RE: [flexcoders] how to wait for more than one httpserivice/remoteobject result to finish?

2009-08-20 Thread Tim Rowe
You don't really get much in the way of thread control in Flex, but a neater way might still be to create something of a pseudo-barrier. At the time each object is fired, you would also add a token to the barrier, latching it and increasing the counter on that token. Each event listener could

RE: [flexcoders] Fields grouping?

2009-08-18 Thread Tim Rowe
How about mx.containers.Form ? --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nick Middleweek Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 3:08 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Fields grouping? hi guys, Is th

RE: [flexcoders] Any suggestion for server (java) side run-time styling solution?

2009-08-02 Thread Tim Rowe
-time loading, and the ability to store, modify and retrieve it however you like on the server-side. Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of guy.tomer Sent: Saturday, 1 August 2

[flexcoders] Actionscript on JSR223

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Rowe
t suggestions here would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level 1, 109 Burwood Road Locked Bag Hawthorn VIC 3211 t: 03 9093 8600 (Reception) t: 03 9093 8757 (Direct) f: 03 9093 8697

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Bitmap downsampling

2009-07-01 Thread Tim Rowe
. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Tim Rowe wrote: > > Bjorn, > Does the current method you're using appear to have any anti-aliasing at all? > > In the past, resizing with Image using img.resize((height, width), > Image.ANTIALIAS)

RE: [flexcoders] Bitmap downsampling

2009-07-01 Thread Tim Rowe
Bjorn, Does the current method you're using appear to have any anti-aliasing at all? In the past, resizing with Image using img.resize((height, width), Image.ANTIALIAS) (where img is mx.controls.Image) has worked - I'm sure there'd be a similar method for BitmapData. Of course, if you're not sp

RE: [flexcoders] Resource bundles and static vars

2009-06-01 Thread Tim Rowe
breakpoint in SystemManager's installCompiledResourceBundles() function. That's where the resource bundles are set up. It's possible that your class is being loaded before the resource bundles are set up, and that's why you're getting null. Manish On Tue, Jun 2, 2009

[flexcoders] Resource bundles and static vars

2009-06-01 Thread Tim Rowe
statics are initialised, or is there something more simple (or perhaps more sinister?) going on? Thanks, Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level 1, 109 Burwood Road Locked Bag Hawthorn VIC 3211 t: 03 9093 8600 (Reception) t: 03 9093 8757 (Direct) f: 03 9093 8697

RE: [flexcoders] Is this list declining?

2009-06-01 Thread Tim Rowe
Hm, I notice a steady decline since I joined. Coincidence? :) But no, think quality not quantity. --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of luvfotography Sent: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 7:48 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups

RE: [flexcoders] Value Objects

2009-05-26 Thread Tim Rowe
The use of 'VO's in Flex has always confused me, largely because as everyone I've spoken to has explained it, all a 'Value' object is is just a Model object - therefore WTF are they being referred to as 'VO's when 'Object' (or Model object) would suffice. My understanding is that the Object repr

RE: [flexcoders] Re: CRUD generator...

2009-05-25 Thread Tim Rowe
other features), would it not be an idea that the project summary actually states so somewhere in it's description? (I'm looking for a replacement for FlexORM as it has a few too many problems). Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level 1, 109 Burwood Road Locked Bag

RE: [flexcoders] Drive Letters and Ant

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Rowe
We execute our mxml compiler using rather than using an mxmlc taskdef. As a result I've not had problems with classpath problems in mxmlc. Maybe give that a try if all else fails? --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fl

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Need Suggestions for database application.

2009-04-16 Thread Tim Rowe
There might be a few others in PEAR, but start with PEAR::DB http://pear.php.net/package/DB --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of raja_s_patil Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sub

RE: [flexcoders] Post on the flex coders message board

2009-04-16 Thread Tim Rowe
At least it wasn't "May I ask a question?". --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Hardy Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 1:24 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Post on the flex coders me

RE: [flexcoders] Serialize Java ResultSet To Flex

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Rowe
Have you already read into use of Transfer Objects and Data Access Objects, or are you looking for a solution a little more raw than that? Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf

RE: [flexcoders] Eclipse Ganymede

2009-04-05 Thread Tim Rowe
the newer jars from that install to my plug-in environment. Supposedly the plug-in version is available as the same version, but I couldn't find it. Alternatively, try this: http://www.tekool.net/blog/2008/06/28/flex-builder-3-plugin-dont-work-with-eclipse-34/ Tim Rowe Software Engineer c

RE: [flexcoders]Where does my SWF gain it's weight?

2009-03-31 Thread Tim Rowe
7.dll baked in... Oh? I see. Well, at least it's not the whole .NET Framework, right?... ... ... Oh. :) Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anirudh Sasikumar Sent: We

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder Compiler Performance Benchmarking

2009-03-26 Thread Tim Rowe
I originally said the same thing in the response I wrote, but removed it on the basis of getting more info before just jumping to random ideas. However, a defrag of all drives should pretty much be done as a scheduled task on any non-SSD system nightly, imo. Just set it up to run at 3am every d

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Builder Compiler Performance Benchmarking

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Rowe
le the source from a CLI, if you haven't done so already. Hell, you could even execute it manually. Does mxmlc.exe take the same amount of time as the eclipse build? These are just a few small things I'd consider trying/looking at which might help identify the pr

[flexcoders] Disabling copy with dragDrop/dragEnabled

2009-02-15 Thread Tim Rowe
till be a 'copy' cursor, usually with a +), so doesn't really meet the requirements. 3. Ideally I'd like to just disable the copy function - but I can't find a way of doing this. Can anyone suggest how this can be done? Would this need to be done manually with a m

RE: [flexcoders] Re: AIR and SQLLite

2009-01-13 Thread Tim Rowe
You also need to consider how you patch your DB when you don't want it to be destructive. I would suggest for this that you have your base version-1 database, and every change from then on is applied as a patch, incrementally. If you have 60 different database structure changes, then that's ju

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Tim Rowe
ed objects such as textinputs, labels, comboboxes and the like. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Tim Rowe wrote: > > It won't run in 40 column mode? > > I feel evil suggesting this when 1280x1024

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Tim Rowe
It won't run in 40 column mode? I feel evil suggesting this when 1280x1024 is the norm these days. --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2009 8:59 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.

RE: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex

2009-01-08 Thread Tim Rowe
If you want to do it in realtime you're going to first have to decide what devices you support. There might be some standards for communication, but others go off and do their own thing and those might be the ones you want to support. Garmin often take a lot of heat for this (despite what they

RE: [flexcoders] Best browser for debugging on Mac OSX?

2008-11-25 Thread Tim Rowe
things are slow ... or buy/demand a new machine. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjorn Schultheiss Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 11:12 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best browser for d

RE: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Rowe
t my next replacement notebook will be an XPS rather than a MacBook (a large factor was also Apples recent .au price increases), though I'll likely keep using a Mac for a number of tasks. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [flexcoders] Date issue - need to create date out of string like xxxx-xx-xx from XML

2008-09-15 Thread Tim Rowe
It's got to just be total coincidence that what's virtually the same question has come up twice in the same day. The answer I provided earlier will also work, and will do so in ~5 lines of code. --Tim From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [flexcoders] Convert String to Date?

2008-09-15 Thread Tim Rowe
ed in. var a:Array = data.split("-"); // Create the new Date object. Note that the month argument is 0-based (with 0 being January). var newDate:Date = new Date(a[0],a[1],a[2]); return newDate; } Enjoy. Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level

RE: [flexcoders] Compile to external folder or server?

2008-09-09 Thread Tim Rowe
Are you talking about in Flex Builder? Not sure how you can only get the swf (and no other files) to a certain path, but you can certainly do it using ANT. Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level 1, 109 Burwood Road Locked Bag Hawthorn VIC 3211 t: 03 9093 8600 (Reception) t

RE: [flexcoders] Changing Root Node attributes

2008-09-07 Thread Tim Rowe
le, until I had got rid of that default. While this might not necessarily be your problem, it certainly doesn't help, and took two of us ages to track down. Needless to say, we won't be making that mistake again, and after getting that all sorted it was relatively painless to traverse

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to check a table already exist in SQLite?

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Rowe
If you only want this for when you're actually creating the table, rather than trying to confirm it exists: >From http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html CREATE [TEMP | TEMPORARY] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [database-name .] table-name ( column-def [, column-def]* [, constraint]* )

RE: [flexcoders] Flex with proxy server

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Rowe
Oh, this will be fun :/ Tried establishing your connection to the proxy server yet, not the destination endpoint? Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of walberleal Sent: Wednesday, 6

RE: [flexcoders] CRC

2008-08-06 Thread Tim Rowe
c checks failed with this same kind of checking? :) Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 3:50 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [

RE: [flexcoders] Can SQLite work in non-AIR envirnoment ?

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Rowe
ly more likely it'll be something more like MySQL. Obviously it depends on the environment and how much control of this you have, amongst other design decisions. Without know what you're actually talking to and what your backend is, it's hard to really give advise as to what to use

RE: [flexcoders] Tristate checkboxes in Flex 3

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Rowe
or now, but a native one would always be preferred. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 3:55 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Tristate checkboxes

[flexcoders] Tristate checkboxes in Flex 3

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Rowe
his information correct, and if not, is there any missing information in the language reference regarding any tristate options? If the control is still not available, has anyone else developed one or come across one that's available? Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd Level 1, 109 Burwood

RE: [flexcoders] When not to use weak references?

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Rowe
d on these kinds of objects. Like I said, feel free to correct me on anything here. Personally I'd be happy to just do away with garbage collection altogether - that would 'solve' the problem ;) I must admit I'm finding a lot of anti-patt

RE: [flexcoders] When not to use weak references?

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Rowe
missed a few things here and there. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boon Chew Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 2:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] When not to use weak references? Hi all

RE: [flexcoders] Your Opinion: Best way to Load Data to your components?

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Rowe
of string?" question. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2008 3:16 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Your Opinion: Best way to Load Data to your

RE: [flexcoders] blazeds-turnkey doen't work?

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Rowe
This shouldn't be a problem if you encapsulate the path inside quotes. --Tim Rowe From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shaun Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 4:44 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] bl

RE: [flexcoders]

2008-07-02 Thread Tim Rowe
I could be mistaken, but it was my understanding that the Flex Builder plug-in was not yet compatible with Ganymede (3.4), only Europa (3.3). --Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com.au From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [flexcoders] THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NUTS

2008-07-02 Thread Tim Rowe
ery little, remember that like most common compilers, Flex does incremental building and linking. --Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com.au From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Pride Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2008 4:06 AM