[flexcoders] Slow UI Resizing?

2007-05-01 Thread Jon Bradley
Hey all, I'm brand spankin new to Flex 2 and AS3, working on a real world project as a way to dive right on in. I'm sure I'll have tons of questions and it looks to me like this list is quite active ... so that's great! My first impressions of the UI display speed are not good. I created

Re: [flexcoders] Slow UI Resizing?

2007-05-02 Thread Jon Bradley
it to operate differently. Rest assured that when things are moving/resizing *inside* your app (as opposed to the app window resizing) things will be as jiffy quick as you expect from Flash. Troy. On 5/1/07, Jon Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm brand spankin new to Flex 2

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On May 2, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Andrew Muller wrote: Ooh, does this mean that they forgot to announce IE for the Mac at MIX??? Thank goodness they won't... I'd be afraid of all the new CSS hacks I'd have to learn. Oh, and all those other hacked variations on standard languages... - jon

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for Custom panel widget as used on adobe.com/In The Flex community

2007-05-03 Thread Jon Bradley
I'd love to know where that is as well. I can't be certain but I think I've seen it before somewhere ... - jon On May 3, 2007, at 8:46 AM, efgeho wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the component used at the bottom of: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?tab:home=1 Recent Activity 69 New Members

Re: [flexcoders] Zooming of the whole Application !!! Doesnt behave like a authorin tool published SWF

2007-05-07 Thread Jon Bradley
I'm having the same problem actually. When the scale mode is set to showall the size of the stage is 200% larger than the browser window (?!?!). Makes no sense to me why it would do that. Application is set to be 100% on the width and height, but why Flex is causing the content to be twice

[flexcoders] Tree/Accordion Type Component?

2007-05-07 Thread Jon Bradley
Hey all, Looking to see if anyone has developed (or knows of an existing) a component that acts like an accordion and tree combined. I'm developing something that calls for a panel with collapsable content items that need to fit into a scrolling view and dynamically align to the previous

Re: [flexcoders] Tree/Accordion Type Component?

2007-05-07 Thread Jon Bradley
LOL. That is almost exactly what I'm looking to do. Unfortunately I don't have a budget for the components I need, so purchasing at the time is not an option. I was hoping it was just a hack to the current accordion component to resize the container and keep items open. Juan just pointed

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Tree/Accordion Type Component?

2007-05-08 Thread Jon Bradley
Mike, No problem. :) As far as purchasing the components, I took a look at your site and read through some of the docs and the FAQ. Unfortunately, no full source code and additional licensing for bundled applications is a no- no. In the case of this component, I can bang it out and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Zooming of the whole Application !!! Doesnt behave like a authorin tool pub

2007-05-08 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea, it's pretty mundane to have to work that way. I'm almost suprised that after all this time, Adobe didn't introduce fitWidth or fitHeight as options on the scaleMode parameter. It would make the most sense and would be a heck of a lot more useful than their current routine that really,

[flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-10 Thread Jon Bradley
So... I've got a backend server running Apache Tomcat and I've got the ability through our CMS to dynamically create gateways, and use an AJAX API to get information from them. I've never used AJAX and I'm pretty new to Flex, so the question is how can I make the same type of call that an

Re: [flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-10 Thread Jon Bradley
I love simple answers. thanks man. now I just have to figure out how to use it. On May 10, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Alex Harui wrote: flash.net.URLLoader

Re: [flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea, probably a good thought. I'm actually looking at Caringorn (sp?) as a solution to the service issues that I will probably run into in the near future. At the moment, there are only two of us on the team developing this application we're working on, but I'm already aware of the use cases

Re: [flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-11 Thread Jon Bradley
On the same line of thought, since HTTPRequest seems to be one of the answers to my problem, has anyone tried to perform user authentication through that? The system we're developing uses servlets for all communication - but it creates these dynamically as we define pages that contain

Re: [flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-14 Thread Jon Bradley
Tracy, Rock on. Thanks for the tips -- especially the login example using JSP. I've got to look through our CMS though. All the pages are, technically, JSP pages, so this should be interesting to try out. thanks again! jon On May 11, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Tracy Spratt wrote: I have a

Re: [flexcoders] XMLHTTPRequest in Flex instead of Javascript

2007-05-14 Thread Jon Bradley
James - Cool, thanks for that. Are you using caringorn per chance? Thinking about getting into that - I come from a more traditional AS2 background and usually follow that type of development paradigm, but doing so in Flex 2 / AS3 is, at the moment, just a tad beyond my experience

[flexcoders] TileList skinning help

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
I'm trying to skin up the TileList component and am not having the best of luck - aside from just changing colors and whatnot. Has anyone succeeded in using skins through CSS to style the TileList component? Specifically, I have a background skin that I'm trying to use for the normal

Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Not sure what you're really asking, how to do a nested tree? You need to use XMLList instead of XML (I don't think it dynamically casts the dataProvider to a XMLList if you provide it just XML). You can swap out label with name and use the same labelField convention. good luck, - jon

Re: [flexcoders] e4x, nested elements tree data provider

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Ah, I see what you mean. Tracy - yea, i realized my goof on that one after I sent the message (XML and XMLList are interchangeable for Tree). Thanks for keeping me in check. :) Try the isBranch attribute for folders that you do not want the tree to display. Then you can write a custom

Re: [flexcoders] TileList skinning help

2007-05-18 Thread Jon Bradley
Woa... great overview you have on itemRenderers on your blog. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out what demo you were referring to that solves these problems. Could you post a direct link (or email it to me)? thanks a ton! - jon On May 18, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Alex Harui wrote: All List

[flexcoders] Lucene Query AS3

2007-05-21 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone built a Lucene query class in AS3 for use with Flex? I found only one mention of Flex and Lucene in the same sentence - a posting by Ted on his blog about Lucene and Flex. Apparently there was a talk at MAX about it. cheers, jon

[flexcoders] TileListItemRenderer help

2007-05-22 Thread Jon Bradley
I've asked around .. and thanks to Alex Harui I've gotten some places, but now I'm a bit confused how to integrate a custom renderer with the proper controls that I need ... into an mxml renderer with the updateDisplayList overridden. I've got a TileList itemRenderer that mxml with some AS

[flexcoders] TileList skinning .. again

2007-05-22 Thread Jon Bradley
Nice... so there's a great tutorial on skinning the Flash CS3 TileList, but ... go figure that none of these (obvious) properties are implemented in Flex 2. Am I missing something on this? The TileList has, from the tutorial:

[SOLVED] Re: [flexcoders] TileListItemRenderer help

2007-05-22 Thread Jon Bradley
This is in response to both of my posts (unfortunately, I posted twice in two separate threads - sorry about that everyone!!). With the help of Alex H., I got it all figured out. For future reference, if anyone wants to simply swap out the background of the TileList component and you've got

Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Verdana font may shadow error

2007-05-22 Thread Jon Bradley
First thought is to rename your 'family' to something else: @font-face { src: local(Verdana) ; fontFamily: VerdanaEmbed; unicodeRange: U+0041-U+005A, /* Upper-Case [A..Z] */ U+0061-U+007A, /* Lower-Case a-z */ U+0030-U+0039, /* Numbers [0..9] */

Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Verdana font may shadow error

2007-05-23 Thread Jon Bradley
Gotta love cryptic messages. Though, I guess they're not as bad as I've seen in some of my other programs. :) Happy we could help out. I'm sure I've been a pain since I signed up to flexcoders with all sorts of questions ... so anywhere I can help I'm more than happy to. cheers, jon On

Re: [flexcoders] BarCode Generator Component

2007-05-31 Thread Jon Bradley
That's pretty cool. On the first tab, code 39 - it seems to me that the numbers 5 and 6 are identical. I don't know much about bar codes, but I'm pretty sure those should be different. Might want to look in to that... :) cheers, jon On May 30, 2007, at 1:35 PM, nathanpdaniel wrote:

[flexcoders] VideoDisplay smoothing

2007-06-05 Thread Jon Bradley
I saw a post on the cookbook beta about smoothing the VideoDisplay but unfortunately it doesn't work out of the box. There's a call to videoPlayer.smoothing which obviously doesn't exist. After removing that, event extending VideoDisplay and using the _smoothing property, it doesn't smooth

Re: [flexcoders] HSlider Skinning Troubles

2007-06-06 Thread Jon Bradley
This is just a shot in the dark: Add a transparent box behind the light gray triangle area that's the height of the thumb. So, if your thumb is 20 pixels high, and the track is 10 pixels high, draw a transparent box in the track that's 20 high and position the track on top of that box

Re: [flexcoders] ValueObjects and CRUD operations

2007-06-06 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: I am learning about Cairgorm, and about the usage of Value Objects. This makes sense. However, I am curious about how to handle basic operations on these value objects. I just went through the exact same learning curve. I'm not an

[flexcoders] Flex 3 fractional scroll on List?

2007-06-14 Thread Jon Bradley
OK ... I can absolutely find zero information on this, either in the documentation or on the release notes. The only mention of it was in Matt Chotin's article on Adobe.com. I'm actually more interested in finding out whether or not Adobe added fractional / smooth scrolling to not only the

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 fractional scroll on List?

2007-06-14 Thread Jon Bradley
Harui wrote: Still planned, not committed, not in this beta. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bradley Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:09 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 3 fractional scroll on List? OK ... I can

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 fractional scroll on List?

2007-06-15 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Alex Harui wrote: How about the excuse/reason that we don’t want to generate a renderer for every item in your dataprovider, and if they had variablerowheight, we’d never get the scrollbar parameters right? I do echo Troy's thoughts on the list controls and

Re: [flexcoders] Paid research at Adobe SF

2007-06-15 Thread Jon Bradley
I'd be happy to participate in any of your feedbacks - it can only help us out. Heck - I don't get that kind of benefit even as a platinum Maya member with Autodesk!! Well, kinda... Unfortunately, there's a lot of us not located near CafeTownsend, :o), so how about feedback sessions that

Re: [flexcoders] What technologies allow you to run AS3 on the server side?

2007-08-27 Thread Jon Bradley
I hear a new version of Flash Media Server is in the works that should support AS3. I don't know if that's slated to arrive this year though... cheers, jon On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Bruce Hopkins wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of any technologies that all you to run Actionscript

[flexcoders] Techniques for rotating non-embedded fonts

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Hey Flexcoders... got a question. I've got all transformations on non-embedded fonts integrated, but the rotate feature is tripping me up a bit. The trick I want to use is as follows: 1. Class MyLabel (extends Sprite) contains one reference to MyTextField class - an extension of

[flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone ever tried to do this? Is there any available hacks using _internal or something so that children can be added to a UITextField (either by multiple inheritance or something with a Sprite?). Yargh.

Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Thanks Kyle. Yea, I assumed that already. What I'm trying to figure out is if it's possible to create a combination of a UITextField and a sprite as a single class. flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer isnt' available anywhere to look at, and I'm wondering if that's an intrinsic class to

Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea, but the question would then be can I decorate a UITextField with the capabilities of a Sprite, or is the DisplayObjectContainer intrinsic and that's not possible. If I can, I'd extend TextField/FlexTextField/UITextField if necessary to put in the _children property. Mainly trying to

Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 30, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Alex Harui wrote: You can add a _children property, but you can’t get it to render children. Well... at least I won't try to go down that route now. :) Related to the same problem ... do you know if there is an event triggered when the style of a UITextField

Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-30 Thread Jon Bradley
: I think if you override validateNow(), when it comes back it is pretty much done. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Bradley Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:04 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField

Re: [flexcoders] Techniques for rotating non-embedded fonts

2007-08-31 Thread Jon Bradley
Just for the archives. I'll reply to myself. :) On Aug 30, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Jon Bradley wrote: The trick I want to use is as follows: 1. Class MyLabel (extends Sprite) contains one reference to MyTextField class - an extension of UITextField. It also contains one Bitmap. MyLabel

Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm - Architectural kinda question

2007-08-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Aug 31, 2007, at 6:31 AM, Jus wrote: Quite straightforward, right? I want to use value objects - but I have some questions about how they should be used: 1) Can or should a VO contain references to or collections of other VOs? For example, a wine has a producer. I have a wineVO and a

Re: [flexcoders] addChild to UITextField?

2007-08-31 Thread Jon Bradley
on the way you did this? I have a need for it, but it is on the back burner for now. Any insight would be a world of help. Thanks for any insight, Tony Jon Bradley wrote: Thanks for all your help on this guys. I finally figured it all out. Jeez - took long enough. Now I just have

Re: [flexcoders] Serving a swf file from another server

2007-09-06 Thread Jon Bradley
Loading the SWF itself into the embed tag won't cause any security restrictions - unless the web server is configured to disallow that (that's an IIS or apache thing). If the SWF file is loading content within itself (images, audio, video, additional SWF files) then you may run into

Re: [flexcoders] TileList Binding Issue

2007-09-12 Thread Jon Bradley
Something like the following process: myCollection.enableAutoUpdate(); myCollection.itemUpdated(someItem, someProperty,someOldValue,someNewValue); myCollection.disableAutoUpdate(); myColleciton.refresh(); // just to be sure I have it working fine with the itemUpdated and refresh. I usually

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList Binding Issue

2007-09-12 Thread Jon Bradley
I've seen the problems discussed so far in the thread in the past months. One core issue, I believe, is associated with the ArrayCollection itself and the type of content you are storing in the ArrayCollection. In some situations, the ArrayCollection gets screwed up with the IUID of the

Re: [flexcoders] [Bindable] not binding

2007-09-13 Thread Jon Bradley
Shot in the dark and this might be a dumb question, but, are you sure you have the bold weight of the font in your CSS defined? good luck, jon On Sep 13, 2007, at 6:20 AM, polestar11 wrote: [Bindable] public var controller: QController; mx:Label id=titleText text={controller.title}

Re: [flexcoders] fontSize in Flex

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Bradley
Create your text at the largest size you can and then use scale to set the actual size of the text. Maybe start with 100 as the base size of the text and work from there - 12pt being 0.12 scale so you can map it pretty easily. Not sure how accurate that will be though. In a previous

Re: [flexcoders] Fill outline of a Sprite

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Troy Gilbert wrote: You're missing his point: he's got a shape (probably created in Flash) exported as an SWF, but its just an outline, and he wants to fill it. The answer: sorry, can't do it. You can't modify vector information exported out of Flash as an

Re: [flexcoders] Embedding Flash font

2007-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
I'm guessing because it's not recognizing the embedded font - you're seeing the character from the default font, not the embedded font. A few things I try to make sure of: 1. Don't name the embedded font in the Flash 8 swf file the same as the system font. 2. Open the Flash 8 SWF back up

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding Flash font

2007-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
luck, jon On Sep 16, 2007, at 3:46 PM, candysmate wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jon Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing because it's not recognizing the embedded font - you're seeing the character from the default font, not the embedded font. A few things I try to make

Re: [flexcoders] Math.cos...?

2007-09-16 Thread Jon Bradley
That's pretty much it. To a computer Math.cos(Math.PI/2) is not 0. It's really close to 0, because PI is an infinite sequence and a computer can only store it as a double precision floating point number (ie, a fixed value). What you get back from this calculation is the error bound of the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding Flash font

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
Ok, I just checked that out. Looks as though when the font is set to antialias, it uses the system name for the Font, so Wingdings if you choose that. If you set the font to be 'bitmap' and don't antialias, it exports it as fontName_SIZEpt_st or in my test Wingdings_8pt_st. You might

Re: [flexcoders] Math.cos...?

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Mike Krotscheck wrote: I may take you up on this challenge- I’ve got this strange masochistic urge to see if ML has the same restriction. I seem to recall proving e^i to an arbitrary significant digit, so Pi shouldn’t be too much different. You could do that.

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to anti-alias fonts without embedding?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Alex Harui wrote: Device fonts are anti-aliased except when cached as bitmaps. They should be anti-aliased even when cached as bitmaps in the upcoming Player 9,0,60 and later. Now all you guys need to do is support rotation on non-embedded fonts. That would

[flexcoders] JPGEncoder with progress support?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone attempted to modify the corelib JPGEncoder to support progress. Rather than letting it bang away for a seemingly long time, I'd like to provide feedback for JPG (and PNG) compression if possible. many thanks for any pointers... - jon

Re: [flexcoders] JPGEncoder with progress support?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
Sure does Doug! Thanks for the tips. I'm actually re-writing the corelib version now to make it more efficient for larger images. Right now encoding a 2k image takes much longer than I'm happy with. :) I was doing a bit more research and will be breaking it up into 'chunks' with progress

Re: [flexcoders] pixel font [old] issue

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
But I do not believe that solution helps with pixel fonts that need to be antialiased based on the grid. The only way that I know of to get it to work properly is by using Flash to export the font. I'd love a cleaner method though... - j On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Randy Martin wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to anti-alias fonts without embedding?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
Thanks for any help Alex... I'm actually having issues on the initial draw of the bitmap - so visual problems. While the user rotates and scales the field, everything is fine and dandy. BUT, when the class for handling the bitmap and the text field itself is first instantiated, the field

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to anti-alias fonts without embedding?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
load up a field that's rotated some arbitrary angle. I have to test online though, because I suspect there may be an underlying issue with the style loading. Hope it works... - j On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: I'm actually having issues on the initial draw of the bitmap - so

Re: [flexcoders] pixel font [old] issue

2007-09-22 Thread Jon Bradley
Search archives. Another embedding fonts thread was discussed up about a week ago (Embed Flash Font was the subject). Text of my post is below, which works for all pixel fonts I've tested so far (provided you use the proper font size in the Flex CSS document). First step is to put a

Re: [flexcoders] JPGEncoder with progress support?

2007-09-23 Thread Jon Bradley
Yea - but I haven't bothered to dl the flex 3 sdk yet. Ah, so much to do... :) Plus, I think it could use some some speeding up and control over whether or not to distribute the processing into chunks or as one continuous processed block. On Sep 23, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Gordon Smith

Re: [flexcoders] JPGEncoder with progress support?

2007-09-24 Thread Jon Bradley
As far as I know, callLater is part of the Flex framework. You can't use that if you're writing your own AS3 classes that do nothing with the framework... cheers, jon On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Arpit Mathur wrote: on using timer for screen updates: Is there any advantage (or

Re: [flexcoders] simple form post

2007-09-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about doing this: I have form in a flex application I hit the submit button The form is posted to a PHP page. Ok, you got that far yet? I can access the form variables on that PHP page. I heve been looking for an example

Re: [flexcoders] Entering and Passing Data to a Cairngorm Event?

2007-09-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Agree with Mike. You can use public vars and at least put them in the class as a requirement for the event construction. A more complete (simple) example: package com.yourcompany.project.controls { public class LoginUserEvent extends CairngormEvent { public var login

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Here we go again: Flex Vs Java

2007-09-27 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:05 AM, gers32 wrote: First of all, a Flex front-end is Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 for JSPs. I recently made the switch from JSP to Flex for that reason. Also, your application will scale better if you put some of the logic inside the Client. I'm not so sure the 2.0 vs 1.0

Re: [flexcoders] Image manipulation tutorials

2007-09-30 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 29, 2007, at 12:53 AM, mailtoanzer wrote: Hi, I want to do some image manipulations like crop, resize, blur etc in my current Flex project. Can some one please point me to some open source project or tutorials for this. Thanks and Best Regards, Anz All of this is just actionscript

Re: [flexcoders] Binding the results from a CFC to a value object

2007-10-16 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:34 AM, stephen50232 wrote: But I keep getting error messages telling me that e.result does not have a property called Firstname (or any of the other fields returned by the query in the CFC). And that's correct if the result is returned as an ArrayCollection. An

Re: [flexcoders] Dragging image from TileList - the dragProxy steals the original image!

2007-10-18 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:09 AM, bjorn - wrote: I've got this problem where I have images in a TileList and when I start do drag an image the image disappears (goes black) in the TileList. I can still see the image in the drag proxy though. When I release the drag I don't see the image

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Croping area

2007-10-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Creating multiple versions of an image is a bit much on the overhead. Plus, you don't have the capability of doing a white wash, or dark wash, or custom color overlay for the crop. In my applications I've written a an 'overlay' class. It's is a filled rectangle drawn in clockwise fashion,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Croping area

2007-10-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:15 AM, mailtoanzer wrote: Hi Ian, Thank you for the reply. I tried your solution but I couldnt make the crop area draggable. I am trying to do something similar to the crop tool in http://www.picnik.com/. My crop area is not resizable but the whole image can be scaled by

Re: [flexcoders] FW: FileReference.upload()

2007-10-24 Thread Jon Bradley
Yargh. I'm running into the exact same thing right now. I'm testing Django as the backend for file upload and can't seem to figure out how to get it to work. IE is not an option for development or testing of any type. Has anyone gotten this to work with any server scripting? The

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Croping area

2007-10-24 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:08 PM, shaun wrote: Could you explain this idea of reverse order a bit more or provide a url with some information about how to do this. I dont think I really understand how to implement it. Reverse Order is the opposite ordering of control points, or knots, on a

Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Bradley
Even then... I believe it should be noted that Cairngorm is more than just an MVC architecture. There are a variety of patterns involved in using the framework, not the least of which is MVC. Even then, i don't think it really has a fully qualified MVC pattern because there are no specific

Re: [flexcoders] Components best practices for a newb

2007-10-25 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: Even then... I believe it should be noted that Cairngorm is more than just an MVC architecture. There are a variety of patterns involved in using the framework, not the least of which is MVC. Even then, i don't think it really has a fully

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Croping area

2007-10-26 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Kevin wrote: this may be a silly question, but how exactly do you draw something in reverse order. I understand the concept, but I am not sure how to do it. Can you do it with the Graphics class or do you need to dig deeper? Mmmm.. I guess I didn't

Re: [flexcoders] Yuwie is similar to MySpace but with difference. Yuwie pay its members to use the site!!

2007-10-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Gavin Go wrote: Yuwie is like MySpace I adore first-time-poster spam. Can we remove this address from the list? :P - jon

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Papervision 3D be available for use in Flex Builder 3 ???

2007-11-01 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: Actually, it's a pretty big deal on reflection. I remember that we will also have a Z axis, so it's possible to represent any 3D surface and therefore full-blown 3D objects. I wonder how they render now that they have a Z axis to contend

Re: [flexcoders] Maximum Image Width able to be displayed

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:11 AM, greggiacovelli wrote: Hi, I have been trying to figure out a way around this for a few weeks. It seems there is an undocumented limit of around 8192 px wide images that can be rendered inside of the flash player. Is this an undocumented limitation or is there a way

Re: [flexcoders] Maximum Image Width able to be displayed

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Greg Giacovelli wrote: So what it seems is going on is that it renders the image, clips it, and then displays the visible region and applies a mask over the rest. However the render fails so the rest of the steps are just wasted cycles. I have a fix to just

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Aldo Bucchi wrote: It is THE biggest thing I have seen so far related to the flash player. It's cool, no doubt. There are questionable elements to that demonstration. Although it was primarily running in the Player, it's likely that the actual rendering was

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Matt Chotin wrote: The demo was on a custom Flash Player but my understanding of the only real change is that he made some performance improvements in our ByteArray class (that we can hopefully incorporate into a future release). As part of the demo I believe

Re: [flexcoders] Aha... did someone say C/C++ to AS3???

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Bradley
Basically, it is now business to create a library and become the first to have it in AS3... probably not an evident niche to the rest of us because AIR has not hit the streets yet, but I can bet more than one company is doing something in those lines. Everyday individuals and companies are

Re: [flexcoders] Canvas layout / style

2007-11-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Giles Roadnight wrote: The obvious way to do it is to have an image as a background with rounded corners and shadows as part of the image, I'd rather do it with styles if I could though. Might not be exactly what you are looking for, but could you just use a

[flexcoders] Issues with Dynamic vs. Embedded Font Leading

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Bradley
This might've been brought up before, but I can't find reference to it. I'm working on an application that is rendering text fields (multiline, print resolution) on the client end that will be rendered on the server, currently using GDI+ (but other options are open). Photoshop, InDesign and

Re: [flexcoders] Issues with Dynamic vs. Embedded Font Leading

2007-12-01 Thread Jon Bradley
be because of the quadratic approximation of the font outlines. cheers, jon On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Jon Bradley wrote: Embedded fonts, on the other hand, incorrectly render leading, always. I say incorrectly because it's not how any other desktop print application does it, so far as I can

[flexcoders] Alfresco anyone?

2007-12-11 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone here had either success or is experimenting with Flex and Alfresco? I'm not a fluent Java developer by any means and there's nothing I can find whatsoever about Flex/Alfresco integration. There's mention of it here and there and how Adobe and Alfresco are working together

Re: [flexcoders] cut a piece of gif or jpg image

2007-12-13 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 13, 2007, at 9:46 AM, ds.dinesh wrote: Please send me any flex code which help me to cut a piece of image. That's not specific to Flex. That's just the BitmapData API. Look up BitmapData in the AS3 docs. - j

Re: [flexcoders] TransformTool

2007-12-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 14, 2007, at 7:43 AM, dopenhagen wrote: I am looking for the best way to apply transformation capabilities to an object. I have so far been using the TransformTool from Senocular (http://www.senocular.com/demo/TransformToolAS3/TransformTool.html) but it seems to me that many other Flex

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TransformTool

2007-12-14 Thread Jon Bradley
On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:58 AM, dopenhagen wrote: Hello Jon, Thanks for your reply. I had also found the Alessandro posting and found it to be quite valuable. However, despite his codesnippet, I am still having trouble skinning the control-handles of the TransformTool-Control. You have a few

[flexcoders] Bug in TextInput with select and release outside

2007-12-30 Thread Jon Bradley
Has anyone run into this and know what the fix might be? This is tough to explain in a short description: 1. Have some text in a text input field. 2. Select the text from right to left (all of it), releasing outside of the text input 3. Delete it 4. Start typing 5. Notice that the text stay at

Re: [flexcoders] Font rendering for print

2008-01-09 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 9, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Frederico Garcia wrote: Does anyone know how to make flash render fonts the same way for screen display and printing? I've tried embedding fonts, changing the settings for flashType and fontAntiAliasType but I just can't get fonts to display the same way. This

Re: [flexcoders] Role based rendoring of MXML components - visibility and editability

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 28, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Abdul Qabiz wrote: I would not do any such role-based things on client, it's very easy to spoof http packets and a normal user can get access to Admin UI... Just be careful with that... If you have solid way to avoid any such security issues, go ahead.

Re: [flexcoders] Picnik photo functions/features RD

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Bradley
I believe a majority of the image processing is done on the server but it depends on the circumstance. In most cases (not all though), doing image processing in AS is not the best design choice. Some transformations may be done in AS, but it would not make sense in the general case to do

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Picnik photo functions/features RD

2008-01-29 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Alexander Tsoukias wrote: Given the nature of picnik, i wouldnt think they go back and forth as the manipulation happens instantly as you drag a slider or pick a color. I think that's accurate. Some of the simpler operations are able to be done in Flash

Re: [flexcoders] Flash video switcher to video file..

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:24 AM, grimmwerks wrote: I've got a client asking me if it's possible to create a sort of video switcher -- where users choose shots - and then export to a file. I think something like this is possible in Flash Media Server, but unsure? There was another response to

Re: [flexcoders] Flash video switcher to video file..

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:13 PM, P Smith wrote: The only actual FLV editor that really can save a new FLV file out is the FLV editor at richapps.de. could the fms serverside actionscript method Stream.record() be used to generate new flv?

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Error #2025 - Clash between Flex 3 (Beta 2) Flash CS3 (Possible Bug)

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Bradley
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Justin Winter wrote: Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but I'd love to hear a better way to overcome the traditional workflow changes since Flex 2. Best regards. Justin Winter useflexmore.com Sander a QI recently released some code that demonstrated the

Re: [flexcoders] Looking for offical specs on OpenGL hardware acceleration

2008-02-05 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:05 PM, cole_joplin wrote: Is there an official spec on this somewhere? I'd like to know if FP has just a narrow window for me to use, or if I have a way to get to more OpenGL calls. Will OpenGL become available outside of fullscreen mode? Literally a narrow window - ie,

Re: [flexcoders] Image Marquee

2008-02-08 Thread Jon Bradley
On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Dan Vega wrote: I am pretty new to Flex but a vet in the programming world so Action Script 3 is great and I think I am coming along quickly with it. I am trying to create a footer bar 800w 60h that will display an animated marquee of all the images i load from

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