I mean like this:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
managers:MyBadPracticesClass /
/mx:Application
If it was a display object all the suggestions would work but it extends
EventDispatcher and manages states, etc. The
Is there a way to change states without generating an event?
Is there a way to count how many arguments there are on a function from
outside that function? For example,
Class1:
// myFunction has one parameter of type string
myFunction(myParam:String) {
}
Class2:
someFunction() {
// for example,
// i want to get a count of arguments of myFunction,
Hi,
Yes you can do it using databinding,
by keeping one of the variable which is aceessible from
anywhere throughout the application [inside static class like ModelLocator]
and according to
its change you can change the state.
2009/1/14 dorkie dork from dorktown dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com
If the user doesn't have then required version of flash player then they
see the playerProductInstall.swf that comes with flexbuilder and if they
select yes to the install then everything is great. But what if they say
'no', then they get nothing. Is there any way to get the result back
from the
Hi,
I'm currently working with a fairly large dataset within a grid and i'd
like to change the mouse cursor/display informational text when the user
clicks on the column headers to sort the grid, now i can get the start
point of the sort using the headerRelease event but is there a way to
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Wesley Acheson
wesley.ache...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Manish Jethani manish.jeth...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:51 AM, wesley.acheson
wesley.ache...@gmail.com wrote:
I've a problem with the DataGrid ignoring the
I have an item renderer for a list control and I want to delegate the
editing of the object that the item renderer is showing to its
containing control - in fact to the custom control that contains the
list that the item renderer belongs to.
I have set up the item renderer inline something like
Hi all,
I have a generic question.
I am using Flex plug-in to Eclipse, developing the client side of an
application. I also use Tomcat and BlazeDS on the server side.
The development installation was done without any hassles and works
fine. Also I don't have any problems with my development
Check out outerDocument:
The mx:Component tag defines a new scope within an MXML file, where the
local scope of the item renderer or item editor is defined by the MXML code
block delimited by the mx:Component and /mx:Component tags. To access
elements outside of the local scope of the item
that did it! thanks very much.
I never stop finding out little mysterious helpful tricks with Flex.
It is very cool, but also quite frustrating. If you were at the beach
today I would probably never have found this out. Or maybe you are at
the beach on your iPhone... anyway +1 for FlexCoders,
Really thats more of a java question then a flex one. for using mysql
and tomcat try
http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Databases/MySQL/tomcat-and-mysql/page2.html
Hi,
Wonder if you guys can help!
I have a chart I'm plotting and the h-axis labels are so tiny they're
almost 'dots'. So I tried creating a secondary axis, eliminating all
but twelve (it's yearly data) points which have the year/month values
and placing that on the chart - but again, although
Hi...
I need to invoke a JSP page from MXML page and from that JSP I should be able
to run the SWF file.
Could anyone please help me..??
Thanks,
Sony.
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Just embed the swf in your JSP page and when the browser loads the JSP page,
the swf should run.
Paul
- Original Message -
From: sony antony pow_like_me...@yahoo.co.in
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:49 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] How to call MXML from
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Wesley Acheson
wesley.ache...@... wrote:
Really thats more of a java question then a flex one. for using
mysql
and tomcat try
http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Databases/MySQL/tomcat-
and-mysql/page2.html
Thank you Wesley for a quick reply.
In creating a date filterd report generation system, I was asked to add an
option for returning all data. Rather than reworking the backend I just added a
checkbox to the UI that says return all data. If that box is checked then the
properties return the following constants (randomely created
In creating a date filterd report generation system, I was asked to add
an option for returning all data. Rather than reworking the backend I
just added a checkbox to the UI that says return all data. If that box
is checked then the properties return the following constants (randomely
created by
I am using a flex videoplayer. This videoplayer plays all movie files. I want
to know using the Quicktime API is it possible to get the actual framerate of a
movie. If it is possible , then how i can integrate this Quicktime API in my
Flex application
public static const MIN_DATE:Date = new Date(1500,1,1);
public static const MAX_DATE:Date = new Date(2999,12,31);
I have a Adobe AIR application that reads XML files. Currently the
path to the files is Hard Coded. I tried adding the XML files to the
application source folder and referencing them, but was unsuccessful.
Please help..
Thanks,
Satya V
Using constraint-based layout with content sizing, is there an easy
way to have a child span columns (or rows) without resizing the child?
As an oversimplified example, I have a 2x2 grid:
* In each cell of the first row, I have a child.
* In the second row, I want to center (or otherwise
Hi all,
Does anybody know if there's an alternative to Flex's Rich Text Editor? I'm
actually looking for
something more like TinyMCE or FCKEditor (but in Flex, of course ; ). Flex's
own RTE is kind
of limited. Unfortunately Google didn't gave me much to go on...
Cheers!
- Jurriën
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:49 AM, sony antony pow_like_me...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
I need to invoke a JSP page from MXML page
Do you mean that you want your SWF to open a new browser window to a
particular URL? Or you want the SWF to call a JSP page and the use the
output of the call to the JSP in
You can use app: and app-storge: (I think that's right) to access the
directories where the app is installed and the user specific locations.
Gk.
Gregor Kiddie
Senior Developer
INPS
Tel: 01382 564343
Registered address: The Bread Factory, 1a Broughton Street, London SW8
3QJ
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2009, Nate Beck wrote:
is an include Header.as statement that has 30 include statements within
it.
Sounds like someone used to programing in C.
To give a datagrid additional functionality, you give it an
id=myDataGrid
Eww.
I just don't see a good use for the include
http://gotoandlearn.com/ has a thing or two on this...
A google search will uncover the rest...
Best,
Kevin
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:37 AM, thirtyfivemph troy.gilb...@gmail.comwrote:
So, I've been doing some contract work lately that requires that I use
Flash instead of Flex (the
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Graham ryan.gra...@...
wrote:
You could take control of the situation by updating the summary
property
inside the setter of each property that makes up the summary itself.
Forgive the quick code, but something along the lines of:
...If you do that,
I've never used the feature but I understand LCDS using data management
services will auto sync in both directions from the sqlite ( in air ) and an
online db.
J.D.Hoover
MageWindMedia
http://www.magewindmedia.com
Ph (415) 261-3000
[Moderator note: Could people at least try and trim their
Wesley is correct - This is a Java question.
You already have the BlazeDS part set up and working. All you need to
do is change the database access in Java.
I would suggest following the tutorial Wesley provided and then apply
the knowledge gained to your project.
From what I can see this
The only one I could find on Google was at http://flashtexteditor.com/
with a Flex demo at http://flashtexteditor.com/flexdemo/full/.
It's a bit old (And pricy) but you could try emailing the author.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, norm_2782 norm2...@... wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody know
I'm transmitting Strings from php to Flex. The values are correct before I
send them to Flex (I've traced them), but Flex isn't interpreting them
properly (I get that square thing, or two incorrect characters). I've tried
various encoding/decoding schemes (urlencode, etc) but none of them have
Hi again (and thanks for replying)
I didn't say Wesley is not correct..On the contrary...
As I have first to work it out and then see if I get any more
questions. (Obviously not having done this before, was the reason for
asking about documentation (or a cookbook) in the first place.
Sofar I
The month ranges from 0 (January) to 11 (December). You asked for day
31 of month 12 of year 2999 so Flex made it day 31 of month 1 of year
3000.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gregory Kelley gkel...@... wrote:
In creating a date filterd report generation system, I was asked to
add an
So I still consider any additional hint towards a good book on
BlazeDS, covering both some examplary applications as well as
pointing to differences to say JBOSS for instance. This as I want to
go a bit deeper into the subject and understand better.. some aspects.
Its pretty much the same on
sheepish grin I knew that at some point in the past. Now that you say
that it is very obvious.
In my attempt to determine the earliest/latest date supported I tried
the following but then all the date parts in the object are NaN.
public static const MIN_DATE:Date = new Date(-Number.MAX_VALUE);
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, dorkie dork from dorktown
dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@... wrote:
Is there a way to count how many arguments there are on a function
from
outside that function? For example,
Class1:
// myFunction has one parameter of type string
myFunction(myParam:String) {
You could consider using Flash Player 10 and the new text engine.
The best you can get:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/
I have two sections of code which generate a png file from a UIComponent. Both
seem
very similar except that one of them cuts the axis titles off for some reason.
The actual
image file is generated in Java, but the encoding happens here in flex. The
same code is
used in both calls to Java,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Wesley Acheson
wesley.ache...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay sorry If I wasn't clear enough about it basically the data grid
stretches, but not enough to accomidate all columns. Nor even enough to fill
the container. Setting a width of 0 makes the datagrid remember
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, simonjpalmer simonjpal...@...
wrote:
that did it! thanks very much.
I never stop finding out little mysterious helpful tricks with Flex.
It is very cool, but also quite frustrating. If you were at the beach
today I would probably never have found this
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:16 AM, flexaustin flexaus...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ok, this i killing me. I have down to this:
\\\name:something\\soemthing\\
How do I replace \\\ with \\ and all \\ with \.
I'm not sure how you ended up with those backslashes, but here's how
to replace two of those
For those that are interested, I've resolved the issue.
I had to edit the playerProductInstall.swf (see
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fp8_detection_06.html )
so it now calls an external JavaScript function that gets used for
alternative content if the user selects 'no' after seeing
I built a small stock widget that accesses
http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv to get the stock information.
The app works fine on my desktop but when I upload it to our domain it
doesn't work.
I have no idea what the issue is but I was thinking maybe it was a
proxy issue? Should this just
The problem is with PHP and how it handles multi-byte strings.
A good overview can be found at http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets
Hopefully PHP 6 will end all this grief.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Freiman freima...@... wrote:
I'm transmitting Strings from php to Flex.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@yahoo.com wrote:
I built a small stock widget that accesses
http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv to get the stock information.
The app works fine on my desktop but when I upload it to our domain it
doesn't work.
Yes, it looks like
Ahhh! No way to get around that?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Manish Jethani
manish.jeth...@... wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@... wrote:
I built a small stock widget that accesses
http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv to get the stock information.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Nate Pearson napearso...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ahhh! No way to get around that?
Proxy the calls through your own web service (hosted on your own domain).
Manish
--
Manish Jethani
mx:Blog source=/dev/random ...
manishjethani.com
Not without a lot of work. Because Actionscript is single-threaded, you cannot
update the display while the sort is doing its thing. You'd have to turn off
the sort and create a timer or event based sorting scheme so you could show
progress and update the UI. You may be able to use the
Is there a way to warn the user that they're about to navigate away from
the app through the browser's back button? This is actually a request
from our users: we don't use BrowserManager (I don't think it would even
make sense for us), but they are used to browser paradigms, and
sometimes hit
Thanks Doug, I'll stop trying to make this work and change the interface
idea.
Flex team: this seems like a collision between proprietary ideas of how
to build a framework and Open Source culture. Obviously a developer
ought to be able to do whatever he likes with right-click events.
John
Doug
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Josh McDonald dzn...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wondering how I create a custom mouse cursor that will include the
system cursor, the way DragManager does with the halo mouse cursors?
Why not just draw the custom cursor next to the system cursor?
CursorManager does
You should be able to determine minDate and maxDate by calling new
Date(Number.MIN_VALUE) and new Date(Number.MAX_VALUE).
--
Maciek Sakrejda
Truviso, Inc.
http://www.truviso.com
-Original Message-
From: Gregory Kelley gkel...@pngmail.com
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To:
Yes it is possible but you need some JavaScript
You can create a js include file or put this in your wrapper template
file. The idea is to put a event listener on the onbeforeunload
function. I have tested this in a few more common browsers and it
works.
window.onbeforeunload =
Either I'm missing something (which is highly possible) or that information
isn't addressing the problem. Everything on the php side seems fine. And
all the tests/functions applied to the string on the php side operate as
expected. It's not until the string is sent over AMF to Flex that I have
For me it shows up in the Accessories menu.
You can also launch it from where it installed in /opt
-James
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Deniz Davutoglu d...@... wrote:
Hi I installed air 1.5 for linux an TourDeFlex in ubuntu 8.10 but
after install I cant find TourDeFlex in any menu
Have you played around with $gateway-setCharsetHandler() in gateway.php?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Freiman freima...@... wrote:
Either I'm missing something (which is highly possible) or that
information
isn't addressing the problem. Everything on the php side seems
fine. And
Actually, just for anyone reading this in the future, Number.MIN_VALUE =
The smallest representable non-negative, non-zero, number
So the actual smallest number is negative Number.MAX_VALUE
Greg
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Hi!
I just finished up my update for my adobe products, and one of the
updates was going from Flex3 to flex 3.2.
I rebuild my app using flex 3.2 and it worked fine in my browsers
BUT
I used to load my flexapp in a flash movie and published this movie to
an EXE.
What used to work isn't
I'm using Zend Framework. I can't find an comparable method.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, aphexyuri yuriv...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Have you played around with $gateway-setCharsetHandler() in
gateway.php?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Daniel
Freiman
I searched the list for this issue and didn't find anything related.
I have an app that saves a big file to the local SharedObject, I chunk
it so I can display a progress bar, each chunk is 1M, I have 60 Meg of
data. This worked flawless in Flash 9 (expected ha!), but with Flash
10, sometimes it
[^,] means match anything except commas, ie the ^ at the start of the
[] indicates that rather than match any of these characters it ought
to not match any of them.
You can't put patterns in the [], it's for defining a list of
characters (or a range, as in a-z).
Guy
On 14/01/2009, at
Are you using the latest Zend framework? Adobe contributed AMF to Zend, and
there's a Zend_AMF component in V1.7 of the framework. This might solve your
problem.
HTH,
~randy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Daniel Freiman
Sent:
Yeah, that's what I'm using. Maybe I'll check the non-release builds.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Randy Martin ra...@mariposa.us wrote:
Are you using the latest Zend framework? Adobe contributed AMF to Zend,
and there's a Zend_AMF component in V1.7 of the framework. This might solve
I have an idea that this might be a problem with the asynchronous way methods
get called
in Flex. In other words even though code wise, the chart has been created
before the
automated image capture is called, somehow internally the chart is not
complete. That's
explains why the user
The problem is still PHP's problem with unicode characters.
You can see the trademark character problem in php.net's method listings.
About the only way to do it is to replace the TM character with the
HTML equivalent:
$text = Steve;
$text = str_replace(, #x2122;, $text);
And on the flex end
Ah, right. I'd forgotten that MIN and MAX are typically defined that way
for floating point types. And I completely missed that you said you'd
tried that--clearly I need more sleep.
-Original Message-
From: Gregory Kelley gkel...@pngmail.com
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To:
I am wanting the axes for my charts to render in front of the chart
rather than on top of, bottom of, left of or right of. Is there any way
of doing this?
Thanks
I've made some progress. If I add this code:
chartPanel.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, imgExport);
// method: imgExport (Event)
use getRemoteObject if you're service is a RemoteObject.
_locator.getRemoteObject(roService);
if it was an HTTPService or a WebService then you would use either
_locator.getHTTPService(httpService);
_locator.getWebService(webService);
respectively.
getService() is still around and returns
Hi All
I am trying to disable the canvas in ToggleButtonBar in my parent app,
Actually I am setting the disable property from differnt module of my
app. My disabling is working fine but I like to give it a grayed out
look, so I like to set the blurX or blurY property or give it a color,
The
I have a category chart displayed in a variable-sized container. At smaller
sizes the font used for displaying axis values is scaled, but there is a
point at which the values are clipped. Obviously this won't do. Anyone else
encountered this and have a workaround?
Hi All,
I am using a custom item renderer for a TileList that displays an
image and a label for each item. The image has event listener
functions for Open and Complete events. On the Open event we add a
spinner component to provide a loading indicator and remove it on
Complete. It works fine in
I think describeType() provides information about method parameters.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of dorkie dork from dorktown
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:39 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
To partially answer my own question, I see there is a labelFunction on
LinearAxis, so I can pad the string with a space, but perhaps there is
another more elegant solution.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Richard Rodseth rrods...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a category chart displayed in a
Thank you!
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Gordon Smith gosm...@adobe.com wrote:
I think describeType() provides information about method parameters.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *dorkie dork
Do you have a code example you can show me?
When I use this:
Application.application.setCurrentState(stateName);
it always triggers a StateChangeEvent.CURRENT_STATE_CHANGE event.
I want to know if there is a way to not generate that event. None at all.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:11 AM,
Your other choice is to have your entire application opened in a new,
separate browser window, but with the browser 'chrome' history
turned off. In that case, users cannot accidentally navigate away from
the application, because there _is no_ navigation history to begin
with. Of course not
- Original Message -
From: dorkie dork from dorktown
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders]Change state without dispatching events
Do you have a code example you can show me?
When I use this:
I am using framework version 3.1 and I have created a custom preloader for
my application. I want a smooth progress bar during this load so I figured I
would just watch the load of the RSLs as they seem to be the
biggest chunk of data (for now at least). I know this would miss some
loading and the
I have specific functionality setup in the StateChange event (functionality
type 1). But in another part of the class I have functionality
(functionality type 2) that does some slightly different work.
The code looks like this:
type 1:
// someone sets the state in code (could be anywhere)
// for
Ok, I've got a module implemented in an mxml file that implements an
interface IMyInterface, so marked with the
implements=com.my.interface.IMyInterface tag in the right place. So,
after dynamically loading the module I try to either cast it to
IMyInterface, or check it with is, and it says that
I tried to just follow up with a Mouse.show on next frame, but CursorManager
calls Mouse.hide on every frame. For now I'm simply working around the
problem by switching all my drag cursors to a little grabbing hand :)
I sure do miss mc.startDrag() from Flash MX sometimes...
-Josh
2009/1/15
FWIW, I use include *all the time* when I need to implement IEventDispatcher
but I'm extending something that's not an IEventDispatcher (Proxy, I'm
looking at you).
-Josh
2009/1/14 Tom Chiverton tom.chiver...@halliwells.com
On Tuesday 13 Jan 2009, Nate Beck wrote:
is an include Header.as
Seems to me that you may have two separate states and are really trying to use
only one state when there should be two. What's the problem with having state
1 for state 1 functionality and state 2 for state 2 functionality?
Other possible solutions may be changing states then calling a function
Thanks, Jim. I don't think that'll work for us, but it's an interesting
idea. I think one of the other problems is that by default, Firefox
opens new windows in a new *tab*, thwarting the attempt to avoid the
chrome. I think the onbeforeunload idea might work--we're actually
already doing some
Does anyone know how to go about creating a apple spotlight effect
using the Adobe autocomplete component?
Any direction is appreciated.
Thanks for the responses everyone.
It's an interesting question that I had posed to myself... and at the time,
I couldn't come up with any particular reason when to use it.
I have seen it used in the framework, and I agree that there is a place for
it. But I do wish some developers never knew it
Post code please.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, mmormando m...@mormando.com wrote:
Ok, I've got a module implemented in an mxml file that implements an
interface IMyInterface, so marked with the
implements=com.my.interface.IMyInterface tag in the right place. So,
after dynamically
Sounds like an applicationDomain topology problem. See the modules
presentation on my blog. Make sure the interface is linked into the main app.
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Nate Beck
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:12 PM
To:
Hi,
Would like to know if there is any direct API available in
actionscript/C# to get the timezone information, given the city name?
Thanks in advance,
Akila
akila_ksri wrote:
Would like to know if there is any direct API available in
actionscript/C# to get the timezone information, given the city name?
not in AS but you could use one of the geonames.org webservices.
for example:
http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/tz/tzmap/
code:
I upgraded to 3.0.2 and seem to have a bit of an issue. The last time I've
seen the datavisualization source distributed is in 3.0.0. Sometimes when I
trace into SDK units (BubbleSeries.as at the moment), you can tell the
debugger is going to a line from a different version of the file.
Hmm, I should also mention that the error I'm getting is:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object
reference.
at
mx.charts.series::BubbleSeries/findDataPoints()[C:\work\flex\dmv_automation\projects\datavisualisation\src\mx\charts\series\BubbleSeries.as:933]
http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2008/04/extracting_data_visualization.html
Substitute 3.0.0 for 3.2.0 and you should be right. Took me a while to
find this when I needed it - don't know why they don't just install it
if Flex 3 Pro is detected, but anyway...
2009/1/15 Pan Troglodytes
Thank you VERY much for the excellent pointer. I don't know why they don't
install it by default either. Then again, I also don't know why the
Expressions window can't understand the expression -1!
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote:
Try this one:
\([^\]+)\:\?([^\,]+)\?
This should match all key-value pairs. Just iterate over them and choose the
ones you need.
Haykel Ben Jemia
Allmas
Web RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:01 AM, flexaustin flexaus...@yahoo.com wrote:
pattern = new
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