[flexcoders] Web Services and Queueing SOAP Operations..

2008-02-15 Thread Todd
Hello All, I have some SOAP operations that I think point at endpoints that don't exist or are down. I have a lot of debugging information turned on and I'm seeing some messages like: Queueing SOAP operation GetTheDataDude I never receive an error in the client. Is there a way to determine

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Rich Text Editor

2008-02-15 Thread Jurgen Beck
And let's not forget that we need a way in Flex to work with simple HTML content that does not use Flash's antiquated set of HTML formatting. We already know the challenges of implementing a full browser in Flash/Flex (at least outside of AIR.) At least allow us to represent and edit

RE: [flexcoders] Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Ted Patrick
1. You will code 3X faster given new code model, search, refactoring, auto-complete. 2. You will be able to see and tune memory and performance with the profiler. 3. You will compile faster. 4. You will be able to maintain projects across SDKs, 2.01, 3.0, and onward. 5.

[flexcoders] Re: Adding parallel transition effect or filter to target when create on Base St

2008-02-15 Thread joan_lynn
Your code works fine for me. I tried it in Flex 3 and Flex 2.0.1. What build are you using. Please be sure that you have the panLogin object in your application. Here is the entire application that I compiled: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application

[flexcoders]FlexCharting with SmartClient

2008-02-15 Thread Eduardo Dias
Hello, We are investigating a few different charting tools in addition to Fusion Charts which is already integrated with SmartClient. Are there any significant barriers we should know regarding the potential use of Flex Charting? Would there be any general integration issues between Flex and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Example of Object.isPrototypeOf ()

2008-02-15 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
This method doesn't work, or? The note in the help seems to imply, that we want to override this method. Maybe it is just a stub? Note: Methods of the Object class are dynamically created on Object's prototype. To redefine this method in a subclass of Object, do not use the override keyword. For

[flexcoders] Re: Milestone 4 - beta - color code and formatting for code - Solved

2008-02-15 Thread djhatrick
Simply uninstalling with the the uninstall tool and re-installing makes it work right. Yay, now i am golden Thanks, Patrick --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, djhatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tho, i am on a mac, thanks Patrick --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, João Fernandes

[flexcoders] headless mode

2008-02-15 Thread arieljake
Can a library like the Flex Charting be used in headless mode if I don't want to display the chart but rather just want to iterate over multiple data sets and generate a JPG image of the chart for each data set, for saving to a file in AIR?

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe SDK, why flex comps accept bind in properties and custom comps dont?

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Harui
You can't control the order in which bindings are evaluated. In this case the label's text binding fires before the maxChar binding fires, but it could be the other way in some other configuration. It appears that the user's intention is to set the label's text to a number that is a function

[flexcoders] config files for messaging with BlazeDS

2008-02-15 Thread netdeep
Following the documentation, I wrote my own code to handle send() from an mx:Producer and to push data to an mx:Consumer. But as far as I can tell, the send never gets picked up by my invoke(). I am pretty sure this is because I don't have the xml config files set up properly (or maybe I

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Book

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Vega
Rob, Great tip on using http instead of xml. The problem I am having now is I think the component is trying to load before the service is completed. I don't think the dataSet is filled when the component is setting up. I tried to create the component in AS but it would not let me. Any help is

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Book

2008-02-15 Thread Phil Krasko
CreationComplete on component call the httpservice Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Dan Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:55:24 To:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex Book Rob, Great tip on using http instead of xml. The

RE: [flexcoders] Component Visbility in ViewStack

2008-02-15 Thread Tracy Spratt
You are not understanding deferred instantiation I'd wager the component that works is the 0 index child of the ViewStack. The child componets of a ViewStack, or TabNavigator, are not rendererd (do not exist) until a user navigates to that view. This is to improve startup response by not

RE: [flexcoders] Component Visbility in ViewStack

2008-02-15 Thread Brad Bueche
Thanks Tracy!! CreationPolicy: Dont leave home without it! brad -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Component Visbility

[flexcoders] Re: Flex hummmmmm in PC speakers...bizarre

2008-02-15 Thread caffeinewabbit
Sometimes, when a system is running a cpu or memory heavy application, the sound card will pick up bits of interference from the PC's internals. What kind of work is being performed inside your app? Also, the monitor can cause interference if you have a large area of intense color. In either

[flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Todd
For the basic version of $250 bucks, for me it's a no brainer: If you're using WebServices, then I'd upgrade, even if it's only to look at the code that the WSDL Import tool generates. This code is the best documentation I've found about Flex/Web Services. But you're not using Web Services.

[flexcoders] Re: Why does RTE lose formatting when parent's styleName changes? (w/ test case)

2008-02-15 Thread madflexcoder
Hey Ben, Ran into this one before. Something to do with invalidateProperties() being called, and they haven't accounted for all scenarios when the text changes. If you look in the styleChanged function of the RichTextEditor you'll notice they have an if at the bottom of it that says the following

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 3.0 Beta + QTP 9.2 Trial Version Problem

2008-02-15 Thread Anthony DeBonis
Did you include automation libraries (SWCs) at compile time -include- libraries C:\...\libs\automation.swc C:\...\libs\automation_agent.swc C:\...\libs\qtp.swc Besure not to use Tabbed Browser feature - turn it off. Compare project settings between your project and sample store looking for

Re: [flexcoders] Flex hummmmmm in PC speakers...bizarre

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Don Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:37 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Flex humm in PC speakers...bizarre Strangest thing. A user's speakers have a faint hum sound when a Flex App is open in their

[flexcoders] Re: passing variables between two consecutive flex applications

2008-02-15 Thread aduston1976
i think i will have to add server side help :( any hope? 1. Make the user navigate from one app to the other using javascript rather than by requesting a new html page. You can use swfobject or whatever for this. Then you can still use the ExternalInterface solution. 2. Use the server. Those

[flexcoders] Implementing Office 2007 menus

2008-02-15 Thread Fidel Viegas
Hello folks, I am trying to implement the Office 2007 menus, and I am trying to imagine what sort of Containers to use. So far, I have figured that I am going to use TabNavigator for the headings, but what sort of container would I use for the groups of buttons? Could it be Panels? I found this

[flexcoders] Re: Milestone 4 - beta - color code and formatting for code - Solved

2008-02-15 Thread djhatrick
Simply uninstalling with the the uninstall tool and re-installing makes it work right. Yay, now i am golden Thanks, Patrick --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, djhatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tho, i am on a mac, thanks Patrick --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, João Fernandes

[flexcoders] Re: Checkbox with function problem

2008-02-15 Thread simonjpalmer
is your problem that the checkbox is checked by default? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, steven pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: same result. I accidently left that true in there by mistake was testing. thanks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fri, 15 Feb 2008

Re: [flexcoders] Implementing Office 2007 menus

2008-02-15 Thread Samuel Neff
I don't have info on how to help you with implementation, but just in case you were not aware, you need to license the UI from MS before implementing it yourself. Licenses are free, but as part of the license you have to abide by their 120+ pages of guidelines on how to properly implement the UI.

Re: [flexcoders] File exist

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Lapasa
If you know the location of where the file ought to be, you can attempt to load the file. If the loading of the file fails, then an event will be fired. Look into the docs for the Loader API. -mL doldol35 wrote: Dear Flex Coders: I am using Flex2. IS there any way to find whether a

Re: [flexcoders] Custom Tooltip Display

2008-02-15 Thread Fidel Viegas
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Mark Lapasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/html/help.html?content=tooltips_4.html See Creating custom ToolTips Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. That is the first thing I should have done before posting the question. I have to

RE: [flexcoders] Checkbox with function problem

2008-02-15 Thread steven pollard
same result. I accidently left that true in there by mistake was testing. thanks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:01 +Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Checkbox with function problem Maybe it should really be: if (!signature_include.selected) { Paul

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Tracy Spratt
The improvement in developer attitude from the speed an stability alone is probably worth the cost. You do not need to maigrate your apps immediately, but can continue to compile them under the 2x sdk. Best of both worlds. Tracy From:

[flexcoders] Re: Any way to version a swf with major and minor

2008-02-15 Thread simonjpalmer
this is exactly what we do too, except we use cruisecontrol to update a build version rather than use an svn rev. We show our version in the UI. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel Neff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a Version.as class which defines a version number in a constant and

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to display Horizontal Scroll bar at the top

2008-02-15 Thread Nadeem Manzoor
Thanks alot Sherif Abdou , It works. On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: create a custom one and just put this * override * *public* *function* validateDisplayList():*void*{ *super*.validateDisplayList(); *this*.*horizontalScrollBar*.move(0,0); }

[flexcoders] Smooth graphic for button skin?

2008-02-15 Thread Jonathan Lee
Hello all: I apply some graphic skin to the button's up, down and over state. The issue is when I rotate the button, the image looks not smooth at all. I tried to use BitmapAsset, but it seems can not apply to the skin style for button. Any solution?

[flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread simonjpalmer
Wait. I can understand your company's reticence. It's normally a pretty empty promise to say that developers productivity will be greatly improved by spending money on a new version of an IDE. Even if it were, that rarely translates into either lower costs, faster development times or higher

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Example of Object.isPrototypeOf ()

2008-02-15 Thread Sherif Abdou
you should not be using Prototypes in AS3, from what i understood the way it gets used is you can add properties on methods private function mymethod():void{ //you can do something like thi mymethod.yahooGroup=Flex Coders; } - Original Message From: Roscoe P Coltrane [EMAIL

[flexcoders] Custom Tooltip Display

2008-02-15 Thread Fidel Viegas
Hello folks, I was wondering if someone can point me to a tutorial that shows me how to customize the Tooltip Window (if that is what I may call it). I want to to be able to display formatted data, as I have seen in many demos. I look forward to hearing from you guys. Thanks in advance, Fidel.

Re: [flexcoders] Custom Tooltip Display

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Lapasa
http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/html/help.html?content=tooltips_4.html See Creating custom ToolTips -mL Fidel Viegas wrote: Hello folks, I was wondering if someone can point me to a tutorial that shows me how to customize the Tooltip Window (if that is what I may call it). I want

RE: [flexcoders] how to create a file and then download

2008-02-15 Thread coder3
your sample is good enough for me. thanks!! Seth Caldwell-2 wrote: Sort of a limitation in flex, but created because of browser security. So its not really a limitation of flex, but a limitation of the web in general. What you are trying to do is very easy, though, so I wouldn't worry.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Rich Text Editor

2008-02-15 Thread Gordon Smith
Buzzword currently runs on Flash Player 9 and renders its text by using multiple instances of TextField. It doesn't need Astro to do what it does today. But it seems likely that Buzzword will migrate to use the improved text features in the libraries that are under development along with Astro.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Book

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Vega
Well the component needs the data from the httpservice so somehow i need to call the component when the service is completed. Dan On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Phil Krasko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CreationComplete on component call the httpservice Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

RE: [flexcoders] Performance difference between ArrayCollection.removeAll() and ArrayCollection.source = []

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Harui
Because of the way GC works, I still think it is best for us to remove the listeners. GC is only on allocation so again, if someone had a handle to an object that got removed and twiddled a value, the notification code would run needlessly until GC kicked in. However, I think you've come up

[flexcoders] Problem with focus in secondary popups

2008-02-15 Thread Dmitri Girski
Hi all, I bumped into the problem with setting focus to the subsequent popups. E.g. first popup is created, then user presses the button on it and first popup creates second popup and second popup immediately creates third popup. I can't find a way to set focus to the third popup - it still

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Rich Text Editor

2008-02-15 Thread Gordon Smith
The team developing the new text libraries plans to support importing a subset of HTML that is richer than what TextField's htmlText understands. It will definitely not be a full HTML implementation. Whether it will fall short of or exceed FCKEditor's capabilities isn't determined yet. Gordon

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Rich Text Editor

2008-02-15 Thread Gordon Smith
No, the player team hasn't disclosed either target date yet. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harald Dehn Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:01 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: AW:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Example of Object.isPrototypeOf ()

2008-02-15 Thread Gordon Smith
It's definitely not a dumb question, but it is fairly irrelevant. You probably don't need to understand prototype chains to be a good Flex programmer. I can't find a single place in any of our Flex components that we call isPrototypeOf(), so its unlikely that you need to call it either. (That

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Hayes
Good points from Tracy there. If it saves you only 15 minutes a day, say 5 hours a month and the cost to your company of employing you (wages + a surprising amount of extra cost in admin, office space, insurance etc etc) is roughly $50 an hour then it pays for itself in only 4 weeks (If the

[flexcoders] Seeking structured drawing examples

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Rodseth
I'm just getting started on custom components, and have two applications in mind: 1) a board game 2) a diagram editor (or even a page-layout app) I'm looking for resources and guidance, and aiming for a nice object-oriented design with clear model-view separation. In both cases, I figured that

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Robert Thompson
OR you could say: The improvement in developer productivity by upgrading to Flex3 and getting to know the powerful ActionScript 3.0 is well worth + The reduced risk of trusting billg, Steven Balder and Mickeysoft once gain after several decades of betrayal while the former Macromedia and

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Book

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Hayes
Dan, I'd set the components dataprovider to an XML variable, and initialise that variable as either empty or whatever the minimum xml information needs to be to prevent the component getting upset about null values. make that variable bindable. Then, when you get the http service results,

[flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread simonjpalmer
Sorry to say it, and please don't be offended, but this is classic illogic posing as a rational argument. Your argument is about saving money. So, do you go home 15 minutes early every day and the company stops paying you for those 15 minutes? Otherwise how is the company saving money and

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Checkbox with function problem

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Hayes
I was thinking that it might be, because apart from my pedantic pick up on =/== everything else looks ok as far as I can tell. Try adding ' selected=false ' to the attributes of the checkbox mxml ? or you can set it in the properties panel in design view (does the same thing). -Original

[flexcoders] textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
I am trying to extend the TextInput class and one thing I would like to do is check the current value of the textAlign attribute, and change it if needed. I access the other attributes that I need using the syntax this.attributeName such as this.maxChars, I cannot, however access

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Jim Hayes
No offence taken Simon, I see your point of view very clearly (both as you've just put it and as a result of a decades experience of exactly this sort of thing). It's very late here in uk I'm afraid, I'm too tired to think about it just now, so if you'll forgive me I'll leave it at that for now.

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
Well I found the answer, but I have another question or two. The answer is this.nonInheritingStyles.textAlign. One new question is how can I tell whether this value is the default value, or a value set by the mxml? If I change the value during run time, it doesn't seem to honor the new value.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Adding parallel transition effect or filter to target when create on Base St

2008-02-15 Thread Harry Saputra
Yup, thanks. This work fine for me, too. But, I get another problem, when I refresh my page that when application has run /create , I see a component show at first ( but it fast, like blink ), and do a transition function again. Try and see, you will see too. I think it happen cause I locate

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3?

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: simonjpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:18 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Why upgrade to FB3? Sorry to say it, and please don't be offended, but this is classic illogic posing as a rational argument.

[flexcoders] ADG and Grouping

2008-02-15 Thread reflexactions
I have a simple flat array extracted from the server. The flat data is really hierarchical in nature in that each row has a parentKey that connects the rows together like a tree. How should I load this into an ADG. Is there a way this can be done using grouping or do I first need to manually

Re: [flexcoders] How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control

2008-02-15 Thread Sherif Abdou
myList.selectedIndices=[0,1,2]; - Original Message From: hoytlee2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:16:01 PM Subject: [flexcoders] How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control How do I procedurally select multiple

Re: [flexcoders] OpenEJB - Geronimo - Jetty Confusion -- Please Help!!

2008-02-15 Thread yusuf baker
Hi P I am using EJB in gernomimo2.2 with tomcat, lcds express The issues i encountered - flex.war was not deploying in Geronimo properly. flex-jsp-bootstrap.jar contained a tld file that could not b e parsed by Geronimo's xml parser - solution: remove jar, live without custom tags -

Re: [flexcoders] How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control

2008-02-15 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: hoytlee2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:16 AM Subject: [flexcoders] How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control. I have

[flexcoders] How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control

2008-02-15 Thread hoytlee2000
How do I procedurally select multiple items in a list control. I have an xml file generated from a server-side script that I want to use to preselect items in a list control (such as a simple list or datagrid) Basically I am storing a user's selections in a database and when the user returns to

[flexcoders] Remove me from List....

2008-02-15 Thread aristide horugavye
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Re: [flexcoders] File Download

2008-02-15 Thread jitendra jain
I want to store this file on the client machine not just navigate to the URL. Thanks, with regards, JJain Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 Feb 2008, jitendra jain wrote: FileReference, but it hasn't worked for me. Suggest me the best way to convert this incoming

RE: [flexcoders] Problem with focus in secondary popups

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Harui
Try adding one or two callLater's to delay the creation of the third popup, then have that third popup setFocus to something within. If that doesn't work you may have to make systemManager.activate calls directly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread jmfillman
Paul, I believe that the answer to your original question is that you need to use setStyle(). For example: mx:TextInput id=myTextInput/ private function textAlign():void{ myTextInput.setStyle(textAlign, center); } Jason --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] Re: Problem with focus in secondary popups

2008-02-15 Thread reflexactions
We had similar issues, The only thing that we found that could be garaunteed to work was: Set up a CreationComplete listener and then in the handler use callLater() to invoke a focusManager.setFocus() call for a specific control. For good measure we also found it best to call showFocus after

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
Jason: That works great. Thanks for the info. That still leaves one question, Is there a way of telling if the textAlign attribute is at its default (left) state or was it set in the mxml (or programmatically) to left? What I am trying to do is override default behavior in my extended

[flexcoders] Finding objects in flex

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
I want to loop through all of the children of a flex object and find all children of a specific type. I have code that works, but it looks really kludgy; for each (var field:Object in object.getChildren()) { if (field.constructor.toString() == [class ValidatedTextInput]) {

Re: [flexcoders] Implementing Office 2007 menus

2008-02-15 Thread Fidel Viegas
On Feb 16, 2008 12:06 AM, Samuel Neff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have info on how to help you with implementation, but just in case you were not aware, you need to license the UI from MS before implementing it yourself. Licenses are free, but as part of the license you have to abide by

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