Re: [flexcoders] What is the best Flex Message Board ( Other than this group Yahoo ) ?

2007-02-03 Thread cisnky
I don't think you get any better then here at the moment. But Ultrashock has a forum that is up and coming. On 2/3/07, Shannon Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the Adobe Flex forum. Shan helihobby wrote: What is the best Flex Message Board ( Other than this group Yahoo ) ? Thanks

Re: [flexcoders] Can Flex directly replace Flash????

2007-02-03 Thread cisnky
Sorry for the short answer. But have you looked at using AS3 with your project? Some of the stuff you have mentioned can be handled with AS3 combining with the Flex part of your project. On 2/3/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, As I dive into converting my commercial

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow missing all focus events??

2007-02-03 Thread Roman Protsiuk
As the matter of fact I just forgot to say that for focusInHandler to work your component has to implement IFocusManagerComponent. In this way you don't have to add these methods as event listeners manually. And as to relatedObject part of understanding came from documentation and another one

Re: [flexcoders] Drag-Resize MDI Example

2007-02-03 Thread Janis Radins
I'll do some more commenting and publish source on monday. 2007/2/2, Brian Dunphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've created a Dashboard that acts as an MDI with custom Widgets (TitleWindows that flip over to configure, etc). The one thing I'd really like to see though is some example code for is how

[flexcoders] Re: Can Flex directly replace Flash????

2007-02-03 Thread lostinrecursion
I agree. AS3 actually has the most incredible drag and drop support and it is also very easy to implement via Flex. In fact, all List based components have this functionality native to them. But adding it to a non list base component isn't awfully hard either. Look in the docs for drag and drop

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Can Flex directly replace Flash????

2007-02-03 Thread Michael Schmalle
is how to handle all the Drag/Drop logic with the Icons, Sounds interesting. :) I would make a component, MapViewer extends UIComponent. Composite 2 components into this component. - MapLoader extends SWFLoader - MapAssets extends Canvas MapViewer will be the control into positioning the

[flexcoders] Horizontal Labels in Line Chart

2007-02-03 Thread trk247
Is there anyway to move the horizontal labels in a line chart over about 20 pixels? I have mine rotated on a 35 degree angle and it takes up too much space. Any help greatly appreciated.

[flexcoders] Re: Integerating Flex and Java using mx:RemoteObject

2007-02-03 Thread Mukesh
Yep, I did restart the server and I am not programatically creating any channel sets. This is the url for the sample example. I've followed the exact steps. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/dharfleet/archives/2006/07/integrating_ jav.cfm If someone can provide me with a sample example, will

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread DannyT
I don't think (i'm no authority on this so please take with a pinch of salt) that Apollo is geared towards businesses scrapping their existing systems and starting from the ground up with Apollo. Apollo really takes off where RIAs are already taking off only stripping out the confines of the

[flexcoders] Re: Adding Favorites

2007-02-03 Thread trk247
Perfect, Thanks!

[flexcoders] Re: How do you make a copy of an XMLListCollection ( not instance of ) ...

2007-02-03 Thread helihobby
THNAK YOU SO MUCH. I just needed the a.source ... Thanks again, Sean. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brian Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just create a new XMLListColletion with the source of the one you want to copy from. var a:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection(xmlList);

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Shannon Hicks
You never said anything about this in your previous email. All you said in your previous email was, basically, that if you couldn't run dll's Apollo was useless. My response was targeted toward that. Even considering your new statements, I still stand by my original opinion that the value is

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
I suggest you re-read what I said then... because I said it and Mike Chambers has it quoted I would kinda expect that you can launch exe passing parameters ( like CLI style or something similar ), talk to dynamic libraries like .dll ( Windows ), .so ( Linux )... and as I said before I don't

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Jeffry Houser
It seems to me there is a lot of speculation about Apollo, based on very little actual knowledge. All this speculation of Apollo must have x feature seems premature. I don't Grok Apollo and don't expect to until there is an actual product available or some documentation to read. Why

[flexcoders] text in buttons getting cut off... why?

2007-02-03 Thread Mark
I'm using ToggleButtonBar. When I add a horizontalGap of anything over 2 the button with the most text gets cut off. If I take that out I can have as much text as I need and the button looks fine. Why would this be happening and what can I do to make it work with the gap and without giving

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Andrey
Haven't replied too often, but this one struck a chord. In real enterprise-level applications, you are split up into tiers. you have presentation layer (which apollo/flex/flash/etc fits very nicely in), and you have your back-end with business logic and the storage). A number of people I know

[flexcoders] Relative / LocalHost Paths and WebServices

2007-02-03 Thread Aly Sidi
In Flex 1.5 I am running a Tomcat server on port 80 which hosts MXML files. In these MXML files I can reference .NET Webservices on port which are also local. So a sample webservice tag would look like this : mx: WebService url=http://localhost:/MyService/MyService.asmx and

[flexcoders] Re: sort datagridcolumn on numeric field - use sortCompareFunction ?

2007-02-03 Thread amigo_fd
Solution found ! example and code on http://flextricks.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/sorting-numeric-values-in-a-flex-datagrid/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, amigo_fd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any ideas on how to do this with sortCompareFunction ? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, amigo_fd

Re: [flexcoders] Effects on Linkbar links

2007-02-03 Thread Jared Verdi
Ok, so I guess this was fairly easy. What I ended up doing is catching the ChildExistenceChangeEvent for the LinkBar and attaching the rollover event to the added linkbutton: private function addClickEvent(event:ChildExistenceChangedEvent):void { if(event.type ==

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 code to reload the entire application?

2007-02-03 Thread coderjun
Dan, Like Tracy, I haven't had a chance to use the navigateToUrl either, but what I have implemented before successfully in my apps is to use the ExternalInterface to call a JavaScript function after the execution of any of my Flex logout code. Example:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Max OS X Flex Builder 2.01 License Issue - still waiting

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Evans
On 1 Feb 2007, at 18:38, Brendan Meutzner wrote: when is a $499 FlexBuilder license expensive when you have to pay the UK price: (Including Ireland VAT @21%) : £381.15 = US$749.35 at current exchange. It's too bad that the fantastic relationship we have with the Adobe engineers can't

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Max OS X Flex Builder 2.01 License Issue - still waiting

2007-02-03 Thread Brendan Meutzner
Ouch... OK I feel a little less put out now Paul... :-) Brendan On 2/3/07, Paul Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Feb 2007, at 18:38, Brendan Meutzner wrote: when is a $499 FlexBuilder license expensive when you have to pay the UK price: (Including Ireland VAT @21%) : £381.15 =

[flexcoders] Dynamic creation of mx:text from xml - placed over an image

2007-02-03 Thread oneproofdk
I am looking into how to make a dynamic form, where I load some values into an array uisng a httpservice, then a ActionScript function would dynamic add mx:text fields to the app. Can anyone help me out with some code (pseudo) or links to docs ? Donøt know where to look. Also : Is it possible

[flexcoders] Trace log not working

2007-02-03 Thread David Harris
Hi. I have an issue where my trace log is not working... I am sure I have the debug player installed, as I have used the uninstaller and then installed the players located in Flex Builder 2\Player\debug In my mm.cfg contains: TraceOutPutFileName=C:\flashlog.txt ErrorReportingEnable=1

[flexcoders] Relative / LocalHost Paths and WebServices

2007-02-03 Thread Aly Sidi
In Flex 1.5 I am running a Tomcat server on port 80 which hosts MXML files. In these MXML files I can reference .NET Webservices on port which are also local. So a sample webservice tag would look like this : mx: WebService url= http://localhost:/MyService/MyService.asmx and

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo features

2007-02-03 Thread Ryan Stewart
I despise the idea of Apollo allowing hooks into the OS that can potentially make an Apollo app only run on a specific OS. I get the stuff about letting developers have full control, but part of the great story of Apollo is that it enables a new kind of cross platform application. If your

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Can Flex directly replace Flash????

2007-02-03 Thread Mike Anderson
Hello Michael! You hit the nail right on the head - this is exactly what I am looking for. In fact, this scenario closely resembles how I wrote my existing version with Flash. I will scour your post a few times over, and research every aspect of it - then hopefully I will be able to put

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Can Flex directly replace Flash????

2007-02-03 Thread Mike Anderson
Thanks for the reply guys :) Real quick though, could you both clarify what you (Kenny and Cisnky) mean by use AS3? All AS3 means to me, is that it's the next evolution of ActionScript, in which you now use Packages instead of Classes, and some changes/enhancements regarding code syntax