Re: [flexcoders] Re: Does Flex work with Java without FDS?

Charles, Thank you for your response. You already know what my next question is? How did you do this magic? Do you have an example or can you point to one? On 1/25/07, Charles Havranek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it does, you can use plain HTTP/HTTPS GET POST or Web Services. (Maybe some

Re: [flexcoders] Ogg Vorbis Tremor in AS3?

I'd love to see a way to get this working, although assumed it was not possible. Are the sound classes in AS3 open source? Could they be used as a base for an Ogg Vorbis decoder? The question that comes to mind is, why bother? Just use an mp3! I actually have an answer, for those

Re: [flexcoders] Setting Initial NetStream Sound Volume

does adding [Bindable] metadata help? [Bindable] private var _volume:int = 100; -abdul On 1/26/07, John Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to dynamically set the sound volume when different video is played via: stream = new NetStream(nc); var st:SoundTransform =

Re: [flexcoders] Posting PNG to server

we got it working now, thanks for help anyway :) On 1/25/07, franto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do ou mean exactly? On 1/25/07, Simeon Bateman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done this with ColdFusion using the RemoteObject tag. Can you use one of the remote object php tools to pass

[flexcoders] Re: DataService fill not filling on first try? timing issue?

Continuing in the tradition of replying to my own posts when I find the solution... I found the issue is caused by the fill method being processed asynchronously to the actionscript execution (duh!) I didn't know that obviously ;) I just moved my code that processes the returned object into

[flexcoders] Re: Launching FlexBuilder from multiple User accounts

Hi Tom: Thanks for the feedback. Both user accounts have admin priveleges -- the group for the Flex Builder files is admin. This sits in an Application directory next to the Users directory. So, I dunno! I was able to install Flex Builder inside the second user account. I then made symbolic

[flexcoders] Organize imports

Ho all, Do you know how to organize imports in FlexBuilder? Rgds, Olivier - An electronic message is not binding on its sender. Any message referring to a binding engagement must be confirmed in writing and duly signed. -

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Localization - URGENT

This is the question for Gordon and Roger, I am curious if we can use Modules/Shared-Libs to load localization-resources on runtime? I have not been doing much in Flex 2 for sometime. But just curious if we can come up something using new facilities in Flex 2.0.1 Thanks -abdul On 1/26/07,

RE: [flexcoders] Posting PNG to server

If you are using AMF3 (RemoteObject), you can serialize binary data without any conversion. If you are trying a standard HTTP post, I would use a HTTPService with the method= POST. Then you have to Base64 encode the binary data and attach it to the parameters of the http service. On the server

[flexcoders] Re: Slightly OT: Vista Feedback

Eclipse 3.2 has known issues with Vista. I run Flex Builder as a plugin and Eclipse crashes about 10-15x per day on average. 3.3 addresses this issue and runs VERY stable and fast on Vista. Unfortunately Flex Builder has serious issues with 3.3, it wont even build. So if you can deal with the

Re: [flexcoders] Convert Videos to FLV via Web

Merrill, You can use FFMPEG in .Net also. You need to compile the wrappers and link FFMPEG libraries. I was trying to do something using C#. You can find some examples on FFMPEG site and on some blogs. Hope that helps.. -abdul On 1/25/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I

[flexcoders] Help me find the Amazon book spider example

A few weeks ago (as far as I remember) I saw a cool Flex2 app, that would take a search string for a book title, retrieve data from Amazon and display books in a web-like setup, where the books are connected by wires, if I click on a book, it would retrieve data from Amazon on that book. All

RE: [flexcoders] HTTPService Vs WebService

Web services use the SOAP protocol and the wsdl file in order to provide anonymous third parties with information about the interface. So you can easily consume a web service, without any other knowledge of the service or documentation. HTTPService is simpler, but to use an HTTPService source

[flexcoders] Problem with code in Adobe Flex Training from the Source

Could anyone assist me with a section of the Training from the Source book on Adobe Flex? Specifically, the section Working with View States (pages 52-56) just doesn't work as expected. I did the example over third times without any success. Any assistance that anyone can provide will be greatly

Re: [flexcoders] Ogg Vorbis Tremor in AS3?

There are APIs (URLLoader, URLStream) to load binary data (file, stream etc), manipulate bits (ByteArray) and create also. I don't think there is out of box vorbis decoder in Adobe Flash Player. You can achieve what you want to do... There are APIs to do that... And I guess, once you are done

Re: [flexcoders] Ogg Vorbis Tremor in AS3?

Its been done. :) http://flash.j-ogg.de/ Hopefully the source will be released at some point. I know that its built on top of the audio engine made by Chris Sperry of FlashCodersBrighton fame. http://www.flashcodersbrighton.org/wordpress/?p=9 There is a version of the core audio engine in

[flexcoders] Binding a property to a function

Is it possible to bind a property to a function... A bit like the MVC-pattern... When a property changes, a function should be triggered... BindingUtils can't seem to do this. Thx, Lieven Cardoen Lieven Cardoen Application developer indiegroup interactive digital experience

[flexcoders] SWC config xml :: include-classes error

I had working SWC Library projects for my component in Flex 2.0.0. Now using those same project (svn) and also rebuilding them from scratch, my xml configuration files are throwing an error. unknown configuration variable 'include-classes' Simplified file ?xml version=1.0? flex-config

[flexcoders] DataTip on DataGrid doesn't support html?

The docs show examples of using dataTipFunction for charts, and they show/say you can use simple html tags in the returned string. However, I am using dataTipFunction on a dataGrid, and any tags I put in the return string (b) are displayed as plain text. Am I missing a flag somewhere or is html

RE: [flexcoders] Help me find the Amazon book spider example

This isn't quite the same link, but it is a Flex app that uses Amazon's webservices API: http://d-p.com/Internet-Development-Services/ria/amazon.cfm For how to do, You can start reading here: http://jeff.mxdj.com/using_amazons_itemsearch_webservice_from_flex.htm

[flexcoders] Re: Can't seem to customize Flash ContextMenu

I had a similar issue with the default contextmenu appearing when a custom mouse cursor was set. I solved it by adding a custom contextmenu to Application.application.root as well as Application.application. That might be worth a shot. -David --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Battershall, Jeff

Re: [flexcoders] Problem with code in Adobe Flex Training from the Source

What exactly is the problem, I did those examples and they worked perfectly. On 1/25/07, primemate10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone assist me with a section of the Training from the Source book on Adobe Flex? Specifically, the section Working with View States (pages 52-56) just

Re: [flexcoders] Organize imports

If by organizing imports you mean having the import statements automatically grouped by package and alphabatized, then you hit Ctrl+Shift+O (I believe... it's under the source menu when you're in the text editor). Unfortunately, it doesn't work for MXML files, only AS files. Troy. On 1/26/07,

[flexcoders] HTTP Request Error and long strings

There seems to be a size limit the value you set on the url propery for a Flex HTTPService call, around 12000 characters (12KB?). Could there be maxrequestlength setting in a config file for Flex 2 some place that we can adjust the limit? When we send a JSON string on with the HTTP service

[flexcoders] Removing Slider Thumb

Does anyone know how to remove a single thumb from a slider without losing the values of the other thumbs? thanks, - Dan

Re: [flexcoders] Drag proxy and BitmapAsset

Solved my own problem. Apparently it was an initialization order issue... I was attempting to assign the BitmapAsset to the drag proxy (and elsewhere) before it had been completely loaded. It was loading off the local harddrive, so the lag was imperceptible to me, but not quick enough for the

[flexcoders] Is there any code formatter for mxml and actionscript

Hi all, New inserted code is well-formatted in Flex Builder, but how to format existed mxml or AcitionScript code? Is any plugin or tool for flex like Jalopy for Java? Thanks in advance.

Re: [flexcoders] Binding a property to a function

The approach I have used in this case is the ChangeWatcher class (mx.binding.utils) --- // set up the watcher when the app loads private function doInit():void {

[flexcoders] Re: e4x - attribute based selector

It is not possible. You will need to perform that kind of selection by yourself (i.e. transversing the xml tree) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Shailesh Mangal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have a following xml structure retrieved from server root parent name=good

Re: [flexcoders] Modules and Cairngorm

I just had the same error and it was because i was trying to re-use event instances rather than dispatching new ones each time. But i wasnt using modules, just a normal Cairngorm app. I was going to look into it to find out exactly what was happening but I just dont have the time at the

Re: [flexcoders] Binding a property to a function

Hi Lieven, Have a look at implicit getters and setters... Brendan On 1/26/07, Lieven Cardoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to bind a property to a function... A bit like the MVC-pattern… When a property changes, a function should be triggered… BindingUtils can't seem to

RE: [flexcoders] DataTip on DataGrid doesn't support html?

I don't believe DatGrid supports HTML datatips. Ely. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:23 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] DataTip on DataGrid

[flexcoders] organizing projects in eclipse and publishing source

I have a question regarding what people do in terms of project organization and distribution of source code for publication (say on a blog). Here's my scenario: I've got a bunch of AS components, I would like to keep them all in one main Flex Library project, they're all part of the same

[flexcoders] Re: Binding a property to a function

Yes - it's called a setter function. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/statements.html#set http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/statements.html#set There is also a corresponding way to define getter functions (keyword get), where a function is triggered when the property is

RE: [flexcoders] HTTP Request Error and long strings

Change the method to POST. GET has a limit, but I have used POST for quite large data streams. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael.ritchie Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:39 PM To:

[flexcoders] Syntax Error: A string literal must be terminated before the line break.

Hello, What does this error mean? I have compared my code to the code in the tutorial files and it looks the same. Syntax Error: A string literal must be terminated before the line break. I get the error for this code as well; mx:SetProperty target={products} name=width value=0/

[flexcoders] DataGrid Column width Resizing

Hi All, I have two major issues with DataGrid. Please help to come out First Column Width I am not able get the width of datagrid's column. I need to store the width of each column of a datagrd in database and resize each column everytime it loads on the basis of value stored in the

[flexcoders] for/for each iteration order for Array

In Flex 2.0, when iterating through elements of an Array with for ... in, or for each ... in, is the iteration guaranteed to occur in index order? It appears to be the case, but I can't find any authoritative reference that says so explicitly.

RE: [flexcoders] Binding a property to a function

Checkout mx:Binding and function bindings from Chapter 37 in Part 5 of Flex 2 Developer Guide about Bindings. and Observe/ObserveValue http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/2006/09/using_binding_s. cfm#more http://weblogs.macromedia.com/paulw/archives/2006/05/the_worlds_smal.cf m

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Posting PNG to server

i got my PNG upload working guys thank you :) On 1/26/07, red_shovel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thinkin out loud, but couldn't you post the PNG data using an httpservice? You may need to base 64 encode before you post. Script ... pngService.send( { PNGData : yourPNGData } ); ... /Script

Re: [flexcoders] Help me find the Amazon book spider example

That uses the SpringGraph component that you can get off of Adobe Exchange. It's an amazing component, by far the most impressive one I've seen posted to the exchange. Doug oneproofdk wrote: A few weeks ago (as far as I remember) I saw a cool Flex2 app, that would take a search string for a

RE: [flexcoders] using mx:Tree to get custom icons

This is much easier than you suspect. You need to use an iconFunction(). I don't have an example to point to, but I'm sure there is one in the docs. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jensen.axel Sent: Thursday,

[flexcoders] Flex Builder launch application from Additional source folder

Is it possible to launch application located in additional source folder? For ex. I have two source folders in Flex Builder Project /src /test I have main app in src file. I would like have FlexUnit app/launcher in /test folder. The problem that I cannot launch FlexUnit runner. Looks like Flex

[flexcoders] Initializing components in views

I've got a component, a simple form, that I need to figure out how to clear out the contents between uses. The first time the view is activated, the fields are clear. The second time the view in activated, the old values are prefilled. What event do I need to tie into so that the form is

[flexcoders] binding/watch xml attributes

I would like to call a function when an xml attribute changes. None of the isWatching() calls return true...Is there a way to watch/bind frelling notice when an attribute of an XML gets changed? package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class test extends Sprite{

[flexcoders] Re: Command-line compiler Java errors

Derek, You do need the Java SDK as per the Flex 2 SDK system requirements bellow: Flex 2 SDK * Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003, Java 1.4 (Sun, IBM, or BEA) or 1.5 (Sun) * Mac OS X 10.4.x, Java 1.5 (as shipped from Apple) on PowerPC and Intel processor * Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 or

[flexcoders] Re: Binding a property to a function

Take a look at ChangeWatcher.watch(..) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Meutzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lieven, Have a look at implicit getters and setters... Brendan On 1/26/07, Lieven Cardoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to bind a property to a

[flexcoders] Return a PDF as response to request

Is there any why to display a PDF within a Flex app that would be returned in response to an HTTPservice request ? Currently we plan to launch a new browser window with a URL to the PDF but we can return this dynamically generated PDF directly but can Flex handle it ??

Re: [flexcoders] What's in a name? That which we call Apollo by any other name would smell as sweet....

Brendan Meutzner a écrit : Curious question... Apollo has been the code name since we first started hearing about it... I've gotten so comfortable with it now, will I be disappointed to hear that it will be called something entirely different by June? Can anyone at Adobe comment?

[flexcoders] Help me find the cool Flex2 - Amazon dataminer

A few weeks ago I saw a cool Flex2 app, that would take a search string, then pull data from Amazon and make a web of images, linked together and draggable. WHen you click on a book, it would get new data from Amazon etc. Any one who has a link ? Thanks, Mark

[flexcoders] Re: Return a PDF as response to request

could younot use an iFame and embed the pdf in the url? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, pdflibpilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any why to display a PDF within a Flex app that would be returned in response to an HTTPservice request ? Currently we plan to launch a new browser

Re: [flexcoders] Ogg Vorbis Tremor in AS3?

The first link throws a lot of errors, although I do hear staggered noise between them. other than that it looks like really cool stuff. At 05:23 AM 1/26/2007, you wrote: Its been done. :) http://flash.j-ogg.de/http://flash.j-ogg.de/ Hopefully the source will be released at some point.

[flexcoders] Label vs. Text

Can someone tell me what the difference is between the Label and Text controls? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gliddy glub gloopy / Nibby nabby noopy / La la la lo lo / Sabba sibby sabba / Nooby abba nabba / Le le lo lo / Tooby ooby walla / Nooby abba naba / Early morning singing song - Good

[flexcoders] Line Chart: Out of range data points appear broken

Hi all, I have a problem with the Linechart / Lineseries. I have a simple linechart which contains datavalues over time and 0 -100 y axis range. If I change the y axis range to let's say 50 - 80 then the connecting lines to the data points outside the range dissapear which creates a very bad

Re: [flexcoders] Label vs. Text

Label is 1 line only, and truncates text that is longer than it is wide via Super becoming Su Text allows multiline and word wrapping whereas Label does not. On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Howard Fore wrote: Can someone tell me what the difference is between the Label and Text controls?

[flexcoders] Re: DataTip on DataGrid doesn't support html?

Thats poopy. :) I'm off to the wish form. Thanks, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe DatGrid supports HTML datatips. Ely. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Tooltips

What you want to do is set the 'dataTipFunction' property on the DataGridColumn class to point at your custom function. DataGridColumn showDataTips=true dataTipFunction=createCustomToolTip() And you'll want to change the declaration of your createCustomTooltip to a single item of class

[flexcoders] Re: Modules and Cairngorm - Solution... I think

Martin, you did give me enough of an idea to wonder if SequenceCommand was making the same mistake you were. After some experimenting I suspect that it was. I was setting nextEvent in the execute method of my SequenceCommand subclass. I went and looked at the docs

[flexcoders] Re: Module subclass issue

Hi Roger, thanks for your answer. Actually I didn't set the application domain of the modules i was loading so i believe your diagnose could be right, since I was actually loading these modules inside another module, that itself was loaded in the mainapp (without changing any application domains

[flexcoders] Re: need help on showing line series based on list box selection (Flex Charts)

Hi Ely, im going bonkers, trying to filter the arraycollection, plz need ur help, help with an example for trying multiple filter on a arraycolection, based on a list control selction from the user! regards, Arthur

[flexcoders] LiveDocs, Release Notes?

Hi all, I have read the Flex 2 documentation like my morning paper since beta, but my question is since the new 2.0.1 updater rolled out and there is a new /201 docs out there - is there any place I can see where things have changed in the docs instead of having to read through and say Oh, that's

[flexcoders] Re: Modules and Cairngorm

I posted a reply to this about 90 minutes ago through the Yahoo site and my message still has not appeared (even though other new messages have, whats up mods?), so I will post again. I am getting the exact same error message. It seems odd that we are receiving those path references that are

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 3.0 - What happened to letting Flex 2 bed in?

We don't know right now what the exact behavior of Flex Builder 2 will be if you try to pair it with a later version of the SDK. For example, Design View may break if we refactor some framework code (in implementation, not interface) as we set things up for other features. But the AS3 language

[flexcoders] Re: Help me find the cool Flex2 - Amazon dataminer

http://mark-shepherd.com/SpringGraph/AmazonDemo/bin/AmazonDemo.html --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, oneproofdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few weeks ago I saw a cool Flex2 app, that would take a search string, then pull data from Amazon and make a web of images, linked together and

[flexcoders] Re: HTTP Request Error and long strings

Tracy, Your last suggestion did the trick. I was able to send my large string using by sending the data in the body, not the url. For the list, here is the fix to my problem. Tracy writes: I believe that when the message body is empty, Flex always uses GET. And when you put your data on

[flexcoders] Re: Removing Slider Thumb

nevermind, I had a bad splice statement that was screwing something up. For future reference for anyone else who wants to do this, remove the value you don't want from Slider.values and manually update thumbCount. - Dan On 1/26/07, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how

Re: [flexcoders] Command-line compiler Java errors

I would check what version of Java you're running the class in. I suspect that you are using an older or incorrect version of Java and the flex compiler jars are not compatible with it. I can't remember what 48.0 is. Do any of the Adobe folks know what version of Java was used to compile the