Re: [flexcoders] File Upload Error in mozilla

2007-10-01 Thread Kelly Birr
I spent a long time on a very siilar problem in the early days of Flex 2. After hours of intercepting and reviewing HTTP(s) requests, the only diffrence I've noticed between Mozilla and IE with Flex file uploads is that Mozilla does not send *any* cookies to the server on the data post. There

Re: [flexcoders] Date - Timezone with WS

2007-05-16 Thread Kelly Birr
Paul, I gave up making sense of the way Flex 2 handles dates from web services almost a year ago and stated passing them as strings. I brought this up many times during the beta and since then and have never seen a good solution for getting Flex to stop mucking with the timezone. The other b

Re: [flexcoders] Flex on Vista?

2007-05-11 Thread Kelly Birr
I've been running Windows Vista since mid-November 2006. I find it to be more stable and reliable than Windows XP. I do still have a few compatibility problems with some programs and hardware devices who's manufacturers have not released updates, but this is to be expected with any new Windows

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?

2007-04-28 Thread Kelly Birr
Silverlight does not require IE. It workes on IE and Firefox under Windows, and Safari for Mac. I also understand Firefox for Mac support is expected soon (if I've not already missed it). It has extensive cross platform functionality including streaming video support. It also has the advant

Re: [flexcoders] Http Compression for Flex

2007-03-25 Thread Kelly Birr
Yes, I use IIS6 built in GZip compression with Flex with no problems. We're using Flex WebServices and HttpServices against .NET Web Services. I did have to manually edit the IIS6 Metabase.xml to include ASMX and ASHX in the list of dynamically compressible extensions. The configuration req

Re: [flexcoders] Data Grid and .NET web Service Issue

2007-03-12 Thread Kelly Birr
This is what i do: var myCollection:ArrayCollection; var myTable:Object = event.result.diffgram.NewDataSet.Table; if (myTable is ArrayCollection) myCollection = myTable as ArrayCollection; else myCollection= new ArrayCollection( [ myTable ] ); myDataGrid.dataProvider = myColleciton; - Kelly s

Re: [flexcoders] Re:Do I *REALLY* need Flex Data Services for WebServices?

2007-01-29 Thread Kelly Birr
If you intercept the response from your web services and change the HTTP Status Code to 200 flex will receive and display the true SOAP Exception. I am currently doing this in my .NET mid-tier applications. I'm not really sure how to do it on any other platform, but I must assume it's possible

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 issues on Windows 2005 Tablet PC Edition

2006-12-02 Thread Kelly Birr
There is a "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005", it's the name given to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with SP2 installed. That is what i run on My Toshia Portege M200 and I do run flex 2.0 applicaitons on it and it seems to run perfectly. I admittedly rarely use the pan/tablet features and coul

[flexcoders] Flex Builder with Vista RTM

2006-11-27 Thread Kelly Birr
All, Has anyone else tried getting Flex builder 2.0 to work on Windows Vista RTM. I'd had a few problems and i wanted to share my findings and see if anyone else has had smiler experiences. Please note that I have Vista's UAC (User Account Control) turned OFF, as many of my developer tools (

Re: [flexcoders] Firefox + Network debugging + you

2006-08-03 Thread Kelly Birr
brilliant, thanks for the heads up! james_dhap wrote: > Hey All, > I found an amazing tool last night that helped us track down an > issue with a deployment of our app on our testing servers. We were > getting strange HTTP faults that only occured on the testing server > and it was impossible

RE: [flexcoders] SOAP messaging in Flex

2006-07-26 Thread Kelly Birr
I am using HTTPS for SOAP web services with Flex 2 without problem. I can only assume this is wording issue in the docs, probably should read HTTP/HTTPS. - Kelly -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2

RE: [flexcoders] Data Paging without FDS

2006-07-21 Thread Kelly Birr
What mid-tier technology do you use? - Kelly -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nigasak Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 2:41 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Data Paging without FDS Is it posible Data Paging with

RE: [flexcoders] Re: ACcess SOAP fault code

2006-07-12 Thread Kelly Birr
I should specify that this is ASP.NET 2.0,  I'm not sure if this would work in ASP.NET 1.0/1.1   - Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly BirrSent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:16 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: ACce

[flexcoders] Flex 2.0 component in Flash 8

2006-07-12 Thread Kelly Birr
I have a client that would like to embed a small Flex 2.0 app I've built inside their existing Flash 8 movie.  I'm not very familiar with normal Flash.    I know Flex 2 can import components built in flash and/or load Flash SWF files via the SWFLoader component.  Is there a similar mecha

RE: [flexcoders] Re: ACcess SOAP fault code

2006-07-11 Thread Kelly Birr
It works!   To make real fault codes available in Flex 2.0 (RTM) from .NET web services put the following code (C#) in your Global.asax void Application_PreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e){ if (Response.StatusCode != 200){ // fix response code for flex    string

RE: [flexcoders] Re: RPC result paging - please, help

2006-07-07 Thread Kelly Birr
be in the process of doing something similar. Care to share your c# code. would be very appreciated. regards Bod --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry, > > I've done it from ASP.NET to Flex 2.0 without FDS by cachi

RE: [flexcoders] Does Flex 2 support dynamic WSDL locations?

2006-07-07 Thread Kelly Birr
Yes, its quite easy actually, I do it everywhere is my app. Attached is a simple dialog from my app that demonstrates the technique. I preload the xml config file into a static object called FX.AppCfg.current.config using a simple HTTPService with a relative path to the app url then I can pull th

RE: [flexcoders] Re: RPC result paging - please, help

2006-07-06 Thread Kelly Birr
://www.themidnightcoders.com/articles/datamanagement-part2.htm cheers, Joe --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry, > > I've done it from ASP.NET to Flex 2.0 without FDS by caching the Datasets in > memory on the Application S

RE: [flexcoders] Re: RPC result paging - please, help

2006-07-06 Thread Kelly Birr
Dmitry, I've done it from ASP.NET to Flex 2.0 without FDS by caching the Datasets in memory on the Application Server and sending pages to the UI as requested. It works very well but it uses a lot of memory and CPU time on the mid-tier servers and took a bit of code for the server-side threading r

RE: [flexcoders] iFrame

2006-07-06 Thread Kelly Birr
Here is the code I'm using for IFrames in Flex2, I have no idea if posing code like this is appropriate for this list or not. If not, would someone please let me know. This is basically just a port of the Flex 1.5 sample from http://coenraets.com/viewarticle.jsp?articleId=95 put into a Flex 2.0 A

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Shift-tabbing not working in Firefox with wmode=opaque

2006-07-05 Thread Kelly Birr
I am having the exact same problem in Firefox.  I must set WMode=Opaque for IFRames to work but that makes Shift+Tab not work correctly throughout the rest of the application.  This is not the case for IE6.   - Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta 3 WebService Result

2006-07-05 Thread Kelly Birr
dl that pertains to the question. Sorry about the formatting. Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, most likely. What does your WSDL element

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta 3 WebService Result

2006-07-04 Thread Kelly Birr
ence it by lastResult.items.item.category instead of lastResult.items.item[0]. Any ideas on why I am getting complex strings? Is this something to do with how my wsdl is structured? Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you set

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Beta 3 WebService Result

2006-07-03 Thread Kelly Birr
If you set makeObjectsBindable="false" and resultFormat="object" in the webservice tag you should get arrays of objects. - Kelly -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of someguy7_7 Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 2:37 PM To: flexcoders@yaho

RE: [flexcoders] Re: adding a service to open for ComboBox

2006-06-30 Thread Kelly Birr
Hi Rodney, I can think of 2 possible ways to handle this based on my experience with combo boxes. 1) Fill the data provider in the focusIn event (should work, don't know if it's appropriate for your app.) 2) Create a composite control based on Canvas with a transparent Box over the top of the Co

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding WSDL?

2006-06-29 Thread Kelly Birr
SDL load that can be overridden? - Kelly -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Birr Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:17 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding WSDL? Tim, I agree that actually embedding t

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding WSDL?

2006-06-29 Thread Kelly Birr
event listening mechanism that links to the instance of the component. This allows for multiple components to go about thier own business, without affecting each other. Just another .02. Good luck with your solution. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROT

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding WSDL?

2006-06-29 Thread Kelly Birr
d on Jeff Tapper's DataManager class: > > http://jeff.mxdj.com/as3datamanagerfix.htm > > I changed the logic to get the wsdl, when the application loads, to cut > a few seconds off of the initial data call. It appears that once the > wsdl is loaded, the webservice doesn

[flexcoders] Embedding WSDL?

2006-06-28 Thread Kelly Birr
Is it possible to somehow embed WSDL in the compiled SWF, or read/write the actual WSDL directly to the web services without them having to request it via HTTP at runtime?   Can I bind the WSDL to a string that I manually request via UrlLoader?   Along with that if I have 15 different web

RE: [flexcoders] Icons in menu - not working

2006-06-28 Thread Kelly Birr
I found my problem.  It appears that the menu cannot bind to static vars for images.  I solved the problem by specifying { public const myMenuIcon:Class = GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon; }  where GlobalIcons.MyCoolIcon is declared exactly as below. Then pout the local name "myMenuIcon" in the @ic

[flexcoders] Icons in menu - not working

2006-06-28 Thread Kelly Birr
I've been racking my brain trying to get icons in the menu bar.  I think I'm doing exactly what the docs say but I cannot get any icon to render.  The label and actions work perfectly but the icon does not show up.  The icon is embedding properly as I can see it in the "icon" property of

RE: [flexcoders] Serialization bug in release

2006-06-28 Thread Kelly Birr
I'm sending myArrayCollection.toArray() to web services without problem, I don't know if that will help you or not.   - Kelly From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen RiddleSent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:01 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Difference between two dates

2006-06-26 Thread Kelly Birr
n two dates Hi Kelly, For simple comparisons there is are compare() and dateCompare() functions in the mx.utils.ObjectUtil class. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Birr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes thank you, this is helpful. I did already have some rout

RE: [flexcoders] Difference between two dates

2006-06-26 Thread Kelly Birr
//jeff.mxdj.com/datediff_for_actionscript.htmperhaps this would be helpful.DK On 6/26/06, Kelly Birr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you do not wish to change the Date class so it will conform to a (terrible) standard, I can sort of understand that.     Would you please consider the possibility of addin

RE: [flexcoders] Re: About dates sent to a webservice. Is this correct?

2006-06-26 Thread Kelly Birr
We're also using .NET 2.0 but our web services do not return time zone information. They just send "2006-06-26T10:38:54". - Kelly -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Tuppeny Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:41 AM To: flexcoders@y

RE: [flexcoders] please help me

2006-06-25 Thread Kelly Birr
[Getting Started with Flex 2] http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/flex/2/getting_started_w ith_flex2.pdf [Programming Action Script 3] http://www.macromedia.com/go/programmingAS3_pdf There are apparently a few Flex 2.0 books coming out this summer. - Kelly __