[flexcoders] Changing font size of button bar

2010-06-15 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello,

I am currently using a button bar but I would like to change the font  
size of the buttons to the smallest font size used in the buttons. The  
idea is that the I determine the font size to make the label fit in  
the button (fixed button width) and then use the smallest font size  
for all the others too.

What's the best approach?

My current idea is the following:

- Use an offscreen text field with the same text format to  
calculate the smallest font size (e.g. width  max button width then  
fontSize--)
   - Determine the smallest font size of all the buttons via Math.min 
( fontSize,  );
   - Change fontSize style property of the button bar/buttons

Are there any better approaches in Flex to do the same?

Thanks,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] EPUB reader in Flex

2010-04-15 Thread Weyert de Boer
Well, ePub is basically just HTML. As far as I am aware off... What about using 
the new text engine and load the text as HTML? That might work.

Re: [flexcoders] .csv import stuff

2009-05-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
What do you mean with browse? You can just load the file using  
FileReference.load() and then just show it.
Just  split the text of the file by \n\r (or just \r) and then split  
every line by the separator (normally the comma). After parsing the  
first line

you could use those as the keys for the array you construct.

I would think something like below could work:

var data: Array = [];
var values: Array;
var lines: Array = data.split( \n\r );
for ( var i: Number=0; i  lines.length; i++ ) {
var line: String = lines[i];
values = line.split(,);
// do something
   data.push(values);
}


Weyert de Boer






is there any nice and easy way to 'Browse' .csv file on flex
and after that send 'Import Request' to php and php will import  
this .csv file's data to database.?


any thought on this stuff!!?


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Re: [flexcoders] Re: how open .doc (words )file

2009-05-07 Thread Weyert de Boer

By unzipping it.



On 7/05/2009, at 5:03 AM, securenetfreedom wrote:


How would you gain access to the .doc XML?





Re: [flexcoders] how open .doc (words )file

2009-05-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
I would think that using the Word COM+ objects would be the easiest  
way to read Word documents. Of course, you can also only support the  
XML-based version of Word documents Office 2007.




On 6/05/2009, at 6:23 PM, farid wl wrote:





Hi Dear friends
anybody knows how we can read and open .doc files in flex and  
convert it to pdf on fly with action scripts or php .

I use of AMF to transfer value object between flex and php.

PLease help me .

BR

farid valipour







Re: [flexcoders] Printing on Mac

2009-04-29 Thread Weyert de Boer
And it's better to add the sprites offscreen to the stage to avoid all  
kind of other printing issues (mainly also blank pages). The problem I  
am having that the result is crap on the Mac the same code looks all  
sharp and nice but when I printing on the Mac it's a bit blurry.  
Really annoying. Flash Player 10 doesn't support vector printing on  
the Mac?


On 28/04/2009, at 9:46 AM, Toby Tremayne wrote:




yes it's to do with a rounding error when measuring the page  
height.  Check this out: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-18976







Re: [flexcoders] Control remote desktop with Flash

2009-04-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can have a look at the FVNC project? It's a VNC client for Flash/ 
Flex. You are currently unable to with a VNC server in Flash because  
you can't access the desktop and mouse/keyboard outside the Flash  
region. And the Flash Player lacks support for server sockets... 


Re: [flexcoders] fvnc

2009-04-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yes, you can control a remote computer using FVNC. You only can't host  
a VNC server from Flash. Technically impossible because of lacking  
features in the Flash Player


On 27/04/2009, at 9:14 AM, venkat eswar wrote:


 Can we do remote desktop feature using fvnc(flash vnc client).Please  
 help me



Re: [flexcoders] Re: Sending a HEAD request

2009-04-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
Today on Twitter I heard about this library as3httpclient. Appears to  
support doing HEAD requests. See: http://code.google.com/p/as3httpclient/


Re: [flexcoders] Flex Interview Questions

2009-03-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
Why would you want to ask about specific components which can be easily 
learned after you have hired the guy? Better to ask question about 
programming principles and maybe Flash specific questions. But asking 
about specific components is a bit odd in my opinion.

Anyways, Sidney had some nice question listed in flashcoders or this 
list a while back.



Re: [flexcoders] virtual keyboard

2009-03-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
Please keep in mind that a lot of the virtual keyboard designs are 
patented in the U.S. As long you don't have to deal in the U.S. you can 
ignore my comment.


Re: [flexcoders] Merapi and execute file from AIR

2009-03-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can find a .NET example of communicating with LocalConnection in one 
of the Flex books. Pro Flex 2. I think it was.


Re: [flexcoders] Merapi and execute file from AIR

2009-03-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
No, I wouldn't use Java for this. This will increase the deployment size 
of your product. Because you would need to have the Java runtime installed.


Re: [flexcoders] Merapi and execute file from AIR

2009-03-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
I would've have just written to simple C++ applications which start 
those applications. If you only want to execute files.
 I won't have a huge memory hog for such things then.


Re: [flexcoders] Merapi and execute file from AIR

2009-03-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yeah, working on a C or Freepascal version of Merapi ;)


[flexcoders] AMF and sending/receiving pictures

2009-03-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
Does anyone know if there are any solutions to allow sending pictures 
from the AMF server-side to the Flash/Flex client? Or do I need to go 
the Base64 or supply as image url way instead?


Re: [flexcoders] Open Source Library for Draw Graph

2009-03-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Have a look at BirdEye: http://code.google.com/p/birdeye

 Hi,
 someone know an open source library for writing VISUALLY graph ??

 Thanks.

 



Re: [flexcoders] Launching Air application from ASP .NET

2009-03-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Why would you want to run the AIR application on the webserver where the 
ASP.NET project is deployed on?


Re: [flexcoders] adobe TV - QR code reader

2009-03-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
It's the session by Mario Klinggemann. He did that session during Aral's 
online conference.




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Re: [flexcoders] adobe TV - QR code reader

2009-03-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f15384v1012




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Re: [flexcoders] Re: try, catch, finally ...

2009-03-04 Thread Weyert de Boer
I respectfully disagree with not handling exceptions and let them raised 
in the player. Of course, eating exceptions is terribly bad. Yes, 
raising exceptions because user input is bad is a long stretch.

 Hi Kevin,

 Try-Catch blocks are an absolute necessity as without them, you are 
 putting the operation of your software into the hands of user input 
 errors, http errors, unintended consequences as well as the myriad of 
 things that exist outside the Happy Path.

 I respectfully disagree.  IMHO, try-catch is only useful in rare 
 situations; like file IO in an Air app.  User input should be handled 
 with restict and validators and http errors should be handled with a 
 fault handler.  What I'm saying is that well written/tested code 
 rarely needs the overhead and verboseness of a try-catch block.  In 
 the event of un-caught errors, I personally want the Flash window to 
 popup.  While the dialog could be more elegant, the stack trace makes 
 it easier to locate the problem and fix the bug quickly.  Again, just 
 my opinion.

 -TH

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Benz kb...@... wrote:
 
  Try-Catch blocks are an absolute necessity as without them, you are
  putting the operation of your software into the hands of user input
  errors, http errors, unintended consequences as well as the myriad of
  things that exist outside the Happy Path. As functions/methods only
  give you one return object, it is common practice to throw custom
  errors/exceptions as they are a great mechanism for handling dynamic
  environments.
 
 
 
  To answer your second question about a try-catch without statements in
  the catch block. If this method is nested inside of another try-catch
  block, then an exception here will be swallowed and not be caught in the
  calling objects try-catch.
 
 
 
  KFB
 
 
 
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
  Behalf Of SJF
  Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:54 PM
  To: flexcoders
  Subject: [flexcoders] try, catch, finally ...
 
 
 
  Technically, it's good practice/professional to use try-catch-finally
  blocks in your actionscript logic. This ensures a robust, easily
  debugg-able application.
 
  However, can anyone comment if they actually use try-catch-finally or
  whether anyone is for or against it's use.
 
  I ask because I've received an application (which streams vidoe) that
  was blowing out numerous users CPUs to 100%. Upon further investigation,
  it appears that a netstream event is firing 20 times a second, and
  within the listener (listener function that is) for the event, there is
  a try-catch-finally block. I removed the try-catch-finally and CPU usage
  halved on my machine.
 
  Anyone care to comment for or against try-catch-finally and it's use.
 
 
 
  Steve.
 
 
 
 
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Re: [flexcoders] distributing air apps without install

2009-03-03 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yes, you only need to have a freely redistrubition license from Adobe 
which also comes with the information to  install your AIR app and the 
runtime silently. See: 
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_distribution1.html

 Is it possible to distribute an AIR app that can be run without being
 installed?

 Can I zip the directory of an installed air app and distribute it to
 users for them to decompress and run without having to install?

 



Re: [flexcoders] Thumbnail from screen (contents)

2009-03-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Erik,

You can easily make a screenshot of a MovieClip the following way:
import flash.display.*;

var thumbnailData: BitmapData =  new BitmapData( slide._width, 
slide._height, true, 0xFF );
thumbnailData.draw( slide, new Matrix() );

After you made a screenshot of the movieclip or you slide you can reuse 
it by it like:

slideThumb.attachBitmap( thumbnailData, 1);

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reading the output of an AIR application in C#

2009-02-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
You could check if AIR allows to output to the output stream (or 
System.Out) while running and you can catch that easily under Windows.

See for more information: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.redirectstandardoutput.aspx

Of course, can also add some sort of file watcher and get an event when 
the file is added to a specific file (or a file with a specific name) 
and then directly open it in C#.

See: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reading the output of an AIR application in C#

2009-02-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can find most of the information you need at: 
www.osflash.org/localconnection.


Re: [flexcoders] syncing AIR/Flex app with mobile phones

2009-02-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi,

You could consider to use the SyncML protocol. Now you probably would 
still need some program in the middle who can push the SyncML data to 
the mobile phone like via Bluetooth. Of course, you can also generate an 
iCal file or a  vCard file. Maybe? Of course, you can just push to 
something like Google Calendar and Google Contacts (if it exists!)

Yours,
Weyert

 

 Has anyone handled syncing things like contacts or calendar events
 with mobile phones? Are there services or libraries for integrating
 with the existing contact and calendar apps on the popular smartphones?

 



Re: [flexcoders] Displaying Extremely large fonts

2009-02-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hmm. Did you try to scale it? Maybe that works?!?!


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

2009-02-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
It's \0 or null character for the XMLSocket class. This limitation 
doesn't exist when you use the binary sockets.


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flas 10 on mobile is a go

2009-02-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
Carlos, just get a Palm Pre ;) Same coolness but with Flash.




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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Socket communications in Flex

2009-02-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
Have a look at: http://www.innerfuse.biz/dropbox/WebDU 2007 Leveraging 
Apollo Runtime.zip

Shows how you can make a socket server in Ruby and talk with a Bluetooth 
GPS device.


Re: [flexcoders] Alternative Rich Text Editor

2009-01-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
You could consider using Flash Player 10 and the new text engine.

The best you can get:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/


Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex

2009-01-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
During WebDU 2007 I presented a similar solution only using Ruby 
instead. If you want you can have it.
 As part of the example during the presentation I used one of those Palm 
GPS mouses. But it should work with all GPS devices which support NMEA 
standard.


Re: [flexcoders] Using ActiveXObject with Adobe AIR and Flex

2009-01-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can't really use ActiveX objects from some other different then IE. 
Firefox, Opera don't support it. Ofcourse, also it's only support under 
Windows. What you could consider is let the ActiveX (if possible) 
register an url scheme and use that to trigger it somehow together.


Re: [flexcoders] Using ActiveXObject with Adobe AIR and Flex

2009-01-09 Thread Weyert de Boer
Something like:
http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2006/10/19/register-a-custom-url-protocol-handler.aspx


I like that idea to use something like to launch application from AIR 
and then let the handler check if it's coming from an AIR application ;)


Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?

2008-12-31 Thread Weyert de Boer
Wow. Currently, each notebook I have had from Apple needed fixes via 
warranty. My G4 got is screen replaced and the MBP is still a big drama 
with two topcase replacements, two screens and keyboard key fix. 
Basically it needs to a new warranty because the last time they broke 
the keyboard lightning and the topcase is falling apart again while it 
hasn't even travelled since the last fix. Terrible :(


Re: [flexcoders] Shape Detection in BitmapData

2008-12-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
You might want to check out the last session form Mario Klingemann at 
MAX. You can find it at: http://tv.adobe.com


Re: [flexcoders] Identifying AIR application instance

2008-11-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
You could make a constant class and then re-compile and package a AIR 
file for each download of the application. Or you can the easy way and 
generate a unique identifier and store it somewhere like encrypted store 
when the application is first launched. After you can always pass along 
the identifier when running.


Re: [flexcoders] Question about a component Kap Lab Diagrammer

2008-11-20 Thread Weyert de Boer
Nope, but I have experiences with yFiles Flex and that's a real nice 
component package.

http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yfilesflex_about.html


Re: [flexcoders] How to extract and save the contents of an image ,audio or video file ?

2008-11-20 Thread Weyert de Boer
Just put the file in a blob field of the database. If you really want to 
store it in the database (sounds silly too me).


Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to extract and save the contents of an image ,audio or video file ?

2008-11-20 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can just try to compress the file first and then just send the 
bytearray to the blob. :)


Re: [flexcoders] 64bit Flash player released, Linux only for ow

2008-11-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
What's the added value of having the problem in 64bits? Better to 
concentrate on a Flash Player performance improvement on the Mac to 
decrease the CPU usages in such manner the fans ain't sounding like a 
flying by airplane :)


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex and Screen Readers

2008-10-31 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Gus,

MacOSX comes with a nice screen reader out of the box. It's called 
VoiceOver.

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Do you use a Mac?

2008-10-29 Thread Weyert de Boer
Well, Leopard Server runs in a virtual machine. It's supported by VMWare 
Fusion and Parallels under OSX.

Fotis Chatzinikos wrote:

 Are you sure that you cannot run Leopard (MacOSX) on a vm?




  



Re: [flexcoders] Flex and Screen Readers

2008-10-28 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hey Gus,

This page has some interesting information about this combination:
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flex/

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?

2008-10-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
 Then there's the free(as in beer) Apple Developer Tools, which you need
 to install, but include: XCode and all the other good stuff it brings,
 including WebObjects, IPhone SDK, general Cocoa SDK tools, various
 profilers etc etc. the list just goes on an on..
 In my experience IDEs like Eclipse, Flex Builder, Netbeans etc etc work
 fine on OS X.
Visual Studio Express is also free (as in beer) and also is a good 
development environment for Windows.
Now it has to be said that XCode is a lovely IDE!


Re: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?

2008-10-24 Thread Weyert de Boer
I have been moving towards OSX three years ago. Only I have the feeling 
you replacing the BSOD with annoying rotating beachballs.
You are having a lot of beachballs under OSX sometimes at odd times. 
Anyways, beside of things like Disco, QuickSilver and TextMate
are nice applications which ain't available under Windows/Linux.


Re: [flexcoders] form to pdf

2008-10-21 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Gustavo,

You could consider using the AlivePDF! solution which allows you to 
generate PDF documents from inside Flash.
http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/

Have a look at this example too:
http://blog.unthinkmedia.com/?p=53

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Can AIR call local DLLs?

2008-10-20 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can use AlivePDF to generate PDF files.


Re: [flexcoders] BSS is Looking someone

2008-10-15 Thread Weyert de Boer
Does it really has to be PHP? Not like .NET, Delphi or Ruby (RoR)? PHP 
is just driving me insane.


[flexcoders] Custom itemRenderer for Tree

2008-10-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello,

I am currently trying to work on a itemRenderer for the Flex Tree 
component. Only I am having some trouble with it.
I would like to to hard-code the itemHeight of every item in the list. 
My objective is to make an itemRenderer which
has a image item and a label and together with two 1px thick lines (on 
the top and bottom). Only the problem is that
it looks clumsy somehow.

The problems I am experiencing is:

- The selection highlight indicator has disappeared
- The vertical alignment of the text and image box is odd

I am using the following code:


Does anyone know how I can make this using MXML?

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Custom itemRenderer for Tree

2008-10-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
Sorry, the code was I was using can be found below now. I am using:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:VBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
xmlns:degrafa=com.degrafa.*
xmlns:paint=com.degrafa.paint.*
xmlns:geometry=com.degrafa.geometry.*
height=22
degrafa:Surface verticalCenter=0 horizontalCenter=0
degrafa:strokes
paint:SolidStroke id=light
color=#66
alpha=1
weight=1/
/degrafa:strokes
   
!-- Creating a Geometry Group. --
degrafa:GeometryGroup
geometry:HorizontalLinestroke={light}
x=0
x1={this.width}/
/degrafa:GeometryGroup
/degrafa:Surface

mx:HBox width=100%  height=100% backgroundColor=#FF 
paddingLeft=4 horizontalGap=4 paddingTop=0
mx:Image source=@Embed(source='assets/emptyIcon.png') /
mx:Label text={data} color=#00 /
/mx:HBox
   
degrafa:Surface verticalCenter=0 horizontalCenter=0
degrafa:strokes
paint:SolidStroke id=dark
color=#33
alpha=1
weight=1/
/degrafa:strokes
   
!-- Creating a Geometry Group. --
degrafa:GeometryGroup
geometry:HorizontalLinestroke={dark}
x=0
x1={this.width}/
/degrafa:GeometryGroup
/degrafa:Surface   
/mx:VBox



[flexcoders] Problem with the DataGrid column keeps switching location

2008-10-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello,

I have been working on a solution to make some sort of property grid in 
Flex and I have been using the DataGrid. Only I am experiencing some 
problems with it.
The datagrid consists of two columns called name and value. The 
second value is a column where I used a custom itemRenderer to change 
the input editor
based on given instructions in the dataProvider.

Only I am sadly enough I am experiencing some strange problem with it. 
The problem is that when I am filling the dataProvider and later clear 
the dataProvider
and then add some data again. The input editors in the second column 
don't match the title shown at the first column. The input editor will 
move one row time
each time you are refilling it.

I have made a Flex project which reproduces this problem. Does anyone 
know how this problem can be fixed?

The download can be found at:
www.dustyfrog.nl/dropbox/dbgrid_problem.zip

Also does anyone know a better or different approach to accomplish the 
same in a way without the above mentioned problem?

The code is based on code from Tink

(I am bit disparate)

Yours,
Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Problem with the DataGrid column keeps switching location

2008-10-13 Thread Weyert de Boer
The problem is shown when you click a few times on the buttons.


Re: [flexcoders] Best way to deliver data via Rails

2008-10-10 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can consider using RubyAMF.



[flexcoders] Flex 4 and Flex 3 mixable?

2008-10-10 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello!

I am currently working on a project where one third-party component is 
written for Flex 3. Only I am curious if it's possible to combine Flex 3 
parts with Flex 4.
Anyone know if this possible or having experience with this?

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Open pdf from ByteArray in new browser window (not AIR)

2008-10-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can find information about the Excel file spec at Microsoft.com 
(msdn probably) or at openoffice:

http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf

http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/E/0BE8BDD7-E5E8-422A-ABFD-4342ED7AD886/Excel97-2007BinaryFileFormat(xls)Specification.pdf


Good luck!


[flexcoders] Template Engine for Flash?

2008-09-30 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello!

Does anyone know some simple text-based template engine for Flash? I 
would like to generate some text files based on code snippets/templates 
in my Flash project.
Only I am curious if anyone know some simple template engine written in 
ActionScript which might support token replacement (e.g. var1 = my 
value) or even some
conditional constructs, like if-blocks.

Anyone aware of such thing?

Yours,
Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Re: What is Flexcoders?

2008-09-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
Did you guys already invade New Zealand? As announced last year?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6p3xlCnSjcfeature=related


Re: [flexcoders] Results of Direct Phone Call to Scene7.com

2008-08-29 Thread Weyert de Boer

No troll. Just commenting on the earlier Apple=quality statement.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 29, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Howard Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Please don't feed the trolls...

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Weyert de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:

Apple don't even want to fix the keyboard lightning that there tech
people broke when they replaced the display for the second time.
Warranty or AppleCare is a bitch. Even Acer or Dell are better in that
regard.

--
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The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. - Jeff  
Atwood




Re: [flexcoders] Results of Direct Phone Call to Scene7.com

2008-08-28 Thread Weyert de Boer
Apple don't even want to fix the keyboard lightning that there tech 
people broke when they replaced the display for the second time. 
Warranty or AppleCare is a bitch. Even Acer or Dell are better in that 
regard.


Re: [flexcoders] Changing itemEditors of a DataGrid a row basis

2008-08-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello Alex,

I have it working. Only the problem I am currently experiencing that I 
don't know how I can add
some predefined items to the created combobox. I have the following code:

http://www.dustyfrog.nl/dropbox/datagrid.txt

Do you know how I can add specific values to the combobox?

Yours,
Weyert de Boer




Re: [flexcoders] Changing itemEditors of a DataGrid a row basis

2008-08-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
Setting the properties property of the ClassFactory also worked:

properties.dataProvider = new Array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );


 Subclass ComboBox and preset its dataprovider

  

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 *On Behalf Of *Weyert de Boer
 *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:54 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Changing itemEditors of a DataGrid a row basis

  

 Hello Alex,

 I have it working. Only the problem I am currently experiencing that I
 don't know how I can add
 some predefined items to the created combobox. I have the following code:

 http://www.dustyfrog.nl/dropbox/datagrid.txt 
 http://www.dustyfrog.nl/dropbox/datagrid.txt

 Do you know how I can add specific values to the combobox?

 Yours,
 Weyert de Boer

  



[flexcoders] Changing itemEditors of a DataGrid a row basis

2008-08-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello!

I am trying to make a property grid as seen in other applications in 
Flex. Only I am having trouble to change the itemEditors use by the current
selected row. I am having the following ArrayCollection which consists 
of the class:

public class PropertyItem {
   [Bindable] public var name: String;
   [Bindable] public var value: String;
   [Bindable] public var type: String;
}

Now I would like to change the dataField or itemEditor of the currently 
selected column using the onItemBegin-event of the Grid. Only the problem
is that the change is not made. Also I have trouble that it doesn't 
change the binded value-property of the PropertyItem instance.

Does anyone know how this can be done? Or even better does anyone know 
some working PropertyGrid. A bit like as shown in the below picture?
http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/gurbir/images/1894430/original.aspx

Thanks!

Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Changing itemEditors of a DataGrid a row basis

2008-08-26 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Alex! Thanks I will give it a shot :)


Re: [flexcoders] Custom Container component and drag 'n drop support

2008-08-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
Thanks! Somehow it worked after I woke up this morning. Now I only need 
to battle against clipping problems :)


[flexcoders] Custom Container component and drag 'n drop support

2008-08-16 Thread Weyert de Boer
I have been working on a custom component which descends from the 
Container class. Now I am trying to implement drag 'n drop support.
I have enabled dragEnabled-property on my other List-component in the 
MXML file. I also have add the following listeners in my custom component:

this.addEventListener( DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER , onDragEnter 
);   
this.addEventListener( DragEvent.DRAG_DROP , onDragDrop 
);   
this.addEventListener( DragEvent.DRAG_OVER, onDragOver );


Only the events never are getting triggered when I am hovering my list 
item over my component. How can I enable the dropping of items for my 
custom component?
Container doesn't seem to have a dropEnabled-property!

Thanks in avance!

Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Gumbo on AIR

2008-08-15 Thread Weyert de Boer
Nope, Gumbo requires the Flash Player 10. Currently, there is no AIR 
version which supports this player.


Re: [flexcoders] Custom component and clipping

2008-07-04 Thread Weyert de Boer
Alex Harui wrote:

 I’d use mask or scrollrect

 
  




Thanks. I will give it a try!



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[flexcoders] Custom component and clipping

2008-07-03 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello!

The last few eeks I have been working on my own custom component for 
Flex. Now the component itself is inherited from the UIComponent class, and
then basically some child IComponents which draws different layers. 
For example, if I have seperate layer for the interaction such as the 
handling of clicks, and the drawing of the selection area.
Other layers are responsible for drawing the lines between items, and 
the latter for drawing the items itself.

The problem I am now having is that when I move around the drawn items 
they happen to get clipped to my custom component. For example, I can 
move the item out of the current specified dimensions of the component 
and have it show up on a different part of my application window.

I have the feeling Flex doesn't automatically clip children to the 
parent control (UIComponent), is this correct? My second question, would 
be what is the best way to fix this?
My current ideas are:

1. Implement clipping by disabling dragging outside the dimensions 
of the control (e.g. if mouseX  control.width then stop)
2. Create a Shape instance and set this as mask on the control

Anyone able to help me out with this? I suppose it's something common, 
though.

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


[flexcoders] Child items in custom component

2008-05-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hello!

I am currently a bit clueless regarding using Flex components. I am 
currently trying to port a .NET component to Flex. Only I have some 
problems. In a simplified form the problem is that I am trying to add 
childs to the component. The idea is to use public method to add nodes 
to the component. The code could be:

var node: MyNode = new MyNode();
node.width = node.height = 125;
myComponentInstance.addNode( node );

The addNode-method is basically contains:
   
public function addNode( node: MyNode ): void {
_nodeContainer.addChild( DisplayObject(node) );
invalidateDisplayList();
   }

The _nodeContainer is a Sprite class which gets created in the overriden 
createChildren-method. Now I would be expected that the MyNode-instance 
(which just draws a simple rectangle 125x125) would be shown. Sadly 
enough, this is not the case.

Does anyone know what should be done to get this working?

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Child items in custom component

2008-05-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Sorry, to bug, but does anyone happen to have any ide?

Weyert

 Hello!

 I am currently a bit clueless regarding using Flex components. I am
 currently trying to port a .NET component to Flex. Only I have some
 problems. In a simplified form the problem is that I am trying to add
 childs to the component. The idea is to use public method to add nodes
 to the component. The code could be:

 var node: MyNode = new MyNode();
 node.width = node.height = 125;
 myComponentInstance.addNode( node );

 The addNode-method is basically contains:

 public function addNode( node: MyNode ): void {
 _nodeContainer.addChild( DisplayObject(node) );
 invalidateDisplayList();
 }

 The _nodeContainer is a Sprite class which gets created in the overriden
 createChildren-method. Now I would be expected that the MyNode-instance
 (which just draws a simple rectangle 125x125) would be shown. Sadly
 enough, this is not the case.

 Does anyone know what should be done to get this working?

 Yours,
 Weyert de Boer

  



Re: [flexcoders] Child items in custom component

2008-05-05 Thread Weyert de Boer
Thanks! I will give it a shot tomorrow. Sounds, logical somehow. I 
suppose it should work.


[flexcoders] Flex Builder and Ant

2008-03-28 Thread Weyert de Boer
Does anyone know how I can combine the use of Flex Builder and Ant to 
compile Flex/AIR projects?



Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder and Ant

2008-03-28 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi!

I have received a working apache build script from James Ward via the 
ApolloCoders list. Now I will see if I can somehow combine Flex Builder 
and this build script together.

Yes, mainly for the profiler and the debugging.


Re: [flexcoders] Adobe AIR/ Flex with device such Fingerprint

2008-03-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
Depending on the device you are able to obtain the actual fingerprint 
image and even receive events like finger placed or removed etc.
The website that leveraged the device via the website, did that need 
some sort of plugin or ActiveX component? If so, it hard to recreate 
without such broker layer in between.

The best thing would be to disrupt the distribution of your AIR 
application in such manner that you install the framework and then just 
deliver the application yourselves in combination with a launcher app 
which will start the broker and after that the actual AIR application. 
In an upcoming book about Adobe AIR this is shown and leverages Java 
(wide audience) and currently working on a second example whereby we 
will probably leverage RFID readers. Maybe an fingerprint reader would 
be an interesting topic too. Shouldn't be a lot of work.


[flexcoders] Leopard/MacOSX style tree component

2008-03-04 Thread Weyert de Boer
Does anyone know a tree component for Flex which looks similar like the 
one used in the Finder of MacOSX Leopard?

See: 
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg

Thanks,
Weyert de Boer  


Re: [flexcoders] Leopard/MacOSX style tree component

2008-03-04 Thread Weyert de Boer
Nope, the tree component on the left side of the main window shown in 
the image. The one with the devices, shared and places root nodes.

Yours,
Weyert

 Finder doesn't have a Tree, what view are you thinking of? I imagine 
 there's plenty of solutions to implement the Icon view, and there's a 
 few rip-offs of coverflow, and the Details view would just be a DataGrid.

 Do you mean the column view?

 -J

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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Does anyone know a tree component for Flex which looks similar
 like the
 one used in the Finder of MacOSX Leopard?

 See:
 
 http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg
 
 http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/finder_gallery01_20071016.jpg

 Thanks,
 Weyert de Boer




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Re: AW: [flexcoders] Rich Text Editor

2008-02-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
Easiest way is just to use a dynamic text field and make your own editor.


Re: AW: [flexcoders] Rich Text Editor

2008-02-17 Thread Weyert de Boer
If you start with a simple one-line editor without rich. You can do this:

1. create text field instance (set dynamic, disable selectable, 
editable)
2. create your own caret cursor (simple drawing api)
3. create your own canvas instance (for the selection rectangle)
4. catch the keydown-events (to handle left, right keys, and to 
update the text etc.)
5. catch mousedown-event (to reposition the caret)
6. handle the selection yourself (caret position, selection start, 
selection end)
7. write method to resolve a x,y position to the character index 
(e.g that caret position ;))
8. write method to resolve x,y position from a character index (to 
position to caret correctly)
9. write method to move the caret to this position

Really easy! Second step would be to support multiline in a similar 
matter and then support richtext...

Yours,
Weyert


Re: AW: [flexcoders] Rich Text Editor

2008-02-15 Thread Weyert de Boer
Well, you can roll that your own I had the idea to write a series of 
articles about how to write custom components for Flex -- and after the 
smiley component I want to work on a RTE component. Only I haven't heard 
back from Adobe yet about this article idea. Maybe I should just put it 
on my blog :)

 Hi Gordon,

 yes but we don’t need the full functionality of buzzword, for example 
 we don’t need tables. Our problems with the RTE component are:

 - htmlText - we like to generate pdf-documents with the .net-backend.

 - missing image support

 - missing page view and a page counter

 Harald Dehn




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Re: [flexcoders] Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight! (Microsoft's Legal Record)

2008-02-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
At least it has forced Adobe to make improvements to Flash, like better 
RTL support and the overall text support in general... Look at the new 
text rendering and fields support in the upcoming Flash 10 Player...


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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight!

2008-02-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
What do you exactly mean with Sharepoint integration?


Re: [flexcoders] Rich Text Editor

2008-02-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
Why not just make your own caret, use text fields the blocks of text, 
and come up with some smart manager for mapping the characters to a x,y 
and r,c position. Selection can be done by inverting the text and draw a 
rectangle below the textfield using drawing api. Simplest solution for now.


Re: [flexcoders] Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight! (Microsoft's Legal Record)

2008-02-12 Thread Weyert de Boer
Yeah, probably. I think you can use the smcs compiler part of 
Mono/Moonlight to compile Silverlight projects on like Linux or MacOSX. 
Of course, you won't have the lovely Visual Studio IDE, though.

 As far as I knew you needed Visual Studio to develop for silverlight, 
 has that changed?


  



Re: [flexcoders] Adobe People, Save me from Silverlight! (Microsoft's Legal Record)

2008-02-12 Thread Weyert de Boer
It's works fine for me under MacOSX. Indeed you can't run Blend under 
that platform. In my opinion Silverlight is only interesting as a user 
interface engine for those Windows Mobile devices only that will 
take a long while ;)


Re: [flexcoders] FlashLite 3 and Flex 2/3

2007-12-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
Currently, there aren't any mobile phones who support Flash Lite 3 out 
of the box. Of course, you can install developer player on a nice list 
of mobile phones, tough. It's expected that the first Flash Lite 3 
enabled mobile phone will be available for consumption in the first 
quarter of next year. Flash Lite supports now Flash 8 movies--with some 
limitations (no binary sockets, or bitmap data or filters support, 
hopefully in the future!).

More information about Flash Lite can be found at:

* Adobe Lab: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashlite3/
* Flash Lite 3 forum:
  
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72catid=663entercat=y
  
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72catid=663entercat=y
* Bill post:
  
http://www.flashdevices.net/2007/11/flash-lite-3-developer-edition-now.html



Yours,
Weyert de Boer

 Does FlashLite 3 support applications built in Flex 2 or 3?
 Also is there a list of mobile phones that support FlashLite?

  



[flexcoders] FLV file reader

2007-06-14 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi

Anyone know some AS3 classes for reading FLV files?
I would like to grab x frames of a FLV file without the need of using 
video displays and such? I would expect its possible via Apollo.

Before I start hacking around I am curious if anyone already has such 
thing or not. No need to reinvent the wheel then.

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Device connectivity

2007-05-27 Thread Weyert de Boer
You can only use loadVariables() in Flash Lite 1.1. Support for XML was 
added in Flash Lite 2.0. Neither does Flash Lite in general support 
Flash Remoting. You could consider using SWX made by Aral Balkan.
See: www.aralbalkan.com.

And of course it is pull only.. no pushing of content. You could do that 
in FL2.1+ using XMLSockets.

Yours,
Weyert de Boer


Re: [flexcoders] Little review

2007-05-07 Thread Weyert de Boer
Argh, I will fix the spelling tomorrow at work. SurveyMonkeys is a bit 
slow here at the local Starbucks :/

Thanks for filling in the survey, though.

Yours,
Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Flash CS3 slow scrolling large scripts

2007-05-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
I haven't experienced this problem under MacOSX.


[flexcoders] Little review

2007-05-06 Thread Weyert de Boer
Just a little non-scientific survey about web applications. Please, be 
so kind a fill in this survery when you find time:

http://tinyurl.com/29ydgj

Thanks!
Weyert


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

2007-05-03 Thread Weyert de Boer
Hi Scott!

I just don't like the browser part of it. Makes it all too complex, same 
from RIAs in Flex/Flash, though. Desktop Applications like Apollo and 
WPF/Avalon are more my thing.

Yes, expression/Web looks nice even got good reviews from a popular 
magazine :) Trillion times better then FrontPage, even MSFT themself 
know that app sucked...

Yours,
Weyert


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

2007-05-03 Thread Weyert de Boer
No problem! You got my email address. Remind me offlist and I will 
respond tomorrow. Time to go home. :)


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

2007-05-02 Thread Weyert de Boer
You got to love how easy it is to obtain artwork from the XAML files 
used by the demos of Silverlight ;) Time to create some evil version of 
it. :


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

2007-05-02 Thread Weyert de Boer
I dont really care about SivlerLight I want Ultimate Experience (WPF) on 
the Mac! All those stupid online applications g


Re: [flexcoders] Re: Games in Flex / Apollo?

2007-05-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
I wrapped our Flash Lite games at work into a Apollo layer...


[flexcoders] Conor Marnane

2007-05-01 Thread Weyert de Boer
Can someone delete Conor Marnane from this list? I am keep getting:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Yours,
Weyert


[flexcoders] Rumor of the day: Silverlight sourcode public

2007-04-29 Thread Weyert de Boer
see:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/27/MS-open-source-Silverlight_1.html?source=rssurl=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/27/MS-open-source-Silverlight_1.html

Sounds like a good idea for MSFT but not sure if this is a good plan for 
Adobe, though. Anyways this is a rumor lets see if it can be falsified 
next week ;) Now still we need to run VMWare to get the Expression 
software running... I haven't spotted any plans for a MacOSX or Linux 
tool...

Would be nice if they came with their own runtime for MacOSX and Linux 
g Not that Mono ain't kicking ass !!

Yours,
Weyert


Re: [flexcoders] Rumor of the day: Silverlight sourcode public

2007-04-29 Thread Weyert de Boer
Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
 
 
 http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=WPF 
 http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=WPF

Yeah,XamlExporter for Illustrator is really nice! I used to export the 
XAML of my dashboard widget art. To recreate the clock widget of MacOSX 
in WPF :-)

 Would be nice if they came with their own runtime for MacOSX and Linux 
 
 That would be major!

Yeah! That's what I was thinking!



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

2007-04-29 Thread Weyert de Boer

 In fact if you want a really scalable enterprise platform you would
 choose the right hand side of the list above rather than the left.

I am not sure about the C# and Java bit, though ;) It might my severe 
experiences with Java lately. But I C# does a good job... You just need 
to use the right stuff with CLR. I mean most people run server 
applications in workstation mode instead of server mode. Yes, then you 
have performance issues. The garbage collector works differently then. 
Also some limitations will be removed etc.

 Where Microsoft win hands down is in Office Applications and desktop
 operating systems. Excel is quite possibly the best piece of desktop
 software ever written (Word being the worst) and long may it reign as
 such. Windows is crap, but it's more than good enough for your
 average user and most Microsoft desktop products are actually pretty
 good (c'mon, be generous).


I think Word is terrible to use, and Excel is good but I still think 
Quatro Pro worked better when I had to use it. I dont use Excel anymore.

Yours,
Weyert


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