[flexcoders] Image Loading dynamically

2006-12-16 Thread KP
Hi All, Is there a way to load complete set of images in any array or any thing like that so that later it can be used for any other purpose example slide show.Currently I am storing source of the image in an xml file and from there I am changing or rather assigning source of image control

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
Adobe: Yes google will index your Flex app. It reads the text in the file and keywords in the html page (basically etc). Flex is SEO friendly. Doug: Sure, google will show your link to your site for resturant review but it does not index the dynamic data in that site. So if someone is searching

Re: [flexcoders] OT:Flex 2 adoption rates so far?

2006-12-16 Thread dorkie dork from dorktown
tell them it is 99%. then when people say they don't have it say they are in the 1%. jk (couldn't resist) On 12/15/06, pk_wasp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got info on this? The lastest investor webcast didn't mention much about Flex 2 disappointly:

RE: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Kelly
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft already agreed on what they feel is the best solution for indexing dynamic data. Le the site owners do it. Soon all you will need to do is make an xml file with entries containing a link, a description and the keywords. Their engines will read your xml file

[flexcoders] Repeater Control

2006-12-16 Thread KP
Hi All, I have xmllist which has structure like root student nameABC/name /student student namePQR/name /student student name123/name /student student nameXYZ/name /student student nameRST/name

Re: [flexcoders] Image Loading dynamically

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Kumar, When you say 'loaded already', do you mean that you want the images to be pre-compiled into the SWF? There may be a better way to do it, but this is one method that seems to work. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;

RE: [flexcoders] Image Loading dynamically

2006-12-16 Thread KP
Thanks Lach for your reply. If you remember once you have replied for slideshow component creating it quickly. Well in that you were putting the urls of images in the array collection.and then you were changing the source of images with the help of timer control. I want to dynamically load

Re: [flexcoders] want to load multiple XML files to populate various controls

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Are you calling send() on each of the services? Are errors reported, or does it just silently fail? On 16/12/2006, at 9:33 AM, danj520 wrote: can you have multiple instances of httpService? Here is my code: mx:HTTPService id=adapSrv url=data/adapters.xml/ mx:HTTPService id=attenSrv

Re: [flexcoders] Image Loading dynamically

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Probably you need to use a bunch of loader objects to pre-load the images. You might approach it something like this: 1. start with your collection of filenames 2. enumerate over them, creating a loader object for each 3. add an event listener to each loader so you know when it is done 4. when

Re: [flexcoders] Flex - Database

2006-12-16 Thread Rich Tretola
Ted, Did you ever post any of these class files? Rich On 9/15/06, Ted Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, I have been playing with a custom MYSQL Class for AS3 based on Socket. It uses flash.net.Socket to connect directly to a database natively and exchange data. flash.net.Socket is

Re: [flexcoders] Repeater Control

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Kumar, I fear one of us does not grasp the concept of the repeater class. The way I understand it, it's for repeating the instantiating of a child object, not for repeating the firing of events per se. I think the solution to your question here is not unlike the slideshow example.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
On 12/15/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm out of this conversation, sorry... if I say start with the search terms you're trying to be found on and don't get acknowledgment, I'll just bow out now. Real problem, no solution. As the adobe rep... how arrogant. Hank

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
On 12/15/06, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm out of this conversation, sorry... if I say start with the search terms you're trying to be found on and don't get acknowledgment, I'll just bow out now. of E Coli myself, and that's not the common type of things people are looking for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
On 12/15/06, Doug McCune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, right, we were talking about two different things. Sorry if this has caused confusion. I was talking about dynamic data being indexable by search engines. You were talking about search engine optimization for static content (sorry again if

[flexcoders] Re: Spell Checker

2006-12-16 Thread jmfillman
I appreciate the link, however zend.com links me to aspell.net which gives me a downloaded archive with no instructions on what to do with it. Where are the detailed installation instructions? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Mineault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the PHP side

[flexcoders] Acknowledgement

2006-12-16 Thread Intelligence Foundation Forum
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[flexcoders] Re: Spell Checker

2006-12-16 Thread jmfillman
For accuracy, I was mistaken in believing that the Exchange Component does uses the Google API, it does NOT. It does require a j2ee server, which doesn't work for what I'm doing, but seems pretty slick. If you are in need of a spell checker, it definitely is worth looking at. --- In

[flexcoders] Flex project with apache server setup?

2006-12-16 Thread Tolis Christomanos
How can i make a new flex project with apache server? Can you guide me through the new project setup wizard?

[flexcoders] Re: Repeater issue: only one control generated

2006-12-16 Thread koldfuzun
Hi Ralf, thanks for the response! This absolutely was the issue. I figured it out about 10 minutes after posting and felt pretty silly! Thanks! TJ

[flexcoders] FlexPrintJob PrintJob

2006-12-16 Thread Uday M. Shankar
Hi, How do I set orientation with FlexPrintJob? FlexPrintJob is a wrapper on PrintJob. But, all properties of PrintJob are in FlexPrintJob. The PrintJob supports PrintJobOptions. And using PrintJobOptions allows me to set orientation. Has anybody done this?

[flexcoders] Re: Merge two XML documents

2006-12-16 Thread wayneposner
How about using an XSLT to take care of the merge for you? If this is a web app, that would probably be the best way. If you're writing a desktop app to be compiled under Zinc or Janus, you could easily do it with a custom DLL and then call your code in AS. Wayne --- In

[flexcoders] complete event firing early?

2006-12-16 Thread Paul Hastings
i have a dynamic image that needs to get annotated. i have a complete event listener that works most of the time but on occasion it seems to fire off before the new image is completely loaded. the result is that the annotations get added before the image when the image does eventually get loaded,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Database Connectivity - Why so hard?

2006-12-16 Thread greg h
Jamie, fyi ... the following link is an additional resource that just came to my attention re: Flex/FDS/Java/Database integration: How to access database from flex 2 (by Adobe employee Lin Lin) http://weblogs.macromedia.com/lin/archives/flex_2/fds/index.cfm I realize you are making progress

RE: [flexcoders] how to use the swf to aspx?

2006-12-16 Thread sky.zhao
thank you . if i use the Code Alert.Show(ok,MessageAlert); IE will be terminate . why? sky zhao. _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KP Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 3:43 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] how

[flexcoders] An item renderer and data setting/binding question

2006-12-16 Thread Roman Protsiuk
Hi. I am using item renderer for DataGrids column (for example) derived from DataGridItemRenderer. The data sent to item renderer has a boolean property named valid. If valid == true I want the label to be red otherwise black. The problem is when I'm using direct assignment textColor = 0xFF;

[flexcoders] Newbie help: model bindings work with some but not all

2006-12-16 Thread Guess!
Hi Everyone, i am new to the group and new to Flex but not AS. I have a CF / Flex app with Remoting and remote classes. I have one class that is bound to the results of a remoting call. the problem is that not all the results show up. i can Alert the whole class, and my data is there. i can even

[flexcoders] 3D Charts for Flex 2

2006-12-16 Thread graysonpierce
I'd like to gauge flexcoders' interest in collaborating on an open-source project to build 3D Charts for Flex 2. Of particular interest to me are Multiscapes and 3D Scatterplots. Before going through the trouble of setting up a sourceforge project, I wanted to see if anyone has interest or need

Re: [flexcoders] Repeater Control

2006-12-16 Thread leds usop
It looks like i overlooked what you really need. I thought you want elements to APPEND 2 elements (ormore) at a time. My bad. Anyway the code only requires a few changes to achieve that result. Although i really think use of repeater is not necessary unless you want to display say, 30 elements at

[flexcoders] Re: An item renderer and data setting/binding question

2006-12-16 Thread Tim Hoff
Hi Roman, After you conditionally change the color, you have to redraw the itemRenderer. Try this: [Bindable] public var highlightColor : uint = 0x00; public override function set data(value : Object) : void { super.data = value; if (value != null) { if

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
This discussions hits the mailinglists and forums since forever. It seems to me that Adobe still is five or more generations behind their own technology with respect to SEO. A while back i wrote an article about that very topic: http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/seffs-to-flash-or-not-to-flash/

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
Claus, You are of course right to suggest building an XHTML version first, as a strategy, but there are two problems with this. 1. One of the issues is that good product design usual requires that you develop the interface first. The interface drives the content and data needed. What you are

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
Hank, disclaimer: I didn't say that method works for everybody everywhere, nor that execution is easy. It's also more targeted towards Flash websites, not Flex. I too think that it's Adobes job to provide a framework to make these things easier for the developer. I don't agree with your

Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
One aside however. Although I understand Hank's frustration, I very much appreciated John Dowdell's participation in this thread. Though we may get frustrated, let's not get so hot that we are not nice to JD. He is a nice guy, and to the degree that we can keep things positive he will do what

Re: [flexcoders] Repeater Control

2006-12-16 Thread leds usop
actually you dont realy need a repeater to do that. you can instantiate a label control everytime your timer dispatches an event instead: create new label control instances, set their text to the current xml items being read. however, you will have to handle the placement (x,y) to avoid having

Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread greg h
Hank, I totally understand the circumstances. You are a frequent and invaluable voice on this list, and you are always positive and friendly. So I was surprised to see you get boiled up on this. But I do understand. As Claus wrote this ... hits the lists ... since forever. You are not alone

Re: [flexcoders] 3D Charts for Flex 2

2006-12-16 Thread leds usop
it's a great idea. we are also looking into including 3D charts feature in the current web app we are working; on top of being able to skin them at run time based on some themes. Although it's not a priority. and before you do start, please do checkout 3d charts extension for flex at adobe.com.

Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread hank williams
But back to JD ... I just hope at some point you have an opportunity to meet him in person. Indeed. Perhaps that would adjust my impression. Yeah, he is a person too. But JD really is a really, really nice guy. I think you two would get along great. Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
Well of course we agree on most if this. And of course your general thrust that a spiderable HTML underpinning is necessary for search engines is right. But on the UI issue perhaps a slight divergence. Perhaps you can do data and UI hand in hand, but my view is that you dont know what

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
I just wished Adobe would actively approach and discuss the problem we are facing. I don't even ask for solutions. Maybe a technote that addresses this in some way would already be helpful. AND, re: the potential problem that Google punishes websites which in whatever way tweak the display

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
AND, re: the potential problem that Google punishes websites which in whatever way tweak the display of the indexed data (for example by adding a Flex UI layer on top), it would be TREMENDOUSLY helpful if Adobe would approach Google and once and for all clarifies what's allowed and

[flexcoders] Changing the Scrollbar position in a canvas

2006-12-16 Thread Louie Penaflor
I'm adding TextInput components on a Canvas at runtime. The scrollbar shows up and works fine, it's just when I start tabbing through the form, it will focus on a TextInput below the visible area and the scrollbar does not move. I have a similar system in AS2, where I had to move the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Merge two XML documents

2006-12-16 Thread Collin Peters
By merge I mean that this XML root node id=1value1/node node id=2value2/node /root and this XML: root node id=2value2/node node id=3value3/node /root would become this XML: root node id=1value1/node node id=2value2/node node id=3value3/node /root I am current doing this which seems to

RE: [flexcoders] Flex project with apache server setup?

2006-12-16 Thread Dimitrios Gianninas
You cant do it with Apache's Web Server. You need an application server like Tomcat, WebSphere, JRun or Weblogic, etc... Actually what you can do is download and install FDS Express and see how they do it. Dimitrios Gianninas RIA Developer Optimal Payments Inc.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Claus Wahlers
PLUS.. ;) I'd be interested in how Ajax applications handle SEO, as they likely face the same, or similar problems. Ok, Ajax apps probably don't face as much problems as Flex apps as the displayed data is HTML and contains links that spiders can follow, so disregard this. Sorry for talking

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Ian Thomas
On 12/17/06, Claus Wahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLUS.. ;) I'd be interested in how Ajax applications handle SEO, as they likely face the same, or similar problems. Ok, Ajax apps probably don't face as much problems as Flex apps as the displayed data is HTML and contains links that

Re: [flexcoders] Newbie help: model bindings work with some but not all

2006-12-16 Thread Rich Tretola
Can you post some code? Rich http://www.everythingflex.com On 12/16/06, Guess! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, i am new to the group and new to Flex but not AS. I have a CF / Flex app with Remoting and remote classes. I have one class that is bound to the results of a remoting call.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility

2006-12-16 Thread Cortlandt Winters
I would like to say that I feel strongly that jd has been poorly treated and wrongly insulted a number of times in this thread. I'd also like to suggest that allowing link spidering to dictate the future of content indexing may be shortsighted. It's convienient, but it gets worse every year as a

Re: [flexcoders] Flex project with apache server setup?

2006-12-16 Thread Collin Peters
Check out this page: http://www.brightworks.com/technology/adobe_flex/with_java.html. There is an article titled: Setting Up A Windows Apache/Tomcat/FDS Server

[flexcoders] Re: Error: Flex Builder could not publish the project source: null

2006-12-16 Thread Pan Troglodytes
Just thought I'd bump this thread. I still get this from time to time. On 6/20/06, Pan Troglodytes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this error when trying to publish some applications. The publishfine, though. Just thought I'd make it known that there seems to be some kind of bug in it. --

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Merge two XML documents

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Hi Collin, Is your data always a flat list of string values? or does it have 'depth'? Because if so, you might need to change how you examine your data. Cheers, Lach On 17/12/2006, at 6:13 AM, Collin Peters wrote: By merge I mean that this XML root node id=1value1/node node

[flexcoders] Equality and strict equality

2006-12-16 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Can anybody point me to a comprehensive reference that explains how equality and strict equality works in ActionScript 3. Presumably strict equality means two variables hold the exact same instance. How is non-strict equality determined with non-primitive objects, collections and the like?

Re: [flexcoders] Equality and strict equality

2006-12-16 Thread greg h
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/operators.html#strict_equality After reviewing the link above, please post back with any further questions. fyi ... I came to the link above as follows: In the Flex 2 Language reference, in the top left frame, following below the package names is