Re: [flexcoders] Igor: override a resize event or lock a VBox container... no idea how

2006-12-02 Thread Igor Costa
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=Actionscript+3+override+a+functionbtnG=Google+Search here's a good collection of example. Best. On 12/2/06, {reduxdj} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i override a resize event or lock a VBox container not to get smaller as children are removed

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Set combobox selection to data copy paste code

2006-12-02 Thread Yiðit Boyar
here is the copy paste code: private function findMyVal(cb:ComboBox,n:Number):Number{ for(var i:Number=0;icb.dataProvider.length;i++){ if(n == cb.dataProvider[i].id){ return i; } }

[flexcoders] wrap header text in datagrid ?

2006-12-02 Thread arpan srivastava
Hi , I want to wrap header text in the datagrid. I did wordWrap = true; but not working. Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com

Re: [flexcoders] MXML editing in Eclipse (not Flex Builder2)

2006-12-02 Thread David Harris
Thanks guys! @Tom: the picture on the link you sent me makes my eyes water! On 12/1/06, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:16, David Harris wrote: I am using eclipse and was wondering if anyone had managed to get Eclipse to provide MXML insite to the

[flexcoders] Flash Player 9 beta 2 linux

2006-12-02 Thread devisbalsemin
Hi to all, i have tested my appliction with fsp9 bet 2 and all work fine, also work my-rtmp chanell. Only if i call my app.swf work! with app.mxml compile my app but don't display no data. Good work adobe!

Re: [flexcoders] correct way to create rectangles ?

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hello Arpan, There's nothing wrong with the way you have done it. Consider, if you create child components for each of the rectangles, you will have to create a new class and paramatise it so they know what colour to draw, then you will have to instantiate them, using up memory and

[flexcoders] Problem with code in Flex 2: Training from the Source book. Help!

2006-12-02 Thread Abe Burnett
Hi there, I've recently purchased the book, Flex 2: Training from the Source. I've hit on a problem with the code in one of the lessons. Basically, given the following code (which I've triple checked is correct--per the book, anyway), I end up with Sales Chart superimposed (it appears) over

Re: [flexcoders] Problems with dynamic column series showDataEffect

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Dan, I don't have any experience with charting components, but is there a way to test if the effects are triggered? Do you need to use an ArrayCollection instead of a plain array to manipulate the series information? I believe this makes a difference with binding-related behaviours.

Re: [flexcoders] drawing a stack of rectangle ?

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Arpan, What would you _like_ to have happen? On 26/11/2006, at 5:52 PM, arpan srivastava wrote: Hi, I am drawing a stack which contans rectangles of different depending on some value. rectangles are drawn but they are overlapping each other by 1 or 2 pixels at the end. I have to

[flexcoders] Cairngorm’s Anaemic Domain Model

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Something that troubles me about the Cairngorm architecture is the apparent lack of any proper domain model. Although it is argued that the domain model actually exists on the server and that the Flex client is essentially a view, I have always found it necessary to construct some kind of

Re: [flexcoders] Best practices for displaying large texts

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Pablo, I'm not sure this is the best answer to your question but as far as I know the Text component is the right choice for displaying multi- line, non-editable text. If you want your users to be able to edit the text, you can use a TextArea instead. I'm don't know of a way to do

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm’s Anaemic Domain Model

2006-12-02 Thread Ralf Bokelberg
Good point. Lately we started to put more complex objects into the model locator. But as soon as you do this, you want to call their methods from the view directly and also encapsulate some of the cairngorm event dispatching in there. It doesn't really feel cairngorm. Therefore i'm also interested

Re: [flexcoders] uploading an object

2006-12-02 Thread Mike Weiland
Daryn, I see what you really want to do is more akin to this: http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/10/png-encoder-in-as3.html I¹ve used this for something similar, I believe someone has written a JPG encoder, but all you need to do is grab the bitmap data of the web cam and upload the binary to the

[flexcoders] White box problem with custom scrollbar skins SOLVED

2006-12-02 Thread tombaggett
I'm in the process of creating a custom look for a Flex app and ran into a problem while creating custom skins for scrollbars. There is a hard-coded shape object in the mx:Container class that creates a white box in the bottom-right corner, between the horizontal and vertical scroll bars. The

Re: [flexcoders] printf similar function

2006-12-02 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Misael, That would be useful as ActionScript string concatenation operations are fairly clumsy with more than a few pieces. Unfortunately the AS String class doesn't seem to have such functionality. It's not so hard to roll your own, because you don't need to worry about the various

RE: [flexcoders] Flex 2 Charting dynamic backgroundElements

2006-12-02 Thread Sönke Rohde
Hi Ely, again thanks a lot. This was exactly what I was looking for. Cheers, Sönke _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ely Greenfield Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:19 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex 2

[flexcoders] Flex 2 Charting align Axis

2006-12-02 Thread Sönke Rohde
Hi, How do I align my Axis e.g. I'd like to have to horizontal axis on the top instead on the bottom and the vertical axis on the right instead of left. Thanks and Cheers, Sönke

Re: [flexcoders] Problem with code in Flex 2: Training from the Source book. Help!

2006-12-02 Thread John C. Bland II
Starting before the first panel, wrap the rest (down to the last /mx:VBox) in an HBox (see below). Keep in mind they wrote a lot of this book during alpha/beta days of Flex 2. There may be some code inconsistencies here/there. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm’s Anaemic Doma in Model

2006-12-02 Thread Douglas McCarroll
In most cases the 'model' isn't much more than a collection of dumb value objects without complex relationships. Lach, Have you seen Alex Uhlmann’s Dashboard Example - “How Business Logic Can Manage Views”? You'll find links here: http://cairngormdocs.org/blog/?p=20 I'm not sure that it

Re: [flexcoders] FDS number NaN

2006-12-02 Thread Jeff Krueger
This is correct. My Number in my as class isn't really null it is NaN. But I believe that to be the actionscript equivalent to null for a number. And yes when I pass that to java function that function recieves the class with a 0 for the Long instead of null. Here is the output from

[flexcoders] Best Practice for creating a dynamic image array for online viewing.

2006-12-02 Thread pdflibpilot
I am trying to build an array of images from which to display 2 at a time side by side dynamically. Its important that these images be preloaded as much as possible to maximize response times. Ideally loading atleast 6 images in advance as the user navigated through the sequence. What is the best

Re: [flexcoders] FDS number NaN

2006-12-02 Thread Douglas McCarroll
Okay. So this is normal FDS behavior, as explained in the docs. The question becomes How can we deal with this limitation of FDS? I don't know an answer but perhaps others on the list do. Has anyone else wished that they could pass NaN or null into Java? How did you deal with this FDS

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 Charting align Axis

2006-12-02 Thread Tim Hoff
Hi Sönke, I had the same question a while ago. Ely was nice enough to point out the obvoius. mx:horizontalAxisRenderer mx:AxisRenderer placement=top/ /mx:horizontalAxisRenderer mx:verticalAxisRenderer mx:AxisRenderer placement=right/ /mx:verticalAxisRenderer -TH --- In

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 issues on Windows 2005 Tablet PC Edition

2006-12-02 Thread Kelly Birr
There is a Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, it's the name given to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with SP2 installed. That is what i run on My Toshia Portege M200 and I do run flex 2.0 applicaitons on it and it seems to run perfectly. I admittedly rarely use the pan/tablet features and could

[flexcoders] tabnavigator transitions

2006-12-02 Thread Yiðit Boyar
after being a coder for years, i've always been away from design... but now i need to do some transition efect to my tabnavigator; but i could not find any example; can anyone please help me? (i need an example transition code that works on tabnavigator) i need: 1: basic transition effect

Re: [flexcoders] uploading an object

2006-12-02 Thread Daryn Nakhuda
The same author wrote a jpg encoder. I was just hoping to leverage the existing middleware that accepts a multipart form upload to accept this binary data in the same manner. Thanks for your advice! Mike Weiland wrote: Daryn, I see what you really want to do is more akin to this:

Re: [flexcoders] Problem with code in Flex 2: Training from the Source book. Help!

2006-12-02 Thread {reduxdj}
I just picked up these books, i guess since there is an open-market on flex 2 books they are cranking 'em out and with the new nature of flex it's unavoidable. Like i've noticed in the AS 3.0 cookbook, the flash.utils is flash.util Errata sure Sucka! Patrick John C. Bland II wrote: Starting

[flexcoders] Feature request? Ability to apply multiple states or views at once..

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Hindle
Hi All, I've been working on some basic CRUD screens, where it would be really useful to be able to apply either multiple states or multiple views at once (I think states would be better...) for instance, I have a 'show' state that goes thru and makes all my text entry fields non-editable.

[flexcoders] Can't get focusRoundedCorners to work on ButtonBar

2006-12-02 Thread Patrick Mineault
I'm trying to accomplish the following: have a ButtonBar in which each of the buttons has rounded corners (unlike the default where only the left most and right most buttons have some rounded corners). I've been playing with this for a while now, and I can't get it to work. Here's some minimal

[flexcoders] Re: printf similar function

2006-12-02 Thread Patrick Mineault
There is a Sprintf class for AS2, available here: http://natecook.com/downloads/sprintf.html You can try running it through my AS2 to AS3 converter here: http://www.5etdemi.com/convert/ Good luck, Patrick --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Lachlan Cotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

RE: [flexcoders] Feature request? Ability to apply multiple states or views at once..

2006-12-02 Thread Dustin Mercer
Out of curiousity have you looked at the basedOn property of the state? This allows you to inherit from another state. Not sure if this is something you have tried or not, but at first thought, this looks like it could work. So your noNotes states would be based on your show state, and then

RE: [flexcoders] tabnavigator transitions

2006-12-02 Thread Dustin Mercer
Yigit, You can try to use the hide and show effects on the child containers of the TabNavigator. The TabNavigator will play these effects when it changes. Here is some small pseudo code... You can use any of the Flex events in place of the fade affect. Note this was coded in Outlook, so

Re: [flexcoders] tabnavigator transitions

2006-12-02 Thread Yiðit Boyar
hmm, now i got the logic. (but did not try) i did not used to know that i could add these effects to child containers, thanks a lot... in addition, is there a way to choose the transition effect? - Original Message From: Dustin Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [flexcoders] FDS number NaN

2006-12-02 Thread Jeff Krueger
I have considered coming up with a number like -99 and then assume that to be null and initialize all my Number variables to it and then translate that in java to null. But that is a hack at best. Anyone else?? Jeff Douglas McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay.

[flexcoders] Global error / exception handler or event

2006-12-02 Thread Clint Modien
Right now when I miss an error in my Application there isn't any way for me to be notified that an uncaught exception has occurred. (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong on that... like some low level undocumented super hack?) I know this got shelved way back when but I wanted to start a thread to

Re: [flexcoders] Feature request? Ability to apply multiple states or views at once..

2006-12-02 Thread Steve Hindle
Hi Dustin, It's 'based on' that actually 'teased' me with this... As you start having more 'optional' things in the component ('noNotes','noSaveButton',etc), you end up with a 'states explosion'... 'based on' gets about half-way there, so I figured it could be enhanced to handle the rest? I

[flexcoders] Re: Feature request? Ability to apply multiple states or views at once..

2006-12-02 Thread Mark Shepherd
Each component (in other words, each MXML file, including the main application) can have its own states. So if your Notes area is in a separate MXML file, then it can have its own set of states. Same for any other discrete area of the screen that needs to have separate states. Does this help?

Re: [flexcoders] Problem with code in Flex 2: Training from the Source book. Help!

2006-12-02 Thread John C. Bland II
Yeah, a lot of these books were written during beta days so things may be off. Flex 2.0: Traing... used ICursorView but it is now IViewCursor (or vice versa; one of the two is right). Then again, utils vs util COULD be a mistype. :-) On 12/2/06, {reduxdj} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just

[flexcoders] The most strange behavior I've seen with Flex...

2006-12-02 Thread John Nagle
I've uncovered some really odd behavior with my project, and I'm hoping someone here can shed some light as to why it could be happening. I've developed a game in AS3 and then I built a Flex interface to select a game map to play. It's a very simple HTTPService call to a standard XML file,

RE: [flexcoders] The most strange behavior I've seen with Flex...

2006-12-02 Thread Matt Chotin
I can only confirm that I've seen other apps with strange behavior with wmode, in fact someone was describing similar behavior to me yesterday. It's something I'll see if we can get looked at. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [flexcoders] The most strange behavior I've seen with Flex...

2006-12-02 Thread Matt Chotin
I've re-opened some Player bugs on this. From: Matt Chotin Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] The most strange behavior I've seen with Flex... I can only confirm that I've seen other apps

[flexcoders] Re: [flexcomponents] Re: wrap header text in datagrid ?

2006-12-02 Thread arpan srivastava
Hi Pablo, i did headerWordWrap= true it is working, but the problem is that I am creating my own datagrid component in which I specifying the rowheight to be 6% of the total height, so that it resizes accordingly. Now in this i need to keep the header height also same as rowheight or

[flexcoders] MiniDebug Application

2006-12-02 Thread Clint Modien
MiniDebug is a logging target that comes with the framework and I was wondering what it was. I can't find info about it anywhere? Some one asked the same question a few weeks ago in the Adobe forums.

[flexcoders] Two Flex Questions, Non Development

2006-12-02 Thread lostinrecursion
HI all, I have been developing Flash applications, now Flex, for roughly 5 years as an independent. I have no real formal training and my knowledge has come from many books and, of course, lively communities like flexcoders. In an attempt to continue learning even as my client base grows, I

RE: [flexcoders] tabnavigator transitions

2006-12-02 Thread Dustin Mercer
Choose the Transition effect? Do you mean use a different effect than the fade, or change the effect at runtime? If you want something other than fade, you can use any of the available effect, Zoom, Rotate, Move, ect... If you are wondering if you can change it during runtime, I believe it's