Re: [flexcoders] webservices and Flex 2
Hi Robin, Whether you're using RemoteObject or WebService, the point of using either is _not_ to have to do that kind of serializing/deserializing. So it's all built-in, and it's all done behind the scenes, at the player level in the RemoteObject case and at the ActionScript level in the WebService case. As a side-note, if you're going to be creating web services (as opposed to using a ready-made one), you might as well use RemoteObject; WebService and RemoteObject do the same job, but SOAP is very verbose while AMF has a much smaller footprint, so RemoteObject usually beats WebService speed-wise by a large margin. Patrick Robin Burrer a écrit : What about the other way round? Can I convert an xml formatted object as an AS object as well without having to manually deserialize it? Robin * From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com ] *On Behalf Of *Robin Burrer *Sent:* Friday, 8 December 2006 12:25 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] webservices and Flex 2 Too easy – that works great – thanks! * From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com ] *On Behalf Of *Carson Hager *Sent:* Friday, 8 December 2006 12:10 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] webservices and Flex 2 You definitely do not have to do that. You simply pass AS objects that matches the arguments to the web service method and Flex handles serializing them. Carson _ _ _ _ Carson Hager Cynergy Systems, Inc. http://www.cynergys ystems.com http://www.cynergysystems.com/ Email: carson.hager@ cynergysystems. com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 866-CYNERGY Mobile : 1.703.489.6466 * From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com ] *On Behalf Of *Robin Burrer *Sent:* Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:58 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] webservices and Flex 2 Hi there, Is there any way to do the “AS Object” to XML serialization automatically? What do you do when you want to send complex data types to a SOAP webservice? Converting AS objects to XML manually somehow seems to be a bit clumsy. I noticed the http service has a property contentType which can be set to “application/ xml”. Is there anything similar for the webservice component? Robin -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm's Anaemic Domain Model
I thought at this point it is worth jumping in to talk a bit about Cairngorm Enterprise, which we are currently working on. With Cairngorm Enterprise one of goals is to promote an application model on the client (RIA) and a domain model on server. We see the application model being a good OO model that reflects the UI and tells us about the entities and their relationships that we are surfacing. It will also encapsulate all the business rules that apply to the UI. I see this being different to the domain model and the business rules that reside on the server. Next, we see the application model being responsible for communication with the server-side i.e. it will call remote services, consume messages, produce messages and contain managed data collections. It knows when it needs to retrieve data from the server, it knows when it needs to update server and it knows what to do when data is pushed from the server. This sort of shifts the concept we have at the moment, whereby you call a command, which may invoke a service via a delegate. In essence we are going to move the delegates behind the model and have the command call an operation on the model. This is not saying what we do today is wrong, but recognizing different applications have different needs. A simple application certainly doesn't need this level of complexity - Cairngorm today is just fine. From our observations as the complexity of an application increases we see people treating the ModelLocator as a session for storing data that comes back from the server. There is no application model that shows the entities and their relationships, this is often left to the view to piece together. To help with this we have introduced the concept of an operation, which is effectively your IResponder. When an operation is executed on the delegate it creates an operation, which is responsible for updating the application model. The idea then is that an operation can perform any post-processing, which is required on the data. This allows the application model to be update correctly - quite often when a legacy application is involved the data that comes back from server isn't in a form that reflects how it is going to be viewed. We would deal with that in the operation. In essence it would be nice to see VOs / DTOs being used for transporting data rather than making their way in to the view via the ModelLocator. We hope by encouraging an application model it will stop people having to code allot of the logic in to the views and also make unit testing easier. If we had a well encapsulated model it would be easier to unit test than a bunch of views. In saying this we can't force people to create an application model nor are you prevented from doing so today. If you want to build an application model in Cairngorm today you can and I know people do. Our goal here is to encourage this in your design and to promote this approach within Cairngorm Enterprise. In addition we want to emphasize security and make it inherent within Cairngorm Enterprise by adopting the safe-by-default mantra. We have already done allot of work on Cairngorm Enterprise and there is more to do - so now commitment just now as to when we will release it. Certainly I would like to solicit your feedback on the above and hear your ideas. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Cotter Sent: 05 December 2006 11:30 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cairngorm's Anaemic Domain Model My question isn't about the model locator. It's about logic, or lack thereof encapsulated within the domain objects. On 05/12/2006, at 9:59 PM, Tim Hoff wrote: It doesn't matter if it's a collection of dumb value objects, a component, a state variable, or just a common effect. If an object is used more than a couple of times in the app, put it in the ModelLocator. Remember, everything is an object; instantiated and destroyed like the rest of them (GC?:)). The key is; does the object need to be reusable? If so, make it central. -TH p.s. right on Tom.
[flexcoders] getDefinitionByName
Im using the method getDefinitionByName so I can get instances of classes which I only know their name. Now, this classes always receive 2 parameters in their constructor. My question would be, how can I pass these parameters using the method getDefinitionByName, somehing like: var name:String = Daniel; var nickname:String = danboh; var ClassName:String = AddClient var ClassReference : Class = getDefinitionByName(com.client.+ClassName) as Class; var instance : Object = new ClassReference(name, nickname); Any suggestions??? Thanks for your help!
Re: [flexcoders] Design Pattern/Best Practices for generic record 'list' and 'detail' view Component
Hi Steve,
Is your problem to do with your rules about which view to display? If
it's getting a bit complicated or 'crufty', then you probably need
another level of abstraction. Encapsulate your rules about which view
should be displayed inside a getter called currentView. Bind your
view stack to this.
Now you need to work out how that variable gets updated when
appropriate. One way is to make this a bindable property with a
custom event type. Now dispatch that event type when the length of
dataProvider changes. Obviously, your getter method for currentView
has to contain the logic you described for deciding which view to use.
Is that what you were looking for?
Cheers,
Lach
On 06/12/2006, at 5:27 AM, Steve Hindle wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to create a component to use as an example or 'template'
of how to achieve a record list and detail view in flex. I'm starting
with a simple 'contact' record (model) that has name, address, phone,
email, etc. The list of records is held in _dataProvider, and the
specific record to be displayed in the detail view is held in _model.
My goal is to have a nice clean skeleton of how to handle this sort of
display.
My component is a viewstack with 2 views:
View 0: a datagrid displaying summary info of a list of records
(title, first, last). Double click on an entry should
open it in the
'detail' view. dataProvider is bound to _dataProvider, an
arrayCollection.
View 1: a custom component that displays all my model fields.
It has a 'model' property that is used to set the
record to be displayed.
model is a single static instance of my record type, and
all fields in the
view are bound to it ( eg text='{_model.last_name}' )
The logic for the component is pretty simple:
1. Initial view is determined by _dataProvider.length
2. if _dataProvider.length = 1, default to 'detail' view of that
record
3. if _dataProvider.length 2, default to 'list' view
4. if _dataProvider.length = 0, add a new empty record and
default to 'detail'
view to allow data entry.
This mostly works - however, I run into 'odd' problems with
dataBinding and Initialization, etc. As my script gets cruftier with
all sorts of special case logic, and
manually poking stuff to get dataBindings updated, I wonder if perhaps
others have a better Design Pattern or template for this ??
I'd appreciate any feedback...
[flexcoders] Re: getDefinitionByName
Nevermind, for some reason it didnt work in the past, but now its working perfectly. Sweet! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im using the method getDefinitionByName so I can get instances of classes which I only know their name. Now, this classes always receive 2 parameters in their constructor. My question would be, how can I pass these parameters using the method getDefinitionByName, somehing like: var name:String = Daniel; var nickname:String = danboh; var ClassName:String = AddClient var ClassReference : Class = getDefinitionByName(com.client.+ClassName) as Class; var instance : Object = new ClassReference(name, nickname); Any suggestions??? Thanks for your help!
[flexcoders] how to set function reference in css? (e.g. for setting slideEasingFunction)
Hello all,
the slider class has a style property slideEasingFunction that i
supposedly can set to a function.
How can i set a function reference in an external css file? I know how
to set a class reference:
e.g. downSkin: ClassReference('whateverclass');
how would I do the same with a function? I looked in the slider code
and the style is loaded like this:
var easingFunction:Function = getStyle(slideEasingFunction) as Function;
if (easingFunction != null) {
t.easingFunction = easingFunction;
}
I have created my own slider class based on slider now anyways, so I
do have an acceptable workaround by defining the function inline or as
a property, but am still wondering how could I do it in css?
Thanks
Ben
[flexcoders] 2.01 Update
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[flexcoders] updating ArrayCollection
Hi,
I am working with Combo Box for which dataprovider is ArrayCollection and I
am getting data from database using HttpService as follows:
mx:HTTPService id=cb_podcast url=combo.jsp makeObjectsBindable=false/
mx:ArrayCollection id=cbXml
source={mx.utils.ArrayUtil.toArray(cb_podcast.lastResult.data)}/
mx:ComboBox dataProvider={cbXml} labelFunction=myLabelFunc1 width=195
id=cb_chart/
public function myLabelFunc1(item:Object):String
{
return item.data1;
}
Here, I want to update combo box(ArrayCollection) when I submit a textInput
data to database.
I tried to update combo box using:
cbXml.addItem(textInput.text);
But the combo box is not getting updated with new value.
Once I close and Re-execute the application, the combo box is displayed with
the new value.
Help can be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sreedhar
Thanks Regards,
Sreedhar
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RE: [flexcoders] Best practice: string tables
Fantastic - that is just what I was looking for. I did a few searches in the docs for string tables and similar but didn't come up with anything. Thanks to both of you. Giles Roadnight _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of greg h Sent: 07 December 2006 18:45 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best practice: string tables Giles, For more on mx.resources. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/langref/mx/resources/ResourceBundle.h tml ResourceBundle, the following thread has links into the docs, a related technote and to articles by Jeff Tapper: http://tech. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/52882 groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/52882 hth, g On 12/7/06, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: Flex already has the concept of resource bundles. You put your localizable strings in .properties files, which get compiled into ResourceBundle classes. You can then fetch strings out of the ResourceBundles, most easily in MXML with the @Resource() directive. The docs have info about this.. - Gordon _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of Giles Roadnight Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Best practice: string tables Hi All. In my previous flash projects we've had a string table of sorts set up so that all the strings in the application can be edited easily. We can also easily modify the strings for foreign users. [...]
[flexcoders] Re: Dot notation to access objects inside a datagrid column
Thanks, Jeremy and Tracy, for the fast answer! By using the
labelFunction now the data is displayed correctly.
-- Niko
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jsscardinal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I encountered this same thing before. The solution is to use a
labelfunction.
Like this:
Here is the grid column.
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Port Country
labelFunction=myLabelFunction /
Here is the function which should reside inside the Script tag:
private function myLabelFunction(item:Object, col:DataGridColumn) :
String
{
return item.userGroup.name;
}
Give this a try.
Jeremy Sanders
Cardinal Solutions Group.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Niko Schmuck niko.schmuck@
wrote:
Hi FlexCoders:
Coming from a Java background, I was surprised that the dot
operator is
not working as I expected.
The array with the data structure and children is populated from the
(Hibernate) data source at creationComplete time with:
ds.fill(users, all.users, []);
The array collection is declared via:
mx:ArrayCollection id=users /
and then used inside the datagrid ...
mx:DataGrid id=dgrid dataProvider={users} editable=false
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=User ID dataField=id/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=First Name
dataField=firstName/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Last Name dataField=lastName/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Group dataField=userGroup.name/
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
Unfortunately the dot-access to the related user group name seems
not to
work, there is just nothing being displayed. If
dataField=userGroup then
there is [object UserGroup] displayed inside the datagrid column.
So how do you retrieve the properties of the related user group
object?
Thanks for your help,
Niko
PS: The classes for value objects look very straight-forward:
// User.as
package com.example.flex
{
[Managed]
[RemoteClass(alias=com.example.flex.User)]
public class User
{
public var id:Number;
public var firstName:String = ;
public var lastName:String = ;
public var userGroup:UserGroup;
public function User() {
}
}
}
// UserGroup.as
package com.example.flex
{
[Managed]
[RemoteClass(alias=com.example.flex.UserGroup)]
public class UserGroup
{
public var id:Number;
public var name:String = ;
public function UserGroup() {
}
}
}
[flexcoders] Re-usable Components
Hi All I'm just finishing messing around with the tutorial projects I have been working on and am now getting started with actually building the application I want to build. I am trying to set up my folder structure and what I want is a folder for components (that will be used in lots of projects), a folder for general code that will be useful in lots of projects and then project folder, all of these in the same folder. I have got my project to include the code fine but I can't get it to work with components (mxml components) outside the project root folder. Is there a way of doing this? I think there must be or you'd have to have copies of your component code all over the place. Secondly, while I am here, what are namespaces all about. I removed my namespace code that was added when I added my custom component and the project still worked fine. Many Thanks. Giles Roadnight
[flexcoders] httpservice conundrum
I need to change a httpservice url at runtime. However when I change
the url the xml is not being updated, it is always one step behind.
See the following example app, the xml displayed in the Alert box is
always from the previous call.
How do I get it to update correctly?
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute creationPolicy=all
creationComplete=onCreationComplete(); width=687 height=332
mx:HTTPService id=gsservice url=test0.xml resultFormat=e4x
result=gsData = gsservice.lastResult as XML/
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
import mx.controls.Alert;
private var gsData:XML;
private function onCreationComplete():void{
gsservice.send();
}
private function test(file:String):void {
gsservice.url = file;
gsservice.send();
gsData = gsservice.lastResult as XML;
Alert.show(gsData.toString());
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Button x=10 y=10 label=Test 1 width=180
click=test('test1.xml');/
mx:Button x=10 y=40 label=Test 2 width=180
click=test('test2.xml');/
/mx:Application
[flexcoders] Clearing panels before changing state
Hi, In my application when the user clicks the log out button, the currentState is changed, but before that I'd like to be able to clear all the TitleWindows that my still be opened by the user. Is there a way to force all the TitleWindows to close before changing the state? Thanks Stephen
[flexcoders] Best way to communicate with database
We have a web application which is built using Zope and has postgreSQL as the database backend. We are planning on adding/replacing functionality in sections with Flex 2. Over time the majority of the application will be done in Flex 2. We are trying to evaluate the many different ways we can communicate with the database - Flex Data Services, WebOrb for Ruby on Rails, Web Services we create, etc. Does anyone have advice and experience to help us make this decision? We are looking for the most efficient solution from a coding standpoint as our primary goal.
Re: [flexcoders] Clearing panels before changing state
- Original Message - From: stephen50232 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Clearing panels before changing state Hi, In my application when the user clicks the log out button, the currentState is changed, but before that I'd like to be able to clear all the TitleWindows that my still be opened by the user. Is there a way to force all the TitleWindows to close before changing the state? How about issuing a custom LOGOUT event that the windows can respond to? Paul Thanks Stephen -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Re: Best practice: string tables
Is there a way to have these properties not load at compile time, but
rather be read at run time? One of the nicest things about properties
in java and other langauges is that they allow you to change or modify
behavior and values without recompiling code.
Flash seems to ignore this concept both with properties and with css.
Chris
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flex already has the concept of resource bundles. You put your
localizable strings in .properties files, which get compiled into
ResourceBundle classes. You can then fetch strings out of the
ResourceBundles, most easily in MXML with the @Resource() directive. The
docs have info about this..
- Gordon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Giles Roadnight
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:30 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Best practice: string tables
Hi All.
In my previous flash projects we've had a string table of sorts set up
so that all the strings in the application can be edited easily. We can
also easily modify the strings for foreign users.
I have taken this idea and implemented it in Flex as follows.
In the main application I have this code:
[Bindable]
public var dialogueText:Object = {
loginBoxHeader:Member Login,
to set up the string table (obviously other strings in there as well).
In my login component I have the following:
[Bindable]
private var mainApplication:Object = mx.core.Application.application;
and
mx:Label x=10 y=12
text={mainApplication.dialogueText.loginUsername}/
Is this the best way of doing this or will having all of these bound
variables around the place slow things down?
Is there a better way of doing this?
Many Thanks
Giles Roadnight
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Best practice: string tables
Not out of the box but you can quite easily build your own properties
file loader by e.g. builing it on top of URLLoader or URLStream.
Dirk.
-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zenwarden
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 4:24 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Best practice: string tables
Is there a way to have these properties not load at compile
time, but rather be read at run time? One of the nicest
things about properties in java and other langauges is that
they allow you to change or modify behavior and values
without recompiling code.
Flash seems to ignore this concept both with properties and with css.
Chris
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Flex already has the concept of resource bundles. You put your
localizable strings in .properties files, which get compiled into
ResourceBundle classes. You can then fetch strings out of the
ResourceBundles, most easily in MXML with the @Resource()
directive.
The docs have info about this..
- Gordon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Giles Roadnight
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:30 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Best practice: string tables
Hi All.
In my previous flash projects we've had a string table of
sorts set up
so that all the strings in the application can be edited easily. We
can also easily modify the strings for foreign users.
I have taken this idea and implemented it in Flex as follows.
In the main application I have this code:
[Bindable]
public var dialogueText:Object = {
loginBoxHeader:Member Login,
to set up the string table (obviously other strings in
there as well).
In my login component I have the following:
[Bindable]
private var mainApplication:Object =
mx.core.Application.application;
and
mx:Label x=10 y=12
text={mainApplication.dialogueText.loginUsername}/
Is this the best way of doing this or will having all of
these bound
variables around the place slow things down?
Is there a better way of doing this?
Many Thanks
Giles Roadnight
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[flexcoders] Re: Flash Player 9 issues on Windows 2005 Tablet PC Edition
Kelly, Simple point click works fine as it did in Flex 1.5 with Flash Player 7, but the issue resides with double-clicking and recognizing text input boxes. In Flex 1.5/Flash Player 7 when you clicked into a text input fields; the fields would display an icon to launch the on-screen keyboard. That is no longer happening. Now with the double-clicking issue; it seems you need to click repeatedly at a very hight rate for Flash player 9 to recognize a double-click gesture with the pen. Thoughts? - Sof --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kelly Birr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, it's the name given to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with SP2 installed. That is what i run on My Toshia Portege M200 and I do run flex 2.0 applicaitons on it and it seems to run perfectly. I admittedly rarely use the pan/tablet features and could not testify to how well flash apps response to pen gestures but I just tried some simple point-and-click with the pen on my flash app and it works as expected. - Kelly Chris Hill wrote: AFAIK there is no Windows 2005 Tablet PC edition. I am running Windows XP Tablet PC edition on this computer, is that what you're talking about? Or are you perhaps running Vista on a Tablet PC? John Dowdell wrote: Steven Toth wrote: Has any testing been done of the Flash Player 9 on Windows 2005 Tablet PC edition? When running our application under Flash Player 7 it responded as expected. However, Flash Player 9 is responding poorly to pen gestures such as textInput focus and double click. We filed a bug report and the Adobe rep. that contacted us didn't know what Windows 2005 Tablet PC edition was and wasn't sure how to help us. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I'm pulling up 18 Google references to search phrase Windows 2005 Tablet PC... variant phrases don't return good results either. Is there another label I should be searching on to find others' experience with similar machines...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
[flexcoders] Remote Objects: No support for inner class serialization?
Seems as if public inner classes are not recognized by the Java-to-AMF serializer in FDS, is this correct? i.e. if a class RecordSet uses an inner class RecordSetVO which is used as a data type for the value objects that are transported via AMF then this type info is not set correctly. Dirk.
[flexcoders] Re: Odd behaviour from String.search()
I had not thought of that, and your right the .search() is detecting
it as a regex expression. Being I can't expect the end user to
understand to type \(###\)###- to filter phone numbers is there a
simple way to make it ignore the characters and not take it as a regex?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems like the (, ), and * are being interpreted as regexp
quantifiers. You can escape them if you want them treated as
literals.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/1904.html#118959
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, camlinaeizerous camlinae@
wrote:
I have a list of phone numbers in either a (###)###- of
###-###- type format. There is also a text box that on change
filters array collection that populates the list. The code breaks
down to.
private function phoneFilter(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(item.Phone.search(searchBar.text) = 0)
{return true;}
else
{return false;}
}
the 5 phone numbers that i randomly put in the collection are are
#1)123-456-7890
#2)null
#3)(403)734-4312
#4)(780)495-4949
#5)(780)828-4229
the #1 and #2 phone number filters as expected however the ones
with
the brackets are awkward.
(, (780, 780), (780)828 fail not as I expected
(780), 780 succeed as I expected
And tossing in random * succeed definitely not as I had expected
(780)*82 matches #5
(780)*8 or even 780*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*
matches
#4, #5, and #1
(780)*, or (spam)* match all 5 numbers
even ()* or (###)* where # is any 3 numbers and it matches all
5
numbers again even the null.
even (828) matches #5 or similar ideas
Obviously the (, ) and * characters are doing something
strange
to the search() function. Hopefully someone can explain why I'm
seeing
this behavior with these characters or a way to change how I'm
filtering the phone numbers to get somewhat normal behavior.
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
You shouldn't have to cast as an object. And, according to the docs, you should be able to simply add a property to a function and access it. No offense - I really do appreciate the effort to help me out - but casting seems to be a bit of a hack. Although I like AS3 there are some things that were so simple in AS1/AS2 that are just not possible, or require workarounds that really seem like hacks. All I wanted to do was give some context to a function so when it is called it could grab that context info. An example of what people have wanted from this from the MX days is getting the name of the function for various reasons, including debugging and logging. My particular reason is a little more complex and probably seems strange unless you know the entire context of what I'm trying to do, but here goes ... I built a class that extends Proxy. The idea is that someone would call a function on the instance of the class and I would resolve it from a dynamically added manifest. That part isn't hard, using the override for callProperty. However, if someone tries to call a function using [] syntax the getProperty override is actually called, and a function is expected to be returned. Unfortunately, that scenario breaks what I was trying to accomplish since it means I need to return an actual function object and the function is not able to know it's name for me to determine if the call should go through or return an error. I could determine this in the getProperty override, but I don't necessarily know if the user meant to call a function or access a property. What I wanted to do was pass a function object back with a property on the function that was the name of the function. Instead I've had to build a class that stores a value in a variable and has a method on it that gets returned from the getProperty override. That is such a waste considering Function is supposed to be able to do what I want. So, I have a workaround, but I really want to know whether the documentation is correct and I've simply missed something, or Adobe needs to clean up the docs. I've already posted a comment in the LiveDocs asking about this and it has not yet been approved. That was about a week ago. Can anyone else confirm this? Or does anyone know how to get the example code working? On 12/8/06, Clint Modien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Function inherits from Object so you should be able to do... Object(this.test).prop = someprop; Why are you doing this? What are you trying to do... it sounds interesting.
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
Please see apply method also I posted pre-edited cut from the book here: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=125 - with closure object ala Flex 1.5you can use Thanks, Anatole On 12/8/06, Derek Vadneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You shouldn't have to cast as an object. And, according to the docs, you should be able to simply add a property to a function and access it. No offense - I really do appreciate the effort to help me out - but casting seems to be a bit of a hack. Although I like AS3 there are some things that were so simple in AS1/AS2 that are just not possible, or require workarounds that really seem like hacks. All I wanted to do was give some context to a function so when it is called it could grab that context info. An example of what people have wanted from this from the MX days is getting the name of the function for various reasons, including debugging and logging. My particular reason is a little more complex and probably seems strange unless you know the entire context of what I'm trying to do, but here goes ... I built a class that extends Proxy. The idea is that someone would call a function on the instance of the class and I would resolve it from a dynamically added manifest. That part isn't hard, using the override for callProperty. However, if someone tries to call a function using [] syntax the getProperty override is actually called, and a function is expected to be returned. Unfortunately, that scenario breaks what I was trying to accomplish since it means I need to return an actual function object and the function is not able to know it's name for me to determine if the call should go through or return an error. I could determine this in the getProperty override, but I don't necessarily know if the user meant to call a function or access a property. What I wanted to do was pass a function object back with a property on the function that was the name of the function. Instead I've had to build a class that stores a value in a variable and has a method on it that gets returned from the getProperty override. That is such a waste considering Function is supposed to be able to do what I want. So, I have a workaround, but I really want to know whether the documentation is correct and I've simply missed something, or Adobe needs to clean up the docs. I've already posted a comment in the LiveDocs asking about this and it has not yet been approved. That was about a week ago. Can anyone else confirm this? Or does anyone know how to get the example code working? On 12/8/06, Clint Modien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Function inherits from Object so you should be able to do... Object(this.test).prop = someprop; Why are you doing this? What are you trying to do... it sounds interesting.
RE: [flexcoders] Can FLEX develop under IBM RAD6?
Yes, RAD6 doesn't work so well with Flex. However we have done work in 2.0.1 to make it compatible with RAD7 which is coming out soon (or already came out). 2.0.1 is out early next year. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:48 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Can FLEX develop under IBM RAD6? Hi, Does anyone has try to develop a project in IBM RAD6 running the websphere server? Since the RAD6 is built on eclipse 3.0. The FLEX plugin can't install on it. And what i am trying to do is to use another eclipse with FLEX built in to build my project. But everytime i want to deploy the project for a test, I have to export a war file and import that to RAD6. Which is very time consumpting (not to mention that i can't debug FLEX under RAD6.) Does anyone success or know the way how to set a server in eclipse which can start up the websphere in RAD6? Is that possible? So i can develop and run my FLEX project in the same eclipse environment. Dan
RE: [flexcoders] 2.01 Update
Very early next year. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Kottke Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] 2.01 Update Is there an ETA of the new flex builder 2.01 update? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[flexcoders] backgroundGradientColors on something other than Application
I was wondering if there were other elements (canvas, hbox, panel, etc) that can suport the backgroundGradientColors gradient properties? I see that there seems to be no support by default, is this simple to change?
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
Funny, I just read that this morning. However, it doesn't really apply here. I need to pass a function object and the name will probably be different for each one. So assigning a value to a variable of the class isn't acceptable, since the value will change for each call. As I mentioned, I have a workaround, but I really want to know whether the documentation is correct and I've simply missed something, or Adobe needs to clean up the docs. On 12/8/06, Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see apply method also I posted pre-edited cut from the book here: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=125 - with closure object ala Flex 1.5 you can use Thanks, Anatole -- Derek Vadneau
[flexcoders] Re: Clearing panels before changing state
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: stephen50232 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Clearing panels before changing state Hi, In my application when the user clicks the log out button, the currentState is changed, but before that I'd like to be able to clear all the TitleWindows that my still be opened by the user. Is there a way to force all the TitleWindows to close before changing the state? How about issuing a custom LOGOUT event that the windows can respond to? Paul Thanks Stephen -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links Hi, I do have a logout event, which is being listened for in the main application (main.mxml) page, this the runs another method which changes the currentState to the login state, but if any other panels are open then they say open when the state changes. I could have all panels listen out for that event and close when they see the event being called?
RE: [flexcoders] httpservice conundrum
ALL data service calls in flex are asynchronous. You can never access
the result of a data call in the same function in which you invoke the
send(). You must ALWAYS use the result event or bind to lastResult.
Binding directly to lastResult can be hard to debug, so get in the habit
of creating a result handler function.
mx:HTTPService ... result=onResult(event)
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
private function onResult(event:ResultEvent):void {
Var xmlResult:XML = event.result as XML;
Alert.show(xmlResult.toXMLString());
Post back if you need more guidance.
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of kim_boulton
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:05 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] httpservice conundrum
I need to change a httpservice url at runtime. However when I change
the url the xml is not being updated, it is always one step behind.
See the following example app, the xml displayed in the Alert box is
always from the previous call.
How do I get it to update correctly?
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
layout=absolute creationPolicy=all
creationComplete=onCreationComplete(); width=687 height=332
mx:HTTPService id=gsservice url=test0.xml resultFormat=e4x
result=gsData = gsservice.lastResult as XML/
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.collections.XMLListCollection;
import mx.controls.Alert;
private var gsData:XML;
private function onCreationComplete():void{
gsservice.send();
}
private function test(file:String):void {
gsservice.url = file;
gsservice.send();
gsData = gsservice.lastResult as XML;
Alert.show(gsData.toString());
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:Button x=10 y=10 label=Test 1 width=180
click=test('test1.xml');/
mx:Button x=10 y=40 label=Test 2 width=180
click=test('test2.xml');/
/mx:Application
[flexcoders] Re: Odd behaviour from String.search()
You can use String.indexOf() instead of String.search() if you don't
want any sort of pattern matching at all. Or, you could take the
string the user enters and run that through an escaping function
before using it with String.search(). Something like:
if(item.Phone.search( myEscapeFunc(searchBar.text) ) = 0)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, camlinaeizerous [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I had not thought of that, and your right the .search() is
detecting
it as a regex expression. Being I can't expect the end user to
understand to type \(###\)###- to filter phone numbers is
there a
simple way to make it ignore the characters and not take it as a
regex?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder douglowder@
wrote:
Seems like the (, ), and * are being interpreted as regexp
quantifiers. You can escape them if you want them treated as
literals.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/1904.html#118959
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, camlinaeizerous camlinae@
wrote:
I have a list of phone numbers in either a (###)###- of
###-###- type format. There is also a text box that on
change
filters array collection that populates the list. The code
breaks
down to.
private function phoneFilter(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(item.Phone.search(searchBar.text) = 0)
{return true;}
else
{return false;}
}
the 5 phone numbers that i randomly put in the collection are
are
#1)123-456-7890
#2)null
#3)(403)734-4312
#4)(780)495-4949
#5)(780)828-4229
the #1 and #2 phone number filters as expected however the
ones
with
the brackets are awkward.
(, (780, 780), (780)828 fail not as I expected
(780), 780 succeed as I expected
And tossing in random * succeed definitely not as I had
expected
(780)*82 matches #5
(780)*8 or even 780*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*4*
matches
#4, #5, and #1
(780)*, or (spam)* match all 5 numbers
even ()* or (###)* where # is any 3 numbers and it matches
all
5
numbers again even the null.
even (828) matches #5 or similar ideas
Obviously the (, ) and * characters are doing something
strange
to the search() function. Hopefully someone can explain why
I'm
seeing
this behavior with these characters or a way to change how I'm
filtering the phone numbers to get somewhat normal behavior.
RE: [flexcoders] FDS number NaN
First, the behavior of ActionScript 3 Number, int and uint is based on the ECMA Script 4 specification (well, at least what this specification stipulated at the time of release). Given that AS3 has been released Flex is dependent on the way it is today. Second, Java primitives can't be null (they default to 0 if one tries to provide null to them on reflection). So, if you wanted to preserve a null value then your Java propeties would have to use the Object form of the Java numeric types. Third, for ActionScript integer types (i.e. int and uint), and Java integer types (long, int, short, and byte) can not accept NaN. If you try to get the long value from Double.NaN (or Float.NaN) you'll get 0. Fourth, ActionScript Number goes over the wire in AMF3 using the double type and is deserialized as a Java Double. On instantiating your remote Java object or passing a parameter to a method to be invoked this Double is translated to the required type using reflection and translation. So, an ActionScript Number.NaN - Java Double.NaN - Java Long 0 and thus your limitation is that AS numeric types can't be null in general and Java integers can't be NaN. So you need to either use Object in ActionScript to hold null or use Double (or Float) in Java to hold NaN. Pete From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Krueger Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:38 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] FDS number NaN Anyone else have this problem or am I just doing something wrong. Thanks Jeff Jeff Krueger wrote: All, I am finding that when I pass a actionscript class to a remote java object and a number variable type in the actionscript class is set to NaN (Null), that the java class gets set to a 0, instead of a null. Is there something I am missing or something I need to set the number to so it will be null in my java class? Thanks Jeff
[flexcoders] XML-RPC
I have spent most of today googling and searching forums looking for
an answer to this and it's getting towards that time on a Friday so my
brain has given up.
Does Flex natively support XML-RPC? I found 1 or 2 examples of it
being used - one of them here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
and when I have been able to get the example code to work (like the
above one) I have been unable to then get it to work with my own server.
So far each time I have tried I get an unknown method error.
One comment I found was that the webservice class would be better than
the HTTPService class. If so does anyone have an example?
The code I have used is this:
mx:HTTPService url={serverSettings.xmlRPCstring}
method=GET id=service result=methodResult(true,event)
fault=methodResult(false,event)
mx:request
methodauthor.login/method
Customer108/Customer
Nameusername/Name
PasswordPassword/Password
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
I get the result function call firing but I can't see and data. When I
dig through all the variables in the debugger I eventually come across
a unknown method string that is returned by the server.
Can anyone help me with this or do I have to try and get a 3rd party
AS2 library to work with Flex instead?
Many Thanks
Giles
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
Here's some code to get the name of the currently executing function
dynamically if that's what you're after...
var traceTarget:TraceTarget = new TraceTarget();
// Log only messages for the classes in the mx.rpc.* and
// mx.messaging packages.
//traceTarget.filters=[mx.rpc.*,mx.messaging.*];
// Log all log levels.
traceTarget.level = LogEventLevel.ALL;
// Add date, time, category, and log level to the
output.
// This is a bug right now... you can't include both date
and time.
traceTarget.includeDate = false;
traceTarget.includeTime = true;
traceTarget.includeCategory = true;
traceTarget.includeLevel = true;
traceTarget.filters = [com.esria.logging];
// Begin logging.
var logger:ILogger = Log.getLogger(com.esria.logging);
traceTarget.addLogger(logger);
Log.addTarget(traceTarget);
var d:String = DateUtil.formatDate(new Date(),
MM/DD/YYY);
var x:XML = describeType(this);
var memberName:String = undefined;
var members:XMLList = x.method.(@declaredBy==
this.className);
for each(var member:XML in members) {
memberName = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
if (this[memberName] == arguments.callee)
break;
}
logger.debug({0}.{1}, this.className, memberName);
Quick note... You should build a hasmap of each classes members that get
returned by (x.method.(@declaredBy==this.className); ) if you plan on using
it more than once to save looping over the classes variable names.
On 12/8/06, Derek Vadneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Funny, I just read that this morning. However, it doesn't really apply
here. I need to pass a function object and the name will probably be
different for each one. So assigning a value to a variable of the class
isn't acceptable, since the value will change for each call.
As I mentioned, I have a workaround, but I really want to know whether the
documentation is correct and I've simply missed something, or Adobe needs to
clean up the docs.
On 12/8/06, Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please see apply method
also I posted pre-edited cut from the book here:
http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=125 - with closure object ala Flex
1.5 you can use
Thanks,
Anatole
--
Derek Vadneau
RE: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I am not familiar with XML-RPC, but I suspect that the answer to your
question is no.
Can you do an ordinary HTTPService call successfully?
This:
methodauthor.login/method
Looks suspicious. It is sending a querystring parameter that looks like
this:
...?method=author.login
Does the url target know how to handle that?
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of z4guyuk
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:44 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I have spent most of today googling and searching forums looking for
an answer to this and it's getting towards that time on a Friday so my
brain has given up.
Does Flex natively support XML-RPC? I found 1 or 2 examples of it
being used - one of them here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
and when I have been able to get the example code to work (like the
above one) I have been unable to then get it to work with my own server.
So far each time I have tried I get an unknown method error.
One comment I found was that the webservice class would be better than
the HTTPService class. If so does anyone have an example?
The code I have used is this:
mx:HTTPService url={serverSettings.xmlRPCstring}
method=GET id=service result=methodResult(true,event)
fault=methodResult(false,event)
mx:request
methodauthor.login/method
Customer108/Customer
Nameusername/Name
PasswordPassword/Password
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
I get the result function call firing but I can't see and data. When I
dig through all the variables in the debugger I eventually come across
a unknown method string that is returned by the server.
Can anyone help me with this or do I have to try and get a 3rd party
AS2 library to work with Flex instead?
Many Thanks
Giles
RE: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
You should be able to add properties to function objects, just as the
docs suggest. Unfortunately, it looks like this isn't working in strict
mode anymore. Oddly, it does work in standard mode, but that may not be
a viable workaround for you. I had a brief discussion about this with
the engineers that worked on it and their initial reaction was that this
sounds like a bug. I've filed it as such, and they will investigate it
further.
Francis
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Derek Vadneau
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:15 AM
To: flexcoders
Subject: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
I've tried using the example from the docs where you assign the value
to a property on the function and then use arguments.callee.prop to
get the value, but Flex Builder gives me an error saying Access of
possibly undefined property prop through a reference with static type
Function. when assigning the value to the function.
Example:
function test()
{
trace(arguments.callee.prop);
}
test.prop = testing; // Error
Global.as defines Function as dynamic yet FB produces an error.
This is supposedly possible in AS3 as per:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/1835.html
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/1835.html
However, if you try the last example you'll get compiler errors.
Is there a way to add properties to a function? Or is this not supported
in AS3?
--
Derek Vadneau
[flexcoders] Re: FlexTagLib Issue
Hi Doug, Thanks for responding... So now pls tell me how can i integrate mxml with JSP. I tried to include compiled SWF file in my JSP file but it shows an error of destination doesnt exist. It doesnt find RO which I have made in remote-config.xml. Please help Regards, Sanjay --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me like you need flex-bootstrap.jar from Flex 1.5 in order to use the tag library: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0848.htm#wp15 028\ 3 http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0848.htm#wp1 502\ 83 I haven't seen or heard anything specific about using the Flex tag library with Flex 2. -Doug --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, sanjaypmg sanjaypmg@ wrote: Hi All, I have deployed Flex2 on JBOSS and created a JSP file with the following code: %@ taglib uri=FlexTagLib prefix=mm % mm:mxml source=AccountSetup.mxml / But, It is showing an error: FlexTagLib Not Found. Please help me to resolve this issue. Regards, Sanjay
[flexcoders] RSL's and Dynamic components
Hi all, I'm currently working on a big project and need to load components dynamicaly but this doesnt seem to be working to well with our framework so the other option is to use seperate applications as the entire application is binding driven. The problem here is that empty applications come in at 120K so I need to figure out how to reduce that by sharing whatever gets loaded by default into a shared library so all my application swf's will be pretty small by default. Thanks
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
Thanks Clint! I completely forgot about describeType. That's MUCH better than tacking on a property - not that you shouldn't be able to do that, but describeType is better suited in this case. And thank you, Francis, for looking into this. It's good to hear that I'm not crazy! ... at least nothing proven here ... -- Derek Vadneau
[flexcoders] SOLUTION: Unable to bind Warning
I found out what was happening to cause the unable to bind warning in the
scenario that I described (see below). I eventually stumbled onto this
solution after trying many different searches in Google:
--
This is a solution for the common warning: unable to bind to property 'XXX'
on class 'Object' (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
This problem occurs frequently when transferring complex objects using AMF
when the object returned from the server contains an array or array
collection of more objects.
One symptom of this problem is that it occurs after converting the data
request from an HTTPService call to a Remote Object call.
It turns out that Flex does not handle data returned from the AMF data
service in quite the same way as HTTPService and WebService results. With
these two later services Flex will automatically wrap Arrays in
ArrayCollection and Objects in ObjectProxy wrappers so binding will work.
The solution is to do this same thing manually, with code similar to the
following:
function resultHandler(result:Array) {
for(var i:String in result) result[i] = new ObjectProxy(result[i]);
targetArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(result);
}
Note: It may be the case that the result object is already an
ArrayCollection yet the Objects in ObjectProxy wrappers. In this case you
only need to include the for loop to implement ObjectProxy for all objects
in the ArrayCollection.
--
I also discovered that if you add an object (i.e., one that you create
yourself) to the ArrayCollection, then you'll also need to create an
ObjectProxy for the new object or you'll get the same unable to bind
warnings.
Hope this helps save someone else the hours I spent trying to find a
solution :-)
Paul
---
Paul Whitelock
Denver, Colorado
==
Re: Unable to bind Warning
Posted by: Samuel Reuben
Fri Dec 8, 2006 4:00 am (PST)
from the looks of the code it seems that you'll have to change the name of
your ArrayCollection. Try myDataProvider
hope it works,
-sam
On 12/8/06, Paul Whitelock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hoping someone might know why I am getting an unable to bind warning
with the following scenario. Below is a portion of my code that uses a
DataGrid bound to an ArrayCollection data provider (text is one of the
fields in the collection).
--
[Bindable]
public var dataProvider:ArrayCollection;
mx:DataGrid id=dg dataProvider={dataProvider}
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Items itemRenderer=renderer.RichText
dataField=text editable=false /
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
--
The following is a very simple component (renderer.RichText) that simply
converts the text data to rich text.
--
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Canvas xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
mx:Text id=richText htmlText={data.text} width=100% height=100%
selectable=false /
/mx:Canvas
--
When the application is run, I get the following error:
warning: unable to bind to property 'text' on class 'Object' (class is
not
an IEventDispatcher)
Note that the data from data.text is correctly displayed in the
DataGrid.
Any idea why I am getting the unable to bind warning and how I might get
rid of it? Thanks!
Paul
---
Paul Whitelock
Denver, Colorado
[flexcoders] Re: FlexTagLib Issue
Hi Sanjay, Again, I haven't heard anything specific about FlexTagLib being supported in Flex2 so I'm afraid I can't be of much help there. Regarding your compiled SWF in a JSP file, can you successfully browse to the SWF directly, i.e. without the JSP? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, sanjaypmg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Doug, Thanks for responding... So now pls tell me how can i integrate mxml with JSP. I tried to include compiled SWF file in my JSP file but it shows an error of destination doesnt exist. It doesnt find RO which I have made in remote-config.xml. Please help Regards, Sanjay --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug Lowder douglowder@ wrote: It looks to me like you need flex-bootstrap.jar from Flex 1.5 in order to use the tag library: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0848.htm#wp15 028\ 3 http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0848.htm#wp1 502\ 83 I haven't seen or heard anything specific about using the Flex tag library with Flex 2. -Doug --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, sanjaypmg sanjaypmg@ wrote: Hi All, I have deployed Flex2 on JBOSS and created a JSP file with the following code: %@ taglib uri=FlexTagLib prefix=mm % mm:mxml source=AccountSetup.mxml / But, It is showing an error: FlexTagLib Not Found. Please help me to resolve this issue. Regards, Sanjay
[flexcoders] Re: SOLUTION: Unable to bind Warning
It's interesting how AMF does not provide the same wrapper functionality as HTTP and WEB services. Reason being, when using the standard CFC to AS Class mapping features of Flex 2, you could certainly benefit from such an automated conversion. For example, when passing data to Coldfusion as an ArrayCollection and getting it back as an Array. Nice find. I was having a similar issue.
[flexcoders] Create a custom keyboard shortcut?
Is it feasible to create a custom keyboard shortcut? I see the huge list of items I can use by default but I would like to create some of my own to account for the repetitive typing (copy/paste) actions. (I am looking to do this in the IDE and not within the application.) I opened the Window Preferences Keys section to see if I could add a new item but I was limited to modify an existing shortcut. Any suggestions where I should look? Or did I just not see the correct place to add my custom shortcut? Thanks.
[flexcoders] Disabling the Ctrl key copy action during a drag-n-drop event.
I have a simple list (code below) that has drag and drop enabled. I
want to allow the user to reorder items in the list. But I do NOT want
them to be able to duplicate list items by holding down the CTRL key
during the drag drop. What would be the simplest way to handle this?
mx:List dataProvider={foo}
allowDragSelection=true allowMultipleSelection=false
dragEnabled=true dragMoveEnabled=true dropEnabled=true
/mx:List
Thanks,
Lokesh
RE: [flexcoders] RSL's and Dynamic components
Hi, RSLs aren't the best match for what you need. Look into the new 2.0.1 Modules feature. -rg From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wljammal Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:36 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] RSL's and Dynamic components Hi all, I'm currently working on a big project and need to load components dynamicaly but this doesnt seem to be working to well with our framework so the other option is to use seperate applications as the entire application is binding driven. The problem here is that empty applications come in at 120K so I need to figure out how to reduce that by sharing whatever gets loaded by default into a shared library so all my application swf's will be pretty small by default. Thanks
[flexcoders] Cairngorm: Event to Command Decision Making (Cairngorm Store 2.0)
Hi all, I just had the pleasure of stepping through the Cairngorm Store (v2.0) and checking it out. (I2, Great Work) I have two event questions regarding the store. 1. I notice that there are two events (UpdateShippingCostEvent and NewScreenEvent) which do not map to a command in the Controller. What is the motivation behind that? Meaning, is there a specific reason why one would choose to have some events not handled by a command in a Cairngorm app? 2. The other is separation of logic from presentation. There are two events mapped to Commands in the controller (FilterProductsEvent and SortProductsEvent) which are nothing more than view manipulation of the data. By putting these in a command, aren't we coupling the business logic to the view a little too tight? 2. (Explained) I ask number two because I have a Component in my application that is a List with the US States in it. Users can drag the states from the List and drop them in a grid, where I have setup additional data entry capabilities. The state List dataProvider is a copy of a model variable called STATES_US. The List is re-sorted and filtered as states are pulled from it. (Essentially to prevent the user from adding the same state twice) Following the logic of the Cairngorm Store, I would need to map an event to a command and bounce it to the model. But in this case, that's not possible since it is a component property we are sorting. Thanks for any insight you can offer.
Re: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
What do you use on the server side?. If you;re using java on the server side
you can call a method on the server side if your http controller is properly
configured.
Give us more detail with what you have on the backend, and you might want to
consider using resultFormat=e4x when you declare the HTTP service too.
Valy
- Original Message
From: Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 1:12:52 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I am not familiar with “XML-RPC”, but I suspect that the answer to your
question is no.
Can you do an ordinary HTTPService call successfully?
This:
methodauthor.login/method
Looks suspicious. It is sending a querystring parameter that looks like this:
…?method=”author.login”….
Does the url target know how to handle that?
Tracy
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Of z4guyuk
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I have spent most of today googling and searching forums looking for
an answer to this and it's getting towards that time on a Friday so my
brain has given up.
Does Flex natively support XML-RPC? I found 1 or 2 examples of it
being used - one of them here:
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ flexcoders/ message/549
and when I have been able to get the example code to work (like the
above one) I have been unable to then get it to work with my own server.
So far each time I have tried I get an unknown method error.
One comment I found was that the webservice class would be better than
the HTTPService class. If so does anyone have an example?
The code I have used is this:
mx:HTTPService url={serverSetting s.xmlRPCstring}
method=GET id=service result=methodResul t(true,event)
fault=methodResult (false,event)
mx:request
methodauthor. login/method
Customer108 /Customer
Nameusername /Name
PasswordPassword /Password
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
I get the result function call firing but I can't see and data. When I
dig through all the variables in the debugger I eventually come across
a unknown method string that is returned by the server.
Can anyone help me with this or do I have to try and get a 3rd party
AS2 library to work with Flex instead?
Many Thanks
Giles
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[flexcoders] Re: Flex II Stand-alone Builder and SVN?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jer_ela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used it with no trouble with svn. Rather than creating a project that points to an existing svn directory, you may have to create a new empty project and then import from svn. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, discollective discollective@ wrote: Can anyone tell me if the Flex II stand-alone builder plays nice with SVN? I did take it for a quick test-drive, and it seems that the Flex II standalond IDE does not like some of the svn related folders when you just try to point a new project to a directory that is under SVN. Any advice or assistance is much appreciated. Thanks, -Jeff So, you were able to integrate SVN with the Flex II standalone builder without using subclipse plugin? If so, could you provide a couple line items on the steps you take to create a flex II project using svn? Thanks, -Jeff
[flexcoders] Abnormal CPU usage?
My Flex application occasionally likes to ramp up the CPU usage. It will jump to 30 or 40% and slowly increase to 70 or 80%. This seems to happen when I generate components programatically. My code doesn't generate anything like an infinte loop that I could imagine causing this. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, what did you do about it?
[flexcoders] Can not trap ALT keys
I have a keyboard listener which listens to and responds fine to CTRL + keys or SHIFT + keys or plain old keystrokes. but it is never called when I press ALT + key. Any suggestions? Thanks Bruce
[flexcoders] Extending ChartElement class
Does anyone know why I can't create an MXML Component that extands the ChartElement class. * I have Charting license * Used the New MXML Component wizard * Chose ChartElement form the Based on: list It creates MyChartElemeny.mxml with no problems, but when I insert it in an App and compile it, I get a Could not resolve mx:ChartElement to a component implementation error. I beleive this should work. Don Here are some code snipets: - mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=vertical xmlns=* MyChartElement / - ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:ChartElement xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml mx:Label text=MyChartElement / /mx:ChartElement -
Re: [flexcoders] Re: SOLUTION: Unable to bind Warning
As long as we're on that subject... I've added a new setting to amfphp, which is: $gateway-setAmf3RecordSetFormat(Array); Which can also be set to ArrayCollection. I have yet to implement it, but does this sound like something useful to you? Patrick lostinrecursion a écrit : It's interesting how AMF does not provide the same wrapper functionality as HTTP and WEB services. Reason being, when using the standard CFC to AS Class mapping features of Flex 2, you could certainly benefit from such an automated conversion. For example, when passing data to Coldfusion as an ArrayCollection and getting it back as an Array. Nice find. I was having a similar issue.
RE: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
Thanks for the reply.
The lib I use at the moment (for actionscript 1 in player 6) is here:
http://members.netmadeira.com/killer/xmlrpc/
and some details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC
It looks like I'll have to get my existing lib to work with AS3 - it
shouldn't be too hard as I already had to tinker with it to make it work
with AS2.
Thanks for the reply.
Giles Roadnight
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: 08 December 2006 18:13
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I am not familiar with XML-RPC, but I suspect that the answer to your
question is no.
Can you do an ordinary HTTPService call successfully?
This:
methodauthor.login/method
Looks suspicious. It is sending a querystring parameter that looks like
this:
.?method=author.login..
Does the url target know how to handle that?
Tracy
_
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of z4guyuk
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:44 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I have spent most of today googling and searching forums looking for
an answer to this and it's getting towards that time on a Friday so my
brain has given up.
Does Flex natively support XML-RPC? I found 1 or 2 examples of it
being used - one of them here:
http://tech. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
and when I have been able to get the example code to work (like the
above one) I have been unable to then get it to work with my own server.
So far each time I have tried I get an unknown method error.
One comment I found was that the webservice class would be better than
the HTTPService class. If so does anyone have an example?
The code I have used is this:
mx:HTTPService url={serverSettings.xmlRPCstring}
method=GET id=service result=methodResult(true,event)
fault=methodResult(false,event)
mx:request
methodauthor.login/method
Customer108/Customer
Nameusername/Name
PasswordPassword/Password
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
I get the result function call firing but I can't see and data. When I
dig through all the variables in the debugger I eventually come across
a unknown method string that is returned by the server.
Can anyone help me with this or do I have to try and get a 3rd party
AS2 library to work with Flex instead?
Many Thanks
Giles
[flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug??
Hello, Is there any easy way to tell flex that I want it to add parameters to the URL when debug launching? I've looked over the preferences are of FlexBuilder, but I can't seem to find anything.. FOR EXAMPLE. I've got the following debug URL for one of my applications. C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html I'd LIKE to have FlexBuilder call C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html?sessionID=1657 Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Steve Kellogg Peak8 Solutions 1401 14th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA Fax: 303.415.2597 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [flexcoders] Fade from one color to another
@dustin - Do you know if there is a way to get around the grayish color in
the middle of the transition? It looks like it fades from white to the
grayish color then to black. And the same from black to white.
Here is my code:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute
styleName=plain
mx:Sequence id=fadeToBlack
mx:AnimateProperty target={this} property=alpha fromValue=1
toValue=0
effectEnd=setStyle('backgroundColor','0') /
mx:AnimateProperty target={this} property=alpha fromValue=0
toValue=1 /
/mx:Sequence
mx:Sequence id=fadeToWhite
mx:AnimateProperty target={this} property=alpha fromValue=1
toValue=0
effectEnd=setStyle('backgroundColor','white') /
mx:AnimateProperty target={this} property=alpha fromValue=0
toValue=1 /
/mx:Sequence
mx:Button label=Fade To White click=fadeToWhite.play(); /
mx:Button label=Fade To Black click=fadeToBlack.play(); x=58
y=86/
/mx:Application
On 12/6/06, Deepa Subramaniam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about overriding the onTweenUpdate event handlers didn't work?
I'll try to whip together an example that works in the next day or two.
-deepa
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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:23 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Fade from one color to another
@dustin - that worked for simple colors that are close by but not for pure
white to pure black #FF, #00
@deepa - i could not get that to work after one hour.
i decided to try to dissolve from one state to another. one state has a
white background. the other state has a black background. the code i wrote
makes sense to me but the effects are triggering at the wrong time.
shouldn't this work? if there is more the fromState and toState are
misleading.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute styleName=plain
mx:states
mx:State name=blackState
mx:SetProperty target={button1} name=label value=Fade to
White/
mx:SetStyle name=backgroundColor value=0x00/
mx:SetEventHandler target={button1} name=click
handler={currentState=''}/
/mx:State
/mx:states
!-- Fade to black --
!-- When user clicks a button the screen should fade to black--
!-- After application /state fades to black switch states --
!-- After switching states fade up from black --
mx:transitions
mx:Transition fromState= toState=blackState
mx:Parallel
mx:Dissolve duration=4000 alphaTo=1 color=#00
target={this}/
/mx:Parallel
/mx:Transition
mx:Transition fromState=blackState toState=
mx:Parallel
mx:Dissolve duration=4000 alphaTo=1 color=#FF
target={this}/
/mx:Parallel
/mx:Transition
/mx:transitions
mx:Button x=120 y=139 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0
label=Fade to Black id=button1 click={currentState='blackState'}/
/mx:Application
On 12/4/06, *Deepa Subramaniam* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah – that is because AnimateProperty is just cycling through all the RGB
values between your fromValue color and your endValue color. What you may
want to do is add an event handler for the tweenUpdate event on the
AnimateProperty effect instance and check to see what the value passed in
the TweenEvent object is. That value is what the backgroundColor is at that
moment in the lifetime of the effect. You can then add in your own logic
that sets the backgroundColor depending on where the effect is in its
lifetime (ie: simulate a progression from dark gray to light gray). I'm not
100% sure how that will work out but I'd be interested in finding out what
doesn't work about it.
Incidentally, you should check out Alex Uhlmann's Animation Package where
I think he has an effect that does exactly what you want. That will probably
be easier J
http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/animationpackage/
-deepa
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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *dorkie dork from dorktown
*Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2006 2:31 PM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Fade from one color to another
i see. that mostly works. except now it cycles through every color giving
a flicker effect like i am on acid. try this to see:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx= http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
styleName=plain
creationCompleteEffect={fadeColor}
mx:AnimateProperty id=fadeColor isStyle=true
property=backgroundColor
fromValue=0xFF toValue=0x00 target={
Application.application}
duration=2000/
/mx:Application
If i change the fromValue and the toValue to a two digit
Re: [flexcoders] Functions as objects
Francis,
It worked in betas, but was removed on production build - we had to remove
samples from the chapter. In standard mode fails for us on access as well
with runtime error. More importantly, we can not extend Function datatype as
runtime fails instantiation stating that type Function is final. If that
restriction is removed, very cool OO tricks can be done.
Sincerely,
Anatole
On 12/8/06, Francis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should be able to add properties to function objects, just as the
docs suggest. Unfortunately, it looks like this isn't working in strict mode
anymore. Oddly, it does work in standard mode, but that may not be a viable
workaround for you. I had a brief discussion about this with the engineers
that worked on it and their initial reaction was that this sounds like a
bug. I've filed it as such, and they will investigate it further.
Francis
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*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
Behalf Of *Derek Vadneau
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:15 AM
*To:* flexcoders
*Subject:* [flexcoders] Functions as objects
I've tried using the example from the docs where you assign the value
to a property on the function and then use arguments.callee.prop to
get the value, but Flex Builder gives me an error saying Access of
possibly undefined property prop through a reference with static type
Function. when assigning the value to the function.
Example:
function test()
{
trace(arguments.callee.prop);
}
test.prop = testing; // Error
Global.as http://global.as/ defines Function as dynamic yet FB produces
an error.
This is supposedly possible in AS3 as per:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/1835.html
However, if you try the last example you'll get compiler errors.
Is there a way to add properties to a function? Or is this not supported
in AS3?
--
Derek Vadneau
RE: [flexcoders] Extending ChartElement class
To avoid confusing people with an avalanche of options, the mxml namespace for the framework only contains those classes we expect people to be using in MXML. ChartElement is one of those that very few people use or extend in MXML (this is the first I've heard of it). So it's not in the http://www.adobe.com...etc. flex namespace. However, you can use any publicly visible class in MXML using the standard namespace=package approach. So this should work: ChartElement xmlns=mx.charts.chartClasses.* ... / Ely. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of purcept Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Extending ChartElement class Does anyone know why I can't create an MXML Component that extands the ChartElement class. * I have Charting license * Used the New MXML Component wizard * Chose ChartElement form the Based on: list It creates MyChartElemeny.mxml with no problems, but when I insert it in an App and compile it, I get a Could not resolve mx:ChartElement to a component implementation error. I beleive this should work. Don Here are some code snipets: - mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=vertical xmlns=* MyChartElement / - ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:ChartElement xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/20! 06/mxml mx:Label text=MyChartElement / /mx:ChartElement -
RE: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug??
I haven't tried this but let us know: In FB, go to menu Run, Run, Other. It will bring up the launch configuration dialog. If you uncheck Use Defaults in the URL section, you can edit the url. Put your parameters on that and save it and give it a try. Please let us know the result. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Kellogg @ Project SOC Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 4:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug?? Hello, Is there any easy way to tell flex that I want it to add parameters to the URL when debug launching? I've looked over the preferences are of FlexBuilder, but I can't seem to find anything.. FOR EXAMPLE... I've got the following debug URL for one of my applications... C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html I'd LIKE to have FlexBuilder call C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html?sessionID=1657 Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Steve Kellogg Peak8 Solutions 1401 14th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA Fax: 303.415.2597 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [flexcoders] backgroundGradientColors on something other than Application
Try this one: http://www.richinternet.de/blog/index.cfm?entry=ADD4FDD1-9B48-BFBC-2A70F3C57EBC6892 Dirk. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com im Auftrag von Matt Maher Gesendet: Fr 08.12.2006 17:07 An: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Betreff: [flexcoders] backgroundGradientColors on something other than Application I was wondering if there were other elements (canvas, hbox, panel, etc) that can suport the backgroundGradientColors gradient properties? I see that there seems to be no support by default, is this simple to change? -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links winmail.dat
[flexcoders] Need light shed on Array issue
In Adobe's dashboard sample app,
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/dashboard/ it assigns a
charting component's dataProvider to an ArrayCollection's source (e.g.
revenueData={slicedRegionData.source}) In the regionChange() function
it sets the array regionData and assigns it to slicedRegionData.source
My question is, the delivered code
slicedRegionData.source = regionData.slice(slider.values[0],
slider.values[1] + 1);
Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(slicedRegionData.source));
and
slicedRegionData.source = regionData;
Alert.show(ObjectUtil.toString(slicedRegionData.source));
Without the .slice, output the exact same data, but the region detail
does not auto update without using the .slice code. WHY??? Thanks for
any insight on this.
Robert
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RE: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug??
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it in the next few hours (currently traveling). Best Steve _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Spratt Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:59 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug?? I haven't tried this but let us know: In FB, go to menu Run, Run, Other. It will bring up the launch configuration dialog. If you uncheck Use Defaults in the URL section, you can edit the url. Put your parameters on that and save it and give it a try. Please let us know the result. Tracy _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Kellogg @ Project SOC Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 4:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug?? Hello, Is there any easy way to tell flex that I want it to add parameters to the URL when debug launching? I've looked over the preferences are of FlexBuilder, but I can't seem to find anything.. FOR EXAMPLE. I've got the following debug URL for one of my applications. C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html I'd LIKE to have FlexBuilder call C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html?sessionID=1657 Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Steve Kellogg Peak8 Solutions 1401 14th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA Fax: 303.415.2597 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [flexcoders] Cairngorm: Event to Command Decision Making (Cairngorm Store 2.0)
Hi Kenny, 1. NewScreenEvent - Hmm... This isn't a CairngormEvent - rather it extends flash.events.Event. It is used only in Checkout.mxml and its subcomponents. It makes sense to me to keep this within this part of the view as nothing else 'needs to know'. If something else did need to know I'd use a CairngormEvent/Command, change a property on the model, and let binding take care of updating the part of the view that needed to know. UpdateShippingCostEvent - I think that this may simply be a feature that has (intentionally?) been left unimplemented. I have the vague impression that I read something about this somewhere but Google doesn't find it anywhere... 2. There's been an interesting thread on this list lately entitled Cairngorm’s Anaemic Domain Model. Have you seen it? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/57803 It talks about how much logic to put on the model... aren't we coupling the business logic to the view a little too tight? There's a lot of flexibility in Cairngorm to do things in different ways but much of what I'm seeing (in examples like CairngormStore, articles, and posts on this list) points to an approach where we keep the view fairly dumb and put client-side business logic on the model. That said, I can see how you'd think that one would keep sorting and filtering on the view. It certainly doesn't appear that anything else needs to know about how this view is sorted and filtered. I suspect that the store's authors simply concluded that its sorting and filtering logic were complex enough that they decided to put it in an object (Comparator) on the model. If you want to follow this approach in your app you might do something like the following: Create an object on the model that keeps track of selectedStates list and also maintains a displayStatesUS list in addition to your STATES_US constant. Every time the user drags a state have a command call a method on this object, which updates these two properties. Bind your dropdown to displayStatesUS. My 2c - I'm fairly new to Cairngorm... :-) Douglas - Douglas McCarroll CairngormDocs.org Webmaster http://www.CairngormDocs.org Flex Developer http://www.brightworks.com 617.459.3840 - lostinrecursion wrote: Hi all, I just had the pleasure of stepping through the Cairngorm Store (v2.0) and checking it out. (I2, Great Work) I have two event questions regarding the store. 1. I notice that there are two events (UpdateShippingCostEvent and NewScreenEvent) which do not map to a command in the Controller. What is the motivation behind that? Meaning, is there a specific reason why one would choose to have some events not handled by a command in a Cairngorm app? 2. The other is separation of logic from presentation. There are two events mapped to Commands in the controller (FilterProductsEvent and SortProductsEvent) which are nothing more than view manipulation of the data. By putting these in a command, aren't we coupling the business logic to the view a little too tight? 2. (Explained) I ask number two because I have a Component in my application that is a List with the US States in it. Users can drag the states from the List and drop them in a grid, where I have setup additional data entry capabilities. The state List dataProvider is a copy of a model variable called STATES_US. The List is re-sorted and filtered as states are pulled from it. (Essentially to prevent the user from adding the same state twice) Following the logic of the Cairngorm Store, I would need to map an event to a command and bounce it to the model. But in this case, that's not possible since it is a component property we are sorting. Thanks for any insight you can offer. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Flex Presentation Server vs Flex Data Services
Hi all, Can anyone tell me the difference between Flex Presentation Server and Flex Data Services. I'm aware of FDS, and I've used it myself. But I haven't found much info on Flex Presentation Server and I'm a little curious as to what it's for. Thanks in advance Charles
[flexcoders] Styling p tags inside of mx:Text
I want to add margin to p tags inside of a mx:Text control. How can I do this?
RE: [flexcoders] Flex Presentation Server vs Flex Data Services
Flex Presentation Server is essentially Flex 1.5. For Flex 2 we separated out the presentation logic into the Flex SDK and improved the data portion into FDS. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 4:21 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Presentation Server vs Flex Data Services Hi all, Can anyone tell me the difference between Flex Presentation Server and Flex Data Services. I'm aware of FDS, and I've used it myself. But I haven't found much info on Flex Presentation Server and I'm a little curious as to what it's for. Thanks in advance Charles
[flexcoders] Re: Add Parameters to URL for debug??
Unfortunately you can't add parameters for a file: URL. If you want to add parameters, you'll have to follow Tracy's instructions but change it to an http: URL that points to the file, e.g. http://localhost/MyApp.html?sessionID=1657. (If it's a file on your hard disk then of course you'll have to run a local web server for that to work.) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried this but let us know: In FB, go to menu Run, Run, Other. It will bring up the launch configuration dialog. If you uncheck Use Defaults in the URL section, you can edit the url. Put your parameters on that and save it and give it a try. Please let us know the result. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Kellogg @ Project SOC Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 4:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Add Parameters to URL for debug?? Hello, Is there any easy way to tell flex that I want it to add parameters to the URL when debug launching? I've looked over the preferences are of FlexBuilder, but I can't seem to find anything.. FOR EXAMPLE... I've got the following debug URL for one of my applications... C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html I'd LIKE to have FlexBuilder call C:\ SVN\trunk\NewApplication\bin\chat_window-debug.html?sessionID=1657 Thanks in advance for any help. Steve Steve Kellogg Peak8 Solutions 1401 14th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA Fax: 303.415.2597 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[flexcoders] Webservice WSDL ActionScript authentication and operations - n00bie
Hi,
I am trying to create a web service in pure action script. I need to
authenticate and then call the proper method from the web service.
I have not seen any good tutorials explaining how to do this...
This is my current snippet:
private function init():void{
var ws:WebService = new WebService;
ws.wsdl =
http://sc-vmx-03/clarusipc/services/InventoryService?wsdl;;
ws.useProxy = false;
ws.loadWSDL(http://sc-vmx-03/clarusipc/services/InventoryService?wsdl;);
}
What is the format to add in an operations object that will include
the method and parameters that I'm going to call?
How would I go about editing the http request to include a username
and password to authenticate against?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! It's driving me nuts!
[flexcoders] Re: Unable to bind Warning
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried changing the name of the
ArrayCollection, but I'm still getting the Unable to Bind warning.
Any other ideas?
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel Reuben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from the looks of the code it seems that you'll have to change the
name of
your ArrayCollection. Try myDataProvider
hope it works,
-sam
On 12/8/06, Paul Whitelock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hoping someone might know why I am getting an unable to bind
warning
with the following scenario. Below is a portion of my code that uses a
DataGrid bound to an ArrayCollection data provider (text is one
of the
fields in the collection).
--
[Bindable]
public var dataProvider:ArrayCollection;
mx:DataGrid id=dg dataProvider={dataProvider}
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Items itemRenderer=renderer.RichText
dataField=text editable=false /
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
--
The following is a very simple component (renderer.RichText) that
simply
converts the text data to rich text.
--
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Canvas xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
mx:Text id=richText htmlText={data.text} width=100%
height=100%
selectable=false /
/mx:Canvas
--
When the application is run, I get the following error:
warning: unable to bind to property 'text' on class 'Object'
(class is
not
an IEventDispatcher)
Note that the data from data.text is correctly displayed in the
DataGrid.
Any idea why I am getting the unable to bind warning and how I
might get
rid of it? Thanks!
Paul
---
Paul Whitelock
Denver, Colorado
[flexcoders] How to create a nested non-visual component
Hello all,
I want to create a non-visual component that can have another non-visual
component as child.
For example:
MyComponentA
MyComponentB/
/MyComponentA
How to do that?
I know I should implement the AS class of MyComponentA from IMXMLObject like
the following. But I don't know how to make it enable to accept another
non-visual component as child.
public class MyComponentA implements IMXMLObject
{
public function initialized(document:Object, id:String):void
{
trace(id);
trace(document);
}
}
You help is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Harry
[flexcoders] Re: XML-RPC
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not familiar with XML-RPC, but I suspect that the answer to your
question is no.
Can you do an ordinary HTTPService call successfully?
This:
methodauthor.login/method
Looks suspicious. It is sending a querystring parameter that looks like
this:
...?method=author.login
Does the url target know how to handle that?
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of z4guyuk
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:44 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] XML-RPC
I have spent most of today googling and searching forums looking for
an answer to this and it's getting towards that time on a Friday so my
brain has given up.
Does Flex natively support XML-RPC? I found 1 or 2 examples of it
being used - one of them here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/549
and when I have been able to get the example code to work (like the
above one) I have been unable to then get it to work with my own server.
So far each time I have tried I get an unknown method error.
One comment I found was that the webservice class would be better than
the HTTPService class. If so does anyone have an example?
The code I have used is this:
mx:HTTPService url={serverSettings.xmlRPCstring}
method=GET id=service result=methodResult(true,event)
fault=methodResult(false,event)
mx:request
methodauthor.login/method
Customer108/Customer
Nameusername/Name
PasswordPassword/Password
/mx:request
/mx:HTTPService
I get the result function call firing but I can't see and data. When I
dig through all the variables in the debugger I eventually come across
a unknown method string that is returned by the server.
Can anyone help me with this or do I have to try and get a 3rd party
AS2 library to work with Flex instead?
Many Thanks
Giles
[flexcoders] Re: XML-RPC
Funny you should ask. http://xmlrpcflash.mattism.com/ is for AS 2. I converted it to AS3, fixed some bugs (maybe introduced new ones :), and it seems to work for me. I was going to seriously clean it up before annoucning, but since you ask, here: http://www.hrum.org/people/debedb/pro/blog/2006/12/xmlrpc_in_flex_2actionscript_3.html
[flexcoders] Re: Webservice WSDL ActionScript authentication and operations - n00bie
I've not dealt with authentication but here is how to call an operation.
// getOperation() returns generic AbstractOperation by default
// you want mx.rpc.Operation, not mx.rpc.mxml.Operation
var op:Operation = ws.getOperation(doCoolStuff) as Operation;
op.arguments.arrayArg = new Array(foo, bar);
op.arguments.objectArg = {propA: tweedle, propB: dee};
op.send();
You can optionally capture the token created by the call and assign a
responder as well:
var call:ASyncToken = op.send();
call.addResponder(IResponder);
The IResponder interface defines a result and fault method that are
called when the operation returns.
HTH,
Ben
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, phipzkillah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a web service in pure action script. I need to
authenticate and then call the proper method from the web service.
I have not seen any good tutorials explaining how to do this...
This is my current snippet:
private function init():void{
var ws:WebService = new WebService;
ws.wsdl =
http://sc-vmx-03/clarusipc/services/InventoryService?wsdl;;
ws.useProxy = false;
ws.loadWSDL(http://sc-vmx-03/clarusipc/services/InventoryService?wsdl;);
}
What is the format to add in an operations object that will include
the method and parameters that I'm going to call?
How would I go about editing the http request to include a username
and password to authenticate against?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! It's driving me nuts!
