[flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
Still desperately trying to find a solution to this!
How can I print a text field that contains more than one page worth of text
over multiple pages?
Thanks
Paul
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Behalf Of Paul Steven
Sent: 29 November 2007 20:30
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
I am printing a large string and it is only printing one page worth of the
string data. Ideally I would like it to print the entire string using as
many pages as it requires to print out the entire contents. Any help much
appreciated!!
This is my print function code:
private function doPrint():void {
var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
var formPrintView:SubmissionReport = new SubmissionReport();
addChild(formPrintView);
var todayDate:Date = new Date();
formPrintView.detailUsername.text =
_session.getSessionUsername();
formPrintView.detailDate.text = String(todayDate);
formPrintView.detailcontent.text =
_session.returnSubmissionReportText()
printJob.start();
printJob.addObject(formPrintView);
printJob.send();
removeChild(formPrintView);
}
[flexcoders] Modules + CSS issues, what are recommend practices
We have an application with each core section of the application being a module (as some users will get access to a restricted set of the app sections). We have all the CSS declared (via mx:Style source=... / tags) in the application MXML file. We then compile using a link report to optimize each of the modules for our application and everything seems to work fine. However now the application is nearly finished we just started to really skin the application (we started with the OSX stylesheet from scalenine and tweaked from there) everything looked ok until we noticed some oddities. The things we noticed were that you could click on a textarea within a module but you couldn't type into it and wherever date choosers are used we got the OSX style chrome on the date chooser but couldn't see nor choose any dates. Removing the OSX stylesheet fixed both of these problems. I tried tweaking the OSX stylesheet but that did not resolve the problem the only thing that I did which resolved all these strange issues was to include the OSX stylesheet within each of the modules themselves. I know I get a few warnings when compiling stating that certain CSS declarations aren't going to be evaluated, but the fact that the styles for things like the date chooser are in the app when the CSS is only in the main application is really confusing.
[flexcoders] Re: Printing a large string over multiple pages
I remember in AS2 I created an array of movieclips with print content
and then print the array one by one. Each array entry was a movie clip
object. I had to manually measure when the movieclip is to high, then
create another one, etc.
Now from the livedocs:
The PrintJob class hasn't changed dramatically for the ActionScript
3.0 implementation of printing. However, a few critical differences
are worth noting:
* The PrintJob.addPage() method now takes a Sprite and a Rectangle
object for the first two parameters.
So, I would manually measure the height of the sprite each time i add
a word or a character to it, if it's too high I would create another
sprite with textfield inside and continue with the remaining text.
There might be better ways to do it in AS3, I haven't tried any
printing yet.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still desperately trying to find a solution to this!
How can I print a text field that contains more than one page worth
of text
over multiple pages?
Thanks
Paul
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Steven
Sent: 29 November 2007 20:30
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
I am printing a large string and it is only printing one page worth
of the
string data. Ideally I would like it to print the entire string using as
many pages as it requires to print out the entire contents. Any help
much
appreciated!!
This is my print function code:
private function doPrint():void {
var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
var formPrintView:SubmissionReport = new
SubmissionReport();
addChild(formPrintView);
var todayDate:Date = new Date();
formPrintView.detailUsername.text =
_session.getSessionUsername();
formPrintView.detailDate.text = String(todayDate);
formPrintView.detailcontent.text =
_session.returnSubmissionReportText()
printJob.start();
printJob.addObject(formPrintView);
printJob.send();
removeChild(formPrintView);
}
[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
Well it all depends on what your background knowledge is. Can you create simple if statements, while and for loops, and so on? Do you understand OOP? Maybe you want to get comfortable with AS3 first before developing Flex apps. And that's easier to learn in Flash, IMHO. Try making a simple shooting game with object oriented approach and you will pick up a lot of important programming knowledge. Anyway, 9 months seems quite a bit. It usually takes me 2, 3 months to train a person to the usable level if one has at least some idea of the programming beforehand. Good luck. Alen --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Sheriff To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. This is also my first programming language to learn. I know enough to make everything work on its own but i still can't create stuff like this http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, how long does it take to actually start doing some of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. Looking at the source code doesn't help much since there are too many files and its split up and the functions get spread out all over. Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick it through to the very end. Start with nothing finish with the working program. If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push you forward if you get stuck. Before you start coding decide exactly what you want - keep it simple. Try and work out a basic user interface. Consider the components and classes you might need to support the application and UI. There will be loads of problems that you encounter along the way that you won't expect, just refine/redo until you overcome them. We have all been there. Get going! (Where in the world are you?) Paul
[flexcoders] How to delete cookies cache in mx.controls.HTML?
I've started experimenting a bit with Flex 3's HTML control for Air. It looks pretty nice, but I have not found out how to do things like deleting the cache or handling cookies. Is this something that is currently possible, or functionality that is intended for release later? If it's not possible through the API, maybe it can be done in a hackish way (through Javascript or something) Bjørn -- http://www.juicability.com - flex blog http://www.43min.com - funny movies
Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex
Take your time, read something: http://norvig.com/21-days.html Cheers Ralf.
Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex
Hello Paul, I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I believe you need to know Flash internal and it's framework. You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like .NET and C++ and hardly a couple of months experience in Flex development. Currently, I am working on the Web front-end for our server to be developed in Flex. I am sure I will learn alot while developing that application. But I will not learn much about UI Component development in Flex as month of our features (controls) are based on datagrid. I am on Sheriff's side. I am looking for books and resources that can teach me Flex/Flash Internals and Frameworks which can help me in designing advanced UI controls like Flex Dashboard. Regards, Jehanzeb --- Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Sheriff To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. This is also my first programming language to learn. I know enough to make everything work on its own but i still can't create stuff like this http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, how long does it take to actually start doing some of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. Looking at the source code doesn't help much since there are too many files and its split up and the functions get spread out all over. Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick it through to the very end. Start with nothing finish with the working program. If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push you forward if you get stuck. Before you start coding decide exactly what you want - keep it simple. Try and work out a basic user interface. Consider the components and classes you might need to support the application and UI. There will be loads of problems that you encounter along the way that you won't expect, just refine/redo until you overcome them. We have all been there. Get going! (Where in the world are you?) Paul Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?
My point was only to refer to the inherent exclusive danger of open source tools that Microsoft has had occasion to exploit, and that is the reliability of a construct if derivatives aren't controlled as there root. And I'm referring to the language not the classes. Requesting a feature change or improvement is far different from requesting open source of the Flex As3 language definition. What I mean by this is that Open Source code in the form of AS3 classes is a good thing. Any notion, however, that the community of Flex Developers would be able to distribute a different base interpreter is a dangerous one and competitors like Microsoft know it (this doesn't include a custom lex and interpreter for a 3rd party but the idea of a new version of a Flex interpreter). My only point was to keep Adobe informed of some of Microsoft's strategies they have exhibited in the past. I'm sure some at Adobe already know it, but I believe in the lessons of history and the need to repeat them when the possibility of danger is still there, especially as a friendly reminder to the Flex community at large. There is no whining going on here by anybody as far as I can tell; only, if anything, casting the stone from a possible whiny arm. The fact is that the community of development on the whole in the world is becoming a lot better, but there are still people out there with a never ending thirst for control, and to keep their behemoths alive. -r aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert: Yes this is an earnest request. While I do not shrink from controversy if I believe it will get things done, I don't needlessly whine either. I believe that it is important to make sure that we help the developers of our tools understand what is important to us consumers of the tools. Otherwise their direction/vision may preclude them from doing the little things that make the difference between a easy to use tool and one that ain't. But really folks, this isn't rocket science, the sort routines are broken. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe the Flex language itself is open source, only the .swf format. Someone at adobe may want to clear that up. Although I'm sure this is an earnest request, whenever open source is discussed one thing everyone on this list has to be careful of is that MICROSOFT will not go well into that good night of the loser status that are suffering at the hands of Apple and Linux after the desperate attempts by SCO. I've learned enough about them to know that. They will keep people out on the edge of happenings to attempt to stir trouble, so any discussion of Open Source (microsoft's thorn) in a way that would disturb the good foundation of Flash end-users should looked at closely. One thing I've learned about enemies is that once you begin to feel sorry for their sad state, they usually have such little class as to reach out in desperation to draw their gun from their black holster and beady blue eyes to shoot at innocence. Mercy is good, but not with Microsoft (never). -r Ralf Bokelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why has you data null values in the first place? Maybe you can put in some dummy data? Cheers Ralf. - Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. - Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage.
Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex
Sheriff has had 9 months opportunity to read books and tutorials. There's nothing like trying to do it yourself! Paul - Original Message - From: Jehanzeb Musani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex Hello Paul, I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I believe you need to know Flash internal and it's framework. You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like .NET and C++ and hardly a couple of months experience in Flex development. Currently, I am working on the Web front-end for our server to be developed in Flex. I am sure I will learn alot while developing that application. But I will not learn much about UI Component development in Flex as month of our features (controls) are based on datagrid. I am on Sheriff's side. I am looking for books and resources that can teach me Flex/Flash Internals and Frameworks which can help me in designing advanced UI controls like Flex Dashboard. Regards, Jehanzeb --- Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Sheriff To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. This is also my first programming language to learn. I know enough to make everything work on its own but i still can't create stuff like this http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, how long does it take to actually start doing some of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. Looking at the source code doesn't help much since there are too many files and its split up and the functions get spread out all over. Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick it through to the very end. Start with nothing finish with the working program. If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push you forward if you get stuck. Before you start coding decide exactly what you want - keep it simple. Try and work out a basic user interface. Consider the components and classes you might need to support the application and UI. There will be loads of problems that you encounter along the way that you won't expect, just refine/redo until you overcome them. We have all been there. Get going! (Where in the world are you?) Paul Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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] hiding nativewindow border while moving the window
I know that it is not good to override user's settings but still: on windows XP if the user has unchecked the Desktop-Properties option Show window contents while dragging, there is a frame around my AIR NativeWindow. Is there any way I can override this behavior and still show the contents of the window while dragging? I tried to implement my own dragging system (like I successfully did in C++) but Flex has no option to capture mouse so the window is slipping out while moving and that looks awful. Thanks
[flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler
Hi, I try to find some information about MXML compilation at runtime on a Java based server. My goal is to create a CMS/eCommerce solution based on a Java core and a Flex front-end. You can find more informations on the wiki of the Igenko project : http://code.google.com/p/igenko/ The architecture of this project will be : - A Java server core based on Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, GraniteDS - Natively designed to store content in a JSR 170 Java Content Repository (Jackrabbit) - Workflow management (JBoss JBPM) - A Flex Backoffice, with a WYSIWYG site designer - One or more Flex public websites, dynamically generated from content and layout stored in the repository. I know that Flex Data Services provide runtime compilation of MXML (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Partsfile=compiledeploy_142_11.html), but I want to build and Open Source solution ready for production without having to pay. The guy behind GraniteDS (an open source implementation of Flex Data Service) did a first attempt to have runtime compiler for MXML, as you can read on this post : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/graniteds/message/192 Another solution is also to dynamically create UI with AS3 from a custom xml (not mxml) like it was proposed on this post (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/93086), but I think runtime compilation of MXML should be a better solution in my case. I would appreciate any ideas or feedbacks on this subject Regards, Sébastien Deleuze
[flexcoders] Flex Supporters in Hyderabad
Hi Team, We are looking for a flex developer / tutor. who can help us develop the applications in FLEX + .NET / PHP + MsSQL environment. Online tutoring also welcome. Awaiting for the help. Thanks Krishna
Re: [flexcoders] Re: It's DEMO time! - www.PlayerStreak.com
The only JavaScript I had to add was for the IFRAME support. You can see that if you do a viewsource on the page. PS: the league administration functions were the real tough part.. Thanks for looking -aly On Dec 1, 2007 12:33 PM, candysmate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the site. But clicking on 'Rotoworld' showed that it relied on javascript (Google analytics stuff etc). For users, like me, who have javascript turned off some of the stuff would not work. Frankly, I had no inclination to turn it on to see what it did. Otherwise - great job!
RE: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler
The MXML compiler will be open-source soon, and I assume that means you'll be able to run it on your server. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bouiaw Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 6:06 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler Hi, I try to find some information about MXML compilation at runtime on a Java based server. My goal is to create a CMS/eCommerce solution based on a Java core and a Flex front-end. You can find more informations on the wiki of the Igenko project : http://code.google.com/p/igenko/ http://code.google.com/p/igenko/ The architecture of this project will be : - A Java server core based on Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, GraniteDS - Natively designed to store content in a JSR 170 Java Content Repository (Jackrabbit) - Workflow management (JBoss JBPM) - A Flex Backoffice, with a WYSIWYG site designer - One or more Flex public websites, dynamically generated from content and layout stored in the repository. I know that Flex Data Services provide runtime compilation of MXML (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Partsfile=compiledeploy_142_11.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Partsfile=compiledeploy_142_11.html ), but I want to build and Open Source solution ready for production without having to pay. The guy behind GraniteDS (an open source implementation of Flex Data Service) did a first attempt to have runtime compiler for MXML, as you can read on this post : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/graniteds/message/192 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/graniteds/message/192 Another solution is also to dynamically create UI with AS3 from a custom xml (not mxml) like it was proposed on this post (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/93086 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/93086 ), but I think runtime compilation of MXML should be a better solution in my case. I would appreciate any ideas or feedbacks on this subject Regards, Sébastien Deleuze
RE: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex
My advice.. First learn the basics of OOP and AS, how MXML relates to AS, how to factor an application into multiple components, and how events work. You can learn a lot about these topics my experimenting with only a few simple components such as Canvas and Button. But once you understand these things well, that knowledge will pay off. Next, pick the components that you're most likely to use in your apps and become familiar with their standard capabilities. Write simple apps that use standard components in standard ways. Don't get fancy. Later, learn about Flex's invalidation/revalidation model, how to create components dynamically, states, data binding, item renderers, embedding, skinning, and data access. Postpone things like writing components from scratch, complex subclassing, and understanding Flash-level classes until you're competent in the other stuff. In short, walk before you run. Don't take making things like Ely's custom components as your initial goal as they're probably too advanced for someone who is relatively new to programming. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jehanzeb Musani Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 6:38 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex Hello Paul, I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I believe you need to know Flash internal and it's framework. You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like .NET and C++ and hardly a couple of months experience in Flex development. Currently, I am working on the Web front-end for our server to be developed in Flex. I am sure I will learn alot while developing that application. But I will not learn much about UI Component development in Flex as month of our features (controls) are based on datagrid. I am on Sheriff's side. I am looking for books and resources that can teach me Flex/Flash Internals and Frameworks which can help me in designing advanced UI controls like Flex Dashboard. Regards, Jehanzeb --- Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:paul%40ipauland.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Sheriff To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. This is also my first programming language to learn. I know enough to make everything work on its own but i still can't create stuff like this http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, how long does it take to actually start doing some of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. Looking at the source code doesn't help much since there are too many files and its split up and the functions get spread out all over. Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick it through to the very end. Start with nothing finish with the working program. If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push you forward if you get stuck. Before you start coding decide exactly what you want - keep it simple. Try and work out a basic user interface. Consider the components and classes you might need to support the application and UI. There will be loads of problems that you encounter along the way that you won't expect, just refine/redo until you overcome them. We have all been there. Get going! (Where in the world are you?) Paul __ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
Hi Gordon,
Warnings are on, nothing displayed. I'm using Flex 3 if that's of any
relevance.
In the same thread, yes I did mean to write earlier that modifying
contactform.url inside of initapp solved the problem.
Regards.
Alex
- Original Message -
From: Gordon Smith
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
HTTPService.url isn't marked [Bindable].
Alex, your code
mx:HTTPService ... url= {scrmurl}xmlrpc/request.php ... /
should have generated a binding warning. Do you have them turned off?
- Gordon
--
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter
Farland
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
Right, HTTPService.url isn't marked [Bindable]. Programmatically updating it
as needed should work, as Tracy mentioned.
--
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Gordon Smith
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:13 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
I had to finally resort to giving the HTTPService object an id
The HTTPService object already had id=contactform.
and adjusting that object's ID inside of the initialize block.
Do you mean adjusting the HTTPService's 'url' property?
- Gordon
--
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lex
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
Whatever I tried, it just wouldn't work.
I had to finally resort to giving the HTTPService object an id, and adjusting
that object's ID inside of the initialize block. Doing that, worked. Setting
the HTTPService url to the bindable var inside of the XML markup, was a no-go.
- Original Message -
From: Tracy Spratt
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:23 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
Oops, missed that, but of course, otherwise this[i] = would have errored,
since Application is not dynamic.
Thanks' for the correction, Gordon, and never-mind, Alex.
So, Alex, this: url= {scrmurl}xmlrpc/request.php should work. How
about when you do your send(), you verify scrmurl has the string in it?
You might also try a different style of binding/assignment:
url= {scrmurl + 'xmlrpc/request.php'}
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Gordon Smith
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:40 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
scrmurl isn't a dynamic property.. it's declared at compile time as a
public var, and should be bindable.
- Gordon
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tracy Spratt
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:23 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
You won't be able to {bind} to dynamically created properties easily.
There may be a way to set up a binding using AS, not sure.
You could just set the url directly in initApp().
Tracy
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
flexnubslice
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:57 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Registering flashvar variables properly?
Hi,
I'm busting my head against the wall on this one, I have to say that
Flex is pretty frustrating when you otherwise code C++ or Java by trade.
Poking around, I have found how to pass variables into Flex apps using
flashvars. If I check the Application.application.parameters value, they are
all there. So far so good.
What I need to do, is pass a proxy URL from HTML, into Flex, that will
be used as a url parameter for an HTTPService.
I have for example:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute height=380 width=450 alpha=1.0
initialize=initApp();
mx:Script
![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var scrmurl:String;
[flexcoders] AMF question
I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls.Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly.I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However I have not found any good example online to learn from. Does anyone know where I can get started with AMF? thanks
Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler
Hey Sebastien/Gordon I'm not sure I understand what you're asking… mxml compilation at runtime? Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? As for the dynamic creation of content based on custom xml, that is quite nice. It's a big part of my current spare time project. The only real issue so far I have had, is that in order for me to generate the UI, all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code. So even though I have this: import dc.digr.ui.comp.*; I still need this: *var* a:digrButton = *new* digrButton (); *var* b:digrButtonLarge = *new* digrButtonLarge(); *var* c:digrButtonIconOnly = *new* digrButtonIconOnly(); *var* d:digrButtonMini = *new* digrButtonMini(); for all the custom ui components in the beginning of my code to avoid a runtime error…. Gordon, if you have some wisdom on this…. Spread the joy! J
[flexcoders] Re: AMF question
You neglected to mention what your backend was written in. Some of us might be able to help in .NET, others in PHP, and others in CF, not to mention Java. My own testing using Fluorine, a .NET implementaion shows about 80% decrease in time to load ~5,000 rows from the server to the client over a T1 line. Depending on what you are doing, it may be simple to convert. After I did the learning curve, the actual conversion of about 20 HTTPService requet took a day or so. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jovialrandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls.Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly.I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However I have not found any good example online to learn from. Does anyone know where I can get started with AMF? thanks
Re: [flexcoders] CSS usage?
Anyone? The livedocs site is a pain to navigate :/ Appreciated muchly! Alex - Original Message - From: Lex To: flex Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: [flexcoders] CSS usage? If I go here and build a CSS sheet: http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html# Where do I instruct the system to use it thereafter? Thanks. Alex
Re: [flexcoders] AMF question
Ted Patrick just wrote an interesting intro to AMF that I found informative. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/11/abcs-of-amf.php Paul On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls.Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly.I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However I have not found any good example online to learn from. Does anyone know where I can get started with AMF? 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
RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?
I've moved this bug to https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13808
since it is not related to the ActionScript compiler, it's only in the
Flex classes.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about
changing the language?
Gordon:
Per your request I have filed a bug report. It can be found here;
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3042
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gordon, et al:
Here is a simple test that will show the problem;
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=initApp()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
import mx.controls.Alert;
[Bindable] public var acData:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection;
private function initApp():void
{
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:1,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:A});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:2,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:B});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:3,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:C});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:4,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:D});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:5,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:E});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:6,col2:new Date
(),col3:false,col4:F});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
dgSortTest.dataProvider = acData;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:DataGrid id=dgSortTest x=26 y=10
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 1
dataField=col1/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 2
dataField=col2/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 3
dataField=col3/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 4
dataField=col4/
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
/mx:Application
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Gordon Smith gosmith@ wrote:
Your use case seem very reasonable to me. In this particular case
I
disagree with my esteemed colleague Alex (who sits across from
me)... I
think our default sorting routines should handle null values. So
please
file this as a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex and feel free to
mention that I consider it a bug.
However, I agree with Alex that it probably will not get fixed in
time
for the Flex 3 release, as the bar is currently extremely high for
making changes at this point. We've got to stabilize the release
and get
it out! So you'll need to use a workaround for now.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On
Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 2:38 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go
about
changing the language?
Gordon:
This thread was not intended as a technical thread, which is why
I
didn't include the details about the problem. I documented the
problem in the following post;
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/95131
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/95131
The only responses I got seemed to indicate that the behavior was
by
design, as opposed to a bug.
Yes, it does throw a runtime error.
I just signed up over at the Adobe bugs site.
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
, Gordon Smith gosmith@ wrote:
it gets confused when there are nulls in date, numeric, or
boolean
fields
this is by design
I doubt that we designed this code to intentionally get
confused. : ) It
sounds like we're simply not properly handling null field
values
when
sorting.
What do you mean by get confused? Does it throw an RTE? Do
the
nulls
cause incorrect sorting of the non-null values? Do the nulls
not
sort
together? How kind of sorting behavior do you think should
occur
when
there are null values? Should they sort before or after other
values?
Please file the bug at htp://bugs.adobe.com/flex.
htp://bugs.adobe.com/flex.
BTW, the Flex SDK is not yet open-source, but it will be soon.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?
And I guess let me add a few other things.
1) With regard to the bug itself, I'm guessing that the issue is
that first item in the collection to be sorted has the null value. This
is causing an error because we can't determine what kind of comparator
to use by default. If your first item hadn't been null you wouldn't see
the issue. This means that you should specify the comparator you want to
use, but one could argue that perhaps more information could be added to
the DataGridColumn to provide an option for some of the provided
comparators.
2) I can't remember in our code which way null compares to an
actual value, but they will group together.
3) There will of course be a process for code to get contributed to
the SDK. We'll have more info on this as we get closer to release, but
in general it will involve having a bug filed in the bugbase, votes
indicating the community's interest in having it fixed along with SDK
management agreeing that the contribution is useful, and then the
committers (SDK engineering) approval of the fix.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Chotin
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:57 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about
changing the language?
I've moved this bug to https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13808
since it is not related to the ActionScript compiler, it's only in the
Flex classes.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about
changing the language?
Gordon:
Per your request I have filed a bug report. It can be found here;
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3042
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gordon, et al:
Here is a simple test that will show the problem;
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=initApp()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
import mx.controls.Alert;
[Bindable] public var acData:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection;
private function initApp():void
{
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:1,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:A});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:2,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:B});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:3,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:C});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:4,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:D});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:5,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:E});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:6,col2:new Date
(),col3:false,col4:F});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
dgSortTest.dataProvider = acData;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:DataGrid id=dgSortTest x=26 y=10
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 1
dataField=col1/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 2
dataField=col2/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 3
dataField=col3/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 4
dataField=col4/
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
/mx:Application
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Gordon Smith gosmith@ wrote:
Your use case seem very reasonable to me. In this particular case
I
disagree with my esteemed colleague Alex (who sits across from
me)... I
think our default sorting routines should handle null values. So
please
file this as a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex and feel free to
mention that I consider it a bug.
However, I agree with Alex that it probably will not get fixed in
time
for the Flex 3 release, as the bar is currently extremely high for
making changes at this point. We've got to stabilize the release
and get
it out! So you'll need to use a workaround for now.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On
Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 2:38 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go
about
changing the language?
Gordon:
This thread was not intended as a technical thread, which is why
I
didn't include the details about the problem. I documented the
problem in the following post;
[flexcoders] special characters in Feed content.
I have a flex app that chokes (gives [object Object]) when attempting to display data from a content element of an Atom feed that often contains HTML (special characters: '','',..etc.). I'd wrap the value in CDATA or use a regular expression to clean up the data, but the flex parser does not get that far. Any ideas? -w
Re: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?
I had no idea that SimpleApplication existed; it's not in my Flex 2.01 api docs. But then I looked in the source tree and indeed, there is an mx.core.SimpleApplication class. But the source reveals that it's just an empty subclass of MovieClip, so it can't be used in place of the Application class. I wouldn't be able to add any UIComponents to the display list without errors, since it seems that a UIComponent's entire ancestor chain must be made up entirely of other UIComponents. Anatole Tartakovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Try inheriting from SimpleApplication - you still will get all mixins for css and static linkage for generated code, but less of the framework initialization - you should be able to create screen and have controls there. Of course, fewer things depending on the global managers will work later on ... Regards, Anatole Tartakovsky FarataSystems On 11/30/07, Dave Glasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to create an Application in pure Actionscript, by subclassing mx.core.Application, and when I run it I get: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at mx.core::UIComponent/getStyle()[C:\dev\flex_201_ja\sdk\frameworks\mx\core\UIComponent.as:7095] ...etc. The source file is basically an empty shell, with nothing but a constructor that calls super(). I'm not adding any children or setting any properties. It's not in the top-level package, if that makes any difference. Is what I'm trying to do impossible, at least without adding some amount of setup code that is normally generated by the MXML preprocessor and isn't documented anywhere?
Re: [flexcoders] AMF question
What do you currently use for your server-side language? On 2-Dec-07, at 1:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls. Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly. I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However I have not found any good example online to learn from. Does anyone know where I can get started with AMF?
[flexcoders] Traversing RSS/ATOM feed
Hello!
I'm new to Flex and new to this group. Nice to meet everyone. I have
a pretty simple problem. I just want to refer to a nested bit of XML
in an atom feed.
Go grab an ATOM feed:
mx:DataGrid width=730 height=212 id=dgPosts x=0 y=0
color=#00 dataProvider={feedRequest.lastResult.feed.entry}
Here's some simplified XML:
entry
titleHere is a title/title
source attribute=blah
urlhttp://www.google.com/url
/source
/entry
Now start placing things. This works as it should:
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Title dataField=title/
But now I want to go one level deeper to grab the source url. I've
tried a variety of things, but none work. When I just point to
source, it returns an object:
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Source dataField=source width=150/
I've tried a bunch of different approaches like this:
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Source dataField=source.url
width=150/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Source dataField=source..url
width=150/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Source dataField=source['url']
width=150/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Source dataField=source[0]
width=150/
But none work. I'm sure this is simple and I'm just not finding the
right documentation. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks,
Jon
[flexcoders] Flex upload - preview data??
Hi - I am working on a file upload process that needs to meet the following requirements: 1) User selects file they wish to upload 2) Application needs to put a preview of the data to be uploaded on the web page 3) User can then choose which rows they wish to upload from their uploaded file 4) The chosen rows are then displayed in a datagrid and data can be entered under column headers 5) The information in the datagrid is now uploaded to our server and updated in our database This process is currently done using Applets so most of the work is done on the client side. Now with the new Flex application our company would like to use, it seems most of this work will be on our server. I am worried about the time this is all going to take if the max uploaded rows is met (of 10,000). Can anyone recommend a way to efficiently accomplish this task? Is there a way to possibly stream the data into the flex application? Any examples and advice is appreciated! The only way I can think of this working is uploading their file right away to our server and somehow streaming it back into the flex application to both preview, manipulate and send back to our server again for the final update of the database. However, I am also struggling with how I can grab the information that was uploaded out of the HTTP response?? Could someone please shed some light for me :)
RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?
I was already aware of that, but forgoing the use of UIComponents is not really an option for me. I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. But absent that, I think the API docs should clearly indicate that the only practical way to instantiate and use the class is through MXML. Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all applications have to have mx:Application at the top level. You can start with Sprite if you want. Thats what happens when you create an ActionScript project in Flex Builder. But then you cant use most of the mx: components. - From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 2:06 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible? I looked at the generated actionscript and it does look like there's a lot going on, and it's not worth trying to make it work without MXML. Maybe I'll log a bug report requesting that they say in the API doc that the Application class can only (as a practical matter) be used via the mx:Application MXML tag. hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is what I'm trying to do impossible, at least without adding some amount of setup code that is normally generated by the MXML preprocessor and isn't documented anywhere? __ As I understand it, this is exactly correct. If you compile an MXML with the option on that generates actionscript (I forget how you do this) you will see a lot of generated code even in an MXML hello world. Regards, Han
[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem that you have not gotten it after 9 months at Flex. There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes one can (and will) make, or don't bother. Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
I couldn't agree more on all counts After twenty some years of programming I can honestly say that starting out with assember was one of the best things i have done, although it would have been nice to have google back then. In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to bed before 4am once, gotten up after 8.30am once and skipped 20-30% of all nights completely.. In retrospect it would probably have been smarter doing a Hello World instead of a massive project based 90% on custom components and convoluted data access. If you want it bad enough you will make it! --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 5:01 PM, tomeuchre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Sheriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem that you have not gotten it after 9 months at Flex. There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes one can (and will) make, or don't bother. Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days.
[flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about changing the language?
Matt:
Thanks for fixing the bug request.
Yes, all nulls seem to sort high, but that means if you click the
heading twice it always fails because the nulls sort to the top, and
the sort algorithm fails on the second pass.
One thing that could be done as a workaround, is to have the routine
that determines which type of sorting to do look down the column
until it finds the first (or first 2) non-null fields and use that
info to determine the type of sorting to do. If it finds all nulls it
doesn't need to sort anything.
Irrespective of fixing the bug, adding a property/attribute to define
the internal comparator would be beneficial IMltHO.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I guess let me add a few other things.
1) With regard to the bug itself, I'm guessing that the issue
is
that first item in the collection to be sorted has the null value.
This
is causing an error because we can't determine what kind of
comparator
to use by default. If your first item hadn't been null you
wouldn't see
the issue. This means that you should specify the comparator you
want to
use, but one could argue that perhaps more information could be
added to
the DataGridColumn to provide an option for some of the provided
comparators.
2) I can't remember in our code which way null compares to an
actual value, but they will group together.
3) There will of course be a process for code to get
contributed to
the SDK. We'll have more info on this as we get closer to release,
but
in general it will involve having a bug filed in the bugbase, votes
indicating the community's interest in having it fixed along with
SDK
management agreeing that the contribution is useful, and then the
committers (SDK engineering) approval of the fix.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt Chotin
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:57 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go
about
changing the language?
I've moved this bug to https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13808
since it is not related to the ActionScript compiler, it's only in
the
Flex classes.
Matt
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of aceoohay
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: If Flex is open source, how do we go about
changing the language?
Gordon:
Per your request I have filed a bug report. It can be found here;
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3042
Paul
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
, aceoohay pauls@ wrote:
Gordon, et al:
Here is a simple test that will show the problem;
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute
creationComplete=initApp()
mx:Script
![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
import mx.controls.Alert;
[Bindable] public var acData:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection;
private function initApp():void
{
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:1,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:A});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:2,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:B});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:3,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:C});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:4,col2:new Date
(),col3:null,col4:D});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:5,col2:new Date
(),col3:true,col4:E});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
acData.addItem({col1:6,col2:new Date
(),col3:false,col4:F});
acData.addItem
({col1:null,col2:null,col3:null,col4:null});
dgSortTest.dataProvider = acData;
}
]]
/mx:Script
mx:DataGrid id=dgSortTest x=26 y=10
mx:columns
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 1
dataField=col1/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 2
dataField=col2/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 3
dataField=col3/
mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Column 4
dataField=col4/
/mx:columns
/mx:DataGrid
/mx:Application
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Gordon Smith gosmith@
wrote:
Your use case seem very reasonable to me. In this particular
case
I
disagree with my esteemed colleague Alex (who sits across from
me)... I
think our default sorting routines should handle null values.
So
please
file this as a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex and feel free
to
mention that I consider it a bug.
However, I agree with Alex that it probably will not get fixed
in
time
for the Flex 3 release,
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
- Original Message - From: DreamCode To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to bed before 4am once, gotten up after 8.30am once and skipped 20-30% of all nights completely. Strangely enough, it's not something I'd be advertising, nor something I can see Adobe promoting as sound practice, though sadly, I know where you are coming from. In retrospect it would probably have been smarter doing a Hello World instead of a massive project based 90% on custom components and convoluted data access. Absolutely. If you want it bad enough you will make it! I've never understood why people are happy to boast they work this way. It's hardly good for the individual, project or industry. Quite honestly, I saw Flex as a way to avoid ridiculous working hours and mad sessions (and I hope one day it turns out that way). YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A VAMPIRE TO LEARN FLEX! LOL ;-) Paul --Allan
[flexcoders] DISREGARD: FileReference on Mac - When will it be fixed?
I figured it out -- I didn't realize that the data reported by FileReference depends on the OS on which Flash Player is running. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Whitelock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just tried Ubuntu and no joy there either -- maybe it shares the same code base as the Mac since they are both Unix. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Whitelock news@ wrote: I've read that the bugs with FileReference on the Macintosh have been fixed, but I'm still having problems uploading (as in uploads don't work). The problem exists in Leopard (Mac Pro running Flash Player 9.0.98.0) and Tiger (MacBook Pro running 9.0.60.235). No problems with uploads running on Windows. Anyone from Adobe care to comment?
[flexcoders] Re: AMF question
I am currently using J2EE as the server side language. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you currently use for your server-side language? On 2-Dec-07, at 1:51 PM, jovialrandor wrote: I have an application that imports various data from various data sources. I have about 14 httpservice calls. Apparently this has slowed down my app significantly. I heard that using the messaging framework AMF can get large amounts of data in binary format which is quicker. However I have not found any good example online to learn from. Does anyone know where I can get started with AMF?
[flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
As long as other old timers are sittin' around the diner tellin' lies I can add my two cents. My first language was in High School, Burroughs B200 machine language No assembly required. The question is not how best to teach yourself Flex, but how best to become a programmer. Is Flex the right tool for this? I think it is as good as any, although the event driven model might make some things more challenging (it still bugs the crap outa me from time to time). I believe that teaching yourself the discipline of programming is much more important than whatever language you use to do it. To do this you may want to start by analyzing everyday things that you do or see. For example the next time you go into a restaurant or store, look at how things are laid out and look for the patterns in workflow. Create a game out of how you would improve the systems you see. To do this you will need to break things down into their simplest actions and decisions, and then put them back together. Once you do this a while you will start thinking in modular ways that will help as you develop systems. For me, the best way to teach myself a new language is to read a little and check out some online tutorials until they put me to sleep, and do a Hello World. Once through this phase, (call it the first 2 dates) it's time to do a real program. This is the third date, you take the language to a drive-in, and see whether you can get to third base, or perhaps a home run. If the passion still burns the next day, the next step is to move in together, start a real project. This can be small, but something that is real. I am converting a large inquiry system written in ASP to Flex for my first project, and other than fighting over the Flex's nasty habits of leaving the top off the toothpaste, and leaving its things all around it's going well. This is just how I go about it. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tomeuchre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff sherif626@ wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem that you have not gotten it after 9 months at Flex. There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes one can (and will) make, or don't bother. Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
Actually the post has reminded me of a University lecture I had (many, many years ago) where the lecturer gave some incredibly low figure for the number of lines of code written daily by professional programmers. Nobody thought the figure could be so low - after all we cranked out programs at a great rate. It was only after I started working professionally that I really understood what was going on. At university our programs didn't have to work. They had to work 'mostly'. They didn't drive displays for hospital machines nor did they control nuclear reactors. In addition to this, nobody else would work on them, they didn't have to be readable by anyone else, they didn't have to follow any standards. We could churn this stuff out and impress. Then I started work. Suddenly my software was going to be used by thousands of people. If it failed (yes, it did have some assembler) it would corrupt the disc drives it controlled to write data away. Finally, I had to sit down first and design it, talk about it, keep the documentation up to date, co-operate with others and eventually hand it over so others could maintain and develop it further without me. Suddenly I was that professional programmer, suddenly I didn't write much code every day. As far as I know, my code never corrupted any disc drive. Then our lecturer explained that when he spent late nights out at parties, or just went into marathon coding sessions, he usually spent the next day fixing all the stupid things he did the morning after, or the night before. He didn't do the late night thing anymore, or if he did he didn't attempt to write code the morning after. Now I wish my code were as good as that first project I did. I have done the late nights, I have written the bad code, bugs are something I know only too well. One thing I do know is that the more time I spend not coding, the less code I need to write and the better my applications are. I write the least code I can and I produce the fewest components that I can and I often look back and wonder how I spent so long writing so little code, that looks so simple. One great thing about avoiding end to end coding sessions - it allows you to step back from the project and find that simpler approach that just doesn't appear when your head is buried in the code. The gaps between intense coding are important and arguably as productive in taking you out of blind alleys or complicated scenarios that can be simplified. I happen to think that's the best way to be and I'd ask anyone involved in regular code marathons to really consider if it actually helps (either them or the project). I actually used to admire a project manager that used to spend much of his time sat at an empty desk, often reading a newspaper. He always seemed to know the right thing to do and wrote great code. Others thought he just wasted his time. Enough, Paul (hey, I hardly even mentioned documentation. Documentation takes far longer than coding..) - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:43 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex - Original Message - From: DreamCode To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to bed before 4am once, gotten up after 8.30am once and skipped 20-30% of all nights completely. Strangely enough, it's not something I'd be advertising, nor something I can see Adobe promoting as sound practice, though sadly, I know where you are coming from. In retrospect it would probably have been smarter doing a Hello World instead of a massive project based 90% on custom components and convoluted data access. Absolutely. If you want it bad enough you will make it! I've never understood why people are happy to boast they work this way. It's hardly good for the individual, project or industry. Quite honestly, I saw Flex as a way to avoid ridiculous working hours and mad sessions (and I hope one day it turns out that way). YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A VAMPIRE TO LEARN FLEX! LOL ;-) Paul --Allan
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
I agree again. with everything, but unfortunately I don't have an IQ that breaks the bank, so in order for me to keep up with the talented ones I have to work harder :) --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 6:26 PM, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as other old timers are sittin' around the diner tellin' lies I can add my two cents. My first language was in High School, Burroughs B200 machine language No assembly required. The question is not how best to teach yourself Flex, but how best to become a programmer. Is Flex the right tool for this? I think it is as good as any, although the event driven model might make some things more challenging (it still bugs the crap outa me from time to time). I believe that teaching yourself the discipline of programming is much more important than whatever language you use to do it. To do this you may want to start by analyzing everyday things that you do or see. For example the next time you go into a restaurant or store, look at how things are laid out and look for the patterns in workflow. Create a game out of how you would improve the systems you see. To do this you will need to break things down into their simplest actions and decisions, and then put them back together. Once you do this a while you will start thinking in modular ways that will help as you develop systems. For me, the best way to teach myself a new language is to read a little and check out some online tutorials until they put me to sleep, and do a Hello World. Once through this phase, (call it the first 2 dates) it's time to do a real program. This is the third date, you take the language to a drive-in, and see whether you can get to third base, or perhaps a home run. If the passion still burns the next day, the next step is to move in together, start a real project. This can be small, but something that is real. I am converting a large inquiry system written in ASP to Flex for my first project, and other than fighting over the Flex's nasty habits of leaving the top off the toothpaste, and leaving its things all around it's going well. This is just how I go about it. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, tomeuchre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Sheriff sherif626@ wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem that you have not gotten it after 9 months at Flex. There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes one can (and will) make, or don't bother. Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best Way to learn Flex
Set goals that interest you. Interest and 'passion' : ) assists learning. Ralf's url was a nice read. regards, Bjorn On 03/12/2007, at 1:55 PM, DreamCode wrote: I agree again. with everything, but unfortunately I don't have an IQ that breaks the bank, so in order for me to keep up with the talented ones I have to work harder :) --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 6:26 PM, aceoohay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as other old timers are sittin' around the diner tellin' lies I can add my two cents. My first language was in High School, Burroughs B200 machine language No assembly required. The question is not how best to teach yourself Flex, but how best to become a programmer. Is Flex the right tool for this? I think it is as good as any, although the event driven model might make some things more challenging (it still bugs the crap outa me from time to time). I believe that teaching yourself the discipline of programming is much more important than whatever language you use to do it. To do this you may want to start by analyzing everyday things that you do or see. For example the next time you go into a restaurant or store, look at how things are laid out and look for the patterns in workflow. Create a game out of how you would improve the systems you see. To do this you will need to break things down into their simplest actions and decisions, and then put them back together. Once you do this a while you will start thinking in modular ways that will help as you develop systems. For me, the best way to teach myself a new language is to read a little and check out some online tutorials until they put me to sleep, and do a Hello World. Once through this phase, (call it the first 2 dates) it's time to do a real program. This is the third date, you take the language to a drive-in, and see whether you can get to third base, or perhaps a home run. If the passion still burns the next day, the next step is to move in together, start a real project. This can be small, but something that is real. I am converting a large inquiry system written in ASP to Flex for my first project, and other than fighting over the Flex's nasty habits of leaving the top off the toothpaste, and leaving its things all around it's going well. This is just how I go about it. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, tomeuchre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sheriff sherif626@ wrote: So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to get me anywhere. Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem that you have not gotten it after 9 months at Flex. There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes one can (and will) make, or don't bother. Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days.
RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible?
I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. We could make this work (although we won't have time before Flex 3 ships). Please file an enhancement request at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex if you feel it is important for a future release. But I'm always interested in why some people avoid MXML. What's your reason? - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:47 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible? I was already aware of that, but forgoing the use of UIComponents is not really an option for me. I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. But absent that, I think the API docs should clearly indicate that the only practical way to instantiate and use the class is through MXML. Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all applications have to have mx:Application at the top level. You can start with Sprite if you want. That's what happens when you create an ActionScript project in Flex Builder. But then you can't u! se most of the mx: components. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 2:06 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible? I looked at the generated actionscript and it does look like there's a lot going on, and it's not worth trying to make it work without MXML. Maybe I'll log a bug report requesting that they say in the API doc that the Application class can only (as a practical ! matter) be used via the mx:Application MXML tag. hank williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is what I'm trying to do impossible, at least without adding some amount of setup code that is normally generated by the MXML preprocessor and isn't documented anywhere? __ As I understand it, this is exactly correct. If you compile an MXML with the option on that generates actionscript (I forget how you do this) you will see a lot of generated code even in an MXML hello world. Regards, Han
RE: [flexcoders] CSS usage?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; mx:Style source=mystyles.css/ /mx:Application - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lex Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:44 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] CSS usage? Anyone? The livedocs site is a pain to navigate :/ Appreciated muchly! Alex - Original Message - From: Lex mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flex mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: [flexcoders] CSS usage? If I go here and build a CSS sheet: http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html # Where do I instruct the system to use it thereafter? Thanks. Alex
RE: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler
Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? That's the impression I got of what Sébastien wants to do. all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code If you're creating components via their class name, with code like var someClass:Class = Class(getDefinitionByName(someClassName)); var instanceOfSomeClass:Object = new someClass(); there is no way that the MXML compiler/linker can be smart enough to figure out what class names might be encountered at runtime. Therefore it can't include these classes in the SWF unless you give it some help. One way is to use vars like you show to create dependencies. Another way is to use the -include-classes compilation option. For some reason that I don't understand, this is only an option for compc when you make a SWC, not for mxml when you make a SWF. But you can make a SWC with all your custom classes and then link that SWC in with -include-libraries. Another possibility is to put all your custom classes into a module and load it. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DreamCode Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:38 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler Hey Sebastien/Gordon I'm not sure I understand what you're asking... mxml compilation at runtime? Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? As for the dynamic creation of content based on custom xml, that is quite nice. It's a big part of my current spare time project. The only real issue so far I have had, is that in order for me to generate the UI, all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code. So even though I have this: import dc.digr.ui.comp.*; I still need this: var a:digrButton = new digrButton (); var b:digrButtonLarge = new digrButtonLarge(); var c:digrButtonIconOnly = new digrButtonIconOnly(); var d:digrButtonMini = new digrButtonMini(); for all the custom ui components in the beginning of my code to avoid a runtime error Gordon, if you have some wisdom on this Spread the joy! J
[flexcoders] is change a program's namespace in run-time possible?
i try to use the code: use namespace ...to change some constants of program at run-time, it seems no working at all... is there a way to work this out? any replies will be greatly appreciated.
[flexcoders] How to make viewSource enabled
Hi, I want to make my project viewSource enabled. how can i do that. Regards Girish Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html
RE: [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
Look at the source for PrintDataGrid. You should be able to use the
same pattern for TextArea
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Paul Steven
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 1:28 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
Still desperately trying to find a solution to this!
How can I print a text field that contains more than one page worth of
text over multiple pages?
Thanks
Paul
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Behalf Of Paul Steven
Sent: 29 November 2007 20:30
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Printing a large string over multiple pages
I am printing a large string and it is only printing one page worth of
the string data. Ideally I would like it to print the entire string
using as many pages as it requires to print out the entire contents. Any
help much appreciated!!
This is my print function code:
private function doPrint():void {
var printJob:FlexPrintJob = new FlexPrintJob();
var formPrintView:SubmissionReport = new
SubmissionReport();
addChild(formPrintView);
var todayDate:Date = new Date();
formPrintView.detailUsername.text =
_session.getSessionUsername();
formPrintView.detailDate.text = String(todayDate);
formPrintView.detailcontent.text =
_session.returnSubmissionReportText()
printJob.start();
printJob.addObject(formPrintView);
printJob.send();
removeChild(formPrintView);
}
[flexcoders] ItemEditors and ItemRenderers (was Re: Datagrid tab order?)
What I have is the Flex 2.0.1 patch for Flash CS3 Professional compatibility, are they compatible? i.e. I just install the hotfix 2/3 on top of it? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds like you are not using 2.0.1 Hotfix 2 or later. I cannot reproduce your problem with that release. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Roy J. Tang Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:39 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] ItemEditors and ItemRenderers (was Re: Datagrid tab order?) Can you check my sample here: http://roytang.net/sandbox/DataGridSample.swf http://roytang.net/sandbox/DataGridSample.swf Source at http://roytang.net/sandbox/DataGridSample.mxml http://roytang.net/sandbox/DataGridSample.mxml When I tab starting from the textinput and all the way to the last row of the datagrid (row 14), it's still ok. But after tabbing out from row 14 the tab order becomes trapped in the onscreen checkboxes (and doesn't even follow them in the top-to-bottom left-to-right order) --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: tabEnabled is ignored for renderers/editors. The only thing that matters is editable=true on the DG and the DGColumn. You should have itemRenderer=CheckBox and rendererIsEditor=true. You don't need to set itemEditor=CheckBox. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Stephen Roy J. Tang Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:54 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] ItemEditors and ItemRenderers (was Re: Datagrid tab order?) thanks. I appreciate the replies esp. since I can't provide my app's sample code here so I guess it's difficult for others to figure out. I guess the problem is I tried to avoid using itemEditors entirely and used itemRenderers instead, so now the tab order is all messed up and doesn't scroll. I'm going to try using itemEditors again. However, the main problem there is that I want to render the column as a checkbox and have it editable as a checkbox also. So I'll do the ff: 1. set itemRenderer=checkbox and itemEditor=checkbox. 2. set tabEnabled=false for the checkbox itemRenderer; this is so that the itemRenderers don't screw up the tab order Under the above setup, the tab order seems correct. The only issue with the above that I'm not sure how to support is that visually the column is a checkbox, but requires the user to click twice on the checkbox to toggle the value (once to enable edit mode, second time to actually edit). Is there any way to avoid this? Most of the examples of using checkbox as an itemEditor seem to use static text as the renderer. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Alex Harui aharui@ wrote: the default editing code handles offscreen rows. you can probably override focusinhandler and set editeditemposition the dg remembers the last position of the editor and restores editing there From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Stephen Roy J. Tang Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:19 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Datagrid tab order? We had trouble before with having both an item renderer and an item editor for a column (which we need to have that checkbox column), so instead what I tried was simply having only itemrenderers for the controls (and updating the data on change of the itemrenderer controls) This seems to fix the default tab order, but there are still some issues with the tab order, namely: 1. Tabbing through the grid only traverses visible rows - how can a user navigate to scrolled-out rows using the keyboard? 2. Sorting the grid doesn't seem to sort the taborder - the rows are still traversed in the original order. (Strangely, reassigning a headerRenderer after the sorting sets the correct tab order - I found this by accident) 3. Tabbing into the grid from an outside control - looks like it remembers where the grid was last traversed and starts over from there. Is it possible to change it to always enter the grid from the first row? 4. I'm not sure of the behavior exactly, as I couldn't replicate it all the time, but
Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler
I don't think the result of that is inside the acceptable levels for a content management system. but hey... what do I know I would. and I did for my project choose creating it in AS3 based on database/xml content. --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 7:26 PM, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? That's the impression I got of what Sébastien wants to do. all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code If you're creating components via their class name, with code like var someClass:Class = Class(getDefinitionByName(someClassName)); var instanceOfSomeClass:Object = new someClass(); there is no way that the MXML compiler/linker can be smart enough to figure out what class names might be encountered at runtime. Therefore it can't include these classes in the SWF unless you give it some help. One way is to use vars like you show to create dependencies. Another way is to use the -include-classes compilation option. For some reason that I don't understand, this is only an option for compc when you make a SWC, not for mxml when you make a SWF. But you can make a SWC with all your custom classes and then link that SWC in with -include-libraries. Another possibility is to put all your custom classes into a module and load it. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team -- *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *DreamCode *Sent:* Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:38 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Runtime MXML compiler Hey Sebastien/Gordon I'm not sure I understand what you're asking… mxml compilation at runtime? Are you going to compile a page when a request comes in? As for the dynamic creation of content based on custom xml, that is quite nice. It's a big part of my current spare time project. The only real issue so far I have had, is that in order for me to generate the UI, all custom components needed to be referenced once inside my code. So even though I have this: import dc.digr.ui.comp.*; I still need this: *var *a:digrButton = *new* digrButton (); *var *b:digrButtonLarge = *new* digrButtonLarge(); *var *c:digrButtonIconOnly = *new* digrButtonIconOnly(); *var* d:digrButtonMini = *new* digrButtonMini(); for all the custom ui components in the beginning of my code to avoid a runtime error…. Gordon, if you have some wisdom on this…. Spread the joy! J
[flexcoders] ***************************TWO WAY SSL AND REPORTING IN FLEX *********************************
Q1)Can any body tell how to implement TWO WAY SSL in flex/java application.. can any one send me link or sample code .. Q2) Plz tell me about reporting in flex which reporting can i use Thanks In Advance...
[flexcoders] Re: How to make viewSource enabled
select 'project ' from ur flex builder menu,then select 'publish application source', feel free to change any pre-settings. after that,add up 'viewSourceURL' property in ur Application MXML Tag with the the value,which if u use the pre-settings of flex builder it should then be 'srcview/index.html'. have a nice day~
[flexcoders] Verifing URL before setting it to the source of VideoDisplay
hello All I am in a big trouble, problem is i have developed a video player in flex. It works fine. But an incorrect URL is passed to the player , it troughs an error (connection Error) but after that it does not even load a correct flv. how can i solve this problem .. I know there must be a simple solution for that .. Can i verify a url before setting it to the source property of videoDisplay Thanks in Advance, -- Regards, Nadeem Manzoor
[flexcoders]Support for PS3 and XBox 360
What is the support for development on PS3 and XBox 360 platforms? Are our apps available through their integrated browser (not sure of the current players in each)? Could we use AIR to develop apps for these platforms? Availability of Flash Player 9 AS3 or AIR apps on these platforms would be of huge interest to the whole development community. Imagine using the C++ to AS3 conversion utility to port Doom and other games or apps to run on PS3.
[flexcoders] Using DateField as itemEditor for DataGrid column
I'm having a problem using a DateField as a itemRenderer/editor for a column in a dataGrid. If I set the DateField as my itemEditor, everything works perfectly. But if I set the DateField as my itemRenderer and set rendererIsEditor to true the dataGrid renders completely blank (no data in *any* field) and locks down so *nothing* is editable. In reading posts in the archives in this group and elsewhere, folks with similar issues were told to make sure the data bound to the column is of type date. But I have two issues with that: 1) if it wasn't understood as being of type date, why would it work when the dateField was set as the itemEditor and 2) I'm loading in the dataProvider for the DataGrid as a Bindable XMLListCollection from an external XML file... and I'm not sure how I can designate in XML that the node is of type date. Anyone have any info or pointers? They'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! -Carl
