Re: Update on Adobe Flash Player End of Support from Microsoft today

2020-09-04 Thread Greg Dove
t; player in IE11 post DEC 2020. > I also could not get clearly interpret this blog post if this is the case. > > Regards, > Shyam > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 5:27 PM Greg Dove wrote: > > > That's interesting, it does sound like it might continue to be > 'available' > >

Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Dove
That sounds like there might be a few of these. Any classes that extend the native ones inside mx.geom will likely need attention for the affected overridden methods. On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:00 AM leokan23 wrote: > Changing the -swf-version didn't do the trick. This is the change they did: >

Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Dove
for 'getRelativeMatrix3D' and add the second missing parameter for the latest version of that method On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 8:08 AM Greg Dove wrote: > > It sounds like an extra optonal parameter was added to > > mx.geom.Transform.getRelativeMatrix3D > > You could try monkey patching >

Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?

2020-03-03 Thread Greg Dove
It sounds like an extra optonal parameter was added to mx.geom.Transform.getRelativeMatrix3D You could try monkey patching mx.geom.Transform by adding the source package for that to your local project, and then look at the overridden method for 'getRelativeMatrix3D' and add the second missing

Re: Skins - Get Properties From Parent Component

2019-12-29 Thread Greg Dove
You can also access other properties on the 'parent' component that the skin is attached to if they are bindable as well. {hostComponent.whateverHere} And of course for custom components/custom skins you can define the host component's type via [HostComponent()] metadata inside the skin's

Re: Future proof Flex/Flash apps.

2019-09-09 Thread Greg Dove
very much like an old menu based .NET desktop > application (only prettier). > > Paul > > > From: Greg Dove > Sent: 9/9/19 3:14 PM > To: users@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Future proof Flex/Flash apps. > Hi Paul, > ' The applications will continue

Re: Future proof Flex/Flash apps.

2019-09-09 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Paul, ' The applications will continue to be desktop applications, with no portable/tablet interface required. ' It was not entirely clear to me whether they will continue to be *web* 'desktop' applications? If not, one (relatively) quick option is to convert the existing code to installable

Re: BrowseForSave issue

2018-11-16 Thread Greg Dove
I remember reading something about this. Check the release notes here: https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/flash-player/release-note/fp_31_air_31_release_notes.html - Saving files to the filesystem from a Flash applet maybe that is affecting you. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 9:24 AM Tucsonjhall wrote:

Re: Persisting ContentCache to disk between sessions

2018-10-27 Thread Greg Dove
cached file. On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:03 AM Greg Dove wrote: > Not an answer to the main question, but a couple of thoughts... > > I think BitmapData may not be directly serializable to amf. It is in > display package, and although not directly a display object, it might be >

Re: Persisting ContentCache to disk between sessions

2018-10-27 Thread Greg Dove
Not an answer to the main question, but a couple of thoughts... I think BitmapData may not be directly serializable to amf. It is in display package, and although not directly a display object, it might be subject to same rules. Here's the type of thing someone did in the past to avoid that: Also

Re: In-app Purchases

2018-10-19 Thread Greg Dove
iirc there are rules about what purchasing support you can use depending on the app store. I think Stripe is permitted for content or products that are not 'delivered' in-app. But for in-app items or app status subscriptions I think you are obliged to use the in-app purchasing support via whatever

Re: Problems with svg

2018-03-05 Thread Greg Dove
Are you referring to embedding an svg asset? I believe that if you use svg features that are not easily 'translatable' to be expressed as swf-style vector instructions, then it will be rendered as a bitmap and embedded that way. I suspect there are differences in how smart this conversion process

Re: Strange Graphic Anomoly

2018-02-15 Thread Greg Dove
It might pay to check your AIR version and release notes: E.g. for example https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_28_air_28_release_notes.html under FIXED ISSUES: [iOS]Artifacts are observed when child Sprite is near bottom of screen(AIR-4198445) There have been things like this

Re: Any tools to convert svg to fxg?

2018-02-10 Thread Greg Dove
I don't know if it still supports it in recent releases but I understand Inkscape had fxg export (at least it did so at one point). see: http://blog.devinholloway.com/2013/08/using-inkscape-to-generate-fxg-from.html Because Inkscape's primary format is SVG it might be a good option (assuming fxg

Re: iOS SDK Version in AIR 27

2018-01-04 Thread Greg Dove
r the info. I wonder how adobe plans to > get around the asset catalog requirement. Do you suppose they create an > asset catalog during the build? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 4, 2018, at 11:35 AM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Eri

Re: iOS SDK Version in AIR 27

2018-01-04 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Erik, iOS SDK version is 'bundled' with Air SDK, but there is a way to specify an external location for iOS SDK to point to a different external sdk version when packaging. AIR 28 sdk will be the first one that has iOS11 by default and will therefore have the new requirements. You can read

Re: Advertising ID on Mobile

2017-12-18 Thread Greg Dove
In my experience Apple can have an issue with using the advertising id if you do not have one of the advertising provider ANEs also installed and initialized. I can't remember if apple actually needed to see ads to approve it or not, but yes it is something you need to be careful with on iOS.

Re: Soap Webservices after iOS Update

2017-10-18 Thread Greg Dove
My first thought would be to wonder if it could be related to something that was originally configured as http instead of https and might therefore be affected by more recent ATS requirements... that would be my first thing to check I think. -Greg [sent from my phone] On 19/10/2017 5:46 PM,

Re: ios 11. Cannot load App

2017-10-02 Thread Greg Dove
Are you on windows? I have the same problem. It seems to be a known issue with iOS11. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2387478 On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:09 PM, bjaved wrote: > Hey All > > Installation fails while trying to load the IoS app onto the ipad.

Re: Slow Image Sizing

2017-04-24 Thread Greg Dove
If JPEGEncoder is an actionscript encoder, you could switch to using the native encoding support. It is much faster. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/BitmapData.html#encode() On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:45 AM, Erik J. Thomas

Re: Screen DPI ANE?

2017-03-05 Thread Greg Dove
I've definitely seen this issue on android devices in the past, but I also assume it may no longer be relevant in recent years. We had an app that classified itself as either phone or tablet based on the 7 inch threshold, with different layouts etc, but calculating that from the flash based api

Re: FlexJS:Reflection API

2017-02-20 Thread Greg Dove
> > Regarding, > registerClassAlias(unTypeObject['_explicitType'], > getClassByAlias(unTypeObject['_explicitType'])) > > - I am getting the data from blazeDs and blazeDS adding the "_explicitType" > to every object. > Great - I assume _explicitType is the alias used to retrieve the class

Re: FlexJS:Reflection API

2017-02-19 Thread Greg Dove
registerClassAlias(unTypeObject['_explicitType'], getClassByAlias(unTypeObject['_explicitType'])) Aside from the issue with TypeDefinition being missing, I think the class aliases should be declared explicitly elsewhere. Using registerClassAlias("vopackage.MyVo",vopackage.MyVo); I don't think

Re: air/flash 24 sdk, please update to release NOT beta

2017-01-18 Thread Greg Dove
"This update is actually crucial due to a UIDeviceFamily ios field change: from string to integer, it blocks attempts to upload .ipa for test or sale." To clarify: Unless something changed, this was known for some time and is only a warning message - it did not block us to update existing ios

Re: Using a variable in a sqlite query

2016-12-26 Thread Greg Dove
Trevor did you also make sure you had a space after the name, before the opening parethesis? NOT EXISTS " + name + "(r NOT EXISTS " + name + " (r On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Trevor Holman wrote: > Hello, > > > > I have been struggling with this for some time.

Re: FlexJS : AMFJS Class Mapping

2016-11-13 Thread Greg Dove
What I am suggesting is to try something like this (I have not *actually* tried this, just typed it up quickly): var patientList:ArrayList = new ArrayList(evt.data as Array); typeUntypedItems(patientList); trace("list=" + patientList); private function

Re: FlexJS : AMFJS Class Mapping

2016-11-12 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Prashant, The methods added to the reflection package were to support storing aliases (for class mappings) and also retrieving the class based on the stored alias. In the patient case the local alias would also be "org.blazeds.vo.Patient" I am not familiar with the approach you are using for

Re: FlexJS: Binding Issue

2016-09-24 Thread Greg Dove
I did try this quickly, and I could not get it to compile. But I also have not really got things set up correctly to use FlexJS in my IDE (Intellij). I think the nightly build might be stalled at September 14, when I look inside the archive at FlexJS_Nightly\temp\apache-flex-flexjs-0.8.0-bin.zip

Re: FlexJS: Binding Issue

2016-09-24 Thread Greg Dove
I have this working locally in both, so perhaps the nightly builds are not updated. I will download and check against a nightly build and report back in 20 mins On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:31 PM, PKumar wrote: > Not working, validated in both side Flash & JS. > > > >

Re: FlexJS: Binding Issue

2016-09-24 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Prashant, Please try with this: at the Application level, like so On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, PKumar

Re: FlexJS: Binding Issue

2016-09-18 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Prashant, I recently became a committer for the project, but I have been working mostly at the unit level in lower level framework code, unrelated to UI components, so I had not even used a TextInput component in any testing to date yet, although I did do some work on general binding-related

Re: FlexJS: Binding Issue

2016-09-17 Thread Greg Dove
Hi Prashant, I believe you have discovered a small bug, thanks for bringing it to our attention. I followed Alex's advice but varied it slightly, and have gotten it working locally with at the application level, but that alone is not sufficient, unfortunately. The TextInput class

Re: FlexJS question - ByteArray vs. BinaryData

2016-07-17 Thread Greg Dove
ing array of > bytes. The exact type is different on the different platforms. > > Alex, I tried to make the type “TypedArray” instead of “Uint8Array” on the > JS side, but TypedArray was not recognized for some reason. Any ideas on > why that might be? > > Harbs > > On Jul 14,

Re: FlexJS question - ByteArray vs. BinaryData

2016-07-14 Thread Greg Dove
d probably change to avoid for the framework build, or maybe the lower level configs could specify the dependency on GCL.swc alone (without setting the append attribute - I think there is that option here, which overrides?). I hope that makes sense On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Greg Dove <greg.d

Re: FlexJS question - ByteArray vs. BinaryData

2016-07-14 Thread Greg Dove
e="*.js" > /Users/harbs/Documents/ApacheFlex/flex-asjs/frameworks/js/FlexJS/generated-sources > /Users/harbs/Documents/Apache\ Flex\ Dist/FlexJSNightly/frameworks/js/FlexJS > > HTH, > Harbs > > On Jul 14, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: FlexJS question - ByteArray vs. BinaryData

2016-07-14 Thread Greg Dove
for FlexJS, and I'm not sure if I can use monkey-patching for checking the additions I have in mind which I could do in the past with the regular flex sdk. cheers Greg On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 7/12/16, 3:57 PM, &quo

FlexJS question - ByteArray vs. BinaryData

2016-07-12 Thread Greg Dove
I have dipped my toes into FlexJS for the first time. I am evaluating FlexJS for a migration away from Flex4/flash and figured I would try to cross compile an isolated a3 library that is a core dependency for my client's project. It seems there is no direct substitute for flash.utils.ByteArray on

Re: SoftKeyboard and TextField combined

2016-02-17 Thread Greg Dove
I haven't done this specifically, but I have certainly moved input fields to cope with softkeyboard appearance/size, while keeping the app's background static. I am not aware whether what you described exists as an ANE in its own right, but if not, I think you will need an ANE at the very least

Re: Flex Mobile App crashes on Startup (iOS)

2015-05-29 Thread Greg Dove
I suggest you try with the latest Air 18 beta. There have definitely been some bugs have been fixed. One iOS one that I encountered with 17 was with Boolean getters/setters via variables typed with an interface. There may be others that were fixed also, check the beta release notes here:

Re: OpenSSL Flex

2015-05-07 Thread Greg Dove
actually I'm using air 17 and getting this for the first time...just fyi Greg Dove Dove Software Development Ltd http://greg-dove.com On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:46 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala bigosma...@gmail.com wrote: Oh yes, it must be regarding this Adobe AIR related issue: https

Re: OpenSSL Flex

2015-05-07 Thread Greg Dove
I got notice of a 60 day warning too, with builds that had not had any warning previously. At the moment I wonder if it might be Air SDK related (although I thought they had addressed that) otherwise I will be checking to see if older ANEs might have a static linked copy of the deprecated OpenSSL

Re: OpenSSL Flex

2015-05-07 Thread Greg Dove
Google: Recently we sent you a notification that one or more of your apps should be upgraded to more recent version of OpenSSL, due to security vulnerabilities. The notification was sent in error, and we thank you for previously making the necessary changes to your app. Greg Dove Dove Software

Re: Flex AIR iPad App security concerns

2015-03-04 Thread Greg Dove
I don't think that technique will work on iOS, because I am pretty sure that Loader.loadBytes does not work for content with actionscript bytecode. You can only load external swfs which have been processed during AIR packaging On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Deepak MS megharajdee...@gmail.com

Re: Use styles for another applicationDPI possible?

2015-03-04 Thread Greg Dove
class: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html: Once I had these in actionscript, all was well. Greg Dove Dove Software Development Ltd http://greg-dove.com On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:21 PM, kevin.godell kevin.god...@gmail.com wrote: Your best option might be to use

Re: iOS packaging issue within Flex SDK 4.13 air 15

2014-12-05 Thread Greg Dove
IOS packaging mode changed default setting -useLegacyAOT no from previous -useLegacyAOT yes in air 15. I suggest you try setting that to yes again. I have encountered similar issues when not doing so. On 6/12/2014 3:27 AM, 4xy workingfe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, it's me again and I have good

Re: Flex App swf initialization failure when working as an Android worker!!!!

2014-03-12 Thread Greg Dove
I can't imagine using a flex application as a worker. I don't think Workers can access the main display list/stage, and a flex application expects to do so. It may be because of this that you are seeing the error because ContextMenu is not available on Android, and that part is nothing to do with

Re: Flex iOs project compiling in a Mac VM under VirtualBox ?

2014-02-06 Thread Greg Dove
I think the distinction needs to be made between creating (or updating native code in) iOS ANEs for use in a flex/air project and compiling/packaging a flex/air app that uses a precompiled ANE (with iOS support). You need Mac OS for the former, but windows alone is fine for the latter. On Fri,

Re: relative merits of Haxe vs ActionScript

2014-01-06 Thread Greg Dove
directly in actionscript, although it was certainly true that Haxe had it for a long time prior to that. Greg Dove Dove Software Development Ltd http://greg-dove.com On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Sean Thayne s...@skyseek.com wrote: I've used Haxe a bit before. The major downside is UI