[flexcoders] Re: trace address of a object

2010-05-03 Thread mitek17
Thank you, Alex! UID will do it, it's even better. PS I wish I asked it 3 years ago :( Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aha...@... wrote: There is no way. It isn't necessarily its address anyway. You can use UIDUtil to give it a UID and track it that way.

Re: [flexcoders] how to know swf flash version?

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
The SWF version is the fourth byte in the file header. I'm not sure what flash version means.

[flexcoders] Cube animation

2010-05-03 Thread Christophe
Hello, I am searching an example of a flax animation of a rotating cube with a image on each side. Thank you, Christophe,

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread john_deerhoven
So much vitriol against poor Mr. Jobs. You'd swear he piddled in you guys' corn flakes. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Laurence lmacne...@... wrote: The whole reason I chose to learn Flex is that it (at the time) ran on every available platform. It was THE cross-platform language to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Wbierwerth
HTC HD2 sold out in a matter of days since it hit the US, now verizon and ATT are advertising it. Has flash, and since jobs rant i am very interested, especaiily given Iphones poor connectivity into the business office world. I think my company would applaud if they cut out flash because

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
Where does it say that Apple is dropping support for plugins like Flash on Mac OSX? I can't see that happening. I can't even imagine how they'd do it if they wanted to. Guy On 03/05/2010, at 10:00 AM, Laurence wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton g...@... wrote:

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Mark A. DeMichele
Everybody is talking about learning another language. That's the easy part. It's porting an entire application that has several 100,000 lines of code. That's that hard part. Someone mentioned losing flash support on all Macs. Is that true? I hope not. I have over a million users using my

[flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Battershall, Jeff
Let's not get carried away here - no way is Apple going to stop supporting Flash on the Mac. That's one of those sky is falling' rumors that always start up when something like this happens. The recent events are concerning as they potentially affect our mutual livelihoods, but really, there's

[flexcoders] Re: how to know swf flash version?

2010-05-03 Thread markflex2007
I mean which version of Flash build the swf. like Flash cs 4 etc. Thanks Mark --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote: The SWF version is the fourth byte in the file header. I'm not sure what flash version means.

[flexcoders] Calling mxmlc/fcsh from PHP script

2010-05-03 Thread kanu kukreja
Hi, My question is whether or not Flex's mxmlc can be called from within a PHP script. Here is the background: I have been created a simple process that creates a simple quiz/tutorial by converting a text file into a .as file and compiling to a .swf file using the mxmlc compiler. This works well

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
First time I explicitly that Apple would prevent Flash from being installed on Macs. The specific rumor I heard was that the next version of OSX would move to an App store model similar to their devices. It sounds so lubricious I can't imagine it being true. --- In

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Gregor Kiddie
Allegedly, Steve my turtle neck has cut off the blood to my brain Jobs denied this in an email, but given the way the question was worded (will you confirm that...) and the answer (nope), it's not done much to stem the rumours! Gk. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Gregor Kiddie
If we are swapping rumours though... I liked the one that Apple had demanded a truly ridiculous sum of money from Adobe yearly to allow Flash on the iPhone, and when Adobe refused to pay up, SJ made it his mission to prevent it from happening! I'd call it a tithe, but that brings far too

Re: [flexcoders] Calling mxmlc/fcsh from PHP script

2010-05-03 Thread yi?it boyar
Can u give more information about what did not work? Aint u using system command in php to execute the compiler? What error do u get? yigit (mobile) On May 3, 2010, at 7:30 AM, kanu kukreja kanukukr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My question is whether or not Flex's mxmlc can be called from within

[flexcoders] A way to animate or move a list smoothly? My attempt in Flex 3 works, Flash builder not so much.

2010-05-03 Thread Raymond Brown
I have a horizontal list of objects (image and labels) that I want to slide to the left smoothly, in a consistent speed till the last object goes off screen and then repeat. However my code, as seen below has two weird effects. First it hauls butt across the screen way to fast to be readable

Re: [flexcoders] Re: how to know swf flash version?

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Not sure Flash provides such info... Well, maybe since Flash CS4 it by default compiles the XMP metadata into SWF, but before that there wasn't anything special to identify the compiler. And, you can turn off the XMP metadata, (which is what I do - I don't need it in the SWF). Besides, there are

[flexcoders] Re: Cube animation

2010-05-03 Thread valdhor
How about http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-adobe-flex-and-away3d --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Christophe christophe_jacque...@... wrote: Hello, I am searching an example of a flax animation of a rotating cube with a image on each side. Thank you,

Re: [flexcoders] Calling mxmlc/fcsh from PHP script

2010-05-03 Thread kanu kukreja
I'm trying to do this, ?php echo Hello World; exec(javac -version, $output); print_r($output); //exec('mxmlc C:/Program Files/Adobe/Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.0.0/bin/mxmlc.exe testing.as -default-size 728 90 -output testing.swf'); ? and output is Hello WorldArray ( ) and when i run exec('mxmlc

Re: [flexcoders] Calling mxmlc/fcsh from PHP script

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Compiler doesn't output the SWF into Stdout... I don't think there may be a setting for that. What you may get by executing the compiler is either an exit code, or a bunch of warnings / errors, depending on how smart your code was :) If you want to serve the SWF after it was compiled, you'd have

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Baz
There are 2 distinct and separate anti-Adobe issues from Apple. One is the anti-flash stance, which we have been focusing on in this thread - but a separate and important second issue is Apple disallowing *NATIVE* IPHONE BINARIES that are created using CS5:

RE: [flexcoders] A way to animate or move a list smoothly? My attempt in Flex 3 works, Flash builder not so much.

2010-05-03 Thread Chet Haase
I can't run the code to see what you're seeing since it refers to objects that aren't here, but for the deceleration movement behavior you describe, you probably want to check out the 'easer' property of Flex 4 effects. This property lets you define the timing behavior of your animations, with

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Guy Morton wrote: On 30/04/2010, at 6:22 PM, Tom Chiverton wrote: That article is so wrong, in so many places, but the corrections will never get the same exposure. Good tactic, unfortunately. I'm interested to know where you think he is factually wrong. I

[flexcoders] how to handle remote requests the never return or get lost?

2010-05-03 Thread Baz
If you send a request to a web service, and for some reason that request never returns because it got lost on the net, or some other failure. What strategies do people employ on the flex side to handle that situation? FaultEvent wouldn't fire in this case, because there are no known faults yet.

Re: [flexcoders] how to handle remote requests the never return or get lost?

2010-05-03 Thread Rick Genter
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Baz li...@thinkloop.com wrote: If you send a request to a web service, and for some reason that request never returns because it got lost on the net, or some other failure. What strategies do people employ on the flex side to handle that situation? FaultEvent

[flexcoders] Thoughts on things other than Flash...

2010-05-03 Thread jamesfin
Based upon the Steve Jobs thread, we all have an opinion on what we believe is the Holy Grail for creating/deploying cloud applications. This begs the question...In a perfect world (a do-over), what would the perfect cloud-based application development platform/deployment architecture look

[flexcoders] Re: how to handle remote requests the never return or get lost?

2010-05-03 Thread jamesfin
I agree with Rick. For all net calls, I have a timer going and a simple queue that is populated when sending each request. When and if they return sometime later, they are removed from the queue. If requests aren't received by some set timeout, they are ignored. I employ the use of tokens

[flexcoders] Re: ViewStack historyManagementEnabled fails when nested in spark component

2010-05-03 Thread method_air
When a view stack is nested in a spark component, the view stack loses 'historManagementEnabled' functionality. Changing mx:Application to s:Application in the following code causes this problem: ?xml version=1.0? !-- Simple example to demonstrate the Halo ViewStack layout container. --

Re: [flexcoders] Re: how to handle remote requests the never return or get lost?

2010-05-03 Thread Baz
You confirmed my suspicions. I believe that very few developers employ this, but it seems quite important as requests can get lost relatively often. Anyone think it would be beneficial to have a TimeoutEvent built right in along side ResultEvent and FaultEvent to make it easier? Baz On Mon, May

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
I think you meant ludicrous... lubricious |loōˈbri sh əs| (also lubricous |ˈloōbrikəs|) adjective 1 offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire. 2 smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance. :-) On 04/05/2010, at 1:04 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: First time I explicitly

[flexcoders] Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew
I'm pretty new to Flash so I don't know all the technical details under the covers (e.g. Flash is buggy on Macs, who supported what video format first, etc) but one thing that strikes me as odd in the manifesto published by Apple is the attack of Flash for not being open. That strikes me as

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Guy Morton
Adobe is a ruthless competitor too; let's not forget that they shafted SVG as soon as they bought Flash. Personally, I find that harder to forgive, because it was about entrenching a commercial advantage based on proprietary technology owned by Adobe and blowing off a growing standard that

[flexcoders] Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Baz
I don't know much about how to answer this, so I'm not trying to take a position or anything: purely out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced? Is it that competitors would more easily be able to make competing IDEs? Cheers, Baz

Re: [flexcoders] Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Karim Beyrouti
I think ( just a guess ) - they want to avoid different implementations of the flash player - with different players supporting different features... that could cause problems ( sounds like a headache to me ) ... however - if they can avoid that - it could then also be a question of revenue. i

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
That's again a newspaper trick, it may from the first sight seem like you are making a point, however... You say that HTML5 is a good perspective, I say it's a step back, you may not agree, but your personal belief doesn't make it a fact, it is still a hypothesis, not an axiom. Did you really have

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
As I understand it, certain pieces of The Flash Player it are licensed from other companies and included. Such agreements probably do not give Adobe the ability to distribute source code. One thing that comes to mind i that Flash Player would lose The ability to play H.264 video. I don't

[flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
With the swf format being documented, and available, in theory there could be plenty of different implementation of the Flash Player. But, none of the alternate players out there are 100%. Making their source available, it'd probably bring a flood of alternate players. Since the Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Out of curiosity, what would Adobe lose if Flash were open sourced?

2010-05-03 Thread Oleg Sivokon
Flash Player is free for using, but not for redistribution. If you want to embed it in your application (if it's not the ActiveX purchased by MS for example), then you have to pay (or find some old and suspicious agreement with Macromedia - like MDM Zinc ;) ). I have no idea of how high the

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Re: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs

2010-05-03 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
Guy, There is no way in hell I'm going to write an application in HTML5 and Javascript. With Flash I can compile my code to a single swf. I've done the HTML, JS, CSS thing dude. I've done both and there is no benefit to letting everyone in the world see my code (no exaggerating here) or creating

[flexcoders] is there a style to prevent a transition in a uicomponent

2010-05-03 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
i remember reading about a style or property that will prevent animations / transitions from taking place. but i can't find it. jp

Re: [flexcoders] is there a style to prevent a transition in a uicomponent

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Harui
Some can be stopped by setting XXXduration=0 On 5/3/10 7:32 PM, dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com wrote: i remember reading about a style or property that will prevent animations / transitions from taking place. but i can't find it. jp -- Alex Harui

Re: [flexcoders] Thoughts on things other than Flash...

2010-05-03 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
In a better world it would be all of adobe products in a few years... that would be: faster flex framework faster ide's (flash builder) 3d integrated into the ide flash catalyst features in flash builder integrated deep linking support all the design tools we have now with animation and 3d² built

Re: [flexcoders] is there a style to prevent a transition in a uicomponent

2010-05-03 Thread gabriel montagné
On 5/3/10 7:32 PM, dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com wrote: i remember reading about a style or property that will prevent animations / transitions from taking place. but i can't find it. On 04/05/2010, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: Some can be stopped