RE: Flash Player 11.5 - Debug trace in release player
I just have to get my users to update their flash player ... Yes well, that's the trick isn't it. I'm still trying to get some of mine onto 11.x -Ian
RE: Google Maps
We looked at this in detail at the time, but just skimming I see a couple of things: 10.1.1. General Restrictions. (a) No Access to Maps API(s) except through the Service. You must not access or use the Maps API(s) or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate. For example, you must not access map tiles or imagery through interfaces or channels (including undocumented Google interfaces) other than the Maps API(s). (c) No Reverse Engineering. You must not attempt to reverse engineer or decompile the Services or any component, or attempt to create a substitute or similar service through use of or access to the Services, unless this is expressly permitted or required by applicable law. 10.2 Restrictions on the Types of Applications that You are Permitted to Build with the Maps API(s). Except as explicitly permitted in Section 8 (Licenses from Google to You) or the Maps APIs Documentation, you must not (nor may you permit anyone else to) do any of the following: (a) No Wrapping. You must not create or offer a wrapper for the Service, unless you obtain Google's written consent to do so. For example, you are not permitted to: (i) use or provide any part of the Service or Content (such as map imagery, geocoding, directions, places, or terrain data) in an API that you offer to others; or (ii) create a Maps API Implementation that reimplements or duplicates Google Maps/Google Earth. For clarity, you are not re-implementing or duplicating Google Maps/Google Earth if your Maps API Implementation provides substantial additional features or content beyond Google Maps/Google Earth, and those additional features or content constitute the primary defining characteristic of your Maps API Implementation. The first bit may have some room for interpretation around what constitutes the Service, but the rest is pretty explicit. You can't make a substitute flash library based on the Google services.. It might be possible to get their permission, but others haven't had very positive responses in the past. -Ian -Original Message- From: Harbs [mailto:harbs.li...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 January 2013 17:49 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps I'm not following. If you are getting the image data via their APIs, why is it against the agreement? On Jan 20, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski wrote: You could do that -- but it is against the Google API license agreement. Technically, it is possible, but legally is is not. -Nick On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Harbs harbs.li...@gmail.com wrote: For AIR apps, using the Google APIs as is in an HTML component should work fine. As I understand it, the concern in this whole discussion is about web apps. Right? How is the maps actually displayed by the maps API? I imagine that the map data is downloaded as images. Is there any reason that we couldn't just grab that image data and display it in the display list? On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Tomislav Pokrajcic wrote: There are also problems when it comes to placing that kind of 'components' (e.g. HTML overlay) into a scrollable container. If anyone figures out a solution for handling that case it would be an interesting thing. Cheers, Tomislav On 17.1.2013. 10:29, Alain Ekambi wrote: Hallo Markus, Thx for the inputs. Like i said in my earlier post our main focus was to first get the GoogleMaps API exported so that one can easely access it from Flash4j all in Java. Now that that s done we will focus on the Widget itself. Be assured that we will fixed all the issues before the 3.1 release. Regards, Alain 2013/1/17 Marcus Fritze marcus.fri...@googlemail.com Hi Alain, you example looks good, but I think it has a serious bug. The map lays over the flex application. So it covers the flex application. Example: - open Google Maps in your explorer - klick on About in the top right corner - or another tab in your explorer - the content is always behind the map Maybe, the map should be integrated in something like a HTML frame (mx.controls.HTML / currently only AIR) for a better integration into the flex app. Best regards Marcus Fritze Am 17.01.2013 um 00:52 schrieb Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com: Work is in progress to release it soon. Here is a life demo : http://flex4j.appspot.com/#misc.maps.GoogleMaps Flex4j is build on top of Flash4j(http://emitrom.com/flash4j) which itself is built on top of the Google Web Toolkit. Because we leverage GWT it s pretty easy to integrate any JS based library. Something you dont get with native ActionScript. For the upcoming 3.1 release we added support for Google Maps. As you can see the integration is seamless. You can click on the buttons to see it in action. 2013/1/16 aYo ~ a...@binitie.com Hm sounds very interesting.
RE: From ADG to Clipboard and Excel
When pasting, Excel will accept html table format, but doesn't recognise csv. I assume Word is the same as Excel if you have a table first. You're probably going to want separate controls to write the clipboard according to desired format; create the content as a html table/csv/whatever string and use System.setClipboard(). For the second option you might want to look for a 3rd party lib (http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/ ?) -Original Message- From: Oleg Konovalov [mailto:oleg...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 January 2013 12:23 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: From ADG to Clipboard and Excel Hi, I need to add the following to my Flex4 (4.6) Web App: 1) being able to select some cells from AdvancedDataGrid and copy it to Clipboard (to be able to paste to any file like Word, Excel, CSV or text file 2) being able to export the whole ADG context to Excel. Could you please suggest how to do it? (read lots of posts, but honestly none useful) Thank you in advance , Oleg.
RE: Google Maps
We used to use an approach not dissimilar from this before the Google maps API for flash, but ultimately found it to be restrictive. It also incurred some significant performance overheads when you start doing more complicated integrations. I don't see any alternatives if you want Google imagery under their current license, but I don't know how far down this line you can go without losing the flexyness. - Ian -Original Message- From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2013 17:15 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps We do have one. I will also share that soon. Cheers, Alain 2013/1/17 Tomislav Pokrajcic tomis...@svemir.net There are also problems when it comes to placing that kind of 'components' (e.g. HTML overlay) into a scrollable container. If anyone figures out a solution for handling that case it would be an interesting thing. Cheers, Tomislav On 17.1.2013. 10:29, Alain Ekambi wrote: Hallo Markus, Thx for the inputs. Like i said in my earlier post our main focus was to first get the GoogleMaps API exported so that one can easely access it from Flash4j all in Java. Now that that s done we will focus on the Widget itself. Be assured that we will fixed all the issues before the 3.1 release. Regards, Alain 2013/1/17 Marcus Fritze marcus.fri...@googlemail.com Hi Alain, you example looks good, but I think it has a serious bug. The map lays over the flex application. So it covers the flex application. Example: - open Google Maps in your explorer - klick on About in the top right corner - or another tab in your explorer - the content is always behind the map Maybe, the map should be integrated in something like a HTML frame (mx.controls.HTML / currently only AIR) for a better integration into the flex app. Best regards Marcus Fritze Am 17.01.2013 um 00:52 schrieb Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com: Work is in progress to release it soon. Here is a life demo : http://flex4j.appspot.com/#**misc.maps.GoogleMapshttp://flex4j.app spot.com/#misc.maps.GoogleMaps Flex4j is build on top of Flash4j(http://emitrom.com/**flash4jhttp://emitrom.com/flash4j) which itself is built on top of the Google Web Toolkit. Because we leverage GWT it s pretty easy to integrate any JS based library. Something you dont get with native ActionScript. For the upcoming 3.1 release we added support for Google Maps. As you can see the integration is seamless. You can click on the buttons to see it in action. 2013/1/16 aYo ~ a...@binitie.com Hm sounds very interesting. Of love to know how this works On Jan 16, 2013 3:06 AM, Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com wrote: For those willing to use Java we have a solution on how to integrate the Maps JS with Flex. As a matter a fact we provide a 100% binding of the Google Maps API. I should be able to share some more details in a few. Cheers, Alain 2013/1/15 Kessler CTR Mark J mark.kessler@usmc.mil I'm going to guess that as long as you're using the Google API even if it's the JavaScript one you are fine. Just as long as the data is coming through their API using your dev key. However the illegal way would be to scrap their websites or try to access the data directly without going through their API. -Mark -Original Message- From: Avi Kessner [mailto:akess...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:23 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps This is making me confused. What exactly is illegal about using external interface to use Google apis? Google suggests migrating to their new version. Migration to me implies its not banned. On Jan 15, 2013 6:27 PM, Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com wrote: Another reason why we went away from ActionScript Development with Flex. 2013/1/15 Charles Monteiro char...@nycsmalltalk.org Forgive my ignorance too, I do have a need for location api but I have not gotten to it yet. Google is what I was assuming I would use. Doesn't Google have a REST API that we could tap into anyhow ? Not familiar at all with what the Flex lib did thanks -Charles On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Harbs harbs.li...@gmail.com wrote: Huh? If it would use the JS APIs, how would that be illegal? On Jan 15, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Tolga Kaya wrote: It could be done but as I previously stated it would be illegal beacuse google prevents accessing the map data other than its personal APIs 2013/1/15 Harbs harbs.li...@gmail.com Can't we just replicate what they did using the Javascript APIs? -- Charles A. Monteiro www.monteirosfusion.com sent from the road
RE: Google Maps
It basically worked, and had a bit of interaction with clickable markers/polygons, supported scrolling and drag actions (although we had trouble with IE6 on those). We just found it really hard work to innovate with it. We struggled to make things we were confident would work everywhere flash does. We feared any change which impacted the mapping side, as it was obviously going to be far more work/pain than other features. The big flash/flex pros such as everything working roughly the same, so in this case, things like key/mouse/touch interactions, events, display states, skins, nevermind fancy stuff like transitions/tweening are impossible to make consistent in one context, never mind once you start getting the browser discrepancies coming in. I'm sure it could be useful for a range of purposes, I guess it depends how much complexity you need, but there are bounds, both in terms of functionality and performance which didn't work out for us. -Ian From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2013 17:34 To: dev@flex.apache.org; ian.appl...@bcs.org Subject: Re: Google Maps What do you mean by Flexyness ? :) 2013/1/17 Ian Appleby ian.appl...@bcs.org We used to use an approach not dissimilar from this before the Google maps API for flash, but ultimately found it to be restrictive. It also incurred some significant performance overheads when you start doing more complicated integrations. I don't see any alternatives if you want Google imagery under their current license, but I don't know how far down this line you can go without losing the flexyness. - Ian -Original Message- From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:jazzmatad...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2013 17:15 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps We do have one. I will also share that soon. Cheers, Alain 2013/1/17 Tomislav Pokrajcic tomis...@svemir.net There are also problems when it comes to placing that kind of 'components' (e.g. HTML overlay) into a scrollable container. If anyone figures out a solution for handling that case it would be an interesting thing. Cheers, Tomislav On 17.1.2013. 10:29, Alain Ekambi wrote: Hallo Markus, Thx for the inputs. Like i said in my earlier post our main focus was to first get the GoogleMaps API exported so that one can easely access it from Flash4j all in Java. Now that that s done we will focus on the Widget itself. Be assured that we will fixed all the issues before the 3.1 release. Regards, Alain 2013/1/17 Marcus Fritze marcus.fri...@googlemail.com Hi Alain, you example looks good, but I think it has a serious bug. The map lays over the flex application. So it covers the flex application. Example: - open Google Maps in your explorer - klick on About in the top right corner - or another tab in your explorer - the content is always behind the map Maybe, the map should be integrated in something like a HTML frame (mx.controls.HTML / currently only AIR) for a better integration into the flex app. Best regards Marcus Fritze Am 17.01.2013 um 00:52 schrieb Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com: Work is in progress to release it soon. Here is a life demo : http://flex4j.appspot.com/#**misc.maps.GoogleMapshttp://flex4j.app spot.com/#misc.maps.GoogleMaps Flex4j is build on top of Flash4j(http://emitrom.com/**flash4jhttp://emitrom.com/flash4j) which itself is built on top of the Google Web Toolkit. Because we leverage GWT it s pretty easy to integrate any JS based library. Something you dont get with native ActionScript. For the upcoming 3.1 release we added support for Google Maps. As you can see the integration is seamless. You can click on the buttons to see it in action. 2013/1/16 aYo ~ a...@binitie.com Hm sounds very interesting. Of love to know how this works On Jan 16, 2013 3:06 AM, Alain Ekambi jazzmatad...@gmail.com wrote: For those willing to use Java we have a solution on how to integrate the Maps JS with Flex. As a matter a fact we provide a 100% binding of the Google Maps API. I should be able to share some more details in a few. Cheers, Alain 2013/1/15 Kessler CTR Mark J mark.kessler@usmc.mil I'm going to guess that as long as you're using the Google API even if it's the JavaScript one you are fine. Just as long as the data is coming through their API using your dev key. However the illegal way would be to scrap their websites or try to access the data directly without going through their API. -Mark -Original Message- From: Avi Kessner [mailto:akess...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:23 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps This is making me confused. What exactly is illegal about using external interface to use Google apis? Google suggests migrating to their new version. Migration to me implies its not banned. On Jan 15, 2013 6:27 PM, Alain
RE: New Mailing Lists
Also visiting the homepage with debug flash player shows the installer badge to throw at startup: Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http://flex.apache.org/installerbadge/InstallApacheFlexBadge.swf cannot load data from http://incubator.apache.org/flex/sdk-installer-config.xml. at org.apache.flex.utilities.common::InternetUtil/fetch() at InstallApacheFlexBadge/creationCompleteHandler() at InstallApacheFlexBadge/___InstallApacheFlexBadge_Application1_creationComple te() -Ian -Original Message- From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: 05 January 2013 15:38 To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: New Mailing Lists I hit buildbot upside the head a few times, and things are now at http://flex.apache.org/. I've got though with a link checker, and I *think* I cleaned it all up. I also updated the mailing list links, updated the Incubator logo on the top to be the actual apache logo, and updated the copyright statement to the apache standard one. buildbot (the cms) is still complaining about a few of the files. I'm still working on those. I believe the SDK installer may be broken due to the new URL. Can somebody check on that? -Nick On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote: Yup, trying to figure out how to fix that. On 1/4/13 10:09 PM, Om bigosma...@gmail.com wrote: http://flex.apache.org/flex/ is live as well. Although I am not sure if this is correct. Shouldn't it be just http://flex.apache.org ? On Jan 4, 2013 10:07 PM, Justin Mclean jus...@classsoftware.com wrote: Hi, And looks like existing users have been transfered over as well. ie no need to re subscribe or anything. Justin -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
