date:20081217

Valdhor already gave you all the info you need, but I like the sound of my
own fingers typing. I also like to procrastinate, so I'm in heaven right now
:p

   - Some numbers that are easy to represent in decimal are hard to
   represent in binary, just as some numbers that are easy to represent in base
   60 are hard to represent in decimal (such as 1/3).
   - Your calculations are safe enough: Number has a very high precision and
   calculations are carried out with full precision. It's just when testing for
   equality that you can run into problems -- I'm guessing this is where you
   noticed the discrepancy?
   - When comparing for floating-point numbers for equality, you need to
   specify a tolerance too. Most unit-testing frameworks provide this for their
   floating-point asserts. And when I was doing financial apps, we did the same
   thing. If you *really* need higher precision, you'll need a BigNumber
   implementation for AS3, of which there are several. The AS3Crypto library
   has one I believe...

Chyrs :)
Jules

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:15, Ken Johnson kenjohnso...@hotmail.com wrote:

   Hi Everyone -

 Given the following code:
 var num1:Number = 0.72;
 var num2:Number = 0.198;
 var num3:Number;

 num3 = num1;
 num3 += num2;

 I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.

 Instead, it equals 0.9179.

 And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.

 I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.

 Am I doing something wrong here?

 Thanks for your help!
 Ken

  




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Re: [flexcoders] Loadbytes - Exclude framework?

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Hall

If you load a class at run-time, and a class already exists in the
same application domain, with the same qualified name, then the class
will be skipped and the first one that was loaded will be used. So the
implications should relate to unecessary filesize.

Peter


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Sceneshift j...@sceneshift.com wrote:

 I am loading in a external SWF at runtime using loadBytes, so I am able to
 retrieve library items / class names created via the designers in the SWF. I
 need to use loadBytes so I can use timeline AS3 code etc.

 I was wondering what the implications are of this, since the exported SWFs
 filesize will include the FP framework. Is there a way to load in a SWF
 using loadBytes, but ignoring any of the framework stuff we already have
 loaded?
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Weborb to return XML data

This depends on what you really mean.

 

XML is a data format.  AMF and HTTPService and SOAP are transport
protocols.  You can send XML formatted data via any protocol.  One of
the benefits of xml is it is a self-describing structure and you do not
need design and build your own DTOs or be concerned about transport
serilazation.   Some of the other technologies help with this as well.

 

Tracy

 



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Behalf Of gjessup1
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:38 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Weborb to return XML data

 

Why would you want to do this? I would adjust the graph to take an 
array collection or object as a datasource. 
I think you could hack it in your C# code to pass a xml object or 
array with xml in it. But To me it defeats the purpose of weborb. I 
would take the approach of changing the datasource of the chart.

If you post or PM me some sample code, I'd be happy to help.

-Greg

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, timgerr tgallag...@... wrote:

 I have been working with weborb and I think it is great. I am 
working
 on a graph that needs XML data that I have generated via php and
 mysql. I was wondering of Weborb can return XML and if you have any
 examples of this.
 
 Thanks for the,
 timgerr

RE: [flexcoders] sort XMLListcollection in dp

You need to define a custom sort function.

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Kenneth Sutherland
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:40 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] sort XMLListcollection in dp

 

I'm trying to apply a sort to an XMLListcollection that is assigned to a
dataprovider.

 

Each element of the collection has the following format and I've no
control over the format to change it.

f

  rablah/ra

  roblah/ro

  fs

   dithe name to filter on/di

   sother stuff/s

  /fs

/f

 

I am trying to sort on the node di so I've done the following

 

var sort:Sort = new Sort();

sort.fields = [new SortField(di, true, true)];

 

and applied that to the dataprovider that contains the XMLListCollection
and done the refresh.

I doesn't do the sort but what it does do is swap the first element of
the collection with another halfway through the collection (so if
collection has 22 elements the is swaps [0] with [11]).

 

If I do the sort on nodes such as 'ra' or 'ro' (new SortField(ra,
true, true)]; or new SortField(ro, true, true)];) then they work fine
so I'm presuming it's because the node 'di' is another level below the
main children.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers.

 



realise

.

 

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Re: [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call

2008-12-17 Thread Nate Beck

You can also put a mx:TraceTarget / at the top of your MXML document to
see all the data going back and forth.  That's how I troubleshoot when I'm
dealing with SOAP.
Cheers,
Nate

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote:

Have you set resultFormat=e4x?  If not, you are not working with
 xml.  Flex has generated a tree of dynamic objects.  Though it allows you to
 go straight to an arrayCollection, this format is rarely desirable.



 Set the resultFormat, then in your result handler do:

 var xmlResult = event.result as XML;

 trace(xmlResult.toXMLString);



 You will see your xml as flex sees it.



 Be aware that you may have xml namespace issues accessing the nodes via e4x
 expressions.  Google, check archives and see the docs for help with this.



 Tracy


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 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Louise Rains
 *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:28 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call



 I'm getting data back from a wsdl call that looks like this:



 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=windows-1252? ns0:ROOT
 xmlns:ns0=urn:AMAT_Asset_KeyGen xmlns:xsd=

 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; xmlns:xsi=

 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;

 ns0:getListValues

 ns0:B_License_Key0200362/ns0:B_License_Key


 ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date2007-03-31T00:00:00-04:00/ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date



 ns0:Company_NameSOME COMPANY/ns0:Company_Name

 ns0:Part_NumberALFLSS3300-1400/ns0:Part_Number

 ns0:Product_CategoryPER/ns0:Product_Category

 ns0:Product_TypeAUTOMOD/ns0:Product_Type

 ns0:Quantity1.00/ns0:Quantity

 ns0:Site_NameSOME SITE/ns0:Site_Name

  /ns0:getListValues

 …

 ns0:ROOT



 If I have multiple getListValues returned, I can use an ArrayCollection
 and step through each object in the collection to get the data.  However,
 I'm having a hard time determining the type of event.result in the case
 where there is only one getListValues object returned.  When I trace
 event.result, I get [object Object].  If I try to cast it to XML, XMLList or
 ArrayCollection, I get null objects.



 Is there a way to use reflection to determine what the [object Object]
 really is?  How can I access the data that's coming back?



 Thanks!



 LG Rains

  




-- 

Cheers,
Nate

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RE: [flexcoders] Common base class for components

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Harui

In theory, if your base class implements IUIComponent, then your visual 
components will work in Flex

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Jules Suggate
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:56 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Common base class for components

Hi list, anyone know if it's possible to have all our components inherit from a 
common base component of our own making?

There are some things in our app that every View component will have to do at 
loadtime, and it'd be nice to just write that code once and have all the other 
components inherit it...

Last time I checked in Flex 3 Beta 2 there was some vague suggestion of using 
Template Components, but that seemed like an afterthought in the SDK at the 
time. Just thought I'd check to see if you knew of any tricks for doing it :)

Perhaps even an include file would be the way to go...

[flexcoders] problem with Consumer

2008-12-17 Thread Dominic Pazula

I have a flex project using BlazeDS where I am trying to create a 
message destination dynamically and then subscribe to it in Flex.  
I've been using the sample from Blaze as a reference.

Java method returns the string of the new destination:
...
ms = (MessageService) MessageBroker.getMessageBroker(null).getService
(message-service);
MessageDestination destination = (MessageDestination) 
ms.createDestination(dStr);

if (ms.isStarted())
{
   System.out.println(Starting Destination  + dStr);
   destination.start();
}
... 
return dStr;

In Flex, this Java method is called through a RemoteObject and the 
handle on the result does the following:
var consumer:Consumer = new Consumer();
if (event.result != null){
   var destination:String = event.result as String;
   var myStreamingAMF:AMFChannel = new StreamingAMFChannel(my-
streaming-amf, ../messagebroker/streamingamf);
   var myPollingAMF:AMFChannel = new AMFChannel(my-polling-
amf, ../messagebroker/amfpolling);
   myPollingAMF.pollingEnabled = true;
   myPollingAMF.pollingInterval = 2000;
   var channelSet:ChannelSet = new ChannelSet();
   channelSet.addChannel(myStreamingAMF);
   channelSet.addChannel(myPollingAMF);
   consumer.channelSet = channelSet;
   consumer.destination = destination;
   consumer.addEventListener(MessageEvent.MESSAGE, handleMessage);
   consumer.subscribe();
}
Alert.show(Subscrided:  + consumer.subscribed);

The Alert box is showing the consumer is not subscribed.  I've traced 
through and everything looks ok.  Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Dom

[flexcoders] Bug: history.js issues in IE7

2008-12-17 Thread flexaustin

Wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. 

In IE7 our application, which has a swf file (via Flex) in it is
showing an extra white box or div at the botoom of the page, which is
roughly 200 pixels wide and 15 pixels tall, that has the name IFRAME
id=ie_historyFrame.

Also on this same page, sometimes when navigating in the page the tab
title(page title in the tab) is removed (in IE 7)and all that is
showing is a # sign. 

Pretty sure both are related to Adobe's history.js file. 

Is it safe to remove the history.js file and if I do this will I need
to remove any other files or code?  We don't use the back button or
history navigation in our component on the page so that won't be an
issue, but I am wondering if remove history.js would cause issues
anywhere else.

[flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call

2008-12-17 Thread Louise Rains

I'm getting data back from a wsdl call that looks like this:

 

?xml version=1.0 encoding=windows-1252? ns0:ROOT
xmlns:ns0=urn:AMAT_Asset_KeyGen xmlns:xsd=

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; xmlns:xsi=

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;

ns0:getListValues

ns0:B_License_Key0200362/ns0:B_License_Key

ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date2007-03-31T00:00:00-04:00/ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date

 

ns0:Company_NameSOME COMPANY/ns0:Company_Name

ns0:Part_NumberALFLSS3300-1400/ns0:Part_Number

ns0:Product_CategoryPER/ns0:Product_Category

ns0:Product_TypeAUTOMOD/ns0:Product_Type

ns0:Quantity1.00/ns0:Quantity

ns0:Site_NameSOME SITE/ns0:Site_Name

 /ns0:getListValues 

.

ns0:ROOT

 

If I have multiple getListValues returned, I can use an ArrayCollection
and step through each object in the collection to get the data.  However,
I'm having a hard time determining the type of event.result in the case
where there is only one getListValues object returned.  When I trace
event.result, I get [object Object].  If I try to cast it to XML, XMLList or
ArrayCollection, I get null objects.  

 

Is there a way to use reflection to determine what the [object Object]
really is?  How can I access the data that's coming back?

 

Thanks!

 

LG Rains

[flexcoders] PFolder vs. Folder

2008-12-17 Thread Mike Oliver


I cannot find documentation on the List Controls member elements folder and
pfolder.  I see them everywhere in the examples but noplace can I find the
explanation of the difference, where would I use folder vs. pfolder and why?
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[flexcoders] Real Time data grid updates/streaming - Oracle - Flex using BlazeDS ???

2008-12-17 Thread johnpagetbourke

Folks,

I have an Oracle application which is updating tables.

I want to display these tables in a Flex data grid and update them in
real time as the Oracle tables get updated.

So the question is, how do I get Oracle to pass real time updates to
Java/Tomcat/BlazeDS application to interface to Flex.

Here are some thoughts from lots of Google searching.

1. Java SP with JMS interface to Java/Tomcat/BlazeDS
2. Oracle streams to Java/Tomcat/BlazeDS
3. Mining the redo logs for changes (not real time ?)

I also have a issue with synchronization.  I need to be able to load a
table into Flex and then get all subsequent changes.  How do I ensure
that I do not miss a update between the table load and my update
mechanism starting.

Are there any other synchronization issues ?

Thanks

john

[flexcoders] Stop the flicker between menu items

2008-12-17 Thread danielrkrueger

When I place the mouse in just the right spot between 2 menu items I
can get a flicker. Does anyone know how to stop this?

[flexcoders] Issue with Flash 10 3d api and Flex/AIR

2008-12-17 Thread sofiane.oubraham

I'm looking to do a simple flip effect via the new rotationY
attribute. I'm building my example in Flex 3.2 on AIR 1.5 using Flash
player 10. My example is comprised of a viewstack with two children
(canvases). The stylenames on each of the children just apply a
background image. I'm also wrapping my viewstack with a canvas so I
can rotate my children at a center registration point. I've got the
rotation working beautifully, but the children of the viewstack are
blurry after the rotation ends. 

After researching this issue on the web, I've found that people have
experienced the same issue with rotating a movie clip. They fixed the
issue by reseting the transform.matrix on the movieclip after the
rotating effect ended. This doesn't seem to work for my case.

Any insight as to why this is happening and how to work-around this
until the bug is resolved?

Here is my sample code:

mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute showFlexChrome=false
mx:Style source=assets/css/main.css/

mx:Script
![CDATA[

import mx.controls.scrollClasses.ScrollThumb;
import caurina.transitions.*;

private var isTurning:Boolean = false;

private function loop(e:Event):void {
if(mycon.rotationY  90) {
deck.selectedChild = two;
} else {
deck.selectedChild = one;
}
}

private function flip(event:MouseEvent):void {
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
if(!isTurning) {
 
Tweener.addTween(mycon,{rotationY:(mycon.rotationY==0?180:0),time:2,onComplete:function():void{isTurning=false;}});
  isTurning = true; 
}
}

]]
/mx:Script

mx:Canvas id=mycon x=180 y=250 clipContent=false
mx:ViewStack 
 id=deck 
 resizeToContent=true 
 x=-180 y=-250 
 mouseDown=moveMe(event)
 creationPolicy=all
mx:Canvas 
id=one 
width=360 height=500
styleName=mainViewStyle
mx:Button id=rotateToBackBtn
   label=rotateToBack
   click=flip(event)/
mx:Text text=hello world x=100 y=150/
/mx:Canvas
mx:Canvas id=two 
   width=360 height=500
   clipContent=false
   mx:Canvas width=360 height=500
  styleName=configViewStyle 
  x=360 rotationY=180
mx:Button id=rotateToFrontBtn
   label=rotateToFront
   click=flip(event)/
mx:Text text=hello world x=100 y=150
 color=0xFF/
   /mx:Canvas
/mx:Canvas
/mx:ViewStack 
/mx:Canvas
/mx:WindowedApplication

[flexcoders] RestExpressionNode not yet implemented

2008-12-17 Thread Nate Beck

I wanted to get some input on this. I'm writing a DateTime object using
Proxy, (for all of the timezone stuff I'm working on) and I'm a little
annoyed trying to make the DateTime constructor work exactly like the Date
constructor.
Here's my code... commented out code was other attempts:

public function DateTime(... args)

{

super();

 // var yearOrTimevalue:Object = args[0];

 // trace(getQualifiedClassName(yearOrTimevalue));

 _item = new Date(... args);

 // Adobe PLEASE add native overloaded constructor support! even though this
works, doing crap like this makes me feel dirty.

/* switch(args.length) {

case 0:

_item = new Date();

break;

case 1:

_item = new Date(args[0]);

break;

case 2:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1]);

break;

case 3:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2]);

break;

case 4:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]);

break;

case 5:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4]);

break;

case 6:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5]);

break;

case 7:

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5],
args[6]);

break;

} */

 /* if(args.length == 0)

{

_item = new Date();

}

else if (args.length == 1)

{

_item = new Date(args[0]);

}

else

{

_item = new Date(args[0], args[1], args[2]);

} */

 /* if(yearOrTimevalue is String) // Handle String

{

_item = new Date(yearOrTimevalue);

}

else if (yearOrTimevalue is Number) // Handle Number

{

_item = new Date(yearOrTimevalue);

}

else if (yearOrTimevalue is int) // Handle Int

{

if(yearOrTimevalue

_item = new Date(yearOrTimevalue, month, date, hour, minute, second,
millisecond);

}

else if (!yearOrTimevalue) // Handle null

{

_item = new Date();

}

else

{

_item = new Date(invalid);

}  */

 trace(DateTime constructed);

}


I really wish I could just pass the argument string straight through, using
something like, _item = new Date(... args); , but I get the error:


1199: RestExpressionNode not yet implemented


This makes my heart sad.

Doing some research I found this forum post:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=60catid=585threadid=1394047

Anyone have any ideas?

-- 

Cheers,
Nate

http://blog.natebeck.net

[flexcoders] Shape blocking mouse down

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Warden

I'm drawing a horizontal timeline graph, my own component, not Flex
charting.  The horizontal bars are blocking the mouse down event from
reaching a component in a lower depth.  I'm confused because I've set the
parent, the children, and everything near there's mouseChildren and
mouseEnabled to false, yet the contents of the rows, little squares, block
the mouse down event.  Doing tests in Flash, I've proven those are the only
2 properties you need to set to false, even with nested containers, and
cacheAsBitmap set to true.  I have no events on this children; they are just
a bunch of Shapes inside a Sprite, with his mouseChildren and mouseEnabled
set to false as well.
So, I'm confused.

I know UIComponent sets your doubleClickEnabled to true, but tracing my
components out, they seem to all say false for those values.  What could
possibly be causing those Shapes in a Sprite to be blocking the mouse down
events?

[flexcoders] Re: BadPaddingException using RTMPS

2008-12-17 Thread taze170171

Hello Seth!

We either get the SSLHandshake exception like below or the following:

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Inbound closed before receiving peer's 
close_notify: possible truncation attack?
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException
(Alerts.java:166)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal
(SSLEngineImpl.java:1356)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal
(SSLEngineImpl.java:1324)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.closeInbound
(SSLEngineImpl.java:1263)
at flex.messaging.socketserver.SSLConnection.handshake
(SSLConnection.java:290)
at flex.messaging.socketserver.Connection$ConnectionReader.run
(Connection.java:761)
at 
edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Work
er.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:665)
at 
edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Work
er.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:690)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

I have now found out, that the SSLHandshake exception occurs if an 
AIR Client installed on Vista is started. On one Vista client we 
always get the exception. On other Vista clients the problem occurs 
sometimes.

We use a self signed cert.

Best regards,
Taze

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, taze170171 taze170...@... 
wrote:

 Hello!
 
 We are using AIR, LCDS (running on a JBoss) and an RTMPS 
connection. 
 Sometimes we get the following exception, when the AIR client tries 
 to connect to the server:
 
 [Flex]Thread[my-rtmps-SocketServer-WorkerThread-88,5,jboss] failed 
to 
 read Connection 'xxx' or process the data; Connection is in 
 the 'Handshaking' state and will be forced closed. 
 javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Invalid padding 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException
 (Alerts.java:150) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal
 (SSLEngineImpl.java:1417) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readRecord
 (SSLEngineImpl.java:874) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord
 (SSLEngineImpl.java:787) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap
 (SSLEngineImpl.java:663) 
 at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:566) 
 at flex.messaging.socketserver.SSLConnection.handshake
 (SSLConnection.java:301) 
 at flex.messaging.socketserver.Connection$ConnectionReader.run
 (Connection.java:761) 
 at 
 
edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Work
 er.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:665) 
 at 
 
edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Work
 er.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:690) 
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
 
 Caused by: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Padding length 
invalid: 
 244 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.CipherBox.removePadding
 (CipherBox.java:442) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.CipherBox.decrypt
(CipherBox.java:290) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.decrypt
 (InputRecord.java:153) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.EngineInputRecord.decrypt
 (EngineInputRecord.java:238) 
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readRecord
 (SSLEngineImpl.java:856) 
 ... 8 more
 
 Can anybody help?
 
 Thanks in advance,
 Taze

RE: [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call

Have you set resultFormat=e4x?  If not, you are not working with xml.
Flex has generated a tree of dynamic objects.  Though it allows you to
go straight to an arrayCollection, this format is rarely desirable.

 

Set the resultFormat, then in your result handler do:

var xmlResult = event.result as XML;

trace(xmlResult.toXMLString);

 

You will see your xml as flex sees it.

 

Be aware that you may have xml namespace issues accessing the nodes via
e4x expressions.  Google, check archives and see the docs for help with
this.

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Louise Rains
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:28 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call

 

I'm getting data back from a wsdl call that looks like this:

 

?xml version=1.0 encoding=windows-1252? ns0:ROOT
xmlns:ns0=urn:AMAT_Asset_KeyGen xmlns:xsd=

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema 
xmlns:xsi=

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance 

ns0:getListValues

ns0:B_License_Key0200362/ns0:B_License_Key

ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date2007-03-31T00:00:00-04:00/ns0:B_Warranty_End_D
ate

 

ns0:Company_NameSOME COMPANY/ns0:Company_Name

ns0:Part_NumberALFLSS3300-1400/ns0:Part_Number

ns0:Product_CategoryPER/ns0:Product_Category

ns0:Product_TypeAUTOMOD/ns0:Product_Type

ns0:Quantity1.00/ns0:Quantity

ns0:Site_NameSOME SITE/ns0:Site_Name

 /ns0:getListValues 

...

ns0:ROOT

 

If I have multiple getListValues returned, I can use an
ArrayCollection and step through each object in the collection to get
the data.  However, I'm having a hard time determining the type of
event.result in the case where there is only one getListValues object
returned.  When I trace event.result, I get [object Object].  If I try
to cast it to XML, XMLList or ArrayCollection, I get null objects.  

 

Is there a way to use reflection to determine what the [object Object]
really is?  How can I access the data that's coming back?

 

Thanks!

 

LG Rains

[flexcoders] Strange #2147 error

2008-12-17 Thread tom s

I am using an embedded PNG as the background for my app:
mx:Application 
backgroundImage=@Embed('c:/we/assets/skins/design-empty1.png')
..

I have my Flash Global Security Setting set to:
Always trust files from these locations: 'c:\'

When I run the app it tells me 'SecurityError: Error #2147: Forbidden
protocol in URL @Embed('c:/we/assets/skins/design-empty1.png')' - See below
for full details.

Additionally, this error was not present yesterday, and to the best of my
knowledge I have not made any changes to anything.
I have other PNGs embedded for button skins, and they are now throwing
errors.

How do I fix this?

thanks

tom






SecurityError: Error #2147: Forbidden protocol in URL
@Embed('c:/we/assets/skins/design-empty1.png').
 at flash.display::Loader/_load()
 at flash.display::Loader/load()
 at
mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/loadBackgroundImage()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\DownloadProgressBar.as:1274]
 at
mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/createChildren()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\DownloadProgressBar.as:876]
 at
mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/calcScale()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\DownloadProgressBar.as:1185]
 at
mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/show()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\DownloadProgressBar.as:1134]
 at
mx.preloaders::DownloadProgressBar/initProgressHandler()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\DownloadProgressBar.as:1470]
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at
mx.preloaders::Preloader/appProgressHandler()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\preloaders\Preloader.as:450]
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at
mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:9156]
 at
mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:646]
 at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
 at
mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8565]
 at
mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher()[E:\dev\3.1.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8508]

[flexcoders] How do I expand the console buffer in the debugger?

2008-12-17 Thread luvfotography

Hi, how can I expand the Console Window buffer in the debugger so that
my 1000 messages don't scroll off the screen and never to be seen again?

thanks,

Re: [flexcoders] File Explorer

2008-12-17 Thread ivo

I worked on something similar not too long ago and my approach for #1 was to 
load top-level folders only and only drill inward with a server call as the 
user clicks on the expand arrow on individual folders. It made it appear more 
responsive for huge structures.

For #2 you can have each of your nodes be an object with a 'children' member 
that is an ArrayCollection of node objects. When inserting/removing you operate 
on the children ArrayCollection directly and the Tree will reflect the change 
on the next screen update.

var _children:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();//add your child nodes to 
this

var _parent:Object = {label: 'parent', children: _children} //this would be the 
parent object

var _dp:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([_parent]); //data provider for 
tree

- Ivo





From: Dan Vega danv...@gmail.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:01:36 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] File Explorer


I am building a full featured file explorer and I am stuck on one part of the 
application. On the left hand side I will have a base root directory (root) and 
a listing of all directories that fall under it (no end). When you click on a 
folder they will show up in the datagrid to the right. My question is actually 
2 parts.

1.) What approach should I take. Do I make one call to my server and build the 
entire folder structure, then return either and arraycollection or 
xmllistcollection or should I just grab the list of directories and show an 
arrow next to directories with sub directories indicating that there are sub 
directories. When you click on that folder make another call to the server to 
grab that sub directory list and so on.

2.) The second part of the question is i heard that If I am going to be 
updating this collection (deleting / adding / renaming directories) that I 
should be using an ArrayCollection. The question is when I have data like there 
is below, how do I break it down into parent/child nodes?  Every example I have 
seen of the tree always uses xml as the data and in those examples its clear 
how to break down child / parent relationships. 

** Any help on this how to move forward with this would be great help **

  [0] (Object)#3
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Sat Nov 1 13:21:02 GMT-0400 2008
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 0
Mode = 
Name = bin
Path = H:\JRun4\bin
Size = 0
Type = Dir
  [1] (Object)#4
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Fri Aug 3 21:55:23 GMT-0400 2007
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 1
Mode = 
Name = docs
Path = H:\JRun4\docs
Size = 0
Type = Dir


Thank You
Dan Vega
danv...@gmail. com
http://www.danvega. org

[flexcoders] Solved: Issue with selectedItem Indices with lists and uiComponent..

2008-12-17 Thread djhatrick

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, djhatrick djhatr...@... wrote:

 I have an itemRenderer that copies bitmapdata into my uiComponent
 inside my itemRenderer.  the problem comes up when I try to run a
 filter on my list and then the bitmapData changes, I am clearing out
 the bitmapData and the bitmap Container, on my commitProperties.
 
 Any suggestion on this?  the only reason I think that could be goofing
 this up is the bounds of my itemRenderer is changed with the content
 of the bitmap Data object?  I am not sure, it's a tough one to nail
down?
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 Thanks,
 Patrick


Yes, this was exactly it... the bounds of my bitmapData was larger
than my rowHeight in my list

Re: [flexcoders] FlexBuilder on 64bit machine any good?

2008-12-17 Thread Faisal Abid

same kind of performance really. Never noticed anything, i mean its  
faster because you have more ram, not because you have a 64 bit.

On 15-Dec-08, at 3:01 AM, Ralf Bokelberg wrote:


Hi guys

I'm in the process of choosing a new machine to be placed under my
christmas tree :). I wonder, if anybody has some experiences with 64
bit machines and FlexBuilder? Does it run at all? What is the
performance like? Does it make use of lots of RAM?

Cheers
Ralf.

[flexcoders] sort XMLListcollection in dp

2008-12-17 Thread Kenneth Sutherland

I'm trying to apply a sort to an XMLListcollection that is assigned to a
dataprovider.

 

Each element of the collection has the following format and I've no
control over the format to change it.

f

  rablah/ra

  roblah/ro

  fs

   dithe name to filter on/di

   sother stuff/s

  /fs

/f

 

I am trying to sort on the node di so I've done the following

 

var sort:Sort = new Sort();

sort.fields = [new SortField(di, true, true)];

 

and applied that to the dataprovider that contains the XMLListCollection
and done the refresh.

I doesn't do the sort but what it does do is swap the first element of
the collection with another halfway through the collection (so if
collection has 22 elements the is swaps [0] with [11]).

 

If I do the sort on nodes such as 'ra' or 'ro' (new SortField(ra,
true, true)]; or new SortField(ro, true, true)];) then they work fine
so I'm presuming it's because the node 'di' is another level below the
main children.

 

Any ideas?

 

Cheers.

 



realise

.


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RE: [flexcoders] Test-driven development in Flex

2008-12-17 Thread Errol Thompson

Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Here is what I have already
looked at.

We looked at PureMVC for the project that I am on but stayed with Cairngorm
because of the applications already written in Cairngorm that are also part
of the project. However, we have written a version of notifier and
notification that are similar to PureMVC. After all that is simply an
implementation of the observer pattern.

The other programmer on the project doesn't believe that automated tests are
worth having and doesn't understand how to write code that improves the
ability to test so there is a bit of a challenge.

We are also using Maven for the build. The build incorporates Java host
modules as well as the Flex code. Our directory structure reflects the Maven
naming conventions src/main/flex and src/test/flex. The Flex Mojo builds its
own test runner for FlexUnit tests so I have created a test application in
the src/flex/main directory alongside the actual application file. This
allows me to run either the tests or the application from with in Flex
Builder.

My thoughts on getting around Cairngorm are to create an application
controller which holds a reference to the model, services, and front
controller. All other modules reference the application controller to obtain
a reference to these. Cairngorm doesn't really care whether the model is a
singleton but does require the front controller and may be services to be a
singleton. However, using the application controller, I am able to mock out
the front controller and services. This allows me to trap the command calls
for events and the calls to get services.

The other thing that I tried to put in place was what Martin Fowler calls a
Supervising Controller for each view (this is similar to PureMVC's
mediator). This has been removed for some views by the other programmer but
for the view that I am currently working on, it appears to be working well,
and the mxml view has no ActionScript in it. All events and status variables
are in the supervising controller. The view binds to the model and status
values. So far this seems to be working well and although I haven't written
tests for it yet, I believe that it shouldn't be too difficult.

Using the notifier and notifications, we are able to have the supervising
controller receive notification of events that update the status variables
thus eliminating the need for a view locator. These status variables could
easily be considered part of the model except that we have multiple views
within the application and that would mean creating special model elements
for each view to help make it clear what each of the status variables are
associated with. My thinking is that this makes the supervising controller
even of more value since it is clear where status values for the view are
held.

I hope to blog on this later once I have conducted more experiments and also
on comparisons between Cairngorm and PureMVC. I have already done some
comparison of Flex based testing frameworks (http://kiwi-et.blogspot.com/).

-
Errol Thompson
Kiwi-ET Computing Education Research
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64 21 210 1662
E-Mail: kiwiet (at) acm.org
kiwiet (at) computer.org
Web: www.teach.thompsonz.net
-

[flexcoders] Rounding error

2008-12-17 Thread Ken Johnson

Hi Everyone -

Given the following code:
var num1:Number = 0.72;
var num2:Number = 0.198;
var num3:Number;

num3 = num1;
num3 += num2;

I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.

Instead, it equals 0.9179.

And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.

I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks for your help!
Ken

Re: [flexcoders] Test-driven development in Flex

Hey, a fellow Kiwi? Cool :) I am based out of Christchurch...

Having used Cairngorm plenty in the past, I always found it pretty
excellent, just a little out of date these days perhaps -- your changes
sound (IMHO) sane and reasonable, as does your decision to go with Cairngorm
if you are integrating with other Cairngorm apps. If you get the chance to
blog about it and/or contribute your changes, I'm sure you'd find some
appreciative folks out there.

You mentioned Supervising Controller by Martin Fowler; did you know he has
another variant of that same idea called Presentation Model?
http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PresentationModel.html

I can't remember the subtleties right now (and don't have time to refresh my
memory!) but you might want to check it out. I find Fowler's articles great
to clarify ones own thinking (and/or convince other devs to stop
/removing/good/code/?!?!)

Best of luck with that aye

Jules

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 22:48, Errol Thompson kiw...@acm.org wrote:

Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Here is what I have
already
looked at.

We looked at PureMVC for the project that I am on but stayed with Cairngorm
because of the applications already written in Cairngorm that are also part
of the project. However, we have written a version of notifier and
notification that are similar to PureMVC. After all that is simply an
implementation of the observer pattern.

The other programmer on the project doesn't believe that automated tests
are
worth having and doesn't understand how to write code that improves the
ability to test so there is a bit of a challenge.

We are also using Maven for the build. The build incorporates Java host
modules as well as the Flex code. Our directory structure reflects the
Maven
naming conventions src/main/flex and src/test/flex. The Flex Mojo builds
its
own test runner for FlexUnit tests so I have created a test application in
the src/flex/main directory alongside the actual application file. This
allows me to run either the tests or the application from with in Flex
Builder.

My thoughts on getting around Cairngorm are to create an application
controller which holds a reference to the model, services, and front
controller. All other modules reference the application controller to
obtain
a reference to these. Cairngorm doesn't really care whether the model is a
singleton but does require the front controller and may be services to be a
singleton. However, using the application controller, I am able to mock out
the front controller and services. This allows me to trap the command calls
for events and the calls to get services.

The other thing that I tried to put in place was what Martin Fowler calls a
Supervising Controller for each view (this is similar to PureMVC's
mediator). This has been removed for some views by the other programmer but
for the view that I am currently working on, it appears to be working well,
and the mxml view has no ActionScript in it. All events and status
variables
are in the supervising controller. The view binds to the model and status
values. So far this seems to be working well and although I haven't written
tests for it yet, I believe that it shouldn't be too difficult.

Using the notifier and notifications, we are able to have the supervising
controller receive notification of events that update the status variables
thus eliminating the need for a view locator. These status variables could
easily be considered part of the model except that we have multiple views
within the application and that would mean creating special model elements
for each view to help make it clear what each of the status variables are
associated with. My thinking is that this makes the supervising controller
even of more value since it is clear where status values for the view are
held.

I hope to blog on this later once I have conducted more experiments and
also
on comparisons between Cairngorm and PureMVC. I have already done some
comparison of Flex based testing frameworks (http://kiwi-et.blogspot.com/
).

-
Errol Thompson
Kiwi-ET Computing Education Research
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64 21 210 1662
E-Mail: kiwiet (at) acm.org
kiwiet (at) computer.org
Web: www.teach.thompsonz.net
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Re: [flexcoders] SWC compression format?

2008-12-17 Thread John McCormack

If you rename the *.swc file to a *.zip file you can open it with 
Windows Vista (and XP?) or with 7-zip (etc.) without renaming it, so it 
must be a derivation of the pkzip format. There are some zip functions 
in the nochump branch of papervision3D so that might help.

John

aaron smith wrote:
 Does anyone have any idea what format a swc is compressed with? I'm
 trying to figure out how to take the ouput of a swc (with the
 -directory switch from compc), run the optimize command line tool on
 the library.swf, and then zip it back up as a swc. any ideas?

 thanks

 

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[flexcoders] Flex + Papervision Business Applications

2008-12-17 Thread monkeyden


Has anyone really developed a true business application using Flex +
Papervision?  I have been researching integration of the two but so far have
found very little.  I've found a couple good links on getting started but
the solutions aren't optimal and no one seems to have brought it out of the
proof of concept phase.

http://www.systemsofseven.com/blog/tag/flexpv3d/
http://www.systemsofseven.com/blog/tag/flexpv3d/ 
http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/2008/09/18/set-up-papervision-20-for-flex-3-in-3-minutes-flat/
http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/2008/09/18/set-up-papervision-20-for-flex-3-in-3-minutes-flat/
 

The main question seems to be transitioning a 3D object (bitmap) back to a
UIComponent.

Any information is greatlyappreciated!
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Re: [flexcoders] Strange #2147 error

2008-12-17 Thread ivo

I have noticed this as well but only on IE6. My solution was to move the 
background into a stylesheet, ex:

.applicationStyle{
background-image: Embed('c:/we/assets/ skins/design- empty1.png');
}
...

mx:Application 
styleName=applicationStyle

..


- Ivo




From: tom s tcs2...@gmail.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:22:06 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Strange #2147 error


I am using an embedded PNG as the background for my app:

mx:Application 

backgroundImage=@Embed('c:/we/assets/ skins/design- empty1.png')

..

I have my Flash Global Security Setting set to:
Always trust files from these locations: 'c:\'


When I run the app it tells me 'SecurityError: Error #2147: Forbidden protocol 
in URL @Embed('c:/we/assets/ skins/design- empty1.png')' - See below for full 
details.

Additionally, this error was not present yesterday, and to the best of my 
knowledge I have not made any changes to anything. 
I have other PNGs embedded for button skins, and they are now throwing errors.

How do I fix this?

thanks

tom






SecurityError: Error #2147: Forbidden protocol in URL @Embed('c:/we/assets/ 
skins/design- empty1.png').
at flash.display: :Loader/_ load()
at flash.display: :Loader/load( )
at
mx.preloaders: :DownloadProgres sBar/loadBackgro undImage( )[E:\dev\ 
3.1.0\frameworks \projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\DownloadProgre 
ssBar.as: 1274]
at
mx.preloaders: :DownloadProgres sBar/createChild ren()[E:\ dev\3.1.0\ 
frameworks\ projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\DownloadProgre ssBar.as: 
876]
at
mx.preloaders: :DownloadProgres sBar/calcScale( )[E:\dev\ 3.1.0\frameworks 
\projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\DownloadProgre ssBar.as: 1185]
at
mx.preloaders: :DownloadProgres sBar/show( )[E:\dev\ 3.1.0\frameworks 
\projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\DownloadProgre ssBar.as: 1134]
at
mx.preloaders: :DownloadProgres sBar/initProgres sHandler( )[E:\dev\ 
3.1.0\frameworks \projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\DownloadProgre 
ssBar.as: 1470]
at flash.events: :EventDispatcher /dispatchEventFu nction()
at flash.events: :EventDispatcher /dispatchEvent( )
at mx.preloaders: :Preloader/ appProgressHandl er()[E:\dev\ 3.1.0\frameworks 
\projects\ framework\ src\mx\preloader s\Preloader. as:450]
at flash.events: :EventDispatcher /dispatchEventFu nction()
at flash.events: :EventDispatcher /dispatchEvent( )
at mx.core::UIComponen t/dispatchEvent( )[E:\dev\ 3.1.0\frameworks \projects\ 
framework\ src\mx\core\ UIComponent. as:9156]
at
mx.managers: :LayoutManager/ doPhasedInstanti ation()[E: \dev\3.1. 
0\frameworks\ projects\ framework\ src\mx\managers\ LayoutManager. as:646]
at Function/http://adobe. com/AS3/2006/ builtin:: apply()
at mx.core::UIComponen t/callLaterDispa tcher2()[ E:\dev\3. 1.0\frameworks\ 
projects\ framework\ src\mx\core\ UIComponent. as:8565]
at mx.core::UIComponen t/callLaterDispa tcher()[E: \dev\3.1. 0\frameworks\ 
projects\ framework\ src\mx\core\ UIComponent. as:8508]

RE: [flexcoders] Shape blocking mouse down

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Harui

Use getDisplayObjectsUnderPoint() or break on SystemManager.mouseDownHandler 
and see what the target is.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Jesse Warden
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:33 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Shape blocking mouse down

I'm drawing a horizontal timeline graph, my own component, not Flex charting.  
The horizontal bars are blocking the mouse down event from reaching a component 
in a lower depth.  I'm confused because I've set the parent, the children, and 
everything near there's mouseChildren and mouseEnabled to false, yet the 
contents of the rows, little squares, block the mouse down event.  Doing tests 
in Flash, I've proven those are the only 2 properties you need to set to false, 
even with nested containers, and cacheAsBitmap set to true.  I have no events 
on this children; they are just a bunch of Shapes inside a Sprite, with his 
mouseChildren and mouseEnabled set to false as well.

So, I'm confused.

I know UIComponent sets your doubleClickEnabled to true, but tracing my 
components out, they seem to all say false for those values.  What could 
possibly be causing those Shapes in a Sprite to be blocking the mouse down 
events?

[flexcoders] Re: How does Flex Builder validate a BlazeDS/LCDS J2EE project?

2008-12-17 Thread cornelcreanga

I've tested now the button validate location from Flex Server - yes
it seems broken, I think you should fill a bug.

[flexcoders] Re: data returned from WSDL call

I have two recommendations for you:

1.  Use the debugger. Put a breakpoint in your resultEvent handler and
check the event.result variable.

2. Get a copy of Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com). This should
show the actual objects returned.



HTH.



Steve


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Louise Rains rainygl...@... wrote:

 I'm getting data back from a wsdl call that looks like this:
 
  
 
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=windows-1252? ns0:ROOT
 xmlns:ns0=urn:AMAT_Asset_KeyGen xmlns:xsd=
 
 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; xmlns:xsi=
 
 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
 
 ns0:getListValues
 
 ns0:B_License_Key0200362/ns0:B_License_Key
 

ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date2007-03-31T00:00:00-04:00/ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date
 
  
 
 ns0:Company_NameSOME COMPANY/ns0:Company_Name
 
 ns0:Part_NumberALFLSS3300-1400/ns0:Part_Number
 
 ns0:Product_CategoryPER/ns0:Product_Category
 
 ns0:Product_TypeAUTOMOD/ns0:Product_Type
 
 ns0:Quantity1.00/ns0:Quantity
 
 ns0:Site_NameSOME SITE/ns0:Site_Name
 
  /ns0:getListValues 
 
 .
 
 ns0:ROOT
 
  
 
 If I have multiple getListValues returned, I can use an
ArrayCollection
 and step through each object in the collection to get the data. 
However,
 I'm having a hard time determining the type of event.result in the case
 where there is only one getListValues object returned.  When I trace
 event.result, I get [object Object].  If I try to cast it to XML,
XMLList or
 ArrayCollection, I get null objects.  
 
  
 
 Is there a way to use reflection to determine what the [object Object]
 really is?  How can I access the data that's coming back?
 
  
 
 Thanks!
 
  
 
 LG Rains

[flexcoders] Re: Rounding error

No, you're not doing anything wrong. It's just a fact of life that
computers use binary and we humans use decimal. You will get a
rounding error when converting between the two radix's. There are a
number of posts on the net explaining this better than me:

http://e2easy.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/overcoming-rounding-errors/
http://joshblog.net/2007/01/30/flash-floating-point-number-errors/
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=247416



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ken Johnson kenjohnso...@... wrote:

 Hi Everyone -
 
 Given the following code:
   var num1:Number = 0.72;
   var num2:Number = 0.198;
   var num3:Number;
   
   num3 = num1;
   num3 += num2;
 
 I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.
 
 Instead, it equals 0.9179.
 
 And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.
 
 I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.
 
 Am I doing something wrong here?
 
 Thanks for your help!
 Ken

[flexcoders] Re: Weborb to return XML data

2008-12-17 Thread gjessup1

Why would you want to do this? I would adjust the graph to take an 
array collection or object as a datasource. 
I think you could hack it in your C# code to pass a xml object or 
array with xml in it. But To me it defeats the purpose of weborb. I 
would take the approach of changing the datasource of the chart.

If you post or PM me some sample code, I'd be happy to help.

-Greg


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, timgerr tgallag...@... wrote:

 I have been working with weborb and I think it is great.  I am 
working
 on a graph that needs XML data that I have generated via php and
 mysql.  I was wondering of Weborb can return XML and if you have any
 examples of this.
 
 Thanks for the,
 timgerr

[flexcoders] Looking for LCDS paging for server to datasource Example

2008-12-17 Thread bonny_us

Hi All,
I am Bonny working as Flex Developer. I want to know about paging in 
LCDS.  So please if you have any example for LCDS paging for server to 
datasource. Then please let me know about that. It is very helpful to 
me.
Right now we are using client-server paging and want to move on server 
to datasource paging. 
Please help me if you have any Example or POC for this.

Thanks  Regards,
Bonny

[flexcoders] Re: Weborb to return XML data

AFAIK Weborb sends and receives only via AMF.

Of course, why would you want to use Weborb to receive XML? Just use a
standard HTTPService call.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, timgerr tgallag...@... wrote:

 I have been working with weborb and I think it is great.  I am working
 on a graph that needs XML data that I have generated via php and
 mysql.  I was wondering of Weborb can return XML and if you have any
 examples of this.
 
 Thanks for the,
 timgerr

Re: [flexcoders] SWC compression format?

2008-12-17 Thread Johannes Nel

i think its gnu zip

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.ukwrote:

   If you rename the *.swc file to a *.zip file you can open it with
 Windows Vista (and XP?) or with 7-zip (etc.) without renaming it, so it
 must be a derivation of the pkzip format. There are some zip functions
 in the nochump branch of papervision3D so that might help.

 John


 aaron smith wrote:
  Does anyone have any idea what format a swc is compressed with? I'm
  trying to figure out how to take the ouput of a swc (with the
  -directory switch from compc), run the optimize command line tool on
  the library.swf, and then zip it back up as a swc. any ideas?
 
  thanks
 
  
 
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[flexcoders] Getting progress of a POST operation (HTTPService or any other way)?

2008-12-17 Thread dave_defusion

Is it possible to get the progress (or at least bytes sent) for a POST
operation in any way, I'm currently using HTTPService but will happily
change to something else if it will give me the ability to track the
progress of the POST.

RE: [flexcoders] Rounding error

2008-12-17 Thread Kenneth Sutherland

What you could do is look into fixed point maths.

This is how you do maths when you don't want to (can't) use floating
point numbers.  That way you control the precision, it's used in games
as its generally quicker than using decimals and as it uses integers
there isn't any rounding, but you have to compromise either the size of
the number or the precision of the number. 

 

This is explained in many places better than I could.

I've included a few links for starters.

http://home.comcast.net/~ohommes/MathFP/mathfp_bg.html

 

http://www.essentialmath.com/FixedFloat.pps

 

http://lab.polygonal.de/2007/05/10/bitwise-gems-fast-integer-math/

 

most of the info out there is in C/C++ but you should be able to pick up
something if it doesn't sound too much like overkill.

Kenneth.

 

 

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Johnson
Sent: 17 December 2008 14:16
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Rounding error

Hi Everyone -

Given the following code:
var num1:Number = 0.72;
var num2:Number = 0.198;
var num3:Number;

num3 = num1;
num3 += num2;

I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.

Instead, it equals 0.9179.

And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.

I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks for your help!
Ken

 

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[flexcoders] Re: Looking for LCDS paging for server to datasource Example

2008-12-17 Thread meteatamel

Hi Bonny, 

Here's a reply from Ed Solovey, one of our engineers in the LCDS team:

The first thing you want to do is enable Server-to-data-source paging,
also referred to as paged-fill, by implementing the useFillPage method
in your extension of AbstractAssembler:

@Override
public boolean useFillPage(List fillParameters)
{
// enabling paged-fill for all fills
return true;
}

LCDS will call this method when a fill request comes in to the server
to determine whether to call the Assembler fill method variant with
just a fill parameters argument or the fill method variant with
additional startIndex, and numberOfRows parameters.  You can enable it
for a subset of fills by returning true/false based on the
fillParameters argument.  Above, I've enabled it for all fills.

Next, you'll want to implement the paged-fill variant of the fill method:

@Override
public Collection fill(List fillParameters, int startIndex, int
numberOfRows)
{
System.out.println(paged fill called with:  + startIndex + , 
+ numberOfRows);

ArrayListPerson people = new ArrayListPerson();
Connection c = null;

c = getConnection();
Statement s = c.createStatement();
// use the startIndex and numItems parameters to limit the result set
// returned by your data source. Details will depend on your
datasource;
// we are using MySQL here which supports a LIMIT clause
// to do exactly what we want
ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT * FROM people LIMIT
+ startIndex + ,  + numberOfRows);
while (rs.next())
{
Person person = new Person();
person.lastName = rs.getString(lastName);
person.firstName = rs.getString(firstName);
person.id = rs.getInt(id);
people.add(person);
}

return people;
}

(error handling is not included above, I'll include a full version of
the assembler at the bottom).

I am using MySQL in this sample and the line of interest above is
ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT * FROM people LIMIT  +
startIndex + ,  + numberOfRows);.  Here I am using the startIndex
and numberOfRows parameters to limit the result set fetched by MySQL
thus extending paging all the way to the datasource.  The exact syntax
here will depend on your specific datasource.

When you use paged-fill, LCDS can no longer determine the size of the
fill collection from the result of the first fill request because it
only returns the first page of your collection.  So it is required
that the count method is implemented when paged-fill is used.  Here is
my method:

@Override
public int count(List countParameters)
{
// when fill paging is enabled, this method will be called
// after the first fill request comes in because the size of 
// the collection is no longer known from the result of that 
// initial fill request.  However, in the cases where a count
// query is almost as expensive as a full fill query, you may
// avoid it and return -1. In this case the client's notion of 
// the size will be incremented with each page request causing
// UI components such as the DataGrid to adjust with each page request

boolean countQueryExpensive = false;
int count = -1;

if (!countQueryExpensive)
{
Connection c = null;

c = getConnection();
Statement s = c.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM
people);
rs.next();
count = rs.getInt(count);
}
System.out.println(count returning:  + count);
return count;
}

(again, error handling is not included above, I'll include a full
version of the assembler at the bottom).

Note the comment at the top of the implementation, if count is
expensive you may return -1 and LCDS will adjust the collection size
dynamically.

At this point you should be ready to go.  You can configure this
destination in data-management-config.xml just as you would any other:

adapters
adapter-definition class=flex.data.adapters.JavaAdapter 
id=java-dao/adapter-definition
/adapters

destination adapter=java-dao  id=PagingDestination
properties
sourcepaging.PagingAssembler/source
scopeapplication/scope
network
paging enabled=true pageSize=5/paging
/network
   metadata
   identity property=id/identity
  /metadata
/properties
/destination

As you would expect, to use server-to-data-source paging,
client-to-server paging must also be enabled.  Note above that I've
set my page size to 5.  You can now hit access your destination with a
simple client:

mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; 
layout=absolute applicationComplete=myDS.fill(myCollection)
mx:DataService id=myDS destination=PagingDestination/
mx:ArrayCollection id=myCollection/
mx:DataGrid id=myDG dataProvider={myCollection}/
/mx:Application

In your server output you should initially see:

paged fill called with: 0, 6

Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Andrews

Jules,

For financial applications, it's far more problematic than testing for equality.

For example, if you are applying a discount to a price the resulting price must 
have exact two digit decimal accuracy, otherwise by the time you have 
discounted a few items you have an invoice whose total doesn't match the sum of 
the discounted items as shown on the invoice. That tends to upset customers.

The other thing to consider is that such arithmetic must be consistent on 
server as well as client, otherwise you can end up with server-side reports 
that don't match client-side displays.

Paul
  - Original Message - 
  From: Jules Suggate 
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error


  Valdhor already gave you all the info you need, but I like the sound of my 
own fingers typing. I also like to procrastinate, so I'm in heaven right now :p

a.. Some numbers that are easy to represent in decimal are hard to 
represent in binary, just as some numbers that are easy to represent in base 60 
are hard to represent in decimal (such as 1/3). 
b.. Your calculations are safe enough: Number has a very high precision and 
calculations are carried out with full precision. It's just when testing for 
equality that you can run into problems -- I'm guessing this is where you 
noticed the discrepancy? 
c.. When comparing for floating-point numbers for equality, you need to 
specify a tolerance too. Most unit-testing frameworks provide this for their 
floating-point asserts. And when I was doing financial apps, we did the same 
thing. If you *really* need higher precision, you'll need a BigNumber 
implementation for AS3, of which there are several. The AS3Crypto library has 
one I believe... 
  Chyrs :)
  Jules


  On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:15, Ken Johnson kenjohnso...@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi Everyone -

Given the following code:
var num1:Number = 0.72;
var num2:Number = 0.198;
var num3:Number;

num3 = num1;
num3 += num2;

I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.

Instead, it equals 0.9179.

And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.

I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks for your help!
Ken






  -- 
  Cheers,
  Jules
  --
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  Owner and Technical Lead
  Uphill Sprint Limited

  +64-21-157-8562

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for LCDS paging for server to datasource Example

2008-12-17 Thread Vivian Richard

   Try this link

   http://coenraets.org/blog/category/lcds/



On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, meteatamel meteata...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi Bonny,

 Here's a reply from Ed Solovey, one of our engineers in the LCDS team:

 The first thing you want to do is enable Server-to-data-source paging,
 also referred to as paged-fill, by implementing the useFillPage method
 in your extension of AbstractAssembler:

 @Override
 public boolean useFillPage(List fillParameters)
 {
 // enabling paged-fill for all fills
 return true;
 }

 LCDS will call this method when a fill request comes in to the server
 to determine whether to call the Assembler fill method variant with
 just a fill parameters argument or the fill method variant with
 additional startIndex, and numberOfRows parameters. You can enable it
 for a subset of fills by returning true/false based on the
 fillParameters argument. Above, I've enabled it for all fills.

 Next, you'll want to implement the paged-fill variant of the fill method:

 @Override
 public Collection fill(List fillParameters, int startIndex, int
 numberOfRows)
 {
 System.out.println(paged fill called with:  + startIndex + , 
 + numberOfRows);

 ArrayListPerson people = new ArrayListPerson();
 Connection c = null;

 c = getConnection();
 Statement s = c.createStatement();
 // use the startIndex and numItems parameters to limit the result set
 // returned by your data source. Details will depend on your
 datasource;
 // we are using MySQL here which supports a LIMIT clause
 // to do exactly what we want
 ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT * FROM people LIMIT
 + startIndex + ,  + numberOfRows);
 while (rs.next())
 {
 Person person = new Person();
 person.lastName = rs.getString(lastName);
 person.firstName = rs.getString(firstName);
 person.id = rs.getInt(id);
 people.add(person);
 }

 return people;
 }

 (error handling is not included above, I'll include a full version of
 the assembler at the bottom).

 I am using MySQL in this sample and the line of interest above is
 ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT * FROM people LIMIT  +
 startIndex + ,  + numberOfRows);. Here I am using the startIndex
 and numberOfRows parameters to limit the result set fetched by MySQL
 thus extending paging all the way to the datasource. The exact syntax
 here will depend on your specific datasource.

 When you use paged-fill, LCDS can no longer determine the size of the
 fill collection from the result of the first fill request because it
 only returns the first page of your collection. So it is required
 that the count method is implemented when paged-fill is used. Here is
 my method:

 @Override
 public int count(List countParameters)
 {
 // when fill paging is enabled, this method will be called
 // after the first fill request comes in because the size of
 // the collection is no longer known from the result of that
 // initial fill request. However, in the cases where a count
 // query is almost as expensive as a full fill query, you may
 // avoid it and return -1. In this case the client's notion of
 // the size will be incremented with each page request causing
 // UI components such as the DataGrid to adjust with each page request

 boolean countQueryExpensive = false;
 int count = -1;

 if (!countQueryExpensive)
 {
 Connection c = null;

 c = getConnection();
 Statement s = c.createStatement();
 ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery(SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM
 people);
 rs.next();
 count = rs.getInt(count);
 }
 System.out.println(count returning:  + count);
 return count;
 }

 (again, error handling is not included above, I'll include a full
 version of the assembler at the bottom).

 Note the comment at the top of the implementation, if count is
 expensive you may return -1 and LCDS will adjust the collection size
 dynamically.

 At this point you should be ready to go. You can configure this
 destination in data-management-config.xml just as you would any other:

 adapters
 adapter-definition class=flex.data.adapters.JavaAdapter
 id=java-dao/adapter-definition
 /adapters

 destination adapter=java-dao id=PagingDestination
 properties
 sourcepaging.PagingAssembler/source
 scopeapplication/scope
 network
 paging enabled=true pageSize=5/paging
 /network
 metadata
 identity property=id/identity
 /metadata
 /properties
 /destination

 As you would expect, to use server-to-data-source paging,
 client-to-server paging must also be enabled. Note above that I've
 set my page size to 5. You can now hit access your destination with a
 simple client:

 mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
 layout=absolute applicationComplete=myDS.fill(myCollection)
 mx:DataService id=myDS destination=PagingDestination/
 mx:ArrayCollection id=myCollection/
 mx:DataGrid id=myDG dataProvider={myCollection}/
 /mx:Application

 In your server output you should initially see:

 paged fill called with: 0, 6
 count returning: 25 (or count returning: -1, depending on whether
 your count
 is implemented or you are using

Re: [flexcoders] Loadbytes - Exclude framework?

2008-12-17 Thread Johannes Nel

export the framework as an external RSL for both your main app and the
runtime loaded class swf, that way your external swf won't have the bytes in
it and the main app will mount all the needed classes from the rsl as is
necesary.
of course you are also helping all the rest of us who then export with the
framework as an rsl.

the downside is that the external framework includes all the classes and is
thus bigger.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Sceneshift j...@sceneshift.com wrote:


 I am loading in a external SWF at runtime using loadBytes, so I am able to
 retrieve library items / class names created via the designers in the SWF.
 I
 need to use loadBytes so I can use timeline AS3 code etc.

 I was wondering what the implications are of this, since the exported SWFs
 filesize will include the FP framework. Is there a way to load in a SWF
 using loadBytes, but ignoring any of the framework stuff we already have
 loaded?
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 http://www.nabble.com/Loadbytes---Exclude-framework--tp21050425p21050425.html
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Re: [flexcoders] Re: getting refs to items in Group.mxmlContent?

2008-12-17 Thread Haykel BEN JEMIA

displayGroup.getItemAt(0) should return the FXG object and then you should
be able to use the content management functions, i.e. to get the number of
items:

displayGroup.getItemAt(0).numItems

to get the second item:

displayGroup.getItemAt(0).getItemAt(1)


Haykel Ben Jemia

Allmas
Web  RIA Development
http://www.allmas-tn.com




On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Mic chigwel...@yahoo.com wrote:

   I think I need more help on this one :-( I found getElementAt(),
 getElementIndex() etc in the GraphicElement-ContentElement class, but
 not sure how to relate any of this to the loaded .fxg object:

 If I go to

 this.contentGroup
 __mxmlContent
 [0] VGroup (button group)
 [1] displayGroup (Group var containing .fxg object for display)
 __mxmlContent
 [0].fxg Object
 __myGroup1
 __myGroup2 etc

 I still arrive at this mxmlContent array of 1 row containing the .fxg
 object with all the groups I want to reference. Any kind of
 getElementAt() at this level throws an index error talking about
 unknown mxml content. Am I even interrogating the correct instance? TIA,

 Mic.

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Haykel
 BEN JEMIA hayke...@...
 wrote:

 
  You should use the content management functions of group to access its
  children: numElements(), getElementAt(index:int),
  getElementIndex(element:Object) etc.
 
  Haykel Ben Jemia
 
  Allmas
  Web  RIA Development
  http://www.allmas-tn.com
 
 
 
 
  On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Mic chigwel...@... wrote:
 
   (OK to ask Gumbo questions?)When an .fxg file is loaded into
   FxApplication and added to a Group, and that Group is then added to
   FxApplication, array mxmlContent[0] contains the .fxg Graphic object,
   whose child Groups can be accessed directly by name:
  
   displayGroup.mxmlContent[0].myGroup1
  
   However I cannot access mxmlContent[0] with getChildAt() etc, nor can
   I work out how to extract out references to mxmlContent[0] into
   another array etc so a list can be displayed where a Group object
   might be selected. Can find no info on mxmlContent :-(
  
   code:
   testFXG.fxg contains group id=myGroup1, group id=myGroup2 etc
  
   private var displayGroup:Group;
   displayGroup = new Group();
   var source: testFXG= new testFXG();
   displayGroup.addItem(source);
   addItem(displayGroup);
  
   breakpoint shows:
  
   displayGroup
   [inherited]
   mxmlContent
   [0]
   myGroup1
   myGroup2
   etc
  
   code:
   private var testGroup:Group;
   testGroup = displayGroup.mxmlContent[0].myGroup1;
  
   - this is a good reference and can be used to change myGroup1.x,
   myGroup1.y etc. However as stated above I cannot get a reference to
   e.g. the 3rd child etc. As always, TIA,
  
   Mic.

[flexcoders] SWC compression format?

2008-12-17 Thread aaron smith

Does anyone have any idea what format a swc is compressed with? I'm
trying to figure out how to take the ouput of a swc (with the
-directory switch from compc), run the optimize command line tool on
the library.swf, and then zip it back up as a swc. any ideas?

thanks

[flexcoders] Common base class for components

Hi list, anyone know if it's possible to have all our components inherit
from a common base component of our own making?

There are some things in our app that every View component will have to do
at loadtime, and it'd be nice to just write that code once and have all the
other components inherit it...

Last time I checked in Flex 3 Beta 2 there was some vague suggestion of
using Template Components, but that seemed like an afterthought in the SDK
at the time. Just thought I'd check to see if you knew of any tricks for
doing it :)

Perhaps even an include file would be the way to go...

[flexcoders] Re: Disable Flash Player Settings Panel

2008-12-17 Thread vinayakvijay_v

Thanks a lot Nate.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nate Beck n...@... wrote:

 That's a tough problem that I've had to deal with before.  Here is
what I
 figured out.
 
- You widget MUST be 216 x 140 (some people will argue you can do 215
wide, but in my testing sometimes that causes issues)
- The main issue that you will run into is... When the player
window is
too small, the settings panel will either 1) not show up at all
OR 2) Show
up clipped and in some browsers which will not register mouse
events to the
player
- You cannot disable the settings panel.
 
 Here are a couple of workarounds that I figured out:
 
- The widget needs to be 216 x 140 ONLY when you're asking for
permission
to the microphone.  If you have control of Javascript on the
page, you can
change the size of the flash object on the page temporarily while
you show
the settings panel.
- You can use Security.showSettings(SecurityPanel.PRIVACY); to
control
when you want the settings panel to show up.
- Using the Security.showSettings method is helpful because there
is a
Remember button on that panel.  If the user chooses Remember,
then you
never have to show the Settings panel again.
- The Microphone status events get dispatched when a user changes a
Microphone setting within the settings panel.
( _mic.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, onMicStatus); )
- On your Microphone class, the muted property will tell you if you
have access to the microphone or not.
 
 Hope this helps,
 Nate
 
 On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM, vinayakvijay_v
vinayakvija...@...wrote:
 
Hello.
  am vinu.
 
  Need Help,
  I am developing a Audio recorder Widget using FMS and Flex . The size
  of the widget should be small.
  But the problem is that when i access the mic. the flash player
  settings window does not appear because of the small size of my Widget
  . Any workaround to get mic without displaying the settings. The
  Widget need min 250X150 size to display the settings ,but i need to
  build it 200X100.
 
  please help me if u can.
 
  thanks in advance,
  vinu.

Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error

I may be missing something from your explanation. Are you seeing erroneous
calculations? Are there bugs? What exactly is the problem we are trying to
solve.

AFAIK, 2 digit accuracy is a given. In fact, it goes many digits higher than
that (I forgete exactly how many -- too long since my University days).

But that's what I meant by Number has a very high precision. If you need
two-digit accuracy, just round all Number to two decimal places and it'll be
correct.

x = Math.round(x*100.0) / 100.0; //round x to 2 decimal places

More generally,

x = Math.round(x*10^n) / 10^n; //round to n decimal places

Or,

Math.floor(x*100.0) / 100.0; //ensures you never round up

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=round+float+decimal+places has a whole
bunch of people wanting 2 digit accuracy.

If you're still concerned, someone else mentioned using integers to store
cents. That's usually my approach, but I've worked on codebases that do the
above and not had any problems.

Server and client-side implementations will be the same. AS3 floats are IEEE
compliant.

Datetimes between server and client however ... watch out :-)

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:25, Paul Andrews p...@ipauland.com wrote:

Jules,

 For financial applications, it's far more problematic than testing for
 equality.

 For example, if you are applying a discount to a price the resulting price
 must have exact two digit decimal accuracy, otherwise by the time you have
 discounted a few items you have an invoice whose total doesn't match the sum
 of the discounted items as shown on the invoice. That tends to upset
 customers.

 The other thing to consider is that such arithmetic must be consistent on
 server as well as client, otherwise you can end up with server-side reports
 that don't match client-side displays.

 Paul

 - Original Message -
 *From:* Jules Suggate julian.sugg...@gmail.com
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:36 PM
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Rounding error

 Valdhor already gave you all the info you need, but I like the sound of my
 own fingers typing. I also like to procrastinate, so I'm in heaven right now
 :p

- Some numbers that are easy to represent in decimal are hard to
represent in binary, just as some numbers that are easy to represent in 
 base
60 are hard to represent in decimal (such as 1/3).
- Your calculations are safe enough: Number has a very high precision
and calculations are carried out with full precision. It's just when 
 testing
for equality that you can run into problems -- I'm guessing this is where
you noticed the discrepancy?
- When comparing for floating-point numbers for equality, you need to
specify a tolerance too. Most unit-testing frameworks provide this for 
 their
floating-point asserts. And when I was doing financial apps, we did the 
 same
thing. If you *really* need higher precision, you'll need a BigNumber
implementation for AS3, of which there are several. The AS3Crypto library
has one I believe...

 Chyrs :)
 Jules

 On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:15, Ken Johnson kenjohnso...@hotmail.comwrote:

   Hi Everyone -

 Given the following code:
 var num1:Number = 0.72;
 var num2:Number = 0.198;
 var num3:Number;

 num3 = num1;
 num3 += num2;

 I would expect num3 to equal 0.918.

 Instead, it equals 0.9179.

 And when I apply a number formatter with a precision of 2, I get 0.91.

 I am performing financial calculations, and this is not acceptable.

 Am I doing something wrong here?

 Thanks for your help!
 Ken




 --
 Cheers,
 Jules
 --
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 Owner and Technical Lead
 Uphill Sprint Limited

 +64-21-157-8562

  




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Jules
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+64-21-157-8562

[flexcoders] File Explorer

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Vega

I am building a full featured file explorer and I am stuck on one part of
the application. On the left hand side I will have a base root directory
(root) and a listing of all directories that fall under it (no end). When
you click on a folder they will show up in the datagrid to the right. My
question is actually 2 parts.

1.) What approach should I take. Do I make one call to my server and build
the entire folder structure, then return either and arraycollection or
xmllistcollection or should I just grab the list of directories and show an
arrow next to directories with sub directories indicating that there are sub
directories. When you click on that folder make another call to the server
to grab that sub directory list and so on.

2.) The second part of the question is i heard that If I am going to be
updating this collection (deleting / adding / renaming directories) that I
should be using an ArrayCollection. The question is when I have data like
there is below, how do I break it down into parent/child nodes?  Every
example I have seen of the tree always uses xml as the data and in those
examples its clear how to break down child / parent relationships.

** Any help on this how to move forward with this would be great help **

  [0] (Object)#3
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Sat Nov 1 13:21:02 GMT-0400 2008
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 0
Mode = 
Name = bin
Path = H:\JRun4\bin
Size = 0
Type = Dir
  [1] (Object)#4
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Fri Aug 3 21:55:23 GMT-0400 2007
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 1
Mode = 
Name = docs
Path = H:\JRun4\docs
Size = 0
Type = Dir


Thank You
Dan Vega
danv...@gmail.com
http://www.danvega.org

[flexcoders] BlazeDS and Internet Explorer (7 at least)

2008-12-17 Thread jatbas

Hello :)

I have started exploring BlazeDS (Turnkey) and after I followed and
understood this hello world example,
http://blog.ashier.com/2008/02/22/bl...world-example/,
it became very confusing to me :|

Locally everything runs fine in IE, but remotely its a living hell...
it simply does not work... in IE, becauses in Firefox its Ok.
I have tried blazeds samples and they work fine, remotely and localy,
in IE and in firefox, so I'm suspicious it can be something in mey
java classes!

In IE the following error appears:

code:
Client.Error.DeliveryInDoubt

Message:
error

Detail:
Invalid URL url: 'http://nofearp_2008:8400/xelfsystems/messagebroker/
amf'

Can anyone help me :| it's very frustrating :( I can't see anything
related with this on the web, at least something that makes sense to
me.

Thanks again people.

RE: [flexcoders] problem in WebService help me plz

Google: Flex WebService document literal xml

 

Also, you will find it much easier to debug problems if you build  the
webservice request object in AS rather than in declarative mxml;.

 

Tracy

 



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Behalf Of NATA RAJAN
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:04 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] problem in WebService help me plz

 

Hi All,

The Below code is working very fine . but my need is i want to place the
XML file instead of parameter (externalServiceParameterInfo). if i print
in XML file using Aert it will show correctly..

mx:WebService id=ws_IM
wsdl=http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?w
sdl
http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?wsdl
 service=ExternalServiceDAO
port=ExternalServiceDAOSOAP11Port useProxy=false 
mx:operation name=UpdateAllExternalServiceParameterInfo
resultFormat=e4x result=ws_IM_result(event)
fault=ws_IM_fault(event)
mx:request xmlns=http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas
http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas 
xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ 
inParam
externalServiceParameterInfo
externalServiceGUID{ExGuid}/externalServiceGUID
externalServiceParameterGUID{getAllExSrParam_arr_guid.getItemAt(0)}/e
xternalServiceParameterGUID
name{getAllExSrParam_arr_names.getItemAt(0)}/name
typeText/type
value{getAllExSrParam_arr_values.getItemAt(0)}/value
/externalServiceParameterInfo
/inParam
/mx:request
/mx:operation
/mx:WebService

MY CODE IS
~~
[Bindable]
public var inParameter:XMLList = new XMLList(inParam/);

mx:WebService id=ws_IM
wsdl=http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?w
sdl
http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?wsdl
 service=ExternalServiceDAO
port=ExternalServiceDAOSOAP11Port useProxy=false 
mx:operation name=UpdateAllExternalServiceParameterInfo
resultFormat=e4x result=ws_IM_result(event)
fault=ws_IM_fault(event)
mx:request xmlns=http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas
http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas 
xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ 
inParam

{inParameter. externalServiceParameterInfo} // XML file it will print
correctly in Alert but not working here 

/inParam
/mx:request
/mx:operation
/mx:WebService

XML file
~~

externalServiceParameterInfo
externalServiceGUID1200/externalServiceGUID
externalServiceParameterGUID1001/externalServiceParameterGUID
nameLipix/name
typeText/type
valueReference/value
/externalServiceParameterInfo

Plz find me a solution for this WebService parameter issue .

Thanks in Advance

Regards
Natarajan V

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[flexcoders] Re: problem in WebService help me plz

I don't believe the Flex WebService allows you to send plain XML. I
think you need to create objects which Flex will parse to create
SoapObjects.

I have put together a demo application that you can use as a starting
point:

?xml version=1.0?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
creationComplete=onCreationComplete()
 mx:Script
 ![CDATA[
 import mx.controls.Alert;
 import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
 import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
 import mx.rpc.soap.mxml.*;

 private var webService:WebService;

 public function onCreationComplete():void
 {
 webService = new WebService();
 webService.endpointURI =
http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO;;

webService.loadWSDL(http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/Exter\
nalServiceDAO?wsdl);
 webService.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT,
faultHandler);
 webService.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT,
resultHandler);
 }

 public function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
 {
 Alert.show((event.result as String));
 }
 public function faultHandler(event:FaultEvent):void
 {
 Alert.show(event.fault.faultString);
 }

 public function runRequest():void
 {
 var ExternalServiceParameterInfo:Object = new Object();
 ExternalServiceParameterInfo.externalServiceGUID =
1200;

ExternalServiceParameterInfo.externalServiceParameterGUID = 1001;
 ExternalServiceParameterInfo.name = Lipix;
 ExternalServiceParameterInfo.type = Text;
 ExternalServiceParameterInfo.value = Reference;

 var inParam:Object = new Object();
 inParam.externalServiceParameterInfo =
ExternalServiceParameterInfo;


webService.UpdateAllExternalServiceParameterInfo(inParam);
 }
 ]]
 /mx:Script
 mx:Button label=Run Request click=runRequest()/
/mx:Application


This will contact the WebService but will return a SoapFault of
No External Service Parameter record found for the GUID '1001'



HTH



Steve


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, NATA RAJAN natrajan_majest...@...
wrote:

 Hi All,


 The Below code is working very fine . but my need is i want to place
the XML file instead of parameter (externalServiceParameterInfo). if i
print in  XML file using Aert it will show correctly..


 mx:WebService id=ws_IM
wsdl=http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?w\
sdl service=ExternalServiceDAO
   port=ExternalServiceDAOSOAP11Port useProxy=false 
   mx:operation name=UpdateAllExternalServiceParameterInfo
resultFormat=e4x result=ws_IM_result(event)
fault=ws_IM_fault(event)
mx:request xmlns=http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas;
xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
inParam
 externalServiceParameterInfo
   externalServiceGUID{ExGuid}/externalServiceGUID
  
externalServiceParameterGUID{getAllExSrParam_arr_guid.getItemAt(0)}/e\
xternalServiceParameterGUID
   name{getAllExSrParam_arr_names.getItemAt(0)}/name
   typeText/type
   value{getAllExSrParam_arr_values.getItemAt(0)}/value
/externalServiceParameterInfo
 /inParam
/mx:request
   /mx:operation
  /mx:WebService




 MY CODE IS
 ~~
 [Bindable]
   public var inParameter:XMLList = new XMLList(inParam/);


 mx:WebService id=ws_IM
wsdl=http://125.17.111.152:8600/imedicore/services/ExternalServiceDAO?w\
sdl service=ExternalServiceDAO
   port=ExternalServiceDAOSOAP11Port useProxy=false 
   mx:operation name=UpdateAllExternalServiceParameterInfo
resultFormat=e4x result=ws_IM_result(event)
fault=ws_IM_fault(event)
mx:request xmlns=http://www.resilient-networks.com/schemas;
xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
inParam

{inParameter. externalServiceParameterInfo}  // XML file it will
print correctly in Alert but not working  here


 /inParam
/mx:request
   /mx:operation
  /mx:WebService


 XML file
 ~~

  externalServiceParameterInfo
   externalServiceGUID1200/externalServiceGUID
  
externalServiceParameterGUID1001/externalServiceParameterGUID
   nameLipix/name
   typeText/type
   valueReference/value
   /externalServiceParameterInfo


 Plz find me a solution for this WebService parameter issue .

 Thanks in Advance


 Regards
 Natarajan V




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[flexcoders] Loadbytes - Exclude framework?

2008-12-17 Thread Sceneshift


I am loading in a external SWF at runtime using loadBytes, so I am able to
retrieve library items / class names created via the designers in the SWF. I
need to use loadBytes so I can use timeline AS3 code etc.

I was wondering what the implications are of this, since the exported SWFs
filesize will include the FP framework. Is there a way to load in a SWF
using loadBytes, but ignoring any of the framework stuff we already have
loaded?
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[flexcoders] Issue with selectedItem Indices with lists and uiComponent in ItemRenderer

2008-12-17 Thread djhatrick

I have an itemRenderer that copies bitmapdata into my uiComponent
inside my itemRenderer.  the problem comes up when I try to run a
filter on my list and then the bitmapData changes, I am clearing out
the bitmapData and the bitmap Container, on my commitProperties.

Any suggestion on this?  the only reason I think that could be goofing
this up is the bounds of my itemRenderer is changed with the content
of the bitmap Data object?  I am not sure, it's a tough one to nail down?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Patrick

Re: [flexcoders] SWC compression format?

2008-12-17 Thread aaron smith

thanks guys, I think this should work.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Johannes Nel johannes@gmail.com wrote:
 i think its gnu zip

 On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM, John McCormack j...@easypeasy.co.uk
 wrote:

 If you rename the *.swc file to a *.zip file you can open it with
 Windows Vista (and XP?) or with 7-zip (etc.) without renaming it, so it
 must be a derivation of the pkzip format. There are some zip functions
 in the nochump branch of papervision3D so that might help.

 John

 aaron smith wrote:
  Does anyone have any idea what format a swc is compressed with? I'm
  trying to figure out how to take the ouput of a swc (with the
  -directory switch from compc), run the optimize command line tool on
  the library.swf, and then zip it back up as a swc. any ideas?
 
  thanks
 
  
 
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[flexcoders] SWF file format question - SymbolClass Tag

2008-12-17 Thread aaron smith

Has anyone read through the SWF file format, and been able to decipher
how exactly AS3 classes are compiled into the SWF? From reading
through all of the control tags it seems it would be the SymbolClass
tag. So, it would seem, I could rip out SymbolClass tags from the
bytecode (for a specific class) - while keeping track of the new file
length, then write the swf again and have a swf that doesn't include
the definition for a particular class. Anyone else think that makes
sense?

Thanks

[flexcoders] How to open the popup many time?

2008-12-17 Thread markflex2007

Hi,

I have a component file.

BasicWindow.mxml
 
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
 mx:Window xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml;
layout=absolute width=300 height=200
 mx:Script
![CDATA[

[Bindable]
 public var showText:String;

]]
 /mx:Script
 mx:Label horizontalCenter=0 y=58 text={showText} id=lbl/
/mx:Window


This is the main file,but I only can open the window once,I want to
know how to open it many times.Please help me.Thanks

main.mxml

private var win:BasicWindow = new BasicWindow();

private function createWindow():void{
  //Alert.show(I am here);

  win.showText = Show me on the Window;
  win.open();
 }  
 
 
 mx:Button label=Open Window click=this.createWindow()
horizontalCenter=0 y=50/

[flexcoders] How focusOut Event works in Flex

2008-12-17 Thread b.kotireddy

Hi,
I have multiple tabs, My users requirement is to save the data of one
of his tab form if he move from that tab to another tab with out
pressing save button.

I was trying with focusOut event. It was not working properly. If i
click some where in the current tab also it is invoking every time i
click else not. And more over the focusOut event of first clicked tab
is invoking in every other tab and every mouse click in other tabs.

I am pretty much new to Flex Development. Could any one please help me
how can i access a method before going on of a page.

Please let me know is their any alternate method to invoke a
particular method when my focus out from TAB to another.

Thanks in advance

Re: [flexcoders] Flex + Papervision Business Applications

2008-12-17 Thread gabriel montagné

hello monkeyden,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, monkeyden monk...@monkeyden.com wrote:
 The main question seems to be transitioning a 3D object (bitmap) back to a
 UIComponent.

I'd done a UIComponent viewer for displaying and using with bindings, states,
etc., papervision DisplayObject3D objects.  It's kind of old and I'm not that
happy about it now, and it was for pre-great white pv3d, but hopefully might
help you in some way.

http://code.google.com/p/rojored/source/browse/trunk/src/com/rojored/view/controls/Display3D.as

it allows for stuff like this (although I think this example is from a
slightly older version):
http://rojored.com/code/pv3d-flex/PV3D.swf

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Re: [flexcoders] How focusOut Event works in Flex

2008-12-17 Thread Fotis Chatzinikos

Hi,

did you try show / hide events?

You could also use the containers change event:

change=navigatorClicked() for example and in there check for unsaved data

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:55 PM, b.kotireddy koti_reddy...@yahoo.comwrote:

   Hi,
 I have multiple tabs, My users requirement is to save the data of one
 of his tab form if he move from that tab to another tab with out
 pressing save button.

 I was trying with focusOut event. It was not working properly. If i
 click some where in the current tab also it is invoking every time i
 click else not. And more over the focusOut event of first clicked tab
 is invoking in every other tab and every mouse click in other tabs.

 I am pretty much new to Flex Development. Could any one please help me
 how can i access a method before going on of a page.

 Please let me know is their any alternate method to invoke a
 particular method when my focus out from TAB to another.

 Thanks in advance

  




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Founder,
Phinnovation
fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com,

[flexcoders] Error Message

2008-12-17 Thread jch92592

I am trying to get a Flex App to access a Cold Fusion CFC on my CF 7.0.2
server.

I get the following error:

MessagingError message='Destination 'ColdFusion' either does not exist
or the destination has no channels defined (and the application does
not define any default channels 


Using:

 mx:RemoteObject
id=userRequest
destination=ColdFusion
source=flexapp.returnusers

mx:method name=returnRecords result=returnHandler(event)
 fault=mx.controls.Alert.show(event.fault.faultString)/
mx:method name=insertRecord result=insertHandler()
 fault=mx.controls.Alert.show(event.fault.faultString)/
/mx:RemoteObject

(This and the CFC are sample files from the Flex 3 Docs.)

If I use the local developer edition of the CF server (same version)
all works well, no errors.

Does anyone have an idea of what the issue could be?
How about a good resource (book, article, consultant) to assist?

Can anyone explain what the Destination parameter is? 

thank you in advance.

jh

RE: [flexcoders] File Explorer

If I am going to be updating this collection (deleting / adding /
renaming directories) that I should be using an ArrayCollection Don't
believe everything that you hear.  Demand an explanation why.

 

I advise staying with XML.  Like the filesystem structure, XML is
inherently hierarchical.  The collections are not, and as Ivo shows, you
will have to do some work to make the hierarchy accessible.  XML will
just be there.

 

Plus, e4x is very powerful for manipulating hierarchies, where the
nested collections are not.

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of ivo
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:47 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] File Explorer

 

I worked on something similar not too long ago and my approach for #1
was to load top-level folders only and only drill inward with a server
call as the user clicks on the expand arrow on individual folders. It
made it appear more responsive for huge structures.

For #2 you can have each of your nodes be an object with a 'children'
member that is an ArrayCollection of node objects. When
inserting/removing you operate on the children ArrayCollection directly
and the Tree will reflect the change on the next screen update.

var _children:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();//add your child
nodes to this

var _parent:Object = {label: 'parent', children: _children} //this would
be the parent object

var _dp:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([_parent]); //data
provider for tree

- Ivo

 



From: Dan Vega danv...@gmail.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:01:36 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] File Explorer

I am building a full featured file explorer and I am stuck on one part
of the application. On the left hand side I will have a base root
directory (root) and a listing of all directories that fall under it (no
end). When you click on a folder they will show up in the datagrid to
the right. My question is actually 2 parts.

1.) What approach should I take. Do I make one call to my server and
build the entire folder structure, then return either and
arraycollection or xmllistcollection or should I just grab the list of
directories and show an arrow next to directories with sub directories
indicating that there are sub directories. When you click on that folder
make another call to the server to grab that sub directory list and so
on.

2.) The second part of the question is i heard that If I am going to be
updating this collection (deleting / adding / renaming directories) that
I should be using an ArrayCollection. The question is when I have data
like there is below, how do I break it down into parent/child nodes?
Every example I have seen of the tree always uses xml as the data and in
those examples its clear how to break down child / parent relationships.


** Any help on this how to move forward with this would be great help **

  [0] (Object)#3
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Sat Nov 1 13:21:02 GMT-0400 2008
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 0
Mode = 
Name = bin
Path = H:\JRun4\bin
Size = 0
Type = Dir
  [1] (Object)#4
Attributes = 
DateLastModified = Fri Aug 3 21:55:23 GMT-0400 2007
Directory = H:\JRun4
hasDirs = 1
Mode = 
Name = docs
Path = H:\JRun4\docs
Size = 0
Type = Dir


Thank You
Dan Vega
danv...@gmail. com mailto:danv...@gmail.com 
http://www.danvega. org http://www.danvega.org

Re: [flexcoders] File Explorer

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Vega

Thank you so much! After screwing around with this for awhile I am finding
that to be the real problem. When you get into unlimited numbers of sub
directories the array collection becomes very hard to manage. I think to
return my list of files an arrayCollection will work just fine but for the
directory structure I am going to produce xml. Also I think when we we are
just talking about directories, I might as well go build them all out now


 __,_,_

Thank You
Dan Vega

[flexcoders] Re: File Explorer

2008-12-17 Thread Amy

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, ivo cervantes_v...@... wrote:

 I worked on something similar not too long ago and my approach for #1 
was to load top-level folders only and only drill inward with a server 
call as the user clicks on the expand arrow on individual folders. It 
made it appear more responsive for huge structures.
 
 For #2 you can have each of your nodes be an object with a 'children' 
member that is an ArrayCollection of node objects. When 
inserting/removing you operate on the children ArrayCollection directly 
and the Tree will reflect the change on the next screen update.

This has the advantage that you can cast this to 
HierarchicalCollectionView, which makes it really easy to get back from 
child to parent.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: File Explorer

2008-12-17 Thread Fotis Chatzinikos

Depends on your style / preferences... XML might be easier to handle but
arrays are much faster to wire and compute..

I use the following array based structure , where parent helps upward tree
traversal (children contains CategoryTree instances):

public class CategoryTree
{
public var label:String ;
public var children:ArrayCollection ;
public var parent:CategoryTree;
   }

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:

   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, ivo
 cervantes_v...@... wrote:
 
  I worked on something similar not too long ago and my approach for #1
 was to load top-level folders only and only drill inward with a server
 call as the user clicks on the expand arrow on individual folders. It
 made it appear more responsive for huge structures.
 
  For #2 you can have each of your nodes be an object with a 'children'
 member that is an ArrayCollection of node objects. When
 inserting/removing you operate on the children ArrayCollection directly
 and the Tree will reflect the change on the next screen update.

 This has the advantage that you can cast this to
 HierarchicalCollectionView, which makes it really easy to get back from
 child to parent.

  




-- 
Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D.
Founder,
Phinnovation
fotis.chatzini...@gmail.com,

RE: [flexcoders] Re: File Explorer

Amy, I have never worked with HierarchicalCollectionView.  What are
its advantages over e4x XML?  Is it mainly integration with
AdvancedDataGrid?

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Amy
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: File Explorer

 

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
, ivo cervantes_v...@... wrote:

 I worked on something similar not too long ago and my approach for #1 
was to load top-level folders only and only drill inward with a server 
call as the user clicks on the expand arrow on individual folders. It 
made it appear more responsive for huge structures.
 
 For #2 you can have each of your nodes be an object with a 'children' 
member that is an ArrayCollection of node objects. When 
inserting/removing you operate on the children ArrayCollection directly 
and the Tree will reflect the change on the next screen update.

This has the advantage that you can cast this to 
HierarchicalCollectionView, which makes it really easy to get back from 
child to parent.

RE: [flexcoders] File Explorer

...talking about directories, I might as well go build them all out
now... Try it.  But if the server is large, there may  still be
thousands of directories.  But maybe not.  Did I say try it?

 

Tracy

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Dan Vega
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:00 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] File Explorer

 

Thank you so much! After screwing around with this for awhile I am
finding that to be the real problem. When you get into unlimited numbers
of sub directories the array collection becomes very hard to manage. I
think to return my list of files an arrayCollection will work just fine
but for the directory structure I am going to produce xml. Also I think
when we we are just talking about directories, I might as well go build
them all out now


__,_,_

Thank You 
Dan Vega

[flexcoders] Re: data returned from WSDL call

2008-12-17 Thread weezee49

Thanks, that's the ticket.  mx:WebService doesn't have a
resultFormat attribute, but mx:operation does.  Setting the
operations' resultFormat to e4x gave me XML back.  I also had to
play around with the result to get past the outer layers.  It involved
the following:

var xmlResultList:XMLList = event.result as XMLList
var xmlResult:XML = xmlResultList[0]
trace(xmlResult.children())

However, with that said, I'm finding it's actually easier to deal with
the tree of dynamic objects.  I found something under the comments
about the DataGrid object that explains how to handle the return
result as either an ObjectProxy or an ArrayCollection.  For my
purposes turning an ObjectProxy (if that's what I got) into an
ArrayCollection and then processing the ArrayCollection is working
better than digging through the XML structure.  

I'm curious to know why you said that going straight to an
ArrayCollection is rarely desirable.  Can you give me more info on
your reasoning behind that?

Thanks!
LG Rains


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt tspr...@... wrote:

 Have you set resultFormat=e4x?  If not, you are not working with xml.
 Flex has generated a tree of dynamic objects.  Though it allows you to
 go straight to an arrayCollection, this format is rarely desirable.
 
  
 
 Set the resultFormat, then in your result handler do:
 
 var xmlResult = event.result as XML;
 
 trace(xmlResult.toXMLString);
 
  
 
 You will see your xml as flex sees it.
 
  
 
 Be aware that you may have xml namespace issues accessing the nodes via
 e4x expressions.  Google, check archives and see the docs for help with
 this.
 
  
 
 Tracy
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
 Behalf Of Louise Rains
 Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:28 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call
 
  
 
 I'm getting data back from a wsdl call that looks like this:
 
  
 
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=windows-1252? ns0:ROOT
 xmlns:ns0=urn:AMAT_Asset_KeyGen xmlns:xsd=
 
 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema 
 xmlns:xsi=
 
 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
 http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance 
 
 ns0:getListValues
 
 ns0:B_License_Key0200362/ns0:B_License_Key
 
 ns0:B_Warranty_End_Date2007-03-31T00:00:00-04:00/ns0:B_Warranty_End_D
 ate
 
  
 
 ns0:Company_NameSOME COMPANY/ns0:Company_Name
 
 ns0:Part_NumberALFLSS3300-1400/ns0:Part_Number
 
 ns0:Product_CategoryPER/ns0:Product_Category
 
 ns0:Product_TypeAUTOMOD/ns0:Product_Type
 
 ns0:Quantity1.00/ns0:Quantity
 
 ns0:Site_NameSOME SITE/ns0:Site_Name
 
  /ns0:getListValues 
 
 ...
 
 ns0:ROOT
 
  
 
 If I have multiple getListValues returned, I can use an
 ArrayCollection and step through each object in the collection to get
 the data.  However, I'm having a hard time determining the type of
 event.result in the case where there is only one getListValues object
 returned.  When I trace event.result, I get [object Object].  If I try
 to cast it to XML, XMLList or ArrayCollection, I get null objects.  
 
  
 
 Is there a way to use reflection to determine what the [object Object]
 really is?  How can I access the data that's coming back?
 
  
 
 Thanks!
 
  
 
 LG Rains

RE: [flexcoders] Re: data returned from WSDL call