[flexcoders] Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread Mark
I created a simple test in Flash CS3 that mostly works in Flex. The problem I'm having is I don't see it in Flex Builder 2. Code view is giving me everything it should and looks fine there, but I don't see it in Design view. What would be the reason for this? I run it and it looks just

Re: {Disarmed} [flexcoders] Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread Jurgen Beck
Does the Design view in FB give you any errors? If so, you'd need to look closer at the code. Jurgen Mark wrote: I created a simple test in Flash CS3 that mostly works in Flex. The problem I'm having is I don't see it in Flex Builder 2. Code view is giving me everything it should and looks

Re: {Disarmed} [flexcoders] Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread Mark
No, no errors. It runs perfectly it just doesn't display within FB. Wether I run it nromal or in debug mode, what shows in the browser is fine. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jurgen Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the Design view in FB give you any errors? If so, you'd need to

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread Jurgen Beck
If the MXML file isn't too big, can you post the contents? The MXML file is a regular ASCII file that you can edit in any text editor. If FB has an issue parsing the code for design view it usually means that the file contains some illegal code. Jurgen Mark wrote: No, no errors. It runs

[flexcoders] open source video sharing app

2007-06-02 Thread Rohan Pinto
Hi, i am in the process of creating a flex based open sourced video sharing app which (in addition to) also allows for indexing/bookmarking of youtube videos (i plan to allow for indexing/bookmarking of videos from all other popular video sharing sites too) and a streaming player... + amazon S3

[flexcoders] Re: Really complex buttons (aka what WPF got right)

2007-06-02 Thread borekbe
Hi Ely It's great to hear directly from a Flex developer! I would like to take a chance and share my views while you listen :) I must stress again that I'm fairly new to Flex but maybe that can be a good thing now - I can see all the problems very clearly because I often don't have enough

[flexcoders] Case sensitivity is NoT fUN!

2007-06-02 Thread driverdude
I just spent ALL night debugging the fact that HTTPService gives you a variable set that is case sensitive. The case of a single letter had me ripping all my code apart and questioning whether or not assignments could fail to work. It's a cool thing to be able to refer to hierarchical data

[flexcoders] Re: Under flex Builder, is it possible to step into an app loaded by SWFLoader?

2007-06-02 Thread andrewalderson650
The one caveat to this is that you have to load the debug version of the module. When I first started using modules I forgot this and spent a few hours (days...) beating my head against the wall and cursing Flex Builder. I use a simple conditional to check the url of the shell app to see if I

[flexcoders] Making an individual Bar on a BarGraph stand out?

2007-06-02 Thread abba_t
It seems simple probably is, but I have searched high and low and probably have tried over one hundred different pieces of code but with no luck. I can not seem to find a way to highlite one particular bar on a bar graph. I can change the properties of the group of bars (alpha, fill, width

Re: {Disarmed} [flexcoders] WebServices and ObjectProxy

2007-06-02 Thread ehsiao_bea
Hi, Jurgen, Not sure how you can do this within the DataGrid Control itself. Can you please elaborate? I would like to bind Physician.Firstname to the DataField. JT --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jurgen Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When returning a result set, make sure you are

RE: [flexcoders] Classloader issue using Flex Data Services with OC4J 10.1.3

2007-06-02 Thread James Ward
Oh the joys of the OC4J Classloader. It's been a long time since I used OC4J and Flex, but I do remember it being an adventure. None-the-less I'd suggest you try LCDS 2.5 and see if we have dealt with the problem. You can find LCDS 2.5 at the bottom of this page:

[flexcoders] Re: Context menu mouseTarget vs. itemRenderer with Image control

2007-06-02 Thread andrewalderson650
If you are using a custom item renderer why aren't you just adding the context menu to the item renderer? As a note if you are extending one of the default item renderers they have the mouse disabled in the constructor so this needs to be fixed. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tsiesser

[flexcoders] Checkbox needs to have the same behavior like 'ctrlkey+mouse click' in datagrid

2007-06-02 Thread handitan
Hi, I have a datagrid that allows me to do select multiple rows by holding down ctrlkey and clicking each row, and it also allows me to drag those rows to a tree. Now, I have been told to replicate this same behavior but with checkbox. So I already have checkbox as part of the datagridColumn

[flexcoders] Re: OPENTUBE

2007-06-02 Thread Rohan Pinto
all volunteers: please join my project called opentube hosted on google : http://code.google.com/p/opentube Rohan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Rohan Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i am in the process of creating a flex based open sourced video sharing app which (in addition to)

Re: [flexcoders] WebServices and ObjectProxy

2007-06-02 Thread Jurgen Beck
Let's back up for a minute. What exactly are you returning from your web service? If you are returning an object that can be mapped to a Flex value object, then you would do that in the result handler of the remote object in Flex. That is where you would be using the line specified. Now, in a

[flexcoders] Re: Context menu mouseTarget vs. itemRenderer with Image control

2007-06-02 Thread tsiesser
Wow - images are not mouse targets. Okay, that's going to be challenging - because I was actually planning on some special actions to occur when the user clicked on the corners of the image. So maybe the transparent sprite will be the key? I'll try it... Thanks! --Tracey --- In

[flexcoders] Re: Context menu mouseTarget vs. itemRenderer with Image control

2007-06-02 Thread tsiesser
It occurred to me to try adding the context menu to the item renderer, but I wasn't sure what would happen to the blank areas of the TileList, like if there aren't enough data items to fill the entire space... does the list get item renderers with data=null, or are there only renderers where

[flexcoders] Is anyone using WebORB with a Java back end?

2007-06-02 Thread simonjpalmer
If yes, how have you found it? I've been using FDS to connect to Java Remote Objects and want to investigate alternatives. There seem to be lots of posts about WebORB, but it all sounds very .Net. If not WebORB does anyone have experience with any other middleware providing the same remoting

[flexcoders] Re: Flash Poll Application but with Flex Integration Charts

2007-06-02 Thread sher_ali2004
Ok here is the link for the 3D pie chart source file. It is a complete source file but I made a lot of changes to make it compatible with my application. Like I changed the code so that I slice out the rollovered pie piece and make it larger etc. http://www.actionscripts.org/showMovie.php?id=483

[flexcoders] Why the weird semantics for some of the higher-order functions?

2007-06-02 Thread Ed Smith
I very much appreciate having functions as first-class values. However, I'm finding it increasingly annoying that Array.map and .filter don't follow the normal definitions. I keep writing a.map( function(l){return ...} ); only to get run-time errors because map requires a function with three

[flexcoders] Re: Flash Poll Application but with Flex Integration Charts

2007-06-02 Thread dazweeja
Thanks Sher. I found this one yesterday as well - again not true 3D but looks OK. The wedges slide out when you hover over the legend: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/3D/Pseudo/Animate_-Eric_Lin-7127/index.php It's a pity the Flex compiler seems to include a lot of classes that aren't being used

RE: [flexcoders] FDS 30 Minute Testdrive Project - problems creating a new project

2007-06-02 Thread James Ward
It seems there is a version mismatch between the Test Drive and the version of Flex Builder you are using. I'd make sure you have updated to Flex 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 and if that still doesn't work, download LCDS 2.5 (from the bottom of the Hotfix 2 download page) and use the Test Drive which is

[flexcoders] summing a value in an arrayCollection?

2007-06-02 Thread todd_geist
Hello, Very new here. Trying to get some of the basics. I have datagrid that is populated with the following arrayColleciton mx:ArrayCollection id=myAC mx:Array mx:Object city=Los Angeles state=CA population=3844829 / mx:Object city=New York state=NY

[flexcoders] summing an arrayCollection Column

2007-06-02 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, Very new here. Trying to get some of the basics. I have datagrid that is populated with the following arrayColleciton mx:ArrayCollection id=myAC mx:Array mx:Object city=Los Angeles state=CA population=3844829 / mx:Object city=New York state=NY

Re: [flexcoders] summing a value in an arrayCollection?

2007-06-02 Thread Jurgen Beck
Hi Todd, One of the ways would be to traverse your ArrayCollection with a cursor: var cursor:IViewCursor = myAC.createCursor(); var sumPop:int = 0; var myObject:Object; while (!cursor.afterLast) { myObject = cursor.current; sumPop += myObject.population; } Jurgen todd_geist wrote:

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread grantdotcox
I've only made a few components using the Flex Component Kit, but none of them display in Flex Builder design view. As they work in the compiled swf I assumed that was the expected behaviour... ? Jurgen - What MXML? The component kit creates SWC files...

[flexcoders] wmode transparency in OSX Dashboard

2007-06-02 Thread Jesse Warden
I've been at these for hours to no avail. No matter what I try, I cannot get a SWF in a Mac OSX Dashboard widget to show transparently when setting wmode to transparent. I've confirmed that windowlessDisable is false (via mms.cfg). I know Safari supports wmode=transparent so anyone know why a

RE: [flexcoders] ctrl key problem....

2007-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
Try capture phase from the stage. Otherwise you may not see it depending on who has focus. Also post some code so we can see what you're trying to do. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gboro54 Sent: Friday, June 01,

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Context menu mouseTarget vs. itemRenderer with Image control

2007-06-02 Thread Alex Harui
To be precise, mx:Image can be a mouseTarget as it is a UIComponent wrapping the images. Embedded images generally are not as are any other bitmaps loaded through flash.display.Loader. It depends on how you set things up. However, placing transparent hit areas is a good way to divide up

[flexcoders] Re: Custom Attributes

2007-06-02 Thread gary_mangum
So, can something like this be done or not? I want to define a bunch of constant values and pass them in as the value for a custom attribute. Can I do this? I don't want to hard code these values. Thanks! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 - item not showing

2007-06-02 Thread Jurgen Beck
Sorry about that! That was obvious. :-) It's been a long week... Flex components created in Flash will not show up in Design View. Adobe says that this will be addressed in a future update of Flex (well, 'next version'.) So, if you're compiled app is showing the component, you're good to

[flexcoders] Can I use AS3 Classes written for Flex, directly within Flash CS3?

2007-06-02 Thread Mike Anderson
Hello All, I plan on using the Flash Component Kit to generate a .SWC file for use within my Flex Application. There are some tweening classes I presently use within Flex, that I would love to use inside of my Flash CS3 Application. Since the generated Flash binary will be referenced in a Flex

[flexcoders] Re: Can I use AS3 Classes written for Flex, directly within Flash CS3?

2007-06-02 Thread apple_sky_2000
yeah, u can put the classes into flash cs3 classpath as long as the code is only dependent on Flash Player Packages. flash components r different from flex components. flash cs3 components source are in ?:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\en\Configuration\Component Source\ActionScript 3.0