Re: [flexcoders] How to open a flex project that was created elsewhere?

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Chabot
with an empty mxml file. You can delete that. -Mike Chabot On Nov 30, 2007 1:53 PM, Michael Pengi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've downloaded a sample flex application, how do I open it in the flex builder 3 IDE? There is no 'Open Project' menu option, only New...Flex Project and so forth? -- View

[flexcoders] Prevent duplicate sort function calls

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Chabot
I have been trying to address this error with a custom sorting function in a DataGrid: Error: Find criteria must contain at least one sort field value. I have a custom sort compareFunction that I call on the headerRelease event. The compareFunction seems to be running fine, but immediately after

Re: [flexcoders] Flex server Subversion

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Chabot
I keep the Flex source in subversion and the Flex project settings out. Source being .as and .mxml. Project settnigs being .project and .settings. Project settings is clearer than project. Yes, I uncheck the non-embedded option when working with source control. -Mike Chabot On Dec 12, 2007 9

Re: [flexcoders] How to change the data access option in an existing Flex project

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Chabot
documented so it should only take minutes to recreate. -Mike Chabot On Dec 13, 2007 11:39 AM, weichungwang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how an existing Flex project's data access option can be changed from Basic to ColdFusion Flash Remoting? The project was initially developed

Re: [flexcoders] Connecting Flex with SQL Server

2007-12-20 Thread Mike Chabot
to the database. -Mike Chabot On Dec 20, 2007 11:59 AM, Samuel R. Neff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using direct HTTP calls to MSSQL requires embedding sql server username/password into the swf which is not a good idea. Sam --- We're Hiring! Seeking

Re: [flexcoders] New App Developed in Flex

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Chabot
Looks good to me. Nice job. -Mike Chabot On Dec 21, 2007 9:47 AM, Andrew Wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some typos in the site, but the functionality looks good. Typo in the regstration page: Retrive Password should be Retrieve Company info page: Text should be left justified

[flexcoders] Shade Weekends on DateField Calendar

2007-12-25 Thread Mike Chabot
I want to show weekends and holidays on the date field pop-up calendar with a different background color. This seems like a fairly common feature to want in a calendar. Can someone point me to a good example of doing something like this. Thank you, Mike Chabot

Re: [flexcoders] Automatic Validation for Entire Form

2007-12-29 Thread Mike Chabot
complex? -Mike Chabot On Dec 28, 2007 11:51 AM, Clinton D. Judy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't there a way to make sure an entire form is validated automatically? Then if it were, it may send an event, doing something like enabling a button or allowing you to go on. If this functionality isn't

Re: [flexcoders] Session Defining

2008-01-01 Thread Mike Chabot
will need to write a custom Web serivce for this, where you specifically pass the desired variables from ASP.NET to Flex. -Mike Chabot On Jan 1, 2008 9:16 AM, NileAge, Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to define a session in flex 2 as we use in asp.net I use asp.net

Re: [flexcoders] Save data from datagrid to database?

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Chabot
the grid to the server, similar to what ASP.NET does, you will be disappointed. You need to write the SQL and CFC at some point, although the wizard helps. Good luck, MIke Chabot On Jan 2, 2008 12:21 PM, markflex2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a datagrid that is changed by events. I

Re: [flexcoders] Developing Flex against CF Server

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Chabot
If your development server has CF installed on the C:\ drive, map that C drive share onto your local dev box. Let's call it Z drive. Do in your Flex settings you write Z:\ColdFusion8\ for the path. I bet you could also use UNC paths, such as \\server\c$\ColdFusion8\. Enjoy, Mike Chabot On Jan 1

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Samples

2008-01-04 Thread Mike Chabot
I hope you have checked the Adobe Web site for sample applications. There are a bunch of samples with full source code there. Flex Store is a popular one. You could also get a book like Training From The Source which comes with a sample application. -Mike Chabot On Jan 4, 2008 4:20 AM, Stewart

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder license

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Chabot
Unless you are short on cash, go with the second option. You want a rich IDE to develop in. It really helps. The developer license includes the ability to run either Flex Builder, or the Flex Builder plug-in for Eclipse. Without the license you don't have the nice graphical IDE. -Mike Chabot

Re: [flexcoders] CF8 / Flex 2 http vs. https issue

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Chabot
There was a discussion thread on a related topic a few days ago that might provide some insight into this issue for you. -Mike Chabot On Jan 8, 2008 8:14 PM, chrisvet2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a web server that is configured such that http://server/directory (d:\http\directory

[flexcoders] Set SWF to 100% of remaining height

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Chabot
already been solved by other people before, so I thought I would ask first before starting to come up with JavaScript code. Thank you, Mike Chabot

[flexcoders] FB watch expression for a singleton object

2008-02-09 Thread Mike Chabot
many lines of code, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm allowed to type in terms of actual programming code in this box and the manual wasn't of much help. Thank you, Mike Chabot

Re: [flexcoders] FB watch expression for a singleton object

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Chabot
, or did I interpret you properly? Thank you, Mike Chabot On Feb 10, 2008 12:15 PM, Eric Cancil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why dont you add a local variable to your main application file and watch that. On Feb 9, 2008 5:33 PM, Mike Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In FB3 debug mode I want

Re: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash memory allocation

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Chabot
Firefox has some significant memory leaks that are unrelated to Flash. Are you noticing this problem in both FF and MSIE? Are you observing the memory usage using Windows task manager or by some other method like the Flex profiler? -Mike Chabot On Feb 13, 2008 8:45 AM, Guilherme Defreitas

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Singletons - Best Practices

2008-03-11 Thread Mike Chabot
There is a chapter in the ActionScript 3 Design Patterns book on this topic that is good. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:06 PM, andrii_olefirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't know about best practices but it's quite easy to implement package test { import

Re: [flexcoders] Best practices for developing flex projects with CF components

2008-03-12 Thread Mike Chabot
I don't think it matters too much whether the project is local or on your dev server, assuming you have a fast connection to your dev server making speed a non-issue. You don't need to install anything special on the dev server. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:29 PM, kpjj31

Re: [flexcoders] Flex and seo optimisation

2008-03-29 Thread Mike Chabot
for the public parts of the Web site since it should be easier to get a higher ranking using a more traditional Web site. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Deniz Davutoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, I am working on project whom is importand to have hi page rank in seo

Re: [flexcoders] Announcement: Join us in a Flex-Related Focus Group

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Chabot
. The surprise to me is the option of payment via iTunes. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing really does surprise me about this. Do you really have to pay someone $50 to get an opinion? I suspect most Flex developers would participate

Re: [Flashcoders] Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Chabot
variable does the trick though. Enjoy, Mike Chabot On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:18 AM, slangeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much better approach! Now, my question is, what do people do to prevent caching of swf files themselves? Here's the setup: I'm deploying a business app, and want all users

Re: [flexcoders] Large application strategy - Flex or Flash?

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Chabot
for either Flash or Flex that isn't provided by a technology like ASP.NET or Ajax? -Mike Chabot On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, bick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to get some opinions on whether to use Flex or Flash on a large scale site. Some details about the site: Very modular Some

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Large application strategy - Flex or Flash?

2008-04-28 Thread Mike Chabot
of advantages that can be considered separately from business requirements. For example, I think the Flex datagrid offers advantages over an HTML table in some scenarios, even though the requirement of showing tabular data could be met at its most basic level with HTML. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Apr 28, 2008

[flexcoders] How to pass handled errors from the server to Flex

2008-05-10 Thread Mike Chabot
there is some place which says that throwing server exceptions to pass validation failure messages is the better method. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thank you, Mike Chabot

Re: [flexcoders] ColdFusion Structures in Flex

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Chabot
conversion check this out: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashremoting/mx/Using_Flash_Remoting_MX/UseASData4.htm It is old, but it should be accurate. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Dan Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Flex and I have some questions about data types. I have

Re: [flexcoders] ColdFusion Structures in Flex

2008-05-17 Thread Mike Chabot
is probably very small. I would send all the details into Flex with one call. It will be easier to code and I doubt you are going to noticably impact RAM usage or bandwidth by doing this. -Mike Chabot On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Dan Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I am trying to do

Re: [flexcoders] Set Datagrid Column Width

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Chabot
, Mike Chabot On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM, cox.blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read that the DataGrid was designed to adjust to the dimensions of the browser, however my application has fixed dimensions to maintain some sanity. How can I define the widths of individual columns

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder Speed-ups?

2008-07-27 Thread Mike Chabot
You can turn off the Build Automatically option under the project menu. -Mike Chabot On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, tudsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Flex Builder can run extremely slow, almost every keypress sends javaw.exe CPU usage over 50% and this causes an unacceptable lag for even

Re: [flexcoders] Flexbuilder 3.0.1 Update

2008-08-18 Thread Mike Chabot
Updates command doesn't seem to do anything and the Help Software Updates Find and Install feature doesn't find any Flex updates. Thank you, Mike Chabot On 8/18/08 2:35 PM, Rick Winscot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a note... Flexbuilder 3.0.1 is out in the frey today. It will install

Re: [flexcoders] How to upgrade Flex 3 to 3.0.1?

2008-08-19 Thread Mike Chabot
The Flex updater Web page hasn't yet been updated with the new download links http://www.adobe.com/support/flex/downloads_updaters.html I don't have the Adobe Updater program installed. I'm guessing that is why the Search For Flex Builder Updates command does nothing for me. -Mike Chabot On Tue

Re: [flexcoders] PHP vs. Coldfusion 8 for beginner?

2008-08-20 Thread Mike Chabot
business, you might want to hire an experienced consultant to help guide your decision so you don't make an expensive mistake. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:38 PM, cox.blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I'm probably going to get a biased response, but which would you say

[flexcoders] Flex Builder 3.0.1 standalone updater posted

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Chabot
, Mike Chabot -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 freezes at startup everytime!!!

2008-09-06 Thread Mike Chabot
. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Josh Millstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not startup Flex Builder 3 anymore. It hangs everytime with the startup window. The rectangular window with the Fx - build on Eclipse . The os (os x) crashed when flex builder was running

Re: [flexcoders] Is there a live example which shows Flex can handle thousands of concurrent users?

2008-09-07 Thread Mike Chabot
that the bottleneck for an app like this is more likely to be the server / database. -Mike Chabot On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:37 AM, R H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, Would there be anyone who can point me to some live cases where they show Flex can handle thousands of concurrent users

Re: [flexcoders] Re:Looking for a Flex forum.

2008-09-08 Thread Mike Chabot
be challenging to justify the investment. I also agree with what Doug M. and Mike S. wrote. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schmalle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Last year when the Services module came out for Drupal, I pipped into the node/forum API and created a nice

Re: [flexcoders] flex showing always the same SWF

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Chabot
Disabling the browser cache would be a good first step. You can do this directly in the browser or by using cache-prevention code in your project. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GO To Project--Build Automatically. That should

Re: [flexcoders] sailorsea21 - Is it possible to use a value from a variable as a Timer value?

2008-10-27 Thread Mike Chabot
You can definitely use a variable there. You might want to step through the code to make sure that the variable is getting populated with the correct value and that the timer is being created after the getRate function completes. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:11 PM, sailorsea21 [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Re: connect to sql server 2005!

2008-10-28 Thread Mike Chabot
I would expect that every book on ASP.NET covers this topic in depth. If you don't know how to program ASP.NET then why are you using it? -Mike Chabot On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, oneworld95 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can search the web on that or post to the http://forums.asp.net

Re: [flexcoders] Data Transfer choices...?

2008-11-01 Thread Mike Chabot
classified as resources instead of data. You generally wouldn't store these file types in a database or deliver them via the methods you are asking about. Have your read any Flex books yet? -Mike Chabot On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM, spinglittery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first post

Re: [flexcoders] Flex3/AIR book recommendation?

2008-11-11 Thread Mike Chabot
Henry, Training From the Source is a good first Flex book for most people. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM, henryhokinhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flex3/AIR book recommendation? I searched on amazon but I don't know which one's good.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 - Export to Microsoft Excel?

2008-12-01 Thread Mike Chabot
to convert it to a bitmap first. Either that or recreate the chart on the server. If all you need is a simple copy/paste solution, then the method Paul mentioned would be easier to implement. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:13 PM, sailorsea21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, is it possible

Re: [flexcoders] session pooling with Flex/SQLServer w/o ColdFusion?

2009-05-09 Thread Mike Chabot
If that tool is single threaded then don't use it since that would be a significant downside. Instead, use a programming language like PHP, Java, .NET, or ColdFusion. -Mike Chabot On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Mic chigwel...@yahoo.com wrote: All of our business logic is within stored

Re: [flexcoders] session variables

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Chabot
with, or an issue that can be handled differently, such as by reminding suspected violators of the rules via an E-mail. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM, iloveyouwisconsin iloveyouwiscon...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a flex app that users pay to subscribe to my content. Obviously, I don't want

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder won't use my changes

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Chabot
Disable your browser cache. I have to do this when developing. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Genter rick.gen...@gmail.com wrote: I've been building an app with Flex Builder 3. All of a sudden when I run my app using the debugger I no longer see my changes reflected