Re: [flexcoders] RTL with FP10, Flex 3

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

I wanted to suggest Flex 4 also, but it's still alpha! I had to use it for a
project because I needed support for the Arabic language, but I often faced
problems with bugs in the framework and renamings made to the
classes/functions. In the same time I found the new skinning concept and DOM
structure very helpful and I have sometimes some difficulty to go back to
Flex 3 :)

Anyway, if you are ready to put some time in finding bugs and to cope with
changes that can break compilation of your project after a svn update (I
would estimate it to be 10%-15% of your time), then I would definitely
advise to use Flex 4. But be careful: you can become Gumboholic!


Haykel Ben Jemia

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




On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Gordon Smith  wrote:

>Do you really need to use Flex 3? We're adding TLF support to Flex 4.
>
>
>
> Gordon Smith
>
> Adobe Flex SDK Team
>
>
>
> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Haykel BEN JEMIA
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:07 AM
> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] RTL with FP10, Flex 3
>
>
>
> There are examples with the TLF distribution. Start with them and for
> rendering text from right to left, you just have to set the direction of the
> text flow to RTL. You can check the 'changeDirection' function in the Flex
> example.
> Try also these links (from the readme file of the TLF distribution):
>
>- Framework Overview (pdf) – 
> Overview for developers using the Text Layout Framework
>- Framework API  – API
>Documentation for the Text Layout Framework
>
>
>
> Haykel Ben Jemia
>
> Allmas
> Web & RIA Development
> http://www.allmas-tn.com
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Hyder  wrote:
>
> I tried reading docs on the new text layout framework but I found it
> really confusing. I'd love to get some quick tips on getting started
> with rendering text from right to left.
>
>
>
>   
>

[flexcoders] How to XMLListCollection a FileSystemTree dataProvider?

[Mark Simon]

Hi,
The Air FileSystemTree seems to take a XMLListCollection as a
dataProvider yet nowhere can I find a reference to the tag structure
of that XML.

All help appreciated,

Re: [flexcoders] flex builder student version

[Vivian Richard]

But Sam I am getting the water mark!!! Do you know why?
I put the serial number on help->Manage Flex licenses and
I thought it should take care of it. But it did not!!!



On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Sam Lai  wrote:
> Yes - I've built an app using a student license from
> flexregistration.com and it has no watermarks on the charting
> components.
>
> Even better, there is no limitation if you wish to commercialise your
> creation - no need to buy a copy of Flex Builder for commercial
> purposes.
>
> 2009/1/22 hworke :
>
>>
>>
>> Hi does the the student/faculty version license of
>> flex builder will remove the water mark from the
>> flex charting?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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[flexcoders] Re: Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing issues OR is it my code?

[flexaustin]

Is this just for bitmaps/bitmapdata objects or does this limit include
the Flash player stage as well, as I am not trying to create a
bitmapdata object. I am simply trying to spread out my components 4000
pixels apart on the stage.

TIA, J


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Kyle Quevillon  wrote:
>
> These may help understand what is going on:
> 
> http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1426
> http://underdevelopment.maravillaclan.net/?p=7
> 
> And a forum post:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.flash/browse_thread/thread/69c5c668117d26af/26a38122dd97720f?lnk=raot
> 
>  In FP 10, bitmaps are no longer restricted to a max size of
2880x2800.  Now
> they can be 4096*4096 with a max of 8192 for any dimension.
> 
>  Flash authoring has always, and still, restricts the stage size to
2880x2880.
> HTH
> 
> -Kyle
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of flexaustin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:40 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing
issues OR is it my code?
> 
> 
> UPDATE: Ok it looks like the stage runs out of display room. Does the
> Flash player stage have a maximum size? My app is a diagram that can
> go as large as 10,000 pixels wide. If I scale up to 1.75 while viewing
> the right side of my diagram all is good, but when I go to the left
> side of the diagram, thus placing it in center of the screen, and zoom
> to 1.75 its like all graphics disappear and only textfields are shown.
> 
> If anyone knows of any screen capture software I can create a video
> and post it.
> 
> TIA, J
> 
> --- In
flexcoders@yahoogroups.com,
"flexaustin"  wrote:
> >
> > I have this code in my custom component that contains a slider and
> > when my slider is set to a scale of 1.75 (yes things are scaled very
> > large in my app) my custom components on the stage disappear? What I
> > mean by disappear is that my components scale as they should but when
> > it hits 1..75 scale everything in my component disappears except for
> > the any textfields.
> >
> > I can't seem to find any issues. Not sure if this a bug or my code.
> > Here is the code.
> >
> > 
> >
> > http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> > click="stopProp(event)"
> > creationComplete="init()"
> > horizontalAlign="center"
> > width="35">
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> > 
> > 
> >  > horizontalScrollPolicy="off" top="3">
> > 
> >  > styleName="{getStyle('sliderStyle')}"
> > height="95%"
> > id="bzoom"
> > values="[25]"
> > maxHeight="140"
> > minimum="{ZOOM_MIN}"
> > maximum="{ZOOM_MAX}"
> > tickInterval="25"
> > tickLength="0"
> > snapInterval="25"
> > liveDragging="true"
> > change="updateVScale(event)"
> > click="stopProp(event)"
> > mouseDown="stopProp(event)"
> > sliderThumbClass="{CSpSliderThumb}"
> > thumbCount="1"
> > showDataTip="true"
> > left="4"
> > top="25"/>
> >  > id="plusZoom"
> > alpha="0"
> > icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoominIcon}"
> > cornerRadius="2"
> > width="16"
> > height="16"
> > left="9"
> > click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_UP);stopProp(event);"
> > top="6"/>
> >  > id="minusZoom"
> > alpha="0"
> > icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoomoutIcon}"
> > cornerRadius="2"
> > width="16"
> > height="16"
> > left="9"
> > click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_DOWN);stopProp(event);"
> > top="{bzoom.y + bzoom.height + 3}"/>
> > 
> >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>

RE: [flexcoders] internationalization

[Gordon Smith]

We focused the design on loading compiled resources in order to support 
complete localization -- images, sounds, sorting methods, etc., not just 
strings in textual .properties or .xml files. But, as you discovered, the 
ResourceManager lets you dynamically add  ResourceBundles and populate them 
from any source with your own code.

Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:00 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] internationalization

The only problem I have with resource modules is that they are compiled into 
swf. Our users require that the language files be accessible using notepad or 
any text editor so I cannot use Flex. A typical example would be a lexicon file 
where the user could add terms at any time. We had to load the file separately 
and push it into the resource manager. Of course we lose bandwidth but it's 
what our user base needs. I was just curious to see if other were doing it this 
way.


From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Haykel BEN JEMIA
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:12 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] internationalization
Yes, they are called resource modules! Thanks Gordon!

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/l10n_5.html#158277


Haykel Ben Jemia

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



On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Smith 
mailto:gosm...@adobe.com>> wrote:

Haykel is probably talking about loading a resource module. The resource 
bundles in a resource module automatically get added to the ResourceManager.



Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:16 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] internationalization



Haykel, out of curiosity, when you load them dynamically at run-time, do you 
pass them to the resource bundle manager? That's what we did but I'm curious to 
see what other did and if there are a open source libraries that do just that. 
We didn't find any at the time so we had to do it all ourselves.





From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf Of Haykel BEN JEMIA
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:33 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] internationalization

Use resource bundles. If you only have 2 or 3 languages and the resources are 
not heavy in size, you can simply compile them in the application, otherwise 
load them at runtime.

Haykel Ben Jemia

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



On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Scott 
mailto:h...@netprof.us>> wrote:

I'm working on a project that requires multiple languages. I'm thinking
I have two choices...

1) Use an XML file to change the text to different languages
2) Create a query/remote object through coldfusion to pull the different
language.

Are those my only options? Or should I say, what is the best way to do
this? Has anyone done this or come across any articles? The articles
I've found thus far deal with changing the currency/calendar/etc..
While that is something that I need to use, it's not the whole story...

Thanks much.
Scott

RE: [flexcoders] RTL with FP10, Flex 3

[Gordon Smith]

Do you really need to use Flex 3? We're adding TLF support to Flex 4.

Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Haykel BEN JEMIA
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:07 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] RTL with FP10, Flex 3

There are examples with the TLF distribution. Start with them and for rendering 
text from right to left, you just have to set the direction of the text flow to 
RTL. You can check the 'changeDirection' function in the Flex example.
Try also these links (from the readme file of the TLF distribution):

 *   Framework Overview (pdf) – 
Overview for developers using the Text Layout Framework
 *   Framework API – API Documentation 
for the Text Layout Framework


Haykel Ben Jemia

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



On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Hyder 
mailto:hyder_...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

I tried reading docs on the new text layout framework but I found it
really confusing. I'd love to get some quick tips on getting started
with rendering text from right to left.

[flexcoders] Re: Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Amy]

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

> Using a model and events is probably "best", but you can also go
> straight through dom references.  Listeners can be added to 
dynamically
> created components, so you would not need specific, named references 
to
> the child swfs.  

Note that you probably want to still keep references to your swfs 
somewhere, so that you can remove the listeners if you need to make 
sure they get garbage collected.  You'll probably want to do this in an 
Array or ArrayCollection so that it can expand with the number of swfs 
you create.

Or you can just use one swf and move it around :)

HTH;

Amy

[flexcoders] Re: Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Williams  
wrote:
>
> Hi Tracy,
> 
> Oh if only it were that easy!! Looks like it's gonna have to be 
much 
> deeperhere's why...
> 
> A project manager can have any number of projects they run...
>
> The dashboard is setup so they have access to all their 
projects via 
> one dashboard
> 
> Basically, when they login, I get a list of all the projects 
they 
> manageand then create a simple viewStack with tabNavigator, one 
tab 
> for each of the projects they run. Each tab has the "same" widgets, 
only 
> loaded with the data specific to the project for the tab they are 
> looking at (much akin to having several tabs opened in Firefox, all 
of 
> them on Amazon, yet on each one, I'm looking for a book different 
from 
> the other tabs.)
> 
> The widgets are simple stand-alone apps that are repatedly used 
in 
> each tab...i.e. projectStatistics.swf is used once on every tab 
(i.e. 
> for every project) on the dashboard.  For each instance of the 
widget, 
> it needs to know the project name so it can query the data for that 
> specific project. 

I personally would not have one widget for each tab.  Instead, I'd 
have one widget only and "reparent" it as the user went from tab to 
tab.

In this configuration, you can see that it doesn't make sense for the 
widget to handle the calling for and any parsing that might be 
needed, because the tab might be changed before the data gets back.  
Instead, the swf should simply expose setter methods that accept the 
data that the application loads for it.  When the tab changes, if the 
Controller (which can be nothing more complicated than the 
Application itself) doesn't yet know the data for that tab, it calls 
for the data.  When the data comes back, the Controller populates the 
properties of the swf and sticks it into the new tab.

I'd even be tempted to wrap your existing functionality with the Flex 
Component Kit so you can just use it as if it were a Flex component.

This scenario also opens up the possibility that you could 
predictively load the data, since the load is no longer predicated on 
the particular item that the user is viewing.

Just a few random thoughts;

Amy

[flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Pan Troglodytes  
wrote:
>
> Any hint on what that topic might be under in the docs?  I'm having 
trouble
> finding it.

What Alex is referring to is here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/skinstyle_3.html

This works ok for styles that you can set without needing to have a 
class reference, but it falls down when you're using an actual skin, 
which needs a class.  I couldn't find a way to do what you're looking 
to do without either baking in a reference to the skin class into the 
component or just knowing that you've got to provide that class in a 
CSS style declaration.

The way the Flex components get away with not baking in a reference 
is through the defaults.css file that comes with Flex.

You may find that providing your own defaults.css file will do what 
you want, but I don't know that it saves you anything, since I think 
the class still gets compiled into your swc 
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/ascomponents_8.html.  Maybe 
someone with more experience than me can tell you what advantage you 
can get by doing this.

HTH;

Amy

[flexcoders] VerifyError when switching from RSLs to 'Merge into code'

[dustyjewett]

I have a rather large app that was recently switched over to using
RSLs (about a month ago). I needed to trace inside of the framework,
so I attempted to switch to 'merged into code', but now I am getting
VerifyErrors:

VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.skins::Border could not be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.skins::RectangularBorder could not
be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.controls::DateField could not be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.controls::RichTextEditor could not
be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.formatters::DateFormatter could not
be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.controls::Image could not be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.validators::DateValidator could not
be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.controls::Image could not be found.
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class mx.validators::NumberValidator could
not be found.


I understand that these specific errors are aimed at my specific app,
but I'm hoping someone has hit this before and can point me in the
right direction.

RE: [flexcoders] Getting Error while calling dataservice from AIR application.

[Jeff Vroom]

This error occurs when the client can't connect to the server and/or can 
connect to the server and can't download the configuration.

The  output would show more about what is going on but a few 
things to check:

Make sure you have your ChannelSet defined in your client and set the 
channelSet property of your DataService.  Alternatively, you can remove all use 
of the {server.name} and {server.port} tokens (use absolute URLs in your 
configs) and then can specify the -services option to your compiler to compile 
in the destination info.AIR does not have a server name or port to 
substitute there so it can use the tokens.And of course makes sure your 
data-management-config.xml defines the destinations you are using in your 
client.

Jeff

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of bonny_us
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:36 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Getting Error while calling dataservice from AIR 
application.


Hi All,

I am creating application using AIR Data Synchronization via LiveCycle
Data Services ES 2.6. So when i am calling the Dataservice from air it
will give me below error.
(mx.messaging.messages::ErrorMessage)#0
body = (Object)#1
clientId = (null)
correlationId = ""
destination = ""
extendedData = (null)
faultCode = "Client.Initialization.Failed"
faultDetail = "Missing or invalid configuration for destinations: "
faultString = "Could not initialize DataService."
headers = (Object)#2
messageId = "F32AABE3-A3CD-A4AB-4A9D-FAA28CF8B97F"
rootCause = (null)
timestamp = 0
timeToLive = 0

if any one have any idea regarding this error please let me know. it
will very helpful to me.

Thanks,
Bonny

<><>

[flexcoders] Getting Error while calling dataservice from AIR application.

[bonny_us]

Hi All,

I am creating application using AIR Data Synchronization via LiveCycle
Data Services ES 2.6. So when i am calling the Dataservice from air it
will give me below error. 
(mx.messaging.messages::ErrorMessage)#0
 body = (Object)#1
 clientId = (null)
 correlationId = ""
 destination = ""
 extendedData = (null)
 faultCode = "Client.Initialization.Failed"
 faultDetail = "Missing or invalid configuration for destinations: "
 faultString = "Could not initialize DataService."
 headers = (Object)#2
 messageId = "F32AABE3-A3CD-A4AB-4A9D-FAA28CF8B97F"
 rootCause = (null)
 timestamp = 0
 timeToLive = 0

if any one have any idea regarding this error please let me know. it
will very helpful to me.


Thanks,
Bonny

RE: [flexcoders] Drawing outside a list with an ItemRenderer

[Alex Harui]

The List should have the following DisplayObject tree

List
 |border
 |listContent
  |--- selectionLayer
  |--- renderer0
  |--- renderer1

A mask is applied to listContent so none of its children can draw outside the 
list.  Some other child of list (or some floating thing between lists) can draw 
outside the list, and drawSelectionIndicator() would be a good place to control 
that drawing.
-

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of justin.voshell
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:40 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Drawing outside a list with an ItemRenderer


Hello,

I have been tasked with constructing an interface in Flex which features two
lists, side by side. The content of the list on the right is driven by the
selection of an item from the list on the left.

To highlight this dependency visually, the list on the right has been given a
3px border with a color that matches the selection color of the list on the
left.

The tricky part is this: I need to create the visual impression that the
colored selection box around the selected item in the left list extends
outside the list and joins the colored border on the right list.

I have a custom item renderer on which I've set clipContent='false'. This
lets me draw outside the bounds of the item renderer, but *not* outside of the
bounds of the list. Because a list is not a Container, there is no
corresponding clipContent property on List.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Justin Voshell

[flexcoders] Drawing outside a list with an ItemRenderer

[justin.voshell]

Hello,

I have been tasked with constructing an interface in Flex which features two 
lists, side by side.  The content of the list on the right is driven by the 
selection of an item from the list on the left.

To highlight this dependency visually, the list on the right has been given a 
3px border with a color that matches the selection color of the list on the 
left.

The tricky part is this: I need to create the visual impression that the 
colored selection box around the selected item in the left list extends 
outside the list and joins the colored border on the right list.

I have a custom item renderer on which I've set clipContent='false'.  This 
lets me draw outside the bounds of the item renderer, but *not* outside of the 
bounds of the list.  Because a list is not a Container, there is no 
corresponding clipContent property on List.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Justin Voshell

[flexcoders] Re: Adding the same mask to several Sprites

[ACasualObserver]

Thanks for the quick response, Ryan.

The sprite has an array of a MyArea class we created. MyArea class has
an array of vertexes. The draw method of the sprite calls the draw
method of each of MyArea instances in the array.

mySprite
  |
   - components
 |
  - myArea1 
 |
  - myArea2 
 |
  - myArea3 

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Ryan Graham"  wrote:
>
> 
> That is the standard behavior for masks in the framework.  Can you
> provide a little more info on what type of display object your mask is?
> That would help us make suggestions for replicating the mask, or an
> object close enough (e.g. a rectangular display object would be much
> easier to clone/fake than an object with a more organic shape).
> 
>  
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ryan
> 
>  
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of ACasualObserver
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:54 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Adding the same mask to several Sprites
> 
>  
> 
> In AS3, I created 3 sprites (S1, S2, and S3). I would like to do the
> following:
> 
> S1.mask = S3;
> S2.mask = S3;
> 
> The result is that mask is only applied to S2. If I remove the second
> line, it is applied to S1. It seems that setting the mask of S2 to S3
> removes S3 as mask of S1. Is there a solution for this?
> 
> Recreating S3 from scratch is not possible in my app but if there was
> a way to copy/clone it, it would work.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in
error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.
>

RE: [flexcoders] Adding the same mask to several Sprites

[Ryan Graham]

That is the standard behavior for masks in the framework.  Can you
provide a little more info on what type of display object your mask is?
That would help us make suggestions for replicating the mask, or an
object close enough (e.g. a rectangular display object would be much
easier to clone/fake than an object with a more organic shape).

 

HTH,

Ryan

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of ACasualObserver
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:54 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Adding the same mask to several Sprites

 

In AS3, I created 3 sprites (S1, S2, and S3). I would like to do the
following:

S1.mask = S3;
S2.mask = S3;

The result is that mask is only applied to S2. If I remove the second
line, it is applied to S1. It seems that setting the mask of S2 to S3
removes S3 as mask of S1. Is there a solution for this?

Recreating S3 from scratch is not possible in my app but if there was
a way to copy/clone it, it would work.

Thanks in advance.

 



This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, 
please notify the sender and remove it from your system.

[flexcoders] Adding the same mask to several Sprites

[ACasualObserver]

In AS3, I created 3 sprites (S1, S2, and S3). I would like to do the
following:

S1.mask = S3;
S2.mask = S3;

The result is that mask is only applied to S2. If I remove the second
line, it is applied to S1. It seems that setting the mask of S2 to S3
removes S3 as mask of S1. Is there a solution for this?

Recreating S3 from scratch is not possible in my app but if there was
a way to copy/clone it, it would work.

Thanks in advance.

[flexcoders] DateField JDBC

[Mike Oliver]

It seems odd or even cumbersome to tie the DateField control through to a
Date column in a JDBC database using the "text" property of the DateField. 
The format out of the DateField doesn't match the format for a JDBC date so
you must reformat the "01/21/2009" to "2009-01-21".  That's not so tough,
but it seems odd that there isn't a method to get the right format string
out of the control.  The selectedDate is ok, but if you are using a REST
interface, then you need to convert that to a string...shouldn't controls be
created to serve the most common implementations and isn't backing a form
with JDBC one of if not the most common implementation?
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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing issues OR is it my code?

[Kyle Quevillon]

These may help understand what is going on:

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1426
http://underdevelopment.maravillaclan.net/?p=7

And a forum post:
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.flash/browse_thread/thread/69c5c668117d26af/26a38122dd97720f?lnk=raot

 In FP 10, bitmaps are no longer restricted to a max size of 2880x2800.  Now
they can be 4096*4096 with a max of 8192 for any dimension.

 Flash authoring has always, and still, restricts the stage size to 2880x2880.
HTH

-Kyle

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of flexaustin
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:40 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing issues OR is it 
my code?


UPDATE: Ok it looks like the stage runs out of display room. Does the
Flash player stage have a maximum size? My app is a diagram that can
go as large as 10,000 pixels wide. If I scale up to 1.75 while viewing
the right side of my diagram all is good, but when I go to the left
side of the diagram, thus placing it in center of the screen, and zoom
to 1.75 its like all graphics disappear and only textfields are shown.

If anyone knows of any screen capture software I can create a video
and post it.

TIA, J

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, 
"flexaustin"  wrote:
>
> I have this code in my custom component that contains a slider and
> when my slider is set to a scale of 1.75 (yes things are scaled very
> large in my app) my custom components on the stage disappear? What I
> mean by disappear is that my components scale as they should but when
> it hits 1..75 scale everything in my component disappears except for
> the any textfields.
>
> I can't seem to find any issues. Not sure if this a bug or my code.
> Here is the code.
>
> 
>
> http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> click="stopProp(event)"
> creationComplete="init()"
> horizontalAlign="center"
> width="35">
>
> 
> 
> 
>
> 
> 
>  horizontalScrollPolicy="off" top="3">
> 
>  styleName="{getStyle('sliderStyle')}"
> height="95%"
> id="bzoom"
> values="[25]"
> maxHeight="140"
> minimum="{ZOOM_MIN}"
> maximum="{ZOOM_MAX}"
> tickInterval="25"
> tickLength="0"
> snapInterval="25"
> liveDragging="true"
> change="updateVScale(event)"
> click="stopProp(event)"
> mouseDown="stopProp(event)"
> sliderThumbClass="{CSpSliderThumb}"
> thumbCount="1"
> showDataTip="true"
> left="4"
> top="25"/>
>  id="plusZoom"
> alpha="0"
> icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoominIcon}"
> cornerRadius="2"
> width="16"
> height="16"
> left="9"
> click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_UP);stopProp(event);"
> top="6"/>
>  id="minusZoom"
> alpha="0"
> icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoomoutIcon}"
> cornerRadius="2"
> width="16"
> height="16"
> left="9"
> click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_DOWN);stopProp(event);"
> top="{bzoom.y + bzoom.height + 3}"/>
> 
>
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

<><>

[flexcoders] Re: Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing issues OR is it my code?

[flexaustin]

UPDATE: Ok it looks like the stage runs out of display room. Does the
Flash player stage have a maximum size?  My app is a diagram that can
go as large as 10,000 pixels wide. If I scale up to 1.75 while viewing
the right side of my diagram all is good, but when I go to the left
side of the diagram, thus placing it in center of the screen, and zoom
to 1.75 its like all graphics disappear and only textfields are shown. 

If anyone knows of any screen capture software I can create a video
and post it.

TIA, J

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "flexaustin"  wrote:
>
> I have this code in my custom component that contains a slider and
> when my slider is set to a scale of 1.75 (yes things are scaled very
> large in my app) my custom components on the stage disappear? What I
> mean by disappear is that my components scale as they should but when
> it hits 1..75 scale everything in my component disappears except for
> the any textfields.
> 
> I can't seem to find any issues. Not sure if this a bug or my code. 
> Here is the code.
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; 
>   click="stopProp(event)" 
>   creationComplete="init()"
>   horizontalAlign="center"
>   width="35">
> 
>   
>   
>   
> 
> 
>   
>horizontalScrollPolicy="off" top="3">
>   
>  styleName="{getStyle('sliderStyle')}"
>   height="95%"
>   id="bzoom"
>   values="[25]"
>   maxHeight="140"
>   minimum="{ZOOM_MIN}"
>   maximum="{ZOOM_MAX}"
>   tickInterval="25"
>   tickLength="0"
>   snapInterval="25"
>   liveDragging="true"
>   change="updateVScale(event)"
>   click="stopProp(event)"
>   mouseDown="stopProp(event)"
>   sliderThumbClass="{CSpSliderThumb}"
>   thumbCount="1"
>   showDataTip="true"  
>   left="4" 
>   top="25"/>
>  id="plusZoom"
>   alpha="0"
>   icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoominIcon}"
>   cornerRadius="2"
>   width="16"
>   height="16"
>   left="9"
>   
> click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_UP);stopProp(event);"
>   top="6"/>   
>  id="minusZoom"
>   alpha="0"
>   icon="{EmbeddedIcons.zoomoutIcon}"
>   cornerRadius="2"
>   width="16"
>   height="16"
>   left="9"
>   
> click="handleZoomButtonClick(ZoomSlider.ZOOM_DOWN);stopProp(event);"
>   top="{bzoom.y + bzoom.height + 3}"/>
>   
> 
>   
>   
>   
> 
>

[flexcoders] Hslider and Vslider (Fx 3.2) causing issues OR is it my code?

[flexaustin]

I have this code in my custom component that contains a slider and
when my slider is set to a scale of 1.75 (yes things are scaled very
large in my app) my custom components on the stage disappear? What I
mean by disappear is that my components scale as they should but when
it hits 1..75 scale everything in my component disappears except for
the any textfields.

I can't seem to find any issues. Not sure if this a bug or my code. 
Here is the code.



http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; 
click="stopProp(event)" 
creationComplete="init()"
horizontalAlign="center"
width="35">










   

RE: [flexcoders] configuring trace

[Yves Riel]

You mean in the sense that you want to change the level for a production
release without recompiling the swf? We use a configuration file. If the
trace level is not in the config file or if the config file is not there
altogether, the level defaults to 8.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Paul Andrews]

- Original Message - 
From: "Amy" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI


> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>>
>> No, I decline.  I prefer to see the context in every post.
>
> Here's the thread in the archive
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/134714.  That's
> an easy way to see the conversation in context.
>
> It's common courtesy to snip posts--you don't know what environment
> people are reading the forum in (it might be via their cell phone), and
> I don't understand why so many people on here feel common courtesy is
> beneath them.

We're all human Amy and forget from time to time. I'm sure you've been 
guilty yourself sometimes.

If it comes to a question of stifling an interesting discussion and paring 
posts right down, I'm sure most people would err on the odd transgression.

I think that's pretty courteous.

Paul

> -Amy

[flexcoders] configuring trace

[Dimitrios Gianninas]

Configuring debug tracing in Flex is pretty easy, just do something like so:
 
var t:TraceTarget = new TraceTarget();
t.level = 1;
 
But for PROD, I want the level to be 8... is this the only way? Is there a 
better way? How do you guys handle it?
 
 
Dimitrios Gianninas
RIA Developer Team Lead
Optimal Payments Inc.
 

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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Tracy Spratt]

"...you don't know what environment people are reading the forum in..."
Precisely.  Removing the context is no courtesy to me.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Amy
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:51 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> No, I decline. I prefer to see the context in every post.

Here's the thread in the archive 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/134714.
  That's 
an easy way to see the conversation in context. 

It's common courtesy to snip posts--you don't know what environment 
people are reading the forum in (it might be via their cell phone), and 
I don't understand why so many people on here feel common courtesy is 
beneath them.

-Amy

 

RE: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Tracy Spratt]

Well it is only the architecture that is "simple".  If you have complex
requirements, the implementation will be complex as well.

 

"Data model" is a generic term for some accesible structure that holds
data, not a class.  It is not "static".

 

In the creationComplete handler of each of your child swf's, you might
have something like:

var xmlProject:XML =
Application.application.MyModel.getProjectData(ProjectId);

 

That assumes the data is already in the model.  If a data service call
is required, you would need do something like:

Application.application.MyModel.fetchProjectData(ProjectId);  

 

Then have a listener or ChangeWatcher listeneing to a model property.
When the data call returns in myModel, it sets the value of the bindable
property, and the watcher in the child swf is called with the retrieved
data.

 

But the core idea is that all components communicate via the model.

 

Using a model and events is probably "best", but you can also go
straight through dom references.  Listeners can be added to dynamically
created components, so you would not need specific, named references to
the child swfs.  You would listen for the applicationComplete event, as
in my example, then pass the project Id or something into the child swf.
If you passed it in via a setter, you could invoke the get data from
within that function.  Of if you already have the project data ready
when you load the swf, pass it in.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian Williams
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:45 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

 

Hi Tracy,

Oh if only it were that easy!! Looks like it's gonna have to be much
deeperhere's why...

A project manager can have any number of projects they run...

The dashboard is setup so they have access to all their projects via
one dashboard

Basically, when they login, I get a list of all the projects they
manageand then create a simple viewStack with tabNavigator, one tab
for each of the projects they run. Each tab has the "same" widgets, only
loaded with the data specific to the project for the tab they are
looking at (much akin to having several tabs opened in Firefox, all of
them on Amazon, yet on each one, I'm looking for a book different from
the other tabs.) 

The widgets are simple stand-alone apps that are repatedly used in
each tab...i.e. projectStatistics.swf is used once on every tab (i.e.
for every project) on the dashboard.  For each instance of the widget,
it needs to know the project name so it can query the data for that
specific project.  

All of this is created dynamically in my actionscript (will paste
below).  In addition, the user can customize (and persist in the db)
their widget configuration for each project (tab). So, with my 3-column
layout, they might have, on [Tab1] Project 1,  column 1, Widgets A, C
and D while on [Tab2] Project 2, column 1, Widgets A, B, F, Q. All of
this persistence is read from the database upon their login and the code
simply builds their dashboard, tabs and widgets based on their last know
setup.  

Since this is so dynamic, I don't think I can get away with trying
to access any static public variables via application.application.  I've
taken a look at your example on cflex.net on manipulating the .content
property, but it looks like I need to specifically reference each of the
loaded widgets, which is not very simple considering their dynamic
loading...

Any other ideas? And I cannot seem to find much regarding the data
model in flex you mentioned...

Best,
Adrian
private function
getGapWidgetConfigurationsResult(event:ResultEvent):void
{
gapWidgetConfigs = event.result as ArrayCollection;
buildViewstack();
}

private function buildViewstack():void
{
for each (var project:Object in projectsArray)
{
var projectName:String = project.label;
var newCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas();
newCanvas.id = "canvas" + projectName;
newCanvas.label = projectName;
newCanvas.percentHeight = 100;
newCanvas.percentWidth = 100;
dashboardMainViewstack.addChild(newCanvas);

var newHBox:HBox = new HBox();
newHBox.id = "hbox" + projectName;
newHBox.percentHeight = 100;
newHBox.percentWidth = 100;
newCanvas.addChild(newHBox);   

for (var i:int = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
var newVBox:VBox = new VBox();
   

[flexcoders] Re: copyright notices in code

[jim.abbott45]

For your compiled code:

If you are compiling an application, then the first screen that a user
sees (splash screen, login form, etc.) should have a copyright notice.
If you are compiling a library or resource file of some sort, you may
want to include a string which contains a copyright notice.

The above does NOT constitute legal advice!
--Jim


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "arieljake"  wrote:
>
> How do people add copyright notices to their code? When they create a
> new file? 
> 
> What if the notice changes? Do they use ant to add it before
> compilation to each file? 
> 
> Does compiling Flex remove the copyright notice? If so, should one
> worry about having a copyright notice in the code for if/when it is
> decompiled?
> 
> Anyone notice that comments are removed from an MXML file when it is
> edited in design mode?
> 
> Any and all responses are invited!
>

[flexcoders] Re: Navigational Design Patterns?

[jim.abbott45]

FWIW, I have to concur with the advice that Tracy gave you and I can
also recommend--HIGHLY--the content at the link that Haykel gave you.

In short, use Wizard-style navigation for
infrequent/complex/inherently multi-step tasks. For the rest of
(usually, most of) your tasks, use a more fluid navigational
mechanism, such as Hub-and-Spoke.


--Jim


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, nwebb  wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> We have a modular Flex project.
> Each screen has "back" and "next " buttons.
> 
> There are various routes through the application and I'm about to
re-write
> the logic which determines where the buttons take the user when they are
> pressed (what is already in place is overly complex).
> 
> I'm guessing that there are fairly established methods for achieving
this
> and would be interested to see what exists, rather than roll out a
bespoke
> solution. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good resource?
> 
> Cheers,
> Neil
>

[flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui  wrote:
>
> Default styles for 3rd party components is a rough spot in Flex 3.  
Default styles are usually defined in a CSS type selector (see 
defaults.css for examples), but third parties have to do a more 
difficult dance since they can't append to defaults.css.  There is a 
pattern for doing this in the docs and has been discussed on this 
forum.  In it involves a classConstruct() function IIRC

Which just goes to show that if you can't get an answer to your 
question the first time around, wait for someone else to post the same 
question and give them your best guess :-).  Then you'll get a 
correction from someone that gets you a little closer to the real 
answer.

-Amy

[flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> No, I decline.  I prefer to see the context in every post.

Here's the thread in the archive 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/134714.  That's 
an easy way to see the conversation in context.  

It's common courtesy to snip posts--you don't know what environment 
people are reading the forum in (it might be via their cell phone), and 
I don't understand why so many people on here feel common courtesy is 
beneath them.

-Amy

Re: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Adrian Williams]

Hi Tracy,

   Oh if only it were that easy!! Looks like it's gonna have to be much 
deeperhere's why...


   A project manager can have any number of projects they run...
  
   The dashboard is setup so they have access to all their projects via 
one dashboard


   Basically, when they login, I get a list of all the projects they 
manageand then create a simple viewStack with tabNavigator, one tab 
for each of the projects they run. Each tab has the "same" widgets, only 
loaded with the data specific to the project for the tab they are 
looking at (much akin to having several tabs opened in Firefox, all of 
them on Amazon, yet on each one, I'm looking for a book different from 
the other tabs.)


   The widgets are simple stand-alone apps that are repatedly used in 
each tab...i.e. projectStatistics.swf is used once on every tab (i.e. 
for every project) on the dashboard.  For each instance of the widget, 
it needs to know the project name so it can query the data for that 
specific project. 

   All of this is created dynamically in my actionscript (will paste 
below).  In addition, the user can customize (and persist in the db) 
their widget configuration for each project (tab). So, with my 3-column 
layout, they might have, on [Tab1] Project 1,  column 1, Widgets A, C 
and D while on [Tab2] Project 2, column 1, Widgets A, B, F, Q. All of 
this persistence is read from the database upon their login and the code 
simply builds their dashboard, tabs and widgets based on their last know 
setup. 

   Since this is so dynamic, I don't think I can get away with trying 
to access any static public variables via application.application.  I've 
taken a look at your example on cflex.net on manipulating the .content 
property, but it looks like I need to specifically reference each of the 
loaded widgets, which is not very simple considering their dynamic 
loading...


   Any other ideas? And I cannot seem to find much regarding the data 
model in flex you mentioned...


Best,
Adrian
   private function 
getGapWidgetConfigurationsResult(event:ResultEvent):void

   {
   gapWidgetConfigs = event.result as ArrayCollection;
   buildViewstack();
   }
   
   private function buildViewstack():void

   {
   for each (var project:Object in projectsArray)
   {
   var projectName:String = project.label;
   var newCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas();
   newCanvas.id = "canvas" + projectName;
   newCanvas.label = projectName;
   newCanvas.percentHeight = 100;
   newCanvas.percentWidth = 100;
   dashboardMainViewstack.addChild(newCanvas);
   
   var newHBox:HBox = new HBox();

   newHBox.id = "hbox" + projectName;
   newHBox.percentHeight = 100;
   newHBox.percentWidth = 100;
   newCanvas.addChild(newHBox);   
   
   for (var i:int = 0; i < 3; i++)

   {
   var newVBox:VBox = new VBox();
   newVBox.id = "col" + i + projectName;
   newVBox.percentWidth = 33;
   newVBox.percentHeight = 100;
   newVBox.setStyle("borderStyle", "solid");
   newVBox.setStyle("borderThickness", "1");
   newVBox.setStyle("cornerRadius", "4");
   newVBox.setStyle("horizontalAlign", "center");
   newVBox.setStyle("horizontalCenter", "0");
   newVBox.setStyle("paddingTop", "5");
   newVBox.setStyle("paddingBottom", "5");
   newVBox.setStyle("backgroundColor", "#FCF3D3");
  
newVBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,setMouseDownTrue);
  
newVBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,setMouseDownFalse);
  
newVBox.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER,checkAndHandleDE);
  
newVBox.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_DROP,checkAndHandleDD);
   
   newHBox.addChild(newVBox);
   
   for each (var widgets:Object in gapWidgetConfigs)

   {
   if (widgets.DisplayColumn == i + 1 && 
widgets.BcgGroup == projectName && widgets.Active == 1)

   {
   var newPanel:SuperPanelPlus = new 
SuperPanelPlus();

   newPanel.id = widgets.PanelId;
   newPanel.title = widgets.Title;
   newPanel.y = 0;
   newPanel.percentHeight = widgets.Height;
   newPanel.percentWidth = 98;
   

[flexcoders] Re: input text currency mask ?

[rockorgames]

ah decided to stop looking for such component and did this on my own,
its not the best thing but is working good enough, if any1 wants the
code just reply and i post it here.. (warning its ugly lol)

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rockorgames"  wrote:
>
> does anyone know any function/component for a inputtext to format when
> the guy is typing to currency format ?
> 
> i know there is the currency formatter, but then.. it would not work
> as the user inputs the data
>

[flexcoders] Re: StyleManager weirdness

[Rich Tretola]

It appears that the issue was the loadstyledeclarations() update flag being
set to true was causing the UI to have these issues.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Rich Tretola  wrote:

> When using StyleManager loadstyledeclarations() to load fonts at runtime,
> we are seeing strange issues with UI elements either disappearing or moving
> on stage during the load process. Once the load completes, the UI elements
> return to their correct positions. Has anyone else noticed anything like
> this?
>
> Rich
>

Re: [flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?

[Pan Troglodytes]

Any hint on what that topic might be under in the docs?  I'm having trouble
finding it.


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Alex Harui  wrote:

>Default styles for 3rd party components is a rough spot in Flex 3.
> Default styles are usually defined in a CSS type selector (see defaults.css
> for examples), but third parties have to do a more difficult dance since
> they can't append to defaults.css.  There is a pattern for doing this in the
> docs and has been discussed on this forum.  In it involves a
> classConstruct() function IIRC
>
>
>
> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Amy
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:55 AM
> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?
>
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Pan
> Troglodytes 
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been dinking with extending PopUpButton and have run into
> something
> > that really puzzles me - how does it know to load PopUpButtonSkin by
> > default? There is no code that mentions it in PopUpButton. Is it
> somehow
> > selected based on the class name?
>
> There's a globals.css that seems to get compiled in by default.
>
> > In my PopUpButton descendant, I want it to load a different skin by
> > default. Do I just have to hardcode it into the constructor (or
> somewhere
> > else that initializes the component), or is there some more
> > standard/graceful way?
>
> I couldn't find a way to fudge this that was any easier than just
> having a css declaration for the subcomponent. If you want it to
> travel with your component, though, I suspect you'll have to put it
> into the constructor, since you probably don't want to assume other
> developers have included your style declaration in their globals.css.
>
> HTH;
>
> Amy
>
> HTH;
>
> Amy
>
>   
>



-- 
Jason

[flexcoders] LCDS read-only problems

[Kevin]

Has anyone had problems updating data managed read-only collections?   
Here are two different scenarios that are causing us problems.


We have an Object1 that has a one-to-many/many-to-one bi-directional  
"read-only" collection of Object2's.


Method 1:
We create a new Object2 and add the reference to Object1 to this object
We then commit Object2 using dataService.commit([Object2])
We handle the result of that commit and then add Object2 to the  
collection in Object1

We then commit Object1

Problem... when we use this method, the Object1 id appears in the  
Object2 table after the commit of Object2, however then in the next  
commit of Object1, it gets changed to NULL.



Method 2:
We create a new Object2 and add the reference to Object1 to this object
We then add Object2 to the collection in Object1
We then commit Object1

Problem... when we use this method, the commit of Object1 takes an  
extraordinarily long time.  It also hangs the browser as if the Flash  
Player is being pushed to it's limit.  Our Object2 collections have  
only 2-3 items in them and there are only about 250 Object1's in the  
database so it's not like we are dealing with huge amounts of data at  
this point.


Any thought or ideas about this would really help us.  We are  
completely stuck at this point since neither method produces any  
error messages.


Thanks!

Kevin

Re: [flexcoders] flex builder student version

[Sam Lai]

Yes - I've built an app using a student license from
flexregistration.com and it has no watermarks on the charting
components.

Even better, there is no limitation if you wish to commercialise your
creation - no need to buy a copy of Flex Builder for commercial
purposes.

2009/1/22 hworke :
>
>
>  Hi does the the student/faculty version license of
>  flex builder will remove the water mark from the
>  flex charting?
>
>  Regards
>
>
> 
>
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>
>
>
>

[flexcoders] StyleManager weirdness

[Rich Tretola]

When using StyleManager loadstyledeclarations() to load fonts at runtime, we
are seeing strange issues with UI elements either disappearing or moving on
stage during the load process. Once the load completes, the UI elements
return to their correct positions. Has anyone else noticed anything like
this?

Rich

[flexcoders] Re: HTML and Flex

[jim.abbott45]

OK, I'll bite . . .

The only solution that I can think of, off the top of my head, is to
pop up a new browser window and embed just the TinyMCE instance in
that window. When the user has committed their changes in the editor
window, use JavaScript and Flex's ExternalInterface API to get the
edited content back into the Flex world. And you need some code to
close the pop up window, etc.

Personally, I'd try real hard to work around that scrolling issue you
mentioned, first, before I implemented the pop-up.

--Jim

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "bffoley"  wrote:
>
> I have a client who I am making a full-page Flex application for.  We
> originally had the application embeded in the HTML page, but because
> of Flex's "Browser and VBox scrollbars scrolling together" bug, I had
> to made the application show the full page, including the other
> content in the page which I had to recreate in MXML.  
> 
> The issue here is the client uses TinyMCE in some homemade CMS to make
> updates to the rest of the content on the page, and he doesn't want to
> give this up.  I haven't been able to find a solution that lets us
> import the HTML he creates in TinyMCE into the Flex app.  I've seen a
> few iframe options that wont work because of the scrollbars (the
> iframe stays in the same spot, no matter where you scroll up and down
> on the page), and some other option I found that converts HTML to a
> Flash-friendly format doesnt support tables (only DIV tags), which
> TinyMCE relies on heavily.
> 
> What are my options here?  Is there some sort of solution I can do
> here that would allow a person who's not technical but likes WYSIWYG
> editors to get new content into a Flex app?
>

[flexcoders] Re: What is the results of a web service

[valdhor]

I looked at the response with Charles and with the variables debug
window.

The response is basically an arrayCollection of arrayCollections.

The following code will display the title of the first data item
(Story). You should be able to extrapolate this easily for the rest of
the data (ie. a for loop):


http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
creationComplete="onCreationComplete()">
 
 
 
 


Run this with a breakpoint on the second line of the function
resultHandler. You should be able to look at the resultArrColl variable
and see that each object in the arrayCollection is itself an
arrayCollection. Each object in that arrayCollection has 4 items -
linktext, story, photo and defaultLogo.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Wally Kolcz"  wrote:
>
> I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information
coming back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:
>
> http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl";
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway Error')">
> 
> 
>
> It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I
cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the various
elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)
>
> I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:
>
> [Bindable]
> public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection();
>
> public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
> storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;
>
>   for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length; i++){
>
> ...
> //Story Area
> var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
> storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
> storyArea.wordWrap = true;
> storyArea.height = 550;
> storyArea.width = 400;
> storyArea.editable = false;
> magPage.addChild(storyArea);
> storyArea.x = 0;
> storyArea.y = 25;
>
>...
>
> }
> rssMag.flipOnClick = true;
> }
>
> But still getting errors..
> TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
object reference.
> at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My Documents\Flex
Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]
>
> Line 36 is:
> storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
>
> Help!
>

[flexcoders] Re: Font's not loading in IE?

[tchredeemed]

I am actually embedding them like this:


I have a module BickhamPro.mxml:

on creationComplete I call creationCompleteHandler();

[Embed(source='assets/Bickham Script Pro.ttf', fontFamily='Bickham
Script Pro', fontName='Bickham Script Pro', fontWeight="normal",
fontStyle="normal", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")] 
private static var _bickhamScriptPro:Class;

private function creationCompleteHandler():void {
Font.registerFont( _bickhamScriptPro );
}


When the app is loaded, I load the module into a moduleLoader and add
it as a child to the main application.

This seems to work on a mac but not on a pc... I do not believe that
everyone who has tested this has the fonts installed, I could be wrong.

Do you see anything wrong with the code or should I explore each
computer for the fonts?

RE: [flexcoders] Flash Detection

[Yves Riel]

Maybe you could, through InstallShield, look at the
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash key under the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT in the
registry. The CurVer sub-key will give you the current version of the
Flash Plugin. You can then decide to force the upgrade before you
install your app. I have done that once but I don't know if it will
properly work for non English based OS. I assume so but I'm not sure.



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Chang
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:05 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flash Detection



Hi,

I have a program which has a normal desktop setup (installshield). After
install and on launch it launches an IE window and inside it's Flex.
Now I want to require minimum version of 10, but it's breaking my
program using javascript detection as in
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/
 .

My question is, is it possible to detect version of Flash not through
the browser? I want to be able to read some registry. 
Otherwise, can I bypass the automatic detection and upgrade mechanism by
any chance? I'm having major problem with the way Adobe is doing it,
which is upgrading, closing the window, and relaunching the same page.
Can I detect that it's less than 10, than just give user a link
(redirect to some other page), without going through how Adobe upgrades
inside the browser?

Thanks,

Mike


 

[flexcoders] flex builder student version

[hworke]

  Hi does the the student/faculty version license of
  flex builder will remove the water mark from the
  flex charting?

  Regards 

[flexcoders] 3.2 plus datavisualization

[Richard Rodseth]

I have yet to upgrade to 3.2, and I'm not sure that the Flexbuilder 3.0.2
upgrade I did a while back was fully successful (I use the plug-in).

So I was thinking of downloading the SDK 3.2 separately and adding it to
flexbuilder. But I need the datavisualization classes. Is it OK to copy
datavisualization.swc to the libs folder of my 3.2 SDK? It looks as though
there is also stuff in dataviz stuff in locales. Anything else?

[flexcoders] Flash Detection

[Mike Chang]

Hi,

I have a program which has a normal desktop setup (installshield). After
install and on launch it launches an IE window and inside it's Flex.
Now I want to require minimum version of 10, but it's breaking my program
using javascript detection as in
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/.

My question is, is it possible to detect version of Flash not through the
browser? I want to be able to read some registry.
Otherwise, can I bypass the automatic detection and upgrade mechanism by any
chance? I'm having major problem with the way Adobe is doing it, which is
upgrading, closing the window, and relaunching the same page.
Can I detect that it's less than 10, than just give user a link (redirect to
some other page), without going through how Adobe upgrades inside the
browser?

Thanks,

Mike

RE: [flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?

[Alex Harui]

Default styles for 3rd party components is a rough spot in Flex 3.  Default 
styles are usually defined in a CSS type selector (see defaults.css for 
examples), but third parties have to do a more difficult dance since they can't 
append to defaults.css.  There is a pattern for doing this in the docs and has 
been discussed on this forum.  In it involves a classConstruct() function IIRC

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Amy
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:55 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Pan 
Troglodytes 
wrote:
>
> I've been dinking with extending PopUpButton and have run into
something
> that really puzzles me - how does it know to load PopUpButtonSkin by
> default? There is no code that mentions it in PopUpButton. Is it
somehow
> selected based on the class name?

There's a globals.css that seems to get compiled in by default.

> In my PopUpButton descendant, I want it to load a different skin by
> default. Do I just have to hardcode it into the constructor (or
somewhere
> else that initializes the component), or is there some more
> standard/graceful way?

I couldn't find a way to fudge this that was any easier than just
having a css declaration for the subcomponent. If you want it to
travel with your component, though, I suspect you'll have to put it
into the constructor, since you probably don't want to assume other
developers have included your style declaration in their globals.css.

HTH;

Amy

HTH;

Amy

[flexcoders] Re: input text currency mask ?

[rockorgames]

hm forget it.. it doesnt work

any1 else have anything else ?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rockorgames"  wrote:
>
> hm found it here: 
> 
>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1616518#
> 
> 
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rockorgames"  wrote:
> >
> > does anyone know any function/component for a inputtext to format when
> > the guy is typing to currency format ?
> > 
> > i know there is the currency formatter, but then.. it would not work
> > as the user inputs the data
> >
>

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Tracy Spratt]

No, I decline.  I prefer to see the context in every post.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Amy
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:58 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> No, please, keep this on line. I have been following it closely 
because
> I will be designing and implementing a permissions system in the next
> couple months. I am finding the discussion very helpful.

Could we please start trimming it, though? There doesn't need to be a 
rehash of the entire discussion sent out to everyone every time someone 
adds to the discussion.

Thanks for your courtesy, as I am confident everyone involved in the 
discussion will extend it.

-Amy

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

[Tracy Spratt]

Yes, this is a problem, as I noted previously.  Re-parenting is not the
problem.  Perhaps you should start a new thread with the right subject.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:01 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

 

Thanks but this is exactly what I tried before writing this question. I
was not able to actually take a node and make it a child of another
node. The only exception to this is when the target node already has
children and that the children are already visible in the tree. If the
target node is close or has no children ... it's impossible ... at least
for me :-)

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:37 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

Yes, there is an example in the docs under the heading:

"Using drag-and-drop with list-based controls"

Subheading:

Dragging and dropping in the same control

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

Hmm, that should be standard functionality.  I have used Tree DnD to
rearrange xml regularly, though not recently.  I wil look for a simple
example.  Have you tried this?

As I recall, it can be difficult to drop the first child node into an
empty parent.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:59 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

I looked in the archive but didn't find any useful information for this.
So, here it is: I have a Flex Tree component in which I want to
re-parent a node using drag & drop. Basically, I want to be able to take
a node, drag it on top of another node and that the dragged node be
added as a child. The standard Flex Tree will not allow this (unless I
don't know how to set it up) and I didn't find any open source component
on the net. Does any one have or has seen such a tree?

Thanks!

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Sizing issue

[Alex Harui]

You can try making copies of every DataGridColumn as once they are used some 
fields get set so they don't get treated the same the next time.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Dharmendra Chauhan
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:13 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Sizing issue


Hi Alex,
Thanks for the reply.
I am reseting column every time when I add remove any column from from
DataGrid Column.But It still scaled last column up to right most of
dataGrid.
I am summing size of all column and assigning it to datagrid.width
and calling datagrid.validateNow() method. still it is not resizing
size of dataGrid.

Any idea ,which method i need to call to ask container to resize it.

Regards,
Dharmendra

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex 
Harui  wrote:
>
> When horizontalScrollPolicy="off" (default), all columns are scaled
to fit within the width of the DG. It makes it kind of hard to insert
one column and get the sizing you want because existing columns get an
extra attempt their sizes honored. One solution is to totally reset
the columns array.
>
> If horizontalScrollPolicy="on" or "auto" columns do not get scaled
but the last column will get stretched as necessary so we don't leave
dead space at the far right of the scroll area.
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Dharmendra Chauhan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:02 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid Column Sizing issue
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have designed a custom dataGrid which allows user to select
> column which he wants to be visiable.Here is the issue which I have
> been facing:
>
> When user select two column to be visiable,
>
> Lets assume Col1.with = 25 ,
>
> Col2.with = 20 ,
>
> Expected Result:
>
> It should occupy 25+20 pixel space and adjust
> datagrid size accordingly.
>
> Actual Result:
>
> Col1 is occupying correct space but col2 occupies
> all rest of the space available on the right hand side i.e. col2 is
> to occupying more space than it is suppose to be.
>
> I want col2 to occupy only 20 pixel space.
>
> datagird height and width both are 100 %
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dharmendra Chouhan
>

RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

[Yves Riel]

Thanks but this is exactly what I tried before writing this question. I
was not able to actually take a node and make it a child of another
node. The only exception to this is when the target node already has
children and that the children are already visible in the tree. If the
target node is close or has no children ... it's impossible ... at least
for me :-)




From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:37 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop



Yes, there is an example in the docs under the heading:

"Using drag-and-drop with list-based controls"

Subheading:

Dragging and dropping in the same control

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

Hmm, that should be standard functionality.  I have used Tree DnD to
rearrange xml regularly, though not recently.  I wil look for a simple
example.  Have you tried this?

As I recall, it can be difficult to drop the first child node into an
empty parent.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:59 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

I looked in the archive but didn't find any useful information for this.
So, here it is: I have a Flex Tree component in which I want to
re-parent a node using drag & drop. Basically, I want to be able to take
a node, drag it on top of another node and that the dragged node be
added as a child. The standard Flex Tree will not allow this (unless I
don't know how to set it up) and I didn't find any open source component
on the net. Does any one have or has seen such a tree?

Thanks!

 

Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Wally Kolcz]

Well, still getting the same error. 



From: "Wally Kolcz" 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:51 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the resultsgeof a web service 

Thanks. Totally forgot about the resultFormat. So used to using RemoteObjects, 
but we have Blue Disaster(opps, Dragon) here at the U.


From: Adrian Williams 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:47 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service 


Hi Wally,

Any particular reason you are not setting a resultFormat on your

mx:operation? For example:



Adrian

Wally Kolcz wrote:

I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information

coming back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:

http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl";

fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway

Error')">





It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I

cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the various

elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)

I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]

public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new

ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {

storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length;

i++){

...

//Story Area

var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();

storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;

storyArea.wordWrap = true;

storyArea.height = 550;

storyArea.width = 400;

storyArea.editable = false;

magPage.addChild(storyArea);

storyArea.x = 0;

storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}

rssMag.flipOnClick = true;

}

But still getting errors..

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null

object reference.

at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My

Documents\Flex Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]

Line 36 is:

storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;

Help!

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Big issue with keyboard mapping on Windows

[Alex Harui]

Dump out the Keyboard events.  Are they different?

ALT is definitely a problem in Flash plugins.  The Browser's often steal ALT.  
Try using Buzzword and see if it has the same problem.  They have a complex 
keyboard mechanism that uses JS to capture keystrokes and forward to Flash.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Sebastien ARBOGAST
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:23 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Big issue with keyboard mapping on Windows


Does anybody have an idea about this one?
Because I'm still stuck on it and I'm going crazy!

Sébastien Arbogast

http://sebastien-arbogast.com

2008/12/18 Sebastien ARBOGAST 
mailto:sebastien.arbog...@gmail.com>>
I'm currently developing a Flex 3 business application on a Mac laptop with a 
French Belgian keyboard.
Everything worked great until some customers started to notice that they can't 
type some characters in my app under Windows.
It seems like the main problem is with the top digit keys on the main keyboard: 
accentuated characters are correctly typed. For example '2' and 'é' are on the 
same key and normally I have to press Shift+'2' to actually get a '2'. Yet, on 
Windows (XP or Vista), all I get is a 'é', whether I press Shift or not. 
Furthermore, Ctrl+Alt characters like '@' are simply impossible to type.

Is anyone aware of any problem with internationalization and keyboard mapping? 
Is there a way to solve that? (I hope so because this one is likely to ruin my 
entire project!)

Sébastien Arbogast

http://sebastien-arbogast.com

RE: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Tracy Spratt]

"object' is the default.  Don't use it. See my other post.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Wally Kolcz
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:51 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

 

Thanks. Totally forgot about the resultFormat. So used to using
RemoteObjects, but we have Blue Disaster(opps, Dragon) here at the U.



From: Adrian Williams 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:47 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

Hi Wally,

Any particular reason you are not setting a resultFormat on your
mx:operation? For example:



Adrian


Wally Kolcz wrote: 

I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information
coming back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:





It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging,
but I cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the
various elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)

I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]
public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length;
i++){
   
...
//Story Area
var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
storyArea.text =
storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
storyArea.wordWrap = true;
storyArea.height = 550;
storyArea.width = 400;
storyArea.editable = false;
magPage.addChild(storyArea);
storyArea.x = 0;
storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}
rssMag.flipOnClick = true;
}

But still getting errors..
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a
null object reference.
at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My
Documents\Flex Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]

Line 36 is:
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;


Help!



 

 

[flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> No, please, keep this on line.  I have been following it closely 
because
> I will be designing and implementing a permissions system in the next
> couple months.  I am finding the discussion very helpful.

Could we please start trimming it, though?  There doesn't need to be a 
rehash of the entire discussion sent out to everyone every time someone 
adds to the discussion.

Thanks for your courtesy, as I am confident everyone involved in the 
discussion will extend it.

-Amy

RE: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Tracy Spratt]

First, on the operation, set resultFormat="e4x".  The default "object"
has many drawbacks, search the archives for details.

 

Then modify your handler to work with XMLListCollection

[Bindable]public var storyFeed:XMLListCollection;

 

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
  var xmlResult:XML = XML(e.result);

  trace(xmlResult.toXMLString());  //to see your xml structure

  var xlStoryFeed:XMLList = xmlResult.What.Ever.Path.To.Story.nodes;
//depends on xml structure

  trace(xlStoryFeed.toXMLString());  //this what you expect

  storyFeed = new XMLListCollection(xlStoryFeed);  //now you can use
this for a dataProvider
  //If youwant to loop over the data, use the XMLList

  var xmlStoryNode:XML

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < xlStoryFeed.length(); i++){  //note the
parens on length
xmlStoryNode =   xlStoryFeed[i];

...

   storyArea.text = xmlStoryNode.story; //assumes  child node
...   



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Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Wally Kolcz
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:40 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

 

I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information coming
back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:

http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl";
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway Error')">



It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I
cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the various
elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)

I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]
public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length; i++){
   
...
//Story Area
var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
storyArea.wordWrap = true;
storyArea.height = 550;
storyArea.width = 400;
storyArea.editable = false;
magPage.addChild(storyArea);
storyArea.x = 0;
storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}
rssMag.flipOnClick = true;
}

But still getting errors..
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
object reference.
at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My Documents\Flex
Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]

Line 36 is:
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;


Help!

 

[flexcoders] Re: What determines a component's initial skin?

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Pan Troglodytes  
wrote:
>
> I've been dinking with extending PopUpButton and have run into 
something
> that really puzzles me - how does it know to load PopUpButtonSkin by
> default?  There is no code that mentions it in PopUpButton.  Is it 
somehow
> selected based on the class name?

There's a globals.css that seems to get compiled in by default.

> In my PopUpButton descendant, I want it to load a different skin by
> default.  Do I just have to hardcode it into the constructor (or 
somewhere
> else that initializes the component), or is there some more
> standard/graceful way?

I couldn't find a way to fudge this that was any easier than just 
having a css declaration for the subcomponent.  If you want it to 
travel with your component, though, I suspect you'll have to put it 
into the constructor, since you probably don't want to assume other 
developers have included your style declaration in their globals.css.

HTH;

Amy

HTH;

Amy

Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Wally Kolcz]

Thanks. Totally forgot about the resultFormat. So used to using RemoteObjects, 
but we have Blue Disaster(opps, Dragon) here at the U.


From: Adrian Williams 
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:47 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service 

Hi Wally,

Any particular reason you are not setting a resultFormat on your
mx:operation? For example:



Adrian

Wally Kolcz wrote:

I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information
coming back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:

http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl";
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway
Error')">





It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I
cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the various
elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)

I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]

public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {

storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length;
i++){

...

//Story Area

var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();

storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;

storyArea.wordWrap = true;

storyArea.height = 550;

storyArea.width = 400;

storyArea.editable = false;

magPage.addChild(storyArea);

storyArea.x = 0;

storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}

rssMag.flipOnClick = true;

}

But still getting errors..

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
object reference.

at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My
Documents\Flex Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]

Line 36 is:

storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;

Help!

[flexcoders] Re: input text currency mask ?

[rockorgames]

hm found it here: 

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1616518#



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rockorgames"  wrote:
>
> does anyone know any function/component for a inputtext to format when
> the guy is typing to currency format ?
> 
> i know there is the currency formatter, but then.. it would not work
> as the user inputs the data
>

Re: [flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Adrian Williams]

Hi Wally,

   Any particular reason you are not setting a resultFormat on your 
mx:operation? For example:


result="serviceResult(event)"/>


Adrian


Wally Kolcz wrote:


I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information 
coming back from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:


wsdl="http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl"; 
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway Error')">
result="buildBookHandler(event)" 
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway Error')" />



It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I 
cannot figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the 
various elemenets (linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)


I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]
public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length; i++){
  
...

//Story Area
var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
storyArea.wordWrap = true;
storyArea.height = 550;
storyArea.width = 400;
storyArea.editable = false;
magPage.addChild(storyArea);
storyArea.x = 0;
storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}
rssMag.flipOnClick = true;
}

But still getting errors..
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null 
object reference.
at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My Documents\Flex 
Builder 3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]


Line 36 is:
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;


Help!

 

RE: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Tracy Spratt]

I mean a data model in the flex app itself.  I like the singleton
pattern myself.

 

Also remember, content loaded in a SWFloader can communicate directly
with main app data via the dom (Application.applicatin,
parentApplication).  And the main app can access public members of
loaded content via the "content" property.  There are "coupling" theory
issues with these approaches if that is a concern to you.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian Williams
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:28 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

 

Hi Tracy,

We are already using a cental db here...we are running a pretty
massive DB via SQL, use C#.Net for our control layer and use Flex/AS for
our presentation, which calls for the data using a WSDL...the dashboard
is for project managers...when they login to the dashboard, I need to be
able to pass their "loginId" to the widgets so they can load the various
data points for the project that person manages...i.e.  widget-A loads
project statistics...and it needs to know which project's statistics to
load...the only way it will know that is by having the userId that
logged in.

Or am I not understanding what you are referring to as a "central
data model"?

Adrian

Tracy Spratt wrote: 

How about just having a central data model?

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 





From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Williams
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:53 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

 

Hi All,

I've been researching this challenge and am not sure which
of the methods I've found is the best...need some input on this one.

I have a dashboard application (dashboard.swf) that uses
multiple swfloaders to load the various widgets that the user needs
(which are also .swf's).  The trick is that I need to pass a variable
into the widgets to let them know which user logged in which allows the
widget to load the data specific to that user.  

I've seen a method that utilizes a localConnection to pass a
connection string, a method and parameters...my concern is the local
connection...there can be up to 20 widgets on a dashboard and opening an
LC for each doesn't seem like it's be efficient...

Help?!

Thanks,
Adrian

 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Big issue with keyboard mapping on Windows

[Yves Riel]

I have a French Canadian keyboard mapping on my Windows machine and I can type 
all of the accentuated characters in any TextArea or TextInput. The only thing 
that I have witnessed is that I need to toggle on my French Canadian keyboard 
every time after the browser opens. It seems that Flash doesn't initially read 
the keyboard mapping correctly. As soon as I toggle the keyboard mapping on, 
once inside the browser, the keyboard works perfectly. Maybe that's your 
problem too. Looks more like a keyboard configuration issue to me than a Flex 
issue.
 


From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Sebastien ARBOGAST
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:23 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Big issue with keyboard mapping on Windows



Does anybody have an idea about this one? 
Because I'm still stuck on it and I'm going crazy!

Sébastien Arbogast

http://sebastien-arbogast.com  



2008/12/18 Sebastien ARBOGAST mailto:sebastien.arbog...@gmail.com> >


I'm currently developing a Flex 3 business application on a Mac laptop 
with a French Belgian keyboard.
Everything worked great until some customers started to notice that 
they can't type some characters in my app under Windows.
It seems like the main problem is with the top digit keys on the main 
keyboard: accentuated characters are correctly typed. For example '2' and 'é' 
are on the same key and normally I have to press Shift+'2' to actually get a 
'2'. Yet, on Windows (XP or Vista), all I get is a 'é', whether I press Shift 
or not. Furthermore, Ctrl+Alt characters like '@' are simply impossible to type.

Is anyone aware of any problem with internationalization and keyboard 
mapping? Is there a way to solve that? (I hope so because this one is likely to 
ruin my entire project!)

Sébastien Arbogast

http://sebastien-arbogast.com  



 

[flexcoders] What is the results of a web service

[Wally Kolcz]

I am having fits trying to figure out how to use the information coming back 
from a webservice. I created a web service call in my code:

http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/stories.cfc?wsdl"; 
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.message,'Story Gateway Error')">



It returns the data as requested, I can see it in my debugging, but I cannot 
figure out how to set it to a variable and then call the various elemenets 
(linkText, story, photo, defaultLogo)

I tried to set it to a variable as an ArrayCollection:

[Bindable]
public var storyFeed:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

public function buildBookHandler(e:ResultEvent):void {
storyFeed = e.result as ArrayCollection;

  for (var i:uint = 0; i < e.result.data.length; i++){

...
//Story Area
var storyArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;
storyArea.wordWrap = true;
storyArea.height = 550;
storyArea.width = 400;
storyArea.editable = false;
magPage.addChild(storyArea);
storyArea.x = 0;
storyArea.y = 25;

   ...

}
rssMag.flipOnClick = true;
}

But still getting errors..
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object 
reference.
at RSSMagazine/buildBookHandler()[D:\wkolcz\My Documents\Flex Builder 
3\RSSMagazine\src\RSSMagazine.mxml:36]

Line 36 is:
storyArea.text = storyFeed.getItemAt(i).story;

Help!

RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

[Tracy Spratt]

Yes, there is an example in the docs under the heading:

"Using drag-and-drop with list-based controls"

Subheading:

Dragging and dropping in the same control

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:14 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

 

Hmm, that should be standard functionality.  I have used Tree DnD to
rearrange xml regularly, though not recently.  I wil look for a simple
example.  Have you tried this?

 

As I recall, it can be difficult to drop the first child node into an
empty parent.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:59 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

 

I looked in the archive but didn't find any useful information for this.
So, here it is: I have a Flex Tree component in which I want to
re-parent a node using drag & drop. Basically, I want to be able to take
a node, drag it on top of another node and that the dragged node be
added as a child. The standard Flex Tree will not allow this (unless I
don't know how to set it up) and I didn't find any open source component
on the net. Does any one have or has seen such a tree?

 

Thanks!

 

Re: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Adrian Williams]

Hi Tracy,

   We are already using a cental db here...we are running a pretty 
massive DB via SQL, use C#.Net for our control layer and use Flex/AS for 
our presentation, which calls for the data using a WSDL...the dashboard 
is for project managers...when they login to the dashboard, I need to be 
able to pass their "loginId" to the widgets so they can load the various 
data points for the project that person manages...i.e.  widget-A loads 
project statistics...and it needs to know which project's statistics to 
load...the only way it will know that is by having the userId that 
logged in.


   Or am I not understanding what you are referring to as a "central 
data model"?


Adrian

Tracy Spratt wrote:


How about just having a central data model?

 


Tracy Spratt
Lariat Services

Flex development bandwidth available



*From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] 
*On Behalf Of *Adrian Williams

*Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:53 AM
*To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
*Subject:* [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

 


Hi All,

I've been researching this challenge and am not sure which of the 
methods I've found is the best...need some input on this one.


I have a dashboard application (dashboard.swf) that uses multiple 
swfloaders to load the various widgets that the user needs (which are 
also .swf's).  The trick is that I need to pass a variable into the 
widgets to let them know which user logged in which allows the widget 
to load the data specific to that user. 

I've seen a method that utilizes a localConnection to pass a 
connection string, a method and parameters...my concern is the local 
connection...there can be up to 20 widgets on a dashboard and opening 
an LC for each doesn't seem like it's be efficient...


Help?!

Thanks,
Adrian

 

[flexcoders] Re: Big issue with keyboard mapping on Windows

[Sebastien ARBOGAST]

Does anybody have an idea about this one?Because I'm still stuck on it and
I'm going crazy!

Sébastien Arbogast

http://sebastien-arbogast.com


2008/12/18 Sebastien ARBOGAST 

> I'm currently developing a Flex 3 business application on a Mac laptop with
> a French Belgian keyboard.
> Everything worked great until some customers started to notice that they
> can't type some characters in my app under Windows.
> It seems like the main problem is with the top digit keys on the main
> keyboard: accentuated characters are correctly typed. For example '2' and
> 'é' are on the same key and normally I have to press Shift+'2' to actually
> get a '2'. Yet, on Windows (XP or Vista), all I get is a 'é', whether I
> press Shift or not. Furthermore, Ctrl+Alt characters like '@' are simply
> impossible to type.
>
> Is anyone aware of any problem with internationalization and keyboard
> mapping? Is there a way to solve that? (I hope so because this one is likely
> to ruin my entire project!)
>
> Sébastien Arbogast
>
> http://sebastien-arbogast.com
>

[flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Sizing issue

[Dharmendra Chauhan]

Hi Alex,
   Thanks for the reply.
I am reseting column every time when I add remove any column from from
DataGrid Column.But It still scaled last column up to right most of 
dataGrid.
I am summing size of all column and  assigning it to datagrid.width
and calling datagrid.validateNow() method. still it is not resizing
size of dataGrid.

Any idea ,which method i need to call to ask container to resize it.

Regards,
Dharmendra



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui  wrote:
>
> When horizontalScrollPolicy="off" (default), all columns are scaled
to fit within the width of the DG.  It makes it kind of hard to insert
one column and get the sizing you want because existing columns get an
extra attempt their sizes honored.  One solution is to totally reset
the columns array.
> 
> If horizontalScrollPolicy="on" or "auto" columns do not get scaled
but the last column will get stretched as necessary so we don't leave
dead space at the far right of the scroll area.
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Dharmendra Chauhan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:02 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid Column Sizing issue
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have designed a custom dataGrid which allows user to select
> column which he wants to be visiable.Here is the issue which I have
> been facing:
> 
> When user select two column to be visiable,
> 
> Lets assume Col1.with = 25 ,
> 
> Col2.with = 20 ,
> 
> Expected Result:
> 
> It should occupy 25+20 pixel space and adjust
> datagrid size accordingly.
> 
> Actual Result:
> 
> Col1 is occupying correct space but col2 occupies
> all rest of the space available on the right hand side i.e. col2 is
> to occupying more space than it is suppose to be.
> 
> I want col2 to occupy only 20 pixel space.
> 
> datagird height and width both are 100 %
> 
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dharmendra Chouhan
>

RE: [flexcoders] input text currency mask ?

[Tracy Spratt]

Yes, I recall such a component.  Maybe on Flex Exchange?  Try google for
this.

 

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Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of rockorgames
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:50 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] input text currency mask ?

 

does anyone know any function/component for a inputtext to format when
the guy is typing to currency format ?

i know there is the currency formatter, but then.. it would not work
as the user inputs the data

 

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Peculiar Image Behavior!

[Tom McNeer]

Did you ever resolve this issue with your JPEGs? I've just run into exactly
the same thing.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM, tchredeemed  wrote:

>   I saved it out as Baseline("standard") just to be sure, same problem.
>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Tom

Tom McNeer
MediumCool
http://www.mediumcool.com
1735 Johnson Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
404.589.0560

RE: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

[Tracy Spratt]

Hmm, that should be standard functionality.  I have used Tree DnD to
rearrange xml regularly, though not recently.  I wil look for a simple
example.  Have you tried this?

 

As I recall, it can be difficult to drop the first child node into an
empty parent.

 

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:59 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

 

I looked in the archive but didn't find any useful information for this.
So, here it is: I have a Flex Tree component in which I want to
re-parent a node using drag & drop. Basically, I want to be able to take
a node, drag it on top of another node and that the dragged node be
added as a child. The standard Flex Tree will not allow this (unless I
don't know how to set it up) and I didn't find any open source component
on the net. Does any one have or has seen such a tree?

 

Thanks!

 

[flexcoders] Re: filtering blazeds messages

[Anthony DeBonis]

Message Service destinations support subtopics -  The subtopic feature 
lets you divide the messages that a Producer component sends to a 
destination into specific categories in the destination. You can 
configure a Consumer component that subscribes to the destination to 
receive only messages sent to a specific subtopic or set of subtopics. 
You use wildcard characters (*) to subscribe for messages from more 
than one subtopic.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/blazeds/1/blazeds_devguide/help.html?
content=messaging_7.html

Also you could use- Message filtering
Use the AsyncMessage.headers property of the message to specify the 
message headers. The headers are contained in an associative Array 
where the key is the header name and the value is either a String or a 
number

message.headers = new Array();
message.headers["prop1"] = 5;


It depends on what you need


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "netdeep"  wrote:
>
> I have blazeds working on a channel I have set up, but how do you 
filter out the 
> information you broadcast on that channel? If I want to send data to 
one instance of my 
> application, but no another, how do I determine that. Here is how I 
set up the message in 
> java and flex. I have tried setting the consumer.selector as it says 
to in the documentation, 
> but that doesn't seem to do anything, at least not the way I'm doing 
it.  Here is the code:
> 
> 
> 
>  message="msgHandler(event.message)"/>
> 
> 
> // java code
> message = new AsyncMessage(); 
> message.setDestination("factory"); // the channel I've set up
> message.setClientId(clientID);
> message.setMessageId(UUIDUtils.createUUID());
> message.setTimestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
> message.setHeader("reportID", this.getRepID());
> message.setBody(channelDef);  // my object
> service.pushMessageToClients(message, false);
>

RE: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Tracy Spratt]

How about just having a central data model?

 

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Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian Williams
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:53 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

 

Hi All,

I've been researching this challenge and am not sure which of the
methods I've found is the best...need some input on this one.

I have a dashboard application (dashboard.swf) that uses multiple
swfloaders to load the various widgets that the user needs (which are
also .swf's).  The trick is that I need to pass a variable into the
widgets to let them know which user logged in which allows the widget to
load the data specific to that user.  

I've seen a method that utilizes a localConnection to pass a
connection string, a method and parameters...my concern is the local
connection...there can be up to 20 widgets on a dashboard and opening an
LC for each doesn't seem like it's be efficient...

Help?!

Thanks,
Adrian

 

RE: [flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?

[Tracy Spratt]

This is pure opinion, and probably not at all helpful to you at this
stage of your application, but...

 

I do not like "next" and "back" as navigational options.  In fact, I do
not like the entire metaphor of "navigation".  It feels like a holdover
from the experiences of "web surfing", when one felt like one was
"moving" down uncharted, independent paths, where one could "lost"
without a having a marked trail to follow back.

 

I prefer to design my apps from a task oriented standpoint.  One
completes the subtasks (I know, "follow the steps", it is a ubiquitous
metaphor) or chooses to stop that task.  There are no uncharted paths,
one is never "lost", you just choose a different task.

 

Sure, there are many times that a "wizard" can be helpful, particularly
to enforce the order of completion of subtasks.

 

You can probably guess that I turn off history management!

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of nwebb
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:08 AM
To: flexcoders
Subject: [flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?

 

Hi, 

We have a modular Flex project. 
Each screen has "back" and "next " buttons.

There are various routes through the application and I'm about to
re-write the logic which determines where the buttons take the user when
they are pressed (what is already in place is overly complex).

I'm guessing that there are fairly established methods for achieving
this and would be interested to see what exists, rather than roll out a
bespoke solution. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good
resource?

Cheers,
Neil




 

[flexcoders] Re-parenting Tree nodes using drag & drop

[Yves Riel]

I looked in the archive but didn't find any useful information for this.
So, here it is: I have a Flex Tree component in which I want to
re-parent a node using drag & drop. Basically, I want to be able to take
a node, drag it on top of another node and that the dragged node be
added as a child. The standard Flex Tree will not allow this (unless I
don't know how to set it up) and I didn't find any open source component
on the net. Does any one have or has seen such a tree?
 
Thanks!

Re: [flexcoders] copyright notices in code

[Maciek Sakrejda]

We had to add copyright notices to a number of .mxml and .as files, and
wrote a short python script to do this. The only tricky part was that
you can't put an XML comment before the XML preamble (the 'http://www.truviso.com

-Original Message-
From: arieljake 
Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] copyright notices in code
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:57:31 -

How do people add copyright notices to their code? When they create a
new file? 

What if the notice changes? Do they use ant to add it before
compilation to each file? 

Does compiling Flex remove the copyright notice? If so, should one
worry about having a copyright notice in the code for if/when it is
decompiled?

Anyone notice that comments are removed from an MXML file when it is
edited in design mode?

Any and all responses are invited!




 

[flexcoders] Re: File download from server

[valdhor]

Once you create the zip file you need to return the correct headers to
the browser so that the browser will pop up the dialog box asking the
user what to do.

I don't use Java - I use PHP. When the user clicks a button in Flex I
create a new URLRequest and then navigateToURL. The PHP script creates
the file and when done sends the following headers:

Header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
Header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=zipTest.zip");

The script then streams the file to the browser. The headers sent back
to the browser cause the browser to pop up the save file window just
as if the user clicked a file link on an HTML page.





--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "oneworld95"  wrote:
>
> I've run into an interesting situation with Flex: I've got a Java
> servlet that will generate a Zip file when the user clicks a button in
> Flex. But the file download dialog after the server action requires
> the user to click a button. It throws this error:
> 
> Error: Error #2176: Certain actions, such as those that display a
> pop-up window, may only be invoked upon user interaction, for example
> by a mouse click or button press.
> 
> So how do you handle these situations? After the server responds
> successfully, do you display a second button to do the actual Flex
> file download? 
> 
> - Alex
>

[flexcoders] Passing variables from .swf to .swf

[Adrian Williams]

Hi All,

   I've been researching this challenge and am not sure which of the 
methods I've found is the best...need some input on this one.


   I have a dashboard application (dashboard.swf) that uses multiple 
swfloaders to load the various widgets that the user needs (which are 
also .swf's).  The trick is that I need to pass a variable into the 
widgets to let them know which user logged in which allows the widget to 
load the data specific to that user. 

   I've seen a method that utilizes a localConnection to pass a 
connection string, a method and parameters...my concern is the local 
connection...there can be up to 20 widgets on a dashboard and opening an 
LC for each doesn't seem like it's be efficient...


   Help?!

Thanks,
Adrian

[flexcoders] input text currency mask ?

[rockorgames]

does anyone know any function/component for a inputtext to format when
the guy is typing to currency format ?

i know there is the currency formatter, but then.. it would not work
as the user inputs the data

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Tracy Spratt]

No, please, keep this on line.  I have been following it closely because
I will be designing and implementing a permissions system in the next
couple months.  I am finding the discussion very helpful.

Tracy Spratt 
Lariat Services 

Flex development bandwidth available 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Paul Andrews
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:08 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

Yes, though it's a refreshing change for a flexcoders thread to go
beyond the problems of the mechanics of writing an application and
include the wider issues. I sometimes think that given the convoluted
use of flex we sometimes see, a broader view is sometimes beneficial.

 

Paul

- Original Message - 

From: Gregor Kiddie   

To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  

Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:57 AM

Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

I think this is a good candidate for taking offline  huh ;)

 

Gk.

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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews
Sent: 21 January 2009 09:53
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

Gregor,

 

I just wanted to say that while I do believe that for role based
applications (something beyond 'user' and 'admin') the approach I
outlined is a good way to go, I fully understand that implementation of
roles is down to a lot of considerations and not everyone has the time
(or inclination) to separate roles from capabilities. In my case the
client needed a sophisticated system that allowed administrators to
assign and change roles and even grant/remove individual capabilities
all within a security system controlling the scope for changes. These
capabilities were held as part of the user data and the application did
not take account of roles (except as a means of assigning capabilities).
The developers did not assign or even define roles (except for the
initial minimal roles).

 

I'm not being a dictator - few clients want or need the
sophistication that we built for that system. It was a great system (if
I say so myself!).

 

Paul

- Original Message - 

From: Paul Andrews   

To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  

Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:18 AM

Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

The user capabilities should sit and be changeable by
anyone who has the "userCapability("editCapability") or
userCapability("editRole")". Doesn't matter if it's a third party or
not.

 

Roles should map to capabilities. The application is
controlled by capabilities, not roles. By assigning a role (or roles) to
a user, the administrator grants capabilties to a given user.

 

So, your application is driven by capabilities and any
(authourised) person can decide what role grants what capability.

 

If you do this you can add and remove new roles, without
having to change your application.

 

Naturally, there's a bit more work to do with it and
security and scope considerations to address.

 

Paul

- Original Message - 

From: Gregor Kiddie
  

To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  

Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:07 AM

Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

 

Not if the user capabilities are set by a third
party, which is the situation I dealing with.

I suspect our situati

[flexcoders] filtering blazeds messages

[netdeep]

I have blazeds working on a channel I have set up, but how do you filter out 
the 
information you broadcast on that channel? If I want to send data to one 
instance of my 
application, but no another, how do I determine that. Here is how I set up the 
message in 
java and flex. I have tried setting the consumer.selector as it says to in the 
documentation, 
but that doesn't seem to do anything, at least not the way I'm doing it.  Here 
is the code:






// java code
message = new AsyncMessage(); 
message.setDestination("factory"); // the channel I've set up
message.setClientId(clientID);
message.setMessageId(UUIDUtils.createUUID());
message.setTimestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
message.setHeader("reportID", this.getRepID());
message.setBody(channelDef);  // my object
service.pushMessageToClients(message, false);

[flexcoders] Vertical CoverFlow or carousel linked to data grid

[tonyhansen51]

Anyone have info on doing this?

Need it for store, search creates grid of results and carousel of
pictures. Changing the picture selects the grid row, clicking a grid
row selects the picture.

I am just starting with Flex, this will be my first project, I will to
happy to share my code when done.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Font's not loading in IE?

[Daniel Freiman]

Either this is an esoteric bug, or you've just overlooked something
somewhere (we've all done that).  I'd post your embed and display code just
so we can rule out the second option.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, tchredeemed  wrote:

>   Yes, I am sure.
>
> Or atleast... I thought I was sure... I converted all fonts to
> truetype and tested it, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly in
> some places.
>
> Is there any reason it would not display correctly on windows but it
> would display correctly on a mac?
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Rob
> Kunkle  wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure your application is using fonts that are embedded in the
> > application, and not drawing on fonts from the client system?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:32 PM, tchredeemed wrote:
> >
> > > I have noticed that when I embed my fonts they load fine in Mac -
> > >
> > > Safari
> > > Firefox
> > >
> > > However, on a Windows machine -
> > >
> > > IE 6/7
> > > Google Chrome
> > > Firefox
> > >
> > > The fonts do not load correctly.
> > >
> > > Anyone know why this happens? Even in some places, the fonts look
> > > fine, however in a lot of places they won't seem to load correctly...
> > >
> > > Odd behavior, not sure what the cause is...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>  
>

[flexcoders] Re: Font's not loading in IE?

[tchredeemed]

Yes, I am sure.

Or atleast... I thought I was sure... I converted all fonts to
truetype and tested it, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly in
some places.

Is there any reason it would not display correctly on windows but it
would display correctly on a mac?



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Rob Kunkle  wrote:
>
> Are you sure your application is using fonts that are embedded in the  
> application, and not drawing on fonts from the client system?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:32 PM, tchredeemed wrote:
> 
> > I have noticed that when I embed my fonts they load fine in Mac -
> >
> > Safari
> > Firefox
> >
> > However, on a Windows machine -
> >
> > IE 6/7
> > Google Chrome
> > Firefox
> >
> > The fonts do not load correctly.
> >
> > Anyone know why this happens? Even in some places, the fonts look
> > fine, however in a lot of places they won't seem to load correctly...
> >
> > Odd behavior, not sure what the cause is...
> >
> >
> >
>

[flexcoders] What determines a component's initial skin?

[Pan Troglodytes]

I've been dinking with extending PopUpButton and have run into something
that really puzzles me - how does it know to load PopUpButtonSkin by
default?  There is no code that mentions it in PopUpButton.  Is it somehow
selected based on the class name?

In my PopUpButton descendant, I want it to load a different skin by
default.  Do I just have to hardcode it into the constructor (or somewhere
else that initializes the component), or is there some more
standard/graceful way?

-- 
Jason

[flexcoders] Re: FadeIn Effect not working with custom item renderers in List

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Josh McDonald  wrote:
>
> It may be caused by Container not implementing 
IDropInListItemRenderer or
> IListItemRenderer. You really don't want to be extending Container 
for item
> renderers if you can avoid it, I believe it's a big performance 
penalty.

AFAIK, those interfaces only deal with how data gets passed into the 
renderer, not how effects are applied.

[flexcoders] Re: FadeIn Effect not working with custom item renderers in List

[Amy]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "tonyjobrien"  wrote:
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "tonyjobrien"  wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get the FadeIn effect to work on my List control, 
but
> > > I'm having no luck. The custom renderer stays white for the
> > > FadeInDuration and then appears instantly. If I switch back to 
using
> > > the default renderer, all is well. Also, if I have both a list 
with 
> > a
> > > custom renderer and the default at the same time, they both 
exhibit
> > > the same behaviour as the custom renderer. Here is a simple 
Flex app
> > > that shows the issue (comment out the lists as required).
> > > 
> > > FYI, I'm using Flex 3 on Windows XP with Firefox 3.
> > 
> > Try changing:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > HTH;
> > 
> > Amy
> >
> 
> Amy,
> 
> I have tried that but it still does not display properly. I've tried
> changing the Canvas component to other container objects, but they 
all
> appear to exhibit the same functionality.
> 
> I've tried with both 3.1 and 3.2 versions of the SDK.
> 
> The list effect starts with a background color of blue (to make it
> easier to see what's happening). When using just a Label as the
> renderer, I can see the blue background boxes resizing into position
> and then the label fading into view over the 4 second duration.
> 
> But when using any sort of container object (admittedly I've only
> tried Canvas, HBox and VBox), the list remains white for the entire 
4
> second duration, at which point, the renderers become visible
> immediately (with no blue background or fading at all).
> 
> When I place both list views on the screen at once, they both 
exhibit
> the behaviour of the container renderer. This leads me to believe 
that
> the container is doing something different and the single-threaded
> nature of Flash is causing both views to update once the fade effect
> has finished.
> 
> Problem is, I can't work out what it's doing.

I suspect that the problem is with one of two things:

1)  The specific way that the itemsChangeEffect is implemented
2)  The loop where you add the items to the ArrayCollection.

The reason I say the first is that you can see an example here 
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/09/groupingcollection-example-
featuring.html where fade effects are working fine on containers.  So 
if there is a problem with fade effects, it's specific to what 
happens in that particular situation.

If it's the second, you can figure it out pretty quickly by calling 
disableAutoUpdate() before the loop where you populate the AC and 
enableAutoUpdate() after the loop.

Finally, you may want to double-check to make sure that you did 
actually set the blendMode on the label to "layer".

HTH;

Amy

Re: [flexcoders] Centered preloader that displays while image is loading

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

One simple way to do it is to create a component with two states: 'progress'
and 'image' for example. The default state would be 'progress', where a
progress bar (or text, or animation) is visible and the image is hidden.
Update the progress bar while the image is loading and in the 'complete'
event handler change the state to 'image', in which the progress bar is
hidden and the image is visible.

Haykel Ben Jemia

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




On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM, stinasius  wrote:

>   how can i show a preloader while an image?
>
>  
>

Re: [flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

Perhaps you can find some hints here:
http://designinginterfaces.com/

Haykel Ben Jemia

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




On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM, nwebb  wrote:

>   Hi,
>
> We have a modular Flex project.
> Each screen has "back" and "next " buttons.
>
> There are various routes through the application and I'm about to re-write
> the logic which determines where the buttons take the user when they are
> pressed (what is already in place is overly complex).
>
> I'm guessing that there are fairly established methods for achieving this
> and would be interested to see what exists, rather than roll out a bespoke
> solution. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good resource?
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
>
>
>
>  
>

Re: [flexcoders] Flex calling Java/Apache Axis web service

[claudiu ursica]

Do you have a policy acess specified on the linux machine?

Claudiu





From: paramjit.parmar 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:20:19 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex calling Java/Apache Axis web service


Hi All,
I have a Java/Apache axis web service which sits on Linux box. I am 
able to call this fine through a Flex .swf file on Windows. However 
when I copythe same swf file to the Linux server I get the error posted 
below. Bar the web service, the rest of the app works the same on both 
platforms. Any pointers much appreciated. I am using Tomcat web server.

[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString= "Security error accessing url" 
faultCode="Channel. Security. Error" faultDetail= "Destination: 
DefaultHTTP" ] messageId="13005BD7 -59AB-B3DA- B850-F95031390FF 7" 
type="fault" bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2]




  

Re: [flexcoders] internationalization

[Haykel BEN JEMIA]

This is more than a simple internationalization, but I think the way you do
it is ok as long as you only use text resources. The advantage of resource
modules (and why they are compiled to swf) is that they also allow to use
media files with the resources.

Haykel Ben Jemia

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




On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Yves Riel  wrote:

>The only problem I have with resource modules is that they are compiled
> into swf. Our users require that the language files be accessible using
> notepad or any text editor so I cannot use Flex. A typical example would be
> a lexicon file where the user could add terms at any time. We had to load
> the file separately and push it into the resource manager. Of course we lose
> bandwidth but it's what our user base needs. I was just curious to see if
> other were doing it this way.
>
>  --
> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Haykel BEN JEMIA
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:12 AM
>
> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] internationalization
>
>   Yes, they are called resource modules! Thanks Gordon!
>
> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/l10n_5.html#158277
>
>
> Haykel Ben Jemia
>
> Allmas
> Web & RIA Development
> http://www.allmas-tn.com
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Smith  wrote:
>
>>Haykel is probably talking about loading a resource module. The
>> resource bundles in a resource module automatically get added to the
>> ResourceManager.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gordon Smith
>>
>> Adobe Flex SDK Team
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Yves Riel
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:16 AM
>> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] internationalization
>>
>>
>>
>> Haykel, out of curiosity, when you load them dynamically at run-time, do
>> you pass them to the resource bundle manager? That's what we did but I'm
>> curious to see what other did and if there are a open source libraries that
>> do just that. We didn't find any at the time so we had to do it all
>> ourselves.
>>
>>
>>  --
>>
>> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Haykel BEN JEMIA
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:33 AM
>> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] internationalization
>>
>> Use resource bundles. If you only have 2 or 3 languages and the resources
>> are not heavy in size, you can simply compile them in the application,
>> otherwise load them at runtime.
>>
>> Haykel Ben Jemia
>>
>> Allmas
>> Web & RIA Development
>> http://www.allmas-tn.com
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Scott  wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on a project that requires multiple languages. I'm thinking
>> I have two choices...
>>
>> 1) Use an XML file to change the text to different languages
>> 2) Create a query/remote object through coldfusion to pull the different
>> language.
>>
>> Are those my only options? Or should I say, what is the best way to do
>> this? Has anyone done this or come across any articles? The articles
>> I've found thus far deal with changing the currency/calendar/etc..
>> While that is something that I need to use, it's not the whole story...
>>
>> Thanks much.
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>
>   
>

[flexcoders] Flex calling Java/Apache Axis web service

[paramjit.parmar]

Hi All,
I have a Java/Apache axis web service which sits on Linux box. I am 
able to call this fine through a Flex .swf file on Windows. However 
when I copythe same swf file to the Linux server I get the error posted 
below. Bar the web service, the rest of the app works the same on both 
platforms. Any pointers much appreciated. I am using Tomcat web server.

[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString="Security error accessing url" 
faultCode="Channel.Security.Error" faultDetail="Destination: 
DefaultHTTP"] messageId="13005BD7-59AB-B3DA-B850-F95031390FF7" 
type="fault" bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2]

RE: [flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?

[Yves Riel]

Someone in this list once pointed to this framework
(http://code.google.com/p/flex-slide/). I have not looked at it but it
seems very interesting.
 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of nwebb
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:08 AM
To: flexcoders
Subject: [flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?



Hi, 

We have a modular Flex project. 
Each screen has "back" and "next " buttons.

There are various routes through the application and I'm about to
re-write the logic which determines where the buttons take the user when
they are pressed (what is already in place is overly complex).

I'm guessing that there are fairly established methods for achieving
this and would be interested to see what exists, rather than roll out a
bespoke solution. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good
resource?

Cheers,
Neil





 

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[Yves Riel]

And now to answer ilikeflex last questions ...
 
Yes you will need to store the mapping between permissions and roles. When you 
create a new role, you need to have a UI that will help the user assign a list 
of permissions. You can also create a role from a template that already has a 
set of permissions assigned to it. You then just add or remove the required 
permissions to customize the role. This approach, as stated earlier in the 
e-mail trail, has the benefit of allowing to easily customize the UI for any 
type of users but it has the drawback that you must develop a role/permission 
model and all the UI that comes with it.



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of ilikeflex
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:10 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI



Hi

It make sense the way you have implemented.
Then you need to store the mapping between the permissions and role. 
correct and what do you do when a new role is added.

Thanks
ilikeflex

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  , "Yves 
Riel"  wrote:
>
> In our case, we use a similar scheme except that we have roles and 
permissions. It is the permission that defines the access to the 
component. If the user, in his role, has the permission set to true, 
then the user gain access to the component. It is very flexible as 
you can create many roles will similar or different permissions. At 
the end, you do not tie up the UI to a specific role but to a 
permission.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> etc...
> 
> You can see here that two buttons can be displayed using the same 
permission.
> 
> 
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com   
[mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  ] On 
Behalf Of ilikeflex
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:00 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI
> 
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Do you mean to say that i should do something like this
> 
> 
> In the above i am passing the id of the component.
> 
> Then this means that i have to make some mapping between the 
> component and Role.
> 
> I think this will be more difficult to manage. 
> 
> Let me know as you are already implementing it. If you could some 
> psuedo code then it will be great.
> 
> Thanks
> ilikeflex
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com   
>  , "Gregor Kiddie"  
> wrote:
> >
> > As someone who is currently re-working their Role Based Access 
> Control mechanism, point 2 is the wrong way around.
> > 
> > It leaks the roles into the rest of the client and stops all your 
> business logic being in one place. Incidentally, this is how we 
> currently do it, and I can show how it's a pain when new roles are 
> added.
> > 
> > The better solution is to bind the visibility (enabled, etc, 
> however you deal with not having the correct authorization) of the 
> UIComponent to a hasAccess( componentKey : String ) method on the 
> User class.
> > 
> > This has benefits of meaning that all the code for deciding on 
> access is in one place (and makes it very easy to alter / add / 
> remove roles and components), and by binding it, if the 
> authentication changes for any reason, the view can be updated 
> quickly and cleanly.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > A pitfall to watch out for is hiding pieces of UI which has 
> unexpected behaviour. For example, not showing a piece of the form 
if 
> the user doesn't have the auth to change that data, if your backend 
> deletes any data it isn't sent by the client, it is easy to turn 
> a "not authorised" into a "delete lots of data". So make sure your 
> client behaviour fits the use cases defined by your back end.
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[flexcoders] Re: Roles Based UI

[franky2000_nl]

Hi,

I would consider using ViewStates. 

Create a base state with general controls that must be available to all roles. 
Add a 
viewstate for each role, with the changes related to the base state.

Makes it easy  to maintain and you don't have to build a complete custom 
solution.

Regards,

Frank






--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "ilikeflex"  wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> I am developing role based GUI. Can anybody please point to best 
> practices or any flex article which can help to achieve this.
> 
> Thanks
> ilikeflx
>

[flexcoders] Implementing ORS in flex

[deoarshi]

Hello guys , i am trying to implement ORS in flex . I want to control
this component through Javascript .
 can anybody tell me is  thr already such component ..that will reduce
my overall time to finish the project ?

Re: [flexcoders] How to remove space at the end of line chart when using disabledDays = "[6,0]"!

[svkumar65]

Hi Jim,

I tried like u told.
I replaced ur code in 3 places. then I run my application.
Still i see same white spaces at right side.
I think we need to re-build sdk to effect the changes.
I dont know how to re-build, can u pls help me on this.

thanking you

--
Vijay SV.


Jim Cheng-2 wrote:
> 
> It's a Flex 3 charting bug alright.  This was originally reported about 
> 9 months ago during the beta cycle on the Flex bugbase and was later 
> closed by Adobe with a resolution of Cannot Fix for what I believe to be 
> a rather spurious reason, see:
> 
> https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDMV-963
> 
> Contrary to what's reported in the comments on that bug, the problem is 
> actually not too difficult to fix provided you have access to the source 
> code (e.g. using Flex Builder 3 Pro) and are willing to do a little bit 
> of subclassing or monkey-patching to fix the issue.  Read on if you're 
> interested.
> 
> The basic problem is that the DateTimeAxis class does not correctly 
> calculate the total space available for charting when disabledDays 
> and/or disabledRanges is enabled.  This is always taken to be the 
> difference between computedMaximum and computedMinimum (as seen in the 
> transformCache, buildLabelCache and buildMinorTickCache methods).
> 
> However, this calculation becomes wrong when there are disabled ranges, 
> as it yields a total span that's now too large (not accounting for the 
> ranges that have been removed).  The visual consequence of this is that 
> the chart now appears to be condensed to the left.
> 
> The available space should instead be taken to be the difference between 
> computedMaximum and computedMinimum, with the following term also 
> subtracted (in the context of the DateTimeAxis class):
> 
>dateRangeUtilities.calculateDisabledRange(computedMinimum,
>  computedMaximum);
> 
> This additional term accounts for the space that is removed by the 
> disabled ranges (or days), and consequently allows the chart's axis and 
> elements to correctly take up the full available width.
> 
> To make a simple monkey-patch to fix this, you can copy the contents of 
> Adobe's DateTimeAxis class into your own class path, doing a search and 
> replace on all instances in the file like so (removing quotes and excess 
> whitespace for formatting):
> 
> Find: "computedMaximum - computedMinimum"
> 
> Replace with: "computedMaximum - computedMinimum -
>dateRangeUtilities.calculateDisabledRange(computedMinimum,
>computedMaximum);"
> 
> You can also do this as a subclass, but that's somewhat trickier since 
> the methods that you'll need to override make references to a number of 
> private variables and methods of DateTimeAxis.
> 
> As an aside, perhaps someone at Adobe might want to consider evaluating 
> this patch for possible inclusion into the Flex 3 Charting codebase.  I 
> haven't found any other side effects in testing and my own use of this 
> change, and it correctly handles the test case from the JIRA bug listed
> at the top of message.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> buithanhtuu wrote:
> 
>> I'm using chart of flex 3. When I use Linechart with DateTimeAxis
>> tag, in this tag i used property disabledDays = "[6,0]" then weekend
>> days did not show on chart, but a lot of white space are show at the
>> end of chart. So, the width of line chart is not scale full the width
>> of chart.
>> 
>> I used sample from this link 
>> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=charts_displayingdata_04.html
>>  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Could you please help me fix this problem or this is bugs of chart in
>>  flex 3 ?
> 
> 

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Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 3 + Eclipse plugins vs. MyEclipse + FB3 plugin?

[s.m.srinivas]

Hi Aswin,

can you please send me screen shot & error message. 

Assuming that you have followed steps correctly and when you click on "Run >
Run As > Flex Application" in the right click menu or on Menu's on top, you
see the message I believe. Am I wrong? Correct me if I am. 

The message clearly shows that, it is looking for "/test.html/test.html"
file, which basically will not be present as you only need to run
"test.html".

If it is same test project which I have posted, then all you need to do is
just select the project and click on "RUN" button, nothing else, you need
not go to menu "Run > Run As > Flex Application" at all.


Regards
Srinivas S M



ashwiba wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> IHi, 
> 
> I have tried the info provided by s.m.srinivas . Still i am not able to
> run from "Run->RunAs-> FlexApplication". Getting 
> 
> Request Resourse is not available error like below : 
> --
>  
> type Status report 
> 
> message /test.html/test.html 
> 
> description The requested resource (/test.html/test.html) is not
> available. 
> 
> --
>  
> 
> Help me out on the same
> 
> Regards,
> Ashwin.B
> 
> 
> s.m.srinivas wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have posted an article in my  http://riawanderer.blogspot.com/ blog 
>> which explains how to install Flex Builder on MyEclipse. This post has
>> Video, Text & Images showing you the steps to achieve it. Hope it's
>> helpful.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Srinivas
>> 
>> 
>> gers32-3 wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've been using MyEclipse + Flex Builder 2 plugin, as well as a bunch
>>> of other plugins (RadRails, Database Explorer, SVN, etc) for about 6
>>> months.
>>> 
>>> The makers of MyEclipse tell me they don't officially support Flex
>>> Builder. So when I eventually upgrade to FB3, I'm considering
>>> installing the FB3 application by itself.
>>> 
>>> Since FB3 is based on Eclipse, can I then recreate my existing
>>> development environment by installing the other plugins mentioned above?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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RE: [flexcoders] internationalization

[Yves Riel]

The only problem I have with resource modules is that they are compiled
into swf. Our users require that the language files be accessible using
notepad or any text editor so I cannot use Flex. A typical example would
be a lexicon file where the user could add terms at any time. We had to
load the file separately and push it into the resource manager. Of
course we lose bandwidth but it's what our user base needs. I was just
curious to see if other were doing it this way. 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Haykel BEN JEMIA
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:12 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] internationalization



Yes, they are called resource modules! Thanks Gordon!

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/l10n_5.html#158277
 


Haykel Ben Jemia

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





On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Gordon Smith mailto:gosm...@adobe.com> > wrote:




Haykel is probably talking about loading a resource module. The
resource bundles in a resource module automatically get added to the
ResourceManager.

 

Gordon Smith

Adobe Flex SDK Team

 

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 ] On Behalf Of Yves Riel
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:16 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] internationalization

 

Haykel, out of curiosity, when you load them dynamically at
run-time, do you pass them to the resource bundle manager? That's what
we did but I'm curious to see what other did and if there are a open
source libraries that do just that. We didn't find any at the time so we
had to do it all ourselves.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 ] On Behalf Of Haykel BEN JEMIA
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:33 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] internationalization

Use resource bundles. If you only have 2 or 3 languages and the
resources are not heavy in size, you can simply compile them in the
application, otherwise load them at runtime.

Haykel Ben Jemia

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





On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Scott mailto:h...@netprof.us> > wrote:

I'm working on a project that requires multiple languages. I'm
thinking
I have two choices...

1) Use an XML file to change the text to different languages
2) Create a query/remote object through coldfusion to pull the
different
language.

Are those my only options? Or should I say, what is the best way
to do
this? Has anyone done this or come across any articles? The
articles
I've found thus far deal with changing the
currency/calendar/etc..
While that is something that I need to use, it's not the whole
story...

Thanks much.
Scott

 






 

RE: [flexcoders] FB debug constantly logs to console

[Yves Riel]

You say it was a bug in your code. Did you find a way to remove the
traces from the console? We do load a lot of images in our project and
those unwanted trace statements really annoy me! I never looked into it
but if you found a way to suppress these traces, do you mind sharing it?
 
 


From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of John Van Horn
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:35 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] FB debug constantly logs to console



Yep, that was it...a bug in our code. Thanks Josh.

FlexBuilder, I take back every bad thing I said about you.well, at
least in the last hour.


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Josh McDonald mailto:dzn...@gmail.com> > wrote:


You're probably loading images or something along those lines
using a SWFLoader or one of its subclasses such as Image. This is simply
Player telling you about it decoding the results and adding them to the
VM.

-Josh



2009/1/21 John Van Horn mailto:jmvanh...@gmail.com> > 


All of a sudden a few days ago, launching a debug
session in FB3, results in FB (or maybe debug player) logging constantly
to the console. I get about 2 of these messages a second, and it doesnt
stop till I terminate the debug session. This does not output to
flashlog.txt. It makes reading traces in FB console very difficult.

Anybody experienced this or know a solution?

[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 2,747 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 997 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 1,646 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 985 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 985 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 1,646 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 3,798 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 686,596 bytes
after decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression
[SWF] Users:jvanhorn:player.swf - 0 bytes after
decompression

-- 
John Van Horn
jmvanh...@gmail.com  





-- 
"Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls
for thee."

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Re: [flexcoders] Font's not loading in IE?

[Rob Kunkle]

Are you sure your application is using fonts that are embedded in the  
application, and not drawing on fonts from the client system?


Rob


On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:32 PM, tchredeemed wrote:


I have noticed that when I embed my fonts they load fine in Mac -

Safari
Firefox

However, on a Windows machine -

IE 6/7
Google Chrome
Firefox

The fonts do not load correctly.

Anyone know why this happens? Even in some places, the fonts look
fine, however in a lot of places they won't seem to load correctly...

Odd behavior, not sure what the cause is...

[flexcoders] Navigational Design Patterns?

[nwebb]

Hi,

We have a modular Flex project.
Each screen has "back" and "next " buttons.

There are various routes through the application and I'm about to re-write
the logic which determines where the buttons take the user when they are
pressed (what is already in place is overly complex).

I'm guessing that there are fairly established methods for achieving this
and would be interested to see what exists, rather than roll out a bespoke
solution. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good resource?

Cheers,
Neil