Re: [flexcoders] LinkBar questions - Flex 1.5

2006-02-16 Thread Joe Berkovitz
The problem is the "100%" specifications on everything. Something has to limit the HBox's width to the ViewStack's width, otherwise the whole Application will grow to a size that contains everything without scrolling. Try this: ... . .. .j Graham, Jason wrote: > Here

Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript-based Applications with Flex 2

2006-02-18 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Something like a direct-manipulation nodes-and-arcs editor such as you describe should be totally doable within Flex. You don't really need Flash (the tool) to combine programmatic animation and drawing with Flex components, because the Flex APIs are a superset of those that you will eventuall

Re: [flexcoders] Re: RIA Certified Developer/Architect

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I am sure that there are many viewpoints on this subject, and I won't presume to have the "right" one. However, I have been in the business for over 20 years, so I can at least claim to have seen a lot, even if I'm wrong in my conclusions :) I have a couple of things to share -- both my own or

Re: [flexcoders] FastMxmlc

2006-03-07 Thread Joe Berkovitz
The pre-parsed information that makes Fastmxmlc fast is only generated by mxmlc. At least in 1.5, compc does not cache this information, so there's no similar way to speed it up. ... . .. .j Clint Modien wrote: > http://www.deitte.com/archives/2005/09/speeding_up_mxm.ht

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simpler than Flex??????

2006-03-08 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I think the best thing about the site has to be the company slogan: "Life within the lifelessness... is what we Inculcate." After that, what is there to add? ... . .. .j pauland2513 wrote: > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flash6designeronline" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [flexcoders] Re: iteration::two namespace

2006-04-27 Thread Joe Ferraro
Not sure what the differences are but I’m using cairngorm 2 and my name space reads xmlns:cairngorm="org.nevis.cairngorm.business.*" which is defined in a class path setting in my project. I haven’t used .99 so I can’t guarantee it’s the same.   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

[flexcoders] Flex Data Services for .NET

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Orbman
live example, client and server-side code in the article: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/articles/objectautoupdate.htm You can learn more about the product at: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/ cheers, Joe -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] How to create copy of a object

2005-06-22 Thread Joe Berkovitz
A couple of big caveats here. 1. mx.utils.ObjectCopy is broken. (At least, in the Flex 1.5 distribution.) It does not correctly preserve the class of an object when that class is a subclass of some superclass. Instead, the copied object will appear to have the type of the superclass. I note

Re: [flexcoders] Mxml compiler for Unix/Linux

2005-03-22 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I don't know about you, but my Flex 1.5 distribution came with Unix shell scripts for mxmlc, compc and fdb. All they do is basically run a JVM against the appropriate .jar file in {FLEX_HOME}/lib, so I am sure you can run the compiler, debugger, etc. on every platform that runs a JVM. Valy Si

Re: [flexcoders] Attaching Custom Component

2005-03-24 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Jack Waknitz wrote: > I'm trying to make a app that will look through an xml file and decide > what components to use for each based on some meta data. So > I'm thinking about puting the createChild tag within the function > based on if statements to choose between a few different compontents >

Re: [flexcoders] Image caching

2005-03-25 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I would also like to see some response from MM on this subject (I have asked support, but no response yet). Basically, it would be really helpful to understand how to minimize overhead for repeatedly loading a movieclip from an external URL, because even if the URL's response bytes are cached

Re: [flexcoders] Cyclical References

2005-03-25 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Eric, I recently ran into a compiler bug (confirmed as such by MM) that is very reminiscent of the problem you mention, in that the compiler breaks in a full compile, but works in an incremental compile. (In my case, the breakage consisted of emitting faulty property-binding code, rather tha

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cyclical References

2005-03-26 Thread Joe Berkovitz
a tool which will make > it easier to detect and/or track down these issues? > > Silently doing the wrong thing in some cases is not a great position > statement for a tools vendor. Of course I would care less about this > if the bug wasn't biting me now, but > >

[flexcoders] Re: Image Caching

2005-03-28 Thread Joe Berkovitz
was definitely re-fetching the images over the network. I wonder if images retrieved via the Gif2Jpeg proxy servlet have the wrong (or absent) cache-control headers? I would have expected map reloading to be a lot zippier even given the current issues with images. . .. . ...j

Re: [flexcoders] Centering Titles in Panels

2005-03-31 Thread Joe Berkovitz
If you step into Panel.layoutChrome() in the FlexBuilder debugger, it appears from the source that the layout of the title is hardcoded to 5 pix off the left margin. So I guess you're out of luck in terms of using CSS. You could override layoutChrome() in a Panel subclass and hand-position t

Re: [flexcoders] Changing the 'Initializing...' text on the preloader?

2005-04-08 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Well, who would be so unkind as to delay your exit to the pub (which by my clock may have already occurred)? Try creating a custom preloader progress bar as per the "using a custom progress bar" section in Developing Flex Applications. Have this be a Canvas subclass that delegates all of its

Re: [flexcoders] HSlider for FLASH MX 2004?

2005-04-11 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Matt Chotin wrote: > Before anyone gets all high and mighty on how we should be including > source always I’ll just say we’re investigating options for doing so in > the next release. Gosh darn... I was *so* looking forward to getting all high and mighty... Oh, well, there's always a next tim

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe aquires Macromedia

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Berkovitz
One thing I see a lot of this morning is postings which roughly take this position: "Uh oh, this acquisition may mean that Flex (doesn't have | has more of | has less of) a future". I guess I'd like to remind all of us developers (including myself) that Flex's future, while extremely promising

[flexcoders] Flex Development Position at Allurent

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Allurent has an opening for a UI developer! Our job posting follows. Please send your resume directly to Lucy Chung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). = Stealth-mode startup seeks UI developer to join us as a core team member in creating a

Re: [flexcoders] Apply affects before and after databinding occurs in TileList

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I am having success doing this sort of thing with a Repeater instead (you can use a Tile container for the repeater layout), because it provides cleaner access to the component(s) on which the effect is to be applied. My technique is to subclass the container component inside the repeater,

Re: [flexcoders] Font Alias / Anti-Alias Setting

2005-04-19 Thread Joe Berkovitz
FWIW we have gotten much better results from the BatikFontManager for our TTF-based fonts -- and we had to disable the JREFontManager altogether. When using the JRE font manager with our TTFs, we saw all kinds of weird artifacts in the font at small sizes, and it generally looked terrible. .

Re: [flexcoders] Re: setting conditional "enabled" with AS

2005-04-19 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Joao, The trouble here is that you are only evaluating the condition once, when you create the button. You will need to add a listener to the dataProvider(s) that causes the condition to be reevaluated every time the data changes. As in: btn = ctrlbar.createChild(mx.controls.Button,undefi

Re: [flexcoders] Re: setting conditional "enabled" with AS

2005-04-19 Thread Joe Berkovitz
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Thanks, > > It worked but I was hoping that we could define the same logic with > AS as we do in MXML. I see we can't. > > João Fernandes > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <ma

Re: [flexcoders] Re: setting conditional "enabled" with AS

2005-04-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
lpful. Darron J. Schall wrote: > Joe Berkovitz wrote: >>I don't recommend using watch() as Darron suggested, because you can >>only have one user of watch() per watched object property. It's better >>to do what MXML bindings do and listen for change events. > &

Re: [flexcoders] show animated image during loading

2005-04-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Make another Image component that displays the animation (its image should be included with @embed to ensure that _it_ doesn't have to load!). Dynamically bind its "visible" property to "{loader.percentLoaded < 100}" where loader is the Loader component that is busy loading. If you want the

Re: [flexcoders] Apply affects before and after databinding occurs in TileList

2005-04-21 Thread Joe Berkovitz
the states of your objects, but very doable. superabe wrote: > Hi Joe, List > > Thanks for the tip. > I have been trying your approach and using the "childCreated" and > "childDestroyed" events of the Tile container to apply me effect, but I cant > figure out

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Positioning from a label in a Button

2005-04-28 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Unfortunately it seems that it really *is* that hard. Someone at Macromedia should take note of the fact that the button label placement appears to be hardcoded into the border metrics of ButtonSkin. We wound up having to create a custom theme with its own ButtonSkin subclass just to override

Re: [flexcoders] Tips on Custom component

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Erik, Unfortunately I'm not at liberty to share our source code, but I've created a component that is very similar to what you want. I can describe the overall approach since we're not in the business of building component libraries, so no state secrets here. But no code, sorry. It did take

[Fwd: Re: [flexcoders] Tips on Custom component]

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Erik, one more thing: I guess I should have mentioned that what I consider the hard part here is creating the kind of animation effects that are shown in the SWF that you posted. If all you want is to just have the appropriate components appearing and disappearing in a VBox with no animation o

Re: [flexcoders] API/Programmatic interface to MXMLC?

2005-05-02 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Well, you can always run MXMLC itself, because it's a Java program. The mxmlc command is roughly equivalent to java -jar ${FLEX_HOME}/lib/mxmlc.jar [args]. I note that running MXMLC is not exactly the same as the MXML generation, because you have to pass in some args that pertain to the runti

Re: [flexcoders] API/Programmatic interface to MXMLC?

2005-05-02 Thread Joe Berkovitz
un, I suspect there's an API, just not published. We'll find > it ;>. > > > -Original Message- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe Berkovitz > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:43 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogro

Re: [flexcoders] dispatchEvent in AS class?

2005-05-03 Thread Joe Berkovitz
BTW, any reason not to simply extend EventDispatcher itself, if this class does not already extend some other superclass? JesterXL wrote: > Nope, after my 2nd cup of coffee I understand, didn't know it was a > Singleton, doh! :: hits self on head :: > > - Original Message - > From: "E

Re: [flexcoders] dispatchEvent in AS class?

2005-05-03 Thread Joe Berkovitz
type a bad word, > you'll be able to inherit, but for now, it's "attached". > > - Original Message - > From: "Joe Berkovitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:01 AM > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] dispatchE

Re: [flexcoders] crimson.jar & flex runtime

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I will say (possibly irrelevantly) that I have seen xerces-based applications fail in the past when crimson.jar was placed in the CLASSPATH. I don't think they play nice together. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I checked the web.xml and the AMFGatewayServlet is loaded by a > Bootst

[flexcoders] deserialization bug: constructor runs AFTER properties are populated

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I just found to my surprise and chagrin that when a typed AMF object is deserialized on the client, the constructor for the object is run *after* the object's properties have been populated from the input stream. So if one innocently thinks that a constructor ought to be able to initialize var

[flexcoders] deserializing Maps with AMF (RemoteObject)

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I can't for the life of me seem to pass a java.util.Map back from a RemoteObject call. The data comes back as an empty array object ([]) rather than as an untyped object. Anyone encountered this problem? I have tried return-typing the method as HashMap and Object as well, no dice in any case.

Re: [flexcoders] deserialization bug: constructor runs AFTER properties are populated

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
> > > -Original Message- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe Berkovitz > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:53 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] deserialization bug: constructor runs AFTER > pro

Re: [flexcoders] deserializing Maps with AMF (RemoteObject)

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Berkovitz
) and allows you do use dot-syntax. Note that Map keys are > "toString"'ed too as per the requirements for AMF / AS2 types. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joe Berkovitz &

Re: [flexcoders] Compiling Flex files with Ant and mxmlc.jar

2005-05-25 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Here's a working Ant script(this is run in an exploded web application dir, but that's easy to change): Note that when using the jar= argument to , one doesn't specify a classpath. That's probably your problem. . .. . ...j Brett Palmer wrote: > I'v

Re: [flexcoders] Compiling Flex files with Ant and mxmlc.jar

2005-05-25 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Brett, here are some answers that I hope will be helpful. > 2. With the fork option set to true can I still use relative paths or > do I need to use full paths? You can use relative paths. Relative paths in arguments to the java program will be relative to the "dir" attribute of the task, w

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Converting Java POJO to Actionscript Errors

2005-05-27 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Kevin, here's one other thing to try if Peter's advice isn't relevant: Often, an AS class that is mapped from a POJO will not be referenced anywhere in the application code, since it only arrives in the application as a result of being deserialized. What happens in this case is that the MXMLC

Re: [flexcoders] Re: CF7, CFCs as Remote Objects, and AMF

2005-05-31 Thread Joe Berkovitz
Unfortunately, bindings have the capability of making properties seem to "disappear" from the standpoint of serialization. This happens because when a binding is applied to an value object, the bindings system invisibly replaces the var property with a getter/setter pair, and moves the actual

Re: [flexcoders] dragging around a canvas

2005-06-06 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I'd just add that the drag-and-drop functionality exhibited by TitleWindow and Panel is not all that hard to roll yourself if you need to -- it's implemented with functions for the MovieClip handlers onPress(), onRelease() and onMouseMove(), which call move() on the dragged object to move it fr

Re: [flexcoders] run Flex apps fullscreen

2005-06-14 Thread Joe Berkovitz
I don't have the answer, but I would very much expect that this is doable purely by employing DHTML and JavaScript in the enclosing web page, without involving Flex in any way. As such, you may have more luck searching resources that have to do with DHTML and scripting, rather than Flex. ...

RE: [flexcoders] call a function from a pop up title window.

2008-03-27 Thread joe . g . james
Thanks , that was helpful. I am still looking to dispatch an event from a title window. The mypopup.addEventListener does not seem to recognize the event being dispatched from the title window. I'm not sure if this matters, but the event is being dispatched when I get results back from a remot

[flexcoders] Video scrubber -- build from scratch or extend HSlider?

2008-11-20 Thread Joe Van Dyk
I'm building a video player that looks a lot like the one at hulu.com. The video scrub bar at the bottom should look something like this: http://img.skitch.com/20081120-fkmhfssnkma2f9gps8eggbdikt.jpg I also need to be able to draw lines at various parts of the scrub bar that represent comme

Re: [flexcoders] Re: linkBar labelFunction

2009-03-26 Thread joe . g . james
Thanks, but I would like to be able to update the field name. ex : ROLE = Group Administrator labelFunction return "Manage Employees" ROLE = Group Presenter labelFunction return "Manage Presentations " Joe James Sr. Web Developer Kaiser Permanent

Re: [flexcoders] getItemIndex ......returning -1

2009-04-26 Thread joe . g . james
Thank you, but for some reason the index variable is providing me with a -1 value, so the if statement is never true. var index:int = -1; for (var i:int = 0; index < courses.length; index++) { -1 if (courses.getItemAt(index).TITLE == "specific course name") { index

Re: [flexcoders] change datagrid rowHeight on rollover

2010-07-30 Thread joe . g . james
Correct. I can accomplish that with the following override protected function updateDisplayList(w:Number,h:Number):void { var dg:DataGrid = DataGrid(listData.owner); if (dg.isItemHighlighted(data) || dg.isIt

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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Data grid with check box... How to get value

2005-06-23 Thread joe . g . james
The data grid is populated from a data provider. It displays about 20 rows. When I click on one of the check box I would like to be able to get a value from one of the cells in that row. The data grid is a MXML component and the check box  is from a cell rendering action scripting file. CO

Re: [flexcoders] Sort data grid that has a check box cell renderer

2005-06-24 Thread joe . g . james
I do not have the code. I am doing  research for some body else. I do know that the data provider is a java object. Some on else asked me if I was updated the data provider when the check box was checked.  That is not happening.  Nothing is transactional until the submit button hit. CONFIDE

RE: [flexcoders] Sorting a data grid that has a combo box cell renderer.

2005-06-29 Thread joe . g . james
Here is the code I am using. DATGRID      (deletedx.mxml) {DXList.dxinfo}                 DATAPROVIDER  (dxlist.xml)                         129622                 AMAJOR DEPRESSIVE AFFECTIVE DISORDER SINGLE EPISODE MODERATE DEGREE                                 ECS    

RE: [flexcoders] Sorting a data grid that has a combo box cell renderer.

2005-06-29 Thread joe . g . james
that has a combo box cell renderer. Posting the same question twice won't improve your chances for a solution. Go back and look at Manish's answer, and come back with a new question if needed. Tracy -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: [flexcoders] How do I bound XML data into an array that is my dataprovider for a data grid

2005-07-07 Thread joe . g . james
cisco                 That is how you bind a Model with DataGrid. As far as ComboBox's dataProvider is concerned, you can have static property in CellRenderer class. Set the static property from the application. -abdul -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailt

RE: [flexcoders] How do I bound XML data into an array that is mydataprovider for a data grid

2005-07-08 Thread joe . g . james
oncerned, you can have static property in CellRenderer class. Set the static property from the application. -abdul -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:00 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [

RE: [flexcoders] Can someone please explain to me why I can not get mycombo boxes to sort in my

2005-07-13 Thread joe . g . james
Thank you, that works great ! CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged.  If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy, use,

Re: [flexcoders] Need help with components.

2005-08-05 Thread joe . g . james
ond to flexcoders@yahoogroups.com To flexcoders@yahoogroups.com cc Subject Re: [flexcoders] Need help with components. On 8/5/05, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to be able to change the label on that button when the > selectedIndex of the tab navigator is cha

Re: [flexcoders] Need help with components.

2005-08-05 Thread joe . g . james
Never mind I got it. Thanks a lot. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged.  If you are not an intended recipient, you must not read, copy,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Datagrid columns resize

2005-09-12 Thread joe . g . james
;       >             >                   > cellRenderer="MyTotal"/> >                   >                   >                   >             >       > > > vGridLineColor="#FF" hGridLineColor="#FF" id="myGrid2"

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Datagrid columns resize

2005-09-13 Thread joe . g . james
; > > > > backgroundColor="#FF"> > > > > > > > > > > alternatingRowColors="[#CC,#FF]" columnStretch="setWidth > > (event);" marginBottom="0"> > >       > >             > >    

RE: [flexcoders] date sort

2005-10-07 Thread joe . g . james
idColumn.   Matt   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] date sort   Is there a way to sort a date field in a data grid that is using a labelfunction to get the da

Re: [flexcoders] Shuffle items in Repeater

2006-12-12 Thread joe . g . james
That's what I needed. Thank you ! Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If yo

RE: [flexcoders] Embed HTML in Flex

2006-12-14 Thread joe . g . james
uired."); } __source = source; ExternalInterface.call("loadIFrame", source); moveIFrame(); } } Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are i

Re: [flexcoders] Toggle items in an Array collection

2007-01-05 Thread joe . g . james
Thanks. That works perfect ! Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If you are not an

Re: [flexcoders] Question with

2007-01-15 Thread joe . g . james
Never mind. I realized I did not need to specify a direction. Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential

RE: [flexcoders] Change style on repeater item

2007-01-19 Thread joe . g . james
Thanks ! Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient

Re: [flexcoders] Change style on repeater item

2007-01-22 Thread joe . g . james
x.styleName='results' } } Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information that may be confidential or privileged. If you

RE: [flexcoders] Newie : calling a function when setting selected index

2006-11-27 Thread joe . g . james
Sorry for my lack of detail. When I use AS3 to set the selected index of a datagrid can it call a function the same way that I would if I used a click event? Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it

RE: [flexcoders] Newie : calling a function when setting selected index

2006-11-27 Thread joe . g . james
I was able to use the updateComplete="callFunction()" . Thanks. Joe James Work: (562) 658-3670 Tie Line: 8-320-3670 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT - This message and any files or text attached to it are intended only for the recipients named above, and contain information t

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