Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread Scott Barnes
David, (No good can come from this, but anyway, here goes nothing). *Let's get FUD Definition on the Table:* *FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product. The term

[flexcoders] Open new browser popup

2007-04-23 Thread Jaap Cammeraat
Thanks for your answer, but it isn't working in Flex201. Is there another example of opening a popupwindow? Op 20-apr-2007, om 14:38 heeft ramp_of_remo het volgende geschreven: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jaap Cammeraat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Can somebody tell me how I

[flexcoders] change a button's appeareance from it's properties

2007-04-23 Thread flashcrow2000
Hello again, I ran into this little problem: I have to skin a number of buttons, and I can't modify the way the over and down states look like. I have a Button with rounded corners, gren outline, green text and white fill. I want it to have a black fill and white text (i can use

[flexcoders] Re: Getting progress events on Socket *write* (not read)

2007-04-23 Thread Tim
Well, no, *flush* isn't a blocking options, but to be fair, it really can't be in flash because of it's threading model. What this means is that everytime you write data, it goes into an invisible buffer you have no visibility into and eats up memory until you exceed its limits and then pow! - it

[flexcoders] Re: Getting progress events on Socket *write* (not read)

2007-04-23 Thread Tim
TCP acks when packets have been received, this is how blocking sockets know when to return from blocking during a data write. Or to send events that data has been successfully acked by the end server. If an end server or mid router (for example, a wifi connection) is getting overloaded it will

Re: [flexcoders] Open new browser popup

2007-04-23 Thread Roman Protsiuk
Thishttp://skovalyov.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-prevent-pop-up-blocking-in.htmlmight help you. R. On 4/23/07, Jaap Cammeraat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, but it isn't working in Flex201. Is there another example of opening a popupwindow? Op 20-apr-2007, om 14:38

[flexcoders] Re: Booleans and Stardust

2007-04-23 Thread Shannon
My apologies to all of you programmers out there who have been developing in a real language all along. ActionScript with all it's freedom leaves me struggling to understand how I got along without the structured discipline you guys swear by. Thanks for helping me over the enum hump. To give

[flexcoders] submenu can't show completely

2007-04-23 Thread kkinaru
Hello all. This time, I have a Button in the bottom of my flex application. This button shows a Menu (like the start button in windows). First menu is OK, but the last submenu is clipped, because it exceeds the bottom edge of my flex app. Does exist a way for controlling that stuff in my

[flexcoders] Bender alpha 01 release

2007-04-23 Thread Toby Tremayne
For those who are interested, you can now get the first alpha release of Bender, the Flex/Actionscript to Transfer Bridge. find it at http://www.tobytremayne.com I would greatly appreciate any feedback, suggestions or criticisms. Documentation is light on at the moment but more will be

Re: [flexcoders] submenu can't show completely

2007-04-23 Thread Roman Protsiuk
How do you show your menus? Using PopUpButton? Whatever the mechanism there is a way to specify x, y for the menu. R. On 4/23/07, kkinaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. This time, I have a Button in the bottom of my flex application. This button shows a Menu (like the start button in

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread Gautam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEQhhaJsU4 enjoy! On 4/23/07, Scott Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, (No good can come from this, but anyway, here goes nothing). *Let's get FUD Definition on the Table:* *FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, a sales or marketing

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyuDAzzKnz8 :) On 4/23/07, Gautam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEQhhaJsU4 enjoy! On 4/23/07, Scott Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, (No good can come from this, but anyway, here goes nothing). *Let's get FUD

Re: [flexcoders] Open new browser popup

2007-04-23 Thread Jaap Cammeraat
Thanks, this is working! Regards, Jaap Op 23-apr-2007, om 9:44 heeft Roman Protsiuk het volgende geschreven: This might help you. R. On 4/23/07, Jaap Cammeraat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, but it isn't working in Flex201. Is there another example of opening a

RE: [flexcoders] Sandbox errors in Flex when using BitmapData.draw();

2007-04-23 Thread Dirk Eismann
If you're using mx.controls.SWFLoader or mx.controls.Image to grab the remote files you can try to set the trustContent property to true. See: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/mx/controls/SWFLoader.html#trustContent Dirk. From:

[flexcoders] Re: submenu can't show completely

2007-04-23 Thread kkinaru
Thanks for your answer. I'm sorry for the little explanation before. Take this piece of code. [CODE] public function createMenu(): void { this.menu = Menu.createMenu(this.startButton, this.menuData, false); this.menu.labelField = @label; this.menu.styleName = startMenuStyle;

Re: [flexcoders] xmlrpc

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
See the POST example here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/rpc/http/HTTPService.html You have to set the method to POST and pass the request XML to the send() method. Also see the XML-RPC spec for other requirements. http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec On 4/23/07, joshua gatcke [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Viewstack showEffect and hideEffect playing at the same time

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
Wow, this page explicitly states that the ViewStack container waits for the completion of the effect specified by the hideEffect property for the container that is being hidden before it reveals the new child container. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/navigators_066_06.html Does that

Re: [flexcoders] Confusion on Image Component

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
This might work: 1) Set scaleContent to false 2) Set width/height of Image explicitly It'll display the content from {0,0}. If you want to display some other part, set the scrollRect property on the content object. On 4/23/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have an

REPSOST: [flexcoders] validating multiple fields

2007-04-23 Thread Kenneth Sutherland
Not sure if this wasn't answered as it's a bit difficult or because I posted it on a Friday :-) so I'm giving it another go, this time on a Monday. Cheers. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Sutherland Sent: 13

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread Brian Lesser
Sadly, this seems to describe Scott's post Microsoft behavior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll I wish it was otherwise... -Brian Scott Barnes wrote: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=TyuDAzzKnz8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyuDAzzKnz8 :) --

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Versioning swf files for bug reporting

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 18 Apr 2007, Johannes Nel wrote: I don't see Flex or ActionScript support in it. And I never had much luck with ANT scripts for Flex from Eclipse either. funny that. i compile fine in eclipse using ant (pc and mac)... and on my servers (suse, redhat) using compc and mxmlc and

[flexcoders] FMS simple example can't get through !

2007-04-23 Thread arokyzxc
hello all I followed the example in adobe doc that used VideoDisplay control with FMS,but i can't get the exactly result. here is my mainly codes (forgive me for codes) demo.mxml: mx:VideoDisplay id=myVid autoPlay=true autoBandWidthDetection=true

[flexcoders] Re: Viewstack showEffect and hideEffect playing at the same time

2007-04-23 Thread João
Ok, i will try to code one. Anyway, i do not understand why ViewStack doesn't support that.. João Saleiro

Re: [flexcoders] Canvas scrollbars not appearing

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Schmalle
Hi, Sounds to me from what you have explained, you have not called setActualSize() on the canvas instance in your custom component;s updateDisplayList() method. Did you ? IE canvas.setActualSize(canvas.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth(), canvas.getExplicitOrMeasuredHeight()) Peace, Mike On

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Identifying line series for datatip function

2007-04-23 Thread Sunil Bannur
Try LineSeriesItem(h.chartItem).yValue From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zhu Haifeng Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:57 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Identifying line series for datatip

[flexcoders] Re: change a button's appeareance from it's properties

2007-04-23 Thread flashcrow2000
I found a solution myself, and that is using custom skins, and apply them to the overSkin and downSkin properties. Any other ways? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, flashcrow2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, I ran into this little problem: I have to skin a number of buttons,

[flexcoders] Re: Viewstack showEffect and hideEffect playing at the same time

2007-04-23 Thread João
In that page, it works fine. It only doesn't work when you have composite effects. I do not know if it's something i'm doing wrong or if there is really a problem on the viewstack Thanks, João Saleiro

[flexcoders] Scheduler

2007-04-23 Thread mapper2255
Good Morning, Is there any one out there that is willing to share a link/code example of customizing the Scheduler to accept a drag/drop event? Thanks.

RE: [flexcoders] X axis of Area Chart how to make labels always vertical

2007-04-23 Thread Sunil Bannur
Use an embedded font and use the rotation property in AxisRenderer under the AreaChart mxml tag, for example: mx:Style @font-face{ src:local(Arial); fontFamily: Arial1; } AreaChart { fontFamily: Arial1; fontSize: 20; } /mx:Style

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Versioning swf files for bug reporting

2007-04-23 Thread Johannes Nel
If it ran on Linux, I would have the plugin version :-) fair nuff. there are ways to get ant working still in the standalone version (it involves manually copying plugin folders and jars) but worth the effort. no i don't think CC is worth it only for this, but i do think that it would help

[flexcoders] Re: Canvas scrollbars not appearing

2007-04-23 Thread vitcheff
Hi, thanks for helping! Actually the canvas contains the component's instance and so the component shouldn't need to know anything about the canvas. I solved the issue with setting explicitWidth and explicitHeight of the component at change. It made the canvas update automatically. Before that I

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Two-Way Communication

2007-04-23 Thread Johannes Nel
look at red5 and their SOBall example On 4/20/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually looking into that now, but I'm having a hard time finding any information about how to communicate using it apart from stream audio or video. Know of any examples that would be useful? --- In

[flexcoders] the render CheckBox works wrong.

2007-04-23 Thread robert01song
hi all, I put a checkBox as a datagrid's render, it works well at the first time. After I changed the selectedValue and refresh the datagrid, It selected the checkboxes randomly. Any suggestion will be appreciated! ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application

[flexcoders] Re: Canvas scrollbars not appearing

2007-04-23 Thread vitcheff
Thank you for your reply! Explicitly calling is something I didn't try. I thought of doing it, but it means tighter coupling and also implementation overhead in handling events etc. I thought if a child's invalidateDisplayList(), or at least invalidateSize has been called, the the parent container

[flexcoders] Re: Tree-to-tree drag drop

2007-04-23 Thread robertdx.tw
Since the document has been updated to 2.01; see the information on page 1090. Thanks, you solve my problems. Robert --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Arul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Flex2_devguide.pf Notice that the built-in drag-and-drop functionality of the Tree control lets you

[flexcoders] Issues with MenuBar

2007-04-23 Thread Dipke
Hello, I'm trying to skin the MenuItems of a MenuBar. All other components seem to be ultra-skinnable, but the MenuItem only has a backgroundcolor and some border properties... I found a semi-solution at http://www.liguorien.com/blog/archives_186.html but the complete source code is missing.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread Scott Barnes
heh, FUD, Troll and there was another one .. think it was sell-out from memory... I've heard them all dude :) Just for fun, I did a google of *Brian Lesser + Macromedia*, you seem to be a very vocal member of the community, so given i'm trolling does that make you fanboi?

[flexcoders] TabNavigator and Text

2007-04-23 Thread Matt
I'm dynamically creating content with ActionScript and I create a TabNavigator (set creationPolicy to 'all') and then add Boxes with Text HTML content in each. My problem is that the first time I go to each tab it takes a minute for the content to render but after that it works fine. Is there any

[flexcoders] Change viewStack behaviour so it doesn't stop effects before they finish

2007-04-23 Thread João
First, the example: http://www.riapt.org/opensource/viewstack_test2/viewstack_test.html (com view source enabled). The application has one viewstack with three components, and three buttons for the navigation. Each component has one hideEffect and one ShowEffect. It works fine and smooth, except

Re: [flexcoders] Font-size Bug in Text Area?

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Freiman
The flash player assumes 1 point per pixel. So it's not as much a bug as a design choice. - Dan Freiman On 4/23/07, iko_knyphausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: I think I have found a bug in the text area control and its htmlText property. When you set the fontsize property of an

[flexcoders] Sliding HDividedBox

2007-04-23 Thread Flexing...
Hi All, Has anyone created a Sliding HDividedBox i.e. HDividedBox in which when a use clicks on the Divider, it slides and hides the left container. Thanks

[flexcoders] How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Shaun
Does anyone know of an equivalent to the TextFormat.getTextExtent() method of AS2 in AS3? I have a fixed size box that I place text in. If the text doesn't fit, I want to programmatically adjust the font size so that it does (if possible). So does anyone know a way of getting the size of a

[flexcoders] Percentage Sizing Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Matt
I'm trying to lay out a relatively complex site using Flex and it doesn't seem to like to respect my percent sizings. For example, I have a Box (VBox) which contains a TabNavigator set to 100% width and 35% height. Then I have a Panel set to 100% width and 65% height. This works fine with content

Re: [flexcoders] How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Freiman
mx.controls.Label truncates text if it doesn't fit. While this is not what you're looking for, it should be good example code for you to edit to get the behavior you want. Dan Freiman nondocs http://nondocs.blogspot.com On 4/23/07, Shaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an

[flexcoders] Re: IFrame problem

2007-04-23 Thread manfred.maierhofer
Thanks for the help and now I got it working in IE, but in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 it doens't show the iframe properly. Are there any known problems with this browser and the IFrame component? Thanks, Mane

Re: [flexcoders] the render CheckBox works wrong.

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 23 Apr 2007, robert01song wrote: I put a checkBox as a datagrid's render, it works well at the first time. After I changed the selectedValue and refresh the datagrid, It selected the checkboxes randomly. The DataGrid recycles renders. Search the archive for a list of workarounds. --

[flexcoders] Re: How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Shaun
Thanks Daniel, that did help me out. Not as simple as getTextExtent, but it works. Shaun --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mx.controls.Label truncates text if it doesn't fit. While this is not what you're looking for,

[flexcoders] Accessibilty for loaded swf (as3) files

2007-04-23 Thread gerardjamesmcbreen
I'm trying to unite flex accessibility with that of loaded swfs without success. The swfs lose their focus inside the flex app. Help appreciated.

Re: [flexcoders] Percentage Sizing Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Schmalle
Hi, try; panel.minHeight = 0; You are telling the layoutManager to disregard the measured sizes for the actual panel and use unscaledWidth and height that has been set from it's parent. Peace, Mike On 4/23/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to lay out a relatively complex site

[flexcoders] Blog sites done in Flex

2007-04-23 Thread mapper2255
Hello, Any one seen a good blogging site lately that was done in Flex? Thanks.

Re: [flexcoders] Sliding HDividedBox

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 23 Apr 2007, Flexing... wrote: Has anyone created a Sliding HDividedBox i.e. HDividedBox in which when a use clicks on the Divider, it slides and hides the left container. All you need to do is fire an effect to animate the width to 0, isn't it ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to

[flexcoders] convert a string to object, with macro substitutuoin

2007-04-23 Thread mazarflex
this is a small sample i made and was testing. I am building a string with macro's in it. Once the string is built i want to convert the string into an object. Like if i want to pass a '1' to my funciton it will turn function it will build the string this.cmd1.visible=false The only problem is

Re: [flexcoders] Sliding HDividedBox

2007-04-23 Thread Flexing...
right. but I would like to add an icon to the divider and enable this functionality on the click of that icon. I am not sure how to customize the divider. Any pointer would be helpful. Thanks On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 23 Apr 2007, Flexing... wrote: Has

[flexcoders] Testing if a datatyped variable is not set yet

2007-04-23 Thread khair
I have a class, Player that with a selectPlayer method. I want selectPlayer to automatically deselect the last selected Player that stored in the static variable LAST_SELECTED. It's imperative that I keep LAST_SELECTED data type as Player. I don't want give it the dynamic datatype. What's a more

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
i wouldn't say that. i think he has some valid points that echo my own. i love flex and i love the visual studio products when i worked in them. don't really like some of MS business practices but i feel more comfortable with MS than i have in a long time (well parts of it). but like scott, my

[flexcoders] Re: TabNavigator and Text

2007-04-23 Thread scalenine
Try setting creationPolicy=all. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/mx/core/Container.html#creationPolicy Juan scalenine.com --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm dynamically creating content with ActionScript and I create a TabNavigator (set

Re: [flexcoders] Viewstack showEffect and hideEffect playing at the same time

2007-04-23 Thread Tim Walling
That's right. I couldn't remember what the documentation said. I had to create my own viewstack component because I wanted to insert a resize effect in between the show and hide effects. Tim On 4/23/07, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, this page explicitly states that the

[flexcoders] Re: Using TabNavigator to switch view states

2007-04-23 Thread scalenine
Try this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute mx:TabNavigator horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 resizeToContent=true mx:Canvas label=Tab 1 width=300 height=300/ mx:Canvas label=Tab 2

[flexcoders] Re: TabNavigator and Text

2007-04-23 Thread scalenine
Looks like you already did that. Nevermind. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, scalenine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try setting creationPolicy=all. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/mx/core/Container.html#creationPolicy Juan scalenine.com --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt

Re: [flexcoders] Blog sites done in Flex

2007-04-23 Thread Jeffry Houser
scrapblog.com ? Other than that, no I haven't. I'm not convined that Blogging is a medium that will benefit from an RIA. Although ScrapBlog definitely takes it to a new level. At 11:57 AM 4/23/2007, mapper2255 wrote: Hello, Any one seen a good blogging site lately that was done in Flex?

[flexcoders] Re: How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Doug Lowder
I'm currently looking into using the TextLineMetrics class for this. If your object has a getLineMetrics() method, TextLineMetrics.width might be an option. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Shaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an equivalent to the TextFormat.getTextExtent()

Re: [flexcoders] How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
The textWidth and textHeight propery of a TextField basically give you the width and the height. You can go from there. See truncateToFit() in mx.core.UITextField. On 4/23/07, Shaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an equivalent to the TextFormat.getTextExtent() method of AS2 in

RE: [flexcoders] Accessibilty for loaded swf (as3) files

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew Kirkpatrick
Happy to help. I'm not sure what you mean by unite here... Can you provide more info, send an example? Thanks, AWK -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gerardjamesmcbreen Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:02 AM To:

[flexcoders] Re: How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Shaun
Yeah, that's what label uses behind the scenes. And it works, but my object has a fixed size with multiple lines and variable styles, so it was easier for me to simply create a textField that was not part of the displayList and have its width constrained, but not its height. I then shrink

[flexcoders] Re: IFrame problem

2007-04-23 Thread manfred.maierhofer
Opaque mode was set false in the html wrapper, so now it works fine. Thanks, Mane

Re: [flexcoders] Testing if a datatyped variable is not set yet

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
You didn't say what error you're getting when you compare with null (?) On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a class, Player that with a selectPlayer method. I want selectPlayer to automatically deselect the last selected Player that stored in the static variable

Re: [flexcoders] Testing if a datatyped variable is not set yet

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Schmalle
Hi, another lazy way; function selectPlayer() { if(Player Player.LAST_SELECTED == null){ Player.LAST_SELECTED = this; } } Peace, Mike On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a class, Player that with a selectPlayer method. I want selectPlayer to

Re: [flexcoders] Testing if a datatyped variable is not set yet

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Schmalle
Read the post wrong, disregard. :) didn't realize that was a class. why can't you write; if (Player.LAST_SELECTED) { // reset last player // set new last player } Mike On 4/23/07, Michael Schmalle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, another lazy way; function selectPlayer() { if(Player

Re: [flexcoders] Sliding HDividedBox

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
See the dividerClass property (protected). On 4/23/07, Flexing... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right. but I would like to add an icon to the divider and enable this functionality on the click of that icon. I am not sure how to customize the divider. Any pointer would be helpful. Thanks On

[flexcoders] DateTimeAxis problem: aligning dates with their year value

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Demling
Experiencing an interesting problem with the DateTimeAxis. Below is the full code for a very simple LineChart app that's charting one data value across a DateTimeAxis (this a small variation of the DateTimeAxis example from livedocs). The date values for the DateTimeAxis are String values in a

[flexcoders] Re: TRUNCATING a ComboBox text?

2007-04-23 Thread stevekpeak8
Manish, Thanks for your reply. By FIXED WIDTH do you mean that setting a left and right isn't enough? If I set width to a bindable value, should THAT do it in your experience? TIA Steve --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TRUNCATING a ComboBox text?

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
Yeah, setting left and right should do it. Anything that doesn't leave the width to be calculated automatically based on the data in the combo box. On 4/23/07, stevekpeak8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manish, Thanks for your reply. By FIXED WIDTH do you mean that setting a left and right isn't

RE: [flexcoders] How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Petro Bochan
Hi, You might also try checking out the migration appendix: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/migration.html Cheers, Petro From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:14 PM

Re: [flexcoders] Blog sites done in Flex

2007-04-23 Thread Kevin Newman
WOH!! Where can I see more like that? That's awesome! Kevin N. Jeffry Houser wrote: scrapblog.com ? Other than that, no I haven't. I'm not convined that Blogging is a medium that will benefit from an RIA. Although ScrapBlog definitely takes it to a new level. At 11:57 AM

RE: [flexcoders] DateTimeAxis problem: aligning dates with their year value

2007-04-23 Thread Ely Greenfield
Peter...usually that's a problem of time zones. i.e., you're specifying your times in local time, and the DateTimeAxis is rendering in UTC. So Jan 1 in local time becomes Dec 31 in UTC, for example. Ely. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [flexcoders] How to measure text?

2007-04-23 Thread Gordon Smith
UIComponent has measureText() and measureHTMLText() methods. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to measure text?

[flexcoders] Re: DateTimeAxis problem: aligning dates with their year value

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Demling
That was it! I simply added displayLocalTime=true to my DateTimeAxis, and it works. Thanks very much, Ely! This charting API is the best. -Peter --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter...usually that's a problem of time zones. i.e., you're

[flexcoders] Re: Accessibilty for loaded swf (as3) files

2007-04-23 Thread gerardjamesmcbreen
Hi AWK, I'm building an app (a shell) that loads multiple flash9 as preview swfs which are listed in an xml file. The swfs are referenced ok in the app, properties and methods are visible etc. In terms of accessibility the following happens: 1) If the loaded swf is a flex app you can tab to

Re: [flexcoders] How do I check the current version of Flex Charting?

2007-04-23 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Was this ever answered elswhere? I find myself in the same situation. On 1/6/07, Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running the Flex Builder 2.0.1 updater (Plug-In update) I am unsure as to if I still need to update my Flex Charting installation. The release notes/install docs are not

[flexcoders] (unknown)

2007-04-23 Thread khair
I have a class, Player that with a selectPlayer method. I want selectPlayer to automatically deselect the last selected Player that stored in the static variable LAST_SELECTED. It's imperative that I keep LAST_SELECTED data type as Player. I don't want give it the dynamic datatype. Normally in

[flexcoders] Getting Index of Array Collection from current Mouse Position in areaChart

2007-04-23 Thread patricklemiuex
I can get the coordinates from Ely's example working, but instead of a plot chart, I am using an area Chart. Is it possible to get a reference to my arrayCollection inndex from a mouseover position? I'm trying to make a chart zoomble by mousing over the chart and holding the mouse over it...

[flexcoders] Hibernate Transactions Roles

2007-04-23 Thread Kevin
I am trying to build a Hibernate enabled app (with Flex Data Services) but I am wondering how do deal with certain requirements of my app. For example, I employ a root object table which contains all ids (and some admin vars) for every table in my app. Every data table has a one-to-one

Re: REPSOST: [flexcoders] validating multiple fields

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
Here's how I would do it: mx:Model id=person name custName first{firstInput.text}/first middle{middleInput.text}/middle last{lastInput.text}/last /custName /name /mx:Model mx:TextInput id=firstInput/

Re: [flexcoders] Testing if a datatyped variable is not set yet

2007-04-23 Thread khair
YEAH!!! That was what it needed. Now its fixed. (Lazy?) Boolean test of Player.LAST_SELECTED [CODE] if(Player.LAST_SELECTED Player.LAST_SELECTED != this){ Player.LAST_SELECTED.deselect(); } Player.LAST_SELECTED = this; [/CODE] Thanks a many times! --

[flexcoders] A way to click through chromless components?

2007-04-23 Thread camlinaeizerous
Using Ben Stuki's cool reflection component I was playing with a chromeless Apollo application putting the reflection over the desktop. I really like the result but only with one issue. the reflection remains click able for the whole application. For example if there is an icon behind the

[flexcoders] Re: Blog sites done in Flex

2007-04-23 Thread scalenine
Here's a post about it with some close attempts: http://thanksmister.com/?p=55 Juan scalenine.com --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scrapblog.com ? Other than that, no I haven't. I'm not convined that Blogging is a medium that will benefit

Re: [flexcoders] Change viewStack behaviour so it doesn't stop effects before they finish

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
So let's say you have two views, v1 and v2, in a ViewStack. When you switch from v1 to v2, v1 fades out and v2 fades in. If in-between v1 is selected again, it should continue getting faded out? Should it also simultaneously fade in? How would that work? Anyway. You'll have to override

Re: [flexcoders] submenu can't show completely

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
You can listen for the menuShow event on the root menu object. The event object's menu property actually points to the submenu that's being popped up, through which you can check its position and size and make sure it's within the screen area (move it). On 4/23/07, kkinaru [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] How to access Variable in Module from sub-component

2007-04-23 Thread boy_trike
My Application loads a module which has many components. In one of these components, I want to access a variable declared in my module. parentApplication.varname does not work. Thanks Bruce

[flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-23 Thread mvbaffa
I would like to remember that Windows Communication Foundation has duplex, or callback services. That allows the server notify the clients of any server events. Sounds like FDS don't you think ??? And It's free ! FDS is still more easy to use and more complete. But WCF is getting there.

[flexcoders] Re: Okay, I know this is possible...DataGrid to Tree

2007-04-23 Thread Nate Pearson
Anyone? I'm trying to present a demo tomorrow, this is the thing I haven't figured out. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nate Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...but I haven't seen it yet! I've seen the code but when I run it it doesn't work! How do allow for a datagrid to drop into a

[flexcoders] 1172: Definition mx.binding:RepeaterComponentWatcher could not be found?

2007-04-23 Thread Scott Hoff
I got this random error on my new data services project. The link below discusses a possible fix to this issue, but to my knowledge I haven't changed anything. It says the error at line 16, but line sixteen of what? It doesn't link directly to a file that I can view.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Getting progress events on Socket *write* (not read)

2007-04-23 Thread Manish Jethani
If flush() is asynchronous, and there's no acknowledgement when the data has been sent (which is weird), then you'll have to build this into your application-level protocol. Send an acknowledgement from the server for every packet received. On 4/23/07, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no,

[flexcoders] Getting Index of Array Collection from current Mouse Position in areaChart

2007-04-23 Thread patricklemiuex
Forgive if you see this post, I haven't seen my post, post and I haven't seen a reply. Is it possible to get an index of an array collection from a mouseover on an area chart. Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] Adding Percent to the label field on the left

2007-04-23 Thread patricklemiuex
I created a column chart and I want to add a percent sign to each of the values on the verticalAxis. How do I do this? Thanks, Patrick

RE: [flexcoders] How to access Variable in Module from sub-component

2007-04-23 Thread Gordon Smith
After your application loads the module, have it pass a reference-to-itself to the module for the module to use. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of boy_trike Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 2:54 PM To:

Re: [flexcoders] Lazy-loaded tree examples

2007-04-23 Thread Pat Buchanan
Gautam: Thanks for replying and sharing your knowledge. I understood most of what you shared, but I could never get my example working. Do you have a runnable example? Maybe one that just randomly generated children instead of having to go back to the database? Once I see how it works, I can

[flexcoders] 9-slice for Bitmaps in Flash CS3 (to use them as Flex 2 component skin)

2007-04-23 Thread João
Hello, I am trying Flash CS3, and it seems that 9-slice still doesn't work for bitmaps. My intention was to create the 9 slice grid on Flash CS3 and import the symbol to Flex 2 to use as component skin, but it seems its not possible. I have to keep using with the uncomfortable: borderSkin:

[flexcoders] BoxDivider docs?

2007-04-23 Thread Douglas Knudsen
Ok, like where are the docs for this? I've looked all over in FB and livedocs. I might be having a 'I can not find my arse day', but can anyone point to something? -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?

Re: [flexcoders] BoxDivider docs?

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Freiman
It's not in the docs. It has the tag [ExcludeClass] which means that the class will not be visible to FlexBuilder's functions, such Content Assist and it also stops ASDocs (the program which compiles the documentation) to ignore the class. There's nothing wrong with you, it's just a class that

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