RE: [flexcoders] is it possible to track visitors / the page an swf is embedded on

[Tracy Spratt]

Look into the BrowserManager, perhaps it will help.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of uclamerrick
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:24 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] is it possible to track visitors / the page an swf
is embedded on

 

Lets say I run a video site like youtube, how can I capture the url of
the page where my swf object is embedded.

For example someone takes the embed code from
http://youtube.com/videoid123   and
places it onto the page at
http://myblog.wordpress.com/this_video_rocks
 

I know how to use HTTPService to report this information back to my
server and store it in the database, but I don't know how to use Flex
3 / Actionscript 3 to determine the URL of the page that embeds an
swf. In the example above I would want to capture:

http://myblog.wordpress.com/this_video_rocks
 

Thanks.

RE: [flexcoders] parse SOAP response for values

[Tracy Spratt]

One big hassle with SOAP is the namespaces.  Once you get that straight,
you can use normal e4x expressions on it. 

 

Where are you having difficulty?

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of m_ollman
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:38 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] parse SOAP response for values

 

I have been looking around for a few hours - Flex Cookbook has some
info about mapping types. But no real method of getting into the
structure.

I need to grab the value of an attribute - abc570, which will be EOPO
+ 4 other attributes.

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
 " 

xmlns:typ="http://ruleburst.com/ruleserver/9.1/rulebase/types
 ">








EOPO


** ETC - 4 more vales **








Handler is 

private function RBcompleteHandler(event:Event) : void
{

var dataXML:XML = XML(event.target.data);
}

any help much appreciated

rgds
martin

[flexcoders] Re: How do I get rid of the padding between images layed in HBox?

[yossi.baram]

Thanks man

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner  
wrote:
>
> horizontalGap...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:35 AM, yossi.baram  
wrote:
> 
> >   Hi,
> > I created an ItemRenderer (an ActionScript) that extends HBox,
> > This renderer creates a list of images I provide, side by side.
> > The problem is that there is a gap between each image.
> > How do I eliminate it? I want the images stick to each other with 
no
> > gap,
> > Please advice
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jo
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brendan Meutzner
> http://www.meutzner.com/blog/
>

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Components needed

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

There is a link to download the source to the right, just above
"Categories".

Haykel Ben Jemia

Allmas
Web & RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com




On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:51 AM, brucewhealton
wrote:

>   Hi,
> I thought the flexbook was open-source but I cannot find that
> information on the page now. I just seem to remember it being open
> source.
> Does anyone know?
> Bruce
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Haykel
> BEN JEMIA  wrote:
> >
> > Some links:
> >
> > http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/
> >
>
> http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/19/flex-coverflow-performance-improvement-flex-carousel-component-and-vertical-coverflow/
> >
>
> http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/simulating-piclens-with-flex-and-away3d-%E2%80%93-part-1/
> (there
> > are also other interesting articles on this site)
> >
> > Haykel Ben Jemia
> >
> > Allmas
> > Web & RIA Development
> > http://www.allmas-tn.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, brucewhealton
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good resources
> > > for components, be they open-source, free, or commercial. I was
> > > reading Jack Herrington's book "Flex 3: Component Solutions" and I
> > > found a number of interesting components discussed. I'm looking at
> > > the ones for presenting images, or photo galleries. In particular I
> > > found these sites useful, afcomponents.com, fxcomponents.com and
> > > digicrafts.com to be useful and as having some great components.
> > > I'm doing a site for an Art Gallery. I wanted to find a good
> > > component for displaying photos that would look like presenting photos
> > > of art on a virtual wall, as it were. Can anyone recommend any good
> > > sites and components. In particular, if there are other great
> > > open-source components that would be great.
> > > I found a few Photo book, flexbook type components also. I
> > > thought there was a freeware, open-source version of this also.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>  
>

Re: [flexcoders] Re: filter arraycollection with checkbox acting wired

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

You have to review the logic of your filter function. As Tracy said, you
should try to debug, this will save you a lot of time. Put a break point in
the filter function and test your conditions.

Haykel Ben Jemia

Allmas
Web & RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com




On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM, johndoematrix wrote:

>   hi Ben when i tried the solution you gave, it worked very very well.
> but this is when am using a single criteria. when i try to add it to a
> filter function that filter's based on more than one criteria that's
> when there come's a problem.
>
>  
>

[flexcoders] What is equivalent of Cairngorm Command Sequence in Cairngorm UM?

[Mic]

Login button dispatchs login event, Command - Delegate - Server -
Command result has user_id - null user_id = callback to view, non-null
user_id loads more data. In this standard Cairngorm app I am using
Command extends SequenceCommand to executeNextCommand(); and dispatch
loadDataEvent. Because we need view callback I am updating to UM. In
reading the UM stuff it looks like

a) Delegate can intercept the response that would normally go the Command

b) Presumably Command result can create the loadDataEvent (UM event)
and dispatch it.

I don't think I want the Delegate to intercept because the returned
user_id must be written to a VO in the ModelLocator also, and I am
presuming that this is always a job for Command (?). So do I just
replace Command result executeNextCommand(); with create and dispatch
next event? I am wondering if there is more to this, because the
consensus appears to be that standard Cairngorm Command Sequence is
ugly and UM is more elegant. TIA,

Mic.

Re: [flexcoders] How do I get rid of the padding between images layed in HBox?

[Brendan Meutzner]

horizontalGap...


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:35 AM, yossi.baram  wrote:

>   Hi,
> I created an ItemRenderer (an ActionScript) that extends HBox,
> This renderer creates a list of images I provide, side by side.
> The problem is that there is a gap between each image.
> How do I eliminate it? I want the images stick to each other with no
> gap,
> Please advice
>
> Thanks
> Jo
>
>  
>



-- 
Brendan Meutzner
http://www.meutzner.com/blog/

[flexcoders] How do I get rid of the padding between images layed in HBox?

[yossi.baram]

Hi,
I created an ItemRenderer (an ActionScript) that extends HBox,
This renderer creates a list of images I provide, side by side.
The problem is that there is a gap between each image.
How do I eliminate it? I want the images stick to each other with no 
gap,
Please advice

Thanks
Jo

[flexcoders] Re: How do I use CellRenderer in my AdvancedDataGrid? please help

[yossi.baram]

Thanks man,
I created an item renderer for that column and it works like a 
charm :)))


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Gilson  
wrote:
>
> You can see a bunch of examples here: 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?
content=advdatagrid_10.html
> 
> Stephen
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of yossi.baram
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:41 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] How do I use CellRenderer in my 
AdvancedDataGrid? please help
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I need to implement an ItemRenderer on a specific column,
> Inside the column I need to hane an HBox that includs several 
images,
> the data I can take from the DataProvider of the dataGrid.
> What is the best way of doing that?
> Can you give me small example of using the CellRenderer, because I
> think its the best way,
> Thanks a lot
> Jo
>

[flexcoders] Re: problem with services-config.xml in multiple work environments..

[tchredeemed]

Yeah, I can do that, no big deal, it doesn't really fix the issue
because I have to use SecureAMFendpoint when its live and AMFEndpoint
when it is not.

I dont have an SSL Cert on localhost, but we have SSL on www.

I like the way you think though!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony DeBonis"  wrote:
>
> What is the service type?  If you talking AMF be sure to use 
> {server.name}  and not hard code the name... this is the default for 
> most of the services in the config... did you have to change yours?
> 
> Example - 
>  class="mx.messaging.channels.AMFChannel">
>  url="http://{server.name}:{server.port}/{context.root}/messagebroker/a
> mf" class="flex.messaging.endpoints.AMFEndpoint"/>
> 
> false
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "tchredeemed"  wrote:
> >
> > Basically..
> > 
> > We develop on localhost:3000, we test on http://dev.oursite.com, and
> > we go live on https://www.oursite.com.
> > 
> > I need 3 different environments, one for each environment.
> > 
> > Right now I have to recompile the SWF everytime I want to create it
> > for a new environment.
> > 
> > Obviously, when we have multiple people using it on localhost, I 
> have
> > to create these swf's too often.
> > 
> > I was hoping there is a way that I can set up services-config.xml to
> > point to the right url...
> > 
> > I would almost like to set up a daisy chain or something, it tries
> > www, if it can't get that, it tries dev, if it cant get that, it 
> tries
> > localhost.
> > 
> > Any help would really be greatly appreciated...
> >
>

[flexcoders] Dynamically changing Vslider or Hslider?

[flexaustin]

I seem to be having issues altering the vslider via code.  I am using
the change event thrown by the Vslider to dispatch my own event like so

this.dispatchEvent( event );

So anytime someone changes the Vslider value it throws an event and my
components scales in size.

But my component has the ability to change its own size using mouse +
keyboard controls.  So when this happens I then need to tell the
Vslider to change its value to match the components new size.  So I do
that via function like so

mySlider.value = newVal;

This seems to work nine times out of ten, but if my Vslider is a 4.5
(my Vslider can go btwn .25 and 5) then I scale the component to 5
then click on the Vslider to scale down to .25 the change event isn't
ever thrown via the Vslider though the slider thumb moves to where I
clicked on the Vslider.

[flexcoders] parse SOAP response for values

[m_ollman]

I have been looking around for a few hours - Flex Cookbook has some
info about mapping types. But no real method of getting into the
structure.

I need to grab the value of an attribute - abc570, which will be EOPO
+ 4 other attributes.


http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; 

xmlns:typ="http://ruleburst.com/ruleserver/9.1/rulebase/types";>
  
  

  

  


   EOPO

  
** ETC - 4 more vales **

  

  

  



Handler is 

private function RBcompleteHandler(event:Event) : void
{

var dataXML:XML = XML(event.target.data);
   }


any help much appreciated

rgds
martin

[flexcoders] parsing SOAP response

[m_ollman]

been looking around for a few hours - Flex Cookbook has some info
about mapping types. But struggling to find info about how to break
into the XML and grab the data.

SOAP response is:


http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:typ="http://ruleburst.com/ruleserver/9.1/rulebase/types";>













GERM

[flexcoders] parsing SOAP response

[m_ollman]

been looking around for a few hours - Flex Cookbook has some info
about mapping types. But struggling to find info.

SOAP response is:


SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:typ="http://ruleburst.com/ruleserver/9.1/rulebase/types";>
  
  

  

  

   
  GERM

 
  

  

  

[flexcoders] is it possible to track visitors / the page an swf is embedded on

[uclamerrick]

Lets say I run a video site like youtube, how can I capture the url of
the page where my swf object is embedded.

For example someone takes the embed code from
http://youtube.com/videoid123 and places it onto the page at
http://myblog.wordpress.com/this_video_rocks

I know how to use HTTPService to report this information back to my
server and store it in the database, but I don't know how to use Flex
3 / Actionscript 3 to determine the URL of the page that embeds an
swf. In the example above I would want to capture:

http://myblog.wordpress.com/this_video_rocks

Thanks.

[flexcoders] Help! Getting blank "Flex Build Path", "Flex Modules" windows

[sleblang]

I am running Vista Home 64Bit and having the above referenced problem.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, here's a link that depicts the exact
problem along with images -
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=172441.

I can open the same project on my work machine and everything is fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

[flexcoders] Re: Using Python with Flex

[tom93438]

The pyamf.org (that has already been linked to) is great. 

An alternative (if you dont need the unserialized data server side) is
to use byteArray. I pasted below a very scrappy example of how to get
this working using Google App Engine (in python). Incidentally, the
same GAE had a pyamf example in it, which I have left, but which is
commented out. (The MXML/AS is first, then the python)

tom


http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
layout="absolute"
creationComplete="initApp()">











 python for GAE **

#!/usr/bin/env python

import wsgiref.handlers
import cgi
import wsgiref.handlers
import os
import logging

from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

#from pyamf.remoting.gateway.google import WebAppGateway


class TestData(db.Model):
   
s = db.StringProperty()
d = db.BlobProperty()
l = db.ListProperty(int)


class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
self.response.out.write('Hello, webapp World!')

class Show(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):

testdata = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * from TestData")
template_values = {
'testdata': testdata,

}
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'show.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))


class Byte(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):


fileID = self.request.get('fileID')
td = TestData.gql("where s = :1", fileID).get()

self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/octet-stream'
self.response.out.write(td.d) 

def post(self):
  

fileID = self.request.get('fileID')
logging.info("data posted for fileID: " + fileID)

t = TestData()
t.s = fileID

t.d = db.Blob(self.request.body)

t.put()




#def echo(data):
##self.logger.debug("Echo called. Data is ot type: " + type(data))
#t = TestData()
#b = db.Blob(str(data))
#t.d = b
#t.s = str(eval(b))
##t.l = data
#t.put()
#return eval(b)


#services = {
#'myservice.echo': echo,
#}

def main():
application_paths = [('/', WebAppGateway(services)),
('/helloworld', MainPage), ('/show', Show), ('/byte', Byte)]
application = webapp.WSGIApplication(application_paths, debug=True)
wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler().run(application)




--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rbross77"  wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> I am look ing for some code example of using Python with Flex.
> I would like to be able to retrieve data using RemoteObjects and
call the Python file/program 
> to return the results in AMF format and not XML.
> 
> Thank you,
>

[flexcoders] Unicode Normalization in flex

[Sreejith P]

Hi there,

I am facing difficulty in MAC OS X because of the decomposed Unicode
strings (FCD) outputted by FileDialog class in the applet .So in MAC
OS X German character 'Ä' will be represented with two characters A +
the umlaut where as in Windows it is storing as only one character ie 'Ä'.

Because of this issue my i was not able to display the German
characters properly on my flex application.So to solve it i need to
normalize the string to NFC/NFD composition.There is a utility class
in JAVA 1.6 to do that(java.text.Normalizer).But i don't have the
luxury to use java 1.6.So i was searching Normalizer class in flex so
that i can normalize string in flex instead of doing in Java.

Please share your thoughts.

Thanks!
Sreejith

[flexcoders] Re: Components needed

[brucewhealton]

Hi,
 I thought the flexbook was open-source but I cannot find that
information on the page now.  I just seem to remember it being open
source.
Does anyone know?
Bruce

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Haykel BEN JEMIA  wrote:
>
> Some links:
> 
> http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/
>
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/19/flex-coverflow-performance-improvement-flex-carousel-component-and-vertical-coverflow/
>
http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/simulating-piclens-with-flex-and-away3d-%E2%80%93-part-1/(there
> are also other interesting articles on this site)
> 
> Haykel Ben Jemia
> 
> Allmas
> Web & RIA Development
> http://www.allmas-tn.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, brucewhealton
> wrote:
> 
> >   Hello all,
> > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good resources
> > for components, be they open-source, free, or commercial. I was
> > reading Jack Herrington's book "Flex 3: Component Solutions" and I
> > found a number of interesting components discussed. I'm looking at
> > the ones for presenting images, or photo galleries. In particular I
> > found these sites useful, afcomponents.com, fxcomponents.com and
> > digicrafts.com to be useful and as having some great components.
> > I'm doing a site for an Art Gallery. I wanted to find a good
> > component for displaying photos that would look like presenting photos
> > of art on a virtual wall, as it were. Can anyone recommend any good
> > sites and components. In particular, if there are other great
> > open-source components that would be great.
> > I found a few Photo book, flexbook type components also. I
> > thought there was a freeware, open-source version of this also.
> > Thanks,
> > Bruce
> >
> >  
> >
>

[flexcoders] Re: Was Problem with Accordion Component - problem with placement

[brucewhealton]

I thought I had this fixed but I am seeing that none of my style
changes are pushing the content in the footer div to show up below the
mainContent that holds the flex form.
So, it's a little off-topic.  I set the #content height to be large
enough to contain the flex application and in Dreamweaver it looks
right but when I preview in browser, it's not right.
The page is here:  http://FutureWaveDesigns.com/QuoteForm/
Thanks in advance for any tips on this,
Bruce

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "brucewhealton"  wrote:
>
> Tracy,
>Ok, when I setup the accordion to display a 4 part form (kind
> of like a wizard style) I chose certain dimensions for the height and
> width.  Those dimensions, the height and width, apply to the
> Application, the Panel, the Accordion and the display area on the
> accordion, which is based on the Form component.  
>I'm a little confused because when I returned to the project,
> just now, it seems to be different.  It is reflecting the dimensions,
> that I had chosen earlier.  This is weird.  It just was ignoring the
> height and width settings when I tried to change the height and width
> on each of the different components, going from Application, to Panel,
> to Accordion to Form, in the container ship hierarchy.  Now, when I
> came back, just moments ago, it's different, it shows the height
> values I was using.  Another wierd thing that it was doing, was that
> I'd change the value on the height of these components and it seemed
> to just go back to the older value (which was smaller) or to some even
> smaller value.
> OK, this just seems wierd but it does seem to be ok now.  I'll
> have to wait and see if this happens again.  Maybe it wasn't updating
> or refreshing.  I don't think that this explanation is valid though.
> Thanks,
> Bruce
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
> >
> > Bruce, can you explain further what you want to see but are not
seeing?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Tracy Spratt 
> > Lariat Services 
> > 
> > Flex development bandwidth available 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of brucewhealton
> > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:35 PM
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Problem with Accordion Component resizing.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I meant to include the link to the code. I guess you cannot
> > help me without having the code to see. It's not too long.
> > The code is here: 
> > http://futurewavedesigns.com/QuoteForm/QuoteForm.mxml
> >  
> > Thanks, and sorry for the mix-up/confusion.
> > bruce
> > 
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

> > , "brucewhealton"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > > I have a form that I setup with 4 different accordion panes.
> > > The container type for the Accordion is a Form component. I am
> > > finding it hard to get the containers to expand to accommodate
> > > additional content that cannot fit on the current form pages or the
> > > accordion panes. I went into the code and tried changing the height
> > > of the accordion, and the panel each, but that had absolutely no
> > > effect at all on the content that I am displaying in the
application.
> > > I was wondering if someone could look at the code and see if you can
> > > find what the problem is.
> > > When you look at the code in Flex 3, Flex Builder, it is
> > > clearly evident that there isn't enough space to fit everything. I
> > > need more height to accomplish this.
> > > Please see if you find anything or explain how I could accomplish
> > this.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bruce
> > >
> >
>

RE: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

[Alex Harui]

Without permission of the source server, Flash will not let you get at the 
bits.  You will need to pay for the server load to have a service that goes out 
to the other server for the bitmaps.  One of these days, I'll actually remember 
the scenario in enough detail to explain why it is "ok" for another server to 
steal bits, but not a Flash app.  It has to do with the fact that the code 
running in the Flash app has been permitted inside the firewall of whoever 
launched the browser to run the Flash app.  Flash has to protect against these 
"stretches" because it is these "stretches" that allow someone to write mean 
code.

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Guy Morton
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem


Hi Alex

Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy server? :-)

It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read the bitmap 
data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering it poses, but I guess 
arguing that point won't fix my problem anytime soon.

When you say we could get around this using a proxy server, are you referring 
to some Flex/flash specific tech? Or are you just suggesting we whip up a web 
service that funnels the tile requests from our server to the original host?

We had considered that, but are not all that keen to do it that way as it 
increases server load and will increase round-trip times.

Is there really no other way?

Guy


On 18/02/2009, at 10:22 AM, Alex Harui wrote:



You can load foreign content, but you can't touch it.  There are potential 
security issues involving sniffing through images of charts and what not.

Normally you get around this using a proxy server

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Guy Morton
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:20 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem


Hi all

I'm using Virtual Earth and the UMap component (afcomponents.com) to
display maps in my app. I want to use ImageSnapshot to capture the map
(and my overlays) and allow the user to save it to disk etc. However,
when I run the code on the server I get the dreaded sandbox issue:

SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation:
BitmapData.draw: http://www.blergh.com/bin/myapp.swf cannot 
accesshttp://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.maps.yimg.com/tl?v=4.2&md=2&x=0&y=0&z=2&r=1
. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set
when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::BitmapData/draw()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureBitmapData()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureImage()
at com.blergh.control::Map/saveSnapshot()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/generate()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/___SnapshotDialogue_Button2_click()

Now, first of all I don't really understand why if I can LOAD the maps
in the first place (which I can) I'm not then able to copy them.

Secondly, MS doesn't put crossdomain.xml files on it's tile servers,
so does that mean I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle?

Guy

Re: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

[Guy Morton]

Hi Tracy

Yes, a server-side proxy is simple enough to make, I just wondered if  
there was something Flex-specific that I should know about.


The fact that using a proxy circumvents the sandbox for this issue  
kinda defeats the whole security mechanism if you ask me.


Why should Flash developers have to jump through hoops that a "web  
1.0" developer wouldn't have to bother with? eg I could slurp an image  
off any public web site I like using perl, send it to my back end and  
read it using netpbm and process it's bits any way I care to. Why  
would I bother using Flash to do that?


*sigh*

Guy


On 18/02/2009, at 11:42 AM, Tracy Spratt wrote:



Hey, Guy.



You can read up on the rationale for all this security crap if you  
really want to know.  Adobe has whitepapers out the wazoo.  I say  
apply the death penalty to the jerks who make it necessary.




Proxy servers are not specific Flex/Flash technologies, but rather  
depend on the server platform/language  I saw a php one recently,  
and probably google would reveal examples for other platforms.




I just tried google and was dissappointed not to find more examples  
readily.  Lots of references to proxies, but few concrete examples.   
Probably because pros in those languages consider it a trivial  
exercise.




Next time I see one, I will start a collection.



This has not been an issue for me because all of my app to date have  
had a server-side business logic tier, which does all my external  
data access.




Tracy Spratt
Lariat Services

Flex development bandwidth available

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]  
On Behalf Of Guy Morton

Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem



Hi Alex



Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy  
server? :-)




It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read  
the bitmap data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering  
it poses, but I guess arguing that point won't fix my problem  
anytime soon.




When you say we could get around this using a proxy server, are you  
referring to some Flex/flash specific tech? Or are you just  
suggesting we whip up a web service that funnels the tile requests  
from our server to the original host?




We had considered that, but are not all that keen to do it that way  
as it increases server load and will increase round-trip times.




Is there really no other way?



Guy





On 18/02/2009, at 10:22 AM, Alex Harui wrote:





You can load foreign content, but you can’t touch it.  There are  
potential security issues involving sniffing through images of  
charts and what not.




Normally you get around this using a proxy server



Alex Harui

Flex SDK Developer

Adobe Systems Inc.

Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]  
On Behalf Of Guy Morton

Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:20 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem



Hi all

I'm using Virtual Earth and the UMap component (afcomponents.com) to
display maps in my app. I want to use ImageSnapshot to capture the map
(and my overlays) and allow the user to save it to disk etc. However,
when I run the code on the server I get the dreaded sandbox issue:

SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation:
BitmapData.draw: http://www.blergh.com/bin/myapp.swf cannot 
accesshttp://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.maps.yimg.com/tl?v=4.2&md=2&x=0&y=0&z=2&r=1
. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set
when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::BitmapData/draw()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureBitmapData()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureImage()
at com.blergh.control::Map/saveSnapshot()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/generate()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/ 
___SnapshotDialogue_Button2_click()


Now, first of all I don't really understand why if I can LOAD the maps
in the first place (which I can) I'm not then able to copy them.

Secondly, MS doesn't put crossdomain.xml files on it's tile servers,
so does that mean I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle?

Guy

[flexcoders] Proxy scripts for crossdomain issues

[Tracy Spratt]

Here is a php proxy by our own Abdul Qabiz.  I'll post any others I find
as well.
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/general/php_proxy_script_for.php

Tracy Spratt
Lariat Services

Flex development bandwidth available

RE: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

[Tracy Spratt]

Hey, Guy.

 

You can read up on the rationale for all this security crap if you
really want to know.  Adobe has whitepapers out the wazoo.  I say apply
the death penalty to the jerks who make it necessary.

 

Proxy servers are not specific Flex/Flash technologies, but rather
depend on the server platform/language  I saw a php one recently, and
probably google would reveal examples for other platforms.

 

I just tried google and was dissappointed not to find more examples
readily.  Lots of references to proxies, but few concrete examples.
Probably because pros in those languages consider it a trivial exercise.

 

Next time I see one, I will start a collection.

 

This has not been an issue for me because all of my app to date have had
a server-side business logic tier, which does all my external data
access.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Guy Morton
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

 

Hi Alex

 

Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy server?
:-) 

 

It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read the
bitmap data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering it
poses, but I guess arguing that point won't fix my problem anytime soon.

 

When you say we could get around this using a proxy server, are you
referring to some Flex/flash specific tech? Or are you just suggesting
we whip up a web service that funnels the tile requests from our server
to the original host?

 

We had considered that, but are not all that keen to do it that way as
it increases server load and will increase round-trip times.

 

Is there really no other way?

 

Guy

 

 

On 18/02/2009, at 10:22 AM, Alex Harui wrote:






You can load foreign content, but you can't touch it.  There are
potential security issues involving sniffing through images of charts
and what not.

 

Normally you get around this using a proxy server

 

Alex Harui

Flex SDK Developer

Adobe Systems Inc.  

Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui  

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@
 yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Guy Morton
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:20 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

 

Hi all

I'm using Virtual Earth and the UMap component (afcomponents.com) to 
display maps in my app. I want to use ImageSnapshot to capture the map 
(and my overlays) and allow the user to save it to disk etc. However, 
when I run the code on the server I get the dreaded sandbox issue:

SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: 
BitmapData.draw: http://www.blergh.com/bin/myapp.swf
  cannot
accesshttp://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.maps.yimg.com/tl?v=4.2&md=2&x=0&y
=0&z=2&r=1
  
. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set 
when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::BitmapData/draw()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureBitmapData()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureImage()
at com.blergh.control::Map/saveSnapshot()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/generate()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/___SnapshotDialogue_Button2_click()

Now, first of all I don't really understand why if I can LOAD the maps 
in the first place (which I can) I'm not then able to copy them.

Secondly, MS doesn't put crossdomain.xml files on it's tile servers, 
so does that mean I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle?

Guy

 

 

[flexcoders] Re: default skin in flex 3 component

[gwangdesign]

Thank Stephen.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Gilson  wrote:
>
> The doc on skinning is located here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/skinning_1.html
> 
> Was that helpful?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of gwangdesign
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:36 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] default skin in flex 3 component
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to define the default skin (which is ProgrammaticSkin for
> now) for my custom UIComponent. I would like to provide my own
> programmaticSkin (hm.controls.myUICompClasses.BackdropSkin) as
> default; and I am doing it in my UIComponent's style metadata, like so:
> 
> [Style(name="backdropSkin",
> type="hm.controls.myUICompClasses.BackdropSkin", inherit="yes")]
> ...
> protected var _backdrop:Class;
> ...
> 
> Is this the right way? What type should my _backdrop be? Or do I need
> to provide a CSS anyhow? Or classConstruc()???
> 
> When I try to get the style using:
> 
> var backdropSkin:Class = getStyle("backdropSkin");
> 
> I get type of Object instead of Class.
> 
> I appreciate any lead while still poking around the flex
> documentation/sdk code! Sorry everything looks a bit blurred right
> now8) Good night!
>

RE: [flexcoders] How do I use CellRenderer in my AdvancedDataGrid? please help

[Stephen Gilson]

You can see a bunch of examples here: 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=advdatagrid_10.html

Stephen

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of yossi.baram
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:41 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] How do I use CellRenderer in my AdvancedDataGrid? please 
help


Hi,
I need to implement an ItemRenderer on a specific column,
Inside the column I need to hane an HBox that includs several images,
the data I can take from the DataProvider of the dataGrid.
What is the best way of doing that?
Can you give me small example of using the CellRenderer, because I
think its the best way,
Thanks a lot
Jo

<><>

RE: [flexcoders] [flexcomponents]Writing comments for properties on parent classes

[Stephen Gilson]

Hi,

Do you mean you don't know how to format the comment, or you want to copy the 
comment from the parent class to your class?

The doc on ASDoc explains both of these. You can see it here: 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/asdoc_1.html

Stephen

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of dorkie dork from dorktown
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:09 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] [flexcomponents]Writing comments for properties on parent 
classes


Good morning Class (programming joke)

I'm trying to write asdoc comments for properties on a class that i'm extending 
but don't know how.

Example,

public class SetProperty extends mx.states.SetProperty {

public function SetProperty(target:Object = null, name:String = null, 
value:Object = null) {
super(target, name, value);
}

}

So you see my SetProperty class is extending mx.states.SetProperty. I am 
repurposing it and have to update the asdocs comments "target", "value", etc.


<><>

Re: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

[Guy Morton]

Hi Alex

Mm. ok... but if I were a bad guy wouldn't *I* just use a proxy  
server? :-)


It seems a bit of a stretch, frankly, that allowing flash to read the  
bitmap data constitutes a risk beyond that that simply rendering it  
poses, but I guess arguing that point won't fix my problem anytime soon.


When you say we could get around this using a proxy server, are you  
referring to some Flex/flash specific tech? Or are you just suggesting  
we whip up a web service that funnels the tile requests from our  
server to the original host?


We had considered that, but are not all that keen to do it that way as  
it increases server load and will increase round-trip times.


Is there really no other way?

Guy


On 18/02/2009, at 10:22 AM, Alex Harui wrote:



You can load foreign content, but you can’t touch it.  There are  
potential security issues involving sniffing through images of  
charts and what not.




Normally you get around this using a proxy server



Alex Harui

Flex SDK Developer

Adobe Systems Inc.

Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]  
On Behalf Of Guy Morton

Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:20 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem



Hi all

I'm using Virtual Earth and the UMap component (afcomponents.com) to
display maps in my app. I want to use ImageSnapshot to capture the map
(and my overlays) and allow the user to save it to disk etc. However,
when I run the code on the server I get the dreaded sandbox issue:

SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation:
BitmapData.draw: http://www.blergh.com/bin/myapp.swf cannot 
accesshttp://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.maps.yimg.com/tl?v=4.2&md=2&x=0&y=0&z=2&r=1
. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set
when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::BitmapData/draw()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureBitmapData()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureImage()
at com.blergh.control::Map/saveSnapshot()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/generate()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/ 
___SnapshotDialogue_Button2_click()


Now, first of all I don't really understand why if I can LOAD the maps
in the first place (which I can) I'm not then able to copy them.

Secondly, MS doesn't put crossdomain.xml files on it's tile servers,
so does that mean I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle?

Guy

Re: [flexcoders]Class path alias

[Sam Lai]

I assume your extended Button is in a package of some kind, so just do this -



The xmlns:my attribute lets Flex know which button you are referring
to, and using the my: prefix tells Flex which package to look in.

You can add the xmlns statement to the root MXML tag to avoid typing
it again and again.

But if you're looking for something similar in AS, I think you're out
of luck - 
http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2007/03/actionscript_4_import_alias_where_is.php

2009/2/18 dorkie dork from dorktown :
> During the discussion of the Fx prefix thing I was reminded when I was
> creating my own classes of the same name. For example, I think I was
> extending button and didn't want to change the name to anything else besides
> "button" so I had:
>
> public class Button extends mx.controls.Button
>
> Then in my application code hinting would always throw a disambiguity error.
>
> So I was trying to remember if there was a way to alias my Button from the
> mx Button and the not have the compiler throw errors or make me write out
> the full class names each time (to get around the error).
>
>
>
>
> 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Using an itemRenderer in a grid and rendering glitches

[Tracy Spratt]

Right.  Or my response would be, "is your itemRenderer coded correctly?"

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Amy
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:22 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Using an itemRenderer in a grid and rendering
glitches

 

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
, "biosmonkey"  
wrote:
>
> I have an adg that displays a tree of items, along with a custom 
item
> renderer that shows an icon representing status.
> 
> For the most part this works well, however, in some rare 
circumstances
> when scrolling I have seen the item renderer glitch ... sometimes it
> appears to be double rendered, sometimes it is rendered in the wrong
> place. I have also seen the text labels in the tree superimpose on
> top of themselves sometimes.
> 
> This problem is actually not unique to this situation, because I 
have
> seen it in other grids with IRs. This problem, however, just 
happens
> to be in a MAJOR project of mine :).
> 
> Has anyone else seen similar problems? I don't know how it would be
> my code ... it seems more like a flash player bug. I am using flash
> 10. Note also that my IR is not doing any graphical drawing; it is
> essentially an hbox with an img that just gets its source changed.

Check out Q2
http://www.magnoliamultimedia.com/flex_examples/Amys_Flex_FAQ.pdf
 

Re: [flexcoders] Re: HTML editor for Flex Builder 3?

[Sam Lai]

That's definitely an option - go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find
and Install. At least select the Europa Discovery Site when prompted
for update sites. Click next and that should give you a list of things
to pick to install. The names are pretty cryptic, and the descriptions
aren't descriptions, but I think the Web Standard Tools should give
you want you need.

This way lets you be even more picky about what to install, and what
not to (e.g. if you don't need PHP support).

2009/2/18 Jeffry Houser :
>
>  What's the difference between the two options?
>  And/or why wouldn't you be able to install PDT as a plugin to Flex
> Builder?   (Instructions for that seem to be here:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation#From_Update_Site )
>
>  Whether good or bad, I do most of my HTML editing in CFEclipse which is
> designed for ColdFusion / CFML.
>
> huu...@ymail.com wrote:
>
> Thanks Alan.  I appreciate the response.  Unfortunately, I'd prefer to
> use Flex Builder stand-alone and augment it via plugins rather than
> download Eclipse and augment it with the Flex Builder plugin.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alan K  wrote:
>
>
> Download Eclipse PDT and install Flex Builder as a Plug ­in.
>
> You will have code hinting and debugging for HTML, XML, PHP as well
>
>
> as other
>
>
> nifty stuff.
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/release-notes/pdt2_0.php
>
>
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> --
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> FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt
> Alternative FAQ location:
> https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847
> Search Archives:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur
> Adobe Community Expert: http://tinyurl.com/684b5h
> http://www.twitter.com/reboog711  | Phone: 203-379-0773
> --
> Easy to use Interface Components for Flex Developers
> http://www.flextras.com?c=104
> --
> http://www.theflexshow.com
> http://www.jeffryhouser.com
> --
> Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust
>
> 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: filter arraycollection with checkbox acting wired

[Tracy Spratt]

I've quit this one.  The original poster needs to develop his debugging
techniques before going any further.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tim Hoff
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:57 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: filter arraycollection with checkbox acting
wired

 


This is asolutely comical.

-TH

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
, "johndoematrix" 
wrote:
>
> hi Ben when i tried the solution you gave, it worked very very well.
> but this is when am using a single criteria. when i try to add it to a
> filter function that filter's based on more than one criteria that's
> when there come's a problem.
>

RE: [flexcoders] Presenting images with links to new Browser location

[Alex Harui]

You can put the image in a button, or place a Sprite over or under it as the 
hit detection area

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of brucewhealton
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:33 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Presenting images with links to new Browser location


Hello all,
I was looking at the navigateToURL method and wanted to see
about using an image as a clickable link to a website. The image
component does not have an onClick property, so it isn't possible to
make an image into an active link to a website. Is there a way to
accomplish this? Maybe by putting an image inside a button?
Thanks,
Bruce

RE: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem

[Alex Harui]

You can load foreign content, but you can't touch it.  There are potential 
security issues involving sniffing through images of charts and what not.

Normally you get around this using a proxy server

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Guy Morton
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:20 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] ImageSnapshot sandbox problem


Hi all

I'm using Virtual Earth and the UMap component (afcomponents.com) to
display maps in my app. I want to use ImageSnapshot to capture the map
(and my overlays) and allow the user to save it to disk etc. However,
when I run the code on the server I get the dreaded sandbox issue:

SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation:
BitmapData.draw: http://www.blergh.com/bin/myapp.swf cannot access 
http://us.maps1.yimg.com/us.tile.maps.yimg.com/tl?v=4.2&md=2&x=0&y=0&z=2&r=1
. A policy file is required, but the checkPolicyFile flag was not set
when this media was loaded.
at flash.display::BitmapData/draw()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureBitmapData()
at mx.graphics::ImageSnapshot$/captureImage()
at com.blergh.control::Map/saveSnapshot()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/generate()
at com.blergh.view::SnapshotDialogue/___SnapshotDialogue_Button2_click()

Now, first of all I don't really understand why if I can LOAD the maps
in the first place (which I can) I'm not then able to copy them.

Secondly, MS doesn't put crossdomain.xml files on it's tile servers,
so does that mean I'm up the proverbial creek without a paddle?

Guy

RE: [flexcoders] Unloading a swf that includes a ViewStack can cause a RTE

[Alex Harui]

What is the exact stack trace of the RTE?

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of rob_mcmichael
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:17 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Unloading a swf that includes a ViewStack can cause a RTE


Hi all,

I am sill seeing this bug when trying to unload a SWF in an AIR 1.5 project:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17422

I have tried everything mentioned but no avail.

If anyone can help, please let me know.

Thanks

Rob

RE: [flexcoders] Module Issue....

[Alex Harui]

Make sure the SWF is where you think it is.  Other than that, looks ok.  Attach 
listeners to events and see what’s happening.

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Eric Dunn
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:48 AM
To: flexcoders
Subject: [flexcoders] Module Issue

I have done this twice before and  apparently I am forgetting something..
  1) Create a main app with add a ModuleLoader and a button to load module.
  2) Create Module - added some text field to display data..
  3)  Run app and click button to load module..
I click the button and nothing happens...

What have I forgotten to do? Am I not importing something I need to declaring 
something?  I have looked at the other code and don't see any difference other 
than lots more stuff...


http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute">










http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" 
width="400" height="300">








Eric W Dunn
Adaption Technologies!
281- 465-3326
ed...@adpt-tech.com

RE: [flexcoders] Capturing Phase

[Alex Harui]

The capture phase isn't really intended for that.

The canvas should addEventListener to the application.

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of thelordsince1984
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:00 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Capturing Phase


Hi,

if i have a root application and a canvas (application's child), is
possible to dispatch an event from the application to the canvas? the
capturing phase is the right way, is it true?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Lorenzo

RE: [flexcoders] interaction between mx:Image and mx:VSlider: causing Security Sandbox Violation

[Alex Harui]

If you don't get the exception dialog that halts the application, you can 
ignore those warnings.  It'll slow your app on the debugger player, but the 
release player shouldn't spit that out so 99% of your end users should be 
unaffected

Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of mr_j_harris
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:59 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] interaction between mx:Image and mx:VSlider: causing 
Security Sandbox Violation


Hello,

I've got an unusual and unwanted interaction between two controls
going on.

The first control (A) is a semi-complex control with custom
actionscript and two Flex components: one custom (IconLoader) and one
'stock' (mx:Image): the custom pieice displays '.ico' files, the stock
piece displays '.png' (icon-sized) files.

The second control (B) that is triggering the unwanted behaviour,
is a plain-Jane instance of mx:VSlider (mx:HSlider has the same issues.)

The unwanted behaviour is, when MouseDown or MouseUp on the
pointer-head of the slider control (B), it seems to initiate a fetch
of last-loaded mx:image item in the iconloader control (A)- which in
turn causes a Security Sandbox Violation message to issue to the trace
window, which, apart from likely 'slowness' is the only appreciable
symptom of this problem!

Setting autoLoad=false for the mx:Image control stopped the unwanted
image fetch (attempt), it also stopped the wanted image fetch. Using
AS3 image.load() or image.load (image.source) image.source) cuase
the wanted image to appear; it also resumed with the unwanted fetch
that results in the Security Sandbox Violation message.

Has anyone else seen such an interaction between mx:Image and
mx:VSlider??

[flexcoders] localConnection doesn't work with layered sfws

[targetplanet]

I have a project that was done in AS2, and instead of porting it to
AS3(no budget..)I created an AS3 "shell" for all new features to be
loaded into, and am communicating between the as2 and as3 with
localConnection. This works fine, but the problem is since I want the
new content to appear to be part of the old, I need to 'float' the as3
swf over/above the as2 swf. I can do this no problem using divs and
css, but as soon as I do, the localConnection fails to connect in
either swf. Both the swfs function fine in this configuration, but no
localConnection. Any thoughts?

[flexcoders] [flexcomponents]Writing comments for properties on parent classes

[dorkie dork from dorktown]

Good morning Class (programming joke)

I'm trying to write asdoc comments for properties on a class that i'm
extending but don't know how.

Example,

public class SetProperty extends mx.states.SetProperty {

public function SetProperty(target:Object = null, name:String =
null, value:Object = null) {
super(target, name, value);
}

}

So you see my SetProperty class is extending mx.states.SetProperty. I am
repurposing it and have to update the asdocs comments "target", "value",
etc.

Re: [flexcoders]Class path alias

[dorkie dork from dorktown]

During the discussion of the Fx prefix thing I was reminded when I was
creating my own classes of the same name. For example, I think I was
extending button and didn't want to change the name to anything else besides
"button" so I had:

public class Button extends mx.controls.Button

Then in my application code hinting would always throw a disambiguity error.


So I was trying to remember if there was a way to alias my Button from the
mx Button and the not have the compiler throw errors or make me write out
the full class names each time (to get around the error).

Re: [flexcoders] Is there any way to use predefined functions for a sortCompareFunction?

[Adrian Williams]

I don't think you can use the sortCompareFunction that way...it needs a 
function to process your data against.


We use a number of customized sorting functions on a number of our 
fields via both sort.compareFunction as well as adg.sortCompareFunction, 
though funny enough, the compareFunction is a bit different depending on 
which way you are using it.  If you are tying it to an ADG 
sortCompareFunction, it takes two arguments while when using a Sort() 
compareFunction, it takes three.


When trying to do an alphabetical sort (on the ADG), we do this:

   public static function compareLastNames(name1:Object, 
name2:Object):int

   {
   var newName1:String = name1.LastName + name1.FirstName + 
name1.MiddleName;
   var newName2:String = name2.LastName + name2.FirstName + 
name2.MiddleName;
  
   if (newName1.toLowerCase() < newName2.toLowerCase())

   {
   return -1;
   }
   else if (newName1.toLowerCase() > newName2.toLowerCase())
   {
   return 1;
   }
   else
   {
   return 0;
   }
   }

and when using a Sort() we do the very same logic but we have to add a 
"fields" parameter into the method signature:


public static function compareLastNamesWithFields(name1:Object, 
name2:Object, fields:Array = null):int


In this case, we've automatically set the fields array to null as we 
never have any fields to pass in but without it, flex throws errors 
(we've long thought this to be a bug). 

Also note that these are public and static because we've abstracted them 
into a class. 


Hope this helps!
Adrian






Jeffry Houser wrote:



Keith Hughitt wrote:
> When working with DataGrid ItemRenderers, you can say something like
> itemrenderer="Text", and Flex will know how to deal with the data.
>

I just tested, this gives me a compiler error both on a ComboBox and
DataGrid.
What are you doing that I'm not doing?

> Is there anyway you can do this with a sortCompareFunction, e.g.
>
> sortCompareFunction="Numeric" or sortCompareFunction="String"?
>

Will using the sortOptions property on a DataGridColumn do what you want?
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/controls/dataGridClasses/DataGridColumn.html#sortOptions 

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html#sort 
()


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Re: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

[Jeffry Houser]

 I think that x and y values are defaulted to 0, 0; which would put 
your text in the top left of the canvas.  The box may layout the canvas, 
but will not lay out children of the canvas.


This looks like it might be a createChildren method?   I would usually 
position elements in the updateDisplayList method. 



- - wrote:
The text always overlaps the canvas and remains at the top... ??? Am I 
doing something wrong?

* *

*var* parentCanvas: Canvas = *new* Canvas();

parentCanvas.percentWidth =100;

parentCanvas.percentHeight = 100;

* *

*var* childCanvas: Canvas = *new* Canvas();

childCanvas.percentWidth = 100;

childCanvas.percentHeight = 100;

* *

*var* childText:Text = *new* Text();

childText.percentWidth = 100;

childText.text = *'This is a test'*;

parentCanvas.addChild(childCanvas);

parentCanvas.addChild(childText);

box.addChild(parentCanvas);

 


box is my mxml component.

 


Thanks.



*From:* sunild99 
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:37:28 PM
*Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

I think you want something like this:

var parentCanvas: Canvas = new Canvas();
parentCanvas. percentWidth =100;
parentCanvas. percentHeight = 100;

var childCanvas: Canvas = new Canvas();
childCanvas. percentWidth = 100;
childCanvas. percentHeight = 100;

var childText:Text = new Text();
childText.percentWi dth = 100;

parentCanvas. addChild( childCanvas) ;
parentCanvas. addChild( childText) ;

Let the childCanvas be 100% of the height of it's parent. The parent 
container will know to
leave enough room for childText. I'm not explaining this very well, 
but the above code

should do what you're looking for.

--- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com 
, - -  wrote:

>
> Hi Sunil, this is what I'm trying to replicate in actionscript:
>

height="{parentCanv as.height- childText. height}"/ >
> In MXML this layout is DYNAMIC, meaning if I resize my window, all 
my components are

also resized...
>  
> How can I replicate this in actionscript?
>  
> Thank you.
>  
> -David

>
>







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Re: [flexcoders] Re: HTML editor for Flex Builder 3?

[Jeffry Houser]

What's the difference between the two options? 
And/or why wouldn't you be able to install PDT as a plugin to Flex 
Builder?   (Instructions for that seem to be here:  
http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Installation#From_Update_Site )


Whether good or bad, I do most of my HTML editing in CFEclipse which is 
designed for ColdFusion / CFML. 


huu...@ymail.com wrote:

Thanks Alan.  I appreciate the response.  Unfortunately, I'd prefer to
use Flex Builder stand-alone and augment it via plugins rather than
download Eclipse and augment it with the Flex Builder plugin.

Any other suggestions?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alan K  wrote:
  

Download Eclipse PDT and install Flex Builder as a Plug ­in.

You will have code hinting and debugging for HTML, XML, PHP as well


as other
  

nifty stuff.

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/release-notes/pdt2_0.php



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Re: [flexcoders] Is there any way to use predefined functions for a sortCompareFunction?

[Jeffry Houser]

Keith Hughitt wrote:
> When working with DataGrid ItemRenderers, you can say something like
> itemrenderer="Text", and Flex will know how to deal with the data.
>   

  I just tested, this gives me a compiler error both on a ComboBox and 
DataGrid.
 What are you doing that I'm not doing?

> Is there anyway you can do this with a sortCompareFunction, e.g. 
>
> sortCompareFunction="Numeric" or sortCompareFunction="String"?
>   

 Will using the sortOptions property on a DataGridColumn do what you want?
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/controls/dataGridClasses/DataGridColumn.html#sortOptions
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html#sort()

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RE: [flexcoders] problem with services-config.xml in multiple work environments..

[Gregor Kiddie]

We construct our Remote Objects at runtime. You can use something like

servletPath = URLUtil.parseUriPath( Application.application.url ) +
"messagebroker/amf";

 

to generate the URL you should be hitting (our URLUtil class strips the
URL back to the context root, YMMV).

 

That way you can generate a single swf, and it adapts to the environment
is deployed into.

 

Gk.

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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of tchredeemed
Sent: 17 February 2009 19:32
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] problem with services-config.xml in multiple work
environments..

 

Basically..

We develop on localhost:3000, we test on http://dev.oursite.com,
  and
we go live on https://www.oursite.com.  

I need 3 different environments, one for each environment.

Right now I have to recompile the SWF everytime I want to create it
for a new environment.

Obviously, when we have multiple people using it on localhost, I have
to create these swf's too often.

I was hoping there is a way that I can set up services-config.xml to
point to the right url...

I would almost like to set up a daisy chain or something, it tries
www, if it can't get that, it tries dev, if it cant get that, it tries
localhost.

Any help would really be greatly appreciated...

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

[- -]

The text always overlaps the canvas and remains at the top... ??? Am I doing 
something wrong?

var
parentCanvas.percentWidth =100;
parentCanvas.percentHeight = 100;parentCanvas: Canvas = newCanvas();var
childCanvas.percentWidth = 100;
childCanvas.percentHeight = 100;childCanvas: Canvas = newCanvas();var
childText.percentWidth = 100;
childText.text = 
parentCanvas.addChild(childCanvas);
parentCanvas.addChild(childText);
box.addChild(parentCanvas); 
 
box is my mxml component.
 
Thanks.childText:Text = newText();'This is a test';




From: sunild99 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:37:28 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.


I think you want something like this:

var parentCanvas: Canvas = new Canvas();
parentCanvas. percentWidth =100;
parentCanvas. percentHeight = 100;

var childCanvas: Canvas = new Canvas();
childCanvas. percentWidth = 100;
childCanvas. percentHeight = 100;

var childText:Text = new Text();
childText.percentWi dth = 100;

parentCanvas. addChild( childCanvas) ;
parentCanvas. addChild( childText) ;

Let the childCanvas be 100% of the height of it's parent. The parent container 
will know to 
leave enough room for childText. I'm not explaining this very well, but the 
above code 
should do what you're looking for.

--- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com, - -  wrote:
>
> Hi Sunil, this is what I'm trying to replicate in actionscript:
>     

> In MXML this layout is DYNAMIC, meaning if I resize my window, all my 
> components are 
also resized... 
>  
> How can I replicate this in actionscript?
>  
> Thank you.
>  
> -David
> 
> 





  

[flexcoders] Re: HTML editor for Flex Builder 3?

[huu...@ymail.com]

Thanks Alan.  I appreciate the response.  Unfortunately, I'd prefer to
use Flex Builder stand-alone and augment it via plugins rather than
download Eclipse and augment it with the Flex Builder plugin.

Any other suggestions?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alan K  wrote:
>
> Download Eclipse PDT and install Flex Builder as a Plug ­in.
> 
> You will have code hinting and debugging for HTML, XML, PHP as well
as other
> nifty stuff.
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/release-notes/pdt2_0.php
> 
> 
> 
> Alan
>

[flexcoders] interaction between mx:Image and mx:VSlider: causing Security Sandbox Violation

[mr_j_harris]

Hello, 

   I've got an unusual and unwanted interaction between two controls
going on.

  The first control (A) is a semi-complex control with custom
actionscript and two Flex components: one custom (IconLoader) and one
'stock' (mx:Image): the custom pieice displays '.ico' files, the stock
piece displays '.png' (icon-sized) files.

The second control (B) that is triggering the unwanted behaviour,
is a plain-Jane instance of mx:VSlider (mx:HSlider has the same issues.)

   The unwanted behaviour is, when MouseDown or MouseUp on the
pointer-head of the slider control (B), it seems to initiate a fetch
of last-loaded mx:image item in the iconloader control (A)- which in
turn causes a Security Sandbox Violation message to issue to the trace
window, which, apart from likely 'slowness' is the only appreciable
symptom of this problem!

  Setting autoLoad=false for the mx:Image control stopped the unwanted
image fetch (attempt), it also stopped the wanted image fetch.  Using
AS3 image.load()   or image.load (image.source) image.source)  cuase
the wanted image to appear; it also resumed with the unwanted fetch
that results in the Security Sandbox Violation message.

   Has anyone else seen such an interaction between mx:Image and
mx:VSlider??

[flexcoders] Re: Flex End-User Documentation Tools

[stldvd]

Hi,

While this doesn't give a definitive answer, it will point you to some of the 
previous 
discussion on this matter. Search Flexcoders for RoboHelp and you will find 
some threads, 
e.g.  "One would hope that the company that owns Flash, Flex and RoboHelp is 
working on 
some integration..."

-- David

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "limscoder"  wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> I've tried searching for this, but (predictably) search terms like
> 'flex documentation' pull up a ton of results for actual Flex
> documentation and information about API documentation systems like
> ASDoc. If you have a link to a previous discussion of this topic, or a
> better search term I can use to find the discussion, that would be great.
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jim.abbott45" 
> wrote:
> >
> > This topic has come up more than once on FlexCoders. Please do a
> > search for this. 
> > 
> > That said, the last time it came up, I don't believe that anyone had
> > any brilliant solutions for this challenge. Some people were using
> > various forms of HTML-based documentation; *** but displaying it in a
> > separate (stand-alone) browser window. Arguably, the lack of a
> > more-integrated solution is a hole in the current Flex offering.
> > 
> > --Jim
> > 
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "limscoder"  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "dthomp325"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Are there any tools available for creating in-application end-user
> > > > documentation?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > So this question either has a really obvious answer, or I'm not being
> > > specific enough
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for tools to put together end-user help documentation for
> > > a Flex 3.2 application. The documentation needs to be some type of
> > > structured text with headings, chapters, etc., and I need to be able
> > > to link to specific sections of the documentation when a user clicks a
> > > help icon located next to a component in the GUI. Support for embedded
> > > flash videos for showing tutorials would also be nice. I could do this
> > > with an HTML documentation system, but I would prefer more integration
> > > with flash/flex, so I that when components get moved around in the
> > > GUI, I won't have to worry about making sure all the URLs are pointing
> > > to the right documentation. Any suggestions?
> > >
> >
>

[flexcoders] Determining sound levels on video playback? leftpeak?

[luvfotography]

How can I determine the sound levels on a video playback?

There is flash.media.SoundChannel.leftPeak, but it's only available on
sound files, how can I use this on a video?

Or is there another way?

[flexcoders] Re: problem with services-config.xml in multiple work environments..

[Anthony DeBonis]

What is the service type?  If you talking AMF be sure to use 
{server.name}  and not hard code the name... this is the default for 
most of the services in the config... did you have to change yours?

Example - 

http://{server.name}:{server.port}/{context.root}/messagebroker/a
mf" class="flex.messaging.endpoints.AMFEndpoint"/>

false




--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "tchredeemed"  wrote:
>
> Basically..
> 
> We develop on localhost:3000, we test on http://dev.oursite.com, and
> we go live on https://www.oursite.com.
> 
> I need 3 different environments, one for each environment.
> 
> Right now I have to recompile the SWF everytime I want to create it
> for a new environment.
> 
> Obviously, when we have multiple people using it on localhost, I 
have
> to create these swf's too often.
> 
> I was hoping there is a way that I can set up services-config.xml to
> point to the right url...
> 
> I would almost like to set up a daisy chain or something, it tries
> www, if it can't get that, it tries dev, if it cant get that, it 
tries
> localhost.
> 
> Any help would really be greatly appreciated...
>

Re: [flexcoders] Using Python with Flex

[Maciek Sakrejda]

http://pyamf.org/ ?


-Original Message-
From: rbross77 
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Using Python with Flex
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:38:11 -

Hello,

I am look ing for some code example of using Python with Flex.
I would like to be able to retrieve data using RemoteObjects and call
the Python file/program 
to return the results in AMF format and not XML.

Thank you,

[flexcoders] Using Python with Flex

[rbross77]

Hello,

I am look ing for some code example of using Python with Flex.
I would like to be able to retrieve data using RemoteObjects and call the 
Python file/program 
to return the results in AMF format and not XML.

Thank you,

[flexcoders] Colored Tabs

[Wally Kolcz]

I figured out how to turn one of the tabs red using a css snippet and the 
function below. Just it only works when the tab is not selected..what else 
would need to be added to get it to be all red all the time?


.tab1 {
 fill-colors: #e91116, #e91116;
}

[flexcoders] problem with services-config.xml in multiple work environments..

[tchredeemed]

Basically..

We develop on localhost:3000, we test on http://dev.oursite.com, and
we go live on https://www.oursite.com.

I need 3 different environments, one for each environment.

Right now I have to recompile the SWF everytime I want to create it
for a new environment.

Obviously, when we have multiple people using it on localhost, I have
to create these swf's too often.

I was hoping there is a way that I can set up services-config.xml to
point to the right url...

I would almost like to set up a daisy chain or something, it tries
www, if it can't get that, it tries dev, if it cant get that, it tries
localhost.

Any help would really be greatly appreciated...

[flexcoders] Re: Using an itemRenderer in a grid and rendering glitches

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "biosmonkey"  
wrote:
>
> I have an adg that displays a tree of items, along with a custom 
item
> renderer that shows an icon representing status.
> 
> For the most part this works well, however, in some rare 
circumstances
> when scrolling I have seen the item renderer glitch ... sometimes it
> appears to be double rendered, sometimes it is rendered in the wrong
> place.  I have also seen the text labels in the tree superimpose on
> top of themselves sometimes.
> 
> This problem is actually not unique to this situation, because I 
have
> seen it in other grids with IRs.  This problem, however, just 
happens
> to be in a MAJOR project of mine :).
> 
> Has anyone else seen similar problems?  I don't know how it would be
> my code ... it seems more like a flash player bug.  I am using flash
> 10.  Note also that my IR is not doing any graphical drawing; it is
> essentially an hbox with an img that just gets its source changed.

Check out Q2
http://www.magnoliamultimedia.com/flex_examples/Amys_Flex_FAQ.pdf

[flexcoders] Re: Is there any way to use predefined functions for a sortCompareFunction?

[Tim Hoff]

Some people have extended DataGridColumn to handle nested objects and
sorting.  but, You might find this helpful:

http://natescodevault.com/?p=61 

-TH

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Keith Hughitt" 
wrote:
>
> When working with DataGrid ItemRenderers, you can say something like
> itemrenderer="Text", and Flex will know how to deal with the data.
>
> Is there anyway you can do this with a sortCompareFunction, e.g.
>
> sortCompareFunction="Numeric" or sortCompareFunction="String"?
>
> The reason is that I have some simple datatypes (Integers and Strings)
> that are nested (e.g. time.start), and thus require using a
> labelFunction instead of simply specifying a dataField. A result of
> which is that Flex does not know how to sort them anymore. I can write
> a sortable function for Integers and Strings, but I'm pretty sure this
> has already been done.
>
> Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated. :)
>
> Thanks!
> Keith
>

[flexcoders] Module Issue....

[Eric Dunn]

I have done this twice before and apparently I am forgetting something.. 
1) Create a main app with add a ModuleLoader and a button to load module. 
2) Create Module - added some text field to display data.. 
3) Run app and click button to load module.. 
I click the button and nothing happens... 

What have I forgotten to do? Am I not importing something I need to declaring 
something? I have looked at the other code and don't see any difference other 
than lots more stuff... 

 
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute"> 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" 
width="400" height="300"> 
 
 
 
 




Eric W Dunn 
Adaption Technologies 
281-465-3326 
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[flexcoders] How do I use CellRenderer in my AdvancedDataGrid? please help

[yossi.baram]

Hi,
I need to implement an ItemRenderer on a specific column,
Inside the column I need to hane an HBox that includs several images,
the data I can take from the DataProvider of the dataGrid.
What is the best way of doing that?
Can you give me small example of using the CellRenderer, because I 
think its the best way,
Thanks a lot
Jo

[flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

[sunild999999]

I think you want something like this:

var parentCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas();
parentCanvas.percentWidth =100;
parentCanvas.percentHeight = 100;

var childCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas();
childCanvas.percentWidth = 100;
childCanvas.percentHeight = 100;

var childText:Text = new Text();
childText.percentWidth = 100;

parentCanvas.addChild(childCanvas);
parentCanvas.addChild(childText);

Let the childCanvas be 100% of the height of it's parent.  The parent container 
will know to 
leave enough room for childText.  I'm not explaining this very well, but the 
above code 
should do what you're looking for.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, - -  wrote:
>
> Hi Sunil, this is what I'm trying to replicate in actionscript:
>     

> In MXML this layout is DYNAMIC, meaning if I resize my window, all my 
> components are 
also resized... 
>  
> How can I replicate this in actionscript?
>  
> Thank you.
>  
> -David
> 
> 

[flexcoders] Re: writing data to SQL database

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Buetow"  wrote:
>
>  
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
>  
> 
> Yes, I am new to FLEX, as my question will surely show. I am making 
a simple
> CRUD app designed to administer my table of users. I used the 
ColdFusion
> wizard and created a Master/Detail set. The query is simple and 
tests out
> fine, however, when I "Run" the application and test it live, I am 
able to
> edit and delete records, yet I am not able to add a record. I 
receive no
> error and when running in debug mode, I get no breaks. I have tried 
to
> re-create the app and have googled my question in hopes of finding 
other
> "newbie's" with the same question. I have looked through all of the 
CFC's
> and see nothing glaring that would raise my lightly trained eyebrow.
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas why I would not be able to add a record?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "SQL" database.  Possibly you mean 
either SQL Server or mySQL.  I'm not sure about SQL Server, but you 
might want to check to see if your directory permissions allow the 
internet guest account to write and execute to the directory with the 
database files if it's mySQL. 

[flexcoders] Interacting from outside local sandbox to java server

[Jeremi Bergman]

I have a java server that I modified based off of the SimpleServer
 java class.

Everything works perfectly when I run from flex builder.  As soon as I
deploy it, it will not connect.  I know this has to do with the
crossdomain.xml file, but I cannot get the java class to send back
what it needs to get this to work.

Does anyone have any examples of how this may work?  

I've tried sending it as soon as the socket connection is made, I've
tried after reading from the input stream that flex is asking for the
policy-file-request, etc.

Thanks

[flexcoders] Re: writing data to SQL database

[Anthony DeBonis]

You may find not many people use the wizard - its ok for a quick demo 
(maybe code table admins) but not for real application development.

Check the CF Logs under the CF install dir, there may be something in 
the logs to tell what the problem is IF its on the CF side.

I often create a basic cfm file to test call the CFC function to be 
sure it returns what I expect and removed Flex from the complexity.
Write cfunit test is another great way to test each CFC call to be 
sure its correct.

Find the fault event handler (OR add one if it does not exist)and put 
a break just inside the event handler function - look at the 
FaultEvent in the debugger - it should have some info that will help 
you.

Anthony
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> Yes, I am new to FLEX, as my question will surely show. I am making 
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ColdFusion
> wizard and created a Master/Detail set. The query is simple and 
tests out
> fine, however, when I "Run" the application and test it live, I am 
able to
> edit and delete records, yet I am not able to add a record. I 
receive no
> error and when running in debug mode, I get no breaks. I have tried 
to
> re-create the app and have googled my question in hopes of finding 
other
> "newbie's" with the same question. I have looked through all of the 
CFC's
> and see nothing glaring that would raise my lightly trained eyebrow.
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas why I would not be able to add a record?
> 
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> 
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[flexcoders] Re: Flex End-User Documentation Tools

[limscoder]

Thanks for the info.

I've tried searching for this, but (predictably) search terms like
'flex documentation' pull up a ton of results for actual Flex
documentation and information about API documentation systems like
ASDoc. If you have a link to a previous discussion of this topic, or a
better search term I can use to find the discussion, that would be great.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jim.abbott45" 
wrote:
>
> This topic has come up more than once on FlexCoders. Please do a
> search for this. 
> 
> That said, the last time it came up, I don't believe that anyone had
> any brilliant solutions for this challenge. Some people were using
> various forms of HTML-based documentation; *** but displaying it in a
> separate (stand-alone) browser window. Arguably, the lack of a
> more-integrated solution is a hole in the current Flex offering.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "limscoder"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "dthomp325"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Are there any tools available for creating in-application end-user
> > > documentation?
> > >
> > 
> > So this question either has a really obvious answer, or I'm not being
> > specific enough
> > 
> > I'm looking for tools to put together end-user help documentation for
> > a Flex 3.2 application. The documentation needs to be some type of
> > structured text with headings, chapters, etc., and I need to be able
> > to link to specific sections of the documentation when a user clicks a
> > help icon located next to a component in the GUI. Support for embedded
> > flash videos for showing tutorials would also be nice. I could do this
> > with an HTML documentation system, but I would prefer more integration
> > with flash/flex, so I that when components get moved around in the
> > GUI, I won't have to worry about making sure all the URLs are pointing
> > to the right documentation. Any suggestions?
> >
>

[flexcoders] Publishing source code without Flex Builder?

[Keith Hughitt]

Anyone know how to include a "View Source" option in the context menu
for Flex applications built using the SDK alone?

[flexcoders] Is there any way to use predefined functions for a sortCompareFunction?

[Keith Hughitt]

When working with DataGrid ItemRenderers, you can say something like
itemrenderer="Text", and Flex will know how to deal with the data.

Is there anyway you can do this with a sortCompareFunction, e.g. 

sortCompareFunction="Numeric" or sortCompareFunction="String"?

The reason is that I have some simple datatypes (Integers and Strings)
that are nested (e.g. time.start), and thus require using a
labelFunction instead of simply specifying a dataField. A result of
which is that Flex does not know how to sort them anymore. I can write
a sortable function for Integers and Strings, but I'm pretty sure this
has already been done.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated. :)

Thanks!
Keith

[flexcoders] Capturing Phase

[thelordsince1984]

Hi,

if i have a root application and a canvas (application's child), is 
possible to dispatch an event from the application to the canvas? the
capturing phase is the right way, is it true?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Lorenzo

[flexcoders] Re: filter arraycollection with checkbox acting wired

[Tim Hoff]

This is asolutely comical.

-TH

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "johndoematrix" 
wrote:
>
> hi Ben when i tried the solution you gave, it worked very very well.
> but this is when am using a single criteria. when i try to add it to a
> filter function that filter's based on more than one criteria that's
> when there come's a problem.
>

[flexcoders] I am having a similar problem with fonts in AIR (mine involves away3d)

[David Kramer]

I'm experiencing something similar.
To be more specific about my dilemma, the font distortion is in 3daway
(so no one at Adobe will chime in I bet).
The fonts aren't rendering correctly at all when at any angle but
straight on.
I embedded mine and...no dice either.
Any help would be great.
David

[flexcoders] Re: HTTPRequest and Air too slow?

[florian.salihovic]

Actually both are doing the same thing. The HTML Frontend is an AJAX Client. It 
sends 
requests and gets the result.

Allthough flex processes more data (about 10 times more), it's just a few k's...

But somehow the HTTPService seems to wait longer for the service's response.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton  wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, florian.salihovic wrote:
> > behave the same way everytime. It was tested in a different environment and
> > the responses reached the client after seconds.
> > It was compared to an HTML-frontend which uses the same PHP-API in the
> > background. The HTML frontend was constantly fast.
> 
> Are you measuring the same thing ? By which I mean does the Flex app do much 
> processing after getting the data, and maybe the HTML version is better at 
> that part.
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Re: [flexcoders] Deep copy line chart

[Tzahi El-Hay]

I'm using alivePDF to export a chart to a PDF file...
The export there makes use of a "displayObject" object...
and I want to deep copy mine, because when I don't it affects the original 
object.

http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/alivepdf-asdoc/

thanks





From: Tom Chiverton 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:15:53 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Deep copy line chart


On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, lolr3a wrote:
> Is there a simple way to deep copy a linechart?

With the aim of doing what ?
There are many examples of taking a bitmap of DisplayObjects, for instance.

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[flexcoders] Re: How to read the received ByteArray as SQLite?

[handitan]

Thx Johannes!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Johannes Nel  wrote:
>
> you have to write it to the file system. if security is your concern
encrypt
> it. we do this a lot, but we do not send it over web services, just
using
> https get.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:58 PM, handitan  wrote:
> 
> >   I would like to clear one thing:
> > - The .Net webservice returns the bytearray-conversion of a SQLite
> > file from the server.
> >
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ,
> > "handitan"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a .Net webservice the bytearray-conversion of a SQLite file.
> > > My client call the webservice and I received the byteArray as
> > expected
> > > but I couldn't treat it as SQLite until I do the following:
> > > - Write the byteArray to a file with .db extension.
> > > - Then open the SQLConnection to that file.
> > >
> > > So is there a way to treat the byteArray as SQLite without saving it
> > > first to the local storage and read it?
> > >
> > > Thx!
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> j:pn
> \\no comment
>

Re: [flexcoders] Displaying Extremely large fonts

[Weyert de Boer]

Hmm. Did you try to scale it? Maybe that works?!?!

Re: [flexcoders] How to stop Flex from compiling my Java source files

[Tom Chiverton]

On Sunday 15 Feb 2009, elevight wrote:
> Java source files are in C:\Tomcat5\webapps\FlexApp\WEB-INF\src. When
> I build my Flex application, it tries to recompile the Java source
> files. Is there a way I can tell Flex Builder to leave my Java source
> files alone? It's causing me servlet errors.

Right click the Java source folder and remove the builders ?

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Re: [flexcoders]Class path alias

[Tom Chiverton]

On Saturday 14 Feb 2009, dorkie dork from dorktown wrote:
> import com.domain.class;
> public var MyAlias = ClassAlias("com.domain.class");
> var instance:MyAlias = new MyAlias();

You could use something like ClassFactory, maybe, but what's your use case ?

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Re: [flexcoders] Bones and inverse kinematics on FLEX : where to find IKManager ?

[Tom Chiverton]

On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, yarekc wrote:
> Hello
> I have created a SWF with bones which works good.
> When I do import it into Flex 4

Have you tried in Flex 3, because Flex 4 isn't released yet, so could well be 
just broken.

> 
> It is displayed, but bones are nort active.

Do you really want to import it as an image, not as an actual GUI component ?
By which I mean if you added the .swf as library, then you can do:


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Re: [flexcoders] Deep copy line chart

[Tom Chiverton]

On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, lolr3a wrote:
> Is there a simple way to deep copy a linechart?

With the aim of doing what ?
There are many examples of taking a bitmap of DisplayObjects, for instance.

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Re: [flexcoders] HTTPRequest and Air too slow?

[Tom Chiverton]

On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, florian.salihovic wrote:
> behave the same way everytime. It was tested in a different environment and
> the responses reached the client after seconds.
> It was compared to an HTML-frontend which uses the same PHP-API in the
> background. The HTML frontend was constantly fast.

Are you measuring the same thing ? By which I mean does the Flex app do much 
processing after getting the data, and maybe the HTML version is better at 
that part.

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[flexcoders] Displaying Extremely large fonts

[Stephen More]

Is there a way to display extremely large fonts in Flash ?

I have tried:

var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.font = "Verdana";
format.color = 0x00;

format.size = 72;
[TextLineMetrics ascent:72, descent:16, leading:0, width:40, height:88, x:2]

format.size = 144;
[TextLineMetrics ascent:127, descent:27, leading:0, width:71, height:154, x:77]

format.size = 288;
[TextLineMetrics ascent:127, descent:27, leading:0, width:71, height:154, x:77]

But the height never gets larger than 154.

textfield.width = stage.stageWidth;
textfield.height = stage.stageHeight;

I am looking to display text almost as large as the stage, do I need
to use a different font or an embedded font ?


-Thanks

[flexcoders] Deep copy line chart

[lolr3a]

Hi,

Is there a simple way to deep copy a linechart?

I saw ObjectUtil.copy doesn't work because this is a displayObject.


thanks

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Installing an AIR APP with configuration

[bjorn]

yeah, I did make progress. You can give the Application arguments during
install:
http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/01/10/air-tip-5-passing-arguments-to-an-application-on-install/

..then it's just a matter of saving this in a file in
applicationStorageDirectory or EncryptedLocalStore ..




2009/2/6 dmkramerica 

>   Did you ever make progress or solve this?
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , bjorn
>  wrote:
> >
> > What's the best practice here? I need my app to know the username of the
> > user who install it. So I'm thinking of adding it as a parameter to
> the app
> > in the installer badge, and then saving it in a properties file
> locally in
> > the app's directory.
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[flexcoders] HTTPRequest and Air too slow?

[florian.salihovic]

I'm currently devloping an AIR app. This causes some serious headaches, because 
of the 
following problem:

When i run the application in my local network, it is fast and responses are in 
the client in a 
blink of an eye. But it seems like the app doesn't behave the same way 
everytime. It was 
tested in a different environment and the responses reached the client after 
seconds.

It was compared to an HTML-frontend which uses the same PHP-API in the 
background. The 
HTML frontend was constantly fast.

The data is send via HTTPService and JSON to the PHP service in the background.

Now the question: is the AIR client restricted to anything that i might forgot 
about?

Best regards.

[flexcoders] Unloading a swf that includes a ViewStack can cause a RTE

[rob_mcmichael]

Hi all,

I am sill seeing this bug when trying to unload a SWF in an AIR 1.5 project:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17422

I have tried everything mentioned but no avail.

If anyone can help, please let me know.

Thanks

Rob

RE: [flexcoders] Prob with CopyTo in AIR[getting File or directory does not exist Error]

[Kevin Benz]

You need to use the HTTP objects to download the file and save it as a
local file. "File" which creates a reference to the file is incompatible
with the stream based HTTP. As I remember, File can only reference the
app:// and file:// local protocols. 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of ursprakash6
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:55 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Prob with CopyTo in AIR[getting File or directory
does not exist Error]

 

Hi All

I'm very new to Adobe AIR,in My sample application i'm trying to copy
one image in website to local file system,i got "File or directory does
not exist" error

 i have tried the below lines of code

var vfile:File=new
File("http://tinycomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/adobe-logo.jpg";);
var dfile:File=File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("tempdata/"
+ video_url);
vfile.copyTo(dfile, true);


here i'm copying to ApplicationstorageDirestory,this would be any local
direstory

But i'm gtting "File or directory does not exist" error fot the above
code.

Can any one tell me whats wrong with the above code 

Thanks in Advance

Gnanz...
http://gnanz-flexworld.blogspot.com




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[flexcoders] FlexCamp Miami Registration Open

[Andrew Powell]

The next Flex Camp event in Miami, Florida in the Hurricane100 Room at  
the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami on  
March 6th.  Registration is only $30 for a whole day of great Flex and  
AIR content.

http://www.flexcampmiami.com

http://www.flexcampmiami.com/page.cfm/register

[flexcoders] Using an itemRenderer in a grid and rendering glitches

[biosmonkey]

I have an adg that displays a tree of items, along with a custom item
renderer that shows an icon representing status.

For the most part this works well, however, in some rare circumstances
when scrolling I have seen the item renderer glitch ... sometimes it
appears to be double rendered, sometimes it is rendered in the wrong
place.  I have also seen the text labels in the tree superimpose on
top of themselves sometimes.

This problem is actually not unique to this situation, because I have
seen it in other grids with IRs.  This problem, however, just happens
to be in a MAJOR project of mine :).

Has anyone else seen similar problems?  I don't know how it would be
my code ... it seems more like a flash player bug.  I am using flash
10.  Note also that my IR is not doing any graphical drawing; it is
essentially an hbox with an img that just gets its source changed.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

[- -]

Hi Sunil, this is what I'm trying to replicate in actionscript:
    

In MXML this layout is DYNAMIC, meaning if I resize my window, all my 
components are also resized... 
 
How can I replicate this in actionscript?
 
Thank you.
 
-David





From: sunild99 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:55:39 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.


Um, I think you just need to think about this a little differently.

It's a percent value, so by definition it can only be 0-100.

If you want a child component to be half the width of it's parent container, 
then you set 
the child component's width to be 50%... just like you would do in HTML.

If that's not making sense, post some sample code and perhaps I or someone else 
can 
show you how to restructure it to use percent widths/heights.

Sunil

--- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com, - -  wrote:
>
> Using the percentWidth and percentHeight, how can I use values other than 
> 0-100 ?
> Can I use the width of a component divided by two???
> "testlayout. width/2"
> How can I accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -David


     


  

[flexcoders] Re: Mouse Clicks' Queue when Button is Disabled

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "giladozer"  wrote:
>
> Thanks Alex for the quick response.
> However, the button is supposed to turn enabled after the result is
> returned.
> The problem is that while it looks like the button is disabled -
> clicking on it results in entering to the function which listens to 
it.
> Moreover, I logged/traced the time the the button turns back to 
enable
> + the time entering to the function that listens to it - 
> it's exactly the same - by the millisecond. 
> meaning - i can't event log the time the button was clicked - cause
> the mouse click event is only dispatched after the button turned 
enable.
> 
> one last thing - I found a workaround by removing the eventListener
> when the button is disabled , and adding it back with a timer that
> starts counting after it turned enabled in ticks of 100ms. ( the the
> clicks are not listened in that time space of when the button turned
> enable and 100ms after that).
> The thing is that i don't want to use a timer... it's a very ugly
> solution.

Did you try the solution I gave you on the other forum of setting 
MouseEvents on the button to false at the same time you disable it?

[flexcoders] Anyone tried effects on ChartItems in charts?

[Sam Lai]

Hi everyone,

I've got a column chart that displays values for each day for say a
month. When I click on a particular bar, I want to fade out all the
days except those matching the one clicked, e.g. if I clicked on a bar
and that bar represented a Monday, I want to fade out all bars except
if they are for a Monday as well (hence there would likely be four
bars left in a month's worth of data).

I can get all that working, by changing the alpha value on the
ColumnSeriesItem.fill.alpha or ChartItem.itemRenderer.alpha.

Problem is, I want a fade effect doing it so it fades out, rather than
just immediately change. None of the mx.effects work on chart items
(chart items are not UIComponents), and the mx.charts.effects effects
only operate on an entire series and not individual ChartItems (and
there isn't one for fading anyway).

Has/does anyone know how to do something like this, or better yet, got
an example? I tried looking at the source, but it's all focused
towards effects for entire series, not individual ChartItems.

Thanks,

Sam

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flas 10 on mobile is a go

[Jon Bradley]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Anatole Tartakovsky wrote:


Jon,
That is assumption based on the current status quo and not counting  
Adobe's and community capabilities and hardware in 15 month from  
now. Touchscreen is very questionable in most cases - slow and not  
very accessible in real life.
I would expect other features to be way more important - as iPhone  
user but also early adopter of bunch of linux/windows/palm/nokia/ 
android smartphones as well as great "dumb" phones that have no  
problem to serve as trunking devices/routers for laptops. Here is  
what I think Flash 10 is destined to do:


Sure, things are certainly going to change. My comment was mainly  
restricted to that of the Palm devices. I don't even own an iPhone  
btw (ATT service quality where I live is abysmal) ... but I do have  
an iPod touch.


3. Integration APIs are really important - exposing bluetooth,  
accelerometers, GPS, camera, photo and multitude of voice codecs  
for input and output and all other "standard" capabilities.


I definitely agree with that. However, I wouldn't expect any  
integration of Flash technology other than camera/mic for quite a  
long time. Those are very platform specific functionalities that are  
unlikely to make it into Flash in the near term. Those APIs are  
certainly available on devices that have that capability.


3a. I wonder if Adobe can work on simultaneous integration of their  
technologies into supporting platforms the way Apple built their  
business - building ecosystem - either with free or low cost  
licensing of embeddable technology.


Adobe already does embedded licensing but I figure that low cost  
isn't really in the cards most of the time. That's something the  
developer needs to take up with Adobe directly.


Many embedded devices (like your description of a GPS display screen)  
utilize Flash as the primary display model, and Adobe prices their  
licensing for embedded devices based on those types of assumptions.


I really think that GMaps on iPhone are way better then top of the  
line car navigation system based on stale hard drive data. But  
iPhone screen is not usable while driving. On contrary, 7"+ car  
display is perfect - but you can't transfer phones display there.  
Perfect application for Adobe display technology.


It's only better because of two things - design and interactivity.  
Blame that on the software developers for the embedded devices. Not  
making excuses, but embedded systems in vehicles have a very unique  
set of human factors issues.


Certainly going to be exciting to see where it goes.

cheers,

Jon

Re: [flexcoders] [Req] What do you (love|hate|wish for) about (mx.*|Cairngorm|PureMVC|Mate|Prana|BlazeDS)?

[alberto.acevedo]

Josh,

I'm using Flex with Mate in the client side, Spring + BlazeDS + iBatis in
the server side. I was using Cairngorm but the use of Cairngorm events would
force other teams developing modules to also use Cairngorm. The Mate
framework is not intrusive and it uses Flash events so other teams have the
liberty to choose any framework that could handle flash events. I'm still
using the command and delegate patterns like in Cairngorm but with Mate. I'm
a very practical, tool agnostic, and problem solver developer. I use
whatever helps me to solve problems quickly and in an easy and structured
manner. 

Regards,

Alberto Acevedco


Josh McDonald-5 wrote:
> 
> Hey guys, I have a small request:
> 
> I'd like to know what grinds your gears, and what makes you smile about
> the
> Flex library, and about whatever other libraries you use on a daily basis
> to
> get your work done. If you have time, please post here or to me off-list a
> quick summary of your thoughts, some bullet points, or even a link to
> somebody else's blog posting that sums up your ideas. Anything you've got
> to
> say, even if it's no more than "PureMVC ftw!", I'd like to hear it.
> 
> I have a keen interest in frameworks, and I'm planning on building
> something
> that takes the best ideas I can find (and cook up) from these and my
> experiences maintaining a mostly-closed-source framework at my 9-5. It's
> for
> my own apps, I'll be dog-fooding it, but it will be open source. It's
> going
> to be a full-stack framework with an optional Java+Warp+BlazeDS component,
> so if you think you've got some good ideas, or would like to help, please
> drop me a line.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Josh
> 
> -- 
> "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."
> 
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Re: [flexcoders] Image->swfLoader->memory

[Alain Thibodeau]

Excellent, thanks Alex, great help!


 




From: Alex Harui 
To: "flexcoders@yahoogroups.com" 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:21:14 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Image->swfLoader->memory


There’s a profiler tutorial on my blog.  However, in general, the number of 
instances of SWFLoader, Bitmap and BitmapData should not keep going up after 
you force garbage collection.
 
Several people say that if it is the browser, especially IE, you can minimize 
and restore IE and the memory will be reclaimed.
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs. adobe.com/ aharui
 
From:flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com] On 
Behalf Of Alain Thibodeau
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:00 AM
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Image->swfLoader->memory
 
Thanks Alex,
 
So there shouldn't be any issues with the way I set the swfLoader in Cairngorn 
then? 
 
I did test with the profiler and unless I am blind I don't see it releasing 
memory, however, I am not an expert with it. When I do test with the browser 
(IE), I see the memory go down then back up, in the long run it always goes 
much higher and doubles or triples from original. I am not sure at this point 
if I should worry about it or code it a different way. If it is the brower, 
then I gather there isn't much I can do...
 
Thanks again.
 



From:Alex Harui 
To: "flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com" 
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:43:24 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Image->swfLoader->memory
Use the Profiler to see if you really have such a problem..  We have seen 
issues with some browsers not releasing memory even though Flex has.
 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs. adobe.com/ aharui
 
From:flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com] On 
Behalf Of thibodeau.alain
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 6:00 AM
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Image->swfLoader->memory
 
Hi all,
I am building a photo library using tileList and the 

[flexcoders] writing data to SQL database

[Danny Buetow]

 

Greetings All,

 

Yes, I am new to FLEX, as my question will surely show. I am making a simple
CRUD app designed to administer my table of users. I used the ColdFusion
wizard and created a Master/Detail set. The query is simple and tests out
fine, however, when I "Run" the application and test it live, I am able to
edit and delete records, yet I am not able to add a record. I receive no
error and when running in debug mode, I get no breaks. I have tried to
re-create the app and have googled my question in hopes of finding other
"newbie's" with the same question. I have looked through all of the CFC's
and see nothing glaring that would raise my lightly trained eyebrow.

 

Any ideas why I would not be able to add a record?

 

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[flexcoders] Bones and inverse kinematics on FLEX : where to find IKManager ?

[yarekc]

Hello
I have created a SWF with bones which works good.
When I do import it into Flex 4


It is displayed, but bones are nort active.
I read that you need to import

import fl.ik.*

But FLEX does have theses classes !
Any way to have IK inside a FLEX application ?

regards

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DYNAMIC actionscript child layout.

[Nathaniel Skiba]

Percent width and height are based on the percent of their parent
container's size. Thus, with your example, you'd want:

var graphLayout:Canvas = new Canvas();
graphLayout.percentWidth=50;
graphLayout.percentHeight=50;
testlayout.addChild(graphLayout);   

You could also use constraints, although you have to use a special
method for those, and percents seems to be more along the lines of what
you're looking for anyway.

~Nate

RE: [flexcoders] default skin in flex 3 component

[Stephen Gilson]

The doc on skinning is located here: 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/skinning_1.html

Was that helpful?

Stephen

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of gwangdesign
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:36 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] default skin in flex 3 component


Hi,

I am trying to define the default skin (which is ProgrammaticSkin for
now) for my custom UIComponent. I would like to provide my own
programmaticSkin (hm.controls.myUICompClasses.BackdropSkin) as
default; and I am doing it in my UIComponent's style metadata, like so:

[Style(name="backdropSkin",
type="hm.controls.myUICompClasses.BackdropSkin", inherit="yes")]
...
protected var _backdrop:Class;
...

Is this the right way? What type should my _backdrop be? Or do I need
to provide a CSS anyhow? Or classConstruc()???

When I try to get the style using:

var backdropSkin:Class = getStyle("backdropSkin");

I get type of Object instead of Class.

I appreciate any lead while still poking around the flex
documentation/sdk code! Sorry everything looks a bit blurred right
now8) Good night!

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[flexcoders] Re: Components needed

[oneworld95]

Google Code has a ton of Flex components; just run this search:
http://tinyurl.com/c2kkmw

It can take a bit of digging, but lots of free components there.

- Alex C

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeffry Houser  wrote:
>
> 
>  Don't forget about FlexLib ( flexlib.net ) as a source for components. 
> 
>  Although I don't know a commercial component that would meet Bruce's 
> current need, there are commercial components vendors out there:
> 
> http://www.flextras.com?c=104  ( Me ) and Drumbeatinsight.com are two 
> that come to mind.
> 
> 
> Haykel BEN JEMIA wrote:
> > Some links:
> >
> > http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/
> >
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/19/flex-coverflow-performance-improvement-flex-carousel-component-and-vertical-coverflow/
> >
http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/simulating-piclens-with-flex-and-away3d-%E2%80%93-part-1/

> > (there are also other interesting articles on this site)
> >
> > Haykel Ben Jemia
> >
> > Allmas
> > Web & RIA Development
> > http://www.allmas-tn.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, brucewhealton 
> > mailto:br...@...>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good resources
> > for components, be they open-source, free, or commercial. I was
> > reading Jack Herrington's book "Flex 3: Component Solutions" and I
> > found a number of interesting components discussed. I'm looking at
> > the ones for presenting images, or photo galleries. In
particular I
> > found these sites useful, afcomponents.com
> > , fxcomponents.com
> >  and
> > digicrafts.com  to be useful and as having
> > some great components.
> > I'm doing a site for an Art Gallery. I wanted to find a good
> > component for displaying photos that would look like
presenting photos
> > of art on a virtual wall, as it were. Can anyone recommend any
good
> > sites and components. In particular, if there are other great
> > open-source components that would be great.
> > I found a few Photo book, flexbook type components also. I
> > thought there was a freeware, open-source version of this also.
> > Thanks,
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
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Re: [flexcoders] Components needed

[Jeffry Houser]

Don't forget about FlexLib ( flexlib.net ) as a source for components. 

Although I don't know a commercial component that would meet Bruce's 
current need, there are commercial components vendors out there:


http://www.flextras.com?c=104  ( Me ) and Drumbeatinsight.com are two 
that come to mind.



Haykel BEN JEMIA wrote:

Some links:

http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/19/flex-coverflow-performance-improvement-flex-carousel-component-and-vertical-coverflow/
http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/simulating-piclens-with-flex-and-away3d-%E2%80%93-part-1/ 
(there are also other interesting articles on this site)


Haykel Ben Jemia

Allmas
Web & RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com




On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:27 AM, brucewhealton 
mailto:br...@futurewavedesigns.com>> wrote:


Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good resources
for components, be they open-source, free, or commercial. I was
reading Jack Herrington's book "Flex 3: Component Solutions" and I
found a number of interesting components discussed. I'm looking at
the ones for presenting images, or photo galleries. In particular I
found these sites useful, afcomponents.com
, fxcomponents.com
 and
digicrafts.com  to be useful and as having
some great components.
I'm doing a site for an Art Gallery. I wanted to find a good
component for displaying photos that would look like presenting photos
of art on a virtual wall, as it were. Can anyone recommend any good
sites and components. In particular, if there are other great
open-source components that would be great.
I found a few Photo book, flexbook type components also. I
thought there was a freeware, open-source version of this also.
Thanks,
Bruce







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[flexcoders] Ridiculous Thoughts...

[nathanleewei]

Have you developed Commands/Front Controller of Cairngorm?
Have you developed Event Map of Mate?
Have you thought about a much nicer Framework?

Here is my Ridiculous Thoughts of Open Infrastructure Solution for 
Flex Application Architecture.

http://code.google.com/p/flexrock/

Any ideas or suggestions?