RE: [flexcoders] Flex Gumbo Adding Images to Application.application

2008-12-06 Thread Dale Fraser
What wasn't working, now is, my problems related to not using a combo of application.complete And trying to add event listeners to the app rather than the stage. So I ended up with a static class that deals with the app, I can use this to add images to the app and event listeners to the

[flexcoders] interface layout help

2008-12-06 Thread stinasius
hi guys i am seeking opinions on how to layout an interface of an app i am developing. the front is laid out as follows 1) search box on the left with search criteria 2) a datagrid and tabnavigator in the middle 3) a map and a video player on the right now the data grid gets results form a

[flexcoders] arraycollection merge

2008-12-06 Thread hworke
Hi I have three different arraycollections and I want to bind them all as dataprovider to a datagrid. How do I do that? Can a datagrid have have 3 dataprovider and can it display all these dataproviders' info at the same time? Or I do need to merge my three arraycollections into one and then

Re: [flexcoders] interface layout help

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: stinasius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:43 PM Subject: [flexcoders] interface layout help hi guys i am seeking opinions on how to layout an interface of an app i am developing. the front is laid out as

RE: [flexcoders] Auto expand TreeView on open - How?

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Kukiel
I was stuck with this aswell a while ago this is my solution: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute creationComplete=init() mx:Script private function init():void{

[flexcoders] Set up style for TextField

2008-12-06 Thread Marco Catunda
Hi, I extended a textinput component to show other relationed text based on input user. It is a kind of personal component for application interface rules. I could show this text in other component behind it, but the design and usability was not so good. The snipet code above show how I added

[flexcoders] McCune's ZOMG RSS

2008-12-06 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - I love the way Doug McCune's ZOMG RSS app has done the macosx dock-like animation and am trying to compile with Flex 3.2 but keep getting errors about textFormat - thought it might be the older flexlib.swc which I overwrote -- but still can't compile. Anyone have something similar

RE: [flexcoders] Set up style for TextField

2008-12-06 Thread Alex Harui
Try private function addAccountText(): void { this.pAccountTextField = new UITextField(); this.pAccountTextField.styleName = this; this.pAccountTextField.width = this.width * 65 / 100; this.pAccountTextField.height = this.height; this.pAccountTextField.x = this.width-this.pAccountTextField.width;

RE: [flexcoders] arraycollection merge

2008-12-06 Thread Alex Harui
This might help: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2008/03/custom_ilists_checkboxdatagrid_1.html From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hworke Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 5:31 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] arraycollection merge Hi I

[flexcoders] Flex 2: rotating text

2008-12-06 Thread simonjpalmer
I have the requirement for a button which has text writton on it like the spine of a book, so rotated clockwise by 90 degrees. I have been looking at threads about text rotation but haven't found anything which exactly matches my requirement. Anyone know how to do this in Flex 2? Or know of a

[flexcoders] McCune's RSS Reader / Mac OS X dock

2008-12-06 Thread grimmwerks
Hey all - I love the way Doug McCune's ZOMG RSS app has done the macosx dock-like animation and am trying to compile with Flex 3.2 but keep getting errors about textFormat - thought it might be the older flexlib.swc which I overwrote -- but still can't compile. Anyone have something similar

Re: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Go to a page like this one: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php Copy the actual character (not the HTML representation) and paste it into your code. Bada bing bada boom. Aaron Tracy Spratt wrote: The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and

RE: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-06 Thread Tracy Spratt
Thanks. But I have just learned, this only works with declarative mxml. If you want to crate the special char in Actionscript, you must use the hex/Unicode character, that has the format \u. Tracy -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [flexcoders] Auto expand TreeView on open - How?

2008-12-06 Thread Tracy Spratt
Wow, that is the cleanest solution I have seen yet. I haven't tried it but I wonder if this generic expression would work: menuTree.openItems = menuData..*; Or even: menuTree.openItems = menuData.descendants(); Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com