RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the license?

2005-07-19 Thread Anthony Merryfield





Depends what you're comparing. If I was 
atechnical beancounter looking at the cost of Flex, comparing it to open 
source solutions and then seeing what ourapplication requirements were; 
I'd be asking why we were spendingANY thousands of pounds on proprietary 
software over seemingly free alternatives. 
Especiallysince...

"We 
were going to buy something like 8 or 14 additional licenses to the multitude we 
already have, andthe pricing is just totally ridiculous for what we need it 
for."

...I'd 
be asking why you need more licenses if you are not using it to it's fullest 
potential yet?

To be 
fair, we're making judgements on one piece of a puzzle - maybe Jon could expand 
on his statement before we sit here waxing lyrical about his companies 
policies?

T.

  -Original Message-From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rick 
  BullottaSent: 19 July 2005 15:27To: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a 
  flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
license?
  
  You would have a 
  hard time convincing me that, if there are application development benefits 
  and sunk costs in development, that (after discounts) $60-125K is an 
  issue
  
  
  
  
  From: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.com   [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] 
  On Behalf Of Anthony 
  MerryfieldSent: Tuesday, 
  July 19, 2005 10:26 AMTo: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a 
  flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
  license?
  
  
  Just because a   company is worth multiples of billions doesn't mean that the money is tied up 
  in IT...
  
  
  
  
  
  T.
  
-Original 
Message-From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Rick BullottaSent: 19 July 2005 15:21To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy 
a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
license?

Your multibillion 
dollar company is hedging on $120K-$225K??? And dont you have a 
purchasing organization that can negotiate a volume 
price?
I find that hard to 
believe




From: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan 
BezuidenhoutSent: Tuesday, 
July 19, 2005 10:05 AMTo: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy 
a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
license?

On a slightly different 
note.I can tell you that in our multibillion dollar 
organization Flex ismost likely about to be thrown out. We were going to buy somethinglike 8 or 14 
additional licenses to the multitude we already have, 
andthe pricing is just totally ridiculous for what we 
need it for.Management is ready to cut their losses 
and redevelop with somethingnon-proprietary and 
we (the ones that really wanted Flex) have egg 
onour faces.I think we have come 
to the point where MM has priced Flex totally 
outof the market.Jonathan
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the license?

2005-07-19 Thread Anthony Merryfield





Apple 
say that price flucuations in their hardware isto do with local taxes, who 
am I to argue?

Oh, 
and shipping costs ;)

T.

  -Original Message-From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Sjors 
  PalsSent: 19 July 2005 15:46To: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a 
  flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
  license?I don't think that's true, even at bigger 
  organisations you see a shift to use of free (opensource) software.Even 
  when 225k is not a lot of money for a company, if you can safe it, its easy 
  money.Its also a strange thing that you pay 30% more for a flex   license in europe, and please, don't say those are the shippingcosts :-P 
  Greets,SjorsRick 
  Bullotta wrote: 
  




You would have a 
hard time convincing me that, if there are application development benefits 
and sunk costs in development, that (after discounts) $60-125K is an 
issue




From: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Anthony 
MerryfieldSent: Tuesday, 
July 19, 2005 10:26 AMTo: 
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy 
a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
license?


Just because a 
company is worth multiples of billions doesn't mean that the money is tied 
up in IT...





T.
-Original 
  Message-From:   flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Rick BullottaSent: 19 July 2005 15:21To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I 
  buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
  license?
  
  Your multibillion 
  dollar company is hedging on $120K-$225K??? And dont you have a 
  purchasing organization that can negotiate a volume 
  price?
  I find that hard 
  to believe
  
  
  
  
  From: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] 
  On Behalf Of Jonathan   BezuidenhoutSent: 
  Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:05 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: If I 
  buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
  license?
  
  On a slightly 
  different note.I can tell you that in our   multibillion dollar organization Flex ismost likely about 
  to be thrown out. We were going to buy 
  somethinglike 8 or 14 additional licenses to the multitude 
  we already have, andthe pricing is just totally   ridiculous for what we need it for.Management is 
  ready to cut their losses and redevelop with 
  somethingnon-proprietary and we (the ones that really 
  wanted Flex) have egg onour 
  faces.I think we have come to the point where MM has 
  priced Flex totally outof the 
  market.Jonathan
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a flex license can I host other peoples apps on the license?

2005-07-19 Thread Anthony Merryfield





Wasn't 
sure that'd be picked up on ;)

I 
gather from Jons wording though, they aren't using it for mission critical. Maybe they use it to schedule janitorial duties :)

T.

  -Original Message-From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Rick 
  BullottaSent: 19 July 2005 15:42To: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a 
  flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
license?
  
  Agree with 
  you. But 125K for a system that would be deployed broadly and may be 
  mission critical would seem tiny  probably the same as the janitorial 
  budget for a day or two. I also agree with your choice of 
  wording in seemingly free alternatives. J
  
  - 
  Rick
  
  
  
  
  From: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.com   [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] 
  On Behalf Of Anthony 
  MerryfieldSent: Tuesday, 
  July 19, 2005 10:38 AMTo: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If I buy a 
  flex license can I host other peoples apps on the 
  license?
  
  
  Depends what you're 
  comparing. If I was atechnical beancounter looking at the cost of Flex, 
  comparing it to open source solutions and then seeing what 
  ourapplication requirements were; I'd be asking why we were 
  spendingANY thousands of pounds on proprietary software over seemingly 
  free alternatives. Especiallysince...
  
  
  
  "We were going to buy 
  something like 8 or 14 additional licenses to the multitude we already have, 
  andthe pricing is just totally ridiculous for what we need it 
  for."
  
  
  
  ...I'd be asking why 
  you need more licenses if you are not using it to it's fullest potential   yet?
  
  
  
  To be fair, we're 
  making judgements on one piece of a puzzle - maybe Jon could expand on his 
  statement before we sit here waxing lyrical about his companies 
  policies?
  
  
  
  T.

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[flexcoders] Changing the 'Initializing...' text on the preloader?

2005-04-08 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Changing the 'Initializing...' text on the preloader?








Hi everyone,


I'm sure this is a piece of cake but I am short of time, Friday 4.30 - the pub is waiting! How do you go about changing the Initializing text on the preloader?

Cheers,




Tony.




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RE: [flexcoders] Additional Code generated in the jsp

2005-04-07 Thread Anthony Merryfield





Hiya,

1. The 
iframe is what Flex uses to get the HistoryManager to work. It shouldn't mess up 
your layout as it is set to be 0 pixels high - not sure why MM chose a width of 
22 though?!
2. 
Good question - I guess if you aren't using HistoryManager then there should be 
a way to stop the code being generated?
3. See 
1 :)

Tony.



  -Original Message-From: Pushkar Phatak 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 07 April 2005 18:16To: 
  flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] Additional Code 
  generated in the jsp
  Hello,I was formatting the the output for an application. 
  The MXML file is embedded in the body /body tags as shown 
  below
  
  body 
  bgcolor="#33" %@ taglib uri="FlexTagLib" 
  prefix="mm" % mm:mxml 
  source="Main.mxml"//body
  
  The resulting "generated" code at run time is this.. (end of the mail for 
  more questions
  table width='100%' height='100%' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'trtd valign='top'
script language='_javascript_' charset='utf-8' src='/samples/flex-internal?action="">/script
noscript
object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354' codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,14,0' width='100%' height='400'
id='Main.mxml.swf'

  param name='flashvars' value='versionChecked=true'
  param name='src' value='Main.mxml.swf'
  embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' width='100%' height='400'
flashvars='versionChecked=true'
src='Main.mxml.swf'
name='Main.mxml.swf'
  /
/object
/noscript
script language='_javascript_' charset='utf-8'
document.write("object classid='' codebase='' width='100%' height='400'");
document.write("id='Main.mxml.swf'");
document.write("");
document.write("  param name='flashvars' value='historyUrl=%2Fsamples%2Fflex%2Dinternal%3Faction%3Dhistory%5Fhtmllconid=" + lc_id +"versionChecked=true'");
document.write("  param name='src' value='Main.mxml.swf'");
document.write("  embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' width='100%' height='400'");
document.write("flashvars='historyUrl=%2Fsamples%2Fflex%2Dinternal%3Faction%3Dhistory%5Fhtmllconid=" + lc_id +"versionChecked=true'");
document.write("src=''");
document.write("name='Main.mxml.swf'");
document.write("  /");
document.write("/object");
/script
script language='_javascript_' charset='utf-8'
document.write("briframe src='' name='_history' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' width='22' height='0'/iframe/br");
/script
/td/tr/tableWhat I dont get is why is there an additioanl iframe generated with the object? (red)The formatting gets killed because of that. I know its probably not a big thing but it would help to know 1. Why the code is being generated2. Can i stop it from generating, if so how3. If i cant stop it from generating, is it possible to somehow hide it?ThanksPushkar

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RE: [flexcoders] Euro symbol

2005-04-04 Thread Anthony Merryfield

Have you tried ctrl + alt + 4 to insert the symbol?

Alternatively try the euro; code.

mx:Label styleName=price 
text=Totale:euro;{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/

T

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Sent: 04 April 2005 16:19
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Euro symbol



Sorry i'm using copy and paste but flex throws this
mx:Label styleName=price 
text=Totale:¤{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/

2 Errors found.
 
Error C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\webapps\samples\test\CartView.mxml
Error parsing MXML document: encoding is specified as UTF-8 but the file 
is not UTF-8 encoded.


Error C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\webapps\samples\test\blank.mxml:168 Don't 
know how to parse element *:CartView. It is not a known type or a 
property of mx.containers.HBox.


Anthony Merryfield ha scritto:

Just type it as you would any other character... Or copy and paste it if your 
keyboard is ye olde.

Tony.

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Subject: [flexcoders] Euro symbol



Sorry stupid question, maybe it's already post but i don't find.
How i can display in my label the ¤ symbol, sorry if it's already post.
Devis




 
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RE: [flexcoders] Euro symbol

2005-04-04 Thread Anthony Merryfield

I suggest you follow Abduls advice, as when I typed the character in and it 
worked first time.

I would have thought using euro; would work as well but I get the same error 
as you...

If I do this:

mx:Script
![CDATA[
var monetaryType:String = euro;;
]] 
/mx:Script

mx:Label text=Totale: {monetaryType}/

Flex prints: Totale: euro; No ¤ in sight!

Strange, maybe someone at MM can explain why this is?

Tony.





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Sent: 04 April 2005 17:07
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Euro symbol



Hi,
i'm using this
 mx:Label styleName=price 
text=Totale:euro;{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/
but throws this message pelase help
Devis




2 Errors found.
 
Error C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\webapps\samples\test\CartView.mxml:74
The entity euro was referenced, but not declared.


Error C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\webapps\samples\test\blank.mxml:168
Don't know how to parse element *:CartView. It is not a known type or 
a property of mx.containers.HBox.



 





 
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[flexcoders] Javascript open.window in htmlText

2005-04-02 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Javascript open.window in htmlText








Hi everybody,


Is there a way to open a popup from a link in htmlText?


Cheers,


Tony.




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RE: [flexcoders] Javascript open.window in htmlText + 128 Char links

2005-04-02 Thread Anthony Merryfield

Cool, that looks perfect. Out of interest, will this handle more than 128 
characters in a link? It seems to be truncated at that point regardless of the 
characters when I do a normal link?

Cheers,

Tony.




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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Javascript open.window in htmlText


Hi
 
You can do it, the way its done in html/javascript...
 
 
  _ta.htmlText = Click a
href='javascript:window.open(\http://www.macromedia.com\,null,\height=600
,width=800,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no\);void(0);'font
color='#FF'uhere/u/font/a to open macromedia.com in a popup.;


But sometimes, these kind of linking become unmanagable, in that case you
can use asfunction to call a function flex code which opens popup...

Look at the following example, which demomstrates both techniques...


##asfunctionExample.mxml##

?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?
mx:Application width=800 height=600
xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;
creationComplete=appInit()

mx:Script
![CDATA[

function appInit() {

_ta.htmlText = Click a
href='javascript:window.open(\http://www.macromedia.com\,null,\height=600
,width=800,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no\);void(0);'font
color='#FF'uhere/u/font/a to open macromedia.com in a popup.;


_ta1.htmlText = Click a
href='asfunction:mx.core.Application.application.openLink,macromedia'font
color='#FF'uhere/u/font/a to open macromedia.com in a popup.;
}

function openLink(whichLink)
{

alert(Which Link: + whichLink);

var url:String;

switch(whichLink) {

case macromedia:
url = http://www.macromedia.com;;
}

   
getURL('javascript:window.open(' + url +
',null,height=600,width=800,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no)
;void(0);');
   
}

]]
/mx:Script

mx:Label fontSize=16 text=Usual way/
mx:TextArea id=_ta width=300 height=200/

mx:Label fontSize=16 text=Better way using asfunction:/
mx:TextArea id=_ta1 width=300 height=200/

/mx:Application



Couple of links on asfunction:

- http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15639
-
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictiona
ry/actionscript_dictionary073.html


I just remember that someone wrote a very long tutorial on asfunction,
recently some 2-3 months back it appeared on some blog...Just don't remember
the URL...

Anyways, I hope it helps you

-abdul
 



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Subject: [flexcoders] Javascript open.window in htmlText



Hi everybody, 

Is there a way to open a popup from a link in htmlText? 

Cheers, 

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[flexcoders] Loading time detection

2005-04-01 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Loading time detection








Hello everybody,


Is there some kind of trigger or function that I could use to redirect a user to a non Flex page if the the client is using a slow connection?

Or any other ways to detact the connection speed and save a 56k user the pain of a 244k download?


Cheers,




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[flexcoders] Displaying the current date in an easy to read format

2005-03-23 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Displaying the current date in an easy to read format








Hi everyone,


I need to display the current date on screen in an easy to read format but get this error each time I try:


A class's instance variables may only be initialized to compile-time constant expressions. 


A snippet of my code is below, it is in a component:


?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?


mx:Box xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml xmlns:vo=uk.co.isesolutions.apps.commerce.modules.fulfilment.flex.vo.* xmlns:debug=uk.co.isesolutions.framework.flex.debug.* xmlns:viewHelper=uk.co.isesolutions.apps.commerce.modules.fulfilment.flex.viewHelper.* childrenCreated=initComponent() hide=validateBDVS() width=100%

 viewHelper:DirectDebitViewHelper id=directDebitVH name=directDebitView view={ this } /


 mx:Script

 ![CDATA[ 

 

  var ddDate = new Date();

  var date = Date:  + ddDate.getDay() + ,  + ddDate.getDate() +   + ddDate.getMonth() +   + ddDate.getFullYear() + ;

  

 ]]

 /mx:Script


 mx:VBox width=100%

  mx:Text text={date} width=100% styleName=smallPrint fontWeight=bold /

 /mx:VBox


/mx:Box


If anyone can help, either with the code above or by junking what i've done and supplying me with something known to work, i'd be very thankful!

Cheers,


Tony.




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RE: [flexcoders] ComboBox Background color - how to change?

2005-03-22 Thread Anthony Merryfield

Thanks Pushkar,

That's useful to know about, it looks alot better, is there any way to do 
fillColors=[0xff,0xff] in a stylesheet so it is applied application 
wide?

T

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try somethign like this Antony

mx:ComboBox  dataProvider={mycolor} width=100 cornerRadius=0 
borderThickness=1 borderStyle=solid dropShadow=false
borderColor=#CC  themeColor=#FF6600 height=20
fillColors=[0xff,0xff] text=Select a Color
change=mySelectedColor=event.target.selectedItem selectedIndex=0
/

Hope this helps
Pushkar

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 How do you go about changing the default color of the ComboBox? The gradient
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Default text in ComboBox with and Required Fields

2005-03-14 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Default text in ComboBox with and Required Fields






I've got a page with several ComboBox elements within, some of them are required fields.


The DataProvider gets the contents dynamically from the server. Is there a way to add a default item such as 'Please Choose...' without it actually being a submitable value or showing a Halo error when the page loads?

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Setting Application padding/margin to 0px

2005-03-09 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Setting Application padding/margin to 0px






Hi Everyone,


I'm trying to remove the whitespace aroundmy .mxml app - about 30 pixels or so. I have tried margin=0 in mx:Application but was told that was not allowed :(

Any other ideas on how I can do this?


Cheers,


Tony.




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RE: [flexcoders] Setting Application padding/margin to 0px

2005-03-09 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Ahh, you have to set each one explicitly...

Cheers Dirk,

Tony.

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Who told you it wasn't allowed :)

This should work:

mx:Application 
xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;
marginTop=0
marginBottom=0
marginLeft=0
marginRight=0

/mx:Application

Dirk.

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Hi Everyone, 
I'm trying to remove the whitespace around my .mxml app - about 30 pixels or 
so. I have tried margin=0 in mx:Application but was told that was notallowed 
:(
Any other ideas on how I can do this? 
Cheers, 
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RE: [flexcoders] random flexcoders notes

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Merryfield
With regard searching and archiving, why not just set up a forum? New userswill 
benefit from the threaded conversation and I won't get distracted everytime my 
email alert goes off :) It's fair to say this is fairly well established, but 
when Flex goes mainstream it will be impossible to maintain this on email.

RSS just blanks me and complains about a cookie... which is a shame as 
thatwould have been perfect - assuming I could switch off email alerts but 
still send messages to the list?

Cheers for all your hard work btw,

Tony.

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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] random flexcoders notes



THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL MACROMEDIA MESSAGE, ALL COMMENTS ARE MY OWN

1) You may have noticed that the response from Macromedia employees on
flexcoders has slowed down a little, I wanted to share a few thoughts on
that.  
2) I also have seen a few questions regarding loading SWFs and subsequent
problems, I don't have new insight but can share some warnings.
3) My own view on the state of flexcoders and its developers.



1) Wondering where the Macromedia employees are for answering questions?
The answer is hard at work on the next version of Flex. Despite the fact
that we've made no official announcement about what will be in the next
version, when it's coming out, etc, it doesn't mean we aren't busting our
tails to try to come up with something special. In fact things are pretty
busy here in Flex-land, and that means that we're focusing on tasks directly
in front of us and looming deadlines more than answering questions from the
list. It's been a relief to see so many of you out here answering
questions, it lets us feel like we've provided enough bootstrapping that
developers can help each other without being involved (more on this in my
part 3). This doesn't mean that we're not reading the list, but it may mean
we're slower to respond and may not have time to research questions we don't
know the answer to easily.

This is my own process for answering flexcoders issues (not recommending for
others but it's the only way I can stay sane):

1) has the question been answered (even partially) by someone else on the
list? -- delete
2) is the question something that I've seen asked and answered before
recently (and know that the people who can answer the question are active
participants)? -- delete
3) is the question something I know the answer to and can explain easily --
answer
4) is the question something that I don't know the answer to but can point
someone towards solving it themselves? -- give that info
5) does the question require research on my part? -- save until later
6) does the question require so much research that it will take me a long
time because I really don't know this area? -- delete, someone else will
hopefully look into it

Like I said, this is one way that I handle the volume of email that comes
through. A few months ago I had the time to do more research to answer
problems, now that's not the case. In fact it's one reason why we have a
great support team, some issues take time to answer, Macromedia provides
resources for providing those answers (and doing the research) that aren't
easily done by folks like me.
 
With that said let me also re-iterate that it is NEVER cool to mail a MM
employee off-list to ask for help unless you've been specifically invited or
you are mailing your support engineer. If I have an answer to a question I
will do it on flexcoders when I have time. We all understand that people
have deadlines and I feel bad when I can't respond quickly. But we offer
our 2-hour turnaround Gold support for a reason :-)

OK, moving on:
 
2) A few questions have come up over the last few weeks regarding issues
with Loaders (specifically when something is loaded functionality breaks
compared to when it was not loaded). I don't have much to offer
unfortunately other than to say there are lots of known issues when using
loaded content :-)  

For example, the cursor problem that we found last week turned out to be a
known issue that we had in the release notes (don't look at me to blame you
for not reading them, I didn't remember to check). The DragManager problem
discussed last night also is apparently a known issue but I'm not sure
there's a release note.

The big thing to know is that static classes (things like CursorManager and
DragManager) can be negatively affected by using the Loader to load
additional MXML applications. There will be bugs, and while there may be
people from Macromedia who know how to workaround the issues, I am not one
of them and see #1 for why you may not receive answers from others :-) Best
thing to do is always remember to check the release notes and search
macromedia.com for technotes and other articles. And then be wary when
working with loaded MXML applications!

3) My view on the state of flexcoders:

It's strong, it's great, I'm 

Can I gray out the rest of a screen behind a popup?

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Can I gray out the rest of a screen behind a popup?






I have a few popup forms that I'd like to give more emphasis to. I think I saw somewhere a site where on popup the parent grayed out making the popup very noticable - could anyone point me towards some code in order to accomplish this please?

Ta,


Tony.




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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Can I gray out the rest of a screen behind a popup?

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Cheers, that worked perfectly :)

Tony

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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Can I gray out the rest of a screen behind a
popup?




If you set modalTransparency in the TitleWindow component to 100, the
entire screen except the TitleWindow would be opaque.

mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;
title=Login modalTransparency=100

You could try changing the value from 0 - 100 to get the effect you want.

Sree


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brett Hitzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 What I have done is enclosed the entire application within a Vbox of
width = 100% and 
 height = 100%' and named it something like appContainer. When
creating the title 
 window you can either pass it a refference to the parent
application, or I believe just using 
 parentApplication.appContainer works as well. On Creation Complete
of the titlewindow 
 you can call a function that says:
 
 parentComponent.appContainer.enabled = false;
 
 that will give you the effect you are looking for.
 
 Brett
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Merryfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have a few popup forms that I'd like to give more emphasis to. I
think I saw somewhere 
 a site where on popup the parent grayed out making the popup very
noticable - could 
 anyone point me towards some code in order to accomplish this please?
  
  Ta,
  
  Tony.
  
  
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Comprehensive skinning tutorials

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Comprehensive skinning tutorials






Does anyone know of a good skinning tutorial?


I have started a skin based on HaloTheme but it seems to be quite limited compared to pulseBlue theme that I have also had a quick look at. For instance there seems to be different bits and pieces for the Accordion in pulseBlue but just a blank slide in HaloTheme?

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated ;)



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RE: [flexcoders] Flex and the browser title

2005-02-17 Thread Anthony Merryfield



Talking of titles, is there a way to change the title 
to reflect what tab/accordion/stack you are in? So users can see what they have 
viewed when they pull down the history list...

Tony.

-Original Message-From: Cathy Murphy 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 16 February 2005 
19:24To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: 
[flexcoders] Flex and the browser title
Are there any warnings or errors (Flex warnings or 
errors) in the page? There is a known issue where the pageTitle property 
is not displayed if the page contains warnings or errors.

- Cathy




From: Steve Pruitt 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 
2:17 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Flex and the browser title


Thats great. 
Thanks. Me thinks I need to go back and reviewthe documentation, its been a long 
time. :)

-S

Steve Pruitt wrote: I have a situation 
where a server is not up and when trying to launch my  Flex 
application the "cannot find server page" error displays in the  browser title window. When the user reloads the application, 
after the  server comes up, by hitting the refresh button, the "cannot find..."  status remains as the browser's title. Is 
there anyway in Flex to  reset, or better, control the contentsof 
the browser title?It should work if you have the `pageTitle` 
property of the Application tag set. mx:Application 
pageTitle="My Flex App" ...Manish

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Embedding a Flex app into an HTML page

2005-02-17 Thread Anthony Merryfield
Title: Embedding a Flex app into an HTML page






Hi all,


Are there any web docs outlining the process to embed a Flex app within a web page? I currently have an app within anHTML template but it has 20px (ish) padding all round it that is pushing the Flex out of alignment and causing scrollbars to appear within Flash.

Any help appreciated.



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