[flexcoders] Setting Menu backgroundAlpha changes shade of bgColor not transparency

2008-06-12 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Not sure what I am doing wrong. I am styling a menu and have set the following styles: backgroundColor: #00; backgroundAlpha: 0.5; Unfortunately, instead of having a semi transparent menu it is just a lighter shade of my bgColor... Are transparent menus supported, am I doing somethi

[flexcoders] How to catch Focus In/Out event on TileList ItemRenderer

2008-06-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a TileList employing a custom ItemRenderer (VBox with Image and labels). I would like to catch Focus In/Out on the ItemRenderer so that when selected I can change the border style on the VBox to provide a custom select indicator instead of the default provide by the TileList (changi

Re: [flexcoders] How to catch Focus In/Out event on TileList ItemRenderer

2008-06-18 Thread Greg Hess
n't get focus. I think you want > to catch the "change" even tinstead? > > > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg > Hess > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 7:27 AM > To: flexcode

[flexcoders] Menu Styling corrupts menu separator and size

2008-06-18 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to style my application menus but have run into problems when I use separators as menu items or set 'variableRowHeight' to true. My menu style is as follows: Menu { rollOverColor: #00; selectionColor: #00; backgroundColor: #161515; } Whe

[flexcoders] RegEx help please

2008-07-09 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to use the RegExpValidator and am having MUCH trouble with my expression and I think I am using characters that need escaping. I need to write an expression that is used to restrict an EU specified file name, the rules are: - must not start with . - must not contain <>&*?/[E

Re: [flexcoders] RegEx help please

2008-07-14 Thread Greg Hess
t 11:14 AM, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Jul 2008, Greg Hess wrote: >> - must not start with . > > ^[^.] > >> - must not contain <>&*?/[EMAIL PROTECTED]": > > The trick to > [<>&*?/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[flexcoders] Security sandbox violation error with socket connection

2008-07-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am stumped. I had to use a socket to connect to a fully RESTfull (PUT, DELETE ect..) web service endpoint on our server. It has been testing fine when running from my local file system (actually have been wondering why I am not getting sandbox errors as this is definately not connecting

Re: [flexcoders] Security sandbox violation error with socket connection

2008-07-16 Thread Greg Hess
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:55 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Security sandbox violation error with socket > connection > > > > Hi All, > >

[flexcoders] non-master socket policy files - head spinning - pls help?

2008-07-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Can anyone please help clarify how to implement and support a 'non-master' socket policy file my head is spinning after reading all the adobe docs. My current understanding is as follows: ( I need to task server team to help with this one and need to make sure I have it right before taskin

Re: [flexcoders] Security sandbox violation error with socket connection

2008-07-16 Thread Greg Hess
ne to the source for this, that is, the security documentation? > There my be additional requirements for socket access. > > > > Tracy > > > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Greg Hes

[flexcoders] How to make Tree only display branch nodes without filters

2008-07-21 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, My application has a global data model representing a file system. I have a tree control allowing users to navigate the file system directories. I am using a global data model so that rename, delete, add operations automatically propogate to other UIComponents bound to file children collec

[flexcoders] ArrayCollection filterFunction only gets called on root item

2008-07-21 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a tree control who's data provider is an ArrayCollection holding a single File object I defined. The File object represents the root of a remote file system hierarchy that has children getter that supports the tree control and each child is rendered in the tree with an ItemRenderer.

[flexcoders] How to determine Tree horizontalScrollPosition for clipped item

2008-09-09 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a tree representing a file system and I need to make sure the item is visible(icon, label ect..) when I set the selection. I have made alterations to my tree to support 'auto' horizontal scrollbars but now need to set the horizontalScrollPosition so that the item is fully visible.

[flexcoders] How to determine if TreeItemRenderer is horizontally visible?

2008-09-10 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, My tree is representing a file system and deep nested folders are not visible. I have been using Tree.scrollToIndex to make a selected item visible however it does not handle the horizontal scrolling and it seems I need to implement this myself. I have an ItemRenderer(selected Item) but I

Re: [flexcoders] How to determine if TreeItemRenderer is horizontally visible?

2008-09-11 Thread Greg Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:50 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] How to determine if TreeItemRenderer is horizontally > visible? > > > > Hi All, > > My tree is representing a file syste

[flexcoders] Force compile of Modules

2008-10-17 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I am having problems building my project that is divided into separate modules. Compilation errors are not always reported. My main application is just a module loader and I think that the compiler does not 'always' detect changes in files/classes referenced in modules. What happens is t

[flexcoders] States and Transitions

2008-01-09 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, New to flex, please bear with me. I have a requirement to design an applications navigation similar to an 'iPhone' or 'iPod'. The application loads displays a small panel with several icons (Photos, Music, Video ect...). The EU clicks an icon and the application transitions to a larger

RE: [flexcoders] States and Transitions

2008-01-09 Thread Greg Hess
On Jan 9, 2008 11:49 AM, Greg Hess <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<mailto:greg.hess%40axentra.com> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:greg.hess%40axentra.com>> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > New to flex, please bear with me. > > I have a requirement to desi

[flexcoders] Is Flash player beta "rockstar" in Flex 3

2008-01-11 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Is the latest Flash player beta 'rockstar' the Media Widget in Flex 3? Thanks, Greg

[flexcoders] Application dimension for 1024x768 res

2008-01-14 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, What is best practice application dimension for designing an application for a target audience with 1024x768 resolution? We require no horizontal or vertical scrolling and I am not sure what is the standard dimension is today with all the browser tool bars ect... Any comments much appr

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Flex 2 and Vista

2008-01-15 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Kerry, I am running Eclipse 3.1.2 -> Flex Builder 2 plug-in on both Vista Business and Home Premium. I did encounter NTFS permission issues when performing the install to the Program Files directory, and changing the dir permissions resolved the issue, granting my user acct full permissions.

[flexcoders] Photo print service

2008-01-22 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a requirement to build a photo print service in Flex. The EU will view a gallery of image thumbnails (TileList) and have the option to print one photo or the entire contents of the gallery. Photo print options would be fit to page, 5x7, 8x10 ect... Searching the web, viewing the

RE: RE: [flexcoders] Photo print service

2008-01-22 Thread Greg Hess
xcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Hess Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:56 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Photo print service Hi All, I have a requirement to build a photo print service in Flex. The EU will view a gallery of image thumbnai

[flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system

2008-01-28 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am working with a remote team and I need to send them the application prototype for review. I thought all I need to do is add all the files in the output dir to a compressed file and send via email ect... The prototype is loading a local XML file to populate an UI component to simulat

RE: [flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system

2008-01-28 Thread Greg Hess
m. Both are not allowed, you have to choose a setting for one or the other when you build/publish. -Andy On Jan 28, 2008 9:38 AM, Greg Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hi All, I am working with a remote team and I need to send them the application prototy

RE: [flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system

2008-01-28 Thread Greg Hess
. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Greg Hess Sent: Mon 28/01/2008 19:39 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system

RE: [flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system

2008-01-29 Thread Greg Hess
erton Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Running a flex app from local file system On Monday 28 Jan 2008, Greg Hess wrote: > - It seems xml file format (xml) is not specifically supported by > Flex and will require me to set the M

[flexcoders] Browser scrollbars corrupting layout

2008-02-12 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have been working on my applications layout and trying to make it as fluid as possible. Images seem to be my main culprit as they don't scale well when using % based layout. I have accepted this, however when I resize the browser window past the image(s) region the browser scrollbars

[flexcoders] RE: Browser scrollbars corrupting layout

2008-02-12 Thread Greg Hess
be visible without scrolling. I found a solution here http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg82680.html that resolves my issue nicely. HTH, thanks for listening ;-) -Greg From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Hess Sent: Tuesday, F

[flexcoders] Piclens view

2008-02-15 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Has anyone seen any examples of a 'piclens' viewer done in Flex? Would the flash runtime support this type of view efficiently? Any comments much appreciated. -Greg

[flexcoders] Embeded assets in CSS - can't resolve DV path

2008-03-12 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I am currently skinning our application and embedding many image assets in the css. I am using Design View when editing the CSS and am able to browse to my images, edit the scale9 ect no problem. However, when I return to 'source' and compile the application all the skin paths generate

[flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Flex 3 app that will play in Flash Player 7 for Wii

2008-05-02 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a requirement to support Flash Player 7 for the Wii for one of our application modules. Is it possible to build this using Flex 3? Thanks, Greg

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Flex 3 app that will play in Flash Player 7 for Wii

2008-05-02 Thread Greg Hess
S3 only as far as I know. > > > > -Original Message- > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Hess > *Sent:* 02 May 2008 16:08 > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Fl

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Flex 3 app that will play in Flash Player 7 for Wii

2008-05-02 Thread Greg Hess
.5 + AS 2? > > > > Tracy > > > -- > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Hess > *Sent:* Friday, May 02, 2008 12:58 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Is it po

Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Flex 3 app that will play in Flash Player 7 for Wii

2008-05-06 Thread Greg Hess
gt; Jeff > > -Original Message- > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Hess > *Sent:* Friday, May 02, 2008 2:35 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Is it possible to build a Flex 3 app that will &

Re: [flexcoders] How to build Modular Application

2008-05-08 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Indra, If your working with Flex builder, right click your project->properties->Flex Modules and add the path you your module mxml file. Once completed your module will be compiled to a .swf file when built. The project I am working on has build the app as a set of modules, each module is load

[flexcoders] Position Menu under LinkButton

2008-05-15 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I am trying to position a Menu under a help LinkButton to give the user the help options. I thought I could use the link buttons x y (minus the height and width of the button) to position the menu in the middle under the button but it is not working. The LinkButton is a child of an HBox

Re: [flexcoders] Position Menu under LinkButton

2008-05-16 Thread Greg Hess
(pt) > menu.show(pt.x, pt.y) > > -- > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Hess > *Sent:* Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:02 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Position Menu under L

[flexcoders] Hide a menu on MOUSE_OUT

2008-05-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I have a menu that displays when a user MOUSE_OVER a button, displaying help options. I would like the menu to hide if the user moves the mouse out of the menu. I thought simply adding a MOUSE_OUT event listener to the menu would give the me the event to trigger the hide, however the MOU

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Hide a menu on MOUSE_OUT

2008-05-16 Thread Greg Hess
Thank you! Adding a Menu even listener for MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT to hide the menu works perfect! -Greg On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:57 AM, redden96 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try rollOver and rollOut. > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , "Greg > Hess" <[E

[flexcoders] Respecting backgroundImage aspect ratio

2008-05-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, Our application lets a user specify an image to use as a background for a component. We need to scale the image to fill the VBox container (max width or height) respecting the aspect ratio of the image. I have been setting the backgroundImage, and backgroundSize="100%" styles on the VBox

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Respecting backgroundImage aspect ratio

2008-05-16 Thread Greg Hess
Image (used for the backgroundImage). This gets trick sometimes; > depending on how you set the parent and/or child dimensions. But, if > you set either the Image height or width exclusively, and use the > maintainAspectRatio, the image will scale correctly. > > -TH > > >

[flexcoders] Flash-AIR-PHP drag and drop Hybrid

2008-05-21 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, The application I am working on has a requirement to support drag and drop, from client to server. Currently, we can only support this by using a signed Java Applet that provides the "drop box" that allows the EU to drop files from the local file system. As a result the files are transfe

Re: [flexcoders] Flash-AIR-PHP drag and drop Hybrid

2008-05-21 Thread Greg Hess
the file upload process - all within AIR. If you want to show > upload progress, that can be done within AIR as well - no need for an > external Flash widget. > > Jeff > > -Original Message- > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behal

[flexcoders] Resize tree when nodes open/close

2008-06-09 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Trying to resize my tree control on the itemOpen and itemClose events but cant figure out how to determine the right height/width. The UI design dictates that the scrolling of the tree control is managed by a parent VBox. So I need the tree to resize to force scrolling on the parent contai

[flexcoders] DataGrid nullItemRenerer's do not display until 'non-null' ItemRenderers have been used

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a DataGrid that is working with a dataProvider(ArrayCollection) with null items. The ArrayCollection represents the files in a directory and I am performing pagination. Before I populate the ArrayCollection with valid FileVO objects it is filled with null items for every file in the

Re: [flexcoders] DataGrid nullItemRenerer's do not display until 'non-null' ItemRenderers have been used

2008-11-13 Thread Greg Hess
would be more likely that the dataProvider length is still 0 until you > get your first page. If that's not the case, can you make a small example? > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Wednesday, November 12,

[flexcoders] TextInput ItemRenderer arrow keys change list selection

2009-01-05 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am using a custom item renderer in a TileList that has a TextInput child allowing the EU to view and enter some text for the item. When the user clicks on the TextInput it becomes focused however, when in the focused state the L/R Arrow key events are hanlded by the parent TileList not t

Re: [flexcoders] TextInput ItemRenderer arrow keys change list selection

2009-01-05 Thread Greg Hess
gt; assuming you set it up correctly. > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:37 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] TextInput ItemRenderer arrow keys chang

Re: [flexcoders] TextInput ItemRenderer arrow keys change list selection

2009-01-05 Thread Greg Hess
t have more work to do. There's a lot of code in List or DataGrid to > deal with it. > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:50 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.c

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Quicktime API

2009-01-13 Thread Greg Hess
I found apples API doc very helpful: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Rm/Fundamentals/QTOverview/QTOverview_Document/chapter_1000_section_3.html FYI: - Quicktime wont let you use width and height of 0,0 Player will not function - Quicktime wont let you embed it in a hidden div,

[flexcoders] Image loading indicators do not display in Firefox 2

2009-01-14 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am using a custom item renderer for a TileList that displays an image and a label for each item. The image has event listener functions for Open and Complete events. On the Open event we add a "spinner" component to provide a loading indicator and remove it on Complete. It works fine in

[flexcoders] Sounds start playing immediately without calling play()

2009-01-16 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to preload an external MP3 without playback starting immediately. The reason I am doing this is because I am allowing the EU to resume a previous media playback session and I want to start playback at a predetermined position. I have found that if I call sound.play( position )

[flexcoders] How to encode query parameters?

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Every service call to my server requires query params (POST and GET), even some POST requests will send query params. I have found that with HTTPService if I specify the Object with key value pairs in send( queryParams) it does not send the xml I set as the data property. Some of my query

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to encode query parameters?

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
t; > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/package.html#encodeURI() > > Marc > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Greg Hess wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Every service call to my server requires query params (POST and GET), >> even some POST r

[flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am displaying search results in a DataGrid and I have a custom ItemRenderer for the "Name" column and I need to highlight the text in the Label that matched the search query. I have seen support for this in TextArea and TextField.setSelection(..) and also done with HTML text however I ne

flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
The global function unescape(str) might be what you are looking for if you need to decode a URL-encoded string. HTH, Greg On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, luvfotography wrote: > Is there a function to html decode a string? > > I want to translate Í to the single character i with the accent. > t

Re: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
t; > Flex development bandwidth available > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:52 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoder

flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

2009-01-30 Thread Greg Hess
Ah, I believe those HTML entities. You may find support in some HTML utils... On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:57 PM, luvfotography wrote: > Hi, thanks, but that doesn't work. I need something to decode the > literals, such as '<', '"', í, etc. > > --- In

Re: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters

2009-02-02 Thread Greg Hess
Harui wrote: > A Label as a renderer will be trying to reset its .text from the > dataprovider data unless you've wired it up differently. > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2

[flexcoders] How to instantiate a weak reference

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am implementing a cache for my application and I would like to allow my cache to manage memory consumption(limit number of items stored). I have done this in the past in Java by having my cache hold the only hard references to the objects, returning weak references to the application. Wh

Re: [flexcoders] How to instantiate a weak reference

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Hess
Objects are all passed by reference, I want to pass a weak reference back to callers who request items from the cache, much like the internal implementation must do in some way when addEventListener(...true) as a weak reference. For example: public function getItem( id:String ):Item { var ite

Re: [flexcoders] How to instantiate a weak reference

2009-02-03 Thread Greg Hess
anish Jethani wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Greg Hess wrote: >> >> Objects are all passed by reference, I want to pass a weak reference >> back to callers who request items from the cache, much like the >> internal implementation must do in some way when &

[flexcoders] Confused about modules using embedded fonts Flex 3.3

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I have a modular application built on Flex 3.3 SDK and have just introduced some embedded fonts and unfortunately all text is blank in the modules that attempt to use the embedded font. Popup windows displayed from my module shell(main application) work fine. Searching the archive and w

Re: [flexcoders] Confused about modules using embedded fonts Flex 3.3

2009-05-15 Thread Greg Hess
x control, but if you’re using > itemrenderers and/or classFactories you’ll probably need to use > ContextualClassFactory instead. > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc. > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > From: flexcoder

Re: [flexcoders] Confused about modules using embedded fonts Flex 3.3

2009-05-15 Thread Greg Hess
look. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc. > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > -Original Message- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:46 AM > To

Re: [flexcoders] Confused about modules using embedded fonts Flex 3.3

2009-05-19 Thread Greg Hess
iated. Are there any implications to setting the modules.moduleFactory to reference the main applications SystemManager? Thanks, Greg On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Greg Hess wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Well, got my scaled down test case, but it is working fine as you > said. I don&#

[flexcoders] Is it possible to layer div|iframe over flash app without wmode=transparent

2009-05-26 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, We have built a flash app that currently layers an HTML div over the flash for some key functionality (non h264 video playback). Everything is working fine, our first deployment is in France this summer and we are doing our translations ect... Unfortunately, it seems we are now one of ma

[flexcoders] wmode=transparent and accessibility does it work?

2009-05-26 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I have been reading many posts on issues with screen readers(JAWS) when using the wmode=transparent|opaque, basically they state accessibility does not work with transparent or opaque flash applications. The posts are all over a year old and I am unable to find an adobe bug on it... as s

Re: [flexcoders] wmode=transparent and accessibility does it work?

2009-05-27 Thread Greg Hess
ing like FlashAid to test for the > presence of assistive technology before loading the page, and then set > wmode=window on subsequent pages if AT is in use. > > - > m > > > On 5/26/09 3:12 PM, "Greg Hess" wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Folks, >

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Compilation takes long time

2009-07-29 Thread Greg Hess
Although I have not tried this yet, the Flex 4 compiler has major optimizations and is backwards compatible. Apparently, you can install Flex 4 and configure Flex Builder to use its compiler instead of Flex 3 mxmlc. HTH, Greg On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Todd wrote: > > > Unfortunately, you

[flexcoders] How to resize image to fill area and clip

2009-09-28 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a content area that I need to fill with a user supplied graphic. The graphic may be any aspect ratio and I want to scale the image to the content area and maintain aspect ratio however, instead of producing "white" space where the aspect ratio could not be achieved(Standard behavior

[flexcoders] Converting RGB to Hex color

2009-09-29 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to externalize our effect styles to css. However, when I read in the color values getStyle() they come in RGB format and GlowFilter needs Hex. I have found lots of posts of people writing rgbToHex conversion function but I find it strange that this is not available in the Flex

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Converting RGB to Hex color

2009-09-30 Thread Greg Hess
> > > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Converting RGB to Hex color > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nope: HSBColor is a utility class

Re: [flexcoders] How to resize image to fill area and clip

2009-09-30 Thread Greg Hess
ontent property and the other > properties on the Image class. > > dorkie image wrangling dork from dorktown > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Greg Hess wrote: > >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I have a content area that I need to fill with a user

[flexcoders] Resizing transparent png

2009-10-02 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to apply a roll over/out resize or zoom effect on a Button with graphical skins. When the mouse is over the image I want it to grow and shrink on exit(currently using roll over/out events). My png skins are transparent and have round shapes, when I resize/zoom up or down the im

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Resizing transparent png

2009-10-02 Thread Greg Hess
gt; smoothing to true. I do not believe you can directly smooth a .png image I > think smoothing only applies to bitmaps. > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Greg > Hess wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am trying to apply a roll over/out resize or zoom e

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Resizing transparent png

2009-10-05 Thread Greg Hess
"> > > > > > zoomWidthTo="2.0" duration="3000"/> > zoomWidthTo="1.0" duration="3000"/> > > > > y="173"/> > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Greg > Hess wrote: > > > > Thank

[flexcoders] How to catch IOErrorEvent's from setting Text.htmlText with broken links

2009-10-28 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am setting the Text.htmlText property with some HTML I get from reading an RSS feed. All was working well until recently I started getting ActiionScript errors reporting: Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed. In debugging this I could never catch

[flexcoders] TileList custom ItemRenderer - commitProperties not called when selection changes

2009-11-13 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a custom item renderer in one of my TileList's. I need to set a style of one of the children to indicate selection, I am doing this by overriding commitProperties. However, when debugging the IR's commitProperties does not get called after the selection changes. Is this normal? Ho

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList custom ItemRenderer - commitProperties not called when selection changes

2009-11-14 Thread Greg Hess
excoders] Re: TileList custom ItemRenderer - > commitProperties not called when selection changes > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Greg > Hess wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a custom item renderer in one of my TileLi

Re: [flexcoders] Re: TileList custom ItemRenderer - commitProperties not called when selection changes

2009-11-16 Thread Greg Hess
SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc. <http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Hess > *Sent:* Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:06 PM > *

[flexcoders] Any issues with Windows 7(64bit) and Flex Builder

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I would like to replace my dev workstation with a farrari, slow compiles are killing me. I have been shopping around and would like to buy a new quad core, 8G ram and Windows 7(64bit) but want to make sure I wont have any issues with my dev tools before making the plunge. Has any one had

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Any issues with Windows 7(64bit) and Flex Builder

2009-11-20 Thread Greg Hess
Aside from that everything seems fine to me. > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Jeffry > Houser wrote: > > > > > > I've had no issues. ;) > > > > Greg Hess wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > >

[flexcoders] How to tell if a Modal Alert is currently displayed

2009-11-25 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Is there a way to detect if a modal Alert is being displayed if you don't have reference to the Alert instance? I have a bug with a custom popup that is triggered with roll over/out event on an image, basically set a timer check back in couple hundred millis if the mouse is still over(hitT

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Any issues with Windows 7(64bit) and Flex Builder

2010-01-06 Thread Greg Hess
anyone know how I can resolve the issue? Any help much appreciated. Greg On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Greg Hess wrote: > Thanks folks, I am taking the plunge to Windows 7 64bit :-) > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, seanmcmonahan wrote: > >> >> >> Ha

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Any issues with Windows 7(64bit) and Flex Builder

2010-01-12 Thread Greg Hess
e 32-bit JDK. > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Greg Hess wrote: > >> >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Well, I took the plunge have Windows 7 64bit, have installed JDK 6 Update >> 17(64bit) and Eclipse 3.4. >> >> Unfortunately, I have issues

[flexcoders] Fullscreen video player with controls

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Folks, I have been tasked with adding video playback and fullscreen support in our application. Searching the web I have found a number of resources outlining how to display a video in fullscreen using Stage.fullscreenSourceRect. Seems very straight forward and I am very interested in leveragin

[flexcoders] Video playback with progressive download and seeking

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I am trying to support video playback of a H264 video downloaded off my web server(progressive download) from a pre determined location. What I am doing is: - Set the source of the VideoDisplay to the URL of my H264 video - Call play on the VideoDisplay(load begins) - Set the VideoDispla

[flexcoders] Handling errors with Video and Audio playback - no error events why?

2010-03-09 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Our application provides the EU playback of uploaded media. The EU may upload audio or video that may be corupted or have errors with playback due to unsupported codecs ect... I am trying to figure out how to properly handle this so that when these errors occur I can inform the EU an error

Re: [flexcoders] Module Memory Leaks

2010-03-10 Thread Greg Hess
Hi Guys, Would calling image.unloadAndStop() in a dispose routine for item rederers who load runtime images be equivalent to setting the image source to null and calling validateNow()? Thanks, Greg On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > Runtime-loaded images need to be “disp

[flexcoders] Supporting multiple applications under same source-path

2010-03-25 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, Recently I had to refactor a video player component to be a standalone flash application that is displayed in a popup browser window. I simply added a new applicaton.mxml file in the root of my source-path, right beside my main application.mxml. When I compile my video player standalone ap

[flexcoders] Preventing drop on a specific node in tree

2010-04-07 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, I have a tree component that supports drag and drop. However, I need to prevent the EU from dropping into a specific node. I would like to display the "red x" indicator over this specific node and have the drop rejected. I first tried to get this to work in my DragEnter event handler and

Re: [flexcoders] Preventing drop on a specific node in tree

2010-04-08 Thread Greg Hess
End User On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Niranjan RP wrote: > > > what is EU. i searched in documentation and google,i could't find its > decription. > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Greg Hess wrote: > >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I ha

Re: [flexcoders] Preventing drop on a specific node in tree

2010-04-08 Thread Greg Hess
( DragManager.NONE ); else DragManager.showFeedback( DragManager.MOVE ); Happy coding! -Greg On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Greg Hess wrote: > End User > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Niranjan RP wrote: > >> >> >> what is EU. i searched in documentation and google

Re: [flexcoders] Re: highlight a cell in datagrid

2010-04-15 Thread Greg Hess
I am having the same challenge right now too. My DataGrid is a custom extension and did try using the protected highlightItemRenderer with a public method I exposed but didnt work for me, even with an invalidateDisplayList and validateNow after setting the poperty. Many web examples do it by sett

[flexcoders] How to layer popup windows

2010-05-10 Thread Greg Hess
Hi All, My application employs a modular architecture(main applications responsibility is just to load and unload modules). My module displays a popup window who's parent is the main application that covers the entire UI. Unfortunately, while this popup is displayed certain events occur in the mod

Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows

2010-05-11 Thread Greg Hess
the popups is in the main application and it is being called from the module. Thanks, Greg On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Alex Harui wrote: > > > Are you using the childLIst parameter of PopUpManager? > > > > On 5/10/10 11:30 AM, "Greg Hess" wrote: > >

Re: [flexcoders] How to layer popup windows

2010-05-12 Thread Greg Hess
ways adds a popup over all the other children currently > in the childlist specified in addPopUp/createPopUp, so depending on the > order and childlist specified, you can get different things at different > levels. > > I suspect you want the top level popup to go in the popup childlist &g

Re: [flexcoders] Remove Validation Highlight

2010-05-14 Thread Greg Hess
textInput.errorString = ""; HTH, Greg On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Angelo Anolin wrote: > > > Hi FlexCoders, > > How do you remove the highlight to a textinput field which is rendered by a > validator when the validation failed? > > Thanks. > > Angelo > > >

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