[flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2

2005-10-21 Thread Merrill, Jason
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


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RE: [flexcoders] Layout problems in Flex 2

2005-10-24 Thread Merrill, Jason










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!



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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


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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
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[flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2?

2005-10-24 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.



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RE: [flexcoders] What is a transcoding error in Flexbuilder 2?

2005-10-24 Thread Merrill, Jason










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. 





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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

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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 





























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[flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?

2005-10-24 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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RE: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?

2005-10-24 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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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.





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RE: [flexcoders] F2 Alpha: Repeaters and dynamic HTML text?

2005-10-25 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.







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RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater

2005-10-26 Thread Merrill, Jason










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/





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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







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RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater

2005-10-26 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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RE: [flexcoders] How to access control attributes inside a repeater

2005-10-26 Thread Merrill, Jason










I just re-read what I wrote, and I meant
that last sentence in a humorous way by the way





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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
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RE: [flexcoders] Yahoo Maps built with Flex!

2005-11-03 Thread Merrill, Jason










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







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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.


 

 
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RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial

2005-11-10 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sir_janksalot
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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

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RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial

2005-11-10 Thread Merrill, Jason










 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. 





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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial

2005-11-10 Thread Merrill, Jason










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).





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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Carabetta
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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.



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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial

2005-11-10 Thread Merrill, Jason










Interesting, just now after navigating in
some other courses, it locked up on me when I clicked the Management Training
button using Firefox. 





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RE: [flexcoders] Cool Flex Site with Free 30 day trial

2005-11-11 Thread Merrill, Jason










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. 





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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes
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8:57 PM
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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)







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Nicely done and
well organized .. 







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[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








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[flexcoders] Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps

2005-11-15 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps

2005-11-15 Thread Merrill, Jason










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,





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Yahoo Maps!

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[flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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,





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RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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? 





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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









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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,





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RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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?





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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005
1:21 PM
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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 





















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[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

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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. 



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RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005
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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...



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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,





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RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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.





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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Links to Nice-looking Flex Apps

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










Sweet  thanks!





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Nice-looking Flex Apps





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 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..

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RE: [flexcoders] My Flex Site Mockup - considerations?

2005-11-17 Thread Merrill, Jason










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. 





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RE: [flexcoders] eval()

2005-11-22 Thread Merrill, Jason










Yeah, [].



And good riddance to eval().



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I see in the doc that eval() has been removed in AS3, is there any
equivalent ?
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RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays

2005-11-23 Thread Merrill, Jason
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)





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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 






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RE: [flexcoders] problem with arrays

2005-11-23 Thread Merrill, Jason
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.





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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











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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)





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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 



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[flexcoders] Flex Builder 2 classpaths

2007-01-05 Thread Merrill, Jason
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,


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[flexcoders] basic flex architecture questions

2007-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
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.


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RE: [flexcoders] odd script error - undefined property

2007-01-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
Ah, that makes sense.  Thanks!
 

Jason Merrill 
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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???

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RE: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2.0.1 Trial

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
When I downloaded the trial a week ago, I got 2.0.1 - maybe they messed
something up since then.
 

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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

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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.
 

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RE: [flexcoders] Re: basic architecture question

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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!
 

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[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

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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

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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 ?

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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 ?

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-01-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-12 Thread Merrill, Jason
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
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[flexcoders] Applying actionscript to mx:Image

2007-01-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
 
 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

2007-01-17 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-22 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
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/

2007-01-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-24 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-01-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-01-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-01-25 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-26 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-01-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-01-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-02-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-02-13 Thread Merrill, Jason

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?

2007-02-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-02-13 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-02-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-02-23 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-02-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-01 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-02 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-07 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-09 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-10 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-14 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-16 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?)

2007-03-20 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-23 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-26 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-28 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
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'

2007-03-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
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
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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?

2007-03-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
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?

2007-03-30 Thread Merrill, Jason
 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?

2007-04-27 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-09-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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

2007-09-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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





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RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework

2007-09-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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





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RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework

2007-09-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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);



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RE: [flexcoders] Actionscript sprite within the Flex framework

2007-09-19 Thread Merrill, Jason
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 


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