[flexcoders] Printing in IE Crashes IE But Firefox Ok

2009-07-16 Thread wwwpl
I am adding a very simple component. It crashes IE, but it prints fine in Firefox. Here is the component: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:VBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; mx:Label text=Patrick is testing here/ /mx:VBox HERE IS THE PRINT CODE: printJob.start();

[flexcoders] TileList Item Spacing

2009-07-15 Thread wwwpl
I need to increase the spacing horizontally and vertically between the items in my TileList. I don't see how to do it. Please advise.

[flexcoders] How do you create a mask with a semi transparent background color?

2009-01-16 Thread wwwpl
I created a mask that covers an image completely except for a rectangle in the middle. It works like I want it to, but I can't apply a color to the non masked area around the rectangle in the middle. I also want to apply an alpha to that color so the image can be seen but it will be grayed

[flexcoders] Why empty rows are showing in datagrid

2009-01-05 Thread wwwpl
My datagrid shows alternating colors for rows that are empty (there is no data for that row). My dataprovider has only one data item in it. Why are the rows showing?

[flexcoders] Crossdomain.xml allow-access-from domain Question

2008-11-19 Thread wwwpl
Can you use wild cards for ip addresses in the allow-access-from tag like this? allow-access-from domain=10.66.248.*/ We need to access images on an image server on our work stations.

[flexcoders] Creating a Modal Window

2008-10-06 Thread wwwpl
Is there an easy way to create a modal window without using the popup manager? I want to gray out every window but the current one so no mouse clicks or keyboard input can happen except this window. I have tried using the PopUpManager with a Canvas, but Canvas in the PopUpManager turns the

[flexcoders] FlexPrintJob doesn't print

2008-10-01 Thread wwwpl
I have noticed while playing around with FlexPrintJob that sometimes it won't print. I call printJob.start() , printJob.addObject() and printJob.send(). Has anyone else seen this? The print dialog comes up and I click the print button, but it doesn't actually get sent to the printer.

[flexcoders] Print Image and Text Problem

2008-09-30 Thread wwwpl
I am trying to print a text header with an image control. I scale the image to fit the page, but the text gets scaled also. Is there a way to scale the image without the text scaling as well. I am printing as a bitmap. Here is the code: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:VBox

[flexcoders] Print Selected Area of Image

2008-09-17 Thread wwwpl
We need to create a control that will allow the user to rubber band an area of an image and then print it. Does anyone know of a blog or example code that has a rubber banding control or a control or code to print a selected area of an image?

[flexcoders] Get TextArea Line Contents

2008-09-15 Thread wwwpl
I wish there was a method to get the text for each line in a TextArea control. I have some text that I don't want to get broken up by word wrapping. Is there a way to access the content of each line of text in a TextArea? I have this line of text: Here is a whole bunch of text [ Images

[flexcoders] TextArea StyleSheet Anchor Hover Question

2008-09-12 Thread wwwpl
I am trying to set the CSS a.hover style, but I don't know how to do it with objects. I tried it as seen below, but it doesn't work. I want the link to have an underline when I hover over the link in the htmlText. If there is another way, I am open to ideas. var a:Object = new Object();

[flexcoders] Re: TextArea StyleSheet Anchor Hover Question

2008-09-12 Thread wwwpl
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 11:05 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] TextArea StyleSheet Anchor Hover Question I am trying to set the CSS a.hover style, but I don't know how to do it with objects. I

[flexcoders] ComboBox Disable Drop Down Items

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
I am trying to disable ComboBox drop down items. I found an example on Alex's site for disabling items in a List so I took that and set it as the DropDownFactory in the combo box. But it doesn't work completely. I can still key down and get an outline of the disabled item. I am curious why

[flexcoders] Flash Player 10 Release Date?

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
Does anyone know when Flash Player 10 will be released? If you don't know a date, do you have a ball park estimate?

[flexcoders] Re: Slider Change Events on Resize

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
that? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Slider Change Events on Resize I am getting slider control change events when the user changes the size

[flexcoders] Re: ComboBox Disable Drop Down Items

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
is not accepting that. Of course it works if you just have a list box. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try forcing caret to false when calling super From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Thursday, August 28

[flexcoders] Re: ComboBox Disable Drop Down Items

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
: Hmm. The combobox is handling keystrokes and forwarding to the List. It might be messing things up. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:31 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: ComboBox

[flexcoders] Re: ComboBox Disable Drop Down Items

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
, but it should work. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, wwwpl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got it working. I have to set the selectedIndex in the combo box as well as in the list for it to work. This isn't ideal, but it works for the most part. I have had to change a bit of the code to handle

[flexcoders] Re: Flash Player 10 Release Date?

2008-08-28 Thread wwwpl
I am surprised no one will respond. Is this a secret? I didn't see any information on the labs.adobe.com website. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, wwwpl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know when Flash Player 10 will be released? If you don't know a date, do you have a ball park

[flexcoders] Slider Change Events on Resize

2008-08-20 Thread wwwpl
I am getting slider control change events when the user changes the size of the application or when I go into fullscreen view. Is this a bug? I have 2 different sliders on 2 screens and I am getting the same from both.

[flexcoders] Changing Parents

2008-08-07 Thread wwwpl
I have an image viewer that I would like to go full screen. I now have my app taking up the full screen, but I need the image viewer window to become the size of the app window. The image viewer is a child of a child of a child of the Application. I am calling application.addChild

[flexcoders] Re: Changing Parents

2008-08-07 Thread wwwpl
bindings. -Brian On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, wwwpl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an image viewer that I would like to go full screen. I now have my app taking up the full screen, but I need the image viewer window to become the size of the app window. The image viewer is a child

[flexcoders] HBox Component Jump Problems

2008-08-04 Thread wwwpl
I have 2 components in an HBox call say A and B. Component A hides and shows different children based on user interaction. As these items hide and show, component B jumps around. Is there a way to get HBox to not display it's children until they have moved? That way they wouldn't appear to

[flexcoders] How to block user interaction?

2008-07-31 Thread wwwpl
I want to block user interaction while I am waiting for an http service to return with data. Is there a nice easy way to do this?

[flexcoders] Container is not resizing when parent resizes

2008-07-17 Thread wwwpl
I created a custom component that extends Container. I have set the width and height to 100%. When my component first comes up it resizes as the parent resizes, but after the user uses the application, my component gets into a state where it doesn't get sent measure events any more. Any

[flexcoders] Browser Title Changes on Refresh

2008-07-15 Thread wwwpl
We set the browser title in our html-template for our site and it works great. We use a view stack component to manager our pages in our site. When I hit F5 or refresh in the browser, the browser title gets set to the url instead of our title. Why is Flex doing this? How do I stop it from

[flexcoders] Re: Browser Title Changes on Refresh

2008-07-15 Thread wwwpl
I see now that we are using the BrowserManager for history. It is the one changing the title in the browser. It is setting the browser url to #p=0. I set the title on the BrowserManager.init method. I am not sure why it is using #p=0. Any help would be appreciated.

[flexcoders] Anyone Know of a Good Flex MP3 Player?

2008-07-02 Thread wwwpl
Does anyone know of a good open source Flex mp3 player? I have seen a few good Flash mp3 players but they don't come with the source. Actually, I don't need the source if the player is what I want. Thanks

[flexcoders] ListBox scrollToIndex scrolling item out of view

2008-06-30 Thread wwwpl
I am using a variableRowHeight list box. If you click on an item, it expands to twice the height. I had to put in a call to scrollToIndex because once the last visible item on the bottom was expanded, it would only show half of the item. Now there is another bug. If I click on the last

[flexcoders] TitleWindow (Popup) Resize Problem

2008-06-24 Thread wwwpl
I have a dialog box with a text field in it. The text field can be set with text that wraps. So the size of the text field is unknown. Well when the text field has text that is 2 lines, it causes children to be pushed down. The bottom children are cut off because the dialog box

[flexcoders] Re: Setting width doesn't resize component immediately

2008-06-24 Thread wwwpl
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Setting width doesn't resize component immediately I have a custom component I will call the parent with 2 side by side children. The left child has a width

[flexcoders] callLater() question about next screen refresh

2008-06-23 Thread wwwpl
The Flex documentation says this about callLater(): The callLater() method queues an operation to be performed for the next screen refresh What does next screen refresh mean? What if I invoke a callLater right before an accordion starts its tween effects? Does the next screen refresh

[flexcoders] Setting width doesn't resize component immediately

2008-06-23 Thread wwwpl
I have a custom component I will call the parent with 2 side by side children. The left child has a width of 200 and the right child has a width of 800 and parent width == 1000. On a mouse click event I change the width of the left child to 980. I then start an animation of the right child

[flexcoders] HTTPService: Not Getting Fault Event When App Server Down

2008-06-19 Thread wwwpl
When our app server (tomcat) goes down while our Flex application is up, we are not getting the fault event error when making an HTTPService send call. We don't get a result either. We need to handle this gracefully. I do get the invoke event in this scenario but that doesn't help much.

[flexcoders] Re: HTTPService: Not Getting Fault Event When App Server Down

2008-06-19 Thread wwwpl
That fixed it, thank you. I set the HTTPService requestTimeout to 10 seconds and I received the fault error. Thanks. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, valdhor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: requestTimeout? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, wwwpl wwwpl@ wrote: When our app server (tomcat

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder Profile Problems

2008-06-13 Thread wwwpl
, Gaurav -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:21 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder Profile Problems I tried the Flex Builder Profiler for the first time

[flexcoders] Flex Builder Profile Problems

2008-06-12 Thread wwwpl
I tried the Flex Builder Profiler for the first time. It works great after disabling the firewall on my machine. But now when I go start my application in debug mode, it seems to be running the profiler. This is what the console window shows me after I start the project in debug mode:

[flexcoders] Smooth Animation with Resize or Move Effect

2008-06-05 Thread wwwpl
I am developing a Flex application where I need to do some resize effects. I have 2 VBoxs side by side. They need to resize when a user clicks a button. I have been using states to do the resize effects, but I can not get it to look nice. I have tried a lot of effects and other things, but

[flexcoders] RSL Error 2032 on Corporate Network

2008-05-15 Thread wwwpl
We have some users who are getting an RSL error 2032 on their coporate network. We have many thousands of users who are not having problems. I noticed in the documentation that it says that if you use RSLs, you need to have a crossdomain.xml file on the same domain. Currently we do not

[flexcoders] ComboBox Dropdown Tooltips?

2008-02-22 Thread wwwpl
I want to create ComboBox tool tips that show up over the drop down list items. The only way I can find to do that is to do dataTips. But I don't like how they cover up the list text. Here is an example that shows how to add dataTips:

[flexcoders] Compiler Option for Caching Flex Libs

2008-02-05 Thread wwwpl
I am looking for the compile time option for Flex 3 Beta3 SDK to for Flash to cache the flex core libraries in it's cache on the client side. It seems it should be easy to find, but I am having a bit of trouble. I know there is a bug associated with it, but I still want to research it. Thanks

[flexcoders] Re: Flex 3 Beta 3 Panel Problem

2008-01-25 Thread wwwpl
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, rueter007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a known issue in Flex 3 Beta 2 and Beta 3. You can use paddingTop to push the content below the header until a fix is made for it. - venkat http://www.venkatj.com --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, wwwpl wwwpl

[flexcoders] Flex 3 Beta 3 Panel Problem

2008-01-25 Thread wwwpl
We have moved over to using Flex 3 Beta 3. All of our panels have a problem. The content shows up underneath the title header. We must be using a weird style. Has any one seen this?

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. How do you make it the same

2007-11-29 Thread wwwpl
appropriate column. Note that if you have large numbers of items this will be expensive. It is often better just to guess at a number or know the longest string From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Wednesday

[flexcoders] DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. How do you make it the same?

2007-11-28 Thread wwwpl
DataGrid column widths are set to a default of 100. That means it won't size to it's children. It is very annoying. Does anyone have a work around?

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. How do you make it the same

2007-11-28 Thread wwwpl
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:09 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. How do you make it the same? DataGrid

[flexcoders] Need alternative to callbacks?

2007-10-17 Thread wwwpl
We would like to get rid of callbacks in our project. Recently I had to change about 15 different callback function signatures. It took a long time to get everything working again because the problems had to be found at run time instead of compile time. Does anyone out there have a good

[flexcoders] IE Tab Key Bug?

2007-05-08 Thread wwwpl
I have found some odd behavior in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. I have an application where I use a popup dialog. Once the popup dialog is up, I tab around the fields. The cursor jumps to the url address field in IE and back to the dialog. It won't go to the next field in the form. I try to

[flexcoders] Re: swf control

2007-02-22 Thread wwwpl
Do you mind adding a small code snippet here as an example. I searched help for Embed metadata. I found some help there, but I have been unsuccessful rewinding a movie clip in an swf file that I loaded with SWFLoader. Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brian Deitte [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] SWFLoader Rewind Problem

2007-02-22 Thread wwwpl
I am having a problem with an swf file that I load. It is a help video. If I go to the help and watch the video half way through and close the window, I try to go back to help and it flashes a lot and goes back to the beginning of the video. It is like it is rewinding the video while

[flexcoders] Filereference Failed Upload. Can I try again?

2006-12-14 Thread wwwpl
Can you call the FileReference upload method again if the upload fails? It appears that I have to create a new FileReference to try a second upload.

[flexcoders] Uploads Needed Greater than 100 MB

2006-10-19 Thread wwwpl
In the FileReference documentation, it says that the file upload limit is 100 Megabytes. I am curious why the developers chose this value and why it is not configurable. Maybe it is configurable and I don't know it yet. If anyone could enlighten me on this subject, I would appreciate it. We