it gives us a better understanding
of how the product is being used, the sorts of problems people are
facing, and so on, by interacting with real users rather than
'customers'. ... and participating in this forum is not necessarily
a part of our job.
And we love you for it! ;-)
-Josh
Hi,
is it possible to do syntax highlighting for MXML in Dreamweaver instead of
FlexBuilder?
Can someone tell me which files to copy?
Thanks,
Michi
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I've recently started investigating Flex. Although the information is
spread all over the place, I've read some good things about the
Cairngorm framework.
Anyword on when 1.0 will be released?
Will this include any signifant changes or extensions from the 0.9
release?
Also, the 0.9 release
Ooops. For some reason a search for cairngorm didn't bring up
Steven's message (#12011 Re: Any Idea about Cairngorm 1.0?). This
answers my questons...perhaps except:
Will this include any signifant changes or extensions from the 0.9
release?
and
Also, the 0.9 release seemed to leave a
Hi Dan,
Will this include any signifant changes or extensions from
the 0.9 release?
There will be some new additions to the framework, but nothing
that breaks your existing usage of the framework. My hope is to
pull together an email in the near future, summarising what the
new additions
Hi
Aral,
Thanks
for the reply.
Yes I
would be interested. I have also had an email from "Greenfishinwater" that also
expressed interest and I have mailed them back to see if they would be
interested in meeting up.
As I
said to Greenfish (don't know their real name yet) I have never
Hi,
how can i import an swf file that use actionscript
classes in Flex? The documentation says that i have to
load the swf file at runtime but i have no idea on how
to do it.
Regards
Duccio Del Ministro
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Hi Devis,
There are string methods to make your life easier :),
Try indexOf(..), lastIndexOf(..) methods of String class..
var txt:String = CIAO MONDO;
If(txt.indexOf(MONDO)!=-1) {
//substring exists
return true;
}else {
return false;
}
On Apr 4, 2005 4:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
exists in AS a function that retrive if a subString exists.
For example
var txt :String=CIAO MONDO;
//this is not ActionScript 0 SubString exists
if(txt.pos('MONDO')0)
return true;
else
return false;
ActionScript
Sorry stupid question, maybe it's already post but i don't find.
How i can display in my label the ¤ symbol, sorry if it's already post.
Devis
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---BeginMessage---
Hi,
You can just type it (using an editor which supports the symbol, like
FlexBuilder does) or use HTML text.
S!d
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 04/04/2005 14:44
To: Flex Coders
Subject: [flexcoders] Euro symbol
Thanks Gordon, it did work.
Thanks!
Hari
-Original Message-
From: Gordon Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:21 PM
To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] un-selecting a row in datagrid
Try setting dg.selectedIndex = undefined.
- Gordon
In a custom component, I have a comboBox with a long list (27 items). When
the combobox displays the list, it appears above the combobox - since it
would go beyond the bottom of the browser window if it displayed downward,
I guess. Trouble is, the list as shown is cut off about halfway through
Keep the rowCount to a less value...
mx:ComboBox rowCount=10 /
Let user scroll...Long lists are irritating sometimes...
-abdul
-Original Message-
From: Tom Fitzpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
Does the combobox show all the 27 seven
items at once? If it does then no wonder it wont fit. Have you tried using:
rowCount: Number
Maximum number
of rows visible in the ComboBox control list.
This should
show specified number of items on the list and others should be scrollable.
Abdul Mika -
Thanks - I had set the rowcount to be dynamic before lengthening the list.
All is well.
- Tom
At 10:23 AM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
Keep the rowCount to a less value...
mx:ComboBox rowCount=10 /
Let user scroll...Long lists are irritating sometimes...
-abdul
-Original
Have you tried ctrl + alt + 4 to insert the symbol?
Alternatively try the euro; code.
mx:Label styleName=price
text=Totale:euro;{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/
T
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2005 16:19
To:
You can save your file with UTF encoding. It should work.
Not sure, which Text editor you use. But you can do it with Notepad. Open
your mxml file in NotePad, then Save As, notice in Save As dialog, there
Encoding combobox. Select UTF-8 from it and save your file.
-abdul
-Original
Make an if statement that will run based on two conditions rather than just one. Is this possible to do in Flex?
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This seems like a simple enough question...
Scenario 1, 1 condition:
if(condition1)
{
execute code;
}
Scenario 2, 2 conditions:
if(condition1 condition 2)
{
execute code;
}
You do that in Actionscript -- this is a very basic idea in
programming. Did I misread your question?
On Apr
Hi,
i'm using this
mx:Label styleName=price
text=Totale:euro;{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/
but throws this message pelase help
Devis
2 Errors found.
Error C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7\webapps\samples\test\CartView.mxml:74
The entity euro was referenced, but not declared.
Error
Yeah, work,
i'm using TextPad, and in my file i haven't use Encoding UTF-8, ;-(.
Thank's now work fine
Devis
Abdul Qabiz ha scritto:
You can save your file with UTF encoding. It should work.
Not sure, which Text editor you use. But you can do it with Notepad. Open
your mxml file in NotePad,
Hi Davis,
Please read my previous mail on this same topic. Try saving your file with
UTF-8 encoding, this should solve the problem...
It's better to save file in UTF-8 encoding...
-abdul
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04,
ActionScript supports all the standard boolean operators. for and,
|| for or, etc. So if(cond1 || cond2) { ... } Is that what you mean?
On Apr 4, 2005 11:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Make an if statement that will run based on two conditions rather than just
one. Is
Hi,
If you are talking about
some mx:If mxml tag, sorryits not there. Because there are
better ways of doing the same. As suggested, you can use actionscript for such
things...
Feel free to dig into
archives or ask here for any further queries...
-abdul
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suggest you follow Abduls advice, as when I typed the character in and it
worked first time.
I would have thought using euro; would work as well but I get the same error
as you...
If I do this:
mx:Script
![CDATA[
var monetaryType:String = euro;;
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Label
On Apr 4, 2005 8:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry i'm using copy and paste but flex throws this
mx:Label styleName=price
text=Totale:{price.format(shoppingCart.total)}/
Use the character code directly.
mx:Label text=#8364; /
If the font supports that character,
Do you know what method its trying
to call? I suppose the window could be introspecting the contained objects but
that would be weird. A workaround would maybe be to move the RemoteObject
outside the TitleWindow into another class and simply have your functions call
the outside remote
You can bind to the result from the GetResults function directly, flex
takes care of generating the binding code for you. (no need to dispatch
events)
E.g.,
mx:ComboBox dataProvider={this.parent.Webservice1.GetResults.result}/
Or, if you need to invoke a method with the results
mx:ComboBox
Tried that and got the following Warnings:
2 Warnings found.
Warning /Component.mxml:219
Changes for dynamic property, parent, with no declared [ChangeEvent]
will not be detected.
Warning /Component.mxml:219
Changes to unknown property, result, will not be detected
--- In
In AS you always have the option of taking advantage
of the dynamic type system and just adding properties
to an untyped object on the fly. What is the type of
the object? Is that an option?
~harris
--- viraf_bankwalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How do I add dynamic properties to an
While I can do an object.propertyName in AS to create the property
with a known name, I do not know the property name till runtime
(specified in the dataset that I receive), and did not know how to
create the property at runtime.
The object to which I am adding the property is one of my
On Apr 5, 2005 1:08 AM, viraf_bankwalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I add dynamic properties to an obect ? These properties are
received over the HTTPService request.
If you have an instance of a dynamic class, you can just stick them
onto the object.
var o:Object = new Object(); //
On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 AM, viraf_bankwalla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I can do an object.propertyName in AS to create the property
with a known name, I do not know the property name till runtime
(specified in the dataset that I receive), and did not know how to
create the property at
It does. The Flex compiler need to know the type of the references in
order to generate the event listeners/dispatchers.
I don't know why that didn't stop the warnings for you though.
Tracy
-Original Message-
From: Cynthia Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005
Hello, all. Our Trial version of the Flex 1.5 server has expired, and
we're having a hard time finding the (what we assume to be an) XML file
where we enter the 5 allowed IP addresses owned by the developers on
the local network so that they can continue to develop their
application.
Any
In 1.5 the web service doesnt
cleanly support adding event listeners at runtime, youd need to do it at
compile-time through the tag (this is changing in the next version). But you
could delegate this work if you wanted by using something like a Responder as
mentioned in the Cairngorm
Binding does not work well when you reach up to a parent component. You
will have better luck passing a reference into the sub-component.
In the main app(Myapp):
MyComponent id=mc1 app={this} .../
And in MyComponent:
public var app:MyApp; //data typing is required!
then:
Is this not doable?
--- Libby Chantel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a newbie with Flex, trying to get it going for
a
proof of concept. I have Flex installed on my remote
Java Server (Websphere). I can successfully make
calls
from Flash apps on my pc to the java programs
running
on the
If you're using RemoteObject, you can set the endpoint property to a
remote Flex / Flash Remoting server in the mx:RemoteObject tag. The
default is generated from the url set in the
/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml file, which happens to be a relative URL
by default (to your local machine).
Also,
My guess would be that most don't have enough information to help. I am not sure what you are trying to attempt here. You may want to be more specific about what it is you are trying to do. What kind of java programs are you trying to'make calls' to? What do you mean by 'make calls'...
--
The sample apps (Flex Explorer for the
simplest) and apps on various blogs have plenty of examples of using
RemoteObject to connect to Java servers.
The livedocs also has a whole section on
it, you can start here: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0772.htm
Just create an array that has 4 elements
in it and ignore the contents if this is really what you want to do. It may
just be easier to copy and paste the code 4 times though.
mx:Repeater dataProvider={[0,0,0,0]}
/
Matt
From: javawebgrrl
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks very much Matt.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just create an array that has 4 elements in it and ignore the
contents if
this is really what you want to do. It may just be easier to copy
and paste
the code 4 times though.
mx:Repeater
I have to ask, if they are not dynamic, what is the advantage of using a
repeater?
I think you will need to create a dataProvider, even if its:
DataProvider={[1,2]}
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml;
mx:Repeater id=repeater1
Hi,
I wanted to use some looping mechanism so that I can process the
combo box's in a loop in my actionscript. When the user
clicks save I don't want to go have to check 4 differant combo box
id's to see what was selected, if I create them in a loop, I can
just loop through the results.
Might someone point me in the right direction for altering the sort order method(s) for a DataGrid? It's currently annoying litteral. I'd like to alter it so it is case insensitive. Currently the column orders somewhat like this:
A
B
C
.
.
Z
a
b
c
.
.
.
z
while I'd like it to order like:
A
a
We are looking at using XMLSocket and a data push model to improve
some real-time aspects our application.
Has anyone had real experience using XMLSOcket with a large set of
users? I guess I'm looking for cases where it doesn't work (e.g.,
firewall issues) or doesn't work well.
Yahoo!
For really fine grained sorting you can
sort the dataProvider in action script and use Array.sortOn.
DataGrid has sortItemsBy.
DataGrid is supposed to recognize numeric
columns and sort accordingly. If it is not working, make sure you really have
numbers and not strings that look
Hi,
You can use your own sorting method(algorithm) to sort entire grid. Or you
can apply your algorithm on a particualr column.
Look at DataGrid.sortItems(sortFunc:Function, order):Void method.
Also look at DataGridColumn.sortCompareFunction:Function property
DataGrid.sortItems(..)
Hi Eric,
I am sure you will get some feedback on this list. I will suggest you to
look into another mailing list, which is chattyfig's flashcoders list.
You can get some real good feedback/information from there also. You might
want to search the flashcoders archive...
Excellent, setting the sortCompareFunctionto my own sort comparer that did the comparison ignoring case worked perfectly. Thank you!
-- Matthew
On Apr 4, 2005 5:14 PM, Abdul Qabiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,You can use your own sorting method(algorithm) to sort entire grid. Or youcan apply
Jobe Makar from Electrotank is the man to talk too. He's been touting the
features of XMLSocket, and it's ability to server thousands of users daily
for his multiplayer games.
http://www.electrotank.com/corporate.electro
- Original Message -
From: Eric Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
And what about,
Colin Moock :), but Jobe is more vocal in community lists...
http://www.moock.org
-abdul
-Original Message-
From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:18 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Experiences with
Abdul Qabiz wrote:
And what about,
Colin Moock :), but Jobe is more vocal in community lists...
While we're at it, there's also Oregano-Server, which is an open source
alternative (both electroserver and moock's unity aren't free).
http://www.oregano-server.org/
Be warned though,
I have some remote business delegates that are stateful. Is there a
way to get access to the session that they are being held in?
For example, I have a UserDelegate that handles user based business
logic for the current logged in user, and it maintains a member
variable of the user so I don't
TADA! http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/2247.htm
:-)
Matt
From: cazzaran
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:23
PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] How to get
access to HttpSession in a stateful-class
I
Thanks - the example below would have worked if I had knowledge of the
property name when I wrote the code. This is not the case (the
property name is retrieved with a service request).
The solution that I found was to use the associative array syntax -
obj[propertyName] = yy;
Now the
A quick way to do it (ugly admittedly) is to use the 'instanceof' or
'typeof' operator.
if ( obj[propertyName] instanceof Date )
You might need to cast into number or date before you check the instance of
to see if it is valid.
-Original Message-
From: viraf_bankwalla
A rundown of them all:
Who's on here?
-
function showProps(o:Object):Void
{
for(var p in o)
{
trace(-);
trace(p + : + o[p]);
trace(typeof: + typeof(o[p]));
trace(is a String: + (o[p] instanceof String));
trace(is a
Is this the answer to the age old question of 'Who's on first?' :)
-Original Message-
From: JesterXL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:35 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS - adding dynamic properties to an object
A rundown of
interface Abbot
{
public function question():Function;
}
class First
{
public function question():Function
{
return question;
}
}
import IAbbot;
import First;
var firstBase:IAbbot = new First();
function whosOnFirst()
{
while(true)
{
var answer:Function
We are getting an intermittent error when calling web services via
flex. Our server is IBM websphere. It appears
that a request with no data is being sent the FlexProxy. See debug
output below for details:
request: (note there is NO soap envelop attached to this request)
[4/4/05
This may be a stupid question, but if your flex app is wrapped in in a
jsp file (using something like mm:mxml source=.../) can you access
variables in request scope? Or can you pass selected variables into a
flex app?
I got around it by having initialize=callHttpServiceToGetInitData() in
my
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