I am also searching for alternatives for 3 complex apps, and 1 minor app using
similar code bases. I need data entry widgets grids, etc. from Flex 3.x (pre
spark). I use FlouruneFX to talk to the middle tier.
From: bilbosax
Sent: 4/3/19 8:23 PM
To:
I have some fairly large modules, for example one which has a swf file that is
120KB on disk a little over 2,000 lines of mxml & as code combined). When run
in the IDE it reports "2,674,599 bytes after decompression." While I am not
particularly concerned about the size per se, it does take
t of tags in the SWF, which includes uncompressed SWF size to see if it
correlates. Just running "swfdump " should dump those tags.
-Alex
On 2/8/19, 8:33 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Alex:
I downloaded swfdump from swfTools.org. What switc
ler in Flash Builder or Scout. That's really the
only way to get hard data on what is taking so long.
-Alex
On 2/7/19, 8:09 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
I have some fairly large modules, for example one which has a swf file that is
120KB on disk a little over 2,000 lines of mxml
e, force the creation of all the hidden tabs before I try
to populate them? While this may take a little longer, it would provide a
better user interface.
----
From: "Paul Stearns"
Sent: 2/10/19 6:55 AM
To: "users@flex.apache.org"
Subject: P
I have a routine that "disappears" for a few seconds. I would like to turn
profiling on just before this begins and off when it comes back. Is this
possible?
Since the app does many things, I want to isolate just this section where as
far as I can tell it is not executing any code from my
ou have to do is use callLater to “unravel” the loop. Put the iterator in
a variable, call one createDeferredContent, (and maybe validateNow()) then
increment the variable and callLater.
HTH,
-Alex
From: Paul Stearns
Reply-To: "pa...@compuace.com"
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 4:37 AM
To:
lease figure out why the ML keeps getting dropped.
I forgot you are using 3.x
From: Paul Stearns
Reply-To: "pa...@compuace.com"
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:56 PM
To: Alex Harui
Subject: Re: Profiling
Alex:
I had tried that, but INavigatorContent is not found. I
I have a few existing applications developed and maintained using FlexBuilder.
The current SDK used is 3.5. When I compile for production I use mxmlc "Version
3.6.0 build 16995"
Two of my applications have memory leaks. Before spending too much time
debugging, I want to make sure I am
might find that
removing one particular child causes the problem. Make sure Timers and event
listeners have been managed properly.
HTH,
-Alex
On 1/30/19, 11:18 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
I started down this path some time ago, when I ran into a dead end and other
projects piled up,
I started down this path some time ago, when I ran into a dead end and other
projects piled up, I needed to abandon the hunt for memory leaks in my
application. I am now 100% focused on solving this as it has gotten to be a
real problem.
I use FlexBuilder 3 as a tool. I am not opposed to using
I am having various issues with the profiler. I do not know whether it is how I
have it configured, or that I am just expecting more than it can deliver;
When run it fires up Adobe Flash Player 9, instead of either the latest debug
flash player, or what I have installed in IE which is the
From: Alex Harui
Sent: 2/1/19 1:20 PM
To: "users@flex.apache.org" , "pa...@compuace.com"
Subject: Re: instances of objects magically appear...
It was hard to read the code in the email. In the future, try using pastebin or
some other service, or open a JIRA issue and put the
I am trying to solve my memory leak issue. I have added a clearEvents function
to my testing modules. My thought is to execute this function prior to
unloading each module. Towards that end I have created a function in the
parentApplication called clearModuleEvents which recursively loops
Alex:
I have found that using a custom combo box I built causes the module that
contains it to stay in memory.
If I create a new instance but do not access it, everything is fine, As soon as
I touch the dataprovider, it will not allow the parent module to unload (even
if I set the
then the dropdown is probably going away
and is not the problem. If it is there, then some code may still be accessing
the dropdown property. Maybe override the dropdown property getter and trace
who is accessing it.
HTH,
-Alex
From: Paul Stearns
Reply-To: "pa...@compuace.com"
Date: Saturday, F
oBox is running
any code that accesses the dropdown property. ComboBox by itself should know
how to destroy and unhook the dropdown, but if you run code that access
dropDown after ComboBox thinks it cleaned up, then it will get stuck in memory
again.
HTH,
-Alex
On 2/1/19, 10:19 PM, "P
down, but if you run code that access
> dropDown after ComboBox thinks it cleaned up, then it will get stuck in
> memory again.
>
> HTH,
> -Alex
>
> On 2/1/19, 10:19 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
>
> Alex:
>
> I have found that using a custom combo box I bui
Who would be able to help me assess which way to go to future proof Flex
apps?We have 4 Flex (currently compiled with 3.6 SDK) applications which are
fully integrated with a FluorineFX/VB middle tier and Oracle DB tier. They
currently run in browser based Flash with very little interaction
Flex/Flash apps.
Dont see screenshot.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 12:35 PM Paul Stearns
wrote:
> Who would be able to help me assess which way to go to future proof Flex
> apps?
>
> We have 4 Flex (currently compiled with 3.6 SDK) applications which are
> fully integrated with a FluorineFX/
in at least one app that has been in
production use for a number of months already.
In terms of support, one option is that Royale has page where you can
contact directly with some companies or individual developers. [1]
[1] https://royale.apache.org/royale-commercial-support/
On Tue, Sep 10,
Alex:
Is there a place someone could go and just see TourDeFlex run, without
downloading, and building it?
Paul R. Stearns
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Recursion is most likely the answer, however, if you could define the structure
a little better it would be easier to help.
Showing a little code that defines the structure would be best.
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc.
15280 NW 79th Ct.
Suite 250
Miami Lakes, Fl 33016
So that I could get better feed back on which route I should take, I have
created a demo version of one of my applications.
This is a time accounting application which we developed and use internally to
keep track of hours to pay consultants and bill clients.
The URL is
rds
> further improving MXRoyale and SparkRoyale as that will make the migration
> effort easier for the next person.
>
> My 2 cents,
> -Alex
>
> On 10/11/19, 3:21 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
>
> So that I could get better feed back on which route I s
Rather than regurgitate everything I posted on Stack Over Flow, here is a link;
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59727851/using-window-open-equivalent-in-firefox-causes-net-session-variables-to-go-away
The problem appears to be when I use;
navigateToURL(url, "_blank");with a "POST" my .NET
623-4588
From: Carlos Rovira
Sent: 3/9/20 4:55 PM
To: Paul Stearns
Cc: users@flex.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Spam] :Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?
Hi Paul,
I suppose you refer to Java Applets, hope other could give more info about
this, but although you're in part right, I thi
@flex.apache.org, Paul Stearns
Subject: [Spam] :Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?
Hi Paul,
must say don't know what's the actual support of Adobe for Flash Player, or if
it will left to Harman as part of the AIR deal, maybe Andrew can give some
light on this. Since Flash will be just present
eed the app to be
accessed via a standard browser then your best bet (for a Flex app) is likely
to be Royale :-)
thanks
Andrew
-Original Message-
From: Paul Stearns
Sent: 09 March 2020 19:47
To: Carlos Rovira ; users@flex.apache.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Spam] :Re: Flex 4.16.1 broke
if you could
create a Java wrapper that launches an AIR app.
-Alex
On 3/9/20, 2:26 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Yes 5 was a typo. Should have been;
Why couldn't Adobe/Harman changed Flash to use the methodology Java uses for
deployment?
For example I have a number of Java application
5)623-4588
From: Carlos Rovira
Sent: 3/9/20 6:14 PM
To: users@flex.apache.org, Paul Stearns
Subject: Re: [Spam] :Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?
Hi Paul,
many years ago I must say that was completely true, for that reason I
started trying to intro
view states greatly complicates these
approaches (as it does for a GUI IDE as well). So one question for you, are you
using view states (mx:State)?
-Alex
On 3/9/20, 8:26 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Regarding a GUI IDE, in one application, one of the larger modules has 1,390
line
I think we will have to disagree on this.
Three things (that I can think of quickly), which would be difficult without a
GUI;
I use quite regularly the alignment capabilities of the IDE, where I select
multiple items and align right, left, bottom, middle , top & center. If I have
20 fields on
caused occasional
issues in FB).
-Alex
On 3/11/20, 8:48 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
I think we will have to disagree on this.
Three things (that I can think of quickly), which would be difficult without a
GUI;
I use quite regularly the alignment capabilities of the IDE, where I select
IDE.
Of course, I could be wrong...
-Alex
On 3/11/20, 10:04 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Alex:
Not to sound too ignorant, what is "FB DV?"
What is Adobe doing with FlashBuilder? If they are deprecating Flash, what use
do they have for FlashBuilder? That might be a good code
romised with my kids out of school.
-Alex
On 5/14/20, 8:52 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Alex:
Speaking of "asking Harman" I have tried to contact them on a few occasions
with very limited success. What is the best way to contact them?
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterp
Alex:
Speaking of "asking Harman" I have tried to contact them on a few occasions
with very limited success. What is the best way to contact them?
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc.
15280 NW 79th Ct.
Suite 250
Miami Lakes, Fl 33016
Voice: (305)623-0360 x107
Fax:
Better yet, how about supporting a browser whose main feature is the support of
Flex?
My applications are 99.9% flex. The main things I use the browser for is
application deployment, file upload/download and displaying PDF files..
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc.
15280 NW
From: Carlos Rovira
Sent: 3/9/20 1:28 PM
To: users@flex.apache.org, Paul Stearns
Subject: Re: Flex 4.16.1 broken for AIR33.1?
Hi Paul,
not bad idea, but don't know a browser that will support Flash, and the
problem is Adobe is stopping supporting flash player as a plugin, so I'm
afraid that's
Carlos:
Royale will have its place. However one thing which Royale and other similar
technologies will never fully implement is a 100% coherent runtime environment.
There will always be sacrifices to the needs of Javascript/HTML. As long as
there are multiple browser DOMs there will always be
I am attempting to migrate a dashboard type MXML from Flex/Flash 3.5 to Flex
4.16, AIR 32.0. I have a module which compiles OK but gets a runtime error of
"Property axis is not set for this AxisRenderer" It appears to happening during
creation, as a breakpoint in module creationComplete handler
I have been successful in creating an NSIS configuration file for building an
AIR installation package. It uses the "Modern User Interface (MUI)."
If anyone is interested, I would be happy to share this. Sending it via email
to this mailing list does not seem practical. Is there a repository of
I would like to have multiple AIR executables (captive runtime) in the same
folder. It appears that a captive runtime runs a standard executable which
looks for a file .META-INF\AIR\application.xml which defines the actual swf
file to run.
Will the executable accept as a parameter, the name of
---
From: Alex Harui
Sent: 6/18/20 12:04 AM
To: "users@flex.apache.org" , "pa...@compuace.com"
Subject: Re: migrating to AIR when using url "POST" request
At a higher-level, what is the user goal? Can you open Excel itself or does it
have to be a browser window?
-
In many places in our applications we use the navigateToURL method to load
another browser window with Excel Spreadsheets and other items we generate from
code on our website. We invariably use "POST" instead of "GET" for various
reasons, some of which cannot be converted to "GET."
Where can I
modules can
be found?
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc.
15280 NW 79th Ct.
Suite 250
Miami Lakes, Fl 33016
Voice: (305)623-0360 x107
Fax: (305)623-4588
From: "Paul Stearns"
Sent: 6/18/20 8:32 AM
To: "users@flex.apach
To: "users@flex.apache.org" , "pa...@compuace.com"
Subject: Re: Multiple AIR executables in the same folder
Are you trying to create a separate process for security or memory reasons?
Otherwise, just load the SWF in another NativeWindow.
HTH,
-Alex
On 6/18/20, 8:12 AM, "
NativeProcess should let you launch the actual application if you know the path
to the application.
Would that work for you?
-Alex
On 6/18/20, 5:40 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Alex:
My goal is to receive the file on the client and open Excel.
For the moment i
Is there any methods where I can receive a stream of data from an HTTP request
into a variable in AIR, then send the data to the default browser without first
writing the file to disk?
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced Consulting Enterprises, Inc.
15280 NW 79th Ct.
Suite 250
Miami Lakes, Fl 33016
Paulus:
I do not quite understand the approach outlined. I will restate what I
currently do in Flash;
My Flash application, in many places, will create an HTTP/POST request which is
sent to a web service. This web service takes the request and all of the POSTed
arguments, runs a report
Paulus:
Seems like a good tool. I wanted to keep my question short, but I should have
mentioned what my final end goal is to send an embedded mime type of a PDF
file. What I need this for mainly is to display reports PDF which are created
on the fly from a application which only accepts "POST"
I took an application developed and running in Flex 3.6 and migrated it to AIR
using Flashbuilder 4.6. It was surprisingly easy. I had a minor issue and
thought I would upgrade the AIR compiler to v32.
This caused many MX components to not be found. For example;
mx:Button
mx:Canvas
mx:HBox
Paulus:
Here is my application tag;
http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009;
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
xmlns:ext="Classes.panel.*"
nt library-path than standard AIR SDK.
IMO, re-installing with the right AIR version has been used more than other
options. IIRC, there is a script to use to upgrade as well.
HTH,
-Alex
On 6/25/20, 2:52 PM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
The actual error I am getting is;
Could not resolve
The actual error I am getting is;
Could not resolve to a component implementation.
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Fax: (305)623-4588
From: "Paul St
doing to create a Adobe Badge
equivalent?
Paul R. Stearns
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15280 NW 79th Ct.
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Miami Lakes, Fl 33016
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Fax: (305)623-4588
From: "Paul Stearns"
Sent: 6/13/20 4:53 PM
When I run my air module either in debug mode or a captive AIR runtime version
it loads my application, but always loads "View Downloads - Internet Explorer."
How can I preclude this from happening?
How can I make sure it doesn't happen on computers I deploy to?
Paul R. Stearns
Advanced
use captive runtime?
There was a recent discussion about replacing the badge installer here
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2976f88c9bec26c58d889be9d71367834f43cc318467cf16c0930209%40%3Cusers.flex.apache.org%3E
HTH,
-Alex
On 6/14/20, 5:28 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Aft
40%3Cusers.flex.apache.org%3E
HTH,
-Alex
On 6/14/20, 5:28 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
After many dead ends due to Adobe archiving their content, it appears what I
need is something equivalent to creating an Adobe Badge. From the limited
information I found I think the badge uses Flash pla
hink you can use “open” in OSX. There might be some simpler way that I
don’t know.
-Alex
From: Paul Stearns
Reply-To: "pa...@compuace.com"
Date: Friday, June 19, 2020 at 5:35 AM
To: Alex Harui , "users@flex.apache.org"
Subject: Re: migrating to AIR when using url "POST"
n then, I don’t know if this suggestion
will work with recent AIR SDKs.
HTH,
-Alex
From: Paul Stearns
Reply-To: "pa...@compuace.com"
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 3:03 PM
To: Alex Harui , "users@flex.apache.org"
Subject: Re: AIR Versions
I am running FlashBuilder 4.6.
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À : users@flex.apache.org; users@flex.apache.org
Objet : Re: Create "web page" on the fly in AIR
Paulus:
I do not quite u
Is there a way of stopping execution of application "A" and transferring
control to application "B" in AIR?
Or will I need to create an OS command procedure?
My thought is to write an application whose only purpose is to verify that my
"real" application is up to date, download any SWF files
If we deploy applications using AIR we will need to deploy updates. At present
in the Flash/HTML environment that is easy (except for caching) you put the SWF
file in the production folder of the website and the next time a user needs the
module the get the new one.
Our systems consist of one
bug with the source, the image, and both
the Flex 3.6 SWF and the Flex 4.6 SWF.
Thanks,
-Alex
On 6/9/20, 7:21 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
I have a CSS file which is converted to a SWF file. When using SDK 3.6 and
compiling for Flash it works fine. When Using SDK 4.6 and compiling for AIR,
Paulus:
This sounds interesting. Are you saying you continue to develop your Flex app
as a web based application, but effectively use AIR as the web browser?
Paul R. Stearns
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Fax:
Paulus:
The way our application works is everything is controlled from Flex. When you
run a report generally there is a criteria panel in flex which uses
navigateToURL(url,"_blank"); to run a middle tier program that produces a PDF
file.
Is there a way to communicate between the application
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From: "Paul Stearns"
Sent: 6/10/20 9:37 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Keeping user applications up to date in A
-------
From: "Paul Stearns"
Sent: 6/9/20 5:51 PM
To: "users@flex.apache.org"
Subject: Keeping user applications up to date in AIR.
If we deploy applications using AIR we will need to deploy updates. At present
in the Flash/HTML environment that is easy (e
I have a CSS file which is converted to a SWF file. When using SDK 3.6 and
compiling for Flash it works fine. When Using SDK 4.6 and compiling for AIR,
the image does not display.
Since I am changing 2 things at once I am not sure where to look. Are there
differences between 3.6 & 4.6 or Flash
There is https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html which promises a
solution. I have contacted them, but, they say they won't be able to confirm
whether it will work with our application nor will they confirm what the cost
will be until the August-September time frame.
This of course cuts
Darren:
Would you be willing to share the "Adobe Air SWF Launcher?" If not we would be
very interested in as much detail as you would be willing to share, so that we
could replicate it.
What I am in the middle of writing is a main application shell which checks the
date of the local SWF, the
hy Flex and Royale are open source at
Apache. So that no corporation that owns the code.
Thanks,
-Alex
On 6/12/20, 5:36 AM, "Paul Stearns" wrote:
Darren:
Would you be willing to share the "Adobe Air SWF Launcher?" If not we would be
very interested in as much detail as you
Where can I find information on how to make an AIR application deployable?
I would prefer an option which would check if an acceptable version of AIR is
already installed, and install AIR if not.
The end goal would be to create an item on a web site where the user clicks, if
the app is already
We are creating an extension for the NetConnection object. When we get an error
we will retry "n" times. After "n" times we want to call the responder result
method returning an error. The responder object contains two properties, both
functions, however we cannot seem to see how to access
One thing no other IDE has developed, which is why we still use Flashbuilder
4.6, is a GUI development environment similar to design mode of
Flash/Flexbuilder.
Yes FlashBuilder has lots of bugs that drive us crazy, but the ability to
design screens with more or less pixel perfection is very
Does anyone know if there are any tricks to having two AIR applications
(captive runtime) on the same computer talk to each other via LocalConnection?
Receiver;
private var _lcReceiveConnection:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
public function startLocalReceiveListener():void
{
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