Does anybody know what domainMemory does in Flash Player 10? I was
just looking through the new APIs, and I came across this:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/system/ApplicationDomain.html#domainMemory
The description is more than a little cryptic:
Gets and sets
That was cruel, Matt, very cruel, as now I'm even more interested in
how it works. :)
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Used for this stuff:
http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/10/04/what-is-flacc-all-about/
On 10/28/08 9:55 AM, Brian Deitte [EMAIL
Ah, of course, I get it now. It's for pointers in ActionScript.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That was cruel, Matt, very cruel, as now I'm even more interested in
how it works. :)
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Can you use framework-less Flex 3 SWCs within CS3? I assumed that you
could do this if the compatibility-version flag was used and you
didn't use any of the Flex framework. I haven't been able to get this
to work, however. I asked about this about a month ago and the
all-knowing Matt Chotin
Yeah, the only way you can add a new compiler extension is through the
code. Although it doesn't seem too hard to add a non-code extension
mechanism, a way to read in classes to instantiate and use from an XML
file somewhere. -Brian
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Marvin Froeder [EMAIL
at once. The issue isn't getting the
data its how slow and processor intensive it is to create the objects
all over again if the data has changed.
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Caching of data across browser sessions, I assume? This is usually
done
If it's not AIR, just add event listeners for this, usually an
IOErrorEvent. If you can listen for SecurityErrorEvent, make sure to
do this as well, since depending on what you're loading, this could
show up as the event for a connection being down. -Brian
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:06 PM,
Caching of data across browser sessions, I assume? This is usually
done with SharedObject. But I wonder if there's a way to rearchitect
your application so this isn't needed? I assume that all 500 objects
aren't shown at once and that you could implement some kind of paging
mechanism. -Brian
Can you use framework-less Flex 3 SWCs within CS3? I'm having a hard
time googling about information on this. I assumed that you could do
this if the compatibility-version flag was used and you didn't use any
of the Flex framework. The SWFs I'm creating in Authoring, however,
are 1k and don't
I did this recently, and it didn't cause havoc. What are seeing that
goes wrong? I had two issues that I did needed to fix. One is that
you have to remember to remove the child from the stage before adding
it back to the application. The second is that the bindings were
reexecuted when added
They used a dummy AS class and put the documentation in it. You can
ASDoc with MXML, but it doesn't work well. The two biggest problems
with using MXML and ASDoc is that you can't define class-level comments
(and using mx:Metadata doesn't get around that but will work elsewhere)
and that so
Well if the Flex team ever wants use the code on my site (which really
is Christophe's code, who still works there) at
http://www.deitte.com/archives/2006/08/finally_updated.htm, they're
welcome to. But my guess is that the focus is on Apollo to solve this
problem, since in Apollo's case there's
The Windows XP hibernation problem (which I ran into as well) is solved
with this hotfix:
http://www.u-g-h.com/InsufficientSystemResourcesExistToCompleteTheAPISOL
IVED.aspx
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Does anybody know how to create a relative path in the Additional
source folders section of Flex Builder? These are for paths outside of
the main project path. I would be fine with a way which involves
changing the project files directly, which I tried to do. I also tried
adding the source
Well now I know where the random person who was IMing me (and I finally
had to ignore) came from... -Brian
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To:
sure. We had been using the source
before moving across to the SWC so maybe the classes are cached and
being picked up? I'll have a hunt around.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers,
Simon
On 1/4/07, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED
This will be fixed in the next update to Flex, since ASDoc will ignore
embedded resources. -Brian
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Behalf Of simon_janssens
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/07, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This will be fixed in the next update to Flex, since
ASDoc will ignore embedded resources. -Brian
From: flexcoders
Vossler, not sure exactly what the issue is, but I wanted to point out
that you can remove the Font.registerFont() statement, as this isn't
needed if you aren't loading the font dynamically. You can also remove
the Embed statements, as this embedding is already done in the Style
block. -Brian
that someone on the framework team can confirm or deny a
x/y/width/height change in 2.1 here(otherwise I'll start bugging folks
myself). Thanks, Brian
From: Brian Deitte Sent: Sunday,
November 05, 2006 11:01 PMTo:
'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com'Subject: RE: [flexcoders] x, y, width,
and height
My messages tend to show up very slowly, so this may be answered by the
time it appears, but the AVM2 doesn't need to understand all the
bytecodes (or rather all the tags) of Flash. It only understands the
AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really
big tag, of course,
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:31, Brian Deitte wrote:
AVM2 format, which is one tag within the Flash format. It's a really
big tag, of course, but the code won't be able to understand FlashType
classIt will affect all
components.Regards.
On 11/3/06, Brian
Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]com
wrote:
Hi Igor,
if this is fixed in 2.1, that'd be great to know. As for Manish's
approach, the problem for me with this is that I would need to override every
Flex component
n the skin?If it is a borderSkin style are you subclassing
RectangularBorder? For the borderMetrics. Can you give an example, I am sure I
could nail this one.Peace, Mike
On 11/2/06, Brian
Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]com
wrote:
Ah, my first flexcoders post as a Flex developer. I feel like I
should
eace, Mike
On 11/2/06, Brian
Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]com
wrote:
Ah, my first flexcoders post as a Flex developer. I feel like I
shouldbe getting my cloak and learning a secret handshake right
now.Is there a way to not specify the measuredWidth and measuredHeight
in askin? I
the desired height (http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html)
and use that to define height.-peter On 11/2/06 2:47 PM, "Brian
Deitte" [EMAIL PROTECTED]com
wrote: Is there any thoughts on having x, y, width, and height in
CSS? I find it painful t
I don't know about PUT/DELETE, but I do know that 500-range
responses were looked at in the player, and thatit's not a simple thing to
do (and if I remember correctly, may not even be possible in all cases) as it
all depends on what browser APIs allow. -Brian
From:
Is there any thoughts on having x, y, width, and height in CSS? I find
it painful to not have the values there when working with a designer and
using absolute positioning. My life would be much easier if I could
simply set up the Flex application on the designer's machine, point him
to the CSS,
Hi Gordon, to add one more message to the long list, I'm
excited about:
1. File system access
2. Offline access
3. No browser chrome
I hope for:
1. Associating a file extension with a specific Apollo
application
2. Dragging filesonto an application (and getting the
filename or
Hi Cristian, I had to override measuredWidth and
measuredHeight to get my gradient fill to display correctly. It's
interested to me though that your first example works correctly, which seems to
indicate that there's something else going on here.
-Brian
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Hi all,
Brightcove is looking for developers and QA for an exciting, new Flex 2
project. You'll be working with me and others at Brightcove on creating
an application that focuses on video on the Web.
We would love Flex experience, but if you're just starting down the path
of Flex and want to
That class is in flex.jar. You need to include
all the jars in the flex2.home/lib directory. So replace the second
pathelement in your classpath with this:
fileset dir="${flex2.home}/lib"
includes="*.jar"/
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
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Title: Re: [flexcoders] Embedding fonts at runtime
One addition to this, which is that we always include the
space character when you specify the unicode range. I'm not sure the
original reasoning for this, but I just noticed it in the code. Also, you
can specify multiple ranges, separated
Hi Michael, I don't see any way around this at the moment. I assumed I
could do the following to get a path relative to the Flex install:
output
${flexlib}/bar/out.swc
/output
But I tried this, and the flexlib environement variable is being parsed
twice, which
This is a known bug that is listed in the known issues on the ASDoc
wiki. I briefly investigated this, and I have no idea why it's
happening. Sorry, no workaround known. It's a bug that we should fix
for the next release. -Brian
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
farther yet, but I hope
this gets you in the right direction.
On the workaround side, I found if I just point to the root app mxml
file as my doc-location then all is well and I get the full docs.
J.
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Thanks. I'd
Hi Ed, I've never heard of this problem before. All
requests that come from RemoteObject should be of the AMF protocol of course...
and there should be no problem with creating a request of that size,as
I've create ones much larger for testing. Can you try fiddling with the
name of the
Hi Tom,
I wasn't very happy releasing the code this way either. Releasing code
for only two OSs causes my Java side to twitch. But there's some
reasons behind this, and I'll try to explain what I can.
ASDoc has a long history in at Macromedia/Adobe, as you probably know
from the number of
You don't have the necessary servlet set up in web.xml. I don't know
the current FDS documentation, but I assume the details are in there, or
just look in another Flex install for the expected info that should be
in the web.xml. -Brian
-Original Message-
From:
The person who is thinking about this the most lately isn't going to be
able to answer your crusade. Pete Farland is out traveling in Australia
and other countries for his sabbatical, so you may want to bring this up
again in a month. -Brian
-Original Message-
From:
(javax.xml.transform.TransformerException):
java.io.FileNotFoundException: output pathtoplevel_classes.xml
Any ideas?
thanks,
Ricardo.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I would just stick to doc-classes then. :) Well, I'm not sure
And I'll be trying to awaken myself from my hibernation on flexcoders,
so if you have any questions about it, fire away. -Brian
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Chotin
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:54 PM
To:
Setting it to null (along with removing any other references to the
class) is the answer. The variable is removed when it is out of scope:
so if you define the variable in a function, it is removed when the
function ends. If it's a class-level variable and you still have the
class around,
There's no way to redirect trace that I know of, other than to a
different file location. trace is only active when you are using the
debug player.
There's various debug projects that use a cutom method rather than trace
and print out the debug messages in a different format. I don't know of
what would fire off the following:
Error: The definition is in circular inheritance.
I can get it going by specifying individual classes but when I use -
doc-sources I get an output of a few of those errors.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
available on Labs
I'm getting the same too - I seem to be getting in particularly on
interface definitions - I'll try and make a simple reproducable case when I
get a spare minute or two...taPBH
On 8/14/06, Brian
Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi, I would
You can reference a namespace object if you put this in a file:
package mypackage {
public namespace DoSearch =
http://site.com/BackOffice/DoSearch;;
}
import mypackage.DoSearch in each class where you want to use it, and
then use namespace DoSearch.
-Brian
-Original Message-
I'm fairly positive this wasn't a violation of the license
agreement in Flex 1 (but I could be wrong, so don't quote me on this). We
are definitely hoping for a commercial component community in Flex 2, and we
plan to do more in the future to help foster this. More to come.
:) -Brian
Note that JRun does have webserver connectors which allow it to run on
top of your existing http server and port. I'm not an expert on the
current workings of RemoteObject, but unless something has changed
drastically from 1.5, you should just need this one port for the AMF
channel to work.
You should need Bindable metadata on both labelText variables:
[Bindable]
public var labelText:String;
I'm not sure why the value shows up properly in Child1.mxml. -Brian
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Meutzner
(Err, messages were sent to me out of order, and I now see this as being
answered)
-Original Message-
From: Brian Deitte
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:02 PM
To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Binding in Flex 2
You should need Bindable metadata
To add to this, some of the Flex folks in the Newton office will
probably be there as well. (I plan on showing up.) -Brian
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mendels
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:39 PM
To:
a
GUI for it.
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From: Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Using compc to make SWC from AS
So using root didn't work for you? If your class
This articlehas an
example of using passwords in an application, assuming you also have data you
want to protect:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/security_framework.html
I'd suggest using the
standard Flex security model shown above along withHTTPS.
-Brian
From:
Not sure. I'd suggest trying different versions of Firefox to see if
this always occurs. My guess is that it doesn't. You could also check
out Firefox's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificorder=rel
This articlehas an
example of using passwords in an application, assuming you also have data you
want to protect:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/articles/security_framework.html
I'd suggest using the
standard Flex security model shown above along withHTTPS.
-Brian
From:
I tried to answer this, but my message slowly bounced. Apparently I
needed to tell Yahoo about the shiny new email address.
My stale advice: Try specifying a root that points to the directory
that you would normally specify as the actionscript classpath. As a
side note, this parameter
So using root didn't work for you? If your class is
com.mfgquote.utils.Signature, then you will want to point it to the
flex directory:
compc -o Signature.swc -root c:\Documents and Settings\Syle\My
Documents\_Work Projects\Signature\flex c:\Documents and
Settings\Syle\My Documents\_Work
The Flex API for Yahoo Maps does not require Shockwave. The pure-Flash,
nothing-Shockwave-in-it SWC format is named SWC for historical reasons
(ie, we never changed it to something that makes more sense). Yahoo
gives the full name, ShockWave(r) Control, in one place that I noticed.
Hopefully
, reason: OK, target:
http://ws2.serviceobjects.net/gcr/GeoCoder.asmx
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wrote:
Try turning on webservice-proxy-debug in flex-config.xml and if it
doesn't make sense, posting the differences between IE and Firefox
here.
Try setting
The "Creating Service" message you see is from the client
side, so it is a little misleading in that it makes it look like RemoteObject
already found things, but it isn't an indication of how things are happening on
the server side. The error message you are getting says that the class
I think what Matt was saying is having the components directory a level deeper
and then referencing this directory in actionscript-classpath in
flex-config.xml. You should be able to create references to components in any
directory you put in actionscript-classpath in the same manner that you
Hi Mani, do you mean that the localserver is not there in the whitelist or that
it is already uncommented? If it is former, then check another flex-config.xml
for this info. Here's some more proxy info:
http://www.cflex.net/showfaq.cfm?ChannelID=1faqType=#Question394
-Brian
-Original
Hi Ahmed, I'm sure there's people on the list who could
contact you with consulting services. Glad to see you're getting
somewhere, but you're going to be disappointed again by people's response
here. See section 5 in the FAQ:
5. Guidelines to effective
question-asking
Include a useful
I don't know of any, but one thing you could do is set
keep-generated-as to true, compile the mxml pages,and then use the AS
documentation tools. -Brian
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint
ModienSent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:26 PMTo:
Oracle 10g is supported and there are no major problems that I know about.
There's two open issues that I know of or can find, both just having to deal
with the sample applications. These aren't really general Flex issues with
Oracle and only show up with how we are doing things in some
My web service knowledge has gotten a little rusty, but here's two
things to try:
1. Make sure there's nothing in the WSDL definition for this service
that would cause this to happen. What would cause this in the WSDL is
better answered by someone who isn't rusty in this area. :)
2. I'm not
mileage may vary.
-Brian
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shahnavaz
AlwareSent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:57 PMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Trouble Deploying
on WebLogic 8.1 [ Brian Deitte ]
Hi Brian
Are the
internal bug
Hi Clint, most likely what is happening here is that the
J2EE server (through Java security) is set up to not allow
Properties.setProperties() to be called. You'll need to find out how to
set the JVM property java.awt.headless totrue, which is all that this
configuration parameter does.
Yes this is a known issue (internal bug number
93750). I believe this is documented but don't have a reference to
it. -Brian
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave
KunclSent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:58 AMTo:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject:
We've used it here, of course. :) It integrates with WebSphere through
com.ibm.ws.security.core.ContextManager. You can find information on
adding users for WebSphere 5 in
resources/security/examples/addingusers.txt, which I've cut and pasted
below:
1. Log into the WebSphere admin console.
My guess would be 1 or 3. That doesn't help too much though, does it.
:) Can you try calling /sampling-ws/services/FooService with the body
shown in your first message? This would take Flex out of the equation,
and I'm guessing with this that you'll still get the SAXParseException.
-Brian
Sorry, I don't know of and can't find anything like this. It looks like
your only solution is naming the classes the same in AS and Java.
-Brian
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jeff Krueger
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:31 PM
Hi Clint, you can't use interfaces as the name of
thesource in RemoteObject, since we do a Class.forName() call for the
name. It's really not possible for such a thing to ever work,since
something needs to be instantiated for the RemoteObject. You should be
able to use a class that
You need to put statements in functions (Waldo's article on this grabbed
from google since the site isn't returning for me):
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:7i7Ah65NYooJ:www.waldosmeets.com/in
dex.cfm%3FentryID%3D550+flex+%22not+permitted+in+a+class+definition%22h
l=en
-Brian
Title: Message
Hi Steve, I'm not surewhat else to suggest
here. It seems Carson/Dave are seeing the same thing and have a solution
that works for them, and I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Perhaps
you can ask on a Tomcat list how to turn off the "cache-control" header?
If you do
Hi Dirk, I'm not positive on this, but I don't think you actually have
all of the framework in the SWC file. I'd guess that you wouldn't see,
for instance, MediaDisplay in it. You see more components than just
Button because we will automatically include all components/classes that
Button needs-
Hi Dirk,
When sending the request for the WSDL, you are right, the service name
and the target are not needed- we will actually never use the target in
that case, and you should be able to see that by putting garbage in the
target URL. I'm not sure why things are how they are, but it looks to
Can you try using a browser other than IE? Let's make
sure this is theIE6 issue mentioned (which would be my guess), even if the
config change below didn't fix it for you. -Brian
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve
PruittSent: Friday, June 10,
Try ExternalContent.retryCount:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/1/asdocs/mx/core/ExternalContent.htm
l
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of rockmoyosa
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:31 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
If you are using custom components and this only occurs when
recompiling, then try setting cache-swos in flex-config.xml to false.
Setting this to false will degrade compilation performance a bit, but
this setting has been known to cause a problem or two like this in the
past. I don't know of any
Can you try to regenerate the SWC component or have the person who
created it do this? It seems there is some basic problem with the
component (as this error only occurs when there is an IOException).
Another thing you can do is to set -Dtrace.error in the JVM
configuration for your appserver
Title: Debugging Flex Proxy
Hi Ronald, that's strange. We've done load testing
here and haven't run across such an error before. I'm not sure how to help
you debug it, but I can suggest a setting to change: max-connections. This
is located in flex-config.xml in two places, and I would
Yes it is known that RemoteObject does not deal with Timestamp.
Passing back numbers or using a Date would be the recommended
approaches. -Brian
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 5:28 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Jaas with Flex
Do a search for the article on devnet written by Brian Deitte. It's an
*excellent* overview, and will point you to all the right places in the docs
that cover
The session servlet has not been removed, but we recommend
a different way of doing things now. See here:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flex/1_5/migration.html#sessions
-Brian
From: Dimitrios Gianninas
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January 31, 2005 11:04
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