[flexcoders] Hiring for senior flex developer

2010-04-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
Rain in American Fork, Utah is currently looking for a senior-level Flex developer. This is for a full-time employee or contractor (but must be local). There are a lot of great benefits and it's an awesome company to work for. Rain's website: http://mediarain.com Job Listing:

Re: [flexcoders] how to find redundant classes?

2010-04-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
FlexPMD would probably do the trick: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/FlexPMD Aaron On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote: Hi, Is there a quick way to find Classes that I no longer need? I'm sure I've asked this before but I can't find

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Updating renderer properties

2010-03-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
I know this is an old thread, but for those who come across this in the future, this is a great article that sums up the problem and solutions quite well: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt3_02.html Aaron On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com

Re: [flexcoders] Bitmap width/height 0 when loading image from hard drive

2010-02-23 Thread Aaron Hardy
:48 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: And yet another update. Sorry for the large number of emails. It looks like the more and more I use the application and add stress to the Flash Player the smaller the image must be in order to avoid the 0 dimensions issue. In other words

[flexcoders] Bitmap width/height 0 when loading image from hard drive

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
Flexers, We have an app that allows a user to upload images. When the user selects an image, we load the bitmap from the hard drive and create a thumbnail from it. However, every once in a while the bitmap will return 0 for both width and height which causes issues later on. That vast majority

Re: [flexcoders] Bitmap width/height 0 when loading image from hard drive

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
or wil it load successfully at some other point? On 2/22/10 10:06 AM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: Flexers, We have an app that allows a user to upload images. When the user selects an image, we load the bitmap from the hard drive and create a thumbnail from it. However

Re: [flexcoders] Bitmap width/height 0 when loading image from hard drive

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
different. Aaron On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: It's not any particular photo or set of photos. Sometimes we can run the app and load the photos just fine then the next day we'll attempt to load the same files and the width/height will return 0

Re: [flexcoders] Bitmap width/height 0 when loading image from hard drive

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
pixel image. This imaginary limit seems to get smaller and smaller over time and has very little, if anything, to do with Flash's max bitmap dimensions. Aaron On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: I've gathered additional information. It appears that it's due

[flexcoders] Reason for image list flickering

2010-02-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, When scrolling a list of images up and down there is some flickering that goes on. I know how to fix it, but I'd really like to know the underlying reason it occurs. Ely Greenfield (

Re: [flexcoders] Augmented reality in Flex

2010-02-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Try the is your question once again more please. Aaron On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Christophe christophe_jacque...@yahoo.frwrote: Hello, Does there is augmented reality projects for Ecommerce developped in Flex ? Thank you, Christophe,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Dealing with images larger than Flash Player 10 limit

2010-01-28 Thread Aaron Hardy
encounters this issue in the future let me know. Thanks. Aaron On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for the response. Your code looked eerily similar to the code I was already using, but I plugged your code into a fresh project

Re: [flexcoders] TextField caret moving two letters at a time

2010-01-27 Thread Aaron Hardy
with just a couple of controls. Could be a non-standard wmode, or problem with the HTML wrapper. On 1/26/10 4:25 PM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: Hey flexers, We're having a strange problem on one of our projects. We have a textfield that is selectable. Once

[flexcoders] TextField caret moving two letters at a time

2010-01-26 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, We're having a strange problem on one of our projects. We have a textfield that is selectable. Once the textfield has focus and the caret is blinking, if we hit left on the keyboard the caret moves left across two letters instead of one. It's as if we hit the left button twice.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Read svg file in FLEX

2010-01-22 Thread Aaron Hardy
file which I want to load it then parse it and get the x,y coordinates of path or rectangle which is there in svg file. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Hey flexlearner, What's your question exactly? How to parse XML? After

Re: [flexcoders] Read svg file in FLEX

2010-01-21 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexlearner, What's your question exactly? How to parse XML? After you parse the XML (you can use e4x) you'll convert SVG attributes into actionscript graphics functions like graphics.lineTo(). Are you having trouble with something in particular? Aaron On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:30 AM,

Re: [flexcoders] question about inheritance and events and overriding methods

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron Hardy
(e:ResultEvent, token:Object=null):void {} } } On 1/17/2010 10:49 PM, Aaron Hardy wrote: I'm not sure I understand your question clearly but if I assume correctly I think the answer will be yes, there is no need for each descendant to instantiate its

Re: [flexcoders] question about inheritance and events and overriding methods

2010-01-17 Thread Aaron Hardy
I'll take a crack at it. Can the event object be dispatched from within the MYHTTPSERVICEBASE? Sure. I think there may be a separate underlying question here though. Are you asking how? Maybe you can clarify? Will the GUI hear it if it's dispatched from the base class? First of all, if the

Re: [flexcoders] Can a canvas be scrollable without the scrollbars?

2010-01-17 Thread Aaron Hardy
I recently posted this in response to a similar question--sorry about that, not trying to spam. But this could help you out: http://aaronhardy.com/flex/standalone-scrollbar/ If, in the example, you set the scroll policies to false on the canvas you'll see the canvas scrolling without internal

Re: [flexcoders] question about inheritance and events and overriding methods

2010-01-17 Thread Aaron Hardy
(); token.addResponder(myResponder); } privatefunction onResult(e:ResultEvent, token:Object=null):void { // this method is overridden by descendants } On 1/17/2010 3:38 PM, Aaron Hardy wrote: I'll take a crack at it. Can the event object be dispatched from within

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Updating renderer properties

2010-01-08 Thread Aaron Hardy
class and change that as required? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius9er@ wrote: I think there might be a misunderstanding. If it's a transient property on the data objects that come through the data provider, I would have to change the property for all

[flexcoders] Updating renderer properties

2010-01-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey folks. I have a renderer that needs information that is not based on the data object it's associated with. Essentially what I have is in View A of the app is a color selector. In View B, I have a tilelist with a custom renderer. All the renderers in the tile list display their data using

Re: [flexcoders] using custom scrollbars

2010-01-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
This should give you the information you're looking for: http://aaronhardy.com/flex/standalone-scrollbar/ Aaron On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Slackware selecter...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, happy new year!! I'm using a mx:VScrollBar to manage the scroll for a Canvas (with

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Updating renderer properties

2010-01-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Hey folks. I have a renderer that needs information that is not based on the data object it's associated with. Essentially what I have is in View A of the app is a color selector. In View B, I have a tilelist

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Updating renderer properties

2010-01-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
[Transient] properties in a VO and/or use states in the itemRenderer. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Good point. So maybe I have to categorize everything as being data (in which case it hangs out with the data object

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Updating renderer properties

2010-01-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
in feeling dirty having an itemRenderer reference a model. But reacting to changes in the data is fine. IMHO. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Yes, I suppose the line of what is or is not a style can be blurry at times

Re: [flexcoders] Question about flex source

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
See here under asdoc tags: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=asdoc_1.html The @eventType tells the ASDoc generator that what it's seeing on that line is something special and needs to be dealt with in a special way. It shouldn't affect your application's code execution in

Re: [flexcoders] Getting the Y value for a line at a given point

2010-01-01 Thread Aaron Hardy
Have you tried something this: 100+(15/39)*(140-100) 100 being Jan 1 balance 140 being Feb 8 balance 15 being the number of days from the first data provider date point 39 being the total number of days between the first and second data provider date points That should give you the y balance

[flexcoders] Dealing with images larger than Flash Player 10 limit

2009-12-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, We're working on a project currently where we would like to allow users to add photos from their local drive to the stage. We also want to support gigantic photos. I understand the max bitmap size is 4095x4095 (or dimensions that equal the same number of pixels) in flash player 10.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Dealing with images larger than Flash Player 10 limit

2009-12-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
); } --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Hey flexers, We're working on a project currently where we would like to allow users to add photos from their local drive to the stage. We also want to support gigantic photos. I

[flexcoders] Kerning tables in TextField

2009-11-24 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I'm using a font that has a kerning table with a TextField object to display text. However, it appears the kerning table is never being used. Here's the code: var textField:TextField = new TextField(); textField.embedFonts = true; textField.text

[flexcoders] Garbage collection crashing flash player

2009-11-02 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, My team has been building an application that's graphically heavy. The heaviest portion consists of two sprites that are ~4000x4000 pixels and have a bunch of sprite children and ~20 bitmaps each. The content ends up being ~30 MB for both sprites total, give or take 20 MB. When

Re: [flexcoders] Delaying a function's execution

2009-10-31 Thread Aaron Hardy
. Timers are used to wait, especially when we know we don't need to run that function right away. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.http://www.adobe.com/ Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Aaron

[flexcoders] Delaying a function's execution

2009-10-29 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I've been researching the various ways that one can delay a function's execution. A few ways I've found/used are: (1) Use a Timer object with 0 delay as is done in StyleManagerImpl.loadStyleDeclarations2(). (2) Use setTimeout() (supposedly deprecated?) (3) Use callLater if you're

[flexcoders] Detecting loader.close()

2009-10-05 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey all, I have a Loader instance, I call the load() method, and then sometime thereafter but before the loading is complete I call the close() method. Is there any sort of event I can watch that will tell me the loader has been closed? As a very simple test, I tried the following but it never

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Library and and MXML component

2009-06-27 Thread Aaron Hardy
Right-click project -- Properties -- Flex Library Build Path -- Select All -- OK. Make sure it rebuilds and you should be good to go. Aaron Mike Oliver wrote: I have an MXML Component Canvas that I want to put into a Flex Library SWC. I created a Flex Library Project with /src and /bin

Re: [flexcoders] matrix help

2009-06-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
It seems like you should just be able to do this: var scaleFactor:Number = .1; image1.scaleX *= (1 + scaleFactor); image1.scaleY *= (1 + scaleFactor); image2.scaleX *= (1 - scaleFactor); image2.scaleY *= (1 - scaleFactor); That should affect your matrices as necessary. If you're scale factor

Re: [flexcoders] You can now download peerApp

2009-06-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
Nevermind...got this link. Thanks. otunazero wrote: I have posted a link to the peerApp stratus based app. If you wanna test or track progress on the development go to http://otunazero.wordpress.com http://otunazero.wordpress.com . I would appreciate some feedback from members of this

Re: [flexcoders] argh: matrices and dragging

2009-06-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
I guess you figured it out? Your demo works for me. Aaron grimmwerks wrote: Argh -- still struggling. What am I missing? On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:03 PM, grimmwerks wrote: But I need that to get the current state of the large transform matrix. What I'm having problems with is this idea

Re: [flexcoders] argh: matrices and dragging

2009-06-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
to translate the large image. Do the same kind of thing with Y. Does that make sense? Aaron grimmwerks wrote: It can't possibly -- ie what you're seeing under the small viewer when scaled down doesn't match the large view at all. On Jun 20, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Aaron Hardy wrote: I guess you

Re: [flexcoders] Tooltip anchoring in Flex

2009-06-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
I think I understand what you're asking, but I might miss. Have you tried making your lnotification component and then just popping it up using PopUpManager? As far as I'm aware, anything that's popped up with PopUpManager shouldn't move when the user scrolls, resizes the browser, etc. You

[flexcoders] File Transfer with AFCS

2009-06-13 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey guys. I hope you don't mind me asking an AFCS question. Traffic is pretty low in the AFCS web forum (which I already posted to) so I'm hoping one of you can help me out. I'm strategizing on a new app. It seems like a client can use a FilePublisher to upload a file to the AFCS server,

Re: [flexcoders] Compile error

2009-05-27 Thread Aaron Hardy
It means it can't find the source for the class with the name classname. It's likely that either you didn't import the class or the class isn't in your project. Aaron markgoldin_2000 wrote: What does that error mean? could not find source for class classname Thanks

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Tracking a sprite's position

2009-05-08 Thread Aaron Hardy
. Challenging for me, I can say. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.commailto: flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com flexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius9er@ wrote: What would be invalidating UIComponent A's display list? It's my understanding

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Tracking a sprite's position

2009-05-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
. Use localToGlobal to find the desired coordinates to position UIComponentB. You might experience a little lag; so the two may not look like they are connected though. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Hey flexers

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Tracking a sprite's position

2009-05-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@... wrote: Maybe I'm missing something really fundamental then; I didn't think Sprites dispatched move and size events and the documentation doesn't show any such events either. I'll do some more research

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Tracking a sprite's position

2009-05-07 Thread Aaron Hardy
like you have an interesting use-case. Good luck Aaron. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius9er@ wrote: Unfortunately that isn't a great option in our case. The sprite in question is part of a graphical editor where dozens

[flexcoders] Tracking a sprite's position

2009-05-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I have Sprite C which is inside of Sprite B which is inside of Sprite A which is inside of UIComponent A. UIComponent A and UIComponent B are both children of a common Canvas. I need UIComponentB to always be positioned over the top-left of Sprite C (so it appears to be stuck to

Re: [flexcoders] How to rotate text while keeping one eng fixed

2009-04-25 Thread Aaron Hardy
Try embedding your font. Aaron shubhra wrote: Hi All, I am trying it using mx:rotate but the text dissapears even on 1 degree rotation..and when it had rotated to 360 degree it again appear.. I am newbie to FLEx please do suggest me something.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Lightweight framework

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy aaronius9er@ wrote: I'd consider those still being on the heavy side. One we use is called Nimbus and can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/nimbus-as3/ Don't use the available swc since it hasn't been updated in a while

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Lightweight framework

2009-04-19 Thread Aaron Hardy
I'd consider those still being on the heavy side. One we use is called Nimbus and can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/nimbus-as3/ Don't use the available swc since it hasn't been updated in a while. Nimbus is similar to Cairngorm but lighter and cuts out a lot of the plumbing. It

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Lightweight framework

2009-04-19 Thread Aaron Hardy
was to try it out. On 19-Apr-09, at 9:11 AM, Aaron Hardy aaronius...@gmail.com mailto:aaronius...@gmail.com wrote: I'd consider those still being on the heavy side. One we use is called Nimbus and can be found here: http://code.google.com/ http://google.com/p/nimbus-as3/ Don't use

[flexcoders] Slider bug? Programmatic change event

2009-04-16 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I've been dealing with the Slider recently and I think I'm seeing a bug, but I'd like a confirmation. I understand that when I set the value of the slider programmatically it's not supposed to dispatch a change event. This is what I want, however I'm not seeing that behavior.

Re: [flexcoders] Post on the flex coders message board

2009-04-16 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hmm.okay. Wait for it.wait for it..now! Lucas Adams wrote: Please let me post questions. Thanks

Re: [flexcoders] relationship of mxml child tags and actionscript

2009-04-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
Geng, Use the DefaultProperty metadata tag in your AS class. Whatever property you specify will be the property to which your MXML children will be set. Here's a start:

[flexcoders] XML namespace to aaa, aab, etc

2009-04-13 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I have the following XML in a variable named node of type XML: g aah:type=imageGroup aah:group-id=2 aah:group-type-id=1 opacity=0.5 xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; xmlns:aah= http://aaronhardy.com/svg; xmlns:xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink;

[flexcoders] Loading remote font swf from local application

2009-04-10 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey everyone, Here at work we deal a lot with loading in font swfs at runtime using StyleManager.loadStyleDeclarations(). This works fine when we publish our application to the same server as the font swfs, however while debugging the application on our local machine it fails when trying to

Re: [flexcoders] Loading remote font swf from local application

2009-04-10 Thread Aaron Hardy
. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc. http://www.adobe.com/ Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Hardy *Sent:* Friday, April 10, 2009 12:32 PM

[flexcoders] Debugger can't find source for Slider class

2009-04-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, In my project I'm using a VSlider in one of my components. In my component's actionscript, I set the VSlider's value. I wanted to track that value going through the VSlider class but FlexBuilder's debugger can't seem to find the source for Slider (the base class for VSlider). I

[flexcoders] Variable SampleDataEvent is not defined.

2009-03-24 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey everyone. A couple months ago I worked on an AIR project where we made use of the SampleDataEvent class to generate dynamic audio. Today I came back to the project and ran it and am getting the following run-time error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable SampleDataEvent is not defined.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Variable SampleDataEvent is not defined.

2009-03-24 Thread Aaron Hardy
Tried that many a time. Other suggestions? Also, I for sure have AIR 1.5.1 installed on my computer. Aaron On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:40 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.comwrote: Maybe clean the project? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy

Re: [flexcoders] Styling a list item renderer

2009-03-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Hardy Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders

[flexcoders] Styling a list item renderer

2009-03-14 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, What's the formal way to set a styleName to a list item renderer? It seems like ListBase would have an itemRendererStyleName of some sort, but I have yet to discover it. I realize in the renderer class constructor I could do something like this.styleName = 'mystyle'; but it

Re: [flexcoders] Styling a list item renderer

2009-03-14 Thread Aaron Hardy
://www.adobe.com/ Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Hardy *Sent:* Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:19 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Styling

Re: [flexcoders] AIR: Detecting when window resize is complete (mouse up)

2009-01-20 Thread Aaron Hardy
the listener when you have satisfactorily resized) Cheers, Lushen On 1/15/2009 3:56 PM, Aaron Hardy wrote: Hey folks, In my project I have a component that is a percentage width of its containing window. When the user resizes the window, it triggers the component to update its display

[flexcoders] AIR: Detecting when window resize is complete (mouse up)

2009-01-15 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey folks, In my project I have a component that is a percentage width of its containing window. When the user resizes the window, it triggers the component to update its display list WHILE the user is dragging the window resize handle. Rather than updating the component's display while the

Re: [flexcoders] Creating Asynchronous Classes

2009-01-03 Thread Aaron Hardy
If none of those other suggestions work and you really need it, you can always use something like Merapi (http://merapiproject.net/) to hand the process off to Java. That increases the complexity of application packaging, deployment, keeping both AIR and Java running, etc...but it will work.

Re: [flexcoders] Searching Multi Demensional arrays

2008-12-29 Thread Aaron Hardy
I think you're looking for something like this: public function findPath(items:Array, path:String):Object { for each (var item:Object in items) { if (item.path == path) { return item; } else if (children children.length 0) { var

Re: [flexcoders] re-passing variable arguments?

2008-12-29 Thread Aaron Hardy
Try continueFunction.apply(args); Aaron toofah_gm wrote: I have a method that accepts variable arguments like this: public function doSomethingThenContinue(continueFunction:Function, ...args) { // execute some code that does important stuff // call the continue function now that we are done

Re: [flexcoders] How can i make possible to keep user back in the same TAB..

2008-12-18 Thread Aaron Hardy
This might help you out: http://aaronhardy.com/flex/blocking-tabbar-clickchange-events/ Aaron b.kotireddy wrote: Hi, The below code is my one of the TAB from 4 tabs. Before leaving this tab i need to evaluate the page, if user forgot to save his filled data i need to save that data. My

[flexcoders] Architecture options for holding current model objects related to view

2008-12-16 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey everyone, Let me set up a situation for you. Let's say you have an application with a component called Widget1 that's buried deep within the display list. Widget1 displays 50 knobs. Now, let's say you move to another part of the application and click a button that instantiates Widget3

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex training

2008-12-10 Thread Aaron Hardy
If you have solid experience in developing a variety of Flex applications, you should be able to pass with little studying. I recently took it and felt it was worth my time. For any company specifically looking for Flex developers, they should be aware of the certification. While it may not

Re: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like #176; in ComboBox list

2008-12-06 Thread Aaron Hardy
Go to a page like this one: http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php Copy the actual character (not the HTML representation) and paste it into your code. Bada bing bada boom. Aaron Tracy Spratt wrote: The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and

Re: [flexcoders] how can i get a columnIndex from an item in my TileList?

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
Just a thought (though not an answer), it might be a better idea if within your custom tooltip component you evaluated the space needed by your tooltip compared to the space between your cursor and the side of the stage, then move the tooltip accordingly. That way you're taken care of regardless

[flexcoders] Resetting an application's view for new user

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
Hey flexers, I have a hefty AIR application with many different view combinations, forms filled with data, etc. When a user logs out and a different user logs in, I need the application to be reset so that everything looks as though no other user was previously logged in. I've ran into two

Re: [flexcoders] People with blogs

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
For Wordpress I use the WP-Syntax plugin. Here's an example of what it turns out like: http://aaronhardy.com/flex/finding-the-nearest-component-in-flex/ Now if I could just get more width on my page and less width on my code. :P Aaron On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Nate Pearson [EMAIL

Re: [flexcoders] Resetting an application's view for new user

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
* _sAppUrl comes from the browser: location.href Tracy -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Hardy *Sent:* Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:32 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Component Life Cycle

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
I think I understand your question. Try throwing this in your component (outside of any methods/properties) and tweaking for your needs: // Default styles // private static var classConstructed:Boolean = classConstruct(); /**

Re: [flexcoders] Resetting an application's view for new user

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Hardy *Sent:* Friday, 5 December 2008 8:22 a.m. *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Resetting an application's view for new user That's a good idea. I wonder if there's a way to do something similar in AIR

Re: [flexcoders] Resetting an application's view for new user

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
process which resets all state variables when the application starts you could just run that process again? -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Hardy *Sent:* Friday, 5 December 2008 8:22 a.m. *To:* flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Component Life Cycle

2008-12-04 Thread Aaron Hardy
have any idea if preinitialize() method help ?? Thanks Pratik --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Aaron Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I understand your question. Try throwing this in your component (outside of any methods/properties) and tweaking