[flexcoders] Re: Has AdvancedDataGrid been removed from Flex 3.4

[tntomek]

Please do a quick google for Flex to see latest version and instructions for 
installing it. Since you got 3.4 you must have skipped the 'other' downloads.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rashvi05"  wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> I have this strange problem. I have been using FlexBuilder version 3.0 and 
> the Flex3.2 sdk since august to learn and practise Flex. I had used 
> AdvancedDataGrid in on of my projects. In January I upgraded the compiler to 
> Flex3.4, and when I build the project, I get this error - 
> 
> Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:AdvancedDataGrid
> 
> Also when I click Help -> Product Details -> Configuration Details it says
> *** Adobe Flex Builder 3:
> Flex Builder 3-Professional Edition - Educational
> 
> Why is this? Does anyone else have the same problem?? Has this got anything 
> to do with my flex builder version?  Or has AdvancedDataGrid been removed 
> from Flex3.4 (this sounds very strange though) ??
> 
> Thanks
> Vatsala
>

[flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[tntomek]

I was a hard core ASP.NET/pure JavaScript guy before I moved to Flex 3 years 
ago and I will NEVER go back. Those are some of the saddest programming days I 
can recall. Working with Flex/AS I feel like a real programmer again, I use 
objects and develop elegant solutions that really make me feel proud of myself 
and motivate me to make the next solution even better. Working in a team, it's 
a lot easier to truly and safely reuse and extend components, you would never 
dream of doing this in JS. For all its short comings Flex is just so much 
better for me and my users. Good luck writing a JS grid that reuses item 
renderers like Flex does, then debug that so it works cross platform because no 
JS framework will save you there.

The only camp that would steal me now is Silverlight, but that is not for a few 
more years when that platform truly matures and its rapidly growing 3rd party 
community will really give Flex a run for it's money, esp given that there are 
almost no 3rd party vendors for Flex (charting excluded)


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Clark Stevenson  wrote:
>
> I often get annoyed with performance.
> 
> Is it backward compatibilty that causes the issues?
> 
> Another thing which i was fairly irritated by was Alchemy in terms of how
> Alchemy runs better in the Flash Runtime than native AS3. I dont
> understand this. I would expect both to have atleast identical performance
> but not so.
> 
> It would be cool to have some ultra optimied Flash Runtime 10.1+ which done
> away with all the crappy AS1/2 support and paved the way for the future,
> pixel bender, 3d, physics and all the rest of it.
> 
> How this could happen... i dont know.
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 February 2010 14:22, Battershall, Jeff
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I believe FP 10.1 is specifically designed to address the two biggest
> > issues that affect the deployment of Flash on devices: Memory consumption
> > and global error handling. So help is on the way and I would think that
> > Adobe's actions in that regard are anything but lazy.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  [mailto:
> > flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of
> > reflexactions
> > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:58 AM
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash ...
> >
> > Its not a question of whether it was possible at some point to construct
> > 'something' on a device with a limited version of flash.
> >
> > Its a question of whether you can construct something like this for example
> > http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grouptabs/grouptabs.html
> > in flash with a comparable footprint and performance (a common complaint is
> > cpu utilization for some reason flash soaks up a huge amount of the cpu
> > compared to javascript).
> >
> > I was testing some regex code today and the same code ran 4 times faster in
> > IE, 20 times faster in Safari and Chrome.
> >
> > Its not like these issues are anything new they've been around for years
> > but they don't get fixed which I guess is what SJ was really meaning when he
> > called Adobe lazy.
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Guy
> > Morton  wrote:
> > >
> > > That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago -
> > it's mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be
> > asking myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow
> > me to build something that would run native in many browsers (and in the
> > iPhone and iPad).
> > >
> > > I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to
> > leverage SVG and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development
> > environment - that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.
> > >
> > > Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve
> > should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great
> > with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.
> > >
> > > Guy
> > >
> > >
> > > On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ
> > isn't wrong.
> > > >
> > > > We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the
> > app is a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never
> > does, we tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives,
> > but to be honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things.
> > > >
> > > > Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels
> > out, JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> > > >
> > > > I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there
> > finger out, becuase past experience has shown that years of
> > complaining/requests/bug reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the
> > face of someone who matters gets them to shift, I h

[flexcoders] reading and displaying nonenglish RSS

[hworke]

   Hello Devs,

   I am trying to read a simple RSS file and display
   it in my AIR app. The only catch here is that the
   RSS feed in not English. As an example the following
   is a that RSS feed how can I read and display this
   RSS in AIR app -

http://www.rssthai.com/rss/business.xml

[flexcoders] inline combobox in text

[edencane]

Hi.
I want to have a combobox in the middle of some text.
So basically:


or

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit"  "at dui eu sem porttitor facilisis."

How do I do this...?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Kind regards.
Luke Vanderfluit.
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[flexcoders] AutomationNameValue in intemRenderer : QTP Crashing

[Dharmendra]

Hello All,I have a checkBox and a ComboBox based item renderer
in datagrid. As soon as QTP automated script clicks on checkbox
(Itemrenderer) or select a value from Cbox(itemrender) , QTP crashes.  I
have tried to set automationNameValue  by overriding
icreateAutomationIDPart in itemrenderer as suggested by adobe in
following link  
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=functest_compone\
nts2_16.html
Basically , I have overridden createAutomationIDPart
method in both itenrederer  import
mx.automation.IAutomationObject;
 override public function
createAutomationIDPart(item:IAutomationObject):Object {
 var id:Object = super.createAutomationIDPart(item);
 id["automationName"] = id["automationIndex"];
 return id;
 }
  QTP continues to be crashed even after overriding above method .
Please suggest some ways/ideas to solve this issue.   Flex Version - 3.2
Thanks & Regards
Dharmendra Chouhan

Re: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working...

[Alex Harui]

I don’t think I’m seeing a problem on Flex 4.  It is hard to decipher which 
number is supposed to be displayed but the first 5 and last 5 never change.  
When you tried Flex 4 which build did you use?


On 2/8/10 1:11 PM, "Laurence MacNeill"  wrote:






At 03:40 PM 2/8/2010, you wrote:


I’m a little late to this, so pardon me if my point has been raised 
previously…I’ve seen the behavior similar to what you’re describing and it 
indicated that the ItemRenderer was not correctly written because ItemRenderers 
are recycled when scrolling for performance reasons.  You have to write them to 
ensure that the dataprovider to your combox box is in a state to receive the 
data element passed to it and that the selectedIndex gets reset. This requires 
sub-classing the ComboBox for use as an item renderer of a list-based control.

Much appreciated.  But that point has, indeed, been raised already.  :-)  I'm 
fairly certain I'm doing that already, which is why I'm so confused.  And it 
seems that no one else could really figure out why it wasn't working either, 
based on my earlier postings, which is why I posted a test-case program here 
that demonstrates the precise problem.

You're more than welcome to take a look at it -- the more people who see it, 
the more likely it is that I'll find an answer.

Thanks,

Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA





--
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Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

[flexcoders] HTTPService token: a bug or by design?

[Tim Romano]

I've run into one bug in the mx.rpc.http.HTTPService class  in FB4 beta 
2   -- the AsyncResponder's onResult function fires *twice* unless you 
wire up a dummy eventhandler.  And so I am wondering if the following is 
not also a bug:

var myResponder : AsyncResponder= new AsyncResponder(onResult, onFault);
var token: AsyncToken;
token = send();
token.addResponder(myResponder);
function  onResult(e:ResultEvent , token:Object=null):void {}

The token parameter is always null in the onResult function. Isn't that 
parameter supposed to contain the token to which the Responder was added?

Thanks
Tim Romano

[flexcoders] FB4 -> PHP object call

[Scott]

I've got to be missing something simple here...  I've spent hours trying
to figure out why my "lastresult" is not getting set my remote call.

 

I define an object to fill in the input variables:

 

private var objSearchControl:Tblbrowserrecord = new Tblbrowserrecord();

 

Then I make the call to the php object:

 

protected function
dataGrid_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void 

{

  // assign variables to object

objSearchControl.szUserID = tiUserID.text;

objSearchControl.szIP =  tiIP.text;

objSearchControl.szRule = tiRule.text; 

objSearchControl.szURL =  tiURL.text;

objSearchControl.dtFrom = dfFrom.text;

objSearchControl.dtTo = dfTo.text;

objSearchControl.szReturnCode = tiCode.text; 

 

getTblbrowserrecord_search_pagedResult.token =
tblbrowserrecordService.getTblbrowserrecord_search_paged(
objSearchControl);

}

 

I'm able to "test" the object successfully from FB4; it returns the data
set I'm expecting.

 

When I watch getTblbrowserrecord_search_pagedResult, the "lastresult"
remains "undefined".

 

Any ideas?

RE: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working...

[Battershall, Jeff]

I'm a little late to this, so pardon me if my point has been raised 
previously...I've seen the behavior similar to what you're describing and it 
indicated that the ItemRenderer was not correctly written because ItemRenderers 
are recycled when scrolling for performance reasons.  You have to write them to 
ensure that the dataprovider to your combox box is in a state to receive the 
data element passed to it and that the selectedIndex gets reset. This requires 
sub-classing the ComboBox for use as an item renderer of a list-based control.

Jeff

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Laurence MacNeill
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:26 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working...



At 02:57 PM 2/8/2010, you wrote:



What do we do to see the problem, just scroll?

Yeah, if you scroll up and down a few times, you'll see that the numbers in the 
combo-boxes' drop-downs don't match the displayed number.  Then change the 
selection in one of those combo boxes that's displaying the incorrect 
drop-down, and magically, the next time you open the drop-down it displays the 
correct numbers again.  Until the next time you scroll, that is.  :-)

Thanks,

[flexcoders] Getting My HTML Thumbnail Gallery To Work Using Event.complete

[James]

At the moment I have an app which I can only describe as something that 
generates thumbnails of html pages (or at least it is meant to). The way this 
is achieved is by using a html component. Upon event complete of this component 
I have a function which creates a snapshot of the html component and makes it 
the source of an image there fore making that image a thumbnail of that 
particular site.

 
I then want it to do the same for further sites but obviously using multiple 
hmtl components would be out of the question as it would greatly increase 
loading times (I've tried and it slows the application down majorly) so what 
I'm trying to do is set the 'complete' property of the 1 html component I've 
got so that when the first site is loaded i.e. event complete of the html 
component has been reached a snapshot of that site will be created and made as 
the source of my first thumbnail and then the location of the html component 
will change to the next site, a snapshot of that site will then be made upon 
event complete of the component and will be made the source of my second 
thumbnail and so on and so forth.

 
I'm struggling to get this to work effectively but I think I'm going along the 
right lines. Here's my code so far. Can anyone please tell me how I can edit it 
so that this effect is achieved in a row the way I have described:-


http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; 
layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle" backgroundColor="white" width="1024" 
height="768">
 






 
http://abcnews.com/";
complete="abcnewshtml_complete(event); 
myhtml.location='http://news.yahoo.com/'; yahoonewshtml_complete(event); 
myhtml.location='http://news.google.com/'; googlenewshtml_complete(event)"
width="100%"
height="454" />
 

Re: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working...

[Alex Harui]

What do we do to see the problem, just scroll?


On 2/8/10 8:34 AM, "Laurence MacNeill"  wrote:




   [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Laurence MacNeill included below]

Ok -- the first file I sent didn't include the XML data...  Sorry
'bout that.  Trying again...

Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA





--
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Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

[flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[reflexactions]

Well I hope you are correct. 
I was talking to someone today and we both commented that we had been using 
10.1 and hadn't noticed any difference so I am hoping there is some magic 
setting that can be made that will enable 10.1 to use less memory.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Battershall, Jeff"  
wrote:
>
> I believe FP 10.1 is specifically designed to address the two biggest issues 
> that affect the deployment of Flash on devices: Memory consumption and global 
> error handling. So help is on the way and I would think that Adobe's actions 
> in that regard are anything but lazy. 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of reflexactions
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:58 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash ...
> 
> Its not a question of whether it was possible at some point to construct 
> 'something' on a device with a limited version of flash.
> 
> Its a question of whether you can construct something like this for example
> http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grouptabs/grouptabs.html
> in flash with a comparable footprint and performance (a common complaint is 
> cpu utilization for some reason flash soaks up a huge amount of the cpu 
> compared to javascript).
> 
> I was testing some regex code today and the same code ran 4 times faster in 
> IE, 20 times faster in Safari and Chrome.
> 
> Its not like these issues are anything new they've been around for years but 
> they don't get fixed which I guess is what SJ was really meaning when he 
> called Adobe lazy.
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton  wrote:
> >
> > That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago - 
> > it's mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.
> > 
> > On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be 
> > asking myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow 
> > me to build something that would run native in many browsers (and in the 
> > iPhone and iPad).
> > 
> > I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to leverage 
> > SVG and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development 
> > environment - that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.
> > 
> > Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve 
> > should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great 
> > with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.
> > 
> > Guy
> > 
> > 
> > On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:
> > 
> > > Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ isn't 
> > > wrong.
> > > 
> > > We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the 
> > > app is a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it 
> > > never does, we tell them flash is a million times better than the 
> > > alternatives, but to be honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in 
> > > many things. 
> > > 
> > > Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels out, 
> > > JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> > > 
> > > I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there 
> > > finger out, becuase past experience has shown that years of 
> > > complaining/requests/bug reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the 
> > > face of someone who matters gets them to shift, I have no idea why its 
> > > like that but time and again thats what happens.
> > > 
> > > For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were told 
> > > to start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so 
> > > badly it wasn't even an argument this time.
> > > 
> > > For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a 
> > > miracle in terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.
> > > 
> > > Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better of 
> > > making AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin 
> > > for somethings like video or graphics.
> > > 
> > > Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with solutions 
> > > to be released now, not just smelling the coffee today.
> > > 
> > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Romano  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have 
> > > > something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to 
> > > > ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word 
> > > > knocked 
> > > > off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks 
> > > > in 
> > > > Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> > > > 
> > > > On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It's just commercial tactics.
> > > > >
> > > > > You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to 
> > > > > support.
> > > > > Why wouldn'

[flexcoders] Re: Flex write xml file in server?

[Jeff]

 I understand that with AIR two you could write an AIR app to act as a server, 
and could use AIR APIs to write files to the local machine. 

 I think it would be an insane undertaking, but definitely possible.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jake Churchill  wrote:
>
> Flex can only talk to the client machine.  You NEED a server language if you
> want anything done on the server.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Battershall, Jeff <
> jeff.battersh...@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > No.
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  [mailto:
> > flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of
> > markflex2007
> > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:24 PM
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?
> >
> > Do you think if that is possible?
> >
> > I want to only use Flex not other server languages.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > 
> >
> >
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> > Links
> >
> >  
> >
>

Re: [flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?

[Jake Churchill]

Flex can only talk to the client machine.  You NEED a server language if you
want anything done on the server.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Battershall, Jeff <
jeff.battersh...@dowjones.com> wrote:

>
>
> No.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  [mailto:
> flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of
> markflex2007
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:24 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?
>
> Do you think if that is possible?
>
> I want to only use Flex not other server languages.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
> 
>
>
> --
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> Links
>
>  
>

RE: [flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?

[Battershall, Jeff]

No.

-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of markflex2007
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:24 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?

Do you think if that is possible?

I want to only use Flex not other server languages.

Thanks

Mark





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RE: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!

[Matt Chotin]

I've asked our customer service team to investigate what happened here.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of GeorgeB
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:34 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!



It was written by the original poster:

I am very disappointed as I just bought Flex builder this week after I carefully
evaluated the product during the trial period. I had an issue activating my
product, and needed support to remove some conflict with the trial version that
did not disappeared even after uninstalling and deleting completely the trial
version. Customer Service was very nice but no technical support was offered.

What else is there to interpret?

Thanks
George

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jochem 
van Dieten mailto:joch...@...>> wrote:
>
> On 2/8/10, GeorgeB wrote:
> > I think it was bound to happen. First Adobe announces that it drops the
> > brand name of a product line. Then somebody tosses in the rumor that Adobe
> > has dropped tech support for that product!!! (as if it has anything else to
> > support in this area)
>
> No support is a frequent complaint from people and in many cases when
> you dig around for details in the end it turns out that people ask for
> Flex support instead of Flex Builder support. (Case in point: the
> subject of this thread.) When we get a distinction between the
> supported commercial products Flash Professional / Builder / Catalyst
> and the open source frameworks like Flex and OSMF the message will be
> much clearer
>
> Jochem
>
>
>! --
> Jochem van Dieten
> http://jochem.vandieten.net/
>

[flexcoders] Flex write xml file in server?

[markflex2007]

Do you think if that is possible?

I want to only use Flex not other server languages.

Thanks

Mark

Re: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working... [1 Attachment]

[Laurence MacNeill]

Ok -- the first file I sent didn't include the XML data...  Sorry 
'bout that.  Trying again...


Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

[flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!

[GeorgeB]

It was written by the original poster:

I am very disappointed as I just bought Flex builder this week after I
carefully
evaluated the product during the trial period. I had an issue activating
my
product, and needed support to remove some conflict with the trial
version that
did not disappeared even after uninstalling and deleting completely the
trial
version. Customer Service was very nice but no technical support was
offered.

What else is there to interpret?

Thanks
George

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jochem van Dieten 
wrote:
>
> On 2/8/10, GeorgeB wrote:
> > I think it was bound to happen. First Adobe announces that it drops
the
> > brand name of a product line. Then somebody tosses in the rumor that
Adobe
> > has dropped tech support for that product!!! (as if it has anything
else to
> > support in this area)
>
> No support is a frequent complaint from people and in many cases when
> you dig around for details in the end it turns out that people ask for
> Flex support instead of Flex Builder support. (Case in point: the
> subject of this thread.) When we get a distinction between the
> supported commercial products Flash Professional / Builder / Catalyst
> and the open source frameworks like Flex and OSMF the message will be
> much clearer
>
> Jochem
>
>
> --
> Jochem van Dieten
> http://jochem.vandieten.net/
>

Re: [flexcoders] Custom ItemRenderer still not working... [1 Attachment]

[Laurence MacNeill]

Well, I'm hoping that by attaching the .ZIP file to this e-mail, 
y'all can access it...  (This particular group won't let me upload a 
file to the Files section...)  It's the test-case for my custom 
ItemRenderer not working, in FlexBuilder Archived zip-file 
format.  Should be a simple matter of importing it to your FB, then 
you can see what I'm dealing with...

Thanks again, guys, for all your help.  And please let me know if the 
attachment doesn't come through...


Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!

[Jochem van Dieten]

On 2/8/10, GeorgeB wrote:
> I think it was bound to happen. First Adobe announces that it drops the
> brand name of a product line. Then somebody tosses in the rumor that Adobe
> has dropped tech support for that product!!! (as if it has anything else to
> support in this area)

No support is a frequent complaint from people and in many cases when
you dig around for details in the end it turns out that people ask for
Flex support instead of Flex Builder support. (Case in point: the
subject of this thread.)  When we get a distinction between the
supported commercial products Flash Professional / Builder / Catalyst
and the open source frameworks like Flex and OSMF the message will be
much clearer

Jochem


-- 
Jochem van Dieten
http://jochem.vandieten.net/

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Custom ItemRenderer still not working...

[Alex Harui]

I don’t want the whole data record.  Just a few fields that you need.  Maybe 
make a class like this:

[Bindable]
Public class DataClass
{
public funciton DataClass(fee_chosen:int, fee1:int, fee2:int...)
{
this.fee_chosen = fee_chosen;
this.fee1 = fee1;
...
}

  public var fee_chosen:int;
public var fee1:int;
...

}



On 2/8/10 5:44 AM, "Laurence"  wrote:






--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  , 
"Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> Post it here, the more eyes that look at it the better for you.
>

Know an easy way to export my SQL data as something I can post here?  Something 
like an SQL to XML conversion, so I can include the data in a text file that 
the test-program can read?

> Your DataGrid is not editable, correct?  And your render is not set
> as an editor, right?

The data grid IS editable, and one of the columns has renderer-as-editor set.  
NOT the column that's giving me the trouble.  In fact all the columns have 
editable set to false, except one column -- again, NOT the one that's giving me 
trouble.

> I assume you have debugged this and have tested to see that the
> dataProvider is set when you set selectedItem?  Maybe there is a
> timing issue with the bound dataProvider. Loop over the items to
> make sure the item exists.  And make sure it matches the
> selectedIndex.  I'd probably suggest you do this any way and use
> selectedItem always.
>
> I would use a conditional, testing for the selectedItem, rather
> than blindly setting selectedIndex every time.

Not 100% certain what you mean here...  Check to see if the selectedItem isn't 
null?  The problem I'm having is not that the selectedItem changes (or appears 
to change) when you scroll.  It's solely in the drop-down.  The data that 
appears in the drop-down will change from time-to-time as you scroll -- but the 
selected value doesn't change ever, unless you change it manually.  And when 
you do change it manually, it shows the value it's supposed to show!  Then you 
re-open the drop-down and THAT show's the correct values, too!  That's what's 
so weird about this problem.

> Finally, I strongly suggest you move that work into
> commitProperties() The set data() function gets called much more
> often than you may realize.

I've never used the commitProperties() function...  What does it do?  And when 
does it get called?  Would that work 100% of the time?  Basically you're 
telling me to do "super.data = value" in the "set data()" function, then 
populate the drop-down and selectedItem stuff in the commitProperties() 
function?  Is that what you're saying?

I'll be working on writing a test-case -- the biggest part of it seems to be 
exporting my data.  I can't find a shortcut to doing that.  But if you can 
answer my above questions, then maybe I won't have to write the test-case?

Anyway, thanks a bunch!
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA






--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!

[Alex Harui]

Please call again and get the names of the folks you are speaking to.


On 2/6/10 4:16 PM, "hpatino.rm"  wrote:






Dear Matt

> That sounds very incorrect. We support released software only.

I bought last week Adobe flex 3 (Adobe standard version)

Called adobe tech support on
Friday February 05, 2010 around 6:00 PM Eastern Time

Transfered to customer service after I was told there is no more tech support 
for adobe.  Even the customer service representative was so surprised to hear 
that, and confirm with someone internally.

Customer service try to help me by asking me to re-install the product and then 
I was transferred again to Tech support.  Another representative try to help me 
with no luck, he dropped the call and never called me back!

I am not making this up.

Kind regards,

HPatino






--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[Clark Stevenson]

I often get annoyed with performance.

Is it backward compatibilty that causes the issues?

Another thing which i was fairly irritated by was Alchemy in terms of how
Alchemy runs better in the Flash Runtime than native AS3. I dont
understand this. I would expect both to have atleast identical performance
but not so.

It would be cool to have some ultra optimied Flash Runtime 10.1+ which done
away with all the crappy AS1/2 support and paved the way for the future,
pixel bender, 3d, physics and all the rest of it.

How this could happen... i dont know.



On 8 February 2010 14:22, Battershall, Jeff
wrote:

>
>
> I believe FP 10.1 is specifically designed to address the two biggest
> issues that affect the deployment of Flash on devices: Memory consumption
> and global error handling. So help is on the way and I would think that
> Adobe's actions in that regard are anything but lazy.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com  [mailto:
> flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of
> reflexactions
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:58 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash ...
>
> Its not a question of whether it was possible at some point to construct
> 'something' on a device with a limited version of flash.
>
> Its a question of whether you can construct something like this for example
> http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grouptabs/grouptabs.html
> in flash with a comparable footprint and performance (a common complaint is
> cpu utilization for some reason flash soaks up a huge amount of the cpu
> compared to javascript).
>
> I was testing some regex code today and the same code ran 4 times faster in
> IE, 20 times faster in Safari and Chrome.
>
> Its not like these issues are anything new they've been around for years
> but they don't get fixed which I guess is what SJ was really meaning when he
> called Adobe lazy.
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Guy
> Morton  wrote:
> >
> > That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago -
> it's mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.
> >
> > On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be
> asking myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow
> me to build something that would run native in many browsers (and in the
> iPhone and iPad).
> >
> > I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to
> leverage SVG and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development
> environment - that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.
> >
> > Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve
> should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great
> with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.
> >
> > Guy
> >
> >
> > On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:
> >
> > > Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ
> isn't wrong.
> > >
> > > We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the
> app is a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never
> does, we tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives,
> but to be honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things.
> > >
> > > Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels
> out, JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> > >
> > > I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there
> finger out, becuase past experience has shown that years of
> complaining/requests/bug reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the
> face of someone who matters gets them to shift, I have no idea why its like
> that but time and again thats what happens.
> > >
> > > For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were
> told to start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so
> badly it wasn't even an argument this time.
> > >
> > > For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a
> miracle in terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.
> > >
> > > Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better
> of making AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin
> for somethings like video or graphics.
> > >
> > > Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with
> solutions to be released now, not just smelling the coffee today.
> > >
> > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com , Tim
> Romano  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have
> > > > something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was
> to
> > > > ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word
> knocked
> > > > off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks
> in
> > > > Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> > > >
> > > > On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > > > >
> > 

[flexcoders] Acobat document service

[Ivan Wang]

Has anyone ever used this service provided by acrobat.com? 

I've been getting to this for a couple of days, but still have not figured out 
a way to integrate it into Flex. Of course it has some API to manage the 
document like uploading, doc convertion, etc. But previewer is never metioned. 
Worse still, I didn't find any clue to get the this previewer (the swf embed in 
html won't work). It is assumed that it should provide a swf file 
(previewer.swf) with a set of API to change the doc source, but is it true? 

It has been haunting me for days. I do hope some Adobe guys here can help me 
out? Is the integration with Flex possible or the sercive is just half-done? Or 
it's time I resort to scribd and ipaper.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[Battershall, Jeff]

I believe FP 10.1 is specifically designed to address the two biggest issues 
that affect the deployment of Flash on devices: Memory consumption and global 
error handling. So help is on the way and I would think that Adobe's actions in 
that regard are anything but lazy. 

-Original Message-
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of reflexactions
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:58 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash ...

Its not a question of whether it was possible at some point to construct 
'something' on a device with a limited version of flash.

Its a question of whether you can construct something like this for example
http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grouptabs/grouptabs.html
in flash with a comparable footprint and performance (a common complaint is cpu 
utilization for some reason flash soaks up a huge amount of the cpu compared to 
javascript).

I was testing some regex code today and the same code ran 4 times faster in IE, 
20 times faster in Safari and Chrome.

Its not like these issues are anything new they've been around for years but 
they don't get fixed which I guess is what SJ was really meaning when he called 
Adobe lazy.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton  wrote:
>
> That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago - 
> it's mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.
> 
> On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be asking 
> myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow me to 
> build something that would run native in many browsers (and in the iPhone and 
> iPad).
> 
> I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to leverage 
> SVG and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development 
> environment - that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.
> 
> Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve 
> should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great 
> with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:
> 
> > Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ isn't 
> > wrong.
> > 
> > We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the app 
> > is a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never 
> > does, we tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives, 
> > but to be honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things. 
> > 
> > Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels out, 
> > JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> > 
> > I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there finger 
> > out, becuase past experience has shown that years of 
> > complaining/requests/bug reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the 
> > face of someone who matters gets them to shift, I have no idea why its like 
> > that but time and again thats what happens.
> > 
> > For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were told to 
> > start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so badly it 
> > wasn't even an argument this time.
> > 
> > For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a miracle 
> > in terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.
> > 
> > Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better of 
> > making AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin 
> > for somethings like video or graphics.
> > 
> > Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with solutions 
> > to be released now, not just smelling the coffee today.
> > 
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Romano  wrote:
> > >
> > > If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have 
> > > something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to 
> > > ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word knocked 
> > > off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks in 
> > > Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> > > 
> > > On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's just commercial tactics.
> > > >
> > > > You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to support.
> > > > Why wouldn't he knock flash?
> > > >
> > > > hworke wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/stevejobsdissesapplerivalsduringtownhallmeeting
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jobs has previously called out Adobe Flash, currently the
> > > > > dominant animation platform on the Web, for being "too slow to be 
> > > > useful" and Flash Lite, Adobe's versio n of Flash for mobile devices, 
> > > > as no

[flexcoders] Re: How to upload a file in a secure manner.

[valdhor]

Not that I've tried it but I would look at using SWFUpload over HTTPS 
(http://code.google.com/p/swfupload/)

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Lafrance"  wrote:
>
> I've seen the Flex help examples on uploading files, but what if I have files 
> that are confidential to the client, and I want them uploaded in the most 
> secure manner possible.
> 
>  
> I'm new to security in Flex and on the web, so please understand that as you 
> form your description.
> 
>  
> Should I use https? Should I use ssl? Will a certificate be involved?
> 
>  
> Any links to code examples showing how it is done?
> 
>  
> Using what you recommend, how secure will the transfer be? Can anyone hack it?
>

[flexcoders] Re: How to zip a file before uploading?

[valdhor]

Take a look at...

http://nochump.com/blog/?p=15
http://avalanched.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/as3-secure-zip-extension/

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Lafrance"  wrote:
>
> I know we don't have much control when uploading files, but can we zip files 
> when uploading them from a Flex application?
> 
>  
> Any code examples or links to such?
>

[flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[reflexactions]

Its not a question of whether it was possible at some point to construct 
'something' on a device with a limited version of flash.

Its a question of whether you can construct something like this for example
http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/grouptabs/grouptabs.html
in flash with a comparable footprint and performance (a common complaint is cpu 
utilization for some reason flash soaks up a huge amount of the cpu compared to 
javascript).

I was testing some regex code today and the same code ran 4 times faster in IE, 
20 times faster in Safari and Chrome.

Its not like these issues are anything new they've been around for years but 
they don't get fixed which I guess is what SJ was really meaning when he called 
Adobe lazy.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton  wrote:
>
> That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago - 
> it's mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.
> 
> On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be asking 
> myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow me to 
> build something that would run native in many browsers (and in the iPhone and 
> iPad).
> 
> I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to leverage 
> SVG and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development 
> environment - that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.
> 
> Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve 
> should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great 
> with the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:
> 
> > Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ isn't 
> > wrong.
> > 
> > We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the app 
> > is a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never 
> > does, we tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives, 
> > but to be honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things. 
> > 
> > Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels out, 
> > JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> > 
> > I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there finger 
> > out, becuase past experience has shown that years of 
> > complaining/requests/bug reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the 
> > face of someone who matters gets them to shift, I have no idea why its like 
> > that but time and again thats what happens.
> > 
> > For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were told to 
> > start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so badly it 
> > wasn't even an argument this time.
> > 
> > For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a miracle 
> > in terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.
> > 
> > Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better of 
> > making AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin 
> > for somethings like video or graphics.
> > 
> > Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with solutions 
> > to be released now, not just smelling the coffee today.
> > 
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Romano  wrote:
> > >
> > > If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have 
> > > something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to 
> > > ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word knocked 
> > > off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks in 
> > > Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> > > 
> > > On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's just commercial tactics.
> > > >
> > > > You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to support.
> > > > Why wouldn't he knock flash?
> > > >
> > > > hworke wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/stevejobsdissesapplerivalsduringtownhallmeeting
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Jobs has previously called out Adobe Flash, currently the
> > > > > dominant animation platform on the Web, for being "too slow to be 
> > > > useful" and Flash Lite, Adobe's versio n of Flash for mobile devices, 
> > > > as not advanced enough for the iPhone. So it's no surprise to hear 
> > > > Jobs called out Flash during Apple's Town Hall, but his language this 
> > > > time sounds a little over the top. Jobs reportedly called Adobe a lazy 
> > > > company, and said that when a Mac crashes it's usually because of Flash.
> > > > >
> > > > > Whether or not that's true, it's clear that Jobs is not a fan of 
> > > > Adobe's multimedia platform. The iPhone is routinely criticized for 
> > > > its inability to render Flash-based Web pages, vide

[flexcoders] Re: Custom ItemRenderer still not working...

[Laurence]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
>
> Post it here, the more eyes that look at it the better for you.
> 

Know an easy way to export my SQL data as something I can post here?  Something 
like an SQL to XML conversion, so I can include the data in a text file that 
the test-program can read?


> Your DataGrid is not editable, correct?  And your render is not set
> as an editor, right?

The data grid IS editable, and one of the columns has renderer-as-editor set.  
NOT the column that's giving me the trouble.  In fact all the columns have 
editable set to false, except one column -- again, NOT the one that's giving me 
trouble.


> I assume you have debugged this and have tested to see that the
> dataProvider is set when you set selectedItem?  Maybe there is a
> timing issue with the bound dataProvider. Loop over the items to
> make sure the item exists.  And make sure it matches the
> selectedIndex.  I'd probably suggest you do this any way and use
> selectedItem always.
> 
> I would use a conditional, testing for the selectedItem, rather
> than blindly setting selectedIndex every time.

Not 100% certain what you mean here...  Check to see if the selectedItem isn't 
null?  The problem I'm having is not that the selectedItem changes (or appears 
to change) when you scroll.  It's solely in the drop-down.  The data that 
appears in the drop-down will change from time-to-time as you scroll -- but the 
selected value doesn't change ever, unless you change it manually.  And when 
you do change it manually, it shows the value it's supposed to show!  Then you 
re-open the drop-down and THAT show's the correct values, too!  That's what's 
so weird about this problem.


> Finally, I strongly suggest you move that work into
> commitProperties() The set data() function gets called much more
> often than you may realize.

I've never used the commitProperties() function...  What does it do?  And when 
does it get called?  Would that work 100% of the time?  Basically you're 
telling me to do "super.data = value" in the "set data()" function, then 
populate the drop-down and selectedItem stuff in the commitProperties() 
function?  Is that what you're saying?

I'll be working on writing a test-case -- the biggest part of it seems to be 
exporting my data.  I can't find a shortcut to doing that.  But if you can 
answer my above questions, then maybe I won't have to write the test-case?

Anyway, thanks a bunch!
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

[flexcoders] Re: Can I get 1:1 tuition in London or Paris?

[Jeff]

 In the US sometimes we call that mentoring.  

 You can check out http://www.asktheflexpert.com ( my site ).  We also offer 
one on one remote mentoring making use of Skype and/or Connect.  If you're 
interested in that, and pricing, email me off list.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Nick Middleweek  wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to work through a project and learn the ropes the correct way and
> when I have specific questions, I have someone to hand who is experienced to
> put me back on track, discuss the issue and explain why... :)
> 
> Official training would be cool, I'm guessing that's heading towards the
> certification?
> 
> I just want to get up to speed with Flex/ AS very quickly :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 February 2010 10:19, claudiu ursica  wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > You need something like an official training or what exactly?
> > C
> >
> >
>

[flexcoders] Has AdvancedDataGrid been removed from Flex 3.4

[rashvi05]

Hi

I have this strange problem. I have been using FlexBuilder version 3.0 and the 
Flex3.2 sdk since august to learn and practise Flex. I had used 
AdvancedDataGrid in on of my projects. In January I upgraded the compiler to 
Flex3.4, and when I build the project, I get this error - 

Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:AdvancedDataGrid

Also when I click Help -> Product Details -> Configuration Details it says
*** Adobe Flex Builder 3:
Flex Builder 3-Professional Edition - Educational

Why is this? Does anyone else have the same problem?? Has this got anything to 
do with my flex builder version?  Or has AdvancedDataGrid been removed from 
Flex3.4 (this sounds very strange though) ??

Thanks
Vatsala

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[Guy Morton]

That's nuts. We built a flash app that ran on the pocket PC 5 years ago - it's 
mad to think flash couldn't run on something as powerful as an iPhone.

On the other hand, if I was looking at a new project, I'd certainly be asking 
myself if something like the SVGWeb toolkit from google would allow me to build 
something that would run native in many browsers (and in the iPhone and iPad).

I do think Adobe should have been looking prior to now for ways to leverage SVG 
and javascript - all that platform needs is a good development environment - 
that's something Adobe could be making money from right now.

Anyway...it's all rather silly and the town hall thing is farcical. Steve 
should have spent some of that pent up energy doing something truly great with 
the iPad, instead of just scaling up an iPhone.

Guy


On 08/02/2010, at 10:20 PM, reflexactions wrote:

> Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ isn't 
> wrong.
> 
> We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the app is 
> a memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never does, 
> we tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives, but to be 
> honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things. 
> 
> Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels out, 
> JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.
> 
> I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there finger 
> out, becuase past experience has shown that years of complaining/requests/bug 
> reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the face of someone who matters 
> gets them to shift, I have no idea why its like that but time and again thats 
> what happens.
> 
> For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were told to 
> start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so badly it 
> wasn't even an argument this time.
> 
> For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a miracle 
> in terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.
> 
> Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better of 
> making AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin for 
> somethings like video or graphics.
> 
> Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with solutions to 
> be released now, not just smelling the coffee today.
> 
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Romano  wrote:
> >
> > If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have 
> > something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to 
> > ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word knocked 
> > off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks in 
> > Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> > 
> > On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > >
> > > It's just commercial tactics.
> > >
> > > You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to support.
> > > Why wouldn't he knock flash?
> > >
> > > hworke wrote:
> > > > 
> > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/stevejobsdissesapplerivalsduringtownhallmeeting
> > >  
> > > 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jobs has previously called out Adobe Flash, currently the
> > > > dominant animation platform on the Web, for being "too slow to be 
> > > useful" and Flash Lite, Adobe's versio n of Flash for mobile devices, 
> > > as not advanced enough for the iPhone. So it's no surprise to hear 
> > > Jobs called out Flash during Apple's Town Hall, but his language this 
> > > time sounds a little over the top. Jobs reportedly called Adobe a lazy 
> > > company, and said that when a Mac crashes it's usually because of Flash.
> > > >
> > > > Whether or not that's true, it's clear that Jobs is not a fan of 
> > > Adobe's multimedia platform. The iPhone is routinely criticized for 
> > > its inability to render Flash-based Web pages, videos and games, and 
> > > early criticisms about the iPad also decry the lack of Flash 
> > > compatibility on Apple's latest device.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
> 

[flexcoders] Re: Steve Jobs on Flash .......

[reflexactions]

Well after 10 years plus of AS development my feelings are that SJ isn't wrong.

We have to fend of a constant stream of complaints from users that the app is a 
memory hog and slow. We tell them it will improve soon but it never does, we 
tell them flash is a million times better than the alternatives, but to be 
honest JavaScript has caught up and is ahead in many things. 

Our app starts up at around 130Mb and reaches 250Mb before it levels out, 
JavaScript apps are a fraction of that.

I hope his rant finally has some impact at Adobe and they pull there finger 
out, becuase past experience has shown that years of complaining/requests/bug 
reports gets nowhere then finally a rant in the face of someone who matters 
gets them to shift, I have no idea why its like that but time and again thats 
what happens.

For us it is probably too late as this week after SJ's rant we were told to 
start planning the move away flash, the argument has been lost so badly it 
wasn't even an argument this time.

For us to stay with flash, the next release would have to perform a miracle in 
terms of memory and performace gains on Mac and PC.

Personally I don't think they can do it, I think they would be better of making 
AS3 compile down to JavaScript. With maybe a lighterweight plugin for 
somethings like video or graphics.

Whatever they really needed to realise all this a year ago with solutions to be 
released now, not just smelling the coffee today.


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tim Romano  wrote:
>
> If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have 
> something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to 
> ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word knocked 
> off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks in 
> Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
> 
> On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
> >
> > It's just commercial tactics.
> >
> > You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to support.
> > Why wouldn't he knock flash?
> >
> > hworke wrote:
> > > 
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100201/tc_pcworld/stevejobsdissesapplerivalsduringtownhallmeeting
> >  
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > Jobs has previously called out Adobe Flash, currently the
> > > dominant animation platform on the Web, for being "too slow to be 
> > useful" and Flash Lite, Adobe's versio n of Flash for mobile devices, 
> > as not advanced enough for the iPhone. So it's no surprise to hear 
> > Jobs called out Flash during Apple's Town Hall, but his language this 
> > time sounds a little over the top. Jobs reportedly called Adobe a lazy 
> > company, and said that when a Mac crashes it's usually because of Flash.
> > >
> > > Whether or not that's true, it's clear that Jobs is not a fan of 
> > Adobe's multimedia platform. The iPhone is routinely criticized for 
> > its inability to render Flash-based Web pages, videos and games, and 
> > early criticisms about the iPad also decry the lack of Flash 
> > compatibility on Apple's latest device.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

[flexcoders] Re: Adobe technical support dropped for Flex 3!

[GeorgeB]

Hi all.

I think it was bound to happen. First Adobe announces that it drops the brand 
name of a product line. Then somebody tosses in the rumor that Adobe has 
dropped tech support for that product!!! (as if it has anything else to support 
in this area)

Now what? Another rumor will show up that Adobe is going down?
What a mess this is...

George




--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui  wrote:
>
> I really doubt that is true.  Flex Builder 3 is the only official version. 
> Flex 4 is still pre-release.  Try again and see if you can get their response 
> in writing.
> 
> 
> On 2/5/10 5:02 PM, "hpatino.rm"  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I was informed today by Adobe that there is NO technical support for flex 
> builder 3.  Only for Flex 4 beta.
> 
> I am very disappointed as I just bought Flex builder this week after I 
> carefully evaluated the product during the trial period.  I had an issue 
> activating my product, and needed support to remove some conflict with the 
> trial version that did not disappeared even after uninstalling and deleting 
> completely the trial version.  Customer Service was very nice but no 
> technical support was offered.
> 
> That shows the commitment of Adobe to this product.
> 
> Regards
> 
> HP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Team
> Adobe System, Inc.
> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>

Re: [flexcoders] Can I get 1:1 tuition in London or Paris?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi,

I'd like to work through a project and learn the ropes the correct way and
when I have specific questions, I have someone to hand who is experienced to
put me back on track, discuss the issue and explain why... :)

Official training would be cool, I'm guessing that's heading towards the
certification?

I just want to get up to speed with Flex/ AS very quickly :-)


Thanks,
Nick




On 8 February 2010 10:19, claudiu ursica  wrote:

>
>
> You need something like an official training or what exactly?
> C
>
>

Re: [flexcoders] Can I get 1:1 tuition in London or Paris?

[claudiu ursica]

You need something like an official training or what exactly?
C





From: Nick Middleweek 
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 10:32:44 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Can I get 1:1 tuition in London or Paris?

   
Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a good company or individual(s) where I can get some 
private Flex/ ActionScript tuition?

I've been coding for about 6 months and working on a great project but feel I 
need guidance in advanced areas and methodologies and to get an understanding 
of different and smarter ways of working... I'm sure we've all been there :-)

If anyone can recommend anyone or if you can offer training, please get in 
touch.

I live in London but work 3-4 days a week Paris.


Thanks,
Nick
--
mobile: 0774 035 5424
email: n...@middleweek. co.uk


 


  

Re: [flexcoders] Record audio to the hard drive

[dorkie dork from dorktown]

thanks!

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Andriy Panas  wrote:

>
>
> Hi Judah,
>
>You can rely on Adobe Air to record captured sound on the desktop
>
> http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/microphone-free-adobe-air-mp3-audio-sound-recorder/,
>   otherwise
> you will have to rely on FMS or Red5 or Wowza Media Server to store the
> recorded sound locally.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Andriy Panas
>
>
>
>
> On 7 February 2010 08:31, dorkie dork from dorktown <
> dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to record an audio stream (microphone stream) to the users
>> hard drive and THEN upload it to the server. I don't want to stream it to a
>> server.
>>
>
>  
>

[flexcoders] Can I get 1:1 tuition in London or Paris?

[Nick Middleweek]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a good company or individual(s) where I can get some
private Flex/ ActionScript tuition?

I've been coding for about 6 months and working on a great project but feel
I need guidance in advanced areas and methodologies and to get an
understanding of different and smarter ways of working... I'm sure we've all
been there :-)

If anyone can recommend anyone or if you can offer training, please get in
touch.

I live in London but work 3-4 days a week Paris.


Thanks,
Nick
--
mobile: 0774 035 5424
email: n...@middleweek.co.uk