Re: [flexcoders] Record and play back sound on the client in a Flex app
No. Flash Player needs Flash Media Server to be able to record audio from the Microphone class. You could use a Windows Media Player hosted object to record, but that would end up being a SmartClient style app, not a web delivered one and would require the user have DirectX installed. Influxis.com is really cheap; Mediatemple is only slightly more; both have FMS hosting in scales. On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Christian Weibell wrote: I’d like to build a flex-based app where users can click on a record button, talk into microphone, and then listen to what they recorded. I’d like to do it all client side so I don’t have to pay for expensive hosting or bandwidth. The audio never needs to come to a server it just needs to be persisted in memory on the client during the session. I would like to do it all in a web-delivered flex app without the user having to download and install any additional programs on their local machine. Is this possible? Christian
Re: [flexcoders] Flex working directory
Check out the base attribute. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_04157 On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Christoph Guse wrote: Hi List, I try to integrate FLEX 2.0 applications into the Liferay Portal. At a first glance this should not to difficult but as each of us knows the details are difficult ;-) Until now I tried to use FLEX applications which load their information from XML files. In the FLEX application there is a relative path from the MXML file to the resource files ( like XML files, Images etc. ). The standalone FLEX application works like a charm. Then I put the FLEX application into a JSR 168 portlet container by embedding the SWF file into the view JSP file of the portlet. The SWF file can be loaded but the working directory seems to be changed. All resource files can't be loaded. Is there a possibility to set a flashvar which tells the Flash Plugin which is the base folder from which it should load resource files? Regards, Christoph -- Christoph Guse Löhstraße 34 41747 Viersen Tel. / VoIP 0 21 62 / 50 24 066 Mobil 01 51 / 17 80 74 84
Re: [flexcoders] site-wide adjustments - is it even possible?
In AS2/AS1, you used to be able to hack the prototype so all
instances used a different method at runtime.
mx.containers.Container.scrollChildren = mx.containers.Container.old;
mx.containers.Container.scrollChildren = function()
{
// your stuff here
};
Unfortunately, I think prototype is read-only in AS3.
Can't you just replace the Container class that is in the frameworks
directory with your own modified copy, compile a new SWC, and use
that one instead of the main one?
On Jan 29, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Paul Solomon wrote:
I have created a smooth scroll component that extends a Container
class where I have overridden the scrollChildren() method. I came into
a project late and the code base is rather large at this point. There
are many many places in the code that needs this new component
shoe-horned in.
I have been asked to see if I can provide a site-wide adjustment to
the scrolling functionality that will apply the smooth scrolling style
without manually replacing every instance of the code that needs to be
touched. I am pretty sure that there is not a way after investigating
the framework and common sense, but I thought that I would ask this
board anyway, is it possible? Is there a compiler setting?
Re: [flexcoders] import * vs. import a.b.c performance?
import * == for slackers import a.b.c == for pimp-tastic Flex coders import * allows the compiler to look in the package to find the class it needs. If you don't have *, you have to set it manually. Both will result in the same amount of classes being exported into the SWF, so file size is the same. Readability of the code, however, degrades because you don't know what classes are used in the class. Caveat with the above is just because you use import doesn't mean the class is actually exported into the SWF, you have to actually use it, like in a variable defintion for example: import mx.controls.Button; var myC:Button; So, it's presumtious to think just because an import is used that it IS IN FACT used... could be cruft. Devil's Advocate? No, but I'll play the role. * is great when you are learning, and know ahead of time you are about to import a ton of stuff. The same reason *, :Object, and other loose typing things are there (allowing opt-in strict typing as it were) allows you to code faster, and type less. On Jan 27, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Mike Crowe wrote: Hi folks, Any downside of doing an: import * vs. import com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEventDispatcher; for example? Any reason not to do this? TIA Mike
Re: [flexcoders] Label vs. Text
Label is 1 line only, and truncates text that is longer than it is wide via Super becoming Su Text allows multiline and word wrapping whereas Label does not. On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Howard Fore wrote: Can someone tell me what the difference is between the Label and Text controls? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gliddy glub gloopy / Nibby nabby noopy / La la la lo lo / Sabba sibby sabba / Nooby abba nabba / Le le lo lo / Tooby ooby walla / Nooby abba naba / Early morning singing song - Good Morning Starshine
Re: [flexcoders] Ogg Vorbis Tremor in AS3?
Andre managed to make a mod player. Not sure what mods are, but they have that 8 bit feel. http://lab.andre-michelle.com/8bitboy More of his audio work here, maybe something along the lines of what you are looking for: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tag/audio/ On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Kevin Newman wrote: Hello, I was wondering what the feasibility of porting an integer based audio decoder like Ogg Vorbis Tremor to Actionscript 3 is. Are there APIs in place that would allow you to load a vorbis file, decode it and output the audio? Does AVM2 have the horse power to pull off something like that? Just curious. :-) Kevin N.
Re: [flexcoders] Flowcharting/Drawing Components
http://www.gliffy.com/ Don't see a download link, doesn't look like they are sharing the love. On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Jim Zafrani wrote: Hello All, I am just getting started with Flex and was wondering whether or not a component existed that would allow me to draw a flowchart on a canvas or a tree-like diagram. Are there any such components/libraries for flex out there? Thanks in advance, Jim Zafrani
Re: [flexcoders] Simple question- Can I pass a data object in a method from flex 2 into an externally loaded flash 9 built swf?
With the appendum, Compiled in Flash 9 AND AS3, NOT AS2, then yes. On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Manuel Saint-Victor wrote: To clarify the question- If I'm building my shell in Flex 2 and a library of swf content to load developed in flash- and I load them in with the swfLoader component can I Pass objects in through the calls to methods on the SWFLoader.content.[whatevermethod] ?? It would seem logical to me that this would be straightforward if the child SWFs are compiled and coded in Flash 9 but I just want 2 be certain before I stand behind the statement for sure. Mani
Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript Mozill
Java made Ant, Ruby made Rake, Tamarin made...??? I dig Ant and all, but it'd be neat to have an AS3 alternative. On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Jim Cheng wrote: Abdul Qabiz wrote: What does it mean to me as ActionScript developer? I can use my existing skills and write code in other environment which uses Tamarin. Absolutely. I've been working with the Tamarin source code quite a bit recently and have found that the AVM+ run-time can be readily abused for doing file format conversions and other such automation from the command-line, as it already supports file I/O and binary data. Adobe's Tamarin developers actually have one AS3 script that reformats an opcode table into a source and header file in C. Just out of the box, this functionality is perfect for writing little AS3 scripts for manipulating and reformatting data, be they plain ASCII or binary much like what people more often use Unix shell scripting or Perl scripts. If you ever needed to do global regular expression search and replaces across a lot of files and didn't know enough Perl, young ActionScript developer, now is your chance. And just wait until Tamarin gets hooked in as the scripting engine for other bits of fun. Maybe someone should nudge Blizzard to let us script World of Warcraft using AS3. The boys here would certainly love it ;) Jim
[flexcoders] States Transitions Example
An example of using states and transitions in Flex 2 components. http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2007/01/flex_2_states_t.html
Re: [flexcoders] how do i pass variables to a swf???
Why not use a FlashVars tag?
On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote:
LocalConnection is the go.
I would love to be able to use the query string to be able to set my
LocalConnection.connection string at runtime.
At the moment where using a IFrame hack to pass the connection
variable to the swf via External Interface to set the connection
string at runtime
regards,
Bjorn
On 24/01/2007, at 2:37 PM, greg h wrote:
Hi mazarflex,
Two general scenarios:
1) swf-to-swf communication.
2) swf-to-outside world communication.
My sense from your question is that you are looking for solutions
regarding swf-to-swf communication. The following post by super
Jesse gives you a good big picture on swf-to-swf communication
options. If Jesse's post addresses your request, you can research
in the Flex 2 documentation the topics that he raises. Here is the
link to Jesse's post:
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/12/integrating_a_f.html
Since you also asked or any other way?? ... If you are interested
in options regarding swf-to-outside world communication, the
following link highlights options:
http://adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?
forumid=60catid=585threadid=1233665
Please post back as you have further questions :-)
hth,
g
On 1/23/07, mazarflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can anyone tell me how to pass a parameter in flex to a swf in a
swfloader--or any other way?? say on my swf there is a label
(Label1)
should it be something like this or am i was off...
mx:SWFLoader id=Swf1 source=CompLabel.swf?this.Label1.text='H/
W!' width=668 height=357 x=22 y=10 autoLoad=true/
OR maybe call a function...
flash code...
function traceMe(yourMessage:String):Void {
trace(yourMessage);
}
flex...mx:SWFLoader id=Swf1 source=CompLabel.swf? traceMe
(Hello World!);
width=668 height=357 x=22 y=10 autoLoad=true/
thanks so much i am new to flex but you guys are helping me learn
super fast. thanks a bunch!!
Re: [flexcoders] Need ur help
What is 10.21.160.125:1935? Is that a Flash Media Server?
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:48 AM, sekar r wrote:
Dear Friends,
i am getting this error on runtime. [NetConnection object must be
connected.].
i have attached image file for error.
plz help me for this.
this my mxml. file.
?xml version=1.0?
!-- controls\videodisplay\VideoDisplayCamera.mxml --
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
mx:Script
![CDATA[
// Define a variable of type Camera.
import flash.media.Camera;
public var cam:Camera;
[Bindable] private var con:NetConnection;
public var ns:NetStream;
private function initCamera():void {
con = new NetConnection();
con.objectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
//if(!con.connected)
con.connect(rtmp://10.21.160.125:1935/liveApp);
//else
//con.close();
var ns:NetStream=new NetStream(con);
// Initialize the variable.
cam = Camera.getCamera();
myVid.attachCamera(cam)
ns.attachCamera(cam);
ns.publish(dhina,live);
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:VideoDisplay id=myVid
width=320 height=240
creationComplete=initCamera();/
/mx:Application
waiting for ur valuable reply
thanks in advance
sekar.
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Re: [flexcoders] Need ur help
No, that's good!
The problem is that you cannot pass a NetConnection to a NetStream
that is not yet connection. NetStream needs to have the
NetConnection that is passed to it be connected.
You need to add an event listener to NetConnection, wait for onStatus
to fire with NetConnection.Connect.Success, THEN create the
NetStream. Make sense?
On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:46 AM, sekar r wrote:
Yes this is ipaddress of my flash media server and port.
anything wrong this?
from
sekar
JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is 10.21.160.125:1935? Is that a Flash Media Server?
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:48 AM, sekar r wrote:
Dear Friends,
i am getting this error on runtime. [NetConnection object must be
connected.].
i have attached image file for error.
plz help me for this.
this my mxml. file.
?xml version=1.0?
!-- controls\videodisplay\VideoDisplayCamera.mxml --
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
mx:Script
![CDATA[
// Define a variable of type Camera.
import flash.media.Camera;
public var cam:Camera;
[Bindable] private var con:NetConnection;
public var ns:NetStream;
private function initCamera():void {
con = new NetConnection();
con.objectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
//if(!con.connected)
con.connect(rtmp://10.21.160.125:1935/liveApp);
//else
//con.close();
var ns:NetStream=new NetStream(con);
// Initialize the variable.
cam = Camera.getCamera();
myVid.attachCamera(cam)
ns.attachCamera(cam);
ns.publish(dhina,live);
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:VideoDisplay id=myVid
width=320 height=240
creationComplete=initCamera();/
/mx:Application
waiting for ur valuable reply
thanks in advance
sekar.
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Re: [flexcoders] Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
Components should never know about other components, in this case, a View knowing about another View. They should emit events about their state changing, or some other action being peformed. In the case of a LoginForm, a user clicking the submit button. Additionally, while states are really nice to have a comopnent represent different visual states, they shouldn't necessarely assume these states are exposed. They technically are since the currentState function is public, so shouldn't assume others won't set it. It's nicer if you provide a public method to change state internally, but for brevity's sake, let's just assume a parent will set it. Here's the scenario: - user submits signup1.mxml; it emits event - MXML view that is hosting signup1.mxml responds to event, and changes state in child ops_v1.mxml - user clicks cancel in ops_v1.mxml; it emits event - MXML view that is hosting ops_v1.xml responds to event, and changes state in signup1.mxml Rule of thumb: Views handle their own internal workings, and emit events about what happened. Parent can respond how they so choose. Parent in this case being the MXML form that hosts the child (Canvas embedding your signup1.mxml for example). Transitions are the change in one state to another. State being the state tag that has a string ID name in an MXML / AS component. Transition tags have a fromState and toState properties that are the names of the states you wish to transition between. In the case of a Login component that has, say main, loggingIn, error, and success. You want to disable the form fields when the user hits submit, and goes to the loggingIn state. You could easily do this by simply setting all fields enabled property to false. That looks boring, and is quite abrupt to the user. Why not fade + blur while placing a progress bar atop that waits for the server to tell it success or false? You can do this by making a transition tag that starts with the fromState being main and the toState being loggingIn. Whenever your loginform has it's currentState change from main to loggingIn, the transition will be triggered autoatically. Within the transition tag is where you can create animations, changes in form properties, styles, etc. Additionally, if your first attempt at creating a cool effect fails, you can simply delete the transition tag, and all code + states remain intact; transitions are only coupled to state names; that's it. If you don't have transitions, state changes are instaneous. Some people disagree with me, but I highly recommend all View's start with a main state that is the default currentState value so you can easily add more states later; either based off the main state or some other diffrent state. FlexBuilder the IDE is really helpful in starting these for you, although, the state tags are usually put at the top of your MXML and need to be moved lower manually. On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:46 PM, David Terry wrote: Hello, First, let me apologize. I am very, very new to Flex 2 ActionScript 3, and the learning process has been very slow going and painful. I truly do not understand the relationship between components, states, and transitions. I have a main application page (ops_v1.mxml) with 2 custom components - login.mxml and signup1.mxml. I have figured out how to hide and show the components depending on states in the ops_v1.mxml page. But here is where I am completely lost. When someone clicks the register button within the login custom component how do I change the state on the ops_v1.mxml page? Conversely… How do I change back to the login state when someone clicks the cancel button on the register custom component? Next question. After figuring out how to change states; how do you apply a transition between those 2 custom controls? I am guessing I am really transitioning between the states, but I am lost here also. This is a really big problem for me. I have an application I need to make, but I am totally stuck here. The application will have many different custom controls and this is my first big step in understanding how integration between the components will work. Enclosed is the code for each item mentioned above. Thank you for all your help in advance. Best regards, David T. code.zip code.zip
Re: [flexcoders] Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
Technically, I reckon it could either via parent.currentState, or parentDocument.currentState or something... but that's horrible OOP practice. You don't let your children in real life control you; code should be no different. You can use the transition tag in any Flex component that extends UIComponent. All GUI classes of the Flex framework do, thus if your classes extend them, you can too. For examples of state usage, which unfortunately is very verbose, go here: http://www.jessewarden.com/flex/flash_flex/source/srcview/ And look for com.jxl.downloads.views.DownloadsPanel.mxml I'm sure there are way more simpler examles on the interweb from poeple on this list. On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:49 PM, David Terry wrote: Wow! Remember I said I was a beginner. I'm sure this is great information JesterXL, but it is WAY over my head for now. So, a custom component on the 'parent' can not change the 'parent state'? You can not transition between custom components? How would I code this? ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:06 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Please Help - Components, States, Transitions Components should never know about other components, in this case, a View knowing about another View. They should emit events about their state changing, or some other action being peformed. In the case of a LoginForm, a user clicking the submit button. Additionally, while states are really nice to have a comopnent represent different visual states, they shouldn't necessarely assume these states are exposed. They technically are since the currentState function is public, so shouldn't assume others won't set it. It's nicer if you provide a public method to change state internally, but for brevity's sake, let's just assume a parent will set it. Here's the scenario: - user submits signup1.mxml; it emits event - MXML view that is hosting signup1.mxml responds to event, and changes state in child ops_v1.mxml - user clicks cancel in ops_v1.mxml; it emits event - MXML view that is hosting ops_v1.xml responds to event, and changes state in signup1.mxml Rule of thumb: Views handle their own internal workings, and emit events about what happened. Parent can respond how they so choose. Parent in this case being the MXML form that hosts the child (Canvas embedding your signup1.mxml for example). Transitions are the change in one state to another. State being the state tag that has a string ID name in an MXML / AS component. Transition tags have a fromState and toState properties that are the names of the states you wish to transition between. In the case of a Login component that has, say main, loggingIn, error, and success. You want to disable the form fields when the user hits submit, and goes to the loggingIn state. You could easily do this by simply setting all fields enabled property to false. That looks boring, and is quite abrupt to the user. Why not fade + blur while placing a progress bar atop that waits for the server to tell it success or false? You can do this by making a transition tag that starts with the fromState being main and the toState being loggingIn. Whenever your loginform has it's currentState change from main to loggingIn, the transition will be triggered autoatically. Within the transition tag is where you can create animations, changes in form properties, styles, etc. Additionally, if your first attempt at creating a cool effect fails, you can simply delete the transition tag, and all code + states remain intact; transitions are only coupled to state names; that's it. If you don't have transitions, state changes are instaneous. Some people disagree with me, but I highly recommend all View's start with a main state that is the default currentState value so you can easily add more states later; either based off the main state or some other diffrent state. FlexBuilder the IDE is really helpful in starting these for you, although, the state tags are usually put at the top of your MXML and need to be moved lower manually. On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:46 PM, David Terry wrote: Hello, First, let me apologize. I am very, very new to Flex 2 ActionScript 3, and the learning process has been very slow going and painful. I truly do not understand the relationship between components, states, and transitions. I have a main application page (ops_v1.mxml) with 2 custom components - login.mxml and signup1.mxml. I have figured out how to hide and show the components depending on states in the ops_v1.mxml page. But here is where I am completely lost. When someone clicks the register button within the login custom component how do I change the state on the ops_v1.mxml page? Conversely… How do I change back to the login state
Re: [flexcoders] YouTube and LocalConnection
Make: - Proxy.swf that loads the YouTube SWF's and interacts with them in Flash 8 - A class that talks to Proxy.swf via LocalConnection While you don't have access to SWF's lower than 9, you can make your own SWF that DOES have a LocalConnection to talk to. You then use this SWF as your middle-man to YouTube.swf's. Just because you don't have access to the knowledge of knowing Japanese doesn't mean you can't use your friend who does know it to hit on the hottie-mo-hottie from Japan at the bar. You dig? On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote: Hi All, I'm loading YouTube videos in my application using SWFLoader (I don't want to grab the FLV directly so I have to use SWF). The problem is that while the video plays, when I unload the SWF, the sound keeps playing. Calling AS3 functions like stopAll(); does nothing, so I'm assuming I need to call stopAllSounds(); directly on the YouTube SWF. In researching, I know I can use LocalConnection to talk to VM2 SWFs, but all of the examples I've seen are ones in which I would have access to the code in the VM2 SWF, which I don't. I'm not sure I totally understand how LocalConnection works, so I may be missing something, but I thought I'd ping the list and see if anyone could point me in the right direction. I'm also not a huge fan of using External interface, so that's my last resort right now. Thanks in advance, =Ryan
Re: [flexcoders] Using Flash For Authoring Flex 2 Content -- A Definitive Guide?
I know it's my blog, but this particular entry wasn't cited here, so just in case: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/12/integrating_a_f.html On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Russell Sprague wrote: Greg, you are right, there doesn't seem to be much about using Flash and Flex together. I read a lot of Flex/Flash blogs, and Jesse's post was the first I had seen of any crossover. I personally like to have my How Tos spoon fed to me, and coming from a Designer gone Programmer background, it would be nice to see more Flash style development for Flex. I know they are to different products, but I personally can't wait for Flash 9's release, The Flex docs are a little to programmer oriented for my taste.. Russ greg h wrote: Thank you Jesse Warden: Flash 9 Button in Flex 2 http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/08/flash_9_button.html Now I know how grateful Flash developers were when Colin Moock first published ADG (ActionScript: The Definitive Guide). This morning I started reading the post by Jesse's that I have linked to above. Wow! Jesse's post has one thing after another that I have not seen in any other source. And it leaves me wondering, Jesse, where did you get all this from? If this was substantially all from just doin' it and doping it out, thank you. But regardless, thank you for posting the link above (and so many others). Two questions for this list: 1) Can anyone provide other links to blog posts, articles, etc that detail how to use Flash for authoring Flex 2 content? And I mean Flash authoring content that integrates with Flex 2 content (i.e. AS3, not relying on LocalConnection or ExternalInterface) (And sources other than Jesse's blog ;-) I know there was the following thread here on FlexCoders: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/55461 2) But more important, links into Adobe.com (including Livedocs)? This second question is my real question. The Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview has been public for over 6 months. And there have been demos of Flash CS3 for months. But so far I do not see anyone from Adobe focusing on Flash Authoring for Flex 2 using AS3. I am not saying that it is not there, just that I am not seeing it. And I keep my eyes open for it all the time. The scariest thing for me, is that Flash CS3 is looking like it will integrate better with Illustrator than with Flex 2. Please excuse me if I seem like I am asking for clearly documented workflows and processes. But both Flash and Flex 2 are: a) commercial products; b) owned by Adobe; c) do integrate. Yes, I would like the How Tos handed to me on a silver platter. In Adobe docs. On Devnet. etc. Thanks, g
Re: [flexcoders] New Component Released - Animated Gif Loader
OMFG, are you kidding me!?!?!?! http://www.ytmnd.com Its a blast! Make sure to hit the Hall of Fame first; lot less confusing that way. On Jan 19, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Brendan Meutzner wrote: Sorry, but I've gotta ask but what the heck are people still using animated GIFs for? I kinda thought it was so yesterday...? You know, the waving flag, the (sorry Doug... I saw your demo) rotating earth, etc... Brendan On 1/18/07, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I musta read like 3 C classes that convert GIF's to SWF's only to realize I'd have to take years to learn C JUST to get Flash Player to support this in converting the C to AS3... and now you've coded it, HOT!!! On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:20 PM, dougmccune wrote: [I apologize if this is a double post, had a timeout when I first tried posting.] I just released a new commercial component for Flex that loads and plays animated GIFs. This has been brought up a few times here on flexcoders and flexcomponents. Now there's no need to hack together some weird IFrame solution, or figure out how to do the server-side conversion of all your GIFs. You can try the demo version for free and the commercial version is $50. Here's the description I posted on Flex Exchange: The AnimatedGifLoader loads and plays animated GIF files. This component adds support for animated GIFs, a feature that has been lacking from Flex. This works just like the SWFLoader component from the Flex Framework. Use it inline in your MXML code or by using Actionscript. This component supports everything the SWFLoader component does, with a few additions. New methods: play(), pause() New properties: autoPlay, playing, currentFrame, delay Test it out with your own animated GIFs to see how it works by clicking on the sample URL. I've written up the full details on my blog. There are some examples and you can even test out any GIF you want by uploading it and seeing it loaded by the component instantly: http://dougmccune.com/blog/ 2007/01/17/animatedgifloader/ Here's the Flex Exchange posting: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/ exchange/index.cfm? view=sn610#view=sn611viewName=Flex%20Extension loc=en_usauthorid=61303741page=0scrollPos=0subcatid=0snid=sn611 i temnumber=0extid=1103970catid=0 Feedback is always appreciated! Thanks, Doug McCune
Re: [flexcoders] New Component Released - Animated Gif Loader
I musta read like 3 C classes that convert GIF's to SWF's only to realize I'd have to take years to learn C JUST to get Flash Player to support this in converting the C to AS3... and now you've coded it, HOT!!! On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:20 PM, dougmccune wrote: [I apologize if this is a double post, had a timeout when I first tried posting.] I just released a new commercial component for Flex that loads and plays animated GIFs. This has been brought up a few times here on flexcoders and flexcomponents. Now there's no need to hack together some weird IFrame solution, or figure out how to do the server-side conversion of all your GIFs. You can try the demo version for free and the commercial version is $50. Here's the description I posted on Flex Exchange: The AnimatedGifLoader loads and plays animated GIF files. This component adds support for animated GIFs, a feature that has been lacking from Flex. This works just like the SWFLoader component from the Flex Framework. Use it inline in your MXML code or by using Actionscript. This component supports everything the SWFLoader component does, with a few additions. New methods: play(), pause() New properties: autoPlay, playing, currentFrame, delay Test it out with your own animated GIFs to see how it works by clicking on the sample URL. I've written up the full details on my blog. There are some examples and you can even test out any GIF you want by uploading it and seeing it loaded by the component instantly: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/01/17/animatedgifloader/ Here's the Flex Exchange posting: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm? view=sn610#view=sn611viewName=Flex% 20Extensionloc=en_usauthorid=61303741page=0scrollPos=0subcatid=0sn id=sn611itemnumber=0extid=1103970catid=0 Feedback is always appreciated! Thanks, Doug McCune
Re: [flexcoders] pass vars to AVM1Movie
JavaScript out the values via ExternalInterface, and have JavaScript send in the value to the AVM1Movie (assuming Flash 8 which also supports ExternalInterface). On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: Hey, I'm loading AVM1 swfs into my flex app via SWFLoader. I want to be able to pass in a unique connection id from flex to flash to use for my localconnection. Any solutions? Bjorn
Re: [flexcoders] movie clip/sprite instances and items in repeaters
Answering your last question first. MovieClips and Sprites are not allowed willy nilly in Flex. The Flex framework allows UIComponents only. If you control the UIComponent, you are welcome to put what you want in it. Otherwise, you'll get an exception if you try to put a Sprite or MovieClip inside a Canvas for example. So, you don't access MovieClip's and sprites that are in MXML. AS3 allows only certain access to certain things; this isn't the benevolent AS2 / AS1 of yore that had no rules. The Image class extends SWFLoader, and SWFLoader does some nice abstraction of stuff that's loaded in it. So, image.content could be: - a loader - an internal class - a loaded asset (SWF, JPG, etc.) If it's a Loader, you'd go: image.content.content, and cast that to what it is; in your case, I think Bitmap. The only time Image.content isn't a loader is if you pass it a class name (usually). On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote: Been trying to post this all day, but no luck. How do I access the sprite/movieClip instance (not sure which it is, since this is in the image class) of an image loaded into image tag and then pass that to an actionscript method? Basically, I have a repeater that loads dynamic images (based on XML data) into an mx:Image tag. That works fine. I also have a Reflection class (currently porting it from AS 2.0 to 3.0) which applys a reflection effect to a movie clip's bitmap data, which also works fine in plain old Flash. However in Flex, I know how to import the class, but not how to tie the rendering of the different dynamic images in my MXML with the Reflection class. I read the help docs on mx.controls.image, and it seems like the image might be loaded into a sprite instance, but how to I send that sprite instance to my actionscript method right after the image loads? Any ideas? Also, in general, how to do you access sprites or movie clips on the stage created with MXML from Actionscript? Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
Re: [flexcoders] pass vars to AVM1Movie
1. code your SWF's in Flash 9 using AS3; these problems disappear. 2. If it's a number, simply have your SWF register for a Stage.onResize, and have Flex set the width of the SWF. The width can be the number. Naturally, this is a SWFInt (just made that up) so it can only be between -2880 and 2880 in size, hehe. Maybe bigger but that's technically illegal. There were a ton of blog entries on this subject, and most rave about LocalConnection and JavaScript. Both solutions suck, but not much you can really do about it. If both are from the same domain... maybe... 3. write to a local SharedObject, have other SWF poll it... :: shrugs :: On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: Jxl, Is there any other way without round tripping through the browser? I have multiple swfs loaded in my flex app simultaneously, can i pass the param to a specific swf via externalInterface? Regards, Bjorn On 18/01/2007, at 4:08 PM, JesterXL wrote: JavaScript out the values via ExternalInterface, and have JavaScript send in the value to the AVM1Movie (assuming Flash 8 which also supports ExternalInterface). On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Bjorn Schultheiss wrote: Hey, I'm loading AVM1 swfs into my flex app via SWFLoader. I want to be able to pass in a unique connection id from flex to flash to use for my localconnection. Any solutions? Bjorn
Re: [flexcoders] Scrollbars
If maxVerticalPosition 1? Guessing, can't confirm currently. - Original Message - From: chrislee943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:54 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Scrollbars Hi all, Is there any solutions to determine if scrollbar showing at the component or not? Thanks, With best regards Dmitry -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simple way to do Please wait... type window
This is easier in 2. You just make a state
that either disables the button in question via a SetPropertyAction or simply
removes it and replaces it with a label of "Please wait...".
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window
I'm liking Jesse 'JW' Wardens's suggestion. (If you had a
dollar for everyone that noticed that, eh?) But I've been playing with
this. I set a bool flag in my model called inProgress. When a
command runs its execute() method, I set inProgress = true. in the
onresult() and onfault() I set inProgress = false. Now anywhere I have say
a button I don't want the user to click I use enabled="{
!pathtomaodel.inProgress }" OR in the event handler for a button I usea
conditional around inProgress. Why do we need such a beast?
Something I ran into with a app I built in 1.5. user mashes save.
Events fire and server side code is called, yeehaw. User then mashes save
again BEFORE the above save event is complete. This can really fubar up
stuff. Also note, many web users actually double click buttons in a web
interface still. DK
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what we use 100% of the time; that's the default cursor that still
allows you to click around. Is there a way to make the busy cursor
modal so that the user can'tuse it to click
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Re: [flexcoders] PopUp from within a class
Don't create the class. The PopUpManager creates it for you. var tw = PopUpManager.createPopUp ( Application.application as DisplayObject, TitleWindow, true); var txt:Label = new Label(); txt.text = "This is a test."; tw.addChild(txt); - Original Message - From: Doug Arthur To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] PopUp from within a class Yes, I've dealt with PopUp's plenty of times, but the problem is while I'm within a class object, it will not let me reference the document. I've tried using "this", and it does not work. this.parent is null. The only thing I've found to work now is the following: var tw:TitleWindow = new TitleWindow();tw.title = 'Test Window...';var txt:Label = new Label();txt.text = 'THIS IS A TEST';tw.addChild(txt);PopUpManager.addPopUp(tw, Application.application as DisplayObject, true); I'm not sure if there is any other way though...? Thanks! On 7/31/06, Martina Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Doug, You can make use of PopupManager Class to create a popup dynamically. Regards, Martina Doug Arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to create a popup from within a class? I can't seem to reference anything of typeDisplayObject such as .parent and so on... I've even tried instantiating SystemManager.getSWFRoot(this), and other things with SystemManager... Nothing is working. Any ideas? Thanks! Here's a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Announcing SeeFusion 4!
I'm not a server geek, but "The Live Demo previously ran under a constant load for 72 consecutive days, during which time SeeFusion processed 833,294,343 queries and 6,265,371 requests." sounds bad ass. - Original Message - From: Shannon Hicks To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:37 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Announcing SeeFusion 4! Hey everyone, I'll keep the plug short sweet. We've released SeeFusion 4. The #1 improvement is the new Flex 2 interface, so go have a look. http://www.seefusion.com/ For those that don't know what SeeFusion does, it basically allows you to monitor what's going on inyour ColdFusion Server (or any J2EE server, for that matter)in real-time. Very handy for performance tuning and troubleshooting. It does so much more, but I'll let y'all just go to the site if you're interested. Shan --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/404 - Release Date: 7/31/2006 __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] More embedded font fun...
Are you sure the font is 8 point? What happens if you don't set the font size? What happens if you set it to 7/9/10/11/12/14? - Original Message - From: Shannon Hicks To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:55 PM Subject: [flexcoders] More embedded font fun... I'm trying to usepixel fonts with flex 2, but keep getting strange results... See this URL: http://flex.work.iotashan.com/flexmousery/flexMousery.html Log in, click on the Pedigree tab. It's obvious which fonts are supposed tobe the embedded ones. You can right-click to view source, and tell me what I'm doing wrong. The file in question would be /flexComponents/pedigreeCellSmall.mxml Shan --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/404 - Release Date: 7/31/2006 __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] I need a ColorPicker dataGrid Renderer
http://kss.korax.ru/flex/cp/index.html - Original Message - From: John Buhl To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:02 PM Subject: [flexcoders] I need a ColorPicker dataGrid Renderer Hello, I'm looking for a colorPicker renderer for a dataGrid. Has anyone successfully built one of these you could share? THanks John __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Embedded Fonts Cause Issue with DataGrid Headers
Of course; Arial and/or Verdana can be measured reasonably so at a specific size. If I were in a hurry to get some technical data thing to work, the last thing I'd worry about is supporting Papyrus at 36 point size There are already significant challenges measuring fonts to includ them in sizing, and to do so efficiently, ecspecially with something as text intensive as the DataGrid. That said, you first. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Embedded Fonts Cause Issue with DataGrid Headers Hey Jesse,I'll try to build up my stamina to have a look tonight again... however, does the fact that it only affects a particular font size make any sense? Then again, I guess the issue doesn't make sense from the start... Brendan On 7/30/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Betcha' the measure function is having issues measure the embedded font. Are you using FlashType or just the regular way? If you're feeling brave, go look in DataGrid.as, and tell us if anything looks like its measuring text. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:29 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Embedded Fonts Cause Issue with DataGrid Headers Just wanted to see if the Adobe folks were aware of the issue with Embedded fonts and DataGrids... there was an earlier post on this as well, but nobody clarified if this was a known bug:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/44067;_ylc=X3oDMTM3Y3BlaHMwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTYwMDAwNzIwNwRtc2dJZAM0NDA2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzExNTM0MTA3MTUEdHBjSWQDNDQwNjc-Sure enough, changing the font size to anything but 12pt solved the issue, and I also found that setting the headerStyleName seperate from the row styles in the DataGrid (we're using itemRenderers, and setting the Label font styleName inside) worked to fix the problem as well... it seems to only affect the datagrid if nesting the DataGrid instance inside another component which has the style applied. Thoughts?Brendan __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Image Loading causes Flash slowness and high cpu utilization
How are you loading it? Got some example code? - Original Message - From: Eric Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:02 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Image Loading causes Flash slowness and high cpu utilization We have a Flex application which loads many copies of an image on the fly. In some situations the image loading seems to cause Flash to slow down (and use more CPU). The slowdown stays with Flash beyond the loading of the image. We can wait a hour and the load is still high. And each time this happens the player gets a little bit slower and never improves until the browser is restarted. This does not appear to be a memory utilization issue. One hypothesis is that there is some type of background element (a layer on the timeline) which is responsible for loading the image, and somehow this gets hung up and doesn't get cleaned up. Get enough of these and the load goes up. Does this ring a bell with anyone. Is this a known problem? It may be related to other events happening at the same time (e.g., moving the image before it is loaded, or loading a new image before the old one is loaded). The longer it takes to load the image (e.g., local web server versus remote), the more likely the problem. This is with Flex 1.5. This affects all versions of flash on all platforms we have tested. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simple way to do Please wait... type window
One way I did it was making a Singleton class that popups up a small TitleWindow. This TitleWindow has a ProgressBar in it. The ProgressBar's indeterminate is bound to the visibility (you don't want it playing while the window is invisible; takes up resources). You can then do: WaitWindow.showProgress(Loading...); Inside, it'll create a popup if none exists, and put the text in there. It's modal by default. You can then later go: WaitWindow.remove(); And if one exists, it'll remove it. Subsequent calls to showProgress merely update the text. You can use this for changed commands. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to do this in Flex? (quick help needed, please!!!)
Anything is possible at Zombo.com. Yes, I actually did this in the past and ran into some serious security sandbox issues. Flex can load other Flex apps into it. The Flash Player has the capability to load multiple SWF's into their own security sandbox domains; some are open, others are restricted. If I were to do it again, I'd get something ELSE to get my SWF, like an EXE to open an HTTP connection, download the latest SWF, then load it up, maybe in it's own EXE shell. Apollo, Adobe's endeavor to make occasionally connected applications work offline, would help this. For now, I'd highly suggest NOT using the Loader unless you can confirm your prototype application works fine when it's being loaded into another Flex app. Zinc 2.5 is currently the only 3rd party projector maker I know of capable providing extra help in this area. - Original Message - From: Larry Liang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:00 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Is it possible to do this in Flex? (quick help needed, please!!!) Hi All, My company is currently evaluating the possibility of using flex as a very large project development tool. I've got a question from my boss. Please help me. Can we develop an application that runs on desktop(can be inside the standalong flash player). When the app first starts, it downloads all the sub components/movies needed onto local hard disk and then runs from there. After the first time, every time the app starts, it will automatically check the latest version of the components/movies on the server, and if there is a newer version, it downloads the newer one and replace the old one on local machine. I think what I need basically is somthing like what Goowy desktop version does. If it's possible, could you please give me some idea on how to do it. Thanks, Larry -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simple way to do Please wait... type window
Depends. The spinning watch is what we use 100% of the time; that's the default cursor that still allows you to click around. However, for some interfaces where you DON'T want the user to click anything and need to force them to wait, modality works great; it's why they gave us modality, for those use cases. Besides, it's 1 line of code: WaitWindow.showProgress(Loading..., false); Both Flex 1.5 Flex 2 have their PopUpManager's createPopUp method default to false for modality. Flex 1.5 actually came with a cursor you could use that was the cursor + hourglass. I always wished they made that the default cursor because the majority of the time, most of the HTTPService / RemoteObject calls were quick one shots that still allowed the user to click around, and this a cursor was an appropriate thing to show. - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simple way to do Please wait... type window - Original Message - From: JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simple way to do Please wait... type window One way I did it was making a Singleton class that popups up a small TitleWindow. This TitleWindow has a ProgressBar in it. The ProgressBar's indeterminate is bound to the visibility (you don't want it playing while the window is invisible; takes up resources). You can then do: WaitWindow.showProgress(Loading...); Inside, it'll create a popup if none exists, and put the text in there. It's modal by default. You can then later go: WaitWindow.remove(); And if one exists, it'll remove it. Subsequent calls to showProgress merely update the text. You can use this for changed commands. Are modal windows really a good way to go with this? It seems to me to be a step backward when you are stopping the user from doing anything whilst data is loading. What happens if the load is particularly slow, fails, or was accidentally initiated and the user changes their mind? Seems to me that modal progress windows just go completely against the idea of an asynchronous event driven architecture. Paul -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] PopUp from within a class
import mx.managers.PopUpManager; PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, MyWindow, false); ??? - Original Message - From: Doug Arthur To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:21 PM Subject: [flexcoders] PopUp from within a class Does anyone know how to create a popup from within a class? I can't seem to reference anything of typeDisplayObject such as .parent and so on... I've even tried instantiating SystemManager.getSWFRoot(this), and other things with SystemManager... Nothing is working. Any ideas? Thanks! __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Re: php and flex
You'll need XMLSocket. PHP can do it. http://www.enobrev.com/chat_tutorial.php - Original Message - From: arnold_charming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 5:00 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: php and flex --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Schmalhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, arnold_charming arnold_charming@ wrote: Can I also push data? Because till now I was justing using pull mechanism. AMFPHP works in both directions. Please take a look at the AMFPHP documentation for details: http://www.amfphp.org/docs/ Stefan I've looked and looked but can't seem to find anything about data push. I'm going to use data push in application because time to time my application will send some messages to all current users of application. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup Windows
I stand corrected. A purist would argue that
you should figure out why the row heights aren't working, but I'm with you; if
it works, and gets done quickly, who cares?
- Original Message -
From: Douglas
Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup
Windows
intersting to read this. we are working on a datagrid that
has complex data, two text fields, in one column. We used a custom
itemEditor with a RTE in it. Nice, right? nope, sucked. Can't quite
seem to get the row height to expand contract as needed. So, we went with
a modal popup. DK
On 7/27/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Popups
were really valuble in Flex 1.5.Most didn't know about the depth
scoping capabilites in Flash Player, nor needed to
care.Popups workedgreat for putting stuff "above everything"
and making it modal. Nowadays, with states and the DisplayList, the
only valid reason I can seeis modality.Thus, I'd avoid 'em like
the plague unless you can answer yes to thefollowing question: "Does the
form need to be modal?". - Original Message -From:
"Stefan Schmalhaus" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:37 AMSubject: [flexcoders]
Cairngorm: Managing Popup WindowsI've done some research on this
list but haven't found any validinformation on what's considered best
pratice in dealing with popup windows. The few Cairngorm sample apps that
are around don't seem touse the TitleWindow component at all.Let's
say I have a simple DataGrid populated with some user data. If Iclick on a
row in the DataGrid a popup window opens with a form for editing the user
information. The popup window also has two buttonsfor deleting or saving
(updating) the user account.I have done stuff like this several times
in Flash/AS2 but I've neverused a framework approach so far. Now, if I
look at this rather simple task from a Cairngorm perspective it doesn't
seem to be that simpleany more. (But I guess that's because I'm not yet
too familiar withCairngorm.) I know how to establish databinding between
the dataprovider and { model.users} and all this basic Cairngorm
stuff.But what happens when a row is clicked? I'm not even sure if
I'msupposed to treat this event as a single event ("selectUser"
or"openPopup"?) or as a chain of two events ("selectUser" -
"openPopup"). Since my user information is organized as an array
ofvalue objects it's easy to assign the selected user VO
tomodel.selectedUser:model.selectedUser =
UserVO(userList.selectedItem );But am I "allowed" to directly access
the ModelLocator from my viewcomponent? Or am I supposed to route this
simple action through theCairngorm "command chain" (Cairngorm Event -
Front Controller - Command Class - ModelLocator)?Next
question, what about the popup itself? Can I simply
usePopUpManager.createPopUp( this, UserFormView , true)? Or am I
supposedto treat this as a Cairngorm Event, too? I feel in "safe
Cairngorm terrain" again with the "updateUser" and"deleteUser" actions on
the buttons. But what about closing the popupwindow? Is this even worth a
Cairngorm event? I guess these questions sound rather stupid to those
of you who aremore experienced with frameworks. But at the moment these
questionsare obstacles on my way to master Cairngorm (which I will
hopefully doone day). I apologize for my verbose post and my bad English,
but Ihope that someone can shed some light on these
issues.Stefan--Flexcoders
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Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup Windows
...hey, wait a minute, I still win! You're
RTE DOES need to be modal. *whew*
http://youbeat2trees.ytmnd.com/
- Original Message -
From: JesterXL
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup
Windows
I stand corrected. A purist would argue that
you should figure out why the row heights aren't working, but I'm with you; if
it works, and gets done quickly, who cares?
- Original Message -
From: Douglas
Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup
Windows
intersting to read this. we are working on a datagrid that
has complex data, two text fields, in one column. We used a custom
itemEditor with a RTE in it. Nice, right? nope, sucked. Can't quite
seem to get the row height to expand contract as needed. So, we went with
a modal popup. DK
On 7/27/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Popups
were really valuble in Flex 1.5.Most didn't know about the depth
scoping capabilites in Flash Player, nor needed to
care.Popups workedgreat for putting stuff "above everything"
and making it modal. Nowadays, with states and the DisplayList, the
only valid reason I can seeis modality.Thus, I'd avoid 'em like
the plague unless you can answer yes to thefollowing question: "Does the
form need to be modal?". - Original Message -From:
"Stefan Schmalhaus" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:37 AMSubject: [flexcoders]
Cairngorm: Managing Popup WindowsI've done some research on this
list but haven't found any validinformation on what's considered best
pratice in dealing with popup windows. The few Cairngorm sample apps that
are around don't seem touse the TitleWindow component at all.Let's
say I have a simple DataGrid populated with some user data. If Iclick on a
row in the DataGrid a popup window opens with a form for editing the user
information. The popup window also has two buttonsfor deleting or saving
(updating) the user account.I have done stuff like this several times
in Flash/AS2 but I've neverused a framework approach so far. Now, if I
look at this rather simple task from a Cairngorm perspective it doesn't
seem to be that simpleany more. (But I guess that's because I'm not yet
too familiar withCairngorm.) I know how to establish databinding between
the dataprovider and { model.users} and all this basic Cairngorm
stuff.But what happens when a row is clicked? I'm not even sure if
I'msupposed to treat this event as a single event ("selectUser"
or"openPopup"?) or as a chain of two events ("selectUser" -
"openPopup"). Since my user information is organized as an array
ofvalue objects it's easy to assign the selected user VO
tomodel.selectedUser:model.selectedUser =
UserVO(userList.selectedItem );But am I "allowed" to directly access
the ModelLocator from my viewcomponent? Or am I supposed to route this
simple action through theCairngorm "command chain" (Cairngorm Event -
Front Controller - Command Class - ModelLocator)?Next
question, what about the popup itself? Can I simply
usePopUpManager.createPopUp( this, UserFormView , true)? Or am I
supposedto treat this as a Cairngorm Event, too? I feel in "safe
Cairngorm terrain" again with the "updateUser" and"deleteUser" actions on
the buttons. But what about closing the popupwindow? Is this even worth a
Cairngorm event? I guess these questions sound rather stupid to those
of you who aremore experienced with frameworks. But at the moment these
questionsare obstacles on my way to master Cairngorm (which I will
hopefully doone day). I apologize for my verbose post and my bad English,
but Ihope that someone can shed some light on these
issues.Stefan--Flexcoders
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Re: [flexcoders] mysql amfphp array parsing
Maybe labelName for the ComboBox set to teamname?
- Original Message -
From: Impudent1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:36 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] mysql amfphp array parsing
ok I seem to be having a total mindlock on this...
I have amfphp running some functions to connect to a mysql database. I
have the login logic all working and was starting to link the interface
up. Firstly being a combobox populate.
So with my function returning an array of: 0- id 2
teamname blah
teamlead bla
teamstatus active
0- id 13
teamname sda
teamlead dsadfs
teamstatus active
I have setup the functions in my app for it as:
[Bindable]
public var teams:ArrayCollection;
public function getTeamlist() : void{
gateway = new RemotingConnection(gatewayURL);
gateway.call(MySQL_Login.team_pulldown, new
Responder(onResultGetTeamlist, onFault));
}
public function onResultGetTeamlist( result:Array ) : void{
teams = new ArrayCollection( result );
}
public function onFault ( fault:String ) : void{
trace( fault );
}
then set my new states canvas to :
mx:Canvas label=Users width=100% height=100%
initialize=getTeamlist()
now, if I hardcode the combobox to be:
mx:ComboBox x=91 y=70 id=userTeamDropdown
dataProvider={teams.getItemAt(2).teamname}/mx:ComboBox
it will load up the page on proper login and populate the combo box with
the single teamname.
This is where I am getting stuck. Is there a simple way for me to just
get the arraycollection to just pull the teamnames from the amfphp
result and populate the combo box??
I know I am missing something both simple and obvious here so tia for
any ideas :)
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Re: [flexcoders] Embedded Fonts Cause Issue with DataGrid Headers
Betcha' the measure function is having issues measure the embedded font. Are you using FlashType or just the regular way? If you're feeling brave, go look in DataGrid.as, and tell us if anything looks like its measuring text. - Original Message - From: Brendan Meutzner To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:29 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Embedded Fonts Cause Issue with DataGrid Headers Just wanted to see if the Adobe folks were aware of the issue with Embedded fonts and DataGrids... there was an earlier post on this as well, but nobody clarified if this was a known bug:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/44067;_ylc=X3oDMTM3Y3BlaHMwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzEyMjg2MTY3BGdycHNwSWQDMTYwMDAwNzIwNwRtc2dJZAM0NDA2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzExNTM0MTA3MTUEdHBjSWQDNDQwNjc-Sure enough, changing the font size to anything but 12pt solved the issue, and I also found that setting the headerStyleName seperate from the row styles in the DataGrid (we're using itemRenderers, and setting the Label font styleName inside) worked to fix the problem as well... it seems to only affect the datagrid if nesting the DataGrid instance inside another component which has the style applied. Thoughts?Brendan __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Are the contents of a WSDL document accessible?
Assuming the WSDL is on the same domain so that your SWF has permission (or you're using a proxy), hell yeah, she's fair game bro. You can use the old skool XML or E4X via a URLLoader. - Original Message - From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:36 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Are the contents of a WSDL document accessible? Title pretty much sums it up. Is there any way to access and work with the actual XML contained in the WSDL document? Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList Bug Flex Final... pretty serious.
Hah! Guru... yeah right... He's right, though, sufibaba, if could post your itemRenderer, that might help us identify what TileList's problem is with it. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList Bug Flex Final... pretty serious. You may need to override the setters and getters in your renderer. At least I have had to in teh past for this sort of thing. I'd post some code so some guru, or heavy coffee and red bull drinker, can maybe suggest something, eh? DK On 7/28/06, sufibaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I am using a custom renderer.-thanks--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Douglas Knudsen"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you using a custom item renderer? DK On 7/25/06, sufibaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ya, I found what seems to be a bug with the TileList Control. When the TileList is resized, not all of the images that are in the TileList are displayed.It seems that when TileList is made smaller, in width and height, the vertical scrollbar will only display some of the images. Has anyone seen this problem.Is there a work around for this bug? Any light cast on this is Greatly appreciated. - Tim -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives:http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it?--Flexcoders Mailing ListFAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txtSearch Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Douglas Knudsenhttp://www.cubicleman.comthis is my signature, like it? __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Command classes that use multiple delegates
Pass in a RelayResponder / Responder instead of the Command. Like, flash.net.Responder, or your own custom class that implements Cairngorm's Responder. Then, have that responder call specified onResult / onFault functions you've defined in your Command. - Original Message - From: jrjazzman23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Command classes that use multiple delegates Hi, In the case of a Command that uses multiple business delegates, what's best practice for an onResult() knowing which remote call it's handling? thanks -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events
Typically, in my Application, I'll put the Controller. The Application can only capture deeply nested events if they bubble, and unless you utilize classpaths as your event names, you run the danger of name collisions for bubbling events in bigger apps. The Controller can only get events from the CairngormEventDispatcher; he no longer supports the built-in EventDispatcher through the normal display list. So, although he does extend UIComponent, he ignores regular events dispatched up to Application. Could you make it work? Sure, but then that's not the latest way Cairngorm works. I don't mind modding Cairngorm, to be sure, just pointing it out. - Original Message - From: Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:26 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:56, JesterXL wrote: Not anymore, no, as he's usually embedded at the top of the tree. I'm not sure what you mean. could utilize ViewLocator I guess, but that is bleh. Indeed. We tend to pass the view into the event instead. -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Repositioning pop up window
popup = PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, YourComp, true); popup.move( 100, 200); - Original Message - From: Robs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:56 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Repositioning pop up window Hi all, Can a popup window created with the createpopup method be repositioned to a desired x,y location. If yes, how? Thanks in advance, Robi. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm)
Put 'em in seperate projects, or sub-projects. Like: com.company.project.admin.* com.company.project.client. Or: com.company.projectadmin.* com.company.projectclient.* You should take advantage of the fact you may be using similiar code; both of the above in the same Flex project allows you to easily do that. - Original Message - From: Stefan Schmalhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:38 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm) I'm going to develop a Flex (Cairngorm-based) intranet application for training resources. There will be a backend part for user and content administration, and there will be a frontend for the end user. Both parts, backend and fronted, will presumably share a lot of the underlying data structure, value objects, views, etc. They will definitely use the same AMFPHP services. What's the best way to tackle this? Should I treat them as two different Flex projects? Or can I develop them within one Flex project but with two different MXML application files? Your ideas and thoughts are very much appreciated. Stefan -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup Windows
Popups were really valuble in Flex 1.5. Most didn't know about the depth
scoping capabilites in Flash Player, nor needed to care. Popups worked
great for putting stuff above everything and making it modal.
Nowadays, with states and the DisplayList, the only valid reason I can see
is modality.
Thus, I'd avoid 'em like the plague unless you can answer yes to the
following question: Does the form need to be modal?.
- Original Message -
From: Stefan Schmalhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:37 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Managing Popup Windows
I've done some research on this list but haven't found any valid
information on what's considered best pratice in dealing with popup
windows. The few Cairngorm sample apps that are around don't seem to
use the TitleWindow component at all.
Let's say I have a simple DataGrid populated with some user data. If I
click on a row in the DataGrid a popup window opens with a form for
editing the user information. The popup window also has two buttons
for deleting or saving (updating) the user account.
I have done stuff like this several times in Flash/AS2 but I've never
used a framework approach so far. Now, if I look at this rather simple
task from a Cairngorm perspective it doesn't seem to be that simple
any more. (But I guess that's because I'm not yet too familiar with
Cairngorm.) I know how to establish databinding between the data
provider and {model.users} and all this basic Cairngorm stuff.
But what happens when a row is clicked? I'm not even sure if I'm
supposed to treat this event as a single event (selectUser or
openPopup?) or as a chain of two events (selectUser -
openPopup). Since my user information is organized as an array of
value objects it's easy to assign the selected user VO to
model.selectedUser:
model.selectedUser = UserVO(userList.selectedItem);
But am I allowed to directly access the ModelLocator from my view
component? Or am I supposed to route this simple action through the
Cairngorm command chain (Cairngorm Event - Front Controller -
Command Class - ModelLocator)?
Next question, what about the popup itself? Can I simply use
PopUpManager.createPopUp( this, UserFormView , true)? Or am I supposed
to treat this as a Cairngorm Event, too?
I feel in safe Cairngorm terrain again with the updateUser and
deleteUser actions on the buttons. But what about closing the popup
window? Is this even worth a Cairngorm event?
I guess these questions sound rather stupid to those of you who are
more experienced with frameworks. But at the moment these questions
are obstacles on my way to master Cairngorm (which I will hopefully do
one day). I apologize for my verbose post and my bad English, but I
hope that someone can shed some light on these issues.
Stefan
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Geez, definately sounds like the GC then, that's harsh. Um... uh... well,
the only thing I can think of beyond doing it dynamically like you said is
to ensure when you remove them that you kill all listeners, delete what you
can, disconnect what you can, etc. BEFORE destroying the SWFLoader.
Good luck.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester, I read the articles and fully understand what you meant...
I load one swf and then try to load a second and even though I've
sent the first swf packing it's still in memory and listening to the
menu.swf's local connection calls because GC hasn't come along and
cleaned it up.
Maybe if I get rid of the SWFLoader completely then try to create a
new one dynamically when the next swf is loaded that would work??
I'll try it.
Yes, the menu.swf is able to control the two main swf's outside of
Flex. If they are all running at the same time, the menu.swf will
control which ever main.swf was started first. Then if i close that
main.swf the other will just start working. That little experiment
just provides more evidence (and helps me get it)...that the first
swf is still there in Flex...
Anyway, Thanks again...if you have any more suggestions...as always
appreciated. I'll keep working at it...
Jenn
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh it's deeper than emptying a source reference. Welcome to the
dark side
of ActionScript 3..
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html
BTW, do your SWF's talk to eachother locally without Flex?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
okay, thanks...that works for loading a swf at runtime if the
SWFLoader has no assigned source. However, if the SWFLoader has an
assigned source and you try to change it during runtime, then LC
doesn't work anymore.
That comes back to your last comment about garbage collection and
the
original swf not being cleaned up before the new one is loaded, i
tried to research what you meant but as far i could tell all I could
do in flex was to set the SWFLoader source to = before loading the
next swf. I could not find any unload methods.
Thanks again for helping.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Try again, but put an underscore in front of the name for both
SWF's.
_swfConnect instead of swfConnect.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester,
I have tried putting the local connection code in the main flex
app
and calling to the embedded SWF and this is the attempt at
creating
a
second embedded swf (menu) to make the calls to the main
SWF...either
way if the swf is loaded at runtime...local connection is a no go.
Thanks
*This is my menu.swf local connection code...
#include mc_tween2.as
stop();
var lcsend:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
play_btn.onRelease = function(){
lcsend.send (swfConnect, playFile);
}
stop_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect, stopandrestart);
}
pause_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect , pauseFile);
}
*And this is the Main.swf local connection code
var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
lc.pauseFile = function() {
stop();
}
lc.resumeFile = function() {
play();
}
lc.stopandrestart = function() {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
lc.playFile = function () {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
lc.getframeNum = function () {
}
lc.connect(swfConnect);
***
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Can you paste a snippet of your LocalConnection code in the
Flash
SWF?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Local Connection
I think I am going to go crazy over this. I have tried this a
few
different ways and always ending with the same result...not
working.
I have 2 swf's loaded in my app with SWFLoader. They use local
connection to talk to each other. If i run app with swfloader
with
no source and then dynamically set the swf source when something
happens in the app, local connection doesn't work. If i load
the
swf
in design the local connection works fine. For example Code 1
doesn't
work, Code 2 does...If you can lend a hand I would REALLY
appreciate
it.
Jenn
Code 1*
?xml version=1.0
Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm)
// Assuming your in your Client Application for example import com.company.project.admin.events.SomeEvent; import com.company.project.client.events.ClientEvent; var e:SomeEvent = new SomeEvent(SomeEvent.EVENT_NAME, false, true); CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(e); You could do the reverse in the admin. As a GUI guy, I probably would care more about sharing commonly used View's and utility classes vs. events and commands that were probably created for their specific projects, but it could be done. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm) curious how to share resources with this, say using Cairngorm. How to share a command that returns data to a modellocator? How to return th edata to the current model locator for a sub app?DK On 7/27/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put 'em in seperate projects, or sub-projects.Like:com.company.project.admin.*com.company.project.client.Or:com.company.projectadmin.*com.company.projectclient.*You should take advantage of the fact you may be using similiar code; both of the above in the same Flex project allows you to easily do that.- Original Message -From: "Stefan Schmalhaus" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:38 AMSubject: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm)I'm going to develop a Flex (Cairngorm-based) intranet application for training resources. There will be a backend part for user and contentadministration, and there will be a frontend for the end user.Both parts, backend and fronted, will presumably share a lot of theunderlying data structure, value objects, views, etc. They will definitely use the same AMFPHP services. What's the best way to tacklethis? Should I treat them as two different Flex projects? Or can Idevelop them within one Flex project but with two different MXMLapplication files? Your ideas and thoughts are very much appreciated.Stefan--Flexcoders Mailing ListFAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links--Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txtSearch Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Douglas Knudsenhttp://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm)
If you use the same ModelLocator, yes. I'd assume, however, each would have their own ModelLocator. Additionally there is no reason you couldn't share the same one. Still, depends on the project, and I usually only have borrewed views between proejcts, not command model stuff. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm) righto on that. Say I have a command GetUserCommand() that returns a userVO for the current user in session. This is returned to the apps modellocator, has stuff like name, etc, in it.so we havecom.company.project.admin.model.AModLoccom.company.project.client.model.CModLocHow does GetUserCommand() stick the userVO result into the proper model? Typically the model is hardcoded in the Command, eh? What I've done so far is used a generic model so to speak in com.company.project.model.GModLoc say. Then the client app and admin app can access it as well as their respective model. DK On 7/27/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: // Assuming your in your Client Application for example import com.company.project.admin.events.SomeEvent; import com.company.project.client.events.ClientEvent; var e:SomeEvent = new SomeEvent(SomeEvent.EVENT_NAME, false, true); CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(e); You could do the reverse in the admin. As a GUI guy, I probably would care more about sharing commonly used View's and utility classes vs. events and commands that were probably created for their specific projects, but it could be done. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm) curious how to share resources with this, say using Cairngorm. How to share a command that returns data to a modellocator? How to return th edata to the current model locator for a sub app?DK On 7/27/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put 'em in seperate projects, or sub-projects.Like:com.company.project.admin.*com.company.project.client.Or:com.company.projectadmin.*com.company.projectclient.*You should take advantage of the fact you may be using similiar code; both of the above in the same Flex project allows you to easily do that.- Original Message -From: "Stefan Schmalhaus" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:38 AMSubject: [flexcoders] Backend/Frontend Application Development (Cairngorm)I'm going to develop a Flex (Cairngorm-based) intranet application for training resources. There will be a backend part for user and contentadministration, and there will be a frontend for the end user.Both parts, backend and fronted, will presumably share a lot of theunderlying data structure, value objects, views, etc. They will definitely use the same AMFPHP services. What's the best way to tacklethis? Should I treat them as two different Flex projects? Or can Idevelop them within one Flex project but with two different MXMLapplication files? Your ideas and thoughts are very much appreciated.Stefan--Flexcoders Mailing ListFAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links--Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/-- Douglas Knudsenhttp://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? -- Douglas Knudsenhttp://www.cubicleman.comthis is my signature, like it? __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection - RESOLVED!
Delete the ho!
after close:
lc = null;
delete lc;
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection - RESOLVED!
Thanks again jesterXL...
Added just a few lines...can't believe i didn't think of this
earlier...it was definitly a light bulb moment...cleans up local
connection...so it can be used by next loaded swf. Had to make
changes to swf's and just wasn't thinking about them.
added - to main flex app every time swfLoader changes it's source...
lc.send (_swfConnect, killAll);
added - to the main.swf's called functions
lc.killAll = function () {
lc.close()
}
okay...what's next...;o)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geez, definately sounds like the GC then, that's harsh. Um...
uh... well,
the only thing I can think of beyond doing it dynamically like you
said is
to ensure when you remove them that you kill all listeners, delete
what you
can, disconnect what you can, etc. BEFORE destroying the SWFLoader.
Good luck.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester, I read the articles and fully understand what you meant...
I load one swf and then try to load a second and even though I've
sent the first swf packing it's still in memory and listening to the
menu.swf's local connection calls because GC hasn't come along and
cleaned it up.
Maybe if I get rid of the SWFLoader completely then try to create a
new one dynamically when the next swf is loaded that would work??
I'll try it.
Yes, the menu.swf is able to control the two main swf's outside of
Flex. If they are all running at the same time, the menu.swf will
control which ever main.swf was started first. Then if i close that
main.swf the other will just start working. That little experiment
just provides more evidence (and helps me get it)...that the first
swf is still there in Flex...
Anyway, Thanks again...if you have any more suggestions...as always
appreciated. I'll keep working at it...
Jenn
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Oh it's deeper than emptying a source reference. Welcome to the
dark side
of ActionScript 3..
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html
BTW, do your SWF's talk to eachother locally without Flex?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
okay, thanks...that works for loading a swf at runtime if the
SWFLoader has no assigned source. However, if the SWFLoader has
an
assigned source and you try to change it during runtime, then LC
doesn't work anymore.
That comes back to your last comment about garbage collection and
the
original swf not being cleaned up before the new one is loaded, i
tried to research what you meant but as far i could tell all I
could
do in flex was to set the SWFLoader source to = before loading
the
next swf. I could not find any unload methods.
Thanks again for helping.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Try again, but put an underscore in front of the name for both
SWF's.
_swfConnect instead of swfConnect.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester,
I have tried putting the local connection code in the main flex
app
and calling to the embedded SWF and this is the attempt at
creating
a
second embedded swf (menu) to make the calls to the main
SWF...either
way if the swf is loaded at runtime...local connection is a no
go.
Thanks
*This is my menu.swf local connection code...
#include mc_tween2.as
stop();
var lcsend:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
play_btn.onRelease = function(){
lcsend.send (swfConnect, playFile);
}
stop_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect, stopandrestart);
}
pause_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect , pauseFile);
}
*And this is the Main.swf local connection code
var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
lc.pauseFile = function() {
stop();
}
lc.resumeFile = function() {
play();
}
lc.stopandrestart = function() {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
lc.playFile = function () {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
lc.getframeNum = function () {
}
lc.connect(swfConnect);
***
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl
Re: [flexcoders] TextLineMetrics anyone?
Out of curiosity, turn on autoSize = left;
- Original Message -
From: jeff tapper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] TextLineMetrics anyone?
Has anyone successfully used TextLineMetrics with multiline text
fields? All my experiments are showing that it always computes
assuming a single, not wrapping line of text. I'm not sure if im
using it wrong (the most likely scenario), if its a documentation
error, or a bug. According to the docs, the TextLineMetrics width
property should be the width of the text within a text field,
however, I'm finding if I have a Text control with a width of 300,
and a few lines of text within it, the width property shows the
width as if it were on one line of text, and the height is
indicating the height of a single line of text.
Here is an example:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=vertical
mx:Style
.bigRed{
font-family:Arial;
font-size:40;
color:#33;
}
/mx:Style
mx:HBox
mx:Button label=Measure click=measureTheText()/
mx:Button label=Style click=doStyle()/
mx:Button label=Clear Style click=clearTheStyle()/
/mx:HBox
mx:TextInput id=enteredText/
mx:Text id=output text={enteredText.text} width=300 /
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
private function measureTheText():void{
var tlm:TextLineMetrics = output.measureText
(enteredText.text);
var h:int = tlm.height;
var w:int = tlm.width;
Alert.show(text is + w.toString() +x+h.toString
());
}
private function doStyle():void{
output.setStyle(styleName,bigRed)
}
private function clearTheStyle():void{
output.clearStyle(styleName);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] cairngorm Events and data payloads
close. Do this, but extend CairngormEvent
like you are doing:
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000191.cfm
- Original Message -
From: Douglas
Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:01 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] cairngorm Events and data payloads
can someone point me to a example of how to pass data in a
cairngorm type event? I'm trying the below withpackage
com.mycompany.events{ import
com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
public class LoadScorecardEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static var EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD: String =
'LoadScorecardEvent'; public var
scorecardId:Number;
/** * The constructor,
*/
public function LoadScorecardEvent( )
{
super( EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD );
}
} }then in a view dispatching like sovar
devent : LoadScorecardEvent = new LoadScorecardEvent(
);
devent.scorecardId = 5;
CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent( devent ); and in
the command I havepublic function execute( eventHere : CairngormEvent )
: void {
var del : MainDelegate = new MainDelegate( this
); del.getScorecard(
eventHere.scorecardId );
}But this bombs out with a error
about scorecardId not in eventHere.DK--
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection - RESOLVED!
w00t! GC got PWND!!!.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection - RESOLVED!
..works perfect.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Delete the ho!
after close:
lc = null;
delete lc;
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection - RESOLVED!
Thanks again jesterXL...
Added just a few lines...can't believe i didn't think of this
earlier...it was definitly a light bulb moment...cleans up local
connection...so it can be used by next loaded swf. Had to make
changes to swf's and just wasn't thinking about them.
added - to main flex app every time swfLoader changes it's source...
lc.send (_swfConnect, killAll);
added - to the main.swf's called functions
lc.killAll = function () {
lc.close()
}
okay...what's next...;o)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Geez, definately sounds like the GC then, that's harsh. Um...
uh... well,
the only thing I can think of beyond doing it dynamically like
you
said is
to ensure when you remove them that you kill all listeners,
delete
what you
can, disconnect what you can, etc. BEFORE destroying the
SWFLoader.
Good luck.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester, I read the articles and fully understand what you meant...
I load one swf and then try to load a second and even though I've
sent the first swf packing it's still in memory and listening to
the
menu.swf's local connection calls because GC hasn't come along and
cleaned it up.
Maybe if I get rid of the SWFLoader completely then try to create
a
new one dynamically when the next swf is loaded that would work??
I'll try it.
Yes, the menu.swf is able to control the two main swf's outside of
Flex. If they are all running at the same time, the menu.swf will
control which ever main.swf was started first. Then if i close
that
main.swf the other will just start working. That little
experiment
just provides more evidence (and helps me get it)...that the first
swf is still there in Flex...
Anyway, Thanks again...if you have any more suggestions...as
always
appreciated. I'll keep working at it...
Jenn
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Oh it's deeper than emptying a source reference. Welcome to the
dark side
of ActionScript 3..
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html
BTW, do your SWF's talk to eachother locally without Flex?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
okay, thanks...that works for loading a swf at runtime if the
SWFLoader has no assigned source. However, if the SWFLoader
has
an
assigned source and you try to change it during runtime, then LC
doesn't work anymore.
That comes back to your last comment about garbage collection
and
the
original swf not being cleaned up before the new one is loaded,
i
tried to research what you meant but as far i could tell all I
could
do in flex was to set the SWFLoader source to = before
loading
the
next swf. I could not find any unload methods.
Thanks again for helping.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Try again, but put an underscore in front of the name for both
SWF's.
_swfConnect instead of swfConnect.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester,
I have tried putting the local connection code in the main
flex
app
and calling to the embedded SWF and this is the attempt at
creating
a
second embedded swf (menu) to make the calls to the main
SWF...either
way if the swf is loaded at runtime...local connection is a
no
go.
Thanks
*This is my menu.swf local connection code...
#include mc_tween2.as
stop();
var lcsend:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
play_btn.onRelease = function(){
lcsend.send (swfConnect, playFile);
}
stop_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect, stopandrestart);
}
pause_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect , pauseFile
Re: [flexcoders] Re: TextLineMetrics anyone?
Son of a... the Text does the same thing as TextArea; he uses a TextField
via composition vs. inheriting from it. Ugh..
Not sure bro, without extending it. The autoSize property, at least in my
meager tests, allows accurate measure (give or take 4 pixels) vs.
non-autozied textfields.
- Original Message -
From: jeff tapper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: TextLineMetrics anyone?
Jesse -
not sure I'm following you. An mx:Text / control doesnt seem to
have an autosize property. They inherently automatically size
themselves to fit the contained text. Am i misunderstanding you?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Out of curiosity, turn on autoSize = left;
- Original Message -
From: jeff tapper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] TextLineMetrics anyone?
Has anyone successfully used TextLineMetrics with multiline text
fields? All my experiments are showing that it always computes
assuming a single, not wrapping line of text. I'm not sure if im
using it wrong (the most likely scenario), if its a documentation
error, or a bug. According to the docs, the TextLineMetrics width
property should be the width of the text within a text field,
however, I'm finding if I have a Text control with a width of 300,
and a few lines of text within it, the width property shows the
width as if it were on one line of text, and the height is
indicating the height of a single line of text.
Here is an example:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=vertical
mx:Style
.bigRed{
font-family:Arial;
font-size:40;
color:#33;
}
/mx:Style
mx:HBox
mx:Button label=Measure click=measureTheText()/
mx:Button label=Style click=doStyle()/
mx:Button label=Clear Style click=clearTheStyle()/
/mx:HBox
mx:TextInput id=enteredText/
mx:Text id=output text={enteredText.text} width=300 /
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
private function measureTheText():void{
var tlm:TextLineMetrics = output.measureText
(enteredText.text);
var h:int = tlm.height;
var w:int = tlm.width;
Alert.show(text is + w.toString()
+x+h.toString
());
}
private function doStyle():void{
output.setStyle(styleName,bigRed)
}
private function clearTheStyle():void{
output.clearStyle(styleName);
}
]]
/mx:Script
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] Manuals/tutorials on subclassing, custom components? (1.5)
Some of the component preso's here help. I know they aren't verbose as you like, but some of the comments and exmaples helped me immednsely. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/07/adobe-component-developer-summit.php - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:21 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Manuals/tutorials on subclassing, custom components? (1.5) Does anyone know of the best, canonical documentation explaining how properly to subclass a custom component? The interactions between init, constructObject2, commitProperties, bindings, and so on are very complicated, and I really need some guidance for best practices. I found one document, http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/flex/15/createcomponents.pdf that is good. Something like that, but four times more detailed would be perfect. Thanks, Greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Cast or create local var - which is best \ performant
Depends. Local variables are faster in some casese because it uses optimized registers. Promotion is also something to watch out for regarding ints in loops. If you're really interested, go ask the FLASM guys to update their tool for Flash Player 9, and you can inspect the bytecode to see how much is added by certain casting operations. For something more concerete, look here: http://www.flex.org/ACDS/AS3TuningInsideAVM2JIT.pdf http://www.flex.org/ACDS/GC.swf http://www.flex.org/ACDS/Interpreter.swf http://www.flex.org/ACDS/JITMovie.swf - Original Message - From: bobpardoe1959 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:29 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Cast or create local var - which is best \ performant We are haveing a debate here at work regarding the the most performant \ efficient \ best way of dealing with the casting of objects from one form to another. a) One person thinks that casting the object to the correct type each time it is used is better because casting has a compile time penalty, but at runtime does not incurr a cost. b) The other person would have us believe that the creation of a variable of the correct type and casting the object to it and then using the local variable (thereby eliminating many casts)is better. I side with a) on the basis that the creation of the variable and the garbage collection of it costs more than the casting might. Bearing in mind that either of these methods might be performed in hundreds of places in the application. Is there a difference ? Will any one notice. Is one better ?. Are we being a little to retentive ? thanks BOb -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
I'm with you. I've been determing type of
event based on the event.type in the Command's execute method to get my
strong-typing back.
- Original Message -
From: Ralf
Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data
payloads
Its really a pity, that we loose all the nice type information
while going all the way through Cairngorm. Cheers,Ralf.
On 7/27/06, Douglas
Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
ah, righto. thanks d00ds. I had this hacked up too much...no
worky good. If only I can get that damn RO to calm down now and do
what its told! but that's another thread.
DK
On 7/27/06, thunderstumpgesatwork
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,The
delegate function thinks you just have a CairngormEvent. I thinkyou just
need to check to make sure the event you received is yourcustom event
type and then cast it.so:if (eventHere is
LoadScorecardEvent) {del.getScorecard(
LoadScorecardEvent(eventHere).scorecardId
);}else{// do nothing, or raise
error, or log warning, or whatever.}best of
luck,Thunder--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Douglas
Knudsen"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone
point me to a example of how to pass data in a cairngormtype
event?I'm trying the below with package
com.mycompany.events { import
com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
public class LoadScorecardEvent extends
CairngormEvent
{ public static var
EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD: String =
'LoadScorecardEvent';public
var
scorecardId:Number;
/*** The
constructor,*/
public function LoadScorecardEvent(
) {
super( EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD
);
} }
} then in a view dispatching like so var devent :
LoadScorecardEvent = new LoadScorecardEvent();
devent.scorecardId =
5;CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(
devent ); and in the command I have public
function execute( eventHere : CairngormEvent ) : void
{
var del : MainDelegate = new MainDelegate( this
);
del.getScorecard( eventHere.scorecardId
);}
But this bombs out with a error about scorecardId not in eventHere.
DK -- Douglas
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Re: [Junk E-Mail - MED] Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2 plugin woes...
Did you add Flex nature to your closed project? Did you set a default application? :: random guesses :: - Original Message - From: Shannon Hicks To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: RE: [Junk E-Mail - MED] Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2 plugin woes... But therein lies the problem... Build All and Build Project are both inactive... it's like Eclipse and FB don't know what a flex project is. Shan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simeon BatemanSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:46 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [Junk E-Mail - MED] Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2 plugin woes... I feel like this might be a shot in the dark, but in Flex builder there is a menu at the top. Check the "Project" menu and make sure "Build Automatically" is checked. This is the piece that makes it compile when you save. If its not checked, you may need to tell it to build manually before the swf will get written.HTHsim On 7/27/06, Dan Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED]org wrote: I did notice my standalone stopped compiling when saved, and i had to keeping launching to compile / build and get any errors in the problems window :\ On 28/07/2006, at 2:47 AM, Shannon Hicks wrote: So, I installed Eclipse 3.1.2, and then installed the FB2 plugin... I imported an existing project, and everything was going smoothly. I then hit control-F11, and nothing happened. I now realize that the project is not getting built, and there are no Run or Debug options. I went back to FB2 standalone, and now IT doesn't have Run or Debug options. How might I fix this, other than uninstalling reinstalling everything? Shan --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 --No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 --No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006 __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5)
Don't know about constructObject2, but init is called for you by UIObject when she's done setting stuff up. You CAN override it in ActionScript, but not MXML. However, you're better off just have your initialize event call a function in your MXML and do non-GUI related stuff there. - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) Quick question: What is the relationship between constructObject2 and init? The document I found on creating components does not mention constructObject2, but the flex compiler seems not to allow overriding of init() (in an mxml file). But init() does not take parameters. Does one call the other? Are they analogous for different situations? Thanks, Greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: initialize vs. construct/init...Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5)
Of course I'm not sure. What are you initializing, and who is expecting them to be initialized? - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: initialize vs. construct/init...Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) However, you're better off just have your initialize event call a function in your MXML and do non-GUI related stuff there. Are you sure about that? That seems to be exactly the source of our problems. If we initialize values in the initialize handler, it seems they are being initialized too late, and values end up not being properly set. - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) Quick question: What is the relationship between constructObject2 and init? The document I found on creating components does not mention constructObject2, but the flex compiler seems not to allow overriding of init() (in an mxml file). But init() does not take parameters. Does one call the other? Are they analogous for different situations? Thanks, Greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can
technically upcast 'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I
know Steven didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can
compare to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String =
"doSomething";
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case
MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp);
break;
}
}
- Original Message -
From: Ralf
Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data
payloads
The only typesafe solution i can think of, is to abandon
CairngormEvents and replace them by methods of the FrontController. Most of the
apps i've seen so far don't make use of the runtime changeability anyways. What
do we loose if we do it like that? Cheers,Ralf.
On 7/27/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm with you. I've been determing type of event based on the event.type in the Command's execute method to get my
strong-typing back.
- Original Message -
From:
Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data
payloads
Its really a pity, that we loose all the nice type information
while going all the way through Cairngorm. Cheers,Ralf.
On 7/27/06, Douglas
Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ah, righto. thanks d00ds. I had this hacked up too
much...no worky good. If only I can get that damn RO to calm
down now and do what its told! but that's another thread.
DK
On 7/27/06, thunderstumpgesatwork
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,The
delegate function thinks you just have a CairngormEvent. I thinkyou
just need to check to make sure the event you received is yourcustom
event type and then cast it.so:if (eventHere is
LoadScorecardEvent) {del.getScorecard(
LoadScorecardEvent(eventHere).scorecardId
);}else{// do nothing, or raise
error, or log warning, or whatever.}best of
luck,Thunder--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Douglas
Knudsen"[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone
point me to a example of how to pass data in a cairngormtype
event?I'm trying the below with package
com.mycompany.events { import
com.adobe.cairngorm.control.CairngormEvent;
public class LoadScorecardEvent extends
CairngormEvent
{ public static
var EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD: String =
'LoadScorecardEvent';public
var
scorecardId:Number;
/***
The
constructor,*/
public function LoadScorecardEvent(
) {
super( EVENT_LOAD_SCORECARD
);
} }
} then in a view dispatching like so var devent :
LoadScorecardEvent = new LoadScorecardEvent();
devent.scorecardId =
5;CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(
devent ); and in the command I have public
function execute( eventHere : CairngormEvent ) : void
{
var del : MainDelegate = new MainDelegate( this
);
del.getScorecard( eventHere.scorecardId
);}
But this bombs out with a error about scorecardId not in eventHere.
DK -- Douglas
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Re: initialize vs. construct/init...Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5)
2 things to do to ensure you're not nuts. 1. Add recompile=true to the end of the URL string. Slows compiling, but it's worth the piece of mind. 2. Delete generated everytime you want to be sure your changes are in fact taking. Mine's here for Flex 1.5: C:\JRun4\servers\starExhibits\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\flex\generated LOL Royal... AWESOME. Whew, that made my Thursday. Mmmm, tasty burger First off, bindings are supposed to free you from initialization worries. Here's how it was in Flash: - capture data in member var - create asset - wait a frame - set data - delete member var - repeat process in convulted way In Flex? Bind value in View and it'll work when she's created. Pimp! I'm sorry to hear it's not working that way for you. Here's the rundown. - init - createChildren - initial drawing * initialize is before everything is done drawing - createChildren is the last event fired when everyone and their mom is ready There is a good rundown of this on Adobe's DevNet site. If you want the link, I can go find; it's a pretty good explanation. - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:22 PM Subject: Re: initialize vs. construct/init...Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) The code is too complicated to summarize--there are so many interconnections it would take you days to untangle (it has me!). For a long time we've encountered what we thought was a compiler bug where the order of compilation would change the behavior of the application. That is, if we deleted everything and compiled from scratch, some binding would not execute, and some component would not display. Then if we simply touched the code of the disappearing component, it would show up! Apparently the only difference is the order that things are compiled/linked. I have come to believe in the last few days that it's not a compiler bug, but a simple order-of-initialization problem. One needs to understand very well the order of initialization, invalidation, and so on, and to this point we've been blissfully unaware of it. Anyway, that's why I'm investigating constructObject2 and init now--trying to get a handle on it. But as with so many things in the documentation, things in AS and Flex are done slightly differently, but with no acknowledgement of the differences. They got the same shit over there we got over here, it's just there it's a little different. I'm trying to order a Royal with Cheese, reading from the American menu. Greg --- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course I'm not sure. What are you initializing, and who is expecting them to be initialized? - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: initialize vs. construct/init...Re: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) However, you're better off just have your initialize event call a function in your MXML and do non-GUI related stuff there. Are you sure about that? That seems to be exactly the source of our problems. If we initialize values in the initialize handler, it seems they are being initialized too late, and values end up not being properly set. - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: [flexcoders] constructObject2() vs. init()? (Flex 1.5) Quick question: What is the relationship between constructObject2 and init? The document I found on creating components does not mention constructObject2, but the flex compiler seems not to allow overriding of init() (in an mxml file). But init() does not take parameters. Does one call the other? Are they analogous for different situations? Thanks, Greg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders
Re: [flexcoders] Play video files in Flex
You can also utilize ffmpeg to convert server-side (or client too I guess). It's what Google YouTube do. http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ - Original Message - From: Kelly @ Dekayd Media Inc. To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:04 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Play video files in Flex If I remember correctly Flex video player components only play .flv files. In order to play other types you will need to either pre-convert them or use Flash Media Server which (I think) converts them on the fly. --Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of User ABCSent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:50 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] Play video files in Flex Do you know how to play .wmv, .avi, ... (don't count.flv) video files in Flex? I use VideoDisplay control in Flex to play .flv, but not able to play any other video file format. Thank you See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
My initial frustration was I'd create this event class, which allowed
strong-typing, like so:
package
{
import com.adobe.control.CairngormEvent;
public class MyEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static const ACTION:String = action;
public var someID:int;
public function MyEvent(p_type:String, p_someID:int)
{
super(p_type);
someID = p_someID;
}
}
}
So, my event now has context. If I need to have my Command get a person
record from the DB for example, this event will contain the payload it
needs; the person ID I'm looking for. However, by the time it gets to the
Command, it's a base class, the CairngormEvent.
package
{
public class MyCommand implements AllTheInterfacesEct
{
public function execute ( event:CairngormEvent )
{
trace(event.someID); // faith based programming
}
}
}
Now, for some, their Events are directly linked to Commands, like so:
LoginEvent will fire LoginCommand which calls LoginDelegate
GetPersonEvent will fire GetPersonCommand which calls GetPersonDelegate
At a simple level, yes, this'll do. So, you can acutally make some
assumptions in the above; if you play by the default Cairngorm rules, you
KNOW by convention that your MyCommand class will get a MyEvent, so you
could risk up-casting, like so:
someDelegateMethod ( MyEvent ( event ) . someID );
...that's faith, though. You'll get an exception if for some reason that's
not the real event. It'd be better if the compiler caught that vs. the
runtime, before it's a problem. For me, I use multiple events inside
Commands, so it's exacerbated. The Controller keeps all of this under tabs,
but again, it'd be nice if MyCommand for example GOT MyEvent in the execute.
I supposed you could make that assumption; not sure if it'd compile.
Anyway, convention over strict-typing is ok since a lot of conventions teams
follow can do the above, for example, and assume you'll get what you need.
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Forgive the dense noob here, but how is the type info lost? I thought
that by subclassing CairngormEvent you get basic checking and then you
can just do a cast or 'event as MyCutomEvent' inside the execute
method. I guess I am just not clear on what the issue is and where the
problem lies. Can someone edumacate me?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can technically upcast
'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I know Steven
didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can compare
to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String = doSomething;
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp);
break;
}
}
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
The only typesafe solution i can think of, is to abandon
CairngormEvents and replace them by methods of the FrontController.
Most of the apps i've seen so far don't make use of the runtime
changeability anyways. What do we loose if we do it like that?
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm with you. I've been determing type of event based on the
event.type in the Command's execute method to get my strong-typing back.
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Its really a pity, that we loose all the nice type information
while going all the way through Cairngorm.
Cheers,
Ralf.
On 7/27/06, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ah, righto. thanks d00ds. I had this hacked up too much...no
worky good. If only I can get that damn RO to calm down now and do
what its told! but that's another thread.
DK
On 7/27/06, thunderstumpgesatwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The delegate function thinks you just have a CairngormEvent. I
think
you just need to check to make sure the event you received is your
custom event type and then cast it.
so:
if (eventHere is LoadScorecardEvent)
{
del.getScorecard( LoadScorecardEvent(eventHere).scorecardId );
}
else
{
// do nothing, or raise error, or log warning, or whatever.
}
best of luck,
Thunder
--- In flexcoders
Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
5 coffee's and 3 RedBull's later, I'm running on fumes, so don't really have
intelligent answers for you, just guesses.
Don't know, I guess you're right.
Find some way to either A) follow the convention a Command will get the
event class of a similiar name, and thus feel safe in casting it or B ) find
some way to strongly type that parameter. You can't up-cast function
arguments, though, so it's kind of stuck as CairngormEvent... I think.
For the multiple events, yes, you are correct. I've definately taken for
granted all my other stuff has worked for that very fact. Oops.
Actually, at this point, no clue... wtf were you talking about anyway,
Bokel?
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Doesn't execute() accept a CairngromEvent for the sake of polymorphism
though? How could you do things any differently and still preserve
that aspect? Additionally, if you want your Commands to support
multiple types of events isn't it essential that execute() accept a
superclass or common interface? Are you just wishing AS supported
method overloading or is there something I am still not getting?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My initial frustration was I'd create this event class, which allowed
strong-typing, like so:
package
{
import com.adobe.control.CairngormEvent;
public class MyEvent extends CairngormEvent
{
public static const ACTION:String = action;
public var someID:int;
public function MyEvent(p_type:String, p_someID:int)
{
super(p_type);
someID = p_someID;
}
}
}
So, my event now has context. If I need to have my Command get a
person
record from the DB for example, this event will contain the payload it
needs; the person ID I'm looking for. However, by the time it gets
to the
Command, it's a base class, the CairngormEvent.
package
{
public class MyCommand implements AllTheInterfacesEct
{
public function execute ( event:CairngormEvent )
{
trace(event.someID); // faith based programming
}
}
}
Now, for some, their Events are directly linked to Commands, like so:
LoginEvent will fire LoginCommand which calls LoginDelegate
GetPersonEvent will fire GetPersonCommand which calls GetPersonDelegate
At a simple level, yes, this'll do. So, you can acutally make some
assumptions in the above; if you play by the default Cairngorm
rules, you
KNOW by convention that your MyCommand class will get a MyEvent, so you
could risk up-casting, like so:
someDelegateMethod ( MyEvent ( event ) . someID );
...that's faith, though. You'll get an exception if for some reason
that's
not the real event. It'd be better if the compiler caught that vs. the
runtime, before it's a problem. For me, I use multiple events inside
Commands, so it's exacerbated. The Controller keeps all of this
under tabs,
but again, it'd be nice if MyCommand for example GOT MyEvent in the
execute.
I supposed you could make that assumption; not sure if it'd compile.
Anyway, convention over strict-typing is ok since a lot of
conventions teams
follow can do the above, for example, and assume you'll get what you
need.
- Original Message -
From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
Forgive the dense noob here, but how is the type info lost? I thought
that by subclassing CairngormEvent you get basic checking and then you
can just do a cast or 'event as MyCutomEvent' inside the execute
method. I guess I am just not clear on what the issue is and where the
problem lies. Can someone edumacate me?
Thanks,
Ben
http://www.returnundefined.com/
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Well, my events extend CairngormEvent, so I can technically upcast
'em when they get in the Command's execute method. I know Steven
didn't really dig this idea, but if you case the type, you can compare
to the Event's constant like:
public static const EVENT_DOSOMETHING:String = doSomething;
function execute(event:CairngormEvent)
{
switch(event.type)
{
case MyEvent.EVENT_DOSOMETHING:
someMethod ( MyEvent(event).someTypeSafeProp);
break;
}
}
- Original Message -
From: Ralf Bokelberg
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: cairngorm Events and data payloads
The only typesafe solution i can think of, is to abandon
CairngormEvents and replace them by methods of the FrontController.
Most of the apps i've seen so far don't
Re: [flexcoders] addChild to Loader component
If you want to show something in Flex, it must implement IUIComponent. Easiest way? var a:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); a.addChild(yourLoader); addChild(a); - Original Message - From: Gadi Srebnik To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:57 AM Subject: [flexcoders] addChild to Loader component I tried to load a binary image data lo loader object, which worked great. but when I tried to add this loader object - addChild(loader) I got this message: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent. the thing is that in all Adobe'shelp pageson Loader components, they use this method to display the image. am I doing something wrong? Best regards, gadi __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Using filters on text removes antialiasing
I have the same problem, but don't know of a fix.
- Original Message -
From: m88e24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:34 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Using filters on text removes antialiasing
Flex 2 final
Player r15
When using a filter like a GlowEffect on a Text element, antialiasing
seems to be cancelled. When the filter is not defined then the font
looks smooth with antialiasing as normal. I use embedded fonts!
mx:Text text=SNS 1
fontWeight=bold color=white
fontAntiAliasType=advanced
mx:filters
filters:GlowFilter quality={BitmapFilterQuality.HIGH}
color=#00/
/mx:filters
/mx:Text
Does anyone now if there is any other property I must set to keep the
font smooth when using a filter?
The Flex documentation is pretty silent on this matter.
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
1. You could use the old skool Object (hash / associative array) approach,
or the new Dictionary class.
2. set the scrollRect to 200x400, and then just move the sprite. So:
myContainer = new Sprite();
myContainer.addChild(myMap);
myContainer.scrollRect = new Rect(0, 0, 200, 400);
addChild(myContainer);
myMap.x += 100;
Don't know 3.
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
Last night, I was able to find a demo called SpriteArranger that
showed addng different types of objects as children to a DisplayCanvas
. This really helped in understanding the AddChild. I think I'll go
with the displayobjects initially since we have a PC version written
that uses the same approach. I still am having issues with panning an
image left, right... Then the next things I need to figure out are:
1. Making an internal searchable list of children. I saw the AddChild
function, but the displayobject does not have a Children Property. I
need to research the different types of arrays and find one that I can
have a key associated with the object so as data comes in, I can
update sprite 47. Is there a HashArray or something similar. These
maybe simple questions but I am brand new to this stuff. There seems
to be tons of docs but few examples.
2. On the panning issue, lets say I have a map background that is
1000x1000. My viewport is 200X400, I need to understand how to control
the viewport and panning.
3. Memory Management. As you mentioned, tons of objects will have
issues, I need to get a feel for how many is too many, if the user
switches maps, how to delete the children...
Thanks for your help,
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Base class is like DisplayObjectContainer, but that's an abstract
class;
both Sprite and MovieClip extend that. However, if you are using Flex,
there is no point to utilize MovieClip since you don't have frames;
Sprite's
good. Also, the last line should be addChild(container), at least
in an AS3
project.
...however, you have 2 choices here.
DisplayObjects are nice because you can put all of your map data in one
DisplayObject, and then move just that 1 Sprite, scale that 1
sprite, ect.
It makes your code really concise, and flexible because you can put
anything
you want in it. Think how Yahoo Maps and Google Maps have like
textures,
directions, lines, markers, etc. all in theirs.
...but tons of obects, while better in Flash Player 9, are still
slower than
1 bitmap. If you aren't planning of going all charting-style, you
outta
give thought to a blitting solution if you want her to scale
hardcore. You
basically draw everything to an offscreen bitmap, and then use a
Rect to
copyPixels into an on-screen bitmap. That way, you could add
thousands of
objects, and you're map would run really well. Harder to code and less
flexible, though. Sprites and the DisplayObject really nice, so.
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
OK, just needed the right terms to search on. Found this in the help:
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
container.name = container;
var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();
circle.name = circle;
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFFCC00);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(40, 40, 40);
container.addChild(circle);
container.mouseChildren = false;
container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clicked);
function clicked(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace(event.target.name); // container
}
Then, it states to add the container to the DisplayObject. This is
where I get confused. What is the base container class for the
DisplayList and how do I attach it? I don't think I need a movie clip
becuase it says it basically is a sprite with a timeline.
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
2. If they are children, they too will scale. Add them to the
Sprite's
displaylist.
3. We've done this successfully in Flex 1.5. In Flex 2, you can set
the
toolTipClass on the ToolTipManager class to utilize your own class.
4. To combine multiple effects at the same time, utilize the
mx:Parrellel
tag; it'll make all effects inside it happen at the same time
(exluding
their own startDelay attributes).
Have you tried replacing x y with scrollRect?
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy rich@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Image Pan - Step 1
Hello,
I am new to the group and to Flex/Flash. We have a mapping tool that
we had created about a year back that uses flash 8. We want to move up
to Flex 2 for a number
Re: [flexcoders] Create variables dynamic in Flex 2
Make the class dynamic or use an object.
var o:Object = {};
for (var i:uint=0; i == 10; i++)
{
var myVar_i:String = new String();
o[myVar_ + i] = new String();
}
Or:
package
{
dynamic public class Flexible
{
publid function Flexible()
{
}
}
}
var a:Flexible = new Flexible();
a[cow + i] = new String();
- Original Message -
From: Artur Kordowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Create variables dynamic in Flex 2
But i dont want to use an array. I would like to create those vars on the
fly.
Artur
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Behalf Of Paul Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:07 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Create variables dynamic in Flex 2
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Create variables dynamic in Flex 2
- Original Message -
From: Artur Kordowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:58 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Create variables dynamic in Flex 2
How can I create in a loop variables dynamicly?
Like this:
for (var i:uint=0; i == 10; i++)
{
var myVar_i:String = new String();
}
Any idea?
var myVar:Array = new Array();
for (var i:uint=0; i == 10; i++)
{
myVar[i] = new String();
}
Artur
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
Actually, the code should port quite easily.
the image.onEnterFrame for example should be changed to addEventListener.
The _x should be changed to just x.
A lot of those are minor. Flash 8 didn't have Sprite; all we had was
MovieClip so you could still use MovieClip in Flash Player 9, but there
isn't a point, and Sprite MovieClip have most of the same required
properties methods you need.
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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
Thanks for the tips. I have a few days of work to get done (Both flex
and non flex) with this stuff and I'll follow up and let you know how
it goes.
On the pan, I was able to find something that uses movie clips but and
flash7/8 (so it won't work) but it is exactly what I was looking for.
You can find it here
(http://sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/scrollRect/). What would I
need to do in order to convert this to the container/child image code
in Flex 2?
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. You could use the old skool Object (hash / associative array)
approach,
or the new Dictionary class.
2. set the scrollRect to 200x400, and then just move the sprite. So:
myContainer = new Sprite();
myContainer.addChild(myMap);
myContainer.scrollRect = new Rect(0, 0, 200, 400);
addChild(myContainer);
myMap.x += 100;
Don't know 3.
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
Last night, I was able to find a demo called SpriteArranger that
showed addng different types of objects as children to a DisplayCanvas
. This really helped in understanding the AddChild. I think I'll go
with the displayobjects initially since we have a PC version written
that uses the same approach. I still am having issues with panning an
image left, right... Then the next things I need to figure out are:
1. Making an internal searchable list of children. I saw the AddChild
function, but the displayobject does not have a Children Property. I
need to research the different types of arrays and find one that I can
have a key associated with the object so as data comes in, I can
update sprite 47. Is there a HashArray or something similar. These
maybe simple questions but I am brand new to this stuff. There seems
to be tons of docs but few examples.
2. On the panning issue, lets say I have a map background that is
1000x1000. My viewport is 200X400, I need to understand how to control
the viewport and panning.
3. Memory Management. As you mentioned, tons of objects will have
issues, I need to get a feel for how many is too many, if the user
switches maps, how to delete the children...
Thanks for your help,
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Base class is like DisplayObjectContainer, but that's an abstract
class;
both Sprite and MovieClip extend that. However, if you are using
Flex,
there is no point to utilize MovieClip since you don't have frames;
Sprite's
good. Also, the last line should be addChild(container), at least
in an AS3
project.
...however, you have 2 choices here.
DisplayObjects are nice because you can put all of your map data
in one
DisplayObject, and then move just that 1 Sprite, scale that 1
sprite, ect.
It makes your code really concise, and flexible because you can put
anything
you want in it. Think how Yahoo Maps and Google Maps have like
textures,
directions, lines, markers, etc. all in theirs.
...but tons of obects, while better in Flash Player 9, are still
slower than
1 bitmap. If you aren't planning of going all charting-style, you
outta
give thought to a blitting solution if you want her to scale
hardcore. You
basically draw everything to an offscreen bitmap, and then use a
Rect to
copyPixels into an on-screen bitmap. That way, you could add
thousands of
objects, and you're map would run really well. Harder to code and
less
flexible, though. Sprites and the DisplayObject really nice, so.
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy rich@
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
OK, just needed the right terms to search on. Found this in the help:
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
container.name = container;
var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();
circle.name = circle;
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFFCC00);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(40, 40, 40);
container.addChild(circle);
container.mouseChildren = false;
container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clicked);
function clicked(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events
If you use dispatchEvent, yes. If you use CairngormEventDispatcher, no. - Original Message - From: Ryan Stewart To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events Thanks guys, I know the usual method for Cairngorm events, and I'm using that as well, but in this case I'm doing some random voodo magic with dynamically generated components and I was hoping I could set an event listener for each of those components to capture an associated CairngormEvent. It doesn't sound like I can do that. Thanks again, Ryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:22 AM -07:00 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events As Tom says, usually a Carirngorm event is dispatched to the FrontController, which in turn executes an instance of a command. And ultimatly, the ModelLocator gets updated and the view reacts via binding. Presently however, there isn't a mechanism to listen, for the result of the dispatched Cairngorm event, from the view. Hoping to change that. Your question is valid and appropriate. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 07:07, Ryan Stewart wrote: I'm still not entirely clear on the event model in Flex 2, so hopefully this is an easy question. I want to add an event listener in one of my flex view components that will listen ! for a CairngormEvent to be dispatched and then run a function within that component. Cairngorm would normally say that if you want something to happen when an Event is dispatched, you put that code in the Controller associated with the Event. -- Tom Chiverton This emai! l is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered! office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. I! f you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. ! For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Question ANSWERED! Re: Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another?
Great! Not sure if this'll offer anymore helpful advice: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/rsl.html - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Question ANSWERED! Re: Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another? Wow, I'm impressed! Not with the documentation, but that you were able to find it! The answer could not have been on a more circuitous, esoteric, and non-obvious path. These RSLs still don't _quite_ solve what we want to do, which is to specify different libraries of images at runtime. From the documentation it looks like the name of the rsl has to be hard-coded into the mx:App tag. But it's close enough! If all else fails, we can do something like this: mx:Application rsl=lib1.sws; lib2.sws; lib3.sws; ... etc. . Since each one is only loaded as needed, it will be flexible enough! There's no reason not to list a hundred different rsls in the app tag, if we need to. And it may barely be possible to change the rsl property at runtime. (I find that highly unlikely, but possible.) Anyway, thank you, Jester! It was exactly what I needed! Greg --- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah! I don't care what anyone says, the Flex 1.5 docs are good. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/1157.htm - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another? Yahoo yuked on itself last night, so not sure if you ever got your remote shared libraries to work? No, I was waiting to hear more from you about how to do it. Based on your previous emails and those links I now understand how attachMovie works (in conjunction with Object.registerClass) and I can manipulate those well (it's a pain because there's no error message if you get the linkage name wrong!). But I'm not sure what to do to explore remote shared libraries. It's nice to hear Flash 9 fixes this problem, but that's not something we will be allowed to take advantage of for a long time, until we can be confident most of our users have switched. Thanks, Greg - Original Message - From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another? Thanks. I believe duplicateMovie doesn't work. From the documentation of duplicateMovie: If you have loaded a movie clip using MovieClip.loadMovie() or the MovieClipLoader class, the contents of the SWF file are not duplicated. This means that you cannot save bandwidth by loading a JPEG or SWF file and then duplicating the movie clip. It baffles me why this is not allowed. Does anyone know? My guess is the developers ran into some issues and decided the easiest way around it was to pretend it was intended. The further problem, as you say here, is I have to move the clip around by hand, which eliminates the entire reason to use Flex, to try to organize our apps in a slightly object-oriented way. I believe Jester said this a day or two as well, that assets cannot be shared. I'm starting to feel this is impossible with a capital I, but it still feels like there may be some very low-level way to do it--Remote Shared Libraries? The other option is to quit and get a job at In-and-Out Burgers. I think I'm going to do that. Greg --- Shade Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the past I've worked through this kind of thing by loading external .SWFs dynamically and duplicateMovieClip()ing (or moving them) what I needed to the appropriate positions. That was Flash 7. It was ugly, but it worked as long as you didn't need any fancy depth work. Recently I've done similar stuff in Flash 8 using BitmapData, which works great (and pretty easily too) if you're working with simple bitmap images. Actually, it should work well with generic movieclips as well (see the ... draw() method, I believe. Something like that). I'm not aware of a Flex way to do what you want. I do hope there is one, it is certainly lacking. Cheers and good luck, Pedro. On 7/24/06, G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jester-- Your example here is exactly what we don't want to do. We don't want to embed all the images we need into the swf--it makes the file size too big. However, we don't want to load the images dynamically each time we need them--that's too slow. Our application is a game that uses pictures. Players play the game for a while with one set of images, then they change
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events
Not anymore, no, as he's usually embedded at the top of the tree. You could utilize ViewLocator I guess, but that is bleh. - Original Message - From: Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm Events On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:35, JesterXL wrote: If you use dispatchEvent, yes. If you use CairngormEventDispatcher, no. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. Though couldn't the Controller dispatchEvent() for the components to listen too ? -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WktRrD/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Easy way to publish flex app as standalone EXE?
This didn't work in the beta, but apparently works now. I went here: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 2 Plug-in\Player\debug and opened the SAFlashPlayer.exe. Then I opened a compiled Flex 2 SWF using that. You then go to File Create Projector. This appears to create an exe like old. However, this is a debug player, and I think that might create a debug SWF which will throw exception windows, and generally run slower than non-debug. There may be a way to get a Flash Player 9.exe normal player and do the same thing... :: looks :: Yep! C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash 9 Public Alpha\Players However, in testing, the SWF doesn't work.. maybe a different FLash player. - Original Message - From: tddclare [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Easy way to publish flex app as standalone EXE? Hey, In Flash you used to be able to publish a Projector (exe) file for Windows. I know there are a bunch of SWF to EXE apps out there (Zinc, etc), but I don't need any of the filesystem APIs, etc, I just need to put my app on a workstation with no internet access and no flash player install possible (gotta love the government)... Is there any Projector capability in Flex or any easy/cheap way to make it work? -- TC -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WktRrD/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] TitleWindow - Positioning and Background Blurring
1. Application has a global style, modalTransparencyBlur, that you can set to 0. 2. PopUpManager.centerPopUp ( YourPopUpHere ); - Original Message - From: Stefan Schmalhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:53 PM Subject: [flexcoders] TitleWindow - Positioning and Background Blurring 1. Can I adjust the amount of blurring that is applied to the background when I open a TitleWindow? Is it possible to completely switch off the blurring? 2. How do I center a TitleWindow automatically? Thanks in advance. Stefan -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Local Connection
Can you paste a snippet of your LocalConnection code in the Flash SWF?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Local Connection
I think I am going to go crazy over this. I have tried this a few
different ways and always ending with the same result...not working.
I have 2 swf's loaded in my app with SWFLoader. They use local
connection to talk to each other. If i run app with swfloader with
no source and then dynamically set the swf source when something
happens in the app, local connection doesn't work. If i load the swf
in design the local connection works fine. For example Code 1 doesn't
work, Code 2 does...If you can lend a hand I would REALLY appreciate
it.
Jenn
Code 1*
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
public function load():void {
mainswf.source = file.swf;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383 layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf x=10 y=10 width=467 height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499 height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445 label=Button/
/mx:Application
**Code 2***
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383 layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf source=file.swf x=10 y=10
width=467 height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499 height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445 label=Button/
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Try again, but put an underscore in front of the name for both SWF's.
_swfConnect instead of swfConnect.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester,
I have tried putting the local connection code in the main flex app
and calling to the embedded SWF and this is the attempt at creating a
second embedded swf (menu) to make the calls to the main SWF...either
way if the swf is loaded at runtime...local connection is a no go.
Thanks
*This is my menu.swf local connection code...
#include mc_tween2.as
stop();
var lcsend:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
play_btn.onRelease = function(){
lcsend.send (swfConnect, playFile);
}
stop_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect, stopandrestart);
}
pause_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect , pauseFile);
}
*And this is the Main.swf local connection code
var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
lc.pauseFile = function() {
stop();
}
lc.resumeFile = function() {
play();
}
lc.stopandrestart = function() {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
lc.playFile = function () {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
lc.getframeNum = function () {
}
lc.connect(swfConnect);
***
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you paste a snippet of your LocalConnection code in the Flash
SWF?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Local Connection
I think I am going to go crazy over this. I have tried this a few
different ways and always ending with the same result...not working.
I have 2 swf's loaded in my app with SWFLoader. They use local
connection to talk to each other. If i run app with swfloader with
no source and then dynamically set the swf source when something
happens in the app, local connection doesn't work. If i load the
swf
in design the local connection works fine. For example Code 1
doesn't
work, Code 2 does...If you can lend a hand I would REALLY
appreciate
it.
Jenn
Code 1*
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
public function load():void {
mainswf.source = file.swf;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383 layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf x=10 y=10 width=467 height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499 height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445
label=Button/
/mx:Application
**Code 2***
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383 layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf source=file.swf x=10 y=10
width=467 height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499 height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445
label=Button/
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Oh it's deeper than emptying a source reference. Welcome to the dark side
of ActionScript 3..
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html
BTW, do your SWF's talk to eachother locally without Flex?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
okay, thanks...that works for loading a swf at runtime if the
SWFLoader has no assigned source. However, if the SWFLoader has an
assigned source and you try to change it during runtime, then LC
doesn't work anymore.
That comes back to your last comment about garbage collection and the
original swf not being cleaned up before the new one is loaded, i
tried to research what you meant but as far i could tell all I could
do in flex was to set the SWFLoader source to = before loading the
next swf. I could not find any unload methods.
Thanks again for helping.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try again, but put an underscore in front of the name for both
SWF's.
_swfConnect instead of swfConnect.
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Local Connection
Jester,
I have tried putting the local connection code in the main flex app
and calling to the embedded SWF and this is the attempt at creating
a
second embedded swf (menu) to make the calls to the main
SWF...either
way if the swf is loaded at runtime...local connection is a no go.
Thanks
*This is my menu.swf local connection code...
#include mc_tween2.as
stop();
var lcsend:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
play_btn.onRelease = function(){
lcsend.send (swfConnect, playFile);
}
stop_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect, stopandrestart);
}
pause_btn.onRelease = function () {
lcsend.send (swfConnect , pauseFile);
}
*And this is the Main.swf local connection code
var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
lc.pauseFile = function() {
stop();
}
lc.resumeFile = function() {
play();
}
lc.stopandrestart = function() {
gotoAndStop(1);
}
lc.playFile = function () {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
lc.getframeNum = function () {
}
lc.connect(swfConnect);
***
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL jesterxl@ wrote:
Can you paste a snippet of your LocalConnection code in the Flash
SWF?
- Original Message -
From: flexnewbie06 flexnewbie06@
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Local Connection
I think I am going to go crazy over this. I have tried this a
few
different ways and always ending with the same result...not
working.
I have 2 swf's loaded in my app with SWFLoader. They use local
connection to talk to each other. If i run app with swfloader
with
no source and then dynamically set the swf source when something
happens in the app, local connection doesn't work. If i load the
swf
in design the local connection works fine. For example Code 1
doesn't
work, Code 2 does...If you can lend a hand I would REALLY
appreciate
it.
Jenn
Code 1*
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Script
![CDATA[
public function load():void {
mainswf.source = file.swf;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383
layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf x=10 y=10 width=467
height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499
height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445
label=Button/
/mx:Application
**Code 2***
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
mx:Panel x=25 y=10 width=528 height=383
layout=absolute
mx:SWFLoader id=mainswf source=file.swf x=10 y=10
width=467 height=271/
mx:ApplicationControlBar x=10 y=0 width=539 height=60
mx:SWFLoader id=menu source=menu.swf width=499
height=58/
/mx:ApplicationControlBar
/mx:Panel
mx:Button click=load() id=loader x=25 y=445
label=Button/
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm 2 - Sample Application?
Here's one, source at bottom: http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/07/flex_2_webservice.html - Original Message - From: jakana1566 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Cairngorm 2 - Sample Application? I'm new to cairngorm and have been reading and studying the various documentation and sample apps on Adobe's web site. I downloaded the Cairngorm 0.99 code / sample apps, and also the new Cairngorm 2 code (which doesn't have any sample apps). I've been trying to create a simple application based on Cairngorm 2, but the only sample application I have available for reference is the store application that uses Cairngorm 0.99. I've noticed several differences, especially related to event handling and the model locator. Has anyone created a sample application that uses Cairngorm 2 yet (or updated the sample store application)? If so, where can I get the source code as a reference for learning Cairngorm? Thanks! -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Alert + background blurring
Try this in your CSS:
Application
{
modalTransparencyBlur: 3; // default
modalTransparencyColor: #99; // default is #FF I think
}
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Alert + background blurring
I was wondering how you can control the alert boxes default ability to
lighten and blur the canvas when it pops up to darken and blur instead.
I looked through the API reference but don't see a way to do it.
Anyone?
thanks!
Chris
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Re: [flexcoders] Best practices for organizing base code library and project specific code
The only reason I don't keep com.jxl.utils.* as an SWC Library project in FlexBuilder to allow 50 billion projects to use it is because those classes get tweaked every single project... so, rather than tweak something, and break a ton of other projects that have dependencies on it, I just put a custom build for each project in the namespace like you said. One of these days, maybe I'll stop tweaking. Till then, there is SVN. - Original Message - From: ben.clinkinbeard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:25 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Best practices for organizing base code library and project specific code Just wondering how people out there approach this. Obviously, I have my project neautral, reusable code stored in a structure like com.mydomain.utils, etc. This is off in a general location. Currently, I have a structure like com.mydomain.projects.MyCurrentProject inside the actual Flex project folder, and I link the reusable code's folder into the project. Using the com.mydomain.etc structure in my project folders means I could later integrate all of the code into one location without editing the packages, so I am wondering if I should just do that to begin with. If I kept everything in a central place I could just link my library to each project but I would not have any code held with the actual Flex files. I think I prefer my current approach but would like to get some feedback from others and see what other methods people are using. Thanks, Ben http://www.returnundefined.com/ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another?
The assets can be shared in Flash Player 9, just not 8 and below.
Unfortunately, you're in the same boat as me and using Flex 1.5, and having
to deal with Flash + Flex; I know, it's rough.
Yahoo yuked on itself last night, so not sure if you ever got your remote
shared libraries to work?
- Original Message -
From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one
MovieClip, use in another?
Thanks. I believe duplicateMovie doesn't work. From
the documentation of duplicateMovie:
If you have loaded a movie clip using
MovieClip.loadMovie() or the MovieClipLoader class,
the contents of the SWF file are not duplicated. This
means that you cannot save bandwidth by loading a JPEG
or SWF file and then duplicating the movie clip.
It baffles me why this is not allowed. Does anyone
know? My guess is the developers ran into some issues
and decided the easiest way around it was to pretend
it was intended.
The further problem, as you say here, is I have to
move the clip around by hand, which eliminates the
entire reason to use Flex, to try to organize our
apps in a slightly object-oriented way.
I believe Jester said this a day or two as well, that
assets cannot be shared. I'm starting to feel this is
impossible with a capital I, but it still feels like
there may be some very low-level way to do it--Remote
Shared Libraries?
The other option is to quit and get a job at
In-and-Out Burgers. I think I'm going to do that.
Greg
--- Shade Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In the past I've worked through this kind of
thing by loading external
.SWFs dynamically and duplicateMovieClip()ing (or
moving them) what I needed
to the appropriate positions. That was Flash 7. It
was ugly, but it worked
as long as you didn't need any fancy depth work.
Recently I've done similar stuff in Flash 8 using
BitmapData, which works
great (and pretty easily too) if you're working with
simple bitmap images.
Actually, it should work well with generic
movieclips as well (see the ...
draw() method, I believe. Something like that).
I'm not aware of a Flex way to do what you want. I
do hope there is one,
it is certainly lacking.
Cheers and good luck,
Pedro.
On 7/24/06, G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jester--
Your example here is exactly what we don't want to
do.
We don't want to embed all the images we need into
the swf--it makes the file size too big.
However, we don't want to load the images
dynamically
each time we need them--that's too slow.
Our application is a game that uses pictures.
Players
play the game for a while with one set of images,
then
they change to a new set of images.
What we want is to have something like sets of
images that we can load one time then use
repeatedly.
So when the player first starts the game, they
will
get the images from Set1.swf (for example). Then
when
it's time to change images, we will load a new
set,
Set2.swf, etc.
We only want to load the new images one time,
because
we have to change the source property of Image
tags
repeatedly, and this is costly.
If you know another way to do this from what I am
asking about, please tell me! But what we are
wondering is if it's possible to load a swf
containing
embedded images, then use those images in the
loading
(host) swf?
Thank you!
Greg
--- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jesterxl%40jessewarden.com
wrote:
Don't use SWF's. Flex 1.5 2 have ways to embed
them.
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my1_img:Class;
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my2_img:Class;
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my3_img:Class;
mx:Image id=img source={my1_img} /
Then, have some function swap:
function swapImage(val)
{
img.source = val;
}
swapImage(my1_img);
swapImage(my2_img);
swapImage(my3_img);
You could use setInterval, setTimeout, or Timer
to
loop through those...
...or use a Flash generated SWF; whatever your
fancy.
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From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
greg556%40yahoo.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the
answer?
Embed images in one
MovieClip, use in another?
This line:
mx:Loader id=container source=Container.swf
/
does not load a swf file containing the embedded
image
into my application? That is news to me.
The reason I want to do it is irrelevant to my
question, but here it is: We have an animation
that
loads many images at once (external images).
Even
with the images in the browser's cache it is
drastically slowing down the application.
That embedded images are not loaded is exactly
the
point. We want to load a swf with several images
embedded in it, then use those
Re: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a textArea??
It does, but TextArea extends Sprite, not TextField. It uses the
UITextField via composition. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the textField
variable is protected. Additionally, the textField is selectable by
default. You could do:
package
{
import mx.controls.TextArea;
class MyTextArea extends TextArea
{
protected override function createChildren():void
{
super.createChildren();
textField.selectable = false;
}
}
}
And then use view:MyTextArea / instead.
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From: jpc14_99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:03 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a
textArea??
Thanks. That does make the textArea unselectable but unfortunately
it also wipes out my background color and text color. For the life
of me I don't understand why Flex doesn't have a simple selectable
attribute included with textArea.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Try this:
mx:TextArea enabled=false disabledColor=0x33
text=Some text /
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JClouz jclouser@ wrote:
I'm sorry to be a bother but this seems like it should be so easy
but its driving me nuts.
I want to get rid of selectability/i-beam mouseover cursor on a
textArea field.
With a Text component, you just set. myText.selectability = false.
How do I do it for a textArea field? Can it be done? I want to
use textArea instead of text because I need a background.
Please help!!!
Thanks so much.
Jamie
MKCNSC, inc.
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Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one MovieClip, use in another?
Hah! I don't care what anyone says, the Flex 1.5 docs are good.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/1157.htm
- Original Message -
From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer? Embed images in one
MovieClip, use in another?
Yahoo yuked on itself last night, so not sure if you
ever got your remote
shared libraries to work?
No, I was waiting to hear more from you about how to
do it. Based on your previous emails and those links
I now understand how attachMovie works (in conjunction
with Object.registerClass) and I can manipulate those
well (it's a pain because there's no error message if
you get the linkage name wrong!). But I'm not sure
what to do to explore remote shared libraries.
It's nice to hear Flash 9 fixes this problem, but
that's not something we will be allowed to take
advantage of for a long time, until we can be
confident most of our users have switched.
Thanks,
Greg
- Original Message -
From: G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Anyone know the answer?
Embed images in one
MovieClip, use in another?
Thanks. I believe duplicateMovie doesn't work.
From
the documentation of duplicateMovie:
If you have loaded a movie clip using
MovieClip.loadMovie() or the MovieClipLoader class,
the contents of the SWF file are not duplicated.
This
means that you cannot save bandwidth by loading a
JPEG
or SWF file and then duplicating the movie clip.
It baffles me why this is not allowed. Does anyone
know? My guess is the developers ran into some
issues
and decided the easiest way around it was to pretend
it was intended.
The further problem, as you say here, is I have to
move the clip around by hand, which eliminates the
entire reason to use Flex, to try to organize our
apps in a slightly object-oriented way.
I believe Jester said this a day or two as well,
that
assets cannot be shared. I'm starting to feel this
is
impossible with a capital I, but it still feels like
there may be some very low-level way to do
it--Remote
Shared Libraries?
The other option is to quit and get a job at
In-and-Out Burgers. I think I'm going to do that.
Greg
--- Shade Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In the past I've worked through this kind of
thing by loading external
.SWFs dynamically and duplicateMovieClip()ing (or
moving them) what I needed
to the appropriate positions. That was Flash 7. It
was ugly, but it worked
as long as you didn't need any fancy depth work.
Recently I've done similar stuff in Flash 8 using
BitmapData, which works
great (and pretty easily too) if you're working
with
simple bitmap images.
Actually, it should work well with generic
movieclips as well (see the ...
draw() method, I believe. Something like that).
I'm not aware of a Flex way to do what you want.
I
do hope there is one,
it is certainly lacking.
Cheers and good luck,
Pedro.
On 7/24/06, G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jester--
Your example here is exactly what we don't want
to
do.
We don't want to embed all the images we need
into
the swf--it makes the file size too big.
However, we don't want to load the images
dynamically
each time we need them--that's too slow.
Our application is a game that uses pictures.
Players
play the game for a while with one set of
images,
then
they change to a new set of images.
What we want is to have something like sets of
images that we can load one time then use
repeatedly.
So when the player first starts the game, they
will
get the images from Set1.swf (for example). Then
when
it's time to change images, we will load a new
set,
Set2.swf, etc.
We only want to load the new images one time,
because
we have to change the source property of Image
tags
repeatedly, and this is costly.
If you know another way to do this from what I
am
asking about, please tell me! But what we are
wondering is if it's possible to load a swf
containing
embedded images, then use those images in the
loading
(host) swf?
Thank you!
Greg
--- JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jesterxl%40jessewarden.com
wrote:
Don't use SWF's. Flex 1.5 2 have ways to
embed
them.
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my1_img:Class;
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my2_img:Class;
[Embed(my1.jpg)]
var my3_img:Class;
mx:Image id=img source={my1_img} /
Then, have some function swap:
function swapImage(val)
{
img.source = val;
}
swapImage(my1_img);
swapImage(my2_img);
swapImage(my3_img);
You could use setInterval, setTimeout, or
Timer
to
loop through those...
...or use a Flash generated SWF; whatever
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Pointing to Dynamic variables
Try:
this[ label + i ].text = xmlOut.zalozbe.zalozba[i];
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To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Pointing to Dynamic variables
Anyone?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, arnold_charming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I have 3 labels with three different IDs:
mx:Label id=label1
mx:Label id=label2
mx:Label id=label3
Now I want to use a for...loop statement to dynamicly get access to
these labels and change their .text property. Something like this:
for(var i:int = 0; i xmlOut.zalozbe.children().length(); i++)
{
txtZalozba[i].text = xmlOut.zalozbe.zalozba[i];
}
How can this be done?
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Re: [flexcoders] Flex2 Event Calendar
You could maybe snag this. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/khoyt/archives/2005/03/custom_calendar.cfm - Original Message - From: David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:31 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Flex2 Event Calendar I would like to write a event calendar app in flex 2. But I am not sure where to start. Does anyone have some examples or could you point me to the object to use. I was thinking a grid and then using it like a table in html, but not sure. David -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: dispatching TextEvent on image click
- import the event - create it - dispatch it Don't know the classpath, but something like: mx.events.TextEvent; var te:TextEvent = new TextEvent ( TextEvent.TEXT, false, true ); dispatchEvent(te); Then at the top of your class, do: [Event(name=TextSomething, type=mx.events.TextEvent)] Make sense? - Original Message - From: arnold_charming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:53 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: dispatching TextEvent on image click --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, arnold_charming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! How to dispatch a TextEvent when a user clicks on an image? Thank you. Can this be done? Tnx. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/3EuRwD/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] TextSnapshot not working in Flex 2
You don't... unless you use Flash. As far as x y, no clue, I suck at text. Maybe this? http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000620.php - Original Message - From: Jignesh Satra To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] TextSnapshot not working in Flex 2 Thats OK but then how do I have static text in Flex? Also, is there any other way to find X and Y co ordinates for a specific character in TextArea? Thanx in advance, Jignesh SatraJesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TextSnapshot is only for static text, not dynamic or input.- Original Message - From: "satrajignesh" satrajignesh@yahoo.comTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.comSent: Friday, July 21, 2006 1:23 AMSubject: [flexcoders] TextSnapshot not working in Flex 2Hi there,I have a TextArea which gets dynamically populated with text received from Server. At the client on some specific event I need to retrieve X and Y co ordinates of some text. There is property in TextArea called textSnapshot, but whenever I try to get it the character count is always Zero and hence doesn't help me. Anybody, has any ideas on this? or Have ever tried using text snapshot? or tried getting X,Y co ordinates of specific text in TextArea?Thanx in advance,Jignesh Satra--Flexcoders Mailing ListFAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txtSearch Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Image Pan - Step 1
2. If they are children, they too will scale. Add them to the Sprite's
displaylist.
3. We've done this successfully in Flex 1.5. In Flex 2, you can set the
toolTipClass on the ToolTipManager class to utilize your own class.
4. To combine multiple effects at the same time, utilize the mx:Parrellel
tag; it'll make all effects inside it happen at the same time (exluding
their own startDelay attributes).
Have you tried replacing x y with scrollRect?
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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Image Pan - Step 1
Hello,
I am new to the group and to Flex/Flash. We have a mapping tool that
we had created about a year back that uses flash 8. We want to move up
to Flex 2 for a number of reasons. I am trying to create the mapping
hello world application. We use a standard png image as the background
for the map. I am trying to create a simple image in a panel that has
a series of buttons to the left where I can zoom in/out and pan in all
directions. The zoom in/out is working fine (although I have questions
regarding that) but the pan is not working. My code is attached to the
bottom of this email message. Logically the steps I need to go through
to get this to work are:
1. Simple map - Image management Pan Zoom Possibly overview window
similar to Google or Yahoo.
2. Create an object that is a member of that map. This object needs to
be able to display itself as a number of different types (Images,
dots, characters). After reading through tutorials, I can create my
own object that descends from a sprite. My questions here are will the
dot zoom and coordinate based on the zoom, pan of the background map?
How can I make that happen?
3. More complex tooltips than the standard tooltips. I want a tooltip
that displays about 5-10 lines of information and possibly links to
other areas of the web site. Would you just create a separate window
to act as a tooltip window and place whatever information in the
window you need?
4. Incorporating effects to the movements of these objects. I've seen
the component explorer, I want the movement of these items on the map
to slide from one spot to the other. The demo app in the explorer
works well. How would you combine multiple effects to happen at the
same time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Step 1 Source Code
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=horizontal
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function panUp():void {
myMap.scrollRect.top -= 10;
trace(myMap.scrollRect);
if (myMap.scrollRect.top 0) {
myMap.scrollRect.top = 0;
}
}
private function panDown():void {
myMap.scrollRect.top += 10;
trace(myMap.scrollRect);
if (myMap.scrollRect.top 0) {
myMap.scrollRect.top = 0;
}
}
private function panRight():void {
myMap.scrollRect.left += 10;
trace(myMap.scrollRect);
if (myMap.scrollRect.left 0) {
myMap.scrollRect.left = 0;
}
}
private function panLeft():void {
myMap.scrollRect.left -= 10;
trace(myMap.scrollRect);
if (myMap.scrollRect.left 0) {
myMap.scrollRect.left = 0;
}
}
private function zoomIn():void {
myMap.scaleX += 0.1;
myMap.scaleY += 0.1;
}
private function zoomOut():void {
myMap.scaleX -= 0.1;
myMap.scaleY -= 0.1;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:VBox height=100%
mx:Button label=Left id=btnLeft click=panLeft()/
mx:Button label=Right id=btnRight click=panRight()/
mx:Button label=Up id=btnUp click=panUp()/
mx:Button label=Down id=btnDown click=panDown()/
mx:Spacer/
mx:Button label=Zoom In id=btnZoomIn click=zoomIn()/
mx:Button label=Zoom Out id=btnZoomOut click=zoomOut()/
/mx:VBox
mx:Panel width=100% height=100% layout=absolute
cornerRadius=33 backgroundColor=#c0c0c0 id=myPanel title=Map
Basics 101 fontFamily=Georgia fontSize=16
mx:Image horizontalCenter=20 verticalCenter=20 width=504
height=601 source=SB memorial map.png scaleContent=false
id=myMap/
/mx:Panel
/mx:Application
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a textArea??
Namespace the ho! Think of namespaces like imports.
import mx.controls.TextArea;
That allows you to do:
var a:TextArea = new TextArea();
So do like:
view:MyClass xmlns:view=your.package.path.* /
Or, if you are going to use MyClass multiple times, but the xmlns:view stuff
in your root tag so you only have to write it once.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a
textArea??
package
{
import mx.controls.TextArea;
class MyTextArea extends TextArea
{
protected override function createChildren():void
{
super.createChildren();
textField.selectable = false;
}
}
}
And then use view:MyTextArea / instead.
Thanks. I think I have this setup properly but now I'm getting a
The prefix view for element view:myTextArea is not bound
compiler error.
Is there something I'm missing so Flex can recognize my new class?
The class is packaged in with all of my other .as custom classes. I
can include it and recognize it in the Actionscript, but this view
command doesn't seem to be working in the mxml.
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Re: [flexcoders] What is the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection?
A drawer from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" that goes, "Dude, you just put something in me!". It does this by emitting an event, collectionChanged, when this happens. Controls can listen for this event and knowwhen the array is updatedin order to redraw themselves, like theDataGrid, List, etc. An Array is like a drawer in the real world. You can put something in it, but it doesn't talk to you. - Original Message - From: Bill Brown To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:59 PM Subject: [flexcoders] What is the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection? This is a pretty newbie programming question, but coming from an AS1/AS2 background I'm not familiar with the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection.Could someone please explain the difference, or suggest a URL that explains the difference? When I learned about arrays through Phillip Kerman's Actionscript book, he suggested that a "variable" was like a drawer that could hold data and an "array" was like a chest of drawers where you could reference each drawer with an index. What would an "arrayCollection" be in this analogy? Thanks,BB __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] What is the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection?
It also has some nice methods to help you put things in certain spots. You can add things via addItem just like Array.push, but it has cool methods like replaceItemAt, contains, and removeAll among others. All trigger this "collectionChanged" event. Finally, it implements some commonly used Interfaces which allows other controls to support ArrayCollection, making it just as flexible. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/mx/collections/ArrayCollection.html - Original Message ----- From: JesterXL To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection? A drawer from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" that goes, "Dude, you just put something in me!". It does this by emitting an event, collectionChanged, when this happens. Controls can listen for this event and knowwhen the array is updatedin order to redraw themselves, like theDataGrid, List, etc. An Array is like a drawer in the real world. You can put something in it, but it doesn't talk to you. - Original Message - From: Bill Brown To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:59 PM Subject: [flexcoders] What is the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection? This is a pretty newbie programming question, but coming from an AS1/AS2 background I'm not familiar with the difference between an Array and an ArrayCollection.Could someone please explain the difference, or suggest a URL that explains the difference? When I learned about arrays through Phillip Kerman's Actionscript book, he suggested that a "variable" was like a drawer that could hold data and an "array" was like a chest of drawers where you could reference each drawer with an index. What would an "arrayCollection" be in this analogy? Thanks,BB __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] Caringorm - Visual Flowchart Poster!
Only change homey is: - Command creates Delegate, and calls method on it, passing itself (usually) in as a responder - Delegate gets service from ServiceLocator, and then calls server - upon response, either massages it (via Factory) or just simply gives it back as is to the Command All in all, your diagram is pretty effective in showing the seperation as well as the circular nature. I agree with Mike; make that mofo bigger! - Original Message - From: Evan Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:33 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Caringorm - Visual Flowchart Poster! My fellow Flexcoders! After reading Steven's excellent article covering the Cairngorm architecture ( Start the 6-part series here - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/cairngorm_pt1.html ) I've started creating a flowchart tracing a Cairngorm Event from the Event Broadcaster with a data payload through the cairngorm process: Work in progress - you'll get the idea at least - http://www.undustrial.com/cairngorm.jpg This starts with the Front Controller, then to a Command Class, to the Service Locater and to the server . then back to the Command Class to the Model Locater and finally back to the view through data binding . hmm, I think that's right? Anyway, it occurs to me that someone may have already done this? If so, will you please post so I can make it into a poster (for re-post!)? If not, would someone be willing to collaborate with me (I'm totally new cairngorm)? Being half-designer-half-programmer, I'd love to create a downloadable PDF for us Flexcoders to use! Thanks! Evan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 7/24/2006 -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/7EuRwD/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a textArea??
TextArea just got owned.
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2006/07/nonselectable_t.html
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From: jpc14_99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:37 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: has anyone ever disabled selectability for a
textArea??
Thanks for all the help. I have it recognizing my class just fine
now. Unfortunately I'm getting this error:
Attempted access of inaccessible property textField through a
reference with static type...
So the class I'm using (below) isn't quite cutting it. Any ideas for
changes?
--
package
{
import mx.controls.TextArea;
public class myTextArea extends TextArea
{
protected override function createChildren():void {
textField.selectable = false;
super.createChildren();
}
}
}
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
Base class is like DisplayObjectContainer, but that's an abstract class;
both Sprite and MovieClip extend that. However, if you are using Flex,
there is no point to utilize MovieClip since you don't have frames; Sprite's
good. Also, the last line should be addChild(container), at least in an AS3
project.
...however, you have 2 choices here.
DisplayObjects are nice because you can put all of your map data in one
DisplayObject, and then move just that 1 Sprite, scale that 1 sprite, ect.
It makes your code really concise, and flexible because you can put anything
you want in it. Think how Yahoo Maps and Google Maps have like textures,
directions, lines, markers, etc. all in theirs.
...but tons of obects, while better in Flash Player 9, are still slower than
1 bitmap. If you aren't planning of going all charting-style, you outta
give thought to a blitting solution if you want her to scale hardcore. You
basically draw everything to an offscreen bitmap, and then use a Rect to
copyPixels into an on-screen bitmap. That way, you could add thousands of
objects, and you're map would run really well. Harder to code and less
flexible, though. Sprites and the DisplayObject really nice, so.
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From: richmcgillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Image Pan - Step 1
OK, just needed the right terms to search on. Found this in the help:
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
var container:Sprite = new Sprite();
container.name = container;
var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();
circle.name = circle;
circle.graphics.beginFill(0xFFCC00);
circle.graphics.drawCircle(40, 40, 40);
container.addChild(circle);
container.mouseChildren = false;
container.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clicked);
function clicked(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace(event.target.name); // container
}
Then, it states to add the container to the DisplayObject. This is
where I get confused. What is the base container class for the
DisplayList and how do I attach it? I don't think I need a movie clip
becuase it says it basically is a sprite with a timeline.
Rich
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. If they are children, they too will scale. Add them to the Sprite's
displaylist.
3. We've done this successfully in Flex 1.5. In Flex 2, you can set
the
toolTipClass on the ToolTipManager class to utilize your own class.
4. To combine multiple effects at the same time, utilize the
mx:Parrellel
tag; it'll make all effects inside it happen at the same time (exluding
their own startDelay attributes).
Have you tried replacing x y with scrollRect?
- Original Message -
From: richmcgillicuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Image Pan - Step 1
Hello,
I am new to the group and to Flex/Flash. We have a mapping tool that
we had created about a year back that uses flash 8. We want to move up
to Flex 2 for a number of reasons. I am trying to create the mapping
hello world application. We use a standard png image as the background
for the map. I am trying to create a simple image in a panel that has
a series of buttons to the left where I can zoom in/out and pan in all
directions. The zoom in/out is working fine (although I have questions
regarding that) but the pan is not working. My code is attached to the
bottom of this email message. Logically the steps I need to go through
to get this to work are:
1. Simple map - Image management Pan Zoom Possibly overview window
similar to Google or Yahoo.
2. Create an object that is a member of that map. This object needs to
be able to display itself as a number of different types (Images,
dots, characters). After reading through tutorials, I can create my
own object that descends from a sprite. My questions here are will the
dot zoom and coordinate based on the zoom, pan of the background map?
How can I make that happen?
3. More complex tooltips than the standard tooltips. I want a tooltip
that displays about 5-10 lines of information and possibly links to
other areas of the web site. Would you just create a separate window
to act as a tooltip window and place whatever information in the
window you need?
4. Incorporating effects to the movements of these objects. I've seen
the component explorer, I want the movement of these items on the map
to slide from one spot to the other. The demo app in the explorer
works well. How would you combine multiple effects to happen at the
same time?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Step 1 Source Code
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=horizontal
mx:Script
![CDATA[
private function panUp():void {
myMap.scrollRect.top -= 10
Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
My guess is that was done for filesize reasons. The resulting SWF is smaller since ActionScript bytecode is a lot smaller via lzw compression than a PNG/GIF via the same. While the drawing is more CPU intensive, you cut corners for filesize where you can, and I understand their justification. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows? update...had some pressing issues. looking at \frameworks\source\mx\skins\halo\DateChooserMonthArrowSkin.aslooks like this thing does not even use a graphic at all. Code in there actually draws the arrows! I suppose this way screen scaling is a non-issue. DK On 7/20/06, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right, but I really don't want to creat a new skin, I want ot use the existing skin so that it inherits all the Halo goodness, eh? I still have not got this working yet. Looking deeper into the source for the DateChooser and the DateChoser skin I have found that the code actually draws the arrow. The DateChooser code adds styles like prevMonthOverSkin and nextMonthOverSkin with default values. These styles names are expected in teh programmatic skin and do not exist in the Button class. So Jester, me got brave...not so brave as Mel Gibson mind you, I like me entrails! This is a excerpt:fwdMonthButton = new Button(); fwdMonthButton.styleName = this; fwdMonthButton.autoRepeat = true; fwdMonthButton.focusEnabled = false; fwdMonthButton.upSkinName = "nextMonthUpSkin"; fwdMonthButton.overSkinName = "nextMonthOverSkin"; fwdMonthButton.downSkinName = "nextMonthDownSkin"; fwdMonthButton.disabledSkinName = "nextMonthDisabledSkin";ugh where does Button.upSkinName come from? Its not in th edocs that i can see. DK On 7/20/06, juan sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: download the default skin here. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_skins.html On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Douglas Knudsen wrote: no workiehope jester's bag of tricks is deep! I looked around the Flex SDK source and see no arrow pngs at all, many other pngs though. My guess is the arrows are compiled in a swc somewheres, which means they should be 'grabable' eh? Be nice to use any graphics in the SDK in custom components to maintain the 'Flexiness', eh? What I'm trying to do is create a next/previous month browser. We have reports that users run on a month end basis, the datechoser is really not the right tool for this. I'm just using mxml to do this currently...suppose I will have to go off and lear the way of the force for building components soon. DK On 7/19/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm... try: mx:Button click="onPrev()" upSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin" / If that doesn't work, I have more ideas. The skin is already imported in the defaults.css , so she IS in there. - Original Message - From: Douglas Knudsen To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows? hmm, ok, I'm lost when it comes to fancy UI stuff :) How do you make use of this? mx:Button click="onPrev()" upSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin" /throws a def not found error. Do I import the sckin somehow? DK On 7/19/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found these digging in DateChooser.as. I'm assuming these skins are compiled into the base framework. Try using like DateChooserMonthArrowSkin as one of your upSkins and see what happens. * nextMonthDisabledSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"* nextMonthDownSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin" * nextMonthOverSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"* nextMonthUpSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"* nextYearDisabledSkin="DateChooserYearArrowSkin"* nextYearDownSkin="DateChooserYearArrowSkin" * nextYearOverSkin="DateChooserYearArrowSkin"* nextYearUpSkin="DateChooserYearArrowSkin"* prevMonthDisabledSkin="DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"* prevMonthDownSkin="
Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
I can't remember what email, but I showed the
CSS. Can't you just use the same DateChooser CSS?
NextButton
{
upSkin:
ClassReference("mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin");
downSkin: etc.
}
Then, just make a MXML file that extends
Button.
???
- Original Message -
From: Douglas
Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
gotcha! Now the question, I want to create a custom
component called NextButton that acts the same as the one in the DateChooser and
inherits the skin the same as the one in the DateChoser thus seemlessly
interacting with the Flex framework. Adobe has let loose the source code
for DateChooser. Does Adobe envision some of us copying some of their code
in order to fulfill such a community benefiting component? DK
On 7/24/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My guess is that was done for filesize
reasons. The resulting SWF is smaller since ActionScript bytecode is a
lot smaller via lzw compression than a PNG/GIF via the same. While the
drawing is more CPU intensive, you cut corners for filesize where you can, and
I understand their justification.
- Original Message -
From:
Douglas Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
update...had some pressing issues. looking at
\frameworks\source\mx\skins\halo\DateChooserMonthArrowSkin.aslooks like
this thing does not even use a graphic at all. Code in there actually
draws the arrows! I suppose this way screen scaling is a
non-issue. DK
On 7/20/06, Douglas
Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
right, but I really don't want to creat a new skin, I want ot use the
existing skin so that it inherits all the Halo goodness, eh? I
still have not got this working yet. Looking deeper into the source
for the DateChooser and the DateChoser skin I have
found that the code actually draws the arrow. The DateChooser code adds styles like prevMonthOverSkin and
nextMonthOverSkin with default values. These styles names are expected
in teh programmatic skin and do not exist in the Button class. So
Jester, me got brave...not so brave as Mel Gibson mind you, I like me
entrails! This is a excerpt:fwdMonthButton = new
Button();
fwdMonthButton.styleName =
this;
fwdMonthButton.autoRepeat =
true;
fwdMonthButton.focusEnabled =
false;
fwdMonthButton.upSkinName =
"nextMonthUpSkin";
fwdMonthButton.overSkinName =
"nextMonthOverSkin";
fwdMonthButton.downSkinName =
"nextMonthDownSkin";
fwdMonthButton.disabledSkinName = "nextMonthDisabledSkin";ugh
where does Button.upSkinName come from? Its not in th edocs that i can
see.
DK
On 7/20/06, juan
sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
download the default skin here.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_skins.html
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Douglas Knudsen wrote:
no
workiehope jester's bag of tricks is deep! I
looked around the Flex SDK source and see no arrow pngs at all, many
other pngs though. My guess is the arrows are compiled in a swc
somewheres, which means they should be 'grabable' eh? Be nice to
use any graphics in the SDK in custom components to maintain the
'Flexiness', eh? What
I'm trying to do is create a next/previous month browser. We have
reports that users run on a month end basis, the datechoser is really
not the right tool for this. I'm just using mxml to do this
currently...suppose I will have to go off and lear the way of the force
for building components soon. DK
On
7/19/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hrm...
try:
mx:Button
click="onPrev()" upSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"
/
If that
doesn't work, I have more ideas.
The
skin is already imported in the defaults.css , so she IS in
there.
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Original Message -
From:
Douglas
Knudsen
To:
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject: Re:
[flexcoders] Flex arrows?
hmm,
ok, I'm lost when it comes to fancy UI stuff :) How do you
make use of this? mx:Button
click="onPrev()"
upSkin=&
Re: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs
Flex 2 can utilize AMF0 or AMF3; you just set the ObjectEncoding. CF 7.0.2 can use AMF3; anything before only AMF0. Flex 2 can talk to both old CF and new CF. Talking to the old sucks from a client-side perspective. - Original Message - From: Battershall, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs OK, gotcha, but I suppose the other issue is what version of AMF is availble server-side. I'm getting the impression that AMF3 is necessary both on the client and server in Flex 2.0 - am I right about that? Jeff -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Chiverton Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs On Monday 24 July 2006 15:02, Battershall, Jeff wrote: Obviously, FDS would be a preferred way of integrating with CF if available, Dunno about that. There is a difference betwen granular record editing, and service invocation - FDS is better* for the former, remoting for the later. -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
No, you're not missing anything obvious, it's just
hard to keep track of past email discussions on this topic, sorry.
You have a choice; either go dig in the Button
class to see how they are rotating the arrow, wait for me to do it this evening,
or go take 2 minutes to create the arrows yourself, and use bitmap
skins.
I'd vote for the later: Quick, no dependencies, and
it'll get you a solution that works sooner than later. You're not using
the framework, but it's a frikin' arrow, whoop-dee-doo, know what I'm
sayin'?
Just go into your image editing program (Fireworks
/ Photoshop):
- create arrow, both left and right
- save as PNG with transparency
- embed as the upSkin for NextButton next arrow,
and left arrow for the PrevButton
If you set those in the CSS, you'll be able to
do:
view:PrevButton /
view:NextButton /
And they'll automatically use the skin. This
reduces the amount of code you'll need to write and makes it easy to modify the
arrow application wide later. The DateChooser's arrow shouldn't be that
hard to duplicate.
- Original Message -
From: Douglas
Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
did that?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?mx:Button xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
upSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin "
downSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"
overSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"
disabledSkin="mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin"
styleName="DateChooser"
autoRepeat="true" focusEnabled="false"
/mx:Buttonall it does is display a arrow. Can't tell
it to use left or right arrow and no button skin. Am I missing something
really obvious? DK
On 7/24/06, JesterXL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I can't remember what email, but I showed the
CSS. Can't you just use the same DateChooser CSS?
NextButton
{
upSkin:
ClassReference("mx.skins.halo.DateChooserMonthArrowSkin");
downSkin:
etc.
}
Then, just make a MXML file that extends
Button.
???
- Original Message -
From:
Douglas Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
gotcha! Now the question, I want to create a
custom component called NextButton that acts the same as the one in the
DateChooser and inherits the skin the same as the one in the DateChoser thus
seemlessly interacting with the Flex framework. Adobe has let loose the
source code for DateChooser. Does Adobe envision some of us copying some
of their code in order to fulfill such a community benefiting component?
DK
On 7/24/06, JesterXL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My guess is that was done for filesize
reasons. The resulting SWF is smaller since ActionScript bytecode is a
lot smaller via lzw compression than a PNG/GIF via the same. While the
drawing is more CPU intensive, you cut corners for filesize where you can,
and I understand their justification.
- Original Message -
From:
Douglas Knudsen
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex arrows?
update...had some pressing issues. looking at
\frameworks\source\mx\skins\halo\DateChooserMonthArrowSkin.aslooks like
this thing does not even use a graphic at all. Code in there actually
draws the arrows! I suppose this way screen scaling is a
non-issue. DK
On 7/20/06, Douglas
Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
right, but I really don't want to creat a new skin, I want ot use the
existing skin so that it inherits all the Halo goodness, eh?
I still have not got this working yet. Looking deeper into
the source for the DateChooser and the DateChoser
skin I have found that the code actually draws the arrow. The DateChooser code adds styles like prevMonthOverSkin and
nextMonthOverSkin with default values. These styles names are
expected in teh programmatic skin and do not exist in the Button
class. So Jester, me got brave...not so brave as Mel Gibson mind
you, I like me entrails! This is a excerpt:fwdMonthButton
= new
Button();
fwdMonthButton.styleName =
this;
fwdMonthButton.autoRepeat =
true;
fwdMonthButton.focusEnabled =
false;
fwdMonthButton.upSkinName =
"nextMonthUpSkin";
fwdMonthButton.overSkinName =
"nextMonthOverSkin";
fwdMonthButton.downSkinName =
"nextMonthDownSkin";
fwdMonthButton.disabledSkinName = "nextMonthDisabledSkin";ugh
where does Button.upSkinName come from? Its n
Re: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs
Ability to pass custom objects. I've written over 800 lines of code for Factories to convert CFC structs to ValueObjects in the past 6 months. It sucks, is a pain in the ass, and it sucks... did I mention I hate debugging data-type conversions? I'm sure with AMF3's 30-50% reducation in filesize over the wire vs. AMF0, performance would be better too. ColdFusion 7.0.2, 4 teh w1n!!! - Original Message - From: Battershall, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs Jessie, When you say, talking to the old sucks from a client-side perspective are we talking performance or the ability to pass custom objects or what? Jeff -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JesterXL Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:20 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs Flex 2 can utilize AMF0 or AMF3; you just set the ObjectEncoding. CF 7.0.2 can use AMF3; anything before only AMF0. Flex 2 can talk to both old CF and new CF. Talking to the old sucks from a client-side perspective. - Original Message - From: Battershall, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs OK, gotcha, but I suppose the other issue is what version of AMF is availble server-side. I'm getting the impression that AMF3 is necessary both on the client and server in Flex 2.0 - am I right about that? Jeff -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Chiverton Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:20 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Still Fuzzy about Flex 2.0 and CFCs On Monday 24 July 2006 15:02, Battershall, Jeff wrote: Obviously, FDS would be a preferred way of integrating with CF if available, Dunno about that. There is a difference betwen granular record editing, and service invocation - FDS is better* for the former, remoting for the later. -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
