[flexcoders] Report building.

2007-10-23 Thread aceoohay
OK, Flex is wonderful, but eventually the end user is gonna want some reports. Simple, basic, printable tabular reports. What tools are the folks here using? What would I like? I would like a tool similar to flex, but oriented towards paper. Basically a gui to build the report layout, with

[flexcoders] Re: Report building.

2007-10-24 Thread aceoohay
Thanks for the replies. My backend is ASP.NET (Visual Web Developer Express Edition). I have contacted Yakov Fain of Farata Systems via e-mail, and their product is a full blown report generator with user designed reports etc. Their system ClearBI, unless something has changed, requires

[flexcoders] How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-27 Thread aceoohay
I am testing fluorine by accessing an Oracle database using ASP.NET (VB). In flex builder I have done a breakpoint to look at the object returned. Below is the debug info about the object; = this = main (@35050a1) event =

[flexcoders] Re: How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-27 Thread aceoohay
Yes you can, but this does not allow the ability to access the fields in the data provider by name. In my existing programs I might have something like; mx:DataGrid x=10 y=64 width=599 height=424 id=grdPERSONResults

[flexcoders] Re: How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-27 Thread aceoohay
I will give your suggestions a try. I give up, how do you get the code to format properly? I would love to format my code better for posting. Paul

[flexcoders] Re: How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-27 Thread aceoohay
Whilst researching this I came across the following object; mx.remoting.RecordSet I found some references to it on the Internet, but when I try to use it (import mx.remoting.RecordSet;), I get; 1172: Definition mx.remoting.RecordSet could not be found. I am currently using Flex Builder 2

[flexcoders] Re: How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-27 Thread aceoohay
I found what appears to be a generic solution to my problem, but I have a concern about performance. I hope that someone with (as my daughter would say) some skills can point out the right way of doing this. My approach is to create a function that will convert any object that looks like the

[flexcoders] Re: How do I convert an object to an arrayCollection?

2007-10-30 Thread aceoohay
Sam: Thanks for the reply. I have posted to the Fluorine mailing list. You ask are you using Fluorine to talk to an assembly directly or are you talking to a web service? I believe that I am talking to an assembly directly, but being an ASP.NET novice I do not know the difference, how can I

[flexcoders] Loading combobox problem...

2007-11-24 Thread aceoohay
The following is in flexbuilder 2, AS 3. I have an application that I am building with modules using NetConnection to access the server. I want to centralize the routines that get data from the DB for Combo Boxes and the like because I want to reuse the data returned. In the

[flexcoders] Re: Loading combobox problem...

2007-11-24 Thread aceoohay
Actually I found the error of my ways. It would appear that if you have ArrayCollectionOne and ArrayCollectionTwo and you add an event listener to ArrayCollectionOne, after which you; ArrayCollectionOne = ArrayCollectionTwo; it replaces the entire ArrayCollectionOne with ArrayCollectionTwo

[flexcoders] Date handling...

2007-11-24 Thread aceoohay
I am using AS3 and Flexbuilder 2. I have a label field lblLoginTime that I populate using; lblLoginTime.text = dateTimeFormat.format(Date()); mx:DateFormatter id=dateTimeFormat formatString=MM/DD/ HH:NN:SS/ at 10:43PM on November 24, 2007 it displayed 11/25/500 23:43:30 which makes it

[flexcoders] Re: Date handling...

2007-11-25 Thread aceoohay
That of course is the answer. Thanks for the help. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, EECOLOR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it is because you pass in Date() instead of new Date() Greetz Erik

[flexcoders] Capture Flex screen to e-mail...

2007-11-25 Thread aceoohay
In an application that I wrote years ago in ASP classic, I had a button on every page that would allow the user to e-mail the current page to someone. It would actually capture the innerHTML, and append it to an e-mail and send it. The purpose was to capture a snapshot of the data at the time

[flexcoders] Re: Capture Flex screen to e-mail...

2007-11-26 Thread aceoohay
The current application is pure Flex. So just the Flex part. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bithroop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you wanting to capture just the Flex part? Or also the browser rendered HTML part? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote

[flexcoders] Re: Capture Flex screen to e-mail...

2007-11-26 Thread aceoohay
. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this email and any printout. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent

[flexcoders] Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-11-29 Thread aceoohay
I running flexbuilder 2.0.1, AS 3. I have a number of datagrids. In two of my grids I have date and number fields that sometimes have no values returned from the DB. When I click the heading on these columns to sort Ascending they work fine. When I click a second time (descending) I get the

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-11-29 Thread aceoohay
When I said no values returned from the DB, I meant that the grid is populated with some records that have the values in the number/date column, and others that don't. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I running flexbuilder 2.0.1, AS 3. I have

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-11-30 Thread aceoohay
it wouldn't be possible. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

[flexcoders] If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-11-30 Thread aceoohay
I just ran across what I consider a significant deficiency in Flex. To correct this problem would require an addition of two attributes to the mx:DataGridColumn class. I could make a change to my version of the language, or perhaps I could create an inherited class. However, I feel strongly

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-11-30 Thread aceoohay
handle null as it isn't a date or number From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-11-30 Thread aceoohay
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:13 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think What is the workaround? The sortCompareFunction does not seem to be reasonable, since

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-01 Thread aceoohay
Ralf: The data has nulls in it. For example, one grid is equivalent to a checking account, with deposits and checks. The column for the check number is null for deposits. Another table has three different phone number fields, not everybody has three phone numbers. Another table has employee

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-01 Thread aceoohay
Robert: Yes this is an earnest request. While I do not shrink from controversy if I believe it will get things done, I don't needlessly whine either. I believe that it is important to make sure that we help the developers of our tools understand what is important to us consumers of the

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-01 Thread aceoohay
SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language? I

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-01 Thread aceoohay
changes at this point. We've got to stabilize the release and get it out! So you'll need to use a workaround for now. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-01 Thread aceoohay
Gordon: Per your request I have filed a bug report. It can be found here; https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3042 Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon, et al: Here is a simple test that will show the problem; ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf

[flexcoders] Re: AMF question

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
You neglected to mention what your backend was written in. Some of us might be able to help in .NET, others in PHP, and others in CF, not to mention Java. My own testing using Fluorine, a .NET implementaion shows about 80% decrease in time to load ~5,000 rows from the server to the client over

[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
changing the language? I've moved this bug to https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13808 since it is not related to the ActionScript compiler, it's only in the Flex classes. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday

[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex

2007-12-02 Thread aceoohay
As long as other old timers are sittin' around the diner tellin' lies I can add my two cents. My first language was in High School, Burroughs B200 machine language No assembly required. The question is not how best to teach yourself Flex, but how best to become a programmer. Is Flex the right

[flexcoders] Re: Debugging code

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
I don't know how to say this gently, and perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think many folks here have the time or inclination to read through an entire program and debug it. Based on a quick read of the problems, it appears that you are having 4 issues some of which seem to be fundemental

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that you cannot tell what type of data a null is. The sort routine(s) has no problem sorting nulls when the non-null data is string. It also works for completely null columns. I think a reasonable solution would be a new

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2007-12-08 Thread aceoohay
a problem, it's my problem, I have to fix it or make it better at least. For SDK code itself, I think we should let Adobe developers to judge whether it's a simple fix or not. They could have reasons we wouldn't know. George aceoohay wrote: The good news is I believe

[flexcoders] Re: Report building.

2007-12-15 Thread aceoohay
of the iText library here http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextdotnet. A quick google search also turned up C# and other versions as well. hth Scott Scott Melby Founder, Fast Lane Software LLC http://www.fastlanesw.com aceoohay wrote: Thanks for the replies. My backend

[flexcoders] Printing multiple objects per page, how to?

2007-12-15 Thread aceoohay
I would like to create a generic screen print module for my application. I have it working mostly. I can select print from the menu bar and it will render the module with focus. I was feeling giddy when I got that to work and I decided to add a heading to the page that prints. I have an object

[flexcoders] How to copy display objects?

2007-12-16 Thread aceoohay
I have a couple of display objects such as a panel and an HBox which have a number of children. I would like to make a copy of them into another container such as a VBox. Everything I have tried thus far has been akin to a move. How does one go about making a copy of two objects into a new

[flexcoders] Masked Text Input

2008-01-18 Thread aceoohay
Has anyone developed an input tool for that has the functionality of Masked Textinput (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2006/11/component_mas ke.cfm), without the drawbacks? The problems that I seem to have are mainly the way it behaves when using it; 1) When you select the

[flexcoders] Re: Masked Text Input

2008-01-19 Thread aceoohay
From: aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:05:13 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Masked Text Input Has anyone developed an input tool for that has the functionality of Masked Textinput (http://weblogs. macromedia. com/flexteam/ archives/ 2006/11

[flexcoders] Re: Masked Text Input

2008-01-23 Thread aceoohay
I guess the answer to this is no, there is no alternative to MaskedTextInput. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try; http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2006/11/component_mas ke.\ cfm http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives

[flexcoders] Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-01-27 Thread aceoohay
I am adding Yahoo maps to an existing application. Everything seems to be working swimmingly. This application has a generic feature for all panels that allows the user to e-mail the panel to another user. To do this the application grabs the image of the panel using the BitmapData/draw()

[flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-01-27 Thread aceoohay
=* / /cross-domain-policy This presupposes that I understand how a crossdomain.xml policy file works, a shaky proposition. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sherif Abdou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try a crossDomain file - Original Message From: aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED

[flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-01-28 Thread aceoohay
. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem I put the following in both the AS file that does the BitmapData/Draw

[flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-01-28 Thread aceoohay
to accomplish why doesn't yahoo allow full access via crossdomain.xml? This application is an intranet app for about 40 users. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, bill_reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: The answer to life, the universe

[flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-01-28 Thread aceoohay
don't ever have any crossdomain issues. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 6:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps

[flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration problem

2008-02-13 Thread aceoohay
, perhaps a real proxy would work. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Yahoo Maps AS3 integration

[flexcoders] textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
I am trying to extend the TextInput class and one thing I would like to do is check the current value of the textAlign attribute, and change it if needed. I access the other attributes that I need using the syntax this.attributeName such as this.maxChars, I cannot, however access

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
. How can I go about making this happen? Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to extend the TextInput class and one thing I would like to do is check the current value of the textAlign attribute, and change it if needed. I access the other

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
id=myTextInput/ private function textAlign():void{ myTextInput.setStyle(textAlign, center); } Jason --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: Well I found the answer, but I have another question or two. The answer is this.nonInheritingStyles.textAlign. One

[flexcoders] Finding objects in flex

2008-02-15 Thread aceoohay
I want to loop through all of the children of a flex object and find all children of a specific type. I have code that works, but it looks really kludgy; for each (var field:Object in object.getChildren()) { if (field.constructor.toString() == [class ValidatedTextInput]) {

[flexcoders] Error tooltip

2008-02-16 Thread aceoohay
I would like to use the same error tooltip that flex uses for displaying errorString, but I would like it to display on focusIn, and disappear on focusOut. Is there a way of tweaking the existing behavior to use focus instead of rollOver/rollOut? Anybody know how to do this? Are you willing

[flexcoders] Re: Finding objects in flex

2008-02-16 Thread aceoohay
of is, is... --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the 'is' operator: if (field is ValidatedTextInput) Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent

[flexcoders] Re: Error tooltip

2008-02-17 Thread aceoohay
when I need? Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use the same error tooltip that flex uses for displaying errorString, but I would like it to display on focusIn, and disappear on focusOut. Is there a way of tweaking the existing

[flexcoders] Extending DateField...

2008-02-17 Thread aceoohay
I have extended the TextInput class. Some of the features I have added include data validation, of which date validation is one. In some cases I would like to use the DateField to get dates. I always make the date field editable, I would like to reuse my extended TextInput component by having

[flexcoders] Re: Tools to monitor flex network traffic for debugging SOAP calls and responses (kinda urgent)?

2008-02-17 Thread aceoohay
I do not do Soap, I use FluorineFX, but my tool of choice is fiddler. You can get here; http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ It has the added benefit of being free. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, Is there something good out there I

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-17 Thread aceoohay
property, change the variable so you can check against it going forward. Jason --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: Jason: That works great. Thanks for the info. That still leaves one question, Is there a way of telling if the textAlign attribute

[flexcoders] Re: textAlign attribute not accessible from TextInput extended class.

2008-02-23 Thread aceoohay
has a default that is always set to left, unless you specifically set it to something else. Jason --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: Jason: I don't think that would get me what I need. Unfortunately the thing I want to do is determine if the textAlign

[flexcoders] Flex 3 flex 2.01 side by side

2008-02-26 Thread aceoohay
I need to start testing with Flex 3, but I have production work to continue with Flex 2.01. Can I have both running on the same computer? If so is there anything that I need to be aware of? Paul

[flexcoders] RTF vs RTE

2008-03-01 Thread aceoohay
I want to create a Rich Text Format (RTF) editor in flex, is it doable? I was initially excited about the RTE component until I realized that the output is html. Has anyone created either an RTF component, or a reliable translation class from html to RTF? My end goal is to create a mail merge

[flexcoders] Re: Sorting problem on date and numbers with null values, I think

2008-03-02 Thread aceoohay
type determination forcing a specific type of sorting. Can someone that is running FB 3.0 please check to see that this bug still exists. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running flexbuilder 2.0.1, AS 3. I have a number of datagrids. In two

[flexcoders] Re: RTF vs RTE

2008-03-02 Thread aceoohay
PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: I want to create a Rich Text Format (RTF) editor in flex, is it doable? I was initially excited about the RTE component until I realized that the output is html. Has anyone created either an RTF component

[flexcoders] Re: RTF vs RTE

2008-03-05 Thread aceoohay
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: RTF vs RTE --- In HYPERLINK mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com[EMAIL PROTECTED], aceoohay pauls@ wrote: Amy: Thanks

[flexcoders] Multi line datagrid...

2008-03-05 Thread aceoohay
I have a number of cases where I need to use a data grid but I have a text field that could contain 100s if not a few thousand characters of text. What I would like to do is display the short data in a columnar format and have a multiline text area tha takes up the entire width of the grid.

[flexcoders] applying effect/transition to module whilst loading.

2008-03-22 Thread aceoohay
I have created a generic module loader routine in my app, and it woeks great. I am feeling a little adventurous and would like to apply an effect/transition to all my modules so that while they are loading they would expand from nothing, or wipe up or down, basically something cool that

[flexcoders] Re: applying effect/transition to module whilst loading.

2008-03-24 Thread aceoohay
Any ideas? Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a generic module loader routine in my app, and it woeks great. I am feeling a little adventurous and would like to apply an effect/transition to all my modules so that while

[flexcoders] Re: applying effect/transition to module whilst loading.

2008-03-25 Thread aceoohay
with it. It should be same as doing so for any non-module display object. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:43 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re

[flexcoders] Re: applying effect/transition to module whilst loading.

2008-03-26 Thread aceoohay
from the moduleLoader and start a TweenEffect on the moduleLoader From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: applying

[flexcoders] Selecting item in comboBox drop down.

2008-04-12 Thread aceoohay
I am creating an enhanced ComboBox component. The feature I am currently adding is the ability to type the letters b, o, b and have it find bob in the dropdown. I have the code working reasonably well, in that it finds what I am looking for, and selects it. The problem I am having is that if

[flexcoders] Re: Selecting item in comboBox drop down.

2008-04-12 Thread aceoohay
the dropdownFactory in the ComboBox. Keystrokes are forwarded to the List. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Selecting item

[flexcoders] Re: Selecting item in comboBox drop down.

2008-04-13 Thread aceoohay
weeks ago: http://blog.strikefish.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/3/21/Flex-Smart- Combo-aka-look-ahead-combo Doug On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:20 PM, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex: I extended ComboBox, the relavent code is below; override protected function

[flexcoders] Re: DateField.selectedDate being set to null on focusOut??

2008-04-13 Thread aceoohay
Are you sure it is being set to null? I have seen a problem where if the dateField is editable, and the width of the box is a bit too small, it will display the date, but when editing/exiting it causes it to display an empty box. I found that expanding the width ever so slightly made the

[flexcoders] Error 1046 on custom component...

2008-04-13 Thread aceoohay
I copied a custom component changing its name, and a few other items. In FB 2.01 the intellisense sees it just fine, it sees all of the properties and methods just fine as well. When I compile the mxml that references it I get; 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:

[flexcoders] Re: Error 1046 on custom component...

2008-04-14 Thread aceoohay
to change the package declaration at the top of the file. When this happens the intellisense will automatically generate a namespace, but it won't actually find the file. Doug --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: I copied a custom component changing its name, and a few

[flexcoders] Parent of TextArea?

2008-04-14 Thread aceoohay
I created an enhanced date component by removing its TextInput child, and replacing it with my own. I was hoping to do the same with the TextArea coponent, but it appears that it doesn't use textInput as a child. Basically what I would like to do is reuse my shiny new ValidatedTextInput code

[flexcoders] Re: Parent of TextArea?

2008-04-14 Thread aceoohay
. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:43 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Parent of TextArea? I created an enhanced date component by removing its TextInput child

[flexcoders] invalid column widths in DG before render.

2008-05-15 Thread aceoohay
I have written a bit of code that generates the xml needed to display an Excel Workbook with multiple worksheets. I have created a tabbed panel with 5 different grids one per panel. One of the features of the spreadsheet class is to grab the width of each column and create the same size column

[flexcoders] Re: invalid column widths in DG before render.

2008-05-18 Thread aceoohay
. Greetz Erik On 5/16/08, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a bit of code that generates the xml needed to display an Excel Workbook with multiple worksheets. I have created a tabbed panel with 5 different grids one per panel. One of the features of the spreadsheet

[flexcoders] Re: invalid column widths in DG before render.

2008-05-21 Thread aceoohay
the dataprovider and the columns having the correct width. You could try the change event, but I am not sure if that is of any help. Greetz Erik On 5/18/08, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik: I tried to set creationPolicy=all on a DataGrid but creationPolicy is not a valid

[flexcoders] Spell Check, Google API replacement...

2008-06-17 Thread aceoohay
There are open source spell check backends such as aspell and ispell. There are open source flex front ends that use the Google API. Has anyone written a Google API replacement for one of the spell check backends? I am looking for an open source spell check tool for flex, I have searched

[flexcoders] Re: Spell Checker API in Google

2008-06-17 Thread aceoohay
Aaron: I was just trying to find your code, and posted a new thread here (before searhing of course) I would like a copy of your spell check software, if it's still available. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In regards to a free API, I wrote

[flexcoders] Flex 2.01 date problem

2008-07-29 Thread aceoohay
The following code yields unexpected results on a date; var dtTest:Date = new Date; dtTest.fullYear = 1987; dtTest.month = 1; dtTest.date = 3; trace('dtTest.toDateString()=' +

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 2.01 date problem

2008-07-29 Thread aceoohay
Just as a test I used the following; dtTest = new Date(1987,1,3,0,0,0,0); This returned; dtTest.toDateString()=Tue Feb 3 1987 which is what I expected. I am so confused. Any ideas? Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following code yields

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 2.01 date problem

2008-07-29 Thread aceoohay
JavaScript to see if it behaves the same. Matt On 7/29/08 2:14 PM, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:pauls%40compuace.com wrote: Just as a test I used the following; dtTest = new Date(1987,1,3,0,0,0,0); This returned; dtTest.toDateString()=Tue Feb 3 1987 which is what I expected. I

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 2.01 date problem

2008-07-29 Thread aceoohay
I get it. Don't know who thought this up, but I could have sold the water they were drinking for big bucks back in the '70s. Thanks Paul

[flexcoders] FlexReport issues

2008-08-08 Thread aceoohay
FlexReport developers, I have a few questions, The following relates to the current SVN version; 1) When I set the PaperFormat to LETTER and adjust my template to width=792 height=1224 the image in the previewer and PDF are smeared so much that everything appears as gray horizontal streaks.

[flexcoders] Re: FlexReport issues

2008-08-10 Thread aceoohay
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FlexReport developers, I have a few questions, The following relates to the current SVN version; 1) When I set the PaperFormat to LETTER and adjust my template to width=792 height=1224 the image in the previewer and PDF

[flexcoders] Re: FlexReport issues

2008-08-11 Thread aceoohay
Now that it is Monday and everyone is back to work, is there anyone that can help with this issue? The main problem is the smeared output to the previewer when I switch from A4 to LETTER. It does this when I modify the demo. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED

[flexcoders] Re: FlexReport issues

2008-08-11 Thread aceoohay
Now that everyone is back to work, I was hoping someone could help with the main problem, of not being able to preview reports with a PageFormat of LETTER. I have changed PagFormat, and the Width Height of the template and the previewer just displays horizontially smeared documents. I have

[flexcoders] Re: FlexReport issues

2008-08-11 Thread aceoohay
posted a bug report to GoogleCode, Written in the FlexReport Blog and it seems like no one is listening. Any help would be appreciated. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. I am having

[flexcoders] global replace with strings

2008-08-15 Thread aceoohay
Is there a way of replacing all occurences of one string with another without using regular expressions? var strTest = this is a test trace strTest.replace(t,s); returns shis is a test I want shis is a sess. Paul

[flexcoders] Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-18 Thread aceoohay
Flex 2.0.1 I am trying to capture keystrokes in the keyDownHandler of a ComboBox and it appears to be firing twice for each keystroke. Any ideas on what might cause this? The code below works except that when the user strikes a backSpace it removes two characters from _typedText. Paul

[flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-18 Thread aceoohay
: Event.preventDefault? Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:46 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke Flex

[flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-21 Thread aceoohay
Since creating a test case would be challenging I am posting the component ValidatedComboBox.as. The problem I am having is that it appears to call the keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void function twice for each keystroke. I have commented out most of that function's code, as it used to

[flexcoders] Re: global replace with strings

2008-08-21 Thread aceoohay
= outString; } From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:31 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] global replace with strings Is there a way

[flexcoders] Mail Merge...

2008-08-23 Thread aceoohay
I need to do Mail Merge from a flex application. Creating the database piece is easy. I have also been able to create the merge with htmlText from a RichTextEditor component. The problem of course is printing. I tried flexReport, and everything is ducky except that I can't find anyway to

[flexcoders] Re: dealing with apostrophes in text saved to Sqlite from an AIR app

2008-08-23 Thread aceoohay
Most DB's that I work with, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server seem to like '' in other words replace all occurences of one apostrophe with two. YMMV Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am developing an AIR app which has a lot of text-entry fields. I

[flexcoders] Re: Mail Merge...

2008-08-24 Thread aceoohay
. Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay pauls@ wrote: I need to do Mail Merge from a flex application. Creating the database piece is easy. I have also been able to create the merge with htmlText from a RichTextEditor component. The problem

[flexcoders] Re: Mail Merge...

2008-08-24 Thread aceoohay
; } /style /head This fixes the BIG FONT issue in when RTE htmlText is sent out inside an HTML email to the users or when it is fed to Word, PDF, excel, etc. I suggest you look into ColdFusion 8! Don Kerr Manager, Space City Adobe User Group --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay

[flexcoders] Re: Mail Merge...

2008-08-24 Thread aceoohay
. No matter what middleware you use, unfortunately, you do need to replace some of the RTE htmlText to convert it to html the browser,email,or Word, etc. can use. That was my main point about fixing your font issue. Hope it helps. Don --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay

[flexcoders] Re: Keydownhandler fires twice for each keystroke

2008-08-30 Thread aceoohay
I found a little more information. This undesireable feature, aka bug manifests itself only if you make the combobox editable. I removed the editable=true and the problem goes away. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since creating a test case would

[flexcoders] How can I set focus to a field in a programatically created popup?

2008-09-15 Thread aceoohay
I am creating a titlewindow with some fields completely in AS3 script. I then display this object using a popup. I want to set focus to the very first field in the popped up titlewindow. I have tried a number of things, the most promising (I thought) was to add a creation complete event

[flexcoders] Re: How can I set focus to a field in a programatically created popup?

2008-09-15 Thread aceoohay
but I would normally do what you're doing using the show event. e.g. show=fieldToGetFocus.setFocus(); this would go inside of your popup code. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: 15 September 2008 07:38 To: flexcoders

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