy On 22/04/2009, at 2:59 PM, Alex Harui wrote: I guess you could set breakpoints to see if code in the accimpl classes is getting run. When this happens

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe's stimulus package!!!! FREE FLEX BUILDER!!!!

2009-04-04 Thread Guy Morton
That's a good idea, Adobe. Nice work. On 05/04/2009, at 1:37 AM, hworke wrote: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/

Re: [flexcoders] Finding the stage xy of a nested object

2009-04-03 Thread Guy Morton
and y of everything and so there'd be some way to readily access this but I guess not...will I have to roll my own solution? Guy On 03/04/2009, at 12:39 PM, Tracy Spratt wrote: You want the coordinate system methods like localToGlobal and globalToLocal. Look for “coordinate system

[flexcoders] Finding the stage xy of a nested object

2009-04-02 Thread Guy Morton
way to find their stage x and y...is there? Guy

Re: [flexcoders]Where does my SWF gain it's weight?

2009-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
If you have multiple modules in the compile, am I right to think the link report only shows the info for the last module built? That's how it seems, but perhaps I'm just missing something... Guy On 01/04/2009, at 4:32 PM, Alex Harui wrote: Yeah, you can specify a more sophisticated path

Re: [flexcoders]Where does my SWF gain it's weight?

2009-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
FlexBuilder How can I get individual reports? There's only one spot where I can request the link report, afaik. Guy On 02/04/2009, at 12:26 AM, Gregor Kiddie wrote: If you name the link-reports differently, they shouldn’t overwrite themselves. (Coming to this late) You using Ant

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Ribbon in FLEX

2009-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
On 01/04/2009, at 11:49 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: Given the traffic on this list, I hardly think that the 2-3 on- topic posts I've seen from Scott in the past week classify as spam. Give him a chance, he's only just warming up. ;-) Guy

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Ribbon in FLEX

2009-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
There were two, but then I left. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Guy On 02/04/2009, at 12:33 PM, Tim Hoff wrote: There's already two members on that list. I wonder if you can change the lauguage setting from English to MicroSpeak? :) -TH

Re: [flexcoders] AutoComplete with multiple items

2009-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
Yahoo has a bundle of components you can drop into your projects. Google it (how ironic). On 02/04/2009, at 2:57 PM, Mark Carter wrote: I too, would like this? Does anyone know of such a component? -- View this message in context:

Re: [flexcoders] VSlider direction?

2009-03-30 Thread Guy Morton
Does slider.rotation = 180 do what you want? On 31/03/2009, at 9:20 AM, gwangdesign wrote: I am trying to make a VSlider but in a reversed direction than the default one, i.e., making it up side down, i.e., with the maximum value on the bottom and the minimum value on the top. What would

Re: [flexcoders] Formatting on Custom Item Renderer Sticking

2009-03-29 Thread Guy Morton
data. Guy On 30/03/2009, at 4:24 PM, valkyrie77 wrote: Hi folks, I have a custom item renderer (see code attached below) that looks at a data subset and determines whether there exist a URL in it or not. If there does exist a URL, the item renderer sets a new bg color style for itself

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

2009-03-25 Thread Guy Morton
content doesn't run in safari on the iPhone are more technical than political, though of course there are political angles to all of it. Guy On 26/03/2009, at 10:21 AM, Paul Andrews wrote: I can't see Apple releasing it's sticky fingers on AppStore revenue too easily. Maybe we'll have

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2.0.1 constraint based layout

2009-03-22 Thread Guy Morton
Why is it inside a HBox container? Take it out of the HBox container and see if that helps. On 23/03/2009, at 3:45 PM, Annette Spooner wrote: Hi, I am trying to use constraint based layout to have a datagrid adjust in size as the browser window is resized. I have put together a

Re: [flexcoders] Hiding Swf on a website

2009-03-13 Thread Guy Morton
is to obscure the nature of your content slightly (eg removing the file extension and serving it via a cgi script with correct content-type headers would make the files obscure to windows users). If not, some kind of http auth could protect your content. Guy On 13/03/2009, at 10:08 PM

Re: [flexcoders] Hiding Swf on a website

2009-03-13 Thread Guy Morton
Rick, I'm surprised setting the content-type to application/octet- stream worked...does it work in all browsers/OSes? Do you have to set the content type in the wrapper if you use that approach? If you don't it'd surprise me if all browsers were smart enough to do the right thing with the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flex + mysql unicode support

2009-03-12 Thread Guy Morton
We have an app with multilingual support and we just use the default system font. I haven't yet come across a character that Flash couldn't display. We get our text from mysql. You do have to fiddle with mysql a bit to make it talk unicode (set names=utf8 from memory) On 13/03/2009, at

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-06 Thread Guy Morton
You don't change the content-type to reflect gzip compression being on on the server. Gzip is a content-encoding and the browser should seamlessly decode it. You do need to set the HTTP headers to tell the browser is gzipped though, eg here's a gzip-encoded response example: Request Accept

Re: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest

2009-03-05 Thread Guy Morton
One good thing about URLLoader is that you can load binary data with it. HTTPService doesn't seem to allow this, though I could be wrong about that. On 06/03/2009, at 2:56 AM, Osman Ullah wrote: Surprisingly, I am having a very difficult time finding any discussion on the advantages of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread Guy Morton
/blazebench-why-you-want-amf-and-blazeds/ That should help you see what combinations are fast. Guy On 06/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, David Adams wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:48 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com wrote: What kind of server do you have? I was fairly sure

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread Guy Morton
, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: JSON isn't binary but is more compact than XML. OTOH, parsing it may not be as quick as XML. I haven't tested it yet in the Flash player but the post I linked to earlier claimed String.split (native to the player

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

2009-03-04 Thread Guy Morton
I guess the other thing to consider is where you are using them. If you put them in code that's called frequently it's probably more of a problem than if you are using them in code that's called occasionally. On 05/03/2009, at 10:42 AM, Sam Lai wrote: I thought Alex said before that

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help the Flex Team by taking our survey!

2009-03-02 Thread Guy Morton
in the multiple choice questions. it's not that it's wrong per se, just not very intuitive. On 03/03/2009, at 4:52 AM, Matt Chotin wrote: Which questions do you see that? On 2/28/09 9:43 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: it doesn't accept something in the other section

Re: [flexcoders] Modules Communication

2009-03-02 Thread Guy Morton
Have you read the section Using interfaces for module communication in the docs? That's been working for me.

Re: [flexcoders] New RIA Jobs Mailing List

2009-02-28 Thread Guy Morton
Well done! FlexJobs was useless. On 28/02/2009, at 8:01 AM, Kelly wrote: Hi I got sick of Flex Jobs mailing list never updating so I started another one. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/riajobs/ I sent it to about 100 headhunters too so there may be some posts soon. Just so you

Re: [flexcoders] Help the Flex Team by taking our survey!

2009-02-28 Thread Guy Morton
Your survey is a bit frustrating. surely I can't be the only one to have used SVG before using Flex? Also, you list Ruby as a back end tech but not perl - I bet there's more perl serving data to Flex than there is Ruby... On 28/02/2009, at 6:01 AM, flex_coders wrote: Help the Flex team

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help the Flex Team by taking our survey!

2009-02-28 Thread Guy Morton
. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin mcho...@... wrote: That's what the Other section is for, help us figure out what we're missing :-) So far according to the results I've looked at we're not missing a huge swath though... On 2/28/09 2:00 PM, Guy Morton g...@... wrote: Your

Re: [flexcoders] Trying unsuccessfully to remove forward slash with this pattern /\// ?

2009-02-25 Thread Guy Morton
replace RETURNS the modified string, but doesn't modify the string itself. try asset = asset.replace(pattern,); This has caught me more than once too. Guy On 26/02/2009, at 7:12 AM, Jeremy P. McKay wrote: package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class regExp extends Sprite { public

Re: [flexcoders] Re: perl and AMF

2009-02-23 Thread Guy Morton
I used Storable::AMF, which supports AMF3. On 24/02/2009, at 1:25 AM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 19 Feb 2009, Rob Kunkle wrote: I think you can force flex to use AMF0. See RemoteObjectAMF0 from renaun.com -- Tom Chiverton Helping to collaboratively grow appliances

Re: [flexcoders] Re: perl and AMF

2009-02-17 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, that project was last updated over 4 years ago. I'm not sure I want to invest time in developing a solution based on something that's not being actively developed (and that's assuming it even works with modern flash players). Guy On 17/02/2009, at 8:00 PM, sunild99 wrote: I

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