Hard to say for sure without seeing the WSDL, but it looks like a Flex bug.
I'd suggest posting a bug report and include a .NET sample that causes the
bug to appear, along with WSDL, and the Flex project. Everything should be
abbreviated to only include code necessary to reproduce the bug.
Flex Builder 3 has a tool to generate strongly typed classes from WSDL (as
of Beta 2), Import Web Service (WSDL).
HTH,
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All of the . commands available in the sqlite3.exe command line app are
implemented by the command line application code itself, not core SQLite,
and as such are not available via AIR. This includes things like .import,
.dump, .read, etc.
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I would strongly suggest switching to Flex Builder 3, even if you keep using
Flex 2 SDK. Flex Builder 3 has improved .NET integration and will launch
your application from the web site all the time, that way you never need to
swap the URL's for dev vs production, just use relative URL's all the
The only way to stream MP4 video to Flash Player is through Flash Media
Server.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/
There have been some successful experiments in emulating the seek-ing
ability of streaming by using progressive download and building new videos
on the fly based on
, the easier it is to
have code that releases listeners, references, etc.
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Subject: RE: [flexcoders] destructing objects / memory management
The only streaming video supported by Flash Player is via RTMP. It should
support RTSP but doesn't.
Make a request for RTSP support here: http://adobe.com/go/wish
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Saying Flash supports seamless upgrades can be misleading.
My experience has been that if a computer has an older Flash player
installed, especially 6 or 7, then there is some obstacle that is preventing
it from upgrading. This most often is required admin rights of users logged
in or some
Every framework will have it's proponents. You'll have better luck by
trying them out yourself in a real application and making your own decision.
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Actually if you want to use them in Flash then I think the first method I
mentioned of using an ActionScript project is the only option. Flash CS3
has it's own framework that is not compatible with the Flex framework and
thus if you want to create components for Flash you need to use the Flash
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:59:26AM -0500, Samuel R. Neff wrote:
Using direct HTTP calls to MSSQL requires embedding sql server
username
As Alex implied, CSS support is provided by the Flex framework, not Flash
player. If you don't use the Flex framework, then you can't use CSS other
than specifically within Flash's built-in text boxes.
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You can save to a local shared object (see SharedObject.getLocal()) but not
to a file or format of your choosing. Also there's a strict limit on how
much data you can store (which the user can change).
LSO is like a cookie on steroids.
For anything other than that you need AIR or any of the
Using direct HTTP calls to MSSQL requires embedding sql server
username/password into the swf which is not a good idea.
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4) Find a new job (we're closed for the holidays too, same dates)
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If you need to create really small SWFs for something then you can create an
ActionScript project and use only Flash core classes/APIs. This isn't good
if you're doing any kind of real application, but it can be helpful if you
need to make some kind of tiny swf. For example, we use a small SWF
The one really important thing to remember when developing for a touch
screen is to keep the hit area for your buttons large.
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CF8's access to .NET dll's is through a separate windows process so the call
requires IPC which would not be required using a native .NET back end.
Unless you're already using CF and need to use some .NET code, there's no
reason to start using CF to interoperate with .NET from Flex. Fluorine is
I've seen it before and never was able to track it down. I ended up
switching to a nested Tile/Repeater instead which actually worked better for
the situation anyways.
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you can't put a databinding expression in the middle of a script block. Try
this instead:
mx:LinkButton label={extLink} data={extLinkURL}
click=loadXternalURL(LinkButton(event.currentTarget).data as String)
id=LinkBtn2 /
HTH,
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change your binding to be {_cartItem.toy.getDescription()} directly (which
is implied to work from your definition of Toy, but not the same as your
original binding).
Then change getDescription() to define a specific bindable event:
[Bindable(getDescriptionChanged)]
public function
You'll need to add the Bindable metadata to both getDescription on Toy() as
well as CartItem() and within your CartItem class you need to listen for the
changed event within Toy and rebroadcast a new changed event from CartItem
when the contained Toy change it's description.
HTH,
Sam
public
Application.application actually is not the root display object from the
Flash's display list perspective. SystemManager is and you can get a
reference to it through the systemManager property defined on UIComponent.
Not sure I would suggest drawing on it, but technically that's the root.
Yeah, VisualSVN really is nice. It's commercial but works really well and
they have amazing support. For example, VS2008 was just released and there
were some reports of problems with VisualSVN not working with VS2008 (not
too surprising) and they fixed all the problems and put out a new
I don't know what data you're trying to encrypt/decrypt but when we tried
using SHAxxx hashing in both AS3 and C# we ended up with problems any time
the source data had characters beyond ascii 127 character set. The
encryption algorithms in .NET deal with bytes and even though we had tried
using
Not Mac, but hope this helps...
For eclipse we use Subclipse. It's ok--get's job done--but a lot of times
when we want to use more advanced features of Subversion we feel it's easier
to open Windows Explorer and use TortoiseSVN.
In Visual Studio we use VisualSVN which is a TortoiseSVN
.NET does this and it comes in handy (although usually in situations that
would not apply in Flex, such as threading and switching contexts). I agree
that if data is stored internally, it should be made available.
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you can create your own class like TransparentEventDispatcher which
implements IEventDispatcher and internally contains an EventDispatcher
object and maintains it's own list of listeners when they are added/removed.
Feasible but shouldn't be necessary. Of course if you need to combine this
We use Charles and it's wonderful, especially when working with AMF data.
http://www.xk72.com/charles/
HTH,
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The better approach is to use bindings so the target is updated whenever the
source (height) changes, regardless of why it changed.
Moving from AS2 to AS3 is sometimes harder than learning AS3 from
scratch--don't think about how you did things before but learn how Flex does
things. In general
There's a bug in FB3 where the license dialog doesn't recognize when you
paste a serial number, you actually have to type something into the text
input to get it to validate the serial number. The bug isn't publicly
viewable in Adobe's bugbase (I assume because it's under Licensing).
HTH,
Sam
Our build script generates a one line revision.js file which has the text
var svnRevision='xxx'; with the appropriate revision number. Then in the
htm file we changed the JS call:
AC_FL_RunContent(
src, myswf? + svnRevision,
width, 100%,
Are you only looking for public-facing Flex apps or examples of companies
that are using Flex and the related products? Our products use a pure Flex
front end:
http://blinemedical.com/
We've talked about them at some user groups and at an Inspire session at
MAX.
HTH,
Sam
We have a DataGrid with variableRowHeight and wordWrap turned on and when
the grid is first displayed many of the rows on the first page are given
much more height than they require (3-4 times as much). Typically each row
only really needs one row worth of height, the variable row height and
I don't know if changing the parameter will work or not, and if it did work,
what you would actually put on your internal page to allow installing the
plugin without going to adobe.com (especially due to previously mentioned
legal concerns).
Sam
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I don't know if this is still the case, but in the past installation of the
Flash Player was very tightly controlled. There was an agreement available
that allowed deployment through automated push or by internal hosting, but
it required signing a contract (no money, just license) and the
That's called Flash Paper. It's a format developed by Macromedia that
basically competes with PDF and was touted as a much faster and smaller way
to share content on the web. When Adobe bought Macromedia, Flash Paper
pretty much died (not surprising) but apparently is resurrected in Share
Why not? Is it 'cause your app runs from the file system within flexbuilder
and the web host in production/test? If that's the case then move to Flex
Builder 3 and set up your project with the right server-side bindings, then
when you run/debug from FlexBuilder it will invoke it through the web
Flex does not talk to a database directly (except with AIR but I gather
you're talking about a web app). Flex talks to a back end which then can
talk to a database. Flex works really well with pretty much any back end,
so if you're familiar with .NET stick to that, no reason to go to FDS/LCDS
CSS is loaded at compile time, not runtime.
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Flash doesn't support RTL (the next version will, but also remember that
even when Flash is updated, if you're using Flex you'll need to wait for a
corresponding Flex framework update as well).
There have been some experiments with hacks in Flash but I haven't seen
anything yet in Flex. Here's
This is a very important missing piece in the reflection API. :(
Another workaround option is to use a build script to pre-process the AS
files and provide a list of classes as an array of strings or something.
Much easier than parsing the SWF (is it even possible to parse SWF in AS3
given
I believe Buzzword uses JavaScript for clipboard interaction for this
reason...
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The docs for uncompress() are not clear how it deals with the position of
the byte array. The docs are better in Flex 3 than Flex 2 but the new
addition seems to indicate it tries to decompress the entire byte array
which would cause failure in the case of a SWF since the first two headers
for
neat, thanks for sharing. :-)
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From:
We have a Version.as file which gets updated through a build script when we
make a build so we get compiled time and SVN version number.
HTH,
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You could try Eclipse 3.3.. I don't know of any changes why it would work in
one or the other, but I have a MS Wireless Natural Laser Mouse 7000 and
don't have problems with Eclipse scrolling (and I previously had a MS
Wireless Laser 6000 and similarly no problems).
I the past I had problems
What code does FB2 have that FB3 doesn't? I thought FB3 was only missing
RPC classes which also were not included in FB2.
Also, even if you don't have source, step through and step out works, so you
can get back to your code even after you hit a point you don't have code
for.
Sam
You can provide groups through a custom item renderer. The renderer should
be able to detect whether a particular item represents a group or individual
item and highlight or indent as appropriate.
HTH,
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What do you mean Subclipse doesn't work with Flex Builder? Our whole team
uses Flex Builder and Subclipse without problems (some use FB standalone,
some use plugin version of FB).
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ah, that's the format the old Flash Recordset class used so it makes sense
that AMFPHP would use the same format. Fluorine provides support for both
that style and for ArrayCollection of Object instances which is more Flex
friendly. My suggestion would be to create a Recordset implementation
We use Fluorine and NetConnection directly.. much smaller than using the mx
rpc classes and is more future proof since NetConnection is built into the
player and won't change whereas rpc classes don't even have source available
and have a history of breaking stuff in hotfixes with 3rd party AMF
When building for Flex 2 SDK it's either the same or slower--I'm not 100%
sure which. It feels slower but that's just a gut feeling, not something I
tested.
When building for Flex 3 SDK it's faster due to improvements in the Flex 3
SDK. We tried developing against Flex 3 SDK and then testing
If you're providing a fully qualified class name and method, then you're
calling an assembly (good). If you're providing the URL for an ASMX or WSDL
file then you're calling a web service (not as good). It's also possible to
call an ASPX but that's really bad and removed from the forthcoming
Paul,
I don't think you should have to do any conversion, recent versions of
Fluorine support sending DataSet and DataTable objects to Flex and are
normally received as an ArrayCollection of Objects (optionally it can
specify typed objects).
The object structure you're seeing is what I've seen
I have both installed and haven't noticed any issues. I mostly use Flex
Builder 3 as it can target both Flex 2 and Flex 3 SDK's.
The only time I've used Flex Builder 2 recently is when I found a bug that
only affects projects created in Flex 2 and then migrated to Flex 3--other
than that I
Wrap it inside an mx:Object tag as in the following example:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=vertical
mx:Button label=Test click=trace('instantiated: ' +
(textDeferred.parent ? 'Yes' : 'No')) /
mx:Button
The ASP.NET wizard uses MSSQL 2005. You can try using that wizard to first
create a connection, and then use that connection to try to create a PHP app
from the MSSQL connection. I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a
try.
There's also a Data Source Explorer explorer (show view
If you're comfortable with PHP and AMFPHP then continue to use that.
There's no need to switch to LCDS, Java, or CF for LDAP integration.
http://php.net/ldap
Of course if you want to switch then personally I would suggest Fluorine and
.NET. :-)
Sam
I'd suggest creating three projects, one for Flex, one for Air, and one
Shared. Flex and Air project can reference Shared (either as a library or
as a source path). That will also help prevent accidentally referencing
Flex/Air specific code from something that's supposed to be Shared.
HTH,
Jeff,
I can't help with your specific problem, but have a general suggestion
related to requesting technical help and software discussions...
Single Sign-On has a specific meaning in software and is very different
from what you're describing (it's related to one-time-authentication
allowing
Unless there have been some recent changes, the AIR HTML component only
supports Flash Player and PDF embedded content. No java applets or activex
controls or any other plugins.
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The second param to NetConnection.call is not a function but a reference to
a flash.net.Responder instance (or subclass). Try this instead:
import flash.net.Responder;
private function SendUserMessage():void {
ChatServer_nc.call(SendUserMessage, new
Responder(SendMessageResponder),
Web Services do not create custom VO's in Flex 2 or in Flex 3 prior to Beta
2. The RemoteClass tag that Jim Hayes mentioned is only for remoting.
In Flex 3 beta 2 there are two new options for working with compile-time
objects and web services:
1. WSDL Importer. You can use the WSDL importer
I wrote up a blog post with examples of how to use SchemaTypeRegistry to get
custom vo's from a web service. Hope this helps.
http://labs.atellis.com/2007/10/05/use-custom-value-objects-with-web-service
s-in-flex-3-beta-2
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Sorry, I only know it's possible, don't know how to do it. I assume there's
an AIR-specific mailing list that would help target the right people.
Best regards,
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If they want you to rewrite the apps in a language you don't know before you
leave in just a month, that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Since the
rest of the company presumably has experience with jsp/java, they can
rewrite the apps after you leave (certainly any arguments you make will be
Within a single Flex application and browser instance the only option is to
have the user expand the browser across both screens and manage content
manually, which would be very difficult since there's no easy way to know
where the screen divider is.
An alternative is to create two Flex
FlexBuilder 3 beta 2 also has an AS3 code generator based on WSDL.
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/09/flex-3beta-2-crud-wizard-for-aspnet-php.ph
p
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Flex 2 existed long before Flash CS3. Looks like it was made up for the
Flex example and then later incorporated into the Flash CS3 library but not
Flex's library.
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There's a bug in the divided box which displays the full player context menu
on right click. It's marked as fixed in Moxie M3 (Beta 2).
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-11760
HTH,
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Our whole team is going--well, except for the one developer who is scheduled
to have a baby a few days later. :-)
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One thing we learned from one of the adobe guys is that when you have build
automatically turned on and you hit save twice, the second time Flex Builder
has to wait till the first recompile finished before it can start a second.
So it sounds weird, but by being aware of when we hit save and
In order to know what you're doing incorrectly you'll need to post some
code. Binding to ArrayCollection.length normally works fine.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=vertical
mx:Script
![CDATA[
The default value and NULL are very different things. NULL means the data
point is not known or not set yet. If you just use the default values then
there is no way to differentiate between a 0 value that is there because it
happens to be the default or a 0 value that is correctly zero based on
Troy,
Thanks for the additional comment but remember I am not the original
poster.. someone asked a question for how people work with nullable
primitives and I provided a response on how I particularly do it (which of
course is only one of many possibilities). We've been using MIN_VALUE for
We use xxx.MIN_VALUE to represent null on both client and server (.NET).
We've been doing it in .NET for several years and now with Flex integration
it works very well. Of course everyone needs to recognize that MIN_VALUE is
being used this way and if you actually had to store MIN_VALUE then you
It's not sloppy, it's just how floating point numbers work. Try the same
thing in other programming languages and you still will not get zero (unless
they round the output). For example, .NET reports the result as
6.12303176911189E-17.
Sam
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IconUtility Component for Dynamic Run-Time Icons
http://blog.benstucki.net/?p=42
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I couldn't find it in my install folder either.. where is it supposed to be?
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mx.utils.StringUtil.substitute()
HTH,
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Flex and MXML are used for creating rich internet applications. The other
things you mentioned are all static documents. While it's certainly
feasible to convert MXML to the other formats, you will have to greatly
limit what you do in MXML in order to achieve this goal--particularly using
AMF3 is a new format and is more compact than AMF0. It doesn't duplicate
custom class definitions or strings and has some other optimizations.
AMF0 is still good though and more efficient than any non-binary
communications (ie AJAX XML or JSON).
HTH,
Sam
Troy's suggestion would not require making everything thread-safe. He
proposed a mechanism where by you could create a worker object which can act
only on it's internal data which means thread safety is preserved. The
other nice thing about this solution is it could be done through new player
We don't use FDS. There are many alternatives like WebORB, OpenAMF, Red5,
AMFPHP, Fluorine.
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/weborb/
http://osflash.org/projects
And of course Flex supports Web Services, XML over HTTP, XMLSocket, binary
Socket, and other communication mechanisms.
In our
It's not well documented, but basically you create a NetConnection, set the
encoding, and run NetConnection.call() where the first param is the fully
qualified class and method name and remaining params are the params to pass
on to the server side method.
See classes below (watch wrapping).
The problem with .NET and Flex is Adobe's stance that FDS is needed to build
enterprise-class applications and that Remoting only works with FDS, both
of which are flat out wrong.
If Adobe isn't willing to make a .NET version of FDS then they should
embrace the many options available to
2 seconds??? Is that really how long an average PHP method call is? We
don't use PHP here but we aim for all method calls total being under 200ms
and average a bit lower. 2 seconds for a remoting call seems extremely
slow.
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apollocoders
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/
Adobe's Apollo Forum
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72catid
=641
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You don't need to bother with HTTPS or encryption if you use a
challenge-response methodology. For that simple Hashing will do (AS3
corelib has a SHA256 implementation among others). Servers sends random
text challenge to client. Client responds back with hashed combo of random
text and the
my hosting company supports sqlite. no mention of it.
Actually SQLite is included as standard in PHP5 already.
Is there any way to run custom code related to AMF serialization without
writing everything from scratch using IExternalizable? From the docs it
seems like the only option is to do it all yourself or do nothing
yourself--no middle ground.
I'd like to primarily use the built-in AMF serialization
Definitely +1 to SQLite. It makes the most sense as it's the smallest
footprint and requires zero administration.
Sam
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Adobe also uses SQLite.
The concurrency stuff in the FAQ is extremely misleading. Only one process
can write to a database file at a time, but sql is processed in cache and
writes happen in nanoseconds so in reality SQLite supports high concurrency.
In our testing we found SQLite to perform
Threading is one of the major missing features in Flex/Flash Player.
Basically, the player is multi-threaded and some operations will happen
asynchronously but ActionScript code always executes on the same thread.
For example, when you make a HTTPService call the network code itself will
run on
Why not use browser and web-server level compression? Most browsers support
gzip compression, you usually just have to turn it on in the browser (which
is often easier said than done but is doable with a little tinkering). That
would be a lot easier and more true-to-form than trying to pass
Here's a Flash product that does MathML editing and rendering. They have a
licensing option which includes source in which case you could port it to
Flex for internal use.
http://www.terradotta.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=MathIWYG.PurchaseForm
HTH,
Sam
We have a Flex app that loads a Flash SWF and during development we get a
lot of these errors:
*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
SecurityDomain 'http://localhost/abc.swf?ID=4799' tried to access
incompatible context 'file:///C:/Projects/xyz/bin/xyz-debug.html'
It doesn't happen when deployed
We're using HTTPService to send/receive XML to our server. Some of the XML has
dates in it in standard XSD dateTime format.
ex: 2002-10-10T12:00:00−05:00
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#dateTime
Can we access a player or framework function to parse this string into a Date
object? The
It appears that HTTPService will not send XML to a server if it's simple
content.
Here's an example. Both buttons should send an HTTP POST to the server with
XML. However, the Send Simple button sends an HTTP GET with no content
whereas the Send Complex button works fine. This can be
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