[flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2
Title: Layout problems in Flex 2 Getting to know Flexbuilder 2. Having problems getting my panels to lay out right in a tiled area. See: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/AFDW/AFDWTOC.swf I would like the panels to be left-justified and below the application bar. My script follows. The problem begins in line 36 where the panel repeater starts. Any help is much appreciated. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml xmlns=* backgroundColor=0xF4F4F4 creationComplete=init(); mx:Script ![CDATA[ private function init():Void{ dataService.send(); } [Bindable] public var selectedItem:Object ]] /mx:Script mx:HTTPService id=dataService resultFormat=object url="">data/dashboard.xml / mx:Canvas width=812 height=100% fillColors=[0xFCF395, 0xFCF395] themeColor=haloSilver mx:Image id=logo source=assets/afdwLogo.jpg alpha=1 x=0 y=0 width=810/ mx:Tile id=myFlow marginTop=65 marginBottom=0 marginRight=0 marginLeft=0 verticalGap=10 horizontalGap=10 width=100% tileWidth=200 mx:ApplicationControlBar width=810 height=49 cornerRadius=5 fillColors=[0xF0DF31, 0xFCF395] alpha=1 x=0 y=100 mx:Repeater id=r dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.menu.menuItem} startingIndex=0 mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Label id=nameLabel text={r.currentItem.label}/ mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:VRule height=10/ /mx:Repeater mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Text width=130 text={[EMAIL PROTECTED]}/ mx:ComboBox dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.locations.site} width=150 change=selectedItem=ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem/ /mx:ApplicationControlBar mx:Repeater y=150 id=panels_r dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} startingIndex=0 mx:Panel width=200 height=200 fillColors=[0xF0DF31, 0xFCF395] title={panels_r.currentItem.label} mx:Text text=Hello / /mx:Panel /mx:Repeater /mx:Tile /mx:Canvas /mx:Application Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2
Thanks Andreas, Ill have a look at your code. On Friday I ended up positioning the Tile area with hard coded X and Y values (not desirable, but it works) so that it starts below the title bar. Thanks for the help! Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Weber Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:04 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2 Hi Jason, good to see you around here too! This is all very new to me too, but as far as I see the Tile acts very much like a very basic HTML table in which cells cannot be merged: basically all cells in a row have the same height and all cells in a column have the same width - as a result the Tile will work best when used for items with a certain similarity in size. In your example the first element in the Tile is the ControlBar which spreads over the entire width of the base canvas - if the Tile can 'flow naturally' it will in this case consist of 3 rows and only 1 column - this according to the 'law' that all cells in a column have the same width. Now the Tile allows us to change the 'natural flow' - e.g. by setting the tileWidth property (as you do). This will make that the cell size will not adapt to the size of the element inside but will crop it to the given value: panels will appear on top of the ControlBar, left edge of the first one at x=200, the second one at x=400, as the tileWidth is set to 200. To avoid this, I'd suggest to remove the ControlBar from the Tile: it's probably just too wide and dissimilar to give good results. In this scenario it is not necessary to set the tileWidth: this has the advantage that the Tile Layout will adapt automatically when the panels change size. See code below. hth Andreas Weber ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml xmlns= * backgroundColor= 0xF4F4F4 creationComplete=init(); mx:Script ![CDATA[ private function init():Void { dataService.send(); } [Bindable] public var selectedItem:Object ]] /mx:Script mx:HTTPService id=dataService resultFormat= object url="" / mx:Canvas width=812 height=100% fillColors=[0xFCF395, 0xFCF395] themeColor=haloSilver mx:Image id=logo source=assets/afdwLogo.jpg alpha=1 x=0 y= 0 width=810/ mx:ApplicationControlBar width=810 height= 49 cornerRadius=5 fillColors=[0xF0DF31, 0xFCF395] alpha= 1 x=0 y=67 mx:Repeater id=r dataProvider={ dataService.result.dashboard.menu.menuItem} startingIndex=0 mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Label id=nameLabel text={ r.currentItem.label}/ mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:VRule height=10/ /mx:Repeater mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Text width=130 text={ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ mx:ComboBox dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.locations.site } width=150 change=selectedItem=ComboBox(event.target).selectedItem/ /mx:ApplicationControlBar mx:Tile id=myFlow marginTop=119 marginBottom=0 marginRight=0 marginLeft= 0 verticalGap=10 horizontalGap=10 width= 100% mx:Repeater y=150 id=panels_r dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} startingIndex= 0 mx:Panel width=200 height=200 fillColors=[0xF0DF31, 0xFCF395] title={panels_r.currentItem.label } mx:Text text=Hello / /mx:Panel /mx:Repeater /mx:Tile /mx:Canvas /mx:Application -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:24 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2 Getting to know Flexbuilder 2. Having problems getting my panels to lay out right in a tiled area. See: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/AFDW/AFDWTOC.swf I would like the panels to be left-justified and below the application bar. My script follows. The problem begins in line 36 where the panel repeater starts. Any help is much appreciated. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml xmlns=* backgroundColor=0xF4F4F4 creationComplete=init(); mx:Script ![CDATA[ private function init():Void{ dataService.send(); } [Bindable] public var selectedItem:Object ]] /mx:Script mx:HTTPService id=dataService resultFormat=object url="" / mx:Canvas width=812 height=100% fillColors=[0xFCF395, 0xFCF395] themeColor=haloSilver mx:Image id=logo source=assets/afdwLogo.jpg alpha=1 x=0 y=0 width=810/ mx:Tile id=myFlow marginTop=65 marginBottom=0 marginRight=0 marginLeft=0 verticalGap=10 horizontalGap=10 width=100% tileWidth=200 mx:ApplicationControlBar width=810 height=49 cornerRadius=5 fillColors=[0xF0DF31, 0xFCF395] alpha=1 x=0 y=100 mx:Repeater id=r dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.menu.menuItem} startingIndex=0 mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Label id=nameLabel text={r.currentItem.label}/ mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:VRule height=10/ /mx:Repeater mx:Spacer width=10/ mx:Text width=130 t
[flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2?
I am getting some errors in the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which have me perplexed. I am embedding a .swf file in my application with: mx:Image source=@Embed('assets/titleBackground.swf') creationCompleteEffect={SlowFade}/ And it works fine. The .swf displays as expected, and is in the proper asset folder in my project. However, today I am getting these error messages every time I compile: Unable to resolve assets/titleBackground.swf for transcoding. Unable to transcode assets/titleBackground.swf What do those mean? The only thing I could find in the help docs about transcoding was: The following example points to an ambiguously typed source property and specifies a MIME type so that Flex uses the proper transcoder to import the resource: [Embed(source=http://getpic.com/getsvg, mimeType=image/svg)] var pic:String; But I dont see how that would relate to my project. Just an Alpha thing? Thanks for any insight. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2?
Yeah, as I said, the file path is correct, the file is there, and it also shows up in the application after compiling, so thats why Im baffled about the error. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roger Gonzalez Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:24 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2? Transcoding is what happens to convert one form of encoding (i.e. a GIF) to another form of encoding (SWF). In this case, its really just a wrap SWF asset up for use inside the application transcoder. But anyway, the error here is that it couldn't resolve (locate) the file. Make sure your relative path is correct. -Roger Roger Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:16 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2? I am getting some errors in the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which have me perplexed. I am embedding a .swf file in my application with: mx:Image source=@Embed('assets/titleBackground.swf') creationCompleteEffect={SlowFade}/ And it works fine. The .swf displays as expected, and is in the proper asset folder in my project. However, today I am getting these error messages every time I compile: Unable to resolve assets/titleBackground.swf for transcoding. Unable to transcode assets/titleBackground.swf What do those mean? The only thing I could find in the help docs about transcoding was: The following example points to an ambiguously typed source property and specifies a MIME type so that Flex uses the proper transcoder to import the resource: [Embed(source=http://getpic.com/getsvg, mimeType=image/svg)] var pic:String; But I dont see how that would relate to my project. Just an Alpha thing? Thanks for any insight. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?
Full of questions today. So using Flexbuilder 2 Alpha, I want to use a repeater to show text, and so this works fine: mx:Repeater id=CMMetricsTextRepeater dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} mx:Image source=@Embed('assets/bullet.gif') / mx:Text text={CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label}/ /mx:Repeater However, I want that bullet graphic to appear next to the text, but it doesnt the bullet appears, but the text that follows drops to the next line. So, I thought I would try HTML text, but Im not sure how to use the dynamic data of a repeater since the text is supposed to be enclosed in a CDATA tag. For example, this does not work: mx:Repeater id=CMMetricsTextRepeater dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} mx:htmlText ![CDATA[img src=''/ {CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label} ]] /mx:htmlText /mx:Repeater What happens is the {CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label} is shown literally since its in the CDATA tag. How do I use repeaters and dynamic HTML text? Do I *have* to use Actionscript for this? If so, how? Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?
OK thanks Ashish, getting closer. However, the text drops down and to the right from the bullet, and the bullet is completely snug at the far and upper left. When rendered as straight HTML it doesnt do this. i.e. mx:Text mx:htmlText ![CDATA[img src=''/Test HTML Text]] /mx:htmlText /mx:Text That positions the text and graphic completely different. See the differences here: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/AFDW/AFDWTOC.html Any ideas? Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashish Goyal Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:53 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text? Wrap your Image and Text tag in HBox inside Repeater. -Ashish From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 12:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text? Full of questions today. So using Flexbuilder 2 Alpha, I want to use a repeater to show text, and so this works fine: mx:Repeater id=CMMetricsTextRepeater dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} mx:Image source=@Embed('assets/bullet.gif') / mx:Text text={CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label}/ /mx:Repeater However, I want that bullet graphic to appear next to the text, but it doesnt the bullet appears, but the text that follows drops to the next line. So, I thought I would try HTML text, but Im not sure how to use the dynamic data of a repeater since the text is supposed to be enclosed in a CDATA tag. For example, this does not work: mx:Repeater id=CMMetricsTextRepeater dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.categories.category} mx:htmlText ![CDATA[img src=''/ {CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label} ]] /mx:htmlText /mx:Repeater What happens is the {CMMetricsTextRepeater.currentItem.label} is shown literally since its in the CDATA tag. How do I use repeaters and dynamic HTML text? Do I *have* to use Actionscript for this? If so, how? Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?
Sending this again because it never seems to have gone through: Thanks Ashish that works now. Seems like a lot of work just to get it to render as HTML does, but oh well. I guess there is a lot to learn about layout in Flex 2. By the way, in the F2 Alpha, I could not get older versions of the bullet.gif to go away, no matter how many times I deleted the file from the file system in the project folder, and the bin folder Flex produces. I even deleted it in Flex and re-imported it, made sure it was updated in the project and bin folders, deleted my browser cache, etc. Still showed the old graphic when it compiled. The only way I could get it to update with the new graphic was to comment out the line: mx:Image source=@Embed('assets/bullet.gif')/ , then compile, then un-comment the line and compile again. Then the graphic was updated. Weird it was like Flexbuilder keeps some other cache somewhere else outside the project folder. Thanks for the help. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater
I cant believe I am actually answering a question here. What does department.xml look like? If your XML is like this for example: dashboard menu button label=Help/ dropDowns dropDown label=Site Location: item label=AFDW/ You should be able to just add the next node name after the currentItem, like this: mx:Repeater id=r2 dataProvider={dataService.result.dashboard.menu.dropDowns.dropDown} startingIndex=0 mx:Text text={r2.currentItem.label} textAlign=right/ Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doodi, Hari - BLS CTR Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:14 AM To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com' Subject: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater Hi, I would like to know how to access text property of an TextInput control in a Form which is repeated inside a repeater? Here is what I was doing.. I have two mxml file one department.mxml with repeater tag in it and another deptComp.mxml has form component with TextInput controls. I was able to display data from the source xml file. I want to know how to set data in to TextInput controls of different instance. Also found files are attached for your reference. Any kind of help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Department.mxml contains ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml xmlns=* mx:Model id=deptList source=Department.xml/ mx:Repeater id=deptRepeater dataProvider={deptList.hari} deptComp deptModel={deptRepeater.currentItem} initialize=initialize()/ /mx:Repeater /mx:Application DeptComp.mxml contains ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:VBox xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml mx:Script import mx.controls.Alert; ![CDATA[ function accessData( ) // display/set data from/to other instance { // I tried diff possible ways to access text property of TextInput control, deptName, but unable to display content. // None of the following Alert display text content. Alert.show(this.parent.deptForm[1].deptName.text,1); Alert.show(this.parent.deptForm.deptName[1].text,2); Alert.show(this.deptForm[1].deptName.text,3); Alert.show(this.deptName[1].text,4); Alert.show(deptName[1].text,5); Alert.show(deptForm[1].deptName.text,6); Alert.show(parent.deptName[1].text,7); Alert.show(this.parent.deptComp[1].deptForm.deptName.text,8); } ]] /mx:Script mx:Model id=deptModel deptNum/ deptNum deptDesc/deptDesc employees / /mx:Model mx:Form id=deptForm mx:FormItem mx:Button label=Click me click= accessData ()/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Dept ID: mx:TextInput id=deptId text={deptModel. deptNum } width=200/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Dept Name: mx:TextInput id=deptName text={deptModel. deptDesc} width=200 / /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Employees: mx:DataGrid id=employee_dg dataProvider={deptModel.employees.employee} / /mx:FormItem /mx:Form mx:HRule width=668 height=20 / /mx:VBox Thanks! Hari NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater
I didnt see you attached files since I am viewing via Outlook. Usually thats frowned upon on lists, but maybe with Yahoo lists like this its OK. Anyway, since I was off on your question apparently, now I really cant believe I responded. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater
I just re-read what I wrote, and I meant that last sentence in a humorous way by the way Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:48 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater I didnt see you attached files since I am viewing via Outlook. Usually thats frowned upon on lists, but maybe with Yahoo lists like this its OK. Anyway, since I was off on your question apparently, now I really cant believe I responded. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Yahoo Maps built with Flex!
As has already been pointed out, this part of their text: SWC (ShockWave Control) is incorrect. Read this and also read up on swc on macromedia.com http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Flash_MX_2004file=3109.html Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Thompson Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:48 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Yahoo Maps built with Flex! Why does the Flex API require use of a Shockwave Control instead of simply the Flash control? I dont think this is true. Maybe I'm just mis-understanding this (is SWC a new way to deploy Flex Builder components or something?): From http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/maps/flash/flexGettingStarted.html In order to create and test applications using Yahoo! Flash Maps using the Flex component, you'll need...You will also need to accept the terms and download the Yahoo! Maps SWC (ShockWave Control) file that contains the Flex components. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial
I couldnt register on that site. No matter what Yahoo e-mail account I own that I tried, I kept getting the error: The email address entered is invalid. Please use the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' format. I was just using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and confirmed spelling, and that the e-mail and confirm e-mail boxes were correct. Maybe they dont like Yahoo people. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sir_janksalot Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:25 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial There is a new company that has been making a corporate training solution and doing some pretty cool things with it in flex... (from what I understand they are doing some video branching which can probably lead to choose your own adventure type training) they offer a totally free 30 day trial at: https://www1.g-t-t.com/ecom/processPromotion.cfml could be exciting for those in the business world sj NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial
Application looks really nice, one of the best Flex Sites i have seen. Sure wish I could see it. I dont want to give them this e-mail. Perhaps their e-mail filter doesnt like e-mail addresses with underscores like my Yahoo one does. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial
I finally got in because someone on this list kindly offered their account info to me. Looks very nice. I had wondered how Flex could be used for e-learning (since that is my field) and this answers it (though Im still a little confused looking at it what is pure Flex and what is pure Flash I mean some things are obviously Flash, but not sure how much extra flash was involved and where actionscript was used for what would love to see the source code). Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Carabetta Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial On 11/10/05, fowleryj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps their e-mail filter doesn't like e-mail addresses with underscores like my Yahoo one does. Either that or they don't like free e-mail addresses. I've seen some sites that won't let you register with Hotmail or Yahoo e-mail accounts. No, I registered with my Hotmail account and I got a response right away. But I think there servers are hosed or something, as I cannot log in for the life of me. I keep getting a connection error message when I hit the Login button. Oh well. NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial
Interesting, just now after navigating in some other courses, it locked up on me when I clicked the Management Training button using Firefox. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial
I agree with your comment about navigation it was too linear, you never knew where you were in the application so a menu breaking things out would be nice instead of feeling like you have to watch the whole thing in one long linear fashion. Kudos though for using Flex, nice use of the quizzes especially when you got something wrong and it immediately went back and replayed a review for you nice instructionally. Nice design and videos some graphics needed a more professional touch though, like the panels showing text a bit overdone and very early 1990s-ish the rest of the interface looked good except for the oddities you mentioned like the color bandwidth thing. Not only did it not make sense, but you shouldnt convey information with color if it the only way to interpret that information some people are colorblind. Anyway, overall I would give it much more than a 4, but still needs some work. Very impressive use of Flex for e-learning though. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:57 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial I'm probably being over-critical but heres my thoughts: Navigation needs work - Semantics behind the various buttons and their placements, are at first confusing (exit? does that mean exit the window, exit the application??? ) - Back To Main? tucked up to the top left corner, where it blends easily to the other top navigation, rather then why not place it same position, but at the bottom, rather then top... etc.. 0% completed - whats that mean? do i sit and wait? or do i click, whats it mean! ;) (keeping in mind these aren't flex developers using it, more average pod worker) Colors at the bandwidth? wtf are they? UI panel flow - its too slideshow driven. There needs to be either some sort of crumb process in place, or something that allows me to cycle back 2 tiers if need be.. as this is more of an exploration application rather then a linear process. I'm being critical for a reason, as we are all armed to the teeth with FLEX, meaning there is a lot of power at our hands. To simply praise an application like this is a success? disturbs me.. for example, were are the tooltips? fundamental usability tools are in our hands, and yet sites like this ignore them? For me i place FLEX on a more strict position then i would say a html based solution, as there is no excuse other then time. To be honest, they probably just spent $30k on something they could get for less with say FLASH, as its very slideshow driven and nothing really exciting that makes overwhelming use of FLEX? more its something that any decent FLASH IDE developer could conjure... maybe there is more to it then meets the eye behind the scenes? My verdict 4 out of 10 Pros: - They use FLEX for eLearning which may win a future sale from one of us on the concept see they do it, we can do it better - They have some really cheesy videos in place, that cracked me up (not because of their slap stick attempt at humour, but because it was so 1980's) On 11/10/05, Philippe Maegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicely done and well organized .. Philippe Maegerman From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sir_janksalot Sent: samedi 5 novembre 2005 1:25 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial There is a new company that has been making a corporate training solution and doing some pretty cool things with it in flex... (from what I understand they are doing some video branching which can probably lead to choose your own adventure type training) they offer a totally free 30 day trial at: https://www1.g-t-t.com/ecom/processPromotion.cfml could be exciting for those in the business world sj -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group flexcoders on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -- **STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error
[flexcoders] Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps
My client wants some visual examples of some really nice portal pages, perhaps done with Flex to demonstrate possibilities. Anyone have some links to some really nice Flex applications that have multiple sections or applications I need something really excellent in a visual sense. I have already looked at what Macromedia has on their site. Thanks. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps
Yeah, thanks seen both of those (HarleyD, Yahoo) too J as I mentioned, I have seen the ones on Macromedia.com looking for some other good ones if they are out there. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Mendels Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:42 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps Yahoo Maps! -David NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
Im a Flash IDE guy and have only produced simple apps with the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which use XML. Anyhoo, I have 2 questions. I have created a site mockup of a Flex app in Photoshop for one of my clients. See it here: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/navyHRPortal_2.jpg Question 1: The client can only run Flash player 7, so knowing that and what I have mocked up, would you look at the following screenshot and tell me if everthing I am proposing in this graphic is possible in Flex 1.5 (obviously assuming we will have easy access to the data etc.) including embedding the graphics and fonts in the tabs. I have played with Flexbuilder 2 and the 8.5 player, but not Flex 1.5. Question 2: I probably already know the answer, but can you run Flex 1.5 on a server in one place (say here, on the development side), produce the necessary .swfs, and then take the .swfs to another server that does not have the Flex server to deploy the app? Or are the .swfs strictly built at runtime? Or are there legal considerations for that? This isnt a requirement, but it would be nice to only have to buy Flex 1.5 server here, and give our clients the .swfs instead of telling them they need to also buy the Flex server to run this. I am guessing though, that the Flex server and the Flex app have to be on the same machine. Right? If so, I guess what are my options for something *kinda* like this realistically the Flash IDE or AJAX? If Flash 8.5 were an option, I would hold out for Flexbuilder 2, but its not with them since they can only run the Flash 7 player. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
So, if I had my client buy one license of Flex, they could do that, and not have to install it and I could send them my .swf files I create with my license, and all is honky dory? So, no technical issues just license agreement issues, correct? Assuming the licensing is worked out, its then just a matter of moving the resulting .swf files, right? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Philip Costa Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? Technically, you can deploy SWFs created with 1.5 on a server that is not running the Flex server. From a licensing standpoint, however, the client would have to buy a license to Flex for each CPU you deploy to. As you know, that is changing in Flex 2, but it's not retroactive. Phil Costa Sr. Product Manager, Macromedia From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:34 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? Im a Flash IDE guy and have only produced simple apps with the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which use XML. Anyhoo, I have 2 questions. I have created a site mockup of a Flex app in Photoshop for one of my clients. See it here: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/navyHRPortal_2.jpg Question 1: The client can only run Flash player 7, so knowing that and what I have mocked up, would you look at the following screenshot and tell me if everthing I am proposing in this graphic is possible in Flex 1.5 (obviously assuming we will have easy access to the data etc.) including embedding the graphics and fonts in the tabs. I have played with Flexbuilder 2 and the 8.5 player, but not Flex 1.5. Question 2: I probably already know the answer, but can you run Flex 1.5 on a server in one place (say here, on the development side), produce the necessary .swfs, and then take the .swfs to another server that does not have the Flex server to deploy the app? Or are the .swfs strictly built at runtime? Or are there legal considerations for that? This isnt a requirement, but it would be nice to only have to buy Flex 1.5 server here, and give our clients the .swfs instead of telling them they need to also buy the Flex server to run this. I am guessing though, that the Flex server and the Flex app have to be on the same machine. Right? If so, I guess what are my options for something *kinda* like this realistically the Flash IDE or AJAX? If Flash 8.5 were an option, I would hold out for Flexbuilder 2, but its not with them since they can only run the Flash 7 player. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
Well, unfortunately, this client (the U.S. Navy) has a gold disk (NMCI) of approved players. The Flash player 7 is approved, but it would be a very very long time before the 8.5 player is put on the gold disk. The rate of acceptance of players is far beyond the timeline for this project. So, no, Flexbuilder 2 wont be a viable option unless when it comes out it can magically export to Flash 7. So, I *could* recommend they buy Flex 1.5 server, and I also buy it as a developer, and then deploy to one of there servers (which would not be running Flex, but would have a license) Right? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? I can't answer the licensing questions, but I would question what the future of this app is. I know this is hard without fully knowing what Enterprise Services 2 have to offer, but based on what you know, could you post-pone the project until Flex Builder 2 comes out? The price difference could be key in some situations.. that is, unless you really see a need for Enterprise Services (which again is tough without having full disclosure on their features). - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:53 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? So, if I had my client buy one license of Flex, they could do that, and not have to install it and I could send them my .swf files I create with my license, and all is honky dory? So, no technical issues just license agreement issues, correct? Assuming the licensing is worked out, its then just a matter of moving the resulting .swf files, right? Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Philip Costa Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? Technically, you can deploy SWFs created with 1.5 on a server that is not running the Flex server. From a licensing standpoint, however, the client would have to buy a license to Flex for each CPU you deploy to. As you know, that is changing in Flex 2, but it's not retroactive. Phil Costa Sr. Product Manager, Macromedia From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:34 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? Im a Flash IDE guy and have only produced simple apps with the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which use XML. Anyhoo, I have 2 questions. I have created a site mockup of a Flex app in Photoshop for one of my clients. See it here: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/navyHRPortal_2.jpg Question 1: The client can only run Flash player 7, so knowing that and what I have mocked up, would you look at the following screenshot and tell me if everthing I am proposing in this graphic is possible in Flex 1.5 (obviously assuming we will have easy access to the data etc.) including embedding the graphics and fonts in the tabs. I have played with Flexbuilder 2 and the 8.5 player, but not Flex 1.5. Question 2: I probably already know the answer, but can you run Flex 1.5 on a server in one place (say here, on the development side), produce the necessary .swfs, and then take the .swfs to another server that does not have the Flex server to deploy the app? Or are the .swfs strictly built at runtime? Or are there legal considerations for that? This isnt a requirement, but it would be nice to only have to buy Flex 1.5 server here, and give our clients the .swfs instead of telling them they need to also buy the Flex server to run this. I am guessing though, that the Flex server and the Flex app have to be on the same machine. Right? If so, I guess what are my options for something *kinda* like this realistically the Flash IDE or AJAX? If Flash 8.5 were an option, I would hold out for Flexbuilder 2, but its not with them since they can only run the Flash 7 player. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS
RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
Thanks John Yeah, I thought of that, but didnt know if it was possible to embed a graphic inside a component button in Flex 1.5. Is it? Or would I have to custom make the button as a .swf. I could do that I suppose. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John C. Bland II Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations? Jason, in reference to the design you might want to look at moving the icons inside of the button. This would replace print with the printer icon so your buttons will read [icon] summary and [icon] article or maybe nix article all together and just have the printer icon. The same goes for the add/remove. Not sure if you were looking for critiques or not. Hope it helps... On 11/17/05, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a Flash IDE guy and have only produced simple apps with the Flexbuilder 2 Alpha which use XML. Anyhoo, I have 2 questions. I have created a site mockup of a Flex app in Photoshop for one of my clients. See it here: http://cmt.icfconsulting.com/temp/navyHRPortal_2.jpg Question 1: The client can only run Flash player 7, so knowing that and what I have mocked up, would you look at the following screenshot and tell me if everthing I am proposing in this graphic is possible in Flex 1.5 (obviously assuming we will have easy access to the data etc.) including embedding the graphics and fonts in the tabs. I have played with Flexbuilder 2 and the 8.5 player, but not Flex 1.5. Question 2: I probably already know the answer, but can you run Flex 1.5 on a server in one place (say here, on the development side), produce the necessary .swfs, and then take the .swfs to another server that does not have the Flex server to deploy the app? Or are the .swfs strictly built at runtime? Or are there legal considerations for that? This isn't a requirement, but it would be nice to only have to buy Flex 1.5 server here, and give our clients the .swfs instead of telling them they need to also buy the Flex server to run this. I am guessing though, that the Flex server and the Flex app have to be on the same machine. Right? If so, I guess what are my options for something *kinda* like this realistically the Flash IDE or AJAX? If Flash 8.5 were an option, I would hold out for Flexbuilder 2, but it's not with them since they can only run the Flash 7 player. Thanks, Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group flexcoders on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service . -- John C. Bland II I do what I can do when I can do it. - Chris Tucker, Money Talks http://www.gotoandstop.org - Home of FMUG.az -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
Thanks. So could someone confirm my reasoning on building an app for Flash 7, having to buy two licenses. Do I really need two licenses? One for development at my company and one for deployment on my clients server? So I have to recommend purchasing two expensive Flex 1.5 licenses to deploy .swfs only, not a server - vs. someday this spring (maybe) a much less expensive Flexbuilder 2 license for under $1000 though I cant use that. Hmmm, I wonder if Macromedia will drop the price of Flex server 1.5 when Flexbuilder 2 is released? By the way, Macromedia if you are still listening, I tried calling Macromedias sales line three times to get pricing information on Flex for government agencies, went through the touch tone menus and was hung up on twice before trying a third time and getting some random sales dudes voice mail. Not impressive. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps
Sweet thanks! Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of edeustace Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:27 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, thanks - seen both of those (HarleyD, Yahoo) too... :-) ...as I mentioned, I have seen the ones on Macromedia.com - looking for some other good ones if they are out there. Thanks, hi, www.beatport.com is shows some great skinning possibilities.. eddy NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?
Why not just set up a development server that could be used as the final production server as well, and develop your code on it? Then you buy one license and use it for development and deployment. You could still just deploy the SWFs. Just develop on the client's servers to begin with. Build a homebrew PC and work on it, then ship it off to them when you're done? Any obvious problems with this reasoning? Well, yes, actually. Thanks, I had thought of that for a quarter second, but this client the U.S. Navy. No way in h-e double-hockey-sticks theyre gonna let me go in and actually *develop* on their servers. This isnt a small hometown bakery who wants a web page. Thanks anyway. I explained this to a govt. sales rep Macromedia, they think they can work out some kind of licensing so I can develop in one place, deploy on another. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] eval()
Yeah, []. And good riddance to eval(). Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Philippe Maegerman Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:22 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] eval() I see in the doc that eval() has been removed in AS3, is there any equivalent ? //Philippe NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays
Title: problem with arrays Doing this: testArray[0] within the loop will always insert the value in the 0 slot of the array, so your loop is pointless. Use the num variable to increase the array postion targeted. Also, addItem is not necessary. To get the expected results, do this: var testArray:Array = new Array(); var temp_arr:Array = new Array(); for(var num:Number = 0; num 3; num++) { temp_arr[num] = num; testArray[num] = num+5; } trace(temp_arr) trace(testArray) Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Parekh, Shweta - BLS CTR Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] problem with arrays Hi, I have a piece of code like the following: var testArray:Array = new Array(); var temp_arr:Array = new Array(2); for(var num:Number = 0; num 3; num++) { temp_arr[0] = num; temp_arr[1] = num+5; testArray.addItemAt(num, temp_arr); } trace(testArray ***); for(var i:Number = 0; i testArray.length; i++) { trace(testArray[i]); } I am expecting it to print 0 5 1 6 2 7 instead the it prints out 2 7 2 7 2 7 Can anybody tell me why??? How can I fix it? Thanks, Shweta NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays
Title: problem with arrays When I replied to the list, I didnt realize it was flexcoders thought it was another Flash list, didnt realize they were updating a component. Still, the rest of my post holds true. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:41 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays But if your array is a dataProvider and you WANT to update the control as you go, do use additem() or addItemAt(). Though usually, if you are building an entire dataProvider, you want to wait until you are done, then re-assign the array to the dataProvider. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:25 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays Doing this: testArray[0] within the loop will always insert the value in the 0 slot of the array, so your loop is pointless. Use the num variable to increase the array postion targeted. Also, addItem is not necessary. To get the expected results, do this: var testArray:Array = new Array(); var temp_arr:Array = new Array(); for(var num:Number = 0; num 3; num++) { temp_arr[num] = num; testArray[num] = num+5; } trace(temp_arr) trace(testArray) Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Parekh, Shweta - BLS CTR Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] problem with arrays Hi, I have a piece of code like the following: var testArray:Array = new Array(); var temp_arr:Array = new Array(2); for(var num:Number = 0; num 3; num++) { temp_arr[0] = num; temp_arr[1] = num+5; testArray.addItemAt(num, temp_arr); } trace(testArray ***); for(var i:Number = 0; i testArray.length; i++) { trace(testArray[i]); } I am expecting it to print 0 5 1 6 2 7 instead the it prints out 2 7 2 7 2 7 Can anybody tell me why??? How can I fix it? Thanks, Shweta NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.Any other use of this e-mail by you is prohibited. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[flexcoders] Flex Builder 2 classpaths
A pretty basic question: How do I set up my classpath like I did in Flash 8? I tried going to Project Properties Flex Build Path and then the add folder button, but this seems to have no effect. Can you set your classpath to somewhere outside your workspace? Or does it have to be within the workspace somewhere? When I type in import I get com as an option, but not the com.namespaces of my actionscript folder I keep on my hard drive and set as the Flex Build Path. I understood how this worked in Flash 8, but not Flex 2. Thanks, Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness Multimedia / eTools Team
[flexcoders] basic flex architecture questions
Newbie to Flex, (but not Flash/AS 2.0) so for me it's like a skier learning to snowboard. I have dabbled with Flex in the past, and recently went through all the lessons in the help docs, as well as read a lot of other things in there. I'm designing a Team Page - a site that shows people of the business unit as individual cards - like baseball cards. Each card will have elements like a photo of the person, a description of skillsets, and buttons to expand and change to a different state. Making that is easy with a custom component, but I'm having some struggle with the dynamic data part as it relates to the custom component - in other words, making the components generic and then settings the data for them later in my application. I thought I would make a generic person card with a placeholder for the photo and data - that would be a single component, and then in another main application MXML I would repeat that component over and over based on some XML data. Easy enough so far - the XML data isn't the problem. In Flex, I'm not sure how to add the image dynamically, or change the value of the image file reference for each component repeated - I can add an image tag easily enough in the component, but having a hard time not hard-coding the image reference. So I guess I have a few questions: 1. What's the best way to set up a generic image container for the image file be in the person card component and how would I set that in the main application MXML repeat region? Or is making the person card as a component not a good approach? Should I just describe the person card within the repeat region and not make it a custom component? 2. How do i set other variables in the custom components like label values? 3. Overall, what would be a good way to architect a site like this? I know how to create and change states, but unsure what should be a component and what should just described right in the main MXML. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness Multimedia / eTools Team
RE: [flexcoders] odd script error - undefined property
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schmalle Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:37 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] odd script error - undefined property Hi, The script tag is like the class definition You need to put property definitions in a method function initApp():void { foo = Hello World; } On 1/9/07, jmerrill_2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my entire MXML Actionscript, which I can't see any errors with: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute mx:Script ![CDATA[ public var foo:String; foo = Hello World; ]] /mx:Script /mx:Application I am getting this error on that second line in the script: 1120: Access of undefined property foo. ??? Any ideas? Haven't I already defined the variable foo??? Thanks, Jason -- Teoti Graphix http://www.teotigraphix.com http://www.teotigraphix.com Blog - Flex2Components http://www.flex2components.com http://www.flex2components.com You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'.
RE: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2.0.1 Trial
When I downloaded the trial a week ago, I got 2.0.1 - maybe they messed something up since then. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pk_wasp Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2.0.1 Trial Is this available? I seem to bet getting the old when I download I try to download the trial.
RE: [flexcoders] FileReference Upload Chunk The File into smaller chunks
I need to split the file the user wants to upload into smaller chunks. Is this possible within the confines of the FileReference object? From my experience with the FileReference, no - there are no methods to do partial binary streams. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: basic architecture question
Thanks Jim, I'll check out the Tab Navigator component - I wasn't sure what the differences were. So using that component, switching to a different state is still the same way I had it I guess eh? I'll have to check my data again to find out why it's failing. yeah, the textfield was just to show what the values were on screen for debugging. That part is working fine and showing the correct values. Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Robson Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: basic architecture question Hi Jason, This syntax looks correct... currentState = targetComp.dataProvider[event.index].data; ... as long as targetComp.dataProvider[event.index].data gives the name of the state that you want. I noticed that you output this to a text field, so I assume that it's correct. So it's the usual check-for-empty-spaces-and-stuff-like-that. Another method is to use a TabNavigator in place of a Tab Bar, and use custom components for the individual tabs. Something like this: mx:TabNavigator jx:CustomComponent1 label=First Tab / jx:CustomComponent2 label=Second Tab / jx:CustomComponent3 label=Third Tab / /mx:TabNavigator Or you could re-use the same component with different data for each tab: mx:TabNavigator jx:CustomComponent1 label=First Tab dataObject={myArrayCollection.getItemAt(0)} / jx:CustomComponent1 label=Second Tab dataObject={myArrayCollection.getItemAt(1)} / jx:CustomComponent1 label=Third Tab dataObject={myArrayCollection.getItemAt(2)} / /mx:TabNavigator Either way, a nice thing about using the TabNavigator approach is that the Flash player doesn't load the contents of a tab into memory until the user clicks on the tab. This helps the app load faster, and saves client resources generally. I'm not sure if this also applies to states. -Jim --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for your help and ideas. Very useful. I have something working now, but not with a custom component, though Jim I will try out your ideas there. My next architecture question has to do with states and navigation. I have a TabBar I am trying to use to navigate between different states - different pages in my application which all look very different except the navigation piece. Is this the best way to handle switching between different screens? I was able to render the TabBar based on my data bindings without a problem, and I can register the event that the tab was clicked, but i was unable to get it to change states. I tried: private function tabClick(event:ItemClickEvent):void { var targetComp:TabBar = TabBar(event.currentTarget); forClick.text=label is: + event.label + index is: + event.index + capital is: + targetComp.dataProvider[event.index].data; currentState = targetComp.dataProvider[event.index].data; } Where .data is the name of the state I want to change to. What is the proper approach? Thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: POST not working
Locally? Security restrictions won't allow you to do that. To do it on the web, you would have to use something like .NET or PHP, and then download the file to the local system. That would be pretty easy. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of danj520 Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:24 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: POST not working Thanks for the reply... As you can tell, I'm trying to write the results of my simple form to a file, can be any format, i.e., text, XML, etc. to preferably an email address or to a text file. What I'd like to see in the file would look like this Name: John Smith Address1: 234 Main St Address2: Suite 100 City: Los Angeles State: CA Zip: 90028 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:jsmith%40company.com Is there a way to do this? Can't seem to find any info in the Flex docs...thanks again... --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you can post to a .txt file. That would be way too easy. I mean, you need some server-side program to accept the url and write the file. Have you ever posted to a .txt file in any other language? What are you expecting such a file to look like? Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of danj520 Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:34 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] POST not working Anyone know why this isn't working? When run, nothing is posted..all form fields exist and are valid...thanks in advance... mx:HTTPService id=userRequest url=data/forms/contact.txt useProxy=false method=POST mx:request xmlns= username{nameInput.text}/username address1{address1.text}/address1 address2{address2.text}/address2 city{city.text}/city state{state.text}/state zip{zip.text}/zip country{country.text}/country emailaddress{emailInput.text}/emailaddress /mx:request /mx:HTTPService
RE: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ?
The same way Safari does. (but are you sure there are multiple simutaneous mouse events in the iPhone?) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Tuminello Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:01 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ? but how will we deal with mouse events for multiple mice (fingers)? On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:34 AM, Shannon Hicks wrote: It runs OS X, it runs Safari It even runs widgets... surely it is capable of running Flash Player 9. If Apple intends on letting 3rd party developers in on the phone, then I bet it'll be included. If Apple/Cingular plan on selling more option! al applications for the phone, perhaps they won't. On a similar but off-topic note... what of PDF's on the iPhone? Shan
RE: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ?
Cool. Either way, I bet the mouse event for the Flash player would be the same one that comes from Safari - unless they are pushing a special version of Safari for the iPhone which has two mouse events. Even if there were two, I'm sure there's a primary and secondary, and they wouldn't change the API for the primary because they know it would break too many web apps. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:26 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ? Pretty sure. Watch the 'image zoom' movie - putting two fingers on the screen and moving them apart zooms the image... Ian On 1/10/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same way Safari does. (but are you sure there are multiple simutaneous mouse events in the iPhone?) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] any possible way to use flash ocx without installing?
Wow, thanks for that - is it only desktop though or could it be used to deliver Flash through the browser? Thanks for the link! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael D. Randolph Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:01 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] any possible way to use flash ocx without installing? Yes, it is possible. I've used this control before, it works: http://www.f-in-box.com/ http://www.f-in-box.com/ It isn't free though, I think its around $400, or $900 with the source code (which could be interesting to see how they did it). It provides a wrapper around flash.ocx so your app doesn't require installation. They have a trial, try it out. MR From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:19 PM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] any possible way to use flash ocx without installing? Okay, this is only borderline Flex since it's a Flex app, but I hope you'll indulge me. Is there a way to use the flash ocx in a desktop application without having flash installed on the machine? Say I have just my application's exe and Flash9.ocx. Or am I stuck because the OCX has to be registered with regsvr32 and there's just no way for a non-admin to do that? It's probably a moot point, as further research says you aren't allowed to redistribute Flash9.ocx anyway. But I'm still curious if it's possible. -- Jason
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Minimized Panel
The Flex2:Training From the Source book has you develop an application that has panels with minimize/maximize buttons. Just to add to that, I bought that book a few days ago, and am going through the lessons and it's really great. It's expensive, but well worth it. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=61223/stime=1168632287/nc1=3848642/nc2=2/nc3=3
RE: [flexcoders] Export FLEX page to PDF
It is possible, I searched a while back for a similar solution and found some .NET components that would do it (not from Flex/Flash, but from data inputs - you would send your app data to a script like c# which would send the required data to the .NET component which would spit out the PDF). You should be able to find some solutions with some Googling. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navert, Bruno (IT) Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:38 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Cc: Brodeur, David (IT) Subject: [flexcoders] Export FLEX page to PDF Hi flexcoders, I'm evaluating FLEX as a solution to our reporting needs. One of our requirements is the ability to build static PDF reports. I would like to know whether it is possible to export the contents of a FLEX page into a PDF document ? A quick search yielded no promising results, so that's why I'm asking on this mailing list. If it is possible, can this be done server-side (without user intervention) ? Or must it be in a browser window ? thanks, Bruno NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error.
[flexcoders] Applying actionscript to mx:Image
How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (I'm making it AS 3.0 compliant) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine outside of Flex . However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
[flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] How come my posts take hours to show up
How do you get your account to not be moderated? My posts always seem to take hours and hours to post. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Thanks Jesse (miss seeing you around Flashcoders and Flashnewbies BTW) So it sound like perhaps wrapping this up into a component which loads the image and then applys the Reflection effect is the way to go huh? I think I have that close to working... Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters Answering your last question first. MovieClips and Sprites are not allowed willy nilly in Flex. The Flex framework allows UIComponents only. If you control the UIComponent, you are welcome to put what you want in it. Otherwise, you'll get an exception if you try to put a Sprite or MovieClip inside a Canvas for example. So, you don't access MovieClip's and sprites that are in MXML. AS3 allows only certain access to certain things; this isn't the benevolent AS2 / AS1 of yore that had no rules. The Image class extends SWFLoader, and SWFLoader does some nice abstraction of stuff that's loaded in it. So, image.content could be: - a loader - an internal class - a loaded asset (SWF, JPG, etc.) If it's a Loader, you'd go: image.content.content, and cast that to what it is; in your case, I think Bitmap. The only time Image.content isn't a loader is if you pass it a class name (usually). On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
1st suggestion, since there is a LACK of flex 2 books, go onto lyndia.com, Adobe Flex 2 Training from the Source is really quite good IMO and it goes over states and transitions pretty well. Lynda.com is great, but I think this book is more extensive than the current Lynda courses. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Flex plus GoogleMap integration
Try the Yahoo! Maps API - it's made with Flex. API documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash/flexGettingStarted.html Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pablo Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:07 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex plus GoogleMap integration Hi All. Is there some API for integration GoogleMap and Flex2?
RE: [flexcoders] Get a FlexJob - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexjobs/
My goal this year is to get everyone a serious Flex job. It is the best way to spread Flex and it helps developers and companies succeed. ...Or make your current job a serious Flex job =:) Flex is starting to take off here at the Bank, and I'm working my way into more of it and trying to increase the momentum. Keep up the great work Ted! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Flex plus GoogleMap integration
That's still Flex 1.5 though isn't it? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pablo Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:51 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex plus GoogleMap integration http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash/index.html http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash/index.html
RE: [flexcoders] Flex plus GoogleMap integration
Thanks but I know that - Yahoo has limitation on amount of connected users Do you mean Yahoo! Maps Flash APIs are limited to 50,000 queries per IP per day? That's the same for both Yahoo and Google as I understand each policy. Or what do you refer to? Can you post a link? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Flex Example Sites online please
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?tab:samples=1 Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Walters Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:09 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Example Sites online please Hello, Besides Yahoo Maps can I get examples of content type sites using Flex II? It seems like 99% of RIA sites are in Ajax. ThanksRob
RE: [flexcoders] Flex 3.0 - What happened to letting Flex 2 bed in?
I am literally picking up my F2 box today. Knowing F3 Beta is about to start is a bit f'd up. Any rumors/guesses as to when roughly we might see Flex 3? I'm getting ready to buy Flexbuilder 2 in the next month, but wonder if I should wait until the second quarter. Seems there are rumors Flash 9 IDE/Creative suite will be Q2 also - I wonder if Adobe is getting ready to try and get Flex in synch with those product cycles - would love it if they offered a Creative Suite that has Flex Builder 3, Flash 9, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] HTTPService Vs WebService
The simplest dinstinction is that one is SOAP and the other one is XML. not quite that simple - not to confuse anyone further, but SOAP is actually an XML-based protocol... :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=62622/stime=1169732739/nc1=3848640/nc2=2/nc3=3
RE: [flexcoders] Flex 3.0 - What happened to letting Flex 2 bed in?
Thanks David and Ted - great to see Adobe so active on this list - helps puts us as ease and helps with product buy-in. Makes you all seem so less evil ;). Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web
If I could tap on to this thread, anyone know of anything that does the same using .NET? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web There is php hooks for ffmpeg: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net On 1/24/07, Steve Gustafson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffmpeg should help you out. Here is a tutorial: http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg/ http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg/ Gus On 1/23/07, Marlos Carmo | 5clicks.com.br http://5clicks.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I need develop a video conversor to flv via Web, using PHP. Anybody have a suggestion for help me? Thanks, Marlos Carmo De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com http://ups.com ] Em nome de Jason Goodwin Enviada em: terça-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2007 17:10 Para: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Assunto: [flexcoders] Accessibility and imported components I have an app with lots of imported components. I can't seem to get JAWS to read anything that's not on the main page. I have tried several ways of add in the accessibility properties to the controls. Thanks.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 3.0 - What happened to letting Flex 2 bed in?
We need to do a better job of being more open about releases and allowing our customers to participate openly in shaping the products. I agree - I haven't heard much from Adobe on Flashcoders lately re: the Flash 9 IDE (Flash CS3?) - JD @ Adobe did respond to an unrelated question I had yesterday, which was much appreciated, but I haven't heard much about Flash 9 IDE in a looonng time. Maybe you could poke someone with a small pin over there @ HQ or something. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Help me find the Amazon book spider example
This isn't quite the same link, but it is a Flex app that uses Amazon's webservices API: http://d-p.com/Internet-Development-Services/ria/amazon.cfm For how to do, You can start reading here: http://jeff.mxdj.com/using_amazons_itemsearch_webservice_from_flex.htm http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361 Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oneproofdk Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 2:29 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Help me find the Amazon book spider example A few weeks ago (as far as I remember) I saw a cool Flex2 app, that would take a search string for a book title, retrieve data from Amazon and display books in a web-like setup, where the books are connected by wires, if I click on a book, it would retrieve data from Amazon on that book. All those bookcovers were floating around, allowing the user to drag in the web and all things would follow. I'd love to see some example code on how to do this - can anyone help me ? I tryed to post this yesterday - but it never showed up here - so sorry for the double posts if it should arrive twice. Thanks, Mark
RE: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web
Cool - thanks! Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web Merrill, You can use FFMPEG in .Net also. You need to compile the wrappers and link FFMPEG libraries. I was trying to do something using C#. You can find some examples on FFMPEG site and on some blogs. Hope that helps.. -abdul On 1/25/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I could tap on to this thread, anyone know of anything that does the same using .NET? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com http://yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web There is php hooks for ffmpeg: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net On 1/24/07, Steve Gustafson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ffmpeg should help you out. Here is a tutorial: http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg/ http://soenkerohde.com/tutorials/ffmpeg/ Gus On 1/23/07, Marlos Carmo | 5clicks.com.br http://5clicks.com.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, I need develop a video conversor to flv via Web, using PHP. Anybody have a suggestion for help me? Thanks, Marlos Carmo De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com http://ups.com ] Em nome de Jason Goodwin Enviada em: terça-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2007 17:10 Para: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Assunto: [flexcoders] Accessibility and imported components I have an app with lots of imported components. I can't seem to get JAWS to read anything that's not on the main page. I have tried several ways of add in the accessibility properties to the controls. Thanks.
RE: [flexcoders] Do I *REALLY* need Flex Data Services for WebServices?
Don't let the price of FDS scare you if your core question is simply, Do I need FDS to use Webservices in Flex? Then the answer is no. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] On E4X Programming
There's a lot in the Flex help docs... or do you mean outside of the Flex docs? Try this: http://life.neophi.com/danielr/2006/04/flex_2_beta_2_actionscript_3_a.ht ml Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pedro Pastor Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:21 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] On E4X Programming From a previous discussion, it seems like people coming from XPath language (like me) meed a kind or re-training on the E4X way of dealing with XML traversing and query. Does anybody know a source of documentation for E4X with examples and extended information about have E4X interpreter works. I've been reading the official E4X reference documentation, but it seems that's not enough (at least for a XPath biased people like me). Regards. Pedro
RE: [flexcoders] should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie?
PNG is a compressed format. Which flavor of PNG? Some PNGs are, but try an unflattened Fireworks PNG, it's huge and does not compress that I am aware of. Even so, Fireworks PNGs are much larger than regular flat PNG files or JPGs. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie?
You'll need to save them as flattened regular png files (or .jpg files). Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jpc14_99 Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PNG is a compressed format. Which flavor of PNG? Some PNGs are, but try an unflattened Fireworks PNG, it's huge and does not compress that I am aware of. Even so, Fireworks PNGs are much larger than regular flat PNG files or JPGs. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness You got it Jason. I'm using unflattened Fireworks PNGs when I design the graphics. They are huge. But I'm not sure I need to make them JPEGs because the swf file sizes aren't as big as I'd assume they were if the unflatted fireworks PNG was being loaded in uncompressed.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: should i convert pngs to jpegs before embedding them in a flash movie?
The SWF compiler when it embeds them should be flattening them. The Fireworks PNG files are layered, but the Flash Player does not support layered PNGs. yes it does. We have a Flash 8 app that shows layered Fireworks .pngs just fine. We even open the graphics back up in Fireworks, make edits, save back to the server, load in Flash, and repeat. Never lost any data doing that (though the files are huge). Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's?
My understanding from looking around is that with the document class in Flash 9, you can only add items to the stage through code. That seems to negate a lot of the advantage of using a graphical interface.. Remember, it's not really Flash 9, it's really just Flash 8 with a preview of AS 3.0, even if they are calling it Flash 9 Pro AS3 preview - Flash 8 with a compiler to compile to Flash 9 player/AS3. When Flash 9 comes out, I'm sure you'll be able to add items to the stage through the GUI. I think they kinda made a mistake calling it Flash 9 Pro AS3 Preview, it's confused a lot of people. At least the docs on their site explain it well. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash9_as3_preview.html Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of slangeberg Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:58 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's? Mike, I tried setting up a document class for Flash 9, but when you place named items on stage, you get this error: ReferenceError: Error #1056: Cannot create property square_mc on com.cpile.flextoflash.FlexToFlashMain . at flash.display::Sprite/flash.display:Sprite::constructChildren() at flash.display::Sprite$iinit() at flash.display::MovieClip$iinit() at com.cpile.flextoflash::FlexToFlashMain$iinit() Adobe guys, is this correct? My understanding from looking around is that with the document class in Flash 9, you can only add items to the stage through code. That seems to negate a lot of the advantage of using a graphical interface... ok, so you could have a clip in your library that has the stage set up... hmmm that may do it! I'll write back when I have something. Otherwise, what i have sent is an effective way to access items on the stage. -Scott On 2/16/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, sorry. I'm not 100%, but you should be able to reference your loaded movie by that class type (your document class), from within Flex. I believe another gentleman referred to that, in this thread. Hold on, I did it, with a loader... I'll try to attach code. The proxy is just a design idea, meaning you define an interface to your movie in your class, instead of referencing elements within the movie from Flex. Then, the only thing that will break your flash / flex connection is to break that interface. For instance, your map(?) class could have functions like: showPlat( id:Object ); where the class implementation can decide what to do with the call, instead of having your flex app nose through the contents. That's a good design practice to get into: 'Always code to interfaces, not implementations.' Ok, so here's one of those do as I say, deals.. Also, my implementation may be a bit different here, than what we were talking about. This was a quick fix to enable custom loading logic, for the default Flex 2 application loading bar. In this case, I'm actually assigning the class under the 'linkage' option of my library clip (progress bar) to point to: com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol, and publishing in Flash 9. Then, when you instantiate the class in Flex 2, you'll get a direct link. In your case, i would suggest a document class, for the entire movie. //I just used this class to enable me to access a loading bar quick. If this was going to //scale / change, I would have defined public methods to update this view. //I swear!! package com.tc.view.preload { import flash.display.*; import flash.text.TextField; [Embed(source=/library.swf, symbol=com.tc.view.preload.ProgressBarSymbol)] public class ProgressBarSymbol extends Sprite { public var progress_bar:MovieClip; public var loading_text:TextField; } } //And instantiated in Flex 2 by using: var bar:ProgressBarSymbol = new ProgressBarSymbol(); this.addChild( bar ); Hope this gives ideas, not confusion! -Scott On 2/16/07, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [flexcoders] compiler behaviour question
Time to move my cube to the basement...geesh. BILL Uh, we're gonna need to move your desk downstairs into Storage B. MILTON No...I...I... BILL Uh, we have some new people coming in and we need all the space we can get. MILTON No...no...no...no...but...but...but...I, I, I - BILL And if you could could go ahead and get a can of psticide and take care of the roach problem we've been having that would be great. MILTON I can't...Excuse me. I believe you have my stapler? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Announcing FlexLib - open source flex component library
Awesome! I hope this grows into something really great. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug McCune Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:08 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; flexcomponents@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Announcing FlexLib - open source flex component library I'm pleased to announce FlexLib: a new open-source project for Flex 2 components. This project is a Google Code hosted project, released under the MIT license. I've been working with Darron Schall, Mike Chambers and Ted Patrick to get the project up and running. We're hoping to build a concentrated community effort for custom Flex component development. Have you been looking for a community project to contribute to? Do you have custom components you've been releasing on your blog? Want to brainstorm about new and improved components? The project currently contains a handful of components that have been developed by me or Darron (including some new ones I haven't blogged about yet). We want to get the Flex developer community involved and have a central resource that will help us all build off each other's work. To get involved take a look at the project page on google code (link below) and read the HowToContribute wiki page. For more information read through the project website, join the discussion group, and email me if you have more questions. If you want to contribute your code, drop us a line and we'll get you involved. FlexLib project page: http://code.google.com/p/flexlib http://code.google.com/p/flexlib Announcement on my blog: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/02/28/announcing-flexlib-open-source-fle x-component-library/ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/02/28/announcing-flexlib-open-source-fl ex-component-library/ Darron Schall's announcement: http://darronschall.com/weblog/ http://darronschall.com/weblog/
RE: [flexcoders] Save a BitmapData as a local file
Even if you could, you'd run into SharedObject size restrictions for most users as per their player default settings. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cheng Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:22 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Save a BitmapData as a local file jwopitz wrote: I don't quite understand the question here. Are you asking can you save some var myPic:BitmapData to your localSharedObject? That's how I understand it. I have never tried but I assume that you could. We have been able to save some very complex object type to our LSOs without any issue. Unfortunately, there's a few non-primitive data types that can't be saved to shared objects owing to an apparent lack of serialization support in the native code. Among these are BitmapData and ByteArray. To persist these data into shared objects, they must first serialized into primitives before they can be persisted into shared objects, for instance, as Base64-encoded string or a packed array of 8-byte Numbers. Jim Cheng effectiveUI
RE: [flexcoders] Fire effect
Google is your friend. Google Actionscript Fire Effect and it comes up with this: http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/fire/ And this: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flash-script-fire-effect Easy to adapt to AS3 and Flex Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webdevotion Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Fire effect Hey, I'm looking for a nice fire effect, but can't seem to find one in AS3. Is there someone willing to share some code to accomplish this ? Tutorials are more than welcome too. tnx
RE: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas
I'm new to Flash 9/Flex AS3, but I know that in previous version of the Flash player and actionscript, the draw API would draw directly on the screen - in the indicated movieclip/sprite, so you would likely need to instead draw into a sprite container and move than with the panels instead of drawing directly on the canvas. My best guess anyway. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Cantrell Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas I'm attempting to make an Organization Chart component for Flex. In short, I have a canvas which contains child panels These child panels represent a position in the organization. I'm drawing lines (on the canvas) between the panels to represent their relationship to each other. Everything works great until I scroll the canvas. The lines are not drawn in relationship to their position in the canvas, but stay were they are in relation to the screen. For example, if I scroll down, the panels move up as they should, but the lines stay where they are which breaks the connections. I'd like to have them scroll upwards like the panels do. Due to my lack of experience with flash (and any graphics programming for that matter), I may be ramming a square peg in a round hole. Here's the panel code which recursively draws its lines to its child panels: public function drawLinesToChildren(canvas:HierarchyCanvas):void { var startPoint:Point = new Point(x + (width / 2), y + height); // adjust to bottom/center of the parent panel for (var i:int = 0; i children.length; i++) { var child:HierarchyPanel = children[i]; var endPoint:Point = new Point(child.x, child.y); ! nbsp; endPoint = new Point(endPoint.x + (child.width / 2), endPoint.y); // adjust top/center of the child panel canvas.graphics.moveTo(startPoint.x, startPoint.y); canvas.graphics.lineTo(endPoint.x, endPoint.y); child.drawLinesToChildren(canvas); } } If anyone could offer any suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
RE: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas
Interesting - so why then is MovieClip.clear() necssary? I was always confused when I drew on a movie clip, and then deleted the movie clip, but the drawing was still on-screen, even after several frame events. I'm not questioning you, you're Adobe, so you probably know what you're talking about, but this has always puzzled me. I had been told the draw API utilized the video card directly to draw on screen - whatever that means. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:27 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas I know that in previous version of the Flash player and actionscript, the draw API would draw directly on the screen Actually, the Flash Player has never drawn directly on the screen. The vector graphics of each Sprite get rasterized into pixels (not immediately when you call a drawing API like lineTo() but sometime later when the current frame is rendered), the pixels from the various Sprites are composited together offscreen, and then the resulting composite pixels are blitted to the screen. If you are drawwing into a scrollable Canvas, you probably need to adjust your coordinates by horizontalScrollPosition and verticalScrollPosition. But I haven't tried it to make sure this fixes the problem. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:12 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas I'm new to Flash 9/Flex AS3, but I know that in previous version of the Flash player and actionscript, the draw API would draw directly on the screen - in the indicated movieclip/sprite, so you would likely need to instead draw into a sprite container and move than with the panels instead of drawing directly on the canvas. My best guess anyway. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations, Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Cantrell Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Drawing in a Scrollable Canvas I'm attempting to make an Organization Chart component for Flex. In short, I have a canvas which contains child panels These child panels represent a position in the organization. I'm drawing lines (on the canvas) between the panels to represent their relationship to each other. Everything works great until I scroll the canvas. The lines are not drawn in relationship to their position in the canvas, but stay were they are in relation to the screen. For example, if I scroll down, the panels move up as they should, but the lines stay where they are which breaks the connections. I'd like to have them scroll upwards like the panels do. Due to my lack of experience with flash (and any graphics programming for that matter), I may be ramming a square peg in a round hole. Here's the panel code which recursively draws its lines to its child panels: public function drawLinesToChildren(canvas:HierarchyCanvas):void { var startPoint:Point = new Point(x + (width / 2), y + height); // adjust to bottom/center of the parent panel for (var i:int = 0; i children.length; i++) { var child:HierarchyPanel = children[i]; var endPoint:Point = new Point(child.x, child.y); ! nbsp; endPoint = new Point(endPoint.x + (child.width / 2), endPoint.y); // adjust top/center of the child panel canvas.graphics.moveTo(startPoint.x, startPoint.y); canvas.graphics.lineTo(endPoint.x, endPoint.y); child.drawLinesToChildren(canvas); } } If anyone could offer any suggestions, I'd be very grateful.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo
How much data could Apollo store locally when offline? I think this is where some of the concern lies around not having an integrated database availble in Apollo. Does anyone know? Shared objects at least in Flash player 9 are pretty limited in size. Does Apollo plan to store data locally in a Shared Object? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo
SharedObject. You mean those little tiny 128k or whatever Shared Objects like from the Flash player or do you mean Apollo will have a more robust larger Shared Object? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo
Yeah, I know about those, but you're talking about creating files and reading them back - just seems like more work - so perhaps writing something like an XML file out and reading it back would have to do. I was thinking of something more native that didn't require as much serialization. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:36 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo Shared Objects. File API. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mesh%40adobe.com . m a r c o s a u g u s t o wrote: This should be on the TOP priority how I'm suppose to make my app offline without a DB? This is not a should have.. its a must have. sqlite_count+=1; xD
RE: [flexcoders] Passing complex objects (e. g. collection of name-value pairs) to server via either URLLoader or HTTPService using POST method
SOAP webservices can do that. You don't have to convert to XML first, you can send your complex Actionscript object directly to the WDSL method and it transfers via SOAP (XML) protocol. You can receive in the same way. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=67397/stime=1173483249/nc1=4438988/nc2=3848644/nc3=3
RE: [flexcoders] Re: DB access in Apollo
I don't it should be that difficult to built database connectivity like zinc uses. That way it can communicate with stand alone dbs like ms access, etc... But then you have to deal with setting up installing that database on the user end. If it was built in to Apollo, it would be much easier. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=67417/stime=1173535274/nc1=4438988/nc2=3848643/nc3=3
RE: [flexcoders] standalone exe
Autorun on Windows works with any .exe if the user has autorun enabled. Zinc provides a lot of added functionality to do things like change the registry, create files locally, create installers, screensavers, etc, but I don't know how easily you could use a Flex-created .swf with Zinc, or if you even can. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Meutzner Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:02 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] standalone exe Would this exe work for cd distribution with use for autoplay, etc...? And if so, can those who have experience with Zinc explain why it would be a better choice at 299 bucks? Thanks, Brendan On 3/14/07, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Double-click your .SWF. - Select 'File' menu - Select 'Create Projector...' -Scott On 14 Mar 2007 09:36:03 -0700, Chad Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can flex apps be run as a standalone flash executables? This way no browser is needed. -- : : ) Scott -- Brendan Meutzner Stretch Media - RIA Adobe Flex Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stretchmedia.ca http://www.stretchmedia.ca
[flexcoders] O'Reilly's Programming Flex 2 book
Does anyone have this book yet? O'Reilly Press Programming Flex 2: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Media Applications with Adobe Flex by Kazoun, Lott (watch the wrap) http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Flex-Comprehensive-Creating-Applicatio ns/dp/059652689X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/002-8098935-6484806 http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Flex-Comprehensive-Creating-Applicati ons/dp/059652689X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/002-8098935-6484806 What are your thoughts? Ok, good, or great? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: O'Reilly's Programming Flex 2 book
Well, that bites - their Web sites still says it was published on March 1st. Post again when you get the book and let us know what you think. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Whitelock Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:34 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: O'Reilly's Programming Flex 2 book Amazon sent me a notification recently that the publication date has changed to May 15th. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this book yet? O'Reilly Press Programming Flex 2: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Media Applications with Adobe Flex by Kazoun, Lott
RE: [flexcoders] O'Reilly's Programming Flex 2 book
Cool - I saw that one on Amazon - that you on the left? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Tretola Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:03 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] O'Reilly's Programming Flex 2 book I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470102675/002-4312150-6440857?ie=UTF8; tag=everythingfle-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0470102675 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470102675/002-4312150-6440857?ie=UTF8 tag=everythingfle-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0470102675 But it is still only a word document on my local machine. :-( It is due out in May as well. Rich On 3/16/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have this book yet? O'Reilly Press Programming Flex 2: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Media Applications with Adobe Flex by Kazoun, Lott (watch the wrap) http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Flex-Comprehensive-Creating-Applicatio ns/dp/059652689X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/002-8098935-6484806 http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Flex-Comprehensive-Creating-Applicati ons/dp/059652689X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/002-8098935-6484806 What are your thoughts? Ok, good, or great? Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -- Rich Tretola mx:EverythingFlex/ http://www.EverythingFlex.com http://www.EverythingFlex.com
RE: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon?
Anyone know where I can go and actually maybe get a response from someone? good grief.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiners From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Morphis Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon? Anyone know where I can go and actually maybe get a response from someone? good grief.. On 3/19/07, Greg Morphis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:gmorphis%40gmail.com wrote: Can anyone offer any help with this please? On 3/16/07, Greg Morphis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:gmorphis%40gmail.com wrote: Normally List has a iconFunction, I'm using an itemRenderer to give the list items a custom background color.. When I do this the icon doesn't show.. is there anyway around this? Thanks
RE: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon?
Sorry man, just seemed like there was a lot of complaining on the list yesterday from lack of help. Sorry I made a joke and singled you out, and glad you found a solution. Sometimes it's so noisy in here, you do have to shout a little. I know I have. IMO I think this list is such high-volume, it could/should be split into a Flexnovice list, a Flexpro list, and an Apollo list. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Morphis Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:42 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon? Screw you dude.. I've waited fairly patiently for a reply... On 3/19/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can go and actually maybe get a response from someone? good grief.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whiners From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Greg Morphis Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon? Anyone know where I can go and actually maybe get a response from someone? good grief.. On 3/19/07, Greg Morphis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:gmorphis%40gmail.com wrote: Can anyone offer any help with this please? On 3/16/07, Greg Morphis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:gmorphis%40gmail.com wrote: Normally List has a iconFunction, I'm using an itemRenderer to give the list items a custom background color.. When I do this the icon doesn't show.. is there anyway around this? Thanks
[flexcoders] Apollo question here or there (was: Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon?)
Cool, I'm just one small voice in the cosmic fuge as Carl Sagan would say, but I would vote we moderate Apollo questions to head over there then - this list is already quite high volume with novice, intermediate, and advanced Flex/AS3 questions. At the same time, I understand though, Apollo public alpha just launched yesterday, so there's going to be some noise everywhere... Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Technology Operations Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:03 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon? There's already an apollo list http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/ - Original Message - From: Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:jason.merrill%40bankofamerica.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:35 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: using itemRenderer with List, how can I set the icon? Sorry man, just seemed like there was a lot of complaining on the list yesterday from lack of help. Sorry I made a joke and singled you out, and glad you found a solution. Sometimes it's so noisy in here, you do have to shout a little. I know I have. IMO I think this list is such high-volume, it could/should be split into a Flexnovice list, a Flexpro list, and an Apollo list. Jason Merrill
RE: [flexcoders] OS X Dock implemented in Flex
Cool - yeah, tell him to post the code. Been done lots in Flash/Actionscript before over the years - not Mac OS flavor necessarily, but menus that scale when the mouse gets closer. Regardless, I'd love to see the source as his implementation is quite nice. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Riddle Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:36 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] OS X Dock implemented in Flex Hey everyone, my coworker created an OS X dock in Flex for our use in our application. He just posted it on his web site. If enough people dig it, he's going to post the code so everyone can partake. Check it out. http://www.timothyhuertas.com http://www.timothyhuertas.com/ Allen Riddle Sofware Development x3217
RE: [flexcoders] Registration point woes
You could adapt this for use: http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/54.cfm Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Holth Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 7:29 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Registration point woes I'm developing my first Flex component, and I'm having some trouble with registration points and images. I'm loading data from flickr, and have a custom class that extends mx:Image. I'm trying to create a rollOver effect that will increase the size of the clip from its CENTER, but right now the registration point is the top left... I've dealt with this issues in Flash, but I can't seem to figure out a way to do it in Flex. I tried changing my custom component to be a canvas, and adjust the position of the image by width/2 and height/2 but then it only shows a quarter of the Image. Could someone help me out on how to get Images/components to scale or register from their actual center, not the top left? Thanks! -DC http://blog.dcholth.com http://blog.dcholth.com aim: zotropix
RE: [flexcoders] Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
Why would you want to? It seems whatever you're trying to do could be accomplished in some other way. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:11 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Programmatically create MovieClip frames? Hey all, I have a bit of an odd question. I'm working on a project in which I'd like to include some somewhat intricate Flash animations... unfortunately... (sort of)... I'm working on one of those new MacBook Pros, with the Intel chip. No Flash 9 AS3 preview for me. I'd like to keep moving on the project, but as you probably know, Adobe is not shipping (and therefor not making available for download?) the new Flash CS3 until the end of April. So I'm wondering, is it possible to add frames to a programmatically created AS3 MovieClip, and then populate those frames dynamically? Will nextFrame() called on the last frame of a MovieClip still move the playhead?.. or return some kind of error?.. or just not do anything? I'll be experimenting with all this stuff over the next couple of days, trying to come up with a solution, but if anyone knows anything I'd appreciate the feedback. Also, if you happen to know that there's no way to do what I'm asking... and you happen to have the Flash 9 AS3 preview... would you mind making a few empty AS3 MovieClip SWFs? To be safe, I think one each at 7, 14, 21, and 28 frames would be great. That's not too much trouble is it? Okay, infinite thank yous in advance. //Matthew Anthony Hayes
RE: [flexcoders] Can I catch an onRelease event from a swf file in Flex
You need to know the button's instance name - then it's just a matter of addressing to capture the event: myFlashClip.myFlashButton.onRelease = function(){ dosomething } Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of relaxed_surfer Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:01 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Can I catch an onRelease event from a swf file in Flex Hi. Can I catch a button event from a button created in Flash? How would I do that? I can embed the swf file, and the Rollover works fine, but I do not know how to implement the click event.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
You can use the Flash 9 AS3 preview to output AS3 compatible .swf animations. - I guess I don't see what you need the extra frames for? Why do you want to add frames? I guess my feedback was aimed and getting you to explain why you need to programatically add frames - I'm not following what you're trying to do I guess. If they are animations you cannot easily do with actionscript, then that means you're hand-tweening them in Flash or some other tool, and thus would have the ability to add frames anyway. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:11 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames? Jason, Um, thank you for the feedback? What do you mean 'some other way?' For that matter, what do you mean, 'why would I want to?' I'd like to use animations in my application that I don't think would be easy to accomplish through scripted tweens. I could create the animations in Flash 8, but then I can't control them with AS3. I'd maybe have export each frame from Flash 8. Import them into Sprites in my Flex app, and then play them by iterating through the visible property of each one in a list... some kind of custom SuccessiveSpritePlayer class... seems like a lot of work- around, just to make what amounts to a MovieClip that I can add frames to. Does anyone have ideas, a trick, anything? //Matt --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you want to? It seems whatever you're trying to do could be accomplished in some other way. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:11 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Programmatically create MovieClip frames? Hey all, I have a bit of an odd question. I'm working on a project in which I'd like to include some somewhat intricate Flash animations... unfortunately... (sort of)... I'm working on one of those new MacBook Pros, with the Intel chip. No Flash 9 AS3 preview for me. I'd like to keep moving on the project, but as you probably know, Adobe is not shipping (and therefor not making available for download?) the new Flash CS3 until the end of April. So I'm wondering, is it possible to add frames to a programmatically created AS3 MovieClip, and then populate those frames dynamically? Will nextFrame() called on the last frame of a MovieClip still move the playhead?.. or return some kind of error?.. or just not do anything? I'll be experimenting with all this stuff over the next couple of days, trying to come up with a solution, but if anyone knows anything I'd appreciate the feedback. Also, if you happen to know that there's no way to do what I'm asking... and you happen to have the Flash 9 AS3 preview... would you mind making a few empty AS3 MovieClip SWFs? To be safe, I think one each at 7, 14, 21, and 28 frames would be great. That's not too much trouble is it? Okay, infinite thank yous in advance. //Matthew Anthony Hayes
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
Paul, if you're saying I need to re-read the thread, well I took your advice and I did, and yet nobody has really explained why adding frames programatically and adding instances of object to it would be useful. I guess I just don't see it when you can control instances of objects separately and use events to drive animation (even if the animation itself is hand-made) - what does adding blank frames and injecting content into those frames with code accomplish? Maybe it's just my lack of imagination, sorry, I just have never heard of this being a useful feature since I started developing in Flash 6 years ago. Perhaps you can explain? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
Send me what you want specifically offlist - and I can make a Flash 9 .swf for you. But if the frames are blank, how are you going to add animation content to them anyway? Yeah, sorry, I must be dense today, but I'm not seeing why having someone add blank frames to an AS3 clip will help with anything... or are you asking for us to also add your tweeened animations to the timeline as well? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:19 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames? Hmm, okay, so, to clarify. It's like Paul said. It's not so much that I WANT to add frames, it's that I'm on an Intel Mac, and don't have access to the Flash 9 AS3 preview, and so, CANT add frames in Flash... at least not if I still want control over the MovieClips... even simple control like... stop(), or gotoAndPlay(), etc... don't work with AVM1MovieClips... which is all I can make until I can get my hands on Flash CS3... at the end of April. Does it make more sense now? I want to create a set of character animations that represent said character's set of states, and can smoothly transition to/from one another, or loop over a set of frames if no transition is necessary. Does it make more sense now? Okay, thanks for helping, for real, //Matt --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use the Flash 9 AS3 preview to output AS3 compatible .swf animations. - I guess I don't see what you need the extra frames for? Why do you want to add frames? I guess my feedback was aimed and getting you to explain why you need to programatically add frames - I'm not following what you're trying to do I guess. If they are animations you cannot easily do with actionscript, then that means you're hand-tweening them in Flash or some other tool, and thus would have the ability to add frames anyway. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:11 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames? Jason, Um, thank you for the feedback? What do you mean 'some other way?' For that matter, what do you mean, 'why would I want to?' I'd like to use animations in my application that I don't think would be easy to accomplish through scripted tweens. I could create the animations in Flash 8, but then I can't control them with AS3. I'd maybe have export each frame from Flash 8. Import them into Sprites in my Flex app, and then play them by iterating through the visible property of each one in a list... some kind of custom SuccessiveSpritePlayer class... seems like a lot of work- around, just to make what amounts to a MovieClip that I can add frames to. Does anyone have ideas, a trick, anything? //Matt --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Merrill, Jason jason.merrill@ wrote: Why would you want to? It seems whatever you're trying to do could be accomplished in some other way. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of mtthwnthnyhys Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:11 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
Once you get more experience you will be able to understand better... only kidding, my 10 years of Flash experience is no match for your 6. Ok, you upped me there by 4 years. You must know more than me so I should just shut up. Seriously if you are only going to poo-poo his question then maybe you should keep it to yourself. Although I don't have an answer I can at least see it is a valid question. I am sure there is a way to do what he wants to do, but unfortunately I think he's barking up the wrong tree, but I don't know where the right tree is either. LOL, I'm not poo-poo'ing it, WOW. I'm trying to understand what he needs so I can assist him. If you're just going to try and turn this into me somehow being a jerk, well this isn't the place for that - please write comments like that to me directly offlist. I'm only trying to understand and help him. If asking questions to better understand why he wants to do this makes me a jerk, well, this list is not what I thought it was. If you in your 10 years experience know so much about his problem you should either answer his question here publically (which you have yet to do) or offer to help him offlist like I have, instead wasting your time by questioning my responses to his post. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
Matt, So Paul and I discussed our pointless bickering offlist and hugged it out. We're good now. Both of us however were just wondering about this question you have (me, so I could you, him for academic reasons) since we ironically agreed offlist neither of us could figure a good use case for needing do do this. Maybe you can explain in more detail what you will do with these frames once they are inserted. But really, we probably should move this to a Flashcoding list like Flashcoders. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Make a component 'modal'
I don't know as much about Flex architecture yet - just the basics, but I know in Flash 8 the PopupWindow component, when not enabled, is completely modal. I used that a lot for achieving modal windows. Don't know if that helps any in this case... I know you're looking to make your own component model - perhaps you could extend a Flex modal component like the PopupWindow? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint Tredway Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:13 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Make a component 'modal' I personally don't know how this would be done, but that doesnt mean it can't. On 30 Mar 2007 08:08:29 -0700, Shaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would work, but it would only disable controls, not give the greyed out look to the rest of the screen, like the popups do. I suppose I could do like you say, but instead have the style changed for the other components... but I'm really hoping there's some way to create a magic function like: public static function strongFocus(control:DisplayObject):void { ... } that I can call from anywhere and it will grey out and disable mouse interaction with everything on the stage but the control passed in. Am I hoping for too much? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Clint Tredway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without seeing how you setup your code, here is my suggestion. Set the parent containers of the other 'components' enabled attribute to a bindable var or even a state, and then when that specific button is clicked, set the var to false or in the case of using states, just change the state. Either way, that should accomplish what you are describing. HTH, Clint On 30 Mar 2007 07:36:17 -0700, Shaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to make a component modal/hilight it? I would like to be able to gray out (like when a popup is shown) everything on the screen but a certain component when the user click on a specific button. Basically I want a popup that's not a popup, but rather sets the focus on a particular component that is already in the displaylist. Thoughts on the best way to acheive this? Thanks, Shaun -- I am not a diabetic, I have diabetes my blog - http://grumpee.instantspot.com/blog http://grumpee.instantspot.com/blog -- I am not a diabetic, I have diabetes my blog - http://grumpee.instantspot.com/blog http://grumpee.instantspot.com/blog
RE: [flexcoders] How do I read Response after FileReference uploads a file?
It shouldn't be. In Flash 8/AS2 it was just: Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thegators_2002 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How do I read Response after FileReference uploads a file? I am trying to use FileReference to upload a file from the user side to a web page and read the response(xml) that the server returns. I can't figure out how to get the response, however. It doesn't seem to be included in the FileReference object. Is there a way to read the response coming back after a file upload, or is this halted by design?
RE: [flexcoders] How do I read Response after FileReference uploads a file?
Stupid Outlook hotkeys. What I meant to say was: In Flash 8 AS2 it was just: listener_obj.onComplete = function(file:FileReference):Void { } Where file was the complete file object on the result which had all the info you needed. Should be something similar in AS3. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thegators_2002 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How do I read Response after FileReference uploads a file? I am trying to use FileReference to upload a file from the user side to a web page and read the response(xml) that the server returns. I can't figure out how to get the response, however. It doesn't seem to be included in the FileReference object. Is there a way to read the response coming back after a file upload, or is this halted by design?
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically create MovieClip frames?
can't programmatically edit a MovieClip, it's that Adobe's docs don't make it clear why you wouldn't want to do that... because the MovieClip is a much more complicated beast that stores tween details, etc., that aren't exposed in the API (details you'd be familiar with if you've ever attempt to generate SWF's from scratch in an open-source tool like I did back in the Flash 4 days). The docs describe MovieClips as basically sprites with timelines... which would lead one to think, hey, sprite is great, but I need a timeline 'cause I got some animation, so I must need a MovieClip! I know this because I went down the same route. What I ended up doing was basically creating an AnimatedSprite class... it has a currentFrame property, and list of frames (which, in my case, are BitmapData's). Each frame it increments currentFrame and updates its display list to include the appropriate bitmapData. Pretty simple stuff... So, to address the original poster: MovieClip is just a mirage! Think of it like its got a scarier name like CompiledSWF and treat it like a blackbox. It'll make your life easier. Troy. On 3/29/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, So Paul and I discussed our pointless bickering offlist and hugged it out. We're good now. Both of us however were just wondering about this question you have (me, so I could you, him for academic reasons) since we ironically agreed offlist neither of us could figure a good use case for needing do do this. Maybe you can explain in more detail what you will do with these frames once they are inserted. But really, we probably should move this to a Flashcoding list like Flashcoders. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
[flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Sliverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex?
One person wrote: Everybody uses Windows, almost all the workstations are windows. Macs have IE working OK. Another responded: Think again. Think again? What kind of an argument is that? People keep brining up certain technlogies not working on Mac OS or Linux as a bad thing. Personally, I've never bought into the, that technology does not support obscure browser X or non-Windows operating system Y and therefore is doomed to fail argument. As much as I wish it were not true, Microsoft is one example of a company who has time and again developed solutions for Windows only and been quite successful at it. Not supporting Mac or Linux WILL hurt you a little, but it's still a Windows world (unfortunately) and thus there is a huge market there to tap. The world is changing, sure, but very very slowly in this regard. At the same time, I think Silverlight is coming out a little too late - the RIA runtime has already left the barn IMO. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
[flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
I'm trying to do a primarily Actionscript 3 written Flex app writing within the Flex framework. Following Moock's Actionscript 3.0: The Essential Guide examples, I have set up a simple 3 file project, all files in the same folder. The app attempts to draw a circle on the stage. See code and errors below: //Application MXML file ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main() /mx:Application //EntryClass.as file package { import mx.controls.Button; import mx.core.Application; public class EntryClass { public static function main():void { var testSprite:TestSprite = new TestSprite(12, 100, 100); var mxmlApp:Application = Application(Application.application); mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite); } } } //TestSprite.as file package { import flash.display.Sprite; class TestSprite extends Sprite { private var _x:int; private var _y:int; private var _radii:int public function TestSprite(size:int, posx:int, posy:int) { x = posx; y = posy; _radii = size; graphics.lineStyle(1, 0xFFCC33); graphics.beginFill(0xCC3300, 1); graphics.drawCircle(0, 0, _radii); graphics.endFill(); } } } Before compiling, I get this error: 1084: class 'TestSprite' will be scoped to the default namespace: internal. It will not be visible outside of this package. After compiling, the debugger gives this error: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert ::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent. at mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi ld() What's happening here? Is there a better way to set this up? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team
RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
So put in a UIComponent tag and put the test sprite in there. How would that look? I'm calling my class method as soon as the applicationComplete event occurs. Everything else is in Actionscript, the only MXML is this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main() /mx:Application Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:29 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework Even though the API says addChild takes DisplayObject, we can't override function signatures. The rules in Flex are: Navigator can only take Containers Containers can only take IUIComponents UIComponents can take anything. So put in a UIComponent tag and put the test sprite in there. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mathews Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework The first error says you need the TestSprite class to be defined like: public class TestSprite extends Sprite The second error I initially thought was because the application addChild takes a UICompoent, but according to the help docs what you have 'should' work. I would try casting it as a DisplayObject although this probably isn't the correct way to fix it. mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite as DisplayObject); Steve On 9/19/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:jason.merrill%40bankofamerica.com wrote: I'm trying to do a primarily Actionscript 3 written Flex app writing within the Flex framework. Following Moock's Actionscript 3.0: The Essential Guide examples, I have set up a simple 3 file project, all files in the same folder. The app attempts to draw a circle on the stage. See code and errors below: //Application MXML file ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main() /mx:Application //EntryClass.as file package { import mx.controls.Button; import mx.core.Application; public class EntryClass { public static function main():void { var testSprite:TestSprite = new TestSprite(12, 100, 100); var mxmlApp:Application = Application(Application.application); mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite); } } } //TestSprite.as file package { import flash.display.Sprite; class TestSprite extends Sprite { private var _x:int; private var _y:int; private var _radii:int public function TestSprite(size:int, posx:int, posy:int) { x = posx; y = posy; _radii = size; graphics.lineStyle(1, 0xFFCC33); graphics.beginFill(0xCC3300, 1); graphics.drawCircle(0, 0, _radii); graphics.endFill(); } } } Before compiling, I get this error: 1084: class 'TestSprite' will be scoped to the default namespace: internal. It will not be visible outside of this package. After compiling, the debugger gives this error: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert ::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent. at mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi ld() What's happening here? Is there a better way to set this up? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
Thanks - got the first error fixed, but the second one remains. If I cast testSprite as DisplayObject, I still see this error: Main Thread (Suspended: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent.) mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi ld mx.core::Container/addChildAt mx.core::Container/addChild ..etc. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mathews Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework The first error says you need the TestSprite class to be defined like: public class TestSprite extends Sprite The second error I initially thought was because the application addChild takes a UICompoent, but according to the help docs what you have 'should' work. I would try casting it as a DisplayObject although this probably isn't the correct way to fix it. mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite as DisplayObject); Steve On 9/19/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:jason.merrill%40bankofamerica.com wrote: I'm trying to do a primarily Actionscript 3 written Flex app writing within the Flex framework. Following Moock's Actionscript 3.0: The Essential Guide examples, I have set up a simple 3 file project, all files in the same folder. The app attempts to draw a circle on the stage. See code and errors below: //Application MXML file ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main() /mx:Application //EntryClass.as file package { import mx.controls.Button; import mx.core.Application; public class EntryClass { public static function main():void { var testSprite:TestSprite = new TestSprite(12, 100, 100); var mxmlApp:Application = Application(Application.application); mxmlApp.addChild(testSprite); } } } //TestSprite.as file package { import flash.display.Sprite; class TestSprite extends Sprite { private var _x:int; private var _y:int; private var _radii:int public function TestSprite(size:int, posx:int, posy:int) { x = posx; y = posy; _radii = size; graphics.lineStyle(1, 0xFFCC33); graphics.beginFill(0xCC3300, 1); graphics.drawCircle(0, 0, _radii); graphics.endFill(); } } } Before compiling, I get this error: 1084: class 'TestSprite' will be scoped to the default namespace: internal. It will not be visible outside of this package. After compiling, the debugger gives this error: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert ::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent. at mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingChi ld() What's happening here? Is there a better way to set this up? Thanks. Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
Alex, thanks, but changing to your code suggestion, I still get an error, Main Thread (Suspended: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property host not found on MyTestApplication and there is no default value.) and I think it is because EntryClass.main() gets called on the event applicationComplete, so the id for the UICompoenent does not exist yet, since it is further down the MXML. Chicken and egg thing, and not sure how to fix? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 2:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute applicationComplete=EntryClass.main() mx:UIComponent id=host / /mx:Application public static function main():void { var testSprite:TestSprite = new TestSprite(12, 100, 100); var host:UIComponent = Application.application.host; host.addChild(testSprite); Recent Activity * 81 New Members http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJnOHFiam5xB F9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNzIwNwRzZWMDdnRsB HNsawN2bWJycwRzdGltZQMxMTkwMjI3OTQw Visit Your Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZzh2b2tyBF9TAzk3M zU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTAwNzIwNwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z 2hwBHN0aW1lAzExOTAyMjc5NDA- Yahoo! Finance It's Now Personal http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j8rkb7g/M=493064.10729649.1140.867457 8/D=groups/S=1705007207:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1190235140/A=4507179/R=0/SIG=12de 4rskk/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=50284/*http://finance.yahoo.com/person al-finance Guides, news, advice more. Need traffic? Drive customers http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12j76kc6d/M=493064.10729656.1147.867457 8/D=groups/S=1705007207:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1190235140/A=3848644/R=0/SIG=131l 83flq/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/srchv2.php?o=US2006cmp=Yaho octv=Groups5s=Ys2=s3=b=50 With search ads on Yahoo! Popular Y! Groups Is your group one? http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12jmha3at/M=493064.11127061.11695037.867457 8/D=groups/S=1705007207:NC/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1190235140/A=4763761/R=0/SIG=11ou 7otip/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/bestofyahoogroups/ Check it out and see. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=87768/stime=1190227940/nc1=4507179/nc2=3848644/nc3=4763761
RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework
Alex, thanks, but changing to your code suggestion, I still get an error, Main Thread (Suspended: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property host not found on MyTestApplication and there is no default value.) and I think it is because EntryClass.main() gets called on the event applicationComplete, so the id for the UICompoenent does not exist yet, since it is further down the MXML. Chicken and egg thing, and not sure how to fix? Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team