Re: [flexcoders] Re: independent vertical scrolling in hbox elements

2008-03-14 Thread Dennis Falling
But then the sidebar has knowledge of its container's height. If the container is resized, the sidebar will not resize. I simply made the outer container 150px to force scrolling and point out the problem. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:01 AM, arieljake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works if I add

Re: [flexcoders] How do I set width to 100% in actionscript?

2008-03-25 Thread Dennis Falling
Someone's probably beaten me to this but, use percentWidth instead. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:43 PM, luvfotography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I set the width to 100% using actionscript?? It only allows a number - not a string!?! var newcanvas:Canvas = new Canvas(); newcanvas.width

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flashvars hate me

2008-04-02 Thread Dennis Falling
Ok, I checked that page again (saw it during my current hunt) and think I'm doing everything in it. I'm sure there's something stupid that I'm missing, but this is my typical flex problem: something really basic takes me hours to do because I can't figure out the exact syntax. On Wed, Apr 2,

Re: [flexcoders] flashvars hate me

2008-04-02 Thread Dennis Falling
No, I'm doing it with the template html file. I've double-checked the html source in my browser after running and they're all there. I've added the url=woo code in four places: the AC_FL function, the embed src=...swf?url=woo, the param flashvars value=url=woo..., and the FlashVars=url=woo. I'm

Re: [flexcoders] Any way to make legend scroll vertically?

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Falling
In case anyone else hits this... To make a legend scroll, just give it an unbounded width/height and wrap it in a canvas that has a bounded width and height. This will trigger the canvas to create scrollbars when necessary. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:31 PM, dfalling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[flexcoders] Can embedded fonts have tracking and word spacing?

2008-04-03 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm trying to make fonts more readable by adding character spacing to them. Is this possible? It's an embedded font, but I haven't been able to find a list of what parameters are valid when embedding a font. Thanks!

Re: [flexcoders] Can embedded fonts have tracking and word spacing?

2008-04-04 Thread Dennis Falling
, sharpness, etc can be set although I'm not sure how much good they do. - Daniel Freiman On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dennis Falling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to make fonts more readable by adding character spacing to them. Is this possible? It's an embedded font, but I

Re: [flexcoders] Multiple sets of visual children have been specified for this component

2008-04-11 Thread Dennis Falling
. Is it possible that it got reset? Could you be removing those tabs before they are fully initialized? -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:22 PM *To:* flexcoders

[flexcoders] VideoDisplay intelligent buffering?

2008-04-16 Thread Dennis Falling
Are there any tricks to make the VideoDisplay's buffering work a little better? The default behavior of simply waiting a number of seconds isn't ideal because if it's a short video, this may be too long, and if it's a long video, this may be too short. If anyone has come up with a good way of

[flexcoders] VideoDisplay lies about bytesLoaded

2008-04-19 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm using a changewatcher to observe the bytesLoaded attribute of a videoDisplay and update the UI accordingly. This works well most of the time, but once during each of the longer videos, bytesLoaded will jump, then continue loading. bytesLoaded / bytesTotal: 3186688/4971903 4971903/4971903 --

[flexcoders] VideoDisplay: why does play restart buffering after load?

2008-04-21 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm trying to avoid using VideoDisplay's default buffering and loading/playing videos manually. For some reason, calling load and then play sometimes makes the player start buffering again from the very beginning. I assume this is caused by one of the booleans sourceChanged or closeCalled not

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Can't figure out how to parse RSS

2008-04-26 Thread Dennis Falling
Nice...that's exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot! On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:47 PM, ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/ HTH, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, dfalling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[flexcoders] Catch exceptions outside of try block?

2008-05-14 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm sure I'm going at this wrong, but don't know what to do... I'm setting the data of a custom component with an image element. When the component finishes starting up the image grabs its source from the data provider and a function catches the IOError event and throws its text as an exception

[flexcoders] flex2 change sdk?

2008-05-20 Thread Dennis Falling
How do you select which SDK to use in flex builder 2? In 3 you can specify a default for all projects and set one for each project.

[flexcoders] CSS inheritance?

2008-05-23 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm trying to find a cleaner way of doing css. Right now I have a common border style used frequently throughout my app, and a couple common container styles (background, padding, width, etc.). I'd like a way to have the different container styles reference the border style, instead of

Re: [flexcoders] parsing complex xml

2008-05-27 Thread Dennis Falling
Yeah, I should have mentioned that the server sending this file to me is wrapping it in con, making that the root and configuration the only element. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off the top of my head, If the root of your XML doc is configuration,

Re: [flexcoders] parsing complex xml

2008-05-27 Thread Dennis Falling
I was trying both routes- dataprovider and and iterating. dataProvider: function dataReceived(data:XML):void { list.dataProvider = data.configuration.category; } With the above, nothing showed up in the list. The xml sample I provided in my original email was all wrapped by a con tag by the

[flexcoders] #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-04 Thread Dennis Falling
I searched the web and the group and found a thread going about this without a resolution (started with msg. 88102). Does anyone know a way around this? I need to allow the user to upload files over SSL, which works fine from IE but explodes in Firefox. Code: var url:String =

Re: [flexcoders] #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-04 Thread Dennis Falling
Developer Trainer Author, Professional Flex 3 (coming Winter 2008) Staff Writer, Community MX | http://communitymx.com/author.cfm?cid=4674 Dennis Falling wrote: I searched the web and the group and found a thread going about this without a resolution (started with msg. 88102). Does anyone

[flexcoders] Re: #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-05 Thread Dennis Falling
I have this problem for standard uploads too, not just SSL... Again, it works fine in IE, so I know that the address and file are valid. Any ideas? On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Dennis Falling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the web and the group and found a thread going about

Re: [flexcoders] Re: #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-05 Thread Dennis Falling
/FP-78 http://thanksmister.com/?p=59 http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg58372.html good luck, jon On Jun 5, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Dennis Falling wrote: I have this problem for standard uploads too, not just SSL... Again, it works fine in IE, so I know

Re: [flexcoders] Re: #2038: File I/O Error only in firefox

2008-06-06 Thread Dennis Falling
a fix for this, or a forum that would be more appropriate to ask, as this is more of a Tomcat/jboss question? Thanks. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Dennis Falling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply... That information was exactly what I needed. I'm actually really surprised that I

[flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column?

2008-06-10 Thread Dennis Falling
I have an editable DataGrid that displays usernames and masked passwords (). To hide the password, I'm just using an inline item renderer: mx:DataGridColumn dataField=password headerText=Password editorDataField=text rendererIsEditor=true mx:itemRenderer mx:Component

Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column?

2008-06-10 Thread Dennis Falling
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:28 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? I have an editable DataGrid that displays usernames and masked passwords (). To hide

Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column?

2008-06-10 Thread Dennis Falling
, 2008 6:06 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? Maybe set backgroundAlpha=0? Tracy -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10

Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column?

2008-06-10 Thread Dennis Falling
. -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:44 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column? I tried doing the same thing I'm

Re: [flexcoders] Datagrid Password Column?

2008-06-11 Thread Dennis Falling
TextInput as the renderer, try setting backgroundColor=. I'm not sure I understand what was wrong about backgroundAlpha=0 -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:04 PM

[flexcoders] Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-05 Thread Dennis Falling
What's the best way to create a border-less button? I'm trying to pull it off with flexlib's enhanced button skin but it appears to be ignoring the font-family I set. Basically I just want a button that has text and an icon and these will change color on mouseover. No border/backgrounds should

[flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-05 Thread Dennis Falling
I hacked this up by creating a small png that's entirely alpha. Much cleaner than all the CSS required to make an enhanced button skin look plain. It looks great, but are there are any better ways to do this? Thanks On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Dennis Falling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [flexcoders] Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-06 Thread Dennis Falling
/index.cfm?e=flex%5Fskins Alan On Jul 5, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Dennis Falling wrote: What's the best way to create a border-less button? I'm trying to pull it off with flexlib's enhanced button skin but it appears to be ignoring the font-family I set. Basically I just want a button that has text

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-10 Thread Dennis Falling
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-10 Thread Dennis Falling
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Falling Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:52 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/ mouseout states I don't know of a way to give a link button a transparent mouse over

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-10 Thread Dennis Falling
: Copy the LinkButton CSS and assign whatever was in upSkin to overSkin -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:13 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Falling
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:14 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Trick button into rendering mouseover/mouseout states Do you mean the CSS from the framework? Because the only applicable css I've seen

Re: [flexcoders] So I guess I don't understand states

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Falling
Yeah, I didn't understand states. Changing from one state to another always unplays the properties and styles set in the previous state. Not a fan of that at all but that explains all my confusion. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM, dfalling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had states

Re: [flexcoders] So I guess I don't understand states

2008-07-11 Thread Dennis Falling
there derived states so it will only unplay to a certain point? -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Friday, July 11, 2008 1:46 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] So I guess

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid selection w/ filtered contents

2009-01-16 Thread Dennis Falling
Thanks...I wish I had a good example of when that didn't work for me... I had times when the data would be filtered down such that the item previously selected was still selected, but its index had changed. If I tried to tell the grid to select the new index, it ignored my command because the

[flexcoders] Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-03 Thread Dennis Falling
I have an ItemRenderer with buttons in it. In the click listener functions for these buttons, I call event.stopImmediatePropagation (and preventDefault, though that doesn't seem relevant), but the row is still selected. How can I prevent it from receiving the click and highlighting itself?

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-03 Thread Dennis Falling
@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Dennis Falling dfall...@... wrote: I have an ItemRenderer with buttons in it. In the click listener functions for these buttons, I call event.stopImmediatePropagation (and preventDefault, though that doesn't seem relevant), but the row is still

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-04 Thread Dennis Falling
Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: There a example on preventing list selection on my blog *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:30 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-04 Thread Dennis Falling
selectable which you can make false. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dennis Falling dfall...@gmail.com wrote: Is there one involving item renderers? I believe I scoured your site pretty thoroughly, but the only time I see selection behavior being overriden is inside an extended list

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-04 Thread Dennis Falling
@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Dennis Falling dfall...@... wrote: I'm using a DataGrid. But the problem is that I want the selection behavior to behave normally, except for when the buttons are clicked. Thanks On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Fotis Chatzinikos

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row?

2009-02-05 Thread Dennis Falling
] *On Behalf Of *Dennis Falling *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:20 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Prevent ItemRenderer click from selecting row? That's what I was trying- stopping propagation and preventing default. Apparently the datagrid gets

[flexcoders] non-editable datagrid cells

2009-03-06 Thread Dennis Falling
Is there a way to prevent a specific cell from triggering its renderer? I need other cells in that column to be editable, but not it.

[flexcoders] can't copy/paste

2009-04-13 Thread Dennis Falling
On some TextInputs/TextArea's, I'm completely unable to use keyboard copy/paste shortcuts, but the mouse contextual menu works. This happens on mac and pc. The code's too complicated to submit, so does anyone know of things that prevent copy/paste from working? Thanks.

[flexcoders] check for daylight savings time

2009-04-13 Thread Dennis Falling
I'm trying to print the time zone for a date, and need to know the daylight savings time. Is there a way to get this in flex? Thanks.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: check for daylight savings time

2009-04-14 Thread Dennis Falling
...@gmail.com wrote: My FlexDateUtils library has a class in it to check for DST http://code.google.com/p/flexdateutils/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Dennis Falling dfall...@... wrote: I'm trying to print the time zone for a date, and need to know the daylight