[flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Jack OMelia
FWIW, the rough draft of Programming Flex 2 was just updated to 295 pages and 11 chapters. I just downloaded it but haven't been able to look at it yet. As far as Flex TFTS, I am about halfway through it and I like the book alot. I am NOT a true developer, but a designer with dabblings in PHP and

[flexcoders] Re: Flex books

2007-02-05 Thread Jack OMelia
Actually, no. I was able to purchase the book as a download from O'Reilly at this link: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/programadobe/, $29.99 for download as a PDF only. You can keep downloading as updates become available. You can pay more to have a print copy of the book when it comes out. When I

[flexcoders] Datagrid change text color on rollover with itemrenderer

2007-02-15 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have a datagrid with a rollover effect changing both the row and text colors. However, as soon as I assign a text itemrenderer to a column I lose the text color change. I tried changing the itemrenderer programmatically using a function called on rollover but that changes the text of

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Header Center Align??

2007-02-22 Thread Jack OMelia
You can set text align on the column to center but that will do the entire column. To just the header, use a headerRenderer with a text or label component set to center. That will center just the header and not the rest of the column. Look in the docs for headerRenderer. Jack --- In

[flexcoders] Trouble passing data between components

2007-03-05 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I'm more of a designer than a developer, and as such my coding skills are not outstanding, so bear with me. I have an application with custom components inside a viewstack. In one component I have a datagrid and I would like to have data from the selected row of the datagrid populate

[flexcoders] Re: MenuBar Question (Relating to Styles)

2007-03-08 Thread Jack OMelia
How about fill colors and/or background images in the submenu? Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 Mar 2007, nextadvantage wrote: What if we wanted white background color :( Then it stands to reason you can't have the same text color

[flexcoders] Disapperaring images in datagrid

2007-04-03 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have a strange problem with images I am putting in a datagrid. I have two columns in a datagrid populated with icons. I get the image name from an xml file and use an itemrenderer to display the icons. In creating the page everything works fine, but as soon as I move the compiled files

[flexcoders] Re: Need to different images in datagrid column

2007-04-03 Thread Jack OMelia
Try using an itemRenderer. Create a separate component that looks like this: (saved as imageRenderer.mxml in the comps directory) ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:HBox xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; paddingBottom=0 paddingLeft=0 paddingRight=0 paddingTop=2 width=50

[flexcoders] Re: Disapperaring images in datagrid

2007-04-03 Thread Jack OMelia
it an absolute path of comps/invoices/images and everyone is happy. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jack OMelia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have a strange problem with images I am putting in a datagrid. I have two columns in a datagrid populated with icons. I get the image name from

[flexcoders] Set widths on individual tabs

2007-04-17 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have a tabNavigator where some of my tab labels get truncated. Some of my labels are short (like Home) and others are long (like Allocation Details). The long labels get truncated with an ellipsis even though there's still plenty of room for the tabs to expand to full width. If I set the

[flexcoders] Re: httpservice vs xml

2007-10-16 Thread Jack OMelia
When you use an XML tag you embed the xml in the swf. If you use HTTPService the xml is brought in at runtime and can therefore be changed without recompiling the swf. HTH, Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Zac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason why you would use the

[flexcoders] Centering a checbox in a datagrid column

2006-09-07 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I'm new to Flex and having a blast learning it but every now and then I run into small things that make me scratch my head. I have a column in a datagrid that uses an itemRenderer to fill the cells with checkboxes. The checkboxes are flush left against the wall of the cell. In searching

[flexcoders] Re: Centering a checbox in a datagrid column

2006-09-13 Thread Jack OMelia
instead. Shan _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack OMelia Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:47 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Centering a checbox in a datagrid column Hi All, I'm new to Flex

[flexcoders] Re: remove white content area in TitleWindow?

2006-09-18 Thread Jack OMelia
There is an easier way that I've used and that's to set the headerHeight attribute of the panel to 0. Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Harish Sivaramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To get rid of the white contentPane, you need to override the layoutChrome method in your class

[flexcoders] Re: how to set 1px width image to be a 200width application control bar 's backg

2006-09-19 Thread Jack OMelia
Try CSS setting repeat-x (horizontal) or repeat-y (vertical) Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Andriy Panas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Harish, Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 3:56:03 PM, you wrote: set the backgroundSize property to 100%, not sure, worth a try! I just

[flexcoders] Re: Error when trying to implement Flex PhotoViewer as shown on Adobe site

2006-09-21 Thread Jack OMelia
I was following this thread and awaiting the answer. Could you tell me what you figured out? Thanks, Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, justin.aloha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured it out! Thanks very much for your help! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Justin Cook justin.aloha@

[flexcoders] click event in itemRenderer

2006-09-28 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have a datagrid with a click event calling some functions. I decided I didn't want the click event to happen on the whole row, just on a particular column. I have an itemRenderer for the column with a Text component formatted to look like a link, so I decided to remove the click event

[flexcoders] datagrid checkboxes getting checked dynamically

2006-10-25 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have one column in a datagrid populated with checkboxes. The checkboxes are part of a dataGridCell itemRenderer called checkBoxRendererSummary: mx:Component id=checkBoxRendererSummary mx:VBox horizontalAlign=center paddingLeft=10 mx:CheckBox id=ckBoxBusCharge

[flexcoders] Re: datagrid checkboxes getting checked dynamically

2006-10-25 Thread Jack OMelia
=ckBoxBusCharge selected='{data.cdrBusinessCharge == true}' / ? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jack OMelia lomelia@ wrote: Hi All, I have one column in a datagrid populated with checkboxes. The checkboxes are part of a dataGridCell itemRenderer called checkBoxRendererSummary

[flexcoders] Re: datagrid checkboxes getting checked dynamically

2006-10-26 Thread Jack OMelia
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack OMelia Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:39 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: datagrid checkboxes getting checked dynamically That did the trick! Many thanks! I

[flexcoders] AIR bugginess

2007-10-31 Thread Jack OMelia
Hello All, I hate to put such a non-descriptive title but I can't seem to come up a better title. I have converted a Flex 2 app into an AIR app, and a simple thing that worked before does not now. In the AIR app, opening a particular page throws a Cannot access a property or method of a null

[flexcoders] Re: AIR bugginess

2007-11-01 Thread Jack OMelia
stacktrace and what line does it map to? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack OMelia Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:00 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] AIR bugginess Hello All, I

[flexcoders] Re: AIR bugginess

2007-11-01 Thread Jack OMelia
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack OMelia Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:00 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] AIR bugginess Hello All, I hate to put such a non-descriptive title but I can't

[flexcoders] Flex Builder 3 oddities on Mac OSX Leopard

2008-05-13 Thread Jack OMelia
I'm working with the FlexBuilder 3 trial version for Mac OSX and I'm seeing a few weird things. First, after creating a new test project I'm finding that no html file is created upon compiling, and so I get a Launch Failed error. I've done a few searches here and most of the suggested solutions

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder 3 oddities on Mac OSX Leopard

2008-05-14 Thread Jack OMelia
Wow, I never considered that. I'll try it tonight when I get back to my iMac. That makes me think of another question. I was going to purchase a license and pop the serial number into the trial version. Am I better off uninstalling the trial version and reinstalling a fresh copy when I get my

[flexcoders] Re: Flex Builder 3 oddities on Mac OSX Leopard

2008-05-14 Thread Jack OMelia
) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:123) ... 22 more Anyone have any experience with this? Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Farid SALAH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 14 mai 08 à 16:41, Jack OMelia a écrit : Wow, I never considered that. I'll try it tonight

[flexcoders] Pass repeater data to headerrenderer

2009-04-24 Thread Jack OMelia
Hi All, I have an accordion component, and I'm using a repeater to populate its children, with data coming from an XMLListCollection. I've created an external headerrenderer for the accordion header to display a multi-line title, but I cannot figure out how to pass the data for each repeated

[flexcoders] Re: Pass repeater data to headerrenderer

2009-04-25 Thread Jack OMelia
would you get the data into the headerRenderer if there was no repeater involved? Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack OMelia Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:03

[flexcoders] Re: Pass repeater data to headerrenderer

2009-04-26 Thread Jack OMelia
That is VERY cool. And I like the way you use grouping in this app as well. Much appreciated. Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Amy amyblankens...@... wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jack OMelia lomelia@ wrote: Without the headerReenderer I am able to use