Just curious about what folks here on the list think / have experienced about the prototype based approach to RIA developemnt with Flex.
Am evaluting a potential project that needs to be prototyped first and eventually built using Flex, and trying to decide what to use for prototyping and how
I must be
missunderstanding it but the Licensing paragraph says and I quote:
"
However, the trend seems to be counting dual-core chips as a single processor as
Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and AMD support this view. Oracle was counting each core
as a processor but came up with a formula that
Hi there,
I am looking at Flex (1.5) for my diploma thesis, which is about RIAs.
I want to build a sample application using different approaches:
html/js, openlaszlo, flex, etc.
I have already started. html/js was usual, openLaszlo was easy, too.
But with Flex I have several problems to get
Hello developers,
I own a 4 cpu Flex license which apparently cannot be sold and I am
entitled to free upgrade to FLEX 2.0 Enterprise etc...
I am looking for serious Flex developers who have a project in mind or
on the way or even ready to partner with or arrange some kind of deal.
I will
Dear to the heart, indeed! A recent lane-split passed
5 cars recently on I66 has me revisiting the pattern in this
lane-splitting-illegal state of VA. Luckily the whole experience was one
of braking, because I'd have only had ~30hp to put to the road if acceleration
was involved : )
"So
There is a way,
it seems somewhat backwards and im sure there a re better methods but this is
what I did.
1. Change the
servers flex config file and set production mode to false.
2. Restart flex
3. Browse to
the .mxml file and it will recompile it
4. Once you are
happy that
Hi again,
I forgot to mention in my previous email about the Yahoo!
Maps Beta release that were hiring a Senior Flex Engineer/Architect.
If anyone is interested, please send me your resume.
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OK, so the unanimous response is: Use MXML!
Got some good points from you guys, thanks. I'll probably be around
more often from now on, now that I'm getting acquainted with Flex and
its Framework.
Just to make things clear (Dave): As you can see from my posts, I am
not preaching… Only making
Sorry if asking the obvious - are you using java.util.Date or java.sql.Date?
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From: Dave Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:00 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: dates, AS, and Java
That sounds like a bug in the
Here is a simple app I did:
--
?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
mx:Model id="allCompModel" source="comps2.xml"/
mx:DataGrid id="allComp"
width="240" height="600" dataProvider="{allCompModel.computer}"
mx:columns
mx:Array
mx:DataGridColumn headerText="A" width="20"
hi there!
i'm try to write custom a class about make the call web service to
.net webservice server. The class will be in actionscript 2 , i can
not find any document to do that. i found some example code like this:
new mx.servicetags.Service(this._url,
Are there any special tips or tricks or sample code for re-using a form
component in a create scenario (perhaps in a modal dialog) and an
update scenario?
In particular, I wondered about omitting the submit/cancel buttons from
the reusable piece vs setting attributes to control whether they are
holy obviousness batman! That was it! Can I blame Eclipse? I mashed
organise imports or wahtever its called and it chose java.sql.Date
instead. I completely missed it.
/me crawls back into the corner, head hung low.
DK
On 11/3/05, Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if
The goal was to not restart the server. There is some irony in a
setting called production which requires the server to come down wink.
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Has someone already tried to use holomatix with Flex ?
If so, could he give me an Howto information ?
thanks
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Hi,
First:
Try use this functions in flex 1.5:
ToolTipManager.createAndShowTip();
ToolTipManager.hideAndDestroyTip();
Second:
Use this:
mx:Tree showDataTips=true/mx:Tree
Tell me, if it works.
Bye.
On 11/1/05, parinda_b_patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,Is there a way to fire an event or
Hi,
I was unable to dynamically instantiate Webservice objects
in ActionScript (this has been rather extensively discussed in this group
previously). Macromedia pretty much told me that dynamic instantiation of
Webservice objects was not supported in Flex 1.5, and that you must define the
Nope
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the err function being called from a class that extends
UIObject/UIComponent/View?
- Original Message -
From: Greg Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 03,
That's cool, but believe me, I've seen things that one
should not see from actual Microsoft documents.
Flash is here to stay, but I believe a battle will
ensue in the next year or so and it will be
diversionary as is always the case with ms.
They are smart people but apply less of their smarts
Its actually working as expected.
By default, the size of an Image control is the size of its contents.
scaleContent is set to true by default, but that only says the image itself
should fill the Image control and thus has no effect unless you add width and
height properties to the Image
I don't know how to link to
places in LiveDocs.
In livedocs, the actual URL of the page you are currently
viewing is at the bottom of the page. For example, at the bottom of the page you
provide a path to, it says:
"Current page:
I am a former lead Product Manager from the .NET servers team at
Microsoft. I think I have a pretty good perspective here smile
They have a saying in Redmond.
Its better to chase tail lights then blaze head lights
In other words, let everyone else go establish the market, let
everyone else
Interesting discussion. Our current licensing is by
processor and we don't make any special distinction for dual core
processors. We're studying this closely right now, and of course we reserve the right
to change our licensing policies in the future, but for now there is no
distinction
Anyone have code to share to accomplish the following:
A blank TextInput
and populated List controls are used
As the user types
into the TextInput, the List control dynamically displays only words than match
what the user has entered thus far into the TextInput
When
created an cellRenderer, I want to use this cellrenderer in a combobox;
I tried the following:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:ComboBox xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;
creationComplete=initApp()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import bla.bla.FlexBoxRenderer;
Janice:
That worked.
Thanks,
Jack
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wrote:
It's actually working as expected. By default, the size of an Image
control is the size of its contents. scaleContent is set to true by
default, but that only says the image itself
Maybe this help you:
http://www.richinternetapps.com/archives/79.html
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have code to share to accomplish the following:
1.A blank TextInput and populated List controls are used
2.As the user types into
If you're talking Flex 2, then check out this chapter in
the DevApps book:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/1051.html
hth,
matt horn
flex docs
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt
ChotinSent: Thursday, November 03, 2005
Hello Matt,
I have just implemented this feature! :)
If you will have questions about implementation I will gladly help you.
The sample here http://www.richinternetapps.com/archives/79.html
is using much memory but pretty fast, I created application that uses
less memory but more cpu
Can you hurry up and blog that please? I want to try it this weekend.
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From: Dirk Eismann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:52 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] take that roger!
Great - just send me one of those Timbuk2
Jesse Warden does A, Darron Schall does B (I would
think).
I like to build stuff quickly, ironing out the
weird, diffucult things, and just continually kneed the mofo like dough,
improving, and releaseing working builds to prove progress. Sometimes, you
realize a re-write is best, and
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
We feel very strongly about this subject. We developed all our
Flex/RIA solutions so far using a front to back approach.
Effectively we do what we call a Model Design phase where we develop
out the entire UI in Flex. In the past we would call this wire
framing and would use static images to
Nice to hear your comments; after all, the employees
there are just people too; but it's the influence of a
culture started long ago (billg: I think Jobs needs
to learn to program -- and this coming from a Basic
programmer /:-\
I'm not unaware at all that there are those from ms
that read these
Im talking Flex 1.5
Thanks,
Sridhar Boddula,
EIS - New Tech. Development
617-664-8566(Work)
From:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Horn
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005
11:32 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE:
Apparently, this is a known bug:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=584;
threadid=1072386
Benoit Hediard
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part de Greg Johnson
Envoyé : vendredi 4 novembre 2005 14:34
À
I want to do a chart which is a ranking of team's position (y axis)
in a league over time (x-axis).
I would like to reverse the y axis so that if a team is improving over
time (say from rank 4 to rank 2) the graph shows an upward movement
rather than the downward movement that results from a
No, the axes don't really support inversion.
The easiest way would probably be:
1) pre-multiply your values by -1.
2) put a labelFunction on your vertical AxisRenderer that multiplies the
label value by -1 to make it look like it's positive.
3) if you want datatips, you'll have to add a
just stuff AS into
our mxml. If it bites us later we'll just refactor
No, man, dont do that. In 1.5, the 32k problem *will* bite you. Just start off putting the
AS into a helper class (static or otherwise). Then youll do:
MyHelperClass.myFunction()
From the beginning instead of
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
CPU.
Even with the bitmap renderings, the only hardware Flash utilizes is with
Flash Player 8 on the Mac. Granted, you get higher refresh rates with
better video cards, and thus higher framerates actually look like they
should, but no one should be developing above 30fps in Flex anyway.
CPU
And here's another bug with the TitleWindow (in addition to the center bug).
If the TitleWindow has a close button (closeButton=true), try clicking the
close button and while holding down the mouse, move the
mouse. The TitleWindow will jump all the way to the right.
regards,
Muzak
That's what I needed. Thank you sir!
JesterXL wrote:
CPU.
Even with the bitmap renderings, the only hardware Flash utilizes is with
Flash Player 8 on the Mac. Granted, you get higher refresh rates with
better video cards, and thus higher framerates actually look like they
should, but no
Title: Need advice on XMLSocket architecture (1.5)
I have 100 fixed clients running a Flex 1.5 app on an intranet. A Dot.Net integration tier maintains individual states for each client. The integration tier talks asynchronously to third party apps over async tcp sockets and even mail
Paypal already offers a webservice which like any webservice can be
used with httpservice or webservice components. But it's set up as a
monthly service.
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I was getting ready to delve into a .NET object for PayPal and
I've been playing with Flex on and off over the last year. I recently downloaded Flex 2 Alpha 1 and I like what I see, however I'm a newbie to application development. I would like to get my arms around Flex 2, but other than the few tutorials that Macromedia has on thier site I haven't been
This thread is getting off-topic and I probobly shouldn't keep it
alive, but I did want to make one short comment. First off I clearly
a *former* employee and I can only comment on what I saw when I was
there, but many of the things that from the outside look like very
well planned very well
Understanding Flash is not a pre-requisite
to understanding Flex. Sometimes it even confuses people J Id look at the
Developing Rich Clients book even though its for 1.0, the concepts of
how to build an application remain. The 1.5 tutorials that you find out on the
web also should
When defining a click event for a custom TitleWindow, clicking anywhere within
the TitleWindow triggers the event, allthough the
docs say it is used for the close button.
Furthermore, when trying to close the TitleWindow in the click event handler,
an error pops up.
Here's the mxml:
?xml
Muzak wrote:
When defining a click event for a custom TitleWindow, clicking anywhere within
the TitleWindow triggers the event, allthough the
docs say it is used for the close button.
I believe that's a known issue. For now, do this:
closeButton=true click=if ( event.target ==
I'm trying to implement the filtering functionality shown in the
Cairngorm Store example, but the differences between my data set and
theirs is creating a rather large hurdle.
The particular page I'm working on involves a ComboBox and a DataGrid:
the default on the ComboBox is All, so upon
We are reading a collection of Java Value Objects with one of the
attributes being of java.sql.Timestamp datatype. How can I map this to
ActionScript?
We already have a ActionScript VO mapped to the Java VO using
object.RegisterClass, it seems that it is reading the value OK but when
send the
I just read about
fscommand ():
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flex_Documentationfile=2349.htm
...very
wierd.
Anyway, I was hoping
to actually obtain information as a return value from a JS function that gets
Could you use a callback setup? Fscommand
or getURL out to the wrapper, then FlashMovieObject.setVariable(myData) back to
Flex?
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mink, Joseph
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005
3:56 PM
To:
Ya flexwon't do it for you... you might try pulling the timestamp out of your db as a string and converting it back to a timestamp before you save it to the database.
On 11/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
We arereading a collection of Java Value Objects with one of
Thanx for the confirmation.
I worked around it by doing something similar.
mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml; xmlns=*
closeButton=true creationComplete=windowInit()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import flash.events.*;
import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
And a quick follow-up:
setVariable() will work with a Flex setter
function, so you can use it to trigger any action in flex.
I use this callback setup for programmatic
security. I use getURL(_javascript_:myWrapperFunc(mydata));
Tracy
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has anyone
successfully depolyed a Flex 2 app to a PDA running Pocket PC? Can this be
done?
Dave
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I was just recently made aware of this
link:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15683
Which basically shows a way, from JS,to set the value
of a variable in the Flash Player. Awesome!
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Thanks again, Tracy. That's awesome info!
Definitely easier than I would've thought...
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy
SprattSent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:24 PMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Obtaining data
from
Yes indeed! I just found out about the
FlashMovObj.setVariable...didn't know about that! Thanks
much!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy
SprattSent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:18 PMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders]
Howard, Dave wrote:
has anyone successfully depolyed a Flex 2 app to a PDA running Pocket
PC? Can this be done?
Not yet. The alpha Flex 2 uses the alpha Macromedia Flash Player 8.5 --
even desktop browsers aren't at this level of support yet. Pocket
devices are usually a few versions back:
Well, some of each of our last 2 postings have had elements of off-topic and I'm willing to stop it also; but it was and is something I'm researching as far as, as you say "my competetive plug in" problems (which is not the case here at all and I'll either end this or make sure it's on topic by
Thanks for all the replies.
So the majority seem to favour approach A and iterative development.
Question though,doesnt iterative mean you arebuilding towards a production app?
Meaning the prototype would constantly get refactored and eventually become the production app.
As opposed to a
Absolutely! 9 out of 10 times I'm building,
re-factoring production code as I go.
I think the important thing to note here is the
purpose of milestones via iterations is to get a build done, working, and
testable by a real user, not just a developer. This garners relevant
feedback, the
In addition to this.
I tried adding a Stage resize event listener to a TitleWindow (inside a custom
mxml component which extends TitleWindow) in order to
be able to keep it centered.
When doing so I receive the following error, when resizing the swf:
TypeError: Error #1009: null has no
When setting the selectable property to false of a Text tag, anchor tags (a
href='') no longer work.
mx:Text width=100% selectable=false id=info_txt
mx:htmlText
![CDATA[info: a
href='http://www.muzakdeezign.com/mxi_creator'http://www.muzakdeezign.com/mxi_creator/a]]
/mx:htmlText
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