Re: [flexcoders] Re: Future Scope of Flex

2014-08-16 Thread David Adams dpad...@gmail.com [flexcoders]
like promises - that were never really implemented in Flex/flash. Like what specifically? Try this: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/

Re: [flexcoders] MS - The future of the web is HTML 5

2010-04-30 Thread David Adams
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-weighs-in-the-future-of-the-web-is-html5/ and http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/29/html5-video.aspx So, I wonder if the Steve/Apple bashing will now move on to

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Component Data Calls

2010-02-22 Thread David Adams
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Dan Pride danielpr...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you for your answer. Question if you would, I have been asking it everywhere and get NO satisfactory answers. How to approach a multi-windowed application, particurarly in FB4? 1) Different Urls? 2) ViewStacks?

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Component Data Calls

2010-02-22 Thread David Adams
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dan Pride danielpr...@yahoo.com wrote: There seem to be so many different ways to approach this issue, someone should write a book on it. I know I would buy it. So would I.

Re: [flexcoders] A framework to help with busines apps?

2010-02-21 Thread David Adams
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote: My background is 4D DB (www.4d.com) and there are great ways to work and certain events are good for loading data, related data in sub screens. I'm not trying to replacte 4D within Flex because architectural it's

[flexcoders] Strategies for switching between testing and deployment addresses

2010-02-21 Thread David Adams
I've been writing some small programs that use HTTPService calls to fetch data from a back-end. During testing, I'm using 127.0.0.1 or an IP address on my subnet. When I deploy, I update the IP address in service definitions to the right external address and build the app. Or at least I mean to.

[flexcoders] Validation: Enabling buttons on click and validating inputs on committing vales - good strategies?

2010-01-28 Thread David Adams
I'm trying to set up an interface with validation and am trying to do a couple of things at the same time: * Enable/disable some buttons as a user types into a couple of input areas. So, the button higlight is triggered on click. * Validate each input area once the user leaves it. So, the

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Reading URL arguments from within initApp()

2010-01-24 Thread David Adams
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Tracy Spratt tr...@nts3rd.com wrote: There are several ways to do this. I usually use javascript in the html wrapper to split the url params in to an array: Thanks for the suggestion. Is there a way to do it from within the Flex code itself?

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-06 Thread David Adams
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:06 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com wrote: You still avoid telling us your back-end setup. I give up. I'm not meaning to frustrate you - particularly since you're being kind enough to spend your time sending me suggestions. The back-end is called 4D and it

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-06 Thread David Adams
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM, David Adams dpad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:06 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com wrote: You still avoid telling us your back-end setup. I give up. I figure I should address the next obvious suggestion in advance. Is something like

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-06 Thread David Adams
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Maciek Sakrejda msakre...@truviso.com wrote: I think (some) people were asking about the back-end to try to help you configure http compression, which is done differently with different servers. Oh. Well, how nice for everyone that I went on at length about

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-06 Thread David Adams
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: You don't change the content-type to reflect gzip compression being on on the server. Gzip is a content-encoding and the browser should seamlessly decode it. You do need to set the HTTP headers to tell the browser is gzipped

[flexcoders] Basic question: Creating, tracking, and deleting objects.

2009-03-06 Thread David Adams
I've been experimenting with a couple of classes that extend Canvas and realize I need to get some basic information sorted out. I've done quite a bit of googling, looking through examples, and checking Adobe's documentation. Somehow I've lost the plot. Briefly, my questions are: * How do people

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread David Adams
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:48 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.com wrote: What kind of server do you have? I was fairly sure there was an implementation of AMF for every server out there. Nope. I can bolt in zip/unzip and a JSON encoder/decoder - but not AMF. Speaing of which, I think I've

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread David Adams
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: Plain text. Further to this suggestion, I just stumbled across a note from 2007 that claims String.split is about 10x faster than the XML parser - making delimited ASCII a good solution for (as an example) transferring

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread David Adams
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: JSON isn't binary but is more compact than XML. OTOH, parsing it may not be as quick as XML. I haven't tested it yet in the Flash player but the post I linked to earlier claimed String.split (native to the player) is

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-05 Thread David Adams
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: You've still managed to avoid telling us about your back-end setup. Tell us more about that and we could probably be of more assistance. No good me suggesting stuff that works for apache on linux to find that you're running

[flexcoders] Creating a dynamic search interfaces - strategies and suggestions

2009-03-05 Thread David Adams
I'm experimenting with creating a dynamic search interface and am wondering about the most effective strategy to use in Flex. I'm ignorant enough about Flex that I'd guess some of my ideas won't make sense so I'm hoping to get feedback that will save me from chasing down too many dead ends. For

[flexcoders] Creating a dynamic search interface - strategies and suggestions?

2009-03-04 Thread David Adams
I'm experimenting with creating a dynamic search interface and am wondering about the most effective strategy to use in Flex. I'm ignorant enough about Flex that I'd guess some of my ideas won't make sense so I'm hoping to get feedback that will save me from chasing down too many dead ends. For

[flexcoders] Native JSON support in Flash player?

2009-03-04 Thread David Adams
faster than an AS3 implementation. Also, to prevent wasting everyone's time, if there's an official place to check on the roadmap for Flex/Flash, I'd be grateful to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks. -- David Adams

Re: [flexcoders] Question: Strategies for compiling individual modules into SWCs

2009-03-03 Thread David Adams
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:57 AM, claudiu ursica the_bran...@yahoo.com wrote: Try with ant or maven, have to manually write build scripts though... Thanks for the confirmation. I ended up spending a couple of hours the other night writing executable scripts that call the compc compiler in the SDK.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Getting ByteArray.uncompress() to work in Flash - looking for an example tex

2009-03-02 Thread David Adams
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss bjorn.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: ASCompress supports GZIP http://code.google.com/p/ascompress/ Thanks very much for the link, I've downloaded the code to experiment with. I have now managed to sort out that my server-side encoder is adding 5

[flexcoders] Re: Getting ByteArray.uncompress() to work in Flash - looking for an example text with compressed bytes

2009-03-01 Thread David Adams
* Perhaps there's something messed up in my compression data - would someone be willing to post some kind of 'hello world' in plain text and compressed form that is known to work with ByteArray.uncompress()? From there, I can experiment and see if I can tinker with my compression settings (or

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-03-01 Thread David Adams
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: Plain text. Long before the invention of XML, developers used csv or csv-like files to power their data-driven apps. You'll have to load the plain text into objects, but hopefully you don't have a constraint against that

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Getting ByteArray.uncompress() to work in Flash - looking for an example text with compressed bytes

2009-03-01 Thread David Adams
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Cato Paus ca...@brannsikring.no wrote: go here http://onrails.org/articles/2007/11/27/flash-utils-bytearray-compressing-4-1mb-to-20k Thanks for the link! I couldn't get the AIR app to compile, but realized it pointed out an obvious strategy: use Flash to

[flexcoders] Getting ByteArray.uncompress() to work in Flash - looking for an example text with compressed bytes

2009-02-28 Thread David Adams
I've been having no luck getting Flex to decompress some data I've compressed using a tool based on zlib. I've tried the same code using AIR where I can specify the compression method and the data *does* decompress correctly. Below is a bit of code to give the idea: public function

[flexcoders] Compressing messages/data: What binary/compression formats are workable in Flex?

2009-02-28 Thread David Adams
I'm working on a system that transfers data from a back-end to Flex for display and manipulation. In this case, I can control the message format on the server-side. I'm pretty happy sending XML because of how easy it is to work with XML in Flex. On the other hand, XML is sometimes ridiculously

[flexcoders] Question: Strategies for compiling individual modules into SWCs

2009-02-27 Thread David Adams
or suggestions welcome. And, if I've stated my question/problem poorly, I'll be happy to try and clarify. Thanks in advance for any help, - David Adams Wallaga Lake 2546 NSW -

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reading compressed file in AS 3

2009-02-27 Thread David Adams
is not supported on the server I'm using, so AMF-over-HTTP is not an option.) - David Adams dpad...@gmail.com AU: (02) 6493-3250 US: 831 621-4585 Wallaga Lake 2546 NSW -