Hello all,
I sure hope someone can help me with this. I stumbled upon a
great Flex component that will fit a need I have. Actually, it was
only when I found this that I realized I need this. It's the
FlexBook, PageFlip component that is available from Quietly Scheming
here:
is it true to say that a custom event can communicate nothing except
an event has been sent, and that in order to send data, an event
subclass with public properties has to be coded? I have a tileList
deep within containers that must communicate its selectedItem to a
higher-level Canvas. I thought
If only I could get Flex debugging working in Idea 8!
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Nik Derewianka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep or close the window with the app before re-launching the debug
session also works as well.
FB on OSX has a lot of drawbacks - on win, the help gets its own
Yep or close the window with the app before re-launching the debug
session also works as well.
FB on OSX has a lot of drawbacks - on win, the help gets its own
window (so it doesn't get killed by the debugging), syntax colouring
works better, images actually appear in design mode all the
And it crashes IE7 and safari when closing the window on my main site.
Fun.
Nik
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Hi
I have a datagrid with valious headerRenderers. These headerRenderers
have controls in them, for adjusting results in the datagrid.
When I change the dataProvider for the datagrid, the entire datagrid
gets redrawn,
Hi there
I would like to change the preloader and the default colour that a Flex
application has when it is downloading into the browser. Where is the
best place to find out more about this?
TIA
J
On 16/10/2008, at 1:03 AM, John wrote:
I would like to change the preloader and the default colour that a
Flex
application has when it is downloading into the browser. Where is the
best place to find out more about this?
The Application object in the docs, namely the backgroundColor and
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nik Derewianka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep or close the window with the app before re-launching the debug
session also works as well.
FB on OSX has a lot of drawbacks - on win, the help gets its own
window (so it doesn't get killed by the
Most of the code in the CDATA block will be inserted in a class during
compilation so you can write whatever is allowed in a class block
(declarations and function definitions). The assignments are hence not
allowed there, they must live in a function.
In your case, you should do the assignments
There are a few things wrong with your form...
You have the id=Email on the FormItem - it should be on the TextInput.
The name of your form component is ContactForms.mxml but you try to
instantiate it with forms:ContactForm id=myContactForm/ (Note
ContactForms and ContactForm is different).
You
user rollOverColor = your color as #XX - Look up the tree
documentation u will get to know all properties.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, selvant_2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Flex
Gangsta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You
This is what I did..
Went to the URI you provided.
Clicked on Example 1.
Right Clicked on the page and selected view source.
Saved the Book.zip file it asked me to save.
Opened Flex Builder - File-Import-Flex Project...
Clicked Browse and opened the Book.zip file downloaded previously.
Clicked
In a viewstack each view is only instantiated when that particular
view is selected. Once instantiated, it is not instantiated again.
What you want to do is have your Flash play when an event occurs. For
the instantiation you would probably want to use the CreationComplete
event. For subsequent
Hi everyone.
I have a chart that is populated from a MySQL database via PHPXML.
The chart is automatically updated every 30 seconds.
This works perfectly in Firefox but in Internet Explorer it never
updates
Here is my script, hope this can help:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
I have a couple older Flash 8 apps that are wrapped inside Zinc, and
that call a custom DLL I did that takes some XML output from the Flash
and blends it with an XML report template to spit out a PDF. I have
some new applications to do, converting Flex web apps to AIR. But I
need to print PDF
I can ping it, but can't svn info (it just hangs), so it's not just you.
--
Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com
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From: Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Hey y'all. The company I work for, Big Spaceship, is looking for
someone who is well versed in code that is NOT Flash - PHP, AJAX,
JavaScript. If anyone would like to apply, send me a resume or link
to a resume and I will pass it on to the senior coder.
Alan
yeah that sucks...I actually managed to kill that issue, but I can't
remember exactly how (sorry). Try this:
http://www.visible-form.com/blog/ending-a-flex-builder-debug-session-would-cause-safari-to-quit/,
and I believe that somewhere in FlexBuilder preferences there is a
setting
(or multiple
You should create a new Event subclass--this is a lot easier to follow
and to maintain--but if you need a quick solution, you can use
DynamicEvent:
var event:DynamicEvent = new DynamicEvent(stuffHappened);
event.stuff = { stuffName : 'foo', stuffId : 123, stuffData : [1,2,3] };
event.otherStuff =
Hi there
I wonder if someone can help me.
I have a viewstack with seperate pages - each page has a Flash
animation. However, what I have found is when I navigate through the
viewstack, the flash plays, then I goto the next page all is fine, but,
if I then return to the previous one - it does
FB on OSX has a lot of drawbacks - on win, the help gets its own
window (so it doesn't get killed by the debugging), syntax colouring
works better, images actually appear in design mode all the time, it
builds a lot faster (iMac in BC spanks my mac pro in OSX), the text
editor doesn't lag
Should be back up now, we're investigating. The load on the server is high and
we're not sure why.
On 10/15/08 2:30 AM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opensource.adobe.com/svn/* http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/* is toast from
where I'm sitting. Is it just me?
-Josh
I've also tried making the components UIComponent based instead of
using Canvas (as I believe it's a little more lightweight) but it
doesn't seem to make a huge difference.
I'd have one UIComponent-derived object (Canvas would be fine) as the
parent, and have your 50-60 dynamic objects be
Not Flash? You're spamming the wrong mailing list--I think you were
looking for [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something.
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From: Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] BSS is Looking someone
Date: Wed, 15
To quote a Monty Python sketch, Luxury! Us Linux guys have no
profiler, no refactoring, no designer, features like Find all
references simply don't (sure, they find *some* references, but often
enough not all), symlinks confuse the heck our of FB, and the current
(fourth!) alpha lasts another 412
And see the Flex Style Explorer:
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplo
rer.html
It will show you the effect of just about every style you can use on
every component.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL
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From: Maciek Sakrejda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] BSS is Looking someone
Not Flash? You're spamming the wrong mailing list--I think you were
looking for [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
opensource.adobe.com/svn/* is toast from where I'm sitting. Is it just me?
-Josh
--
Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog!
:: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald
:: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
::
And a few hints: Give the conponent you want to access an id. Repeater will
automatically build an array of references to the instances. Access them using
myId[n].
But I would suggest creating a custom component and repeating that.
Encapsulate the reformatting functionality in that
Hi
I have datagrid which contain records. The records are being displayed
using databinding. If my grid contains 100 rows then vertical
scrollbar should be at the end of datagrid.
So at what event i should write the piece of the code to move the
vertical scroll bar to last row.
I tried using
Hello,
I'm working on a flex application and i've an issue with the repeater
control.
In my application, i fill my component when i get some datas from my
httpService component.
I have to get every component of my application and go find its prolly value
in the datas.
I do that because whe i
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Flex Gangsta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can change it by creating a CSS file for the tree control.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:47 AM, selvant_2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
When i Move the Mouse Over the Tree Nodes by Default
- Original Message -
From: schwazel
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:02 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] The Repeater control and the getChildren() method
Hello,
I'm working on a flex application and i've an issue with the repeater control.
How can I edit the index.template.html so that everytime I create a Flex
Project, it will always load up my custom template.
I find myself always copying and pasting from a working
index.template.html from another project everytime I create a new one.
Thx,
-mL
Notice of confidentiality:
Nobody??
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, cesarerocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
in profiling my application, when I visualize the loitering objects, my
classes have an
impact
of the 5% on memory usage. I think it is not much, but I see a huge impact of
Class,
Function,
- Original Message -
From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:32 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions
Paul,
Thanks for the tip. I wonder if the AS 3.0/Flex library includes
any components that would work
Hi,
I am trying to use FileReference.save API provided in Flex SDK 3.1 and
above.
If I compile using Flex SDK 3.0 I get following error
Error: Call to a possibly undefined method save through a reference with
static type flash.net:FileReference.
[mxmlc]
[mxmlc]
I need to build something that has a zoom control in line with my horizontal
scroll bar. Here is a link to an image to better show what I am thinking:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/code/controls/Scroll_Bars/scrollButtons.png
In this image there are buttons on both sides of the horizontal
Is there a way to get the stack trace or something similar when using
the non-debug player.
Generically we will/do get errors from time to time thrown in a running
application say like index out of bounds or null references or 1009
errors or some such, although we can catch these errors at a
It would be really nice to have FlexBuilder truly cross-platform.
Eclipse itself seems to do it reasonably well.
You know, if someone ported FlashDevelop to OSX/Linux, it would really
put the pressure on Adobe to improve their game.
Also, I never use FB as a plug-in to Eclipse. But if I did,
Is it possible to write an interface that specifies that a component
will expose particular styles?
Thanks;
Amy
Hi Everyone,
I hope I'm in the right place to ask this. My company recently bought
Flash Media Server 3. They want to stream live events online, but we
work on Macs so we can't use the free Flash Media Encoder to send our
stream. Bootcamp/XP or Parallels/XP combo to run FME is not an option.
- Original Message -
From: Thuy Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:43 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Roll your own FME?
Hi Everyone,
I hope I'm in the right place to ask this. My company recently bought
Flash Media Server 3. They
Hello All,
I have a problem that I can't figure out. With WebService faults,
and operations that return SOAPFaults...read on for the detais.
1) I've created my WebService through ActionScript (not the MXML
Component).
var ws:WebService = new WebService();
2) I've attached a fault
So I have this base component, that when running profiler, says its
eating up tons of memory. I have about 4000 of these at one time in
my Flex app (see component code below). This base component is
extended by two other components, which are then extended by two more
components each so 3 or 4
I have found that this comes from having things like a data grid..
with nothing in it..
when you click on it.. it runs the functions for the selectedItem and
what not...
I would suggest a check for NULL in that value...
you can Alert.msg( ... )
that is what i had/have done.
Other stuff i do is via
this is a test.. my post .. didn't post..
=
Posted through Grouply, the better way
to access your Yahoo Groups like this one.
http://www.grouply.com/?code=post
i have posted 2 msgs...
I really don't like the navigation of this site..
=
Posted through Grouply, the better way
to access your Yahoo Groups like this one.
http://www.grouply.com/?code=post
Isn't Red5 a Flash Server? I can't find anything on building my own
application to send the stream. (If they had asked for my input, I
would have just recommended a streaming service. Instead, they just
bought a server and expect us to work with it.)
How about red5 for streaming?
Hello all - I am not able to install any
air applications in my system and getiing
this error message.
The application could not be installed because the AIR file is
damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.
Thanks,
But that doesnt really help as its effectively saying fix the error
before it happens, and given that humans are involved there will
always be errors, especially as we are talking about an application
that has over 100 modules, containing more than 1000 non-adobe
classes.
The point is
I've started messing around with the profiler tools inside FB3, and
noticed that a large chunk (43%) of my memory is being taken up by 75
instances (135 cumulative instances) of my generic headerRenderers
used by my DataGridColumns.
The renderer used just extends label, and sets a toolTip
That can be for all manner of reasons I'm afraid, there is a way that
you can log the installer in order to get more information.
I don't have the details to hand, but it's along the lines of putting a
correctly named text file in the right place in your profile folder.
However, in my experience
Hi Amy,
No, the metadata is what instructs the compiler to add style definitions and
[Style()] meta is not allowed in an interface.
Needs to be done in the class package definition.
Mike
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to write an interface that
Any ideas.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Pankaj Arora
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:49 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] FileRefernce Save API problems.
Hi,
I am trying to use
A side note,
You are doing some very expensive leg work in the 'content' setter.
You need to break that out into commitProperties() and updateDisplayList().
You would get a huge performance increase for sure.
As far as the memory, doesn't look to weird, event listeners without weak
references
I have extended the checkbox component and set rotation property to
45 degree angle on the text field. During rendering, the text gets
truncated. for example if I have a label This is a long title, will
appear something like This is a long I like it to be displayed
w/o caring about
- Original Message -
From: Thuy Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:11 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roll your own FME?
Isn't Red5 a Flash Server? I can't find anything on building my own
application to send the stream. (If they
Well, the design view would be incredibly difficult without help from Adobe
(and the state of the Linux Builder shows even with their help), as it's (as
far as I can tell) a customised version of Player that's glued in with JNI.
The rest of the features are pretty standard, and Idea 8 shows it can
Yeah It's back up for me, cheers!
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should be back up now, we're investigating. The load on the server is high
and we're not sure why.
On 10/15/08 2:30 AM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. A little further outside the box than my charter would allow at this
point.
Thanks, Tracy and Josh, for replies. I will read up on ExternalInterface.
-eric
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now *that's* thinking outside the box!
Tracy
I apologize if this isn't the best forum for posting this brief
announcement. Adobe and Miller Associates is sponsoring TexFlex08
in Plano, TX this Friday, October 17, 2008. The event is an excellent
chance to network and find out more about Flex, whether you want to
learn more about using Flex
Thanks for the replies.
Well, Jitendra's solution worked only when I created a ComboBox subclass that
did take a
special equals() (based on the value of a property named id) into account.
Basically, I
overrode the selectedItem property in this subclass.
I think equals() and hashCode() are
And the culprit is...
Folks downloading debug players from Subversion. Please don't use Subversion
as your download location, thanks!
Matt
On 10/15/08 2:05 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah It's back up for me, cheers!
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL
Thanks for the reply, Josh. They do need to respond to mouseovers and
mousedowns, so am I stuck with UIComponent?
Guy
On 15/10/2008, at 8:11 AM, Josh McDonald wrote:
If they don't need mouse events, base them on Shape instead.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why is everybody overriding things like combobox to do this? You could cook
up a util to do it in 15 minutes.
In fact, I'll be back in 15 minutes.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:25 AM, frank_sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Thanks for the replies.
Well, Jitendra's solution worked only when I
You've got 4,000 things all moving around at once? Are all 4,000 of those
actually visible? 4,000 UI components seems like a lot for any layout
manager to have to deal with. I'd try to focus on figuring out how to reduce
the number of UIComponents before I worried about how much memory each one
is
http://snippets.gfunk007.com/?FindIndex.as
Usage:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
xmlns:pkg=pkg.*
mx:ArrayCollection id=src1
mx:Object label=Ken objid=1/
mx:Object label=Ryu objid=2/
mx:Object
It seems odd that there is no really lightweight class for addressing
this sort of need, which I would have expected was a common one (I
note it's the subject of a second thread now too).
On 16/10/2008, at 9:51 AM, Guy Morton wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Josh. They do need to respond to
Well I'd say depending on what you're doing, you could go with bitmap
blitting (less trouble than it first sounds) and a single UIComponent
behind the images that handles your mouse events and determines based on
mouseX, mouseY which tile / subcomponent is affected.
-Josh
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at
Sprites can have mouse handling. If you don't base your class on UIComponent
you lose all the automatic display list stuff (measuring, layout, etc). But
if you manually control positioning and everything yourself, and don't have
any need for stuff like CSS styles, then you should be OK using
Hi Doug
Yes, I tried using Sprite but it seems I can't add a sprite-based
component to my other containers...I guess because they are
UIComponent based? Do Sprites in flex have to be added to the display
list directly? I'm having a look at the docs but it's a little
confusing as they
Container children must be UIComponents. You will need to add the
sprites to a UIComponent first.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Guy Morton
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:01 PM
To:
Which gets me back to where I started... :-/
On 16/10/2008, at 11:26 AM, Tracy Spratt wrote:
Container children must be UIComponents. You will need to add the
sprites to a UIComponent first.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Guy Morton
Create a custom component that extends UIComponent that you will use to hold
all your Sprites. Then you can use addChild to add the Sprites to that
component. And since your custom holder component extends UIComponent you
can add that to whatever Container class you've got in your app.
Doug
On
Not at all. If you're currently adding all these components to a Canvas, you
simply need to add a UIComponent to that Canvas, and add the Sprites to
that.
And if that can't get you the performance you're after, I suppose you're
left with using Shape or bitmap double-buffering and using a
Yes, thanks Doug, Josh, Tracy...I did get that working.
On 16/10/2008, at 11:21 AM, Doug McCune wrote:
Create a custom component that extends UIComponent that you will use
to hold all your Sprites. Then you can use addChild to add the
Sprites to that component. And since your custom
Guy, I'm curious to hear about whether shifting from UIComponent components
to using sprites made your app perform fast enough for you. Once you do a
bit of testing care to share your overall experience?
Doug
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, thanks
I am happy to announce that after 2 years of intense development we
have finally released our Free Digital Signage Flex beta web application.
You can check it out at:
http://www.MediaSignage.com
The application is powered by over 50 SWF modules and we have put
extensive planning and design into
Well, it seems to me that a slide presentation need not look like and
behave just like Powerpoint, right? That just occurred to me while I
was reading the messages here. Perhaps all that is needed is an
existing component with the ability to move from one display to the
next, one slide as it
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From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions
Well, it seems to me that a slide presentation need not look like and
behave just like Powerpoint, right? That
Does it really has to be PHP? Not like .NET, Delphi or Ruby (RoR)? PHP
is just driving me insane.
Initial indicators are that it makes a difference, however the sprites
don't appear as smoothly anti-aliased and at the moment I've only
managed to get one layer of items to work using sprites...a second
layer converted to this way of doing things isn't appearing for some
reason.
I'll
Doug, what would you go with? Sprite?
I thought sprite, but you need to implement all the IUIComponent stuff
or use composition correct? Wouldn't composition reduce the benefits
gained by using Sprite?
Doug, if you message me and I can tell you where to see the component.
jason (underscore)
Finding the download location for the debug version of player on
Adobe site is always very very hard...
Everytime there is a new release you seem to have to run around many
different links and sections trying to find the magic one that
leads to the download location.
Maybe put the download
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Container children must be UIComponents. You will need to add the
sprites to a UIComponent first.
I think technically there's just an interface that has to be
implemented on whatever you add (IFlexDisplayObject?
Somehow I missed this discussion, but I might be able to offer some relevant
info. First off, I am the Sr. Team Lead of Flash/Flex development at
www.flypaper.com. We created a product that creates presentation slides (we
call them stories) that run in a Flex/AS3 runtime on the web. The
Thanks for the tip. I was looking at some Flex components - custom
ones that are free, for presenting a Photo Slide Show. It might be
doable to instead of displaying images, displaying text.
That option probably would be not very practical - too much work for a
result that isn't as good as a
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, brucewhealton bruce@ wrote:
Hello all,
I had a few questions, where I could use some suggestions or
opinions and ideas. One is regarding Powerpoint-like presentations
online. If
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:40 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Couple questions
Replicating all that in Flex
If I were you, I would simply add the requestId into the server's
response, so client always knows which request-response pair it
handles. This idea lies behind most of the transmissions protocols.
Cheers,
Dmitri.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, lagos_tout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somehow I missed this discussion, but I might be able to offer some
relevant
info. First off, I am the Sr. Team Lead of Flash/Flex development at
www.flypaper.com. We created a product that creates presentation
slides
Your hunch it right!!! Very little memory!!
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jim Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That can be for all manner of reasons I'm afraid, there is a way that you
can log the installer in order to get more information.
I don't have the details to hand, but it's
Hi, I was wondering if you could expand on this... more specifically.
I'm not quite following you.
I was given a framework regarding how to do this, from an instructor
on the Lynda.com library of online training. He gave me the basic
framework for what needs to happen. I know I am missing
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