[flexcoders] Re: Speex codec

[steve.klee]

 I was reading the docs and they seem to suggest that the Speex codec for
 streaming to a media server is a feature exclusive to AIR 1.5. Is that
 true? If I am targeting FP10, can I stream with Speex from a web-based
 flex app, or am I limited to using NellyMoser?

It is not limited to AIR, you can do this with your flex app as long
as you set the codec property on the Microphone properly AND you
compile your app for FP10.  We have been doing this successfully with
out flex app that uses Adobe's Cocomo SDK.

[flexcoders] Re: Architecture question using Move Effect and Events

[steve.klee]

I believe you need to set the mouseChildren property on your custom 
component to false, that way the label inside your component will not 
deal with the mouse event and let it bubble up to your event listener 
you set on your component.

HTH.

[flexcoders] Re: Datagrids in FlexMDI

[steve.klee]

Hi Julian-

We are also using the MDI library for a large ERP-style application 
and experienced the same issue you are describing.  The problem for 
us related to the updateStyles() method in the MDIWindow class in 
the library.  It seems when the code was checking for hasFocus 
there was a lot of unnecessary (for our needs anyways) re-setting of 
styles using the .setStyle notation.  This is a slow operation when 
you have windows with a lot of controls or heavy controls like the 
DataGrid.  We made modifications to the MDIWindow class because we 
could not edit what we needed through sub-classing because 
the _hasFocus stuff wasn't accessible.  So we made it accessible 
then overwrote it in a new sub-class that doesn't do anything (omits 
the updateStyles() call.  But this made the min,max,resize window 
controls out of whack because they weren't getting updated.  So we 
solved that issue by sub-classing the MDIWindowControlsContainer and 
overriding updateDisplayList to position everything correctly no 
matter what state the window was in.

After making these changes everything was superfast as far as 
switching focus between windows, tiling windows, minimizing, 
maximizing, no matter how many controls or rows/columns for the 
datagrids.  So, we made our changes for our specific needs which are 
probably not suitable for everyone, but if you minimize or eliminate 
the unnnecessary calls to updateStyles() in MDIWindow you should 
see a major improvement.  Especially without having to switch to 
another library or write something on your own.  The FlexMDI is a 
great library.



HTH-
Steve