date:20100525

Hmm.  That didn’t call preventDefault either.  If it works for you, great.  I 
don’t know of any examples but custom ITEM_EDIT_END handlers have been 
discussed often on this forum and others.


On 5/24/10 8:36 PM, ilikeflex ilikef...@yahoo.com wrote:







Is this the correct way
http://kennethteo.com/2008/12/19/editing-nested-data-for-flex-datagrid/#more-431

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , 
ilikeflex ilikef...@... wrote:

 Hi

 Can you please point to any code sample?

 Thanks
 ilikeflex

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , 
 Alex Harui aharui@ wrote:
 
  Standard practice is to call preventDefault on ITEM_EDIT_END and update the 
  data yourself.
 
 
  On 5/17/10 1:31 PM, ilikeflex ilikeflex@ wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Hi
 
  I am using the item editors and went through the following article
  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemeditors_pt2.html.
 
  I am using nested properties in the dataprovider. I use label function to 
  diaplay the data in grid. But when i edit the datagrid usinf the 
  itemeditors i get the error
  --
  ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property compatableInd.id not found on 
  com.vzw.mpi.rss.valueobject.client.CompatableFeatureCustomVO and there is 
  no default value.
  at 
  mx.controls::DataGrid/itemEditorItemEditEndHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\DataGrid.as:4860]
  at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
  --
  com.vzw.mpi.rss.valueobject.client.CompatableFeatureCustomVO is the opbject 
  i am using in dataprovider. compatableInd.id is the nested object insde the 
  dataprovider.
  --
 
  I am getting the error at itemEditorItemEditEndHandler method of DaatGrid.
 
  code snippet from DataGrid.as
 
  if (itemEditorInstance  event.reason != DataGridEventReason.CANCELLED)
   {
   var newData:Object = 
  itemEditorInstance[_columns[event.columnIndex].editorDataField];
   var property:String = _columns[event.columnIndex].dataField;
   var data:Object = event.itemRenderer.data;
   var typeInfo:String = ;
   for each(var variable:XML in describeType(data).variable)
   {
   if (property == variable.@ mailto:variable.%40name.toString ())
   {
   typeInfo = variable.@ mailto:variable.%40type.toString ();
   break;
   }
   }
 
  if (typeInfo == String)
   {
   if (!(newData is String))
   newData = newData.toString();
   }
   else if (typeInfo == uint)
   {
   if (!(newData is uint))
   newData = uint(newData);
   }
   else if (typeInfo == int)
   {
   if (!(newData is int))
   newData = int(newData);
   }
   else if (typeInfo == Number)
   {
   if (!(newData is int))
   newData = Number(newData);
   }
   if (property != null  data[property] !== newData)
   {
   bChanged = true;
   data[property] = newData;
 
  I debug the code and found that the data refers to 
  com.vzw.mpi.rss.valueobject.client.CompatableFeatureCustomVO and the 
  property refers to compatableInd.id
 
  when it tries to data[property] it fails
  because
  data[compatableInd] is valid
  data[compatableInd.id] is not valid
 
  so how to overcome this.
 
  Any pointer is highly appreciated.
 
  Thanks
  ilikeflex
 
 
 
 
 
 
  --
  Alex Harui
  Flex SDK Team
  Adobe System, Inc.
  http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
 







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

Re: [flexcoders] The Flex DOM?

Cheers Jake - thanks for the reply.

@Oleg: I was trying to find out if there was a 'DOM' within Flex to easily
access to the Containers and other Objects but I guess the more correct way
to ask, would've been to question how Flex manages components but I didn't
want to open the doors about the component life cycle. Apologies if I got
the terminology wrong - I'm still getting my head round certain things and I
saw a thread yesterday about looping through dynamically added TextInputs to
which Valdor replied and it made me think how I used to do similar
operations with JavaScript and the HTML-DOM and was thinking could I apply
similar concepts?... (I've got another question and it's not abut squares :)
but I'll create another thread).

@Paul - I'll have a quick search, thanks.


Cheers guys,
Nick




On 24 May 2010 22:30, Jake Churchill reyna...@gmail.com wrote:



 It's kind of like a DOM.  It's just a hierarchical relationship of
 components and controls.


 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.ukwrote:



 Hi,

 Might be a silly one but Flex doesn't have a DOM does it... or does it?

 I'm pretty sure I've seen a debugger app that shows a hierachical view
 starting from the Application level and displays all the containers and
 objects within.


 Thanks,
 Nick


  




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[flexcoders] NEW Melbourne Flex User Group

2010-05-25 Thread Dale Fraser

We are officially up and running for the new Melbourne Flex User Group.

 

The group is all established and the old one has been removed.

 

I am also looking to have someone help me in a Co / Manager capacity. There
are advantages to running a User Group including software entitlements and
strong networking and name recognition. There is a bit of work to be done,
and appreciate that it's not for everyone, so rather than directly ask
people for help, please contact me off list if you're interested.

 

To join the group and see details of the first event in June visit the group
site, I hope you can join the group and RSVP for the first meeting.

http://mfug.groups.adobe.com

 

Regards

Dale Fraser

 

 http://dale.fraser.id.au http://dale.fraser.id.au

 http://cfmldocs.com/ http://cfmldocs.com

 http://learncf.com http://learncf.com

 http://flexcf.com http://flexcf.com

[flexcoders] Re: Detecting Browser Re-Size

2010-05-25 Thread valdhor

I don't have any experience with this but thinking about it I can see using 
ExternalInterface with JavaScript to achieve this. The basic idea...

Set up a JS event listener for the resize event.
On resize, call a Flex method to grab the screen coordinates of your Flex app.
Position the IFrame appropriately.
Call Flex method to tell your app that resize is complete and new screen size.
Redraw your app appropriately.

Don't ask me to show you any code as I don't have any. Google for some sample 
code using ExternalInterface.


HTH




Steve


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Battershall, Jeff jeff.battersh...@... 
wrote:

 There's a lot on this subject out there but not the definitive answer I'm 
 looking for - so I thought I'd see what Flex Coders has on the subject.
 
 I need to be able to re-position some HTML content (an IFrame) relative to 
 the screen coordinates of my Flex app, when the browser is re-sized.
 
 Can anyone point me in the direction of the best solutions to this?
 
 Jeff Battershall
 Application Architect
 Dow Jones Indexes
 jeff.battersh...@...
 (609) 520-5637 (p)
 
 (484) 477-9900 (c)

Re: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size

Can you expand a little on the page layout you ha.ve that needs to change?..
You might be able to just use CSS to position some DIV tags in a fluid
layout and your SWF is in one DIV, your IFRAME in another and when the
browser resizes, the browser handles the moving using relative positioning.

So maybe forget that you've got an IFRAME and SWF, this fluid layout concept
will apply to any HTML objects such as two images.

Hope that helps somehow... (unless I've misread your problem?)


Cheers,
Nick

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035 5424, blog: http://blog.middleweek.co.uk } );



On 24 May 2010 20:35, Battershall, Jeff jeff.battersh...@dowjones.comwrote:



  There’s a lot on this subject out there but not the definitive answer I’m
 looking for – so I thought I’d see what Flex Coders has on the subject.



 I need to be able to re-position some HTML content (an IFrame) relative to
 the screen coordinates of my Flex app, when the browser is re-sized.



 Can anyone point me in the direction of the best solutions to this?

RE: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size

2010-05-25 Thread Battershall, Jeff

Nick, Steve,

Thanks for your input.  To provide a little background data - I'm using the 
DrumbeatInsight HTML component, which works pretty well so long as you're 
left-aligned.  But when the Flex content is center aligned, the IFrame overlay 
does not compensate.  So I was thinking along the lines of what Steve was 
saying - listen to window resize and use external interface to have Flex 
re-position the html content.  I was really hoping for a solution that was less 
of a hack and I'm hoping that it works well with multiple IFrames open at once 
(which is my use-case).

Jeff


From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Nick Middleweek
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:53 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size



Can you expand a little on the page layout you ha.vehttp://ha.ve that needs 
to change?.. You might be able to just use CSS to position some DIV tags in a 
fluid layout and your SWF is in one DIV, your IFRAME in another and when the 
browser resizes, the browser handles the moving using relative positioning.

So maybe forget that you've got an IFRAME and SWF, this fluid layout concept 
will apply to any HTML objects such as two images.

Hope that helps somehow... (unless I've misread your problem?)


Cheers,
Nick

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n...@middleweek.co.ukmailto:n...@middleweek.co.uk, mobile: +44(0)774 035 
5424, blog: http://blog.middleweek.co.uk } );


On 24 May 2010 20:35, Battershall, Jeff 
jeff.battersh...@dowjones.commailto:jeff.battersh...@dowjones.com wrote:

There's a lot on this subject out there but not the definitive answer I'm 
looking for - so I thought I'd see what Flex Coders has on the subject.

I need to be able to re-position some HTML content (an IFrame) relative to the 
screen coordinates of my Flex app, when the browser is re-sized.

Can anyone point me in the direction of the best solutions to this?

[flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

2010-05-25 Thread Amy



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote:

 No, it is different. If the SWF is embedded in HTML page, it requires that
 you specify the trusted locations on your machine, so it could load
 content:
 http://macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
 Read carefully the text in gray under the picture.
 But, if you launch it in standalone player, then, I reckon, it should be
 able to access local files.


No, I am pretty sure you (and all your users) will need to use the Settings 
Manager page in order to trust the directory with your XML in it.

Apparently, you can provide a config file to get around this: 
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7c95.html
 , but the directory where this is supposed to live doesn't even exist on my 
computer, and there is no clue of where to get one to use as a starting point.

Good luck!

Amy

Re: [flexcoders] The Flex DOM?

Sorry if I caused disruption :)
Yes, the terminology you used is confusing. What you are referring to is
Flex framework, but it is not the only way to go about visual components in
Flex, other component frameworks exist. It is also not uncommon to write
components yourself (unlike in desktop development).
You may draw a parallel between Flex framework and HTML DOM, but they are
distant relatives and the underlying architecture is different. It is rather
often that the technique used for HTML DOM manipulation applied to AS3
display list will give you a suboptimal solution. If you want an analogue
from other technologies, think SWing or WPF, although these may be more
robust then what we have in AS3 and Flex framework, conceptually, they are
more similar than HTML and Flex framework.

On the other hand, DOM if not used in context of HTML display may have quite
a few of other meanings. For instance, in Java it would relate to
different techniques of processing XML data, where DOM would be a processing
of already parsed XMLs as opposed to SAX, which allows you to handle parsing
events. In .NET DOM would be applied to XmlDocument as opposed to XML
processing using XmlReader or LinQ, and so on. If you seek an analogy to
this in AS3, then there's XMLDocument class, which is a DOM implementation,
however, there's also XML class (E4X), which is a different approach to XML
processing, more similar to LinQ and FluidInterface concepts.

Best.

Oleg

Re: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size

2010-05-25 Thread Julien Nicoulaud

Hi, we had this issue in flex-iframe and solved it, may you can take
inspiration:
http://code.google.com/p/flex-iframe/source/browse/trunk/library/src/com/google/code/flexiframe/IFrame.as#1167
http://code.google.com/p/flex-iframe/source/browse/trunk/library/src/com/google/code/flexiframe/IFrame.as#1167Good
luck understanding it :)

2010/5/25 Battershall, Jeff jeff.battersh...@dowjones.com



  Nick, Steve,



 Thanks for your input.  To provide a little background data – I’m using the
 DrumbeatInsight HTML component, which works pretty well so long as you’re
 left-aligned.  But when the Flex content is center aligned, the IFrame
 overlay does not compensate.  So I was thinking along the lines of what
 Steve was saying – listen to window resize and use external interface to
 have Flex re-position the html content.  I was really hoping for a solution
 that was less of a hack and I’m hoping that it works well with multiple
 IFrames open at once (which is my use-case).



 Jeff


  --

 *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Nick Middleweek
 *Sent:* Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:53 AM
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Detecting Browser Re-Size





 Can you expand a little on the page layout you ha.ve that needs to
 change?.. You might be able to just use CSS to position some DIV tags in a
 fluid layout and your SWF is in one DIV, your IFRAME in another and when the
 browser resizes, the browser handles the moving using relative positioning.

 So maybe forget that you've got an IFRAME and SWF, this fluid layout
 concept will apply to any HTML objects such as two images.

 Hope that helps somehow... (unless I've misread your problem?)


 Cheers,
 Nick

 --
 Sent by Nick Middleweek ( { email: n...@middleweek.co.uk, mobile:
 +44(0)774 035 5424, blog: http://blog.middleweek.co.uk } );


  On 24 May 2010 20:35, Battershall, Jeff jeff.battersh...@dowjones.com
 wrote:



 There’s a lot on this subject out there but not the definitive answer I’m
 looking for – so I thought I’d see what Flex Coders has on the subject.



 I need to be able to re-position some HTML content (an IFrame) relative to
 the screen coordinates of my Flex app, when the browser is re-sized.



 Can anyone point me in the direction of the best solutions to this?

[flexcoders] Re: Data grid vary column sizes

2010-05-25 Thread method_air

Any 'resize data grid columns to content' code examples?


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aha...@... wrote:

 The column has to be the same size for every row, but each column can have 
 different widths.  It would be rare to set it from the itemrenderer, usually 
 some other code accesses datagrid.column[i].width.
 
 
 On 5/19/10 11:02 AM, method_air loudj...@... wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 How do you vary the data grid column widths? Setting the width property 
 inside the item renderers to different values is not working.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Philip
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --
 Alex Harui
 Flex SDK Team
 Adobe System, Inc.
 http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based on Visible Property of the Control

Hi Angelo,

If you don't set a width on the column it will default to 100.

What I think you'd need to do is create a customComponent for your item
Renderer, most likely based on an HBox with your link buttons inside that.

On the creationComplete event of the itemRenderer you could get the actual
width of the HBox, check that the itemRenderer is in row ONE of the data
grid (or it is the actual first row - see the API) and then fire out a
custom Event with the width value attribute and then set the column width
from the parent component. You might also be able to reach the DataGrid
Column from within the itemRenderer itself.

I'm saying only do this on row one, just to optimise it, otherwise it'll run
for ever row in the DG, which would hinder performance.


Hope this helps, ask if you need anymore help.


Cheers,
Nick




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On 21 May 2010 14:09, Angelo Anolin angelo_ano...@yahoo.com wrote:




 Thanks for this tip.

 But, I came across another thing.

 How would I set the width of the column so that it matches the width of the
 itemrenderers inside it?

 Apparently, setting the width to 100% for the datagrid column is not
 allowed.

 Thanks.

 Angelo
 --
 *From:* Christopher McArthur cmcart...@riotgames.com
 *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 *Sent:* Thu, 20 May, 2010 17:14:06
 *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based
 on Visible Property of the Control



  the includeInLayout property may also be helpful to you in this case,
 try:

 includeInLayout={outerDocument. fncVisible( )}



 *From:* flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com]
 *On Behalf Of *Angelo Anolin

 *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:46 PM
 *To:* flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com

 *Subject:* [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based on
 Visible Property of the Control





 Hi FlexCoders,



 I have declared an in-line item renderer in my datagrid:



 mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Test textAlign=center sortable=false

   mx:itemRenderer

 mx:Component

   mx:HBox horizontalAlign=center 

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 visible={outerDocum
 ent.fncVisible( )} width={???}/

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 /

 mx:LinkButton id=lnk1 label=Link 1 /

   /mx:HBox

 /mx:Component

   /mx:itemRenderer

 /mx:DataGridColumn





 as you may see, I am determining the visibility of the link button via a
 function.  What I want to achieve is that if the linkbutton contrl is
 invisible, the width should be 0, but if it is visible, then width should be
 100.



 How do I pass in a function for the width of the control whether it's
 visibility is set to true or false?



 Thanks.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

I'm not sure we're all talking about the same thing, but there must be
zillions of SWFs accessing external XML configurations without any user
intervention.
I haven't tested on a web server yet, but this -use-network=false seems
appropriate.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:





 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Oleg
 Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote:
 
  No, it is different. If the SWF is embedded in HTML page, it requires
 that
  you specify the trusted locations on your machine, so it could load
  content:
 
 http://macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
  Read carefully the text in gray under the picture.
  But, if you launch it in standalone player, then, I reckon, it should be
  able to access local files.
 

 No, I am pretty sure you (and all your users) will need to use the Settings
 Manager page in order to trust the directory with your XML in it.

 Apparently, you can provide a config file to get around this:
 http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7c95.html,
  but the directory where this is supposed to live doesn't even exist on my
 computer, and there is no clue of where to get one to use as a starting
 point.

 Good luck!

 Amy

[flexcoders] Flex4 Swf loading real slow because of loading lots of swfs

2010-05-25 Thread Cardoen Lieven

I just created a Flex4 swf with IntelliJ. When I load the swf, a lot of other 
stuff is loaded like:

- textLayout_swf
- osmf_flex.4...swf
- framework ... swf
- spark swf
- sparkskins ...swf
- rpc  swf

If I try to run my swf offline, it doesn't load at all. Is this a bug in Flex4 
SDK?

Online it does load, eventually, but slow.

Lieven Cardoen
Technical Team lead
televic education
Phone   +32 56 243 125
Mobile   +32 479 970 641
Torkonjestraat 21D
B-8510 Kortrijk (Marke) - Belgium

[flexcoders] Re: Is it possible to integrate the CTRL+F browser search with flex text?

2010-05-25 Thread valdhor

Yes, openSearchWindow() is my own custom find functionality coded in flex and 
manually searches contents on the page.

The browsers search box is part of the browser that has no knowledge of the 
contents of the Flash plug-in.

I also had a different project that has a menu bar system at the top and a text 
field for searching. I set up the CTRL+F listener to set focus to that text 
field. It made it look kinda like the browsers search box (Enough so that the 
users didn't complain).

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Baz li...@... wrote:

 I love it. So openSearchWindow() is your own custom find functionality
 coded in flex and manually searches contents on the page, right? You haven't
 found a way to integrate directly with a browser's search box?
 
 Baz
 
 
 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@...wrote:
 
  openSearchWindow();

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

I'm obviously thoroughly confused. Presumably -use-network must be true in
order to run the folder from the server, because the swf will be local
once it's trying to read the XML config file sitting beside the SWF on the
server.

I'm hoping I don't need a different SWF for the second scenario (unzipping a
folder and opening the wrapper html locally.

I just tried again, launching the debugger, even without setting
-use-network to false, and this time it worked.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Richard Rodseth rrods...@gmail.comwrote:

I'm not sure we're all talking about the same thing, but there must be
zillions of SWFs accessing external XML configurations without any user
intervention.
I haven't tested on a web server yet, but this -use-network=false seems
appropriate.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote:

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Oleg
Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote:

No, it is different. If the SWF is embedded in HTML page, it requires
that
you specify the trusted locations on your machine, so it could load
content:

http://macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
Read carefully the text in gray under the picture.
But, if you launch it in standalone player, then, I reckon, it should be
able to access local files.

No, I am pretty sure you (and all your users) will need to use the
Settings Manager page in order to trust the directory with your XML in it.

Apparently, you can provide a config file to get around this:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7c95.html,
but the directory where this is supposed to live doesn't even exist on my
computer, and there is no clue of where to get one to use as a starting
point.

Good luck!

Amy

[flexcoders] Chart Bug in Flash Builer?

2010-05-25 Thread Raymond Brown

Anyone else have this problem with charts in Flash Builder 4? - before making a 
bug submit I want to know if I am missing something.

I place a chart into a panel - and as I drag the corner of the browser around, 
the panel resizes and the graph resizes.  If, however, I add a button and then 
click it to set the panel width and height to 100%, the chart resizes the 
y-axis to an un-usuable number.  i.e. the axis ranges between 1 and 5 during 
resizing, but when I click the button the axis becomes 1 to 100.  Thus my data 
is smushed on the bottom of the page.  I tried catching the resize event and 
invalidating the vertical axis along with refreshing the data sources.  All 
attempts have failed.

-ray

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Is it possible to integrate the CTRL+F browser search with flex text?

2010-05-25 Thread Baz

Does the search functionality have to be customized for the different
elements and states currently on the screen, or is there a way to generalize
it for any/all visible text? For example if you have an About Us page with
one big text block, it takes different code to search that over the Search
Results page which has an itemrenderer composed of multiple labels.

Cheers.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:01 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.comwrote:



 Yes, openSearchWindow() is my own custom find functionality coded in flex
 and manually searches contents on the page.

 The browsers search box is part of the browser that has no knowledge of the
 contents of the Flash plug-in.

 I also had a different project that has a menu bar system at the top and a
 text field for searching. I set up the CTRL+F listener to set focus to that
 text field. It made it look kinda like the browsers search box (Enough so
 that the users didn't complain).


 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Baz
 li...@... wrote:
 
  I love it. So openSearchWindow() is your own custom find functionality
  coded in flex and manually searches contents on the page, right? You
 haven't
  found a way to integrate directly with a browser's search box?
 
  Baz
 
 
  On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@...wrote:
 
   openSearchWindow();

[flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

2010-05-25 Thread valdhor

What I do for debugging purposes is to set my debug folder as a trusted source 
in 
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

To do this...
Click Edit Locations-Add Location
Click Browse for Folder
Browse to your bin-debug folder

This allows you to debug locally - ie. from a 
file://location_of_bin-debug_HTML_file. If you have a local server running 
(Which I do) the you can set your run/debug settings to open the html file on 
your local server. ie. http://127.0.0.1/myproject/bin-debug/myproject.html. In 
this case, you would need a crossdomain.xml file.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Richard Rodseth rrods...@... wrote:

 Not sure I follow that page, but it appears that the -use-network=false
 compiler flag may be helpful for this scenario.
 
 If only FB allowed you to set different compiler options for different
 applications within a project.
 
 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote:
 
 
 
  No, it is different. If the SWF is embedded in HTML page, it requires that
  you specify the trusted locations on your machine, so it could load
  content:
  http://macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
  Read carefully the text in gray under the picture.
  But, if you launch it in standalone player, then, I reckon, it should be
  able to access local files.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

Thanks. That's good to know about.
It seems, though, that one has to choose between allowing local access or
network access.
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to create a single SWF (plus companion
wrapper html and config xml that can either be hosted on a web server, or
unzipped and run locally? Or would the end user have to use that page you
linked to?

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:18 AM, valdhor valdhorli...@embarqmail.comwrote:

What I do for debugging purposes is to set my debug folder as a trusted
source in
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

To do this...
Click Edit Locations-Add Location
Click Browse for Folder
Browse to your bin-debug folder

This allows you to debug locally - ie. from a
file://location_of_bin-debug_HTML_file. If you have a local server running
(Which I do) the you can set your run/debug settings to open the html file
on your local server. ie.
http://127.0.0.1/myproject/bin-debug/myproject.html. In this case, you
would need a crossdomain.xml file.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Richard
Rodseth rrods...@... wrote:

Not sure I follow that page, but it appears that the -use-network=false
compiler flag may be helpful for this scenario.

If only FB allowed you to set different compiler options for different
applications within a project.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@... wrote:

No, it is different. If the SWF is embedded in HTML page, it requires
that
you specify the trusted locations on your machine, so it could load
content:

Re: [flexcoders] Flex4 Swf loading real slow because of loading lots of swfs

Oh, and to run it offline you should of course compile with the RSLs linked
in. This has changed since SDK 3, now -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries
is false by default.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

OK, it's like this:
SWF launched in standalone player can interact with the system AND load
remote content, just like the browser can do the same thing.
SWF launched in browser plugin can only access permitted folders on your
hard disc. To allow access to the folder you should either use the web
interface (see my previous link), or read from the link Ami posted and try
to figure out how to do that on Mac (you are not required to use web
interface to establish local trust relationships between SWF and specific
locations in file system, it's just that, I simply don't know how to do that
on Mac...)
There's yet another option for launching a SWF - that's how I usually do
that - from the local HTTP server, in such case it acts more like as if it
was deployed to the actual server and all the following rules apply. I would
definitely recommend the later way of debugging as it is the most similar to
the live situation.
The loading of content other than SWF into another SWF is governed by policy
files aka crossdomain.xml. You need these files if you are loading content
from domains other than SWF origin.
The loading of other SWFs by SWF is governed by two things:
ApplicationDomain provided to the Loader when loading SWF with LoaderContext
- by default it won't allow crosscripting.
Security.allowDomain() doesn't define how classes are loaded into
application domain, however, should prevent security errors related to
crosscripting.

Well, yes, it is complicated...

[flexcoders] Re: ItemRenderer factories, on the fly resetting

2010-05-25 Thread flexwdw

Hey Alex,

The code that is bonking is in TileBase.createItemRenderer.  The comment on 
this block is if it is the default column factory, see if the 
freeItemRenderers table has a free one.  factory and renderer objects are 
valid and non-null.  

delete freeItemRenderersByFactory[factory][renderer];

thanks!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui aha...@... wrote:

 I don't have that version handy.  What line of code is throwing the error?

Re: [flexcoders] Flex4 Swf loading real slow because of loading lots of swfs

Yes, It's like that, however, you can avoid the dependency to OSMF, if you
are not using it's video player and you compile with accessibility turned
of.
If you use spark components than you cannot avoid making dependencies to TLF
and all other spark related stuff, of course. But if size matters you
should't be using the framework at all... it's not really made for small
size applications... I think, that with some tweaking you can remove
dependencies to RPC library, if you don't use any of it's components.
However, again, framework is intended for making things easier to develop -
you are paying for that with your traffic ;)

[flexcoders] Flex Webservice for .NET - converting to C#

2010-05-25 Thread cjsteury2

I need to re-write my Flex app for C#.. this webservice will not run in VS2005, 
and I am pulling my hair out (not much left!).  Does anyone have an idea why I 
get this error

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an 
object at VTResults.GetResult()

This is a SQL query for DataSet that then serializes to a Class as Data Model 
for Flex.

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Diagnostics;

/// summary
/// Summary description for VTResults
/// /summary
[WebService(Namespace = http://velocitytrading.net/ResultsVT.aspx;)]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
public class VTResults : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
public class Results
{
public string SellDate;
public string Ticker;
public string BuyDate;
public string Sell;
public string Buy;
public string Profit;
public string Period;
}
[WebMethod]
public Results[] GetResult()
{
string conn = 
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[LocalSqlServer].ConnectionString;
SqlConnection myconn = new SqlConnection(conn);
SqlCommand mycomm = new SqlCommand();
SqlDataAdapter myda = new SqlDataAdapter();
DataTable mydt= new DataTable();

mycomm.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
mycomm.Connection = myconn;
mycomm.CommandText = dbo.Results;

myconn.Open();
myda.SelectCommand = mycomm;
myda.Fill(mydt);

myconn.Close();
myconn.Dispose();

int i = 0;
Results[] dts = new Results[mydt.Rows.Count];
foreach (DataRow arow in mydt.Rows)
{
dts[i] = new Results();
dts[i].SellDate = arow[SellDate].ToString();
dts[i].Ticker = arow[Ticker].ToString();
dts[i].BuyDate = arow[BuyDate].ToString();
dts[i].Sell = arow[Sell].ToString();
dts[1].Buy = arow[Buy].ToString();
dts[i].Profit = arow[Profit].ToString();
dts[i].Period = arow[Period].ToString();
i += 1;
}

return dts;
}
}

[flexcoders] Having trouble justifying Flex to the higher-ups... It only seems to be appropriate for media based sites...

2010-05-25 Thread Baz

We are building a text-based app that searches records in a database then
displays the results on a page using an ItemRenderer type deal. We want to
include some niceties like infinite-scroll - where a user would simply
scroll down and subsequent records would load automatically in the
background - and intelligent feedback - where different elements on the page
animate in some way to show progress or activity. These can be accomplished
easily using either Flex or AJAX.

My superiors, and admittedly myself, are having trouble justifying using
Flex to implement this. Some reasons:

- Text is not properly selectable (unless you put everything in one
huge/ugly/unfeasible TextInput block)
- Text is not findable using the browser's CTRL+F
- Text is not properly/nicely indexable by search engines
- Slower to render than HTML (as fast as it is, it is still slower, more to
load, etc)
- Inferior mobile experience (I tested 10.1 on my Nexus One, and it's very
good, but still far worse (for text/scrolling) than simply using HTML in the
native browser (which has built-in scrolling, flicking, and zooming, with
zero additional effort, while Flash doesn't).

If you do any research for whose using Flex in public applications, you will
only find media based sites like:

- picnik.com (photos)
- beatport.com (mp3's)
- mixbook.com (photos)
- mastercard.com (only a configurator sub-element)
- ANYTHING VIDEO

I am having trouble seeing the benefit of using Flex for anything non
audio/visual related. Besides the advantage of it being
cross-browser/cross-platform, is there any compelling reason to consider
Flex for this app rather than HTML/AJAX?


Cheers,
Baz

[flexcoders] AdvancedDataGrid custom drawRowBackground with HierarchicalCollectionView

2010-05-25 Thread csmarvz

Hi,

I have to color the nodes shown in my adg. The code below do the job but 
the performances insanely decrease. Any idea how to improve it please?

Best regards,

Henry

override protected function drawRowBackground(s:Sprite, rowIndex:int,

  y:Number, height:Number, color:uint, 
dataIndex:int):void
{
//default background alpha
var alpha:Number = 1.0;
if (dataProvider is HierarchicalCollectionView)
{

var cursor:IViewCursor = 
dataProvider.createCursor();
var index:int=0;
// move on the current row
while (index  dataIndex)
{
index++;
cursor.moveNext();
}
// if the current row is a node, then set the 
color
// and the background alpha (the deeper, the 
darker)

if(dataProvider.source.canHaveChildren(cursor.current)){
color = 0x25e16d;
alpha = 
dataProvider.getNodeDepth(cursor.current) / 10;
if (alpha  1) alpha = 1;
}
}

var background:Shape;
if (rowIndex  s.numChildren)
{
background = Shape(s.getChildAt(rowIndex));
}
else
{
background = new FlexShape();
background.name = background;
s.addChild(background);
}

background.y = y;

// Height is usually as tall is the items in the row, 
but not if
// it would extend below the bottom of listContent
var height:Number = Math.min(height,
listContent.height -
y);

var displayWidth:int = unscaledWidth - 
viewMetrics.right - viewMetrics.left;
var g:Graphics = background.graphics;
g.clear();
g.beginFill(color, alpha);
g.drawRect(0, 0, displayWidth, height);
g.endFill();
}

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

Thanks. That sounds like a no for supporting my two use cases, unless the
customer adds a trusted location or opens the SWF in the standalone player.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.comwrote:



 OK, it's like this:
 SWF launched in standalone player can interact with the system AND load
 remote content, just like the browser can do the same thing.
 SWF launched in browser plugin can only access permitted folders on your
 hard disc. To allow access to the folder you should either use the web
 interface (see my previous link), or read from the link Ami posted and try
 to figure out how to do that on Mac (you are not required to use web
 interface to establish local trust relationships between SWF and specific
 locations in file system, it's just that, I simply don't know how to do that
 on Mac...)
 There's yet another option for launching a SWF - that's how I usually do
 that - from the local HTTP server, in such case it acts more like as if it
 was deployed to the actual server and all the following rules apply. I would
 definitely recommend the later way of debugging as it is the most similar to
 the live situation.
 The loading of content other than SWF into another SWF is governed by
 policy files aka crossdomain.xml. You need these files if you are loading
 content from domains other than SWF origin.
 The loading of other SWFs by SWF is governed by two things:
 ApplicationDomain provided to the Loader when loading SWF with
 LoaderContext - by default it won't allow crosscripting.
 Security.allowDomain() doesn't define how classes are loaded into
 application domain, however, should prevent security errors related to
 crosscripting.

 Well, yes, it is complicated...

[flexcoders] Flash Player Detection / ServerSide

2010-05-25 Thread jamesfin

Does anyone have any knowledge of how to detect whether or not a simple REST 
call to a server (java/php/etc.) is from the Flash Player (flex app)?

It would appear that application/x-shockwave-flash can be detected by the 
server in the HTTP_ACCEPT header as long as the type is defined in the html 
wrapper like this...

embed src=${swf}.swf quality=high bgcolor=${bgcolor}
width=${width} height=${height} 
name=${application} align=middle
play=true
loop=false
quality=high
allowScriptAccess=sameDomain
type=application/x-shockwave-flash

pluginspage=http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer;
/embed



Outside of this methodology, is there another approach or perhaps something the 
flash player sends along with each request?


I saw this reference as well so any additional comments are welcome.

The HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION HTTP field, which returns the players
FLASH version in a server side script, only appears to be available when 
opening a .swf in Internet Explorer.

Nothing is returned for HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION
when opening the same .swf in Google Chrome
or Firefox 3+.

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Webservice for .NET - converting to C#

Erm... set breakpoint somewhere before the loop an hit F11 until you see it?
there may be to many things, like, maybe you mistyped a name of the
property...
Funny I didn't know C# allows variables in array initializer... :)

[flexcoders] Re: Module help in flash builder

2010-05-25 Thread Amy

Since you are using mx components (ModuleLoaders) inside an mx component 
(ViewStack), just use Canvas or one of the mx containers.  If the architecture 
worked under Flex 3, it should work under Flex 4.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Raymond Brown silenttr...@... wrote:

 Does anyone know how to have multiple modules load inside a view stack in 
 flash builder?
 
 So you have something like this:
 
 mx:ViewStack id=myViewStack
   s:NavigatorContent id=one
 mx:ModuleLoader id=oneModule/
  /s:NavigatorContent
   s:NavigatorContent id=two
 mx:ModuleLoader id=twoModule/
  /s:NavigatorContent
   s:NavigatorContent id=three
 mx:ModuleLoader id=threeModule/
  /s:NavigatorContent
 /mx:ViewStack
 
  The problem is this - when the app first loads, the modules within the first 
 navigatorContent show fine the others just load as a blank screen and do 
 nothing.  Now granted some of the modules may make the same restful interface 
 call and flex doesn't enable anything to run in a thread like system but why 
 can't I get the modules to load?  I am not working on a web page but a real 
 time monitor and control system and so to save bandwidth and memory I want to 
 load and unload the modules based on which navigatorContent is active.  I 
 have googled and tried many solutions, all to no avail.  I have resorted back 
 to pulling out the code from the modules and adding them as direct components 
 which works but isn't optimized.  PLEASE HELP!
 
 -ray

Re: [flexcoders] Having trouble justifying Flex to the higher-ups... It only seems to be appropriate for media based sites...

Actually some of your observations are imprecise, but this is because you
compared wrong things.
Flex is to general name. So, if you are talking about Flex framework - yes,
I would imagine it is slower when rendering simple stuff as compared to
HTML, though it may compete against HTML when it comes to complex layout.
However, if we speak about normal AS3 it will be significantly faster than
Canvas, though, for the very basic tabloid-like pagination it may not be
so... There is a problem if you want to measure SWF size against HTML. In
general, SWF would win, because it is a binary zipped format. However, often
times people tend to overuse this feature, so they put lots of content in.
If you want to see a what I would call a good example of using flash (not
Flex framework) here it is: http://www.pixlr.com/editor/ this site loads at
average 2 times faster than any VBulletin board and about 5 times faster
then Gmail :) and it is sophisticated enough to be compared to the sites
I've mentioned.
Also, regarding your research. Flash isn't about delivering textual content,
and although I think I remember Adobe promised Ctrl+F integration in Flash
Player 10.1, I don't think it is going to change the situation.
So, if text accessibility is a core requirement I would think that you would
be better of with HTML and JavaScript.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Data grid vary column sizes

I don’t know of any, but this question has been asked so many times, there’s 
probably an example if you search the web.


On 5/25/10 10:36 AM, method_air loudj...@hotmail.com wrote:






Any 'resize data grid columns to content' code examples?

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Alex 
Harui aha...@... wrote:

 The column has to be the same size for every row, but each column can have 
 different widths.  It would be rare to set it from the itemrenderer, usually 
 some other code accesses datagrid.column[i].width.


 On 5/19/10 11:02 AM, method_air loudj...@... wrote:






 How do you vary the data grid column widths? Setting the width property 
 inside the item renderers to different values is not working.

 Thanks,

 Philip






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







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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: ItemRenderer factories, on the fly resetting

That’s a bug that got fixed at some point.  I see it is fixed in 3.5, maybe 
earlier, but not in 3.2


On 5/25/10 9:56 AM, flexwdw flex...@yahoo.com wrote:






Hey Alex,

The code that is bonking is in TileBase.createItemRenderer.  The comment on 
this block is if it is the default column factory, see if the 
freeItemRenderers table has a free one.  factory and renderer objects are 
valid and non-null.

delete freeItemRenderersByFactory[factory][renderer];

thanks!

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Alex 
Harui aha...@... wrote:

 I don't have that version handy.  What line of code is throwing the error?







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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

I got lost trying to follow this topic.  Whether it is browser or standalone 
shouldn’t matter.  What matters is the url of the SWF (file:// or http://), the 
trust file settings on the computer, the use-network flag, and how you access 
the external resources.

If you build a SWF to run locally then it cannot access the network.
If you build a SWF to access the network, it cannot access the local files 
unless trusted.
Even if trusted, you may run into issues using certain file paths.  Be sure to 
use relative paths to subfolders of the trusted folder.

On 5/25/10 2:42 PM, Richard Rodseth rrods...@gmail.com wrote:






Thanks. That sounds like a no for supporting my two use cases, unless the 
customer adds a trusted location or opens the SWF in the standalone player.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com wrote:





OK, it's like this:
SWF launched in standalone player can interact with the system AND load remote 
content, just like the browser can do the same thing.
SWF launched in browser plugin can only access permitted folders on your hard 
disc. To allow access to the folder you should either use the web interface 
(see my previous link), or read from the link Ami posted and try to figure out 
how to do that on Mac (you are not required to use web interface to establish 
local trust relationships between SWF and specific locations in file system, 
it's just that, I simply don't know how to do that on Mac...)
There's yet another option for launching a SWF - that's how I usually do that - 
from the local HTTP server, in such case it acts more like as if it was 
deployed to the actual server and all the following rules apply. I would 
definitely recommend the later way of debugging as it is the most similar to 
the live situation.
The loading of content other than SWF into another SWF is governed by policy 
files aka crossdomain.xml. You need these files if you are loading content from 
domains other than SWF origin.
The loading of other SWFs by SWF is governed by two things:
ApplicationDomain provided to the Loader when loading SWF with LoaderContext - 
by default it won't allow crosscripting.
Security.allowDomain() doesn't define how classes are loaded into application 
domain, however, should prevent security errors related to crosscripting.

Well, yes, it is complicated...









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

[flexcoders] Re: ItemRenderer factories, on the fly resetting

2010-05-25 Thread Amy

Check out TileList_withStyle. 
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/08/tilelist-with-stylefunction.html.

I think this will do what you want--you'll just need to shift your approach a 
bit and move the things that you would normally set in the factory into being 
styles.

HTH;

Amy

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, flexwdw flex...@... wrote:

 A pattern I am particularly fond of when dealing with TileList(s) that use 
 complex item renderers is to split my parameters up.  I only pass items in 
 via the data property which are different on a per tile basis.  For items 
 that need to be passed into the renderer that are the same for each tile, I 
 pass them in via a ClassFactory instance that is newed up to MyItemRenderer.  
 I then set myClassFactory.properties to contain the properties I wish to set 
 (which are exposed as public properties on the item renderer class).  
 Finally, I set the TileList's .itemRenderer property to myClassFactory.
 
 Typically, I only ever have to set the TileList's itemRenderer property once. 
  However, I recently ran into a situation where I have a piece of factory 
 data that changes, but needs to change for all items in the TileList.  
 Therefore, resetting the TileList's itemRenderer by creating a new 
 ClassFactory instance seems to be the most logical way to achieve this.  
 Problem is, this causes a term is undefined and has no properties error in 
 TileBase.createItemRenderer [line 1956].  
 
 Is there anything wrong with this approach?  Do I need to null out a data 
 provider or something to make this work?  I know of many other solutions to 
 this problem than this, but this pattern is so handy and clean for my 
 situation that it would be a bummer if this didn't work  I'd like to 
 understand why.
 
 Thanks for the help!
 
 [note, I am currently targeting Flash 10.0 and using the 3.2 SDK]

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player Detection / ServerSide

No, and it is not even in general possible. Flash can send requests using
the browser where it is running. Exceptions are FileReference and
NetConnection, but all the rest you can do via calling JavaScript and thus
using browsers own functionality.

[flexcoders] Flash Player Detection / ServerSide

2010-05-25 Thread jamesfin

Does anyone have any knowledge of how to detect whether or not a simple REST 
call to a server (java/php/etc.) is from the Flash Player (flex app)?

It would appear that application/x-shockwave-flash can be detected by the 
server in the HTTP_ACCEPT header as long as the type is defined in the html 
wrapper like this...

embed src=${swf}.swf quality=high bgcolor=${bgcolor}
width=${width} height=${height} 
name=${application} align=middle
play=true
loop=false
quality=high
allowScriptAccess=sameDomain
type=application/x-shockwave-flash

pluginspage=http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer;
/embed



Outside of this methodology, is there another approach or perhaps something the 
flash player sends along with each request?


I saw this reference as well so any additional comments are welcome.

The HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION HTTP field, which returns the players
FLASH version in a server side script, only appears to be available when 
opening a .swf in Internet Explorer.

Nothing is returned for HTTP_X_FLASH_VERSION
when opening the same .swf in Google Chrome
or Firefox 3+.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

Sorry :) That seems to happen a lot with my topics.

Use case 1:
 Customer (a sales engineer) accesses a demo that is hosted on the web like
any other Flex app. This demo makes no api calls, but does need to access an
XML config file that lives in a data folder beside the SWF

Use case 2:
Sales engineer has a copy of the entire directory (swf, wrapper html, config
file) and runs it locally

I think your second point confirms that to support both use cases with one
version of the application, the customer would have to add a trusted
location so that the app could get to the config. That may be fine, I would
have to check.

Since this is all read-only stuff, I would have hoped I could do it with one
SWF and no user-intervention, but I imagine there are good reasons for these
restrictions.


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com wrote:



 I got lost trying to follow this topic.  Whether it is browser or
 standalone shouldn’t matter.  What matters is the url of the SWF (file://or
 http://), the trust file settings on the computer, the use-network flag,
 and how you access the external resources.

 If you build a SWF to run locally then it cannot access the network.
 If you build a SWF to access the network, it cannot access the local files
 unless trusted.
 Even if trusted, you may run into issues using certain file paths.  Be sure
 to use relative paths to subfolders of the trusted folder.


 On 5/25/10 2:42 PM, Richard Rodseth rrods...@gmail.com wrote:






 Thanks. That sounds like a no for supporting my two use cases, unless the
 customer adds a trusted location or opens the SWF in the standalone player.

 On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Oleg Sivokon olegsivo...@gmail.com
 wrote:






 OK, it's like this:
 SWF launched in standalone player can interact with the system AND load
 remote content, just like the browser can do the same thing.
 SWF launched in browser plugin can only access permitted folders on your
 hard disc. To allow access to the folder you should either use the web
 interface (see my previous link), or read from the link Ami posted and try
 to figure out how to do that on Mac (you are not required to use web
 interface to establish local trust relationships between SWF and specific
 locations in file system, it's just that, I simply don't know how to do that
 on Mac...)
 There's yet another option for launching a SWF - that's how I usually do
 that - from the local HTTP server, in such case it acts more like as if it
 was deployed to the actual server and all the following rules apply. I would
 definitely recommend the later way of debugging as it is the most similar to
 the live situation.
 The loading of content other than SWF into another SWF is governed by
 policy files aka crossdomain.xml. You need these files if you are loading
 content from domains other than SWF origin.
 The loading of other SWFs by SWF is governed by two things:
 ApplicationDomain provided to the Loader when loading SWF with
 LoaderContext - by default it won't allow crosscripting.
 Security.allowDomain() doesn't define how classes are loaded into
 application domain, however, should prevent security errors related to
 crosscripting.

 Well, yes, it is complicated...










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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

 Whether it is browser or standalone shouldn’t matter.

Now I'm lost... I have ShockwaveFlash ActiveX sitting on the form and
loading MP3 files from any place on my PC (well, this is the easiest way to
have MP3 player in .NET :D ), it can playback MP3s just fine, I'm getting no
warnings / errors, checked the logs and it says it's all good... how's that
possible / should it be that way?
This is an entirely clean install of Windows, and I haven't yet set any
trust records...

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Time Problem flex4 + blazeDS + spring

2010-05-25 Thread Evan Klein

If you want to modify settings on the server you'll need to modify the JVM
timezone setting. Also, it's possible the database has specific timezone
settings too.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:54 AM, raja_s_patil kpr.rspa...@gmail.com wrote:



 Thanks Evan Klein for response,

 I read the link you mentioned and tried to dig further to root cause of the
 problem. Just before executing the RO's method the values of birth time are
 as follows

 case 1 - 01 Jan 1900 05:30:00 and timezone offset is -330
 hence UTC should be 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 and it is as expected

 but when I look at network monitor trace for request/response it is like
 -- birthTime=Mon Jan 01 05:53:20 IST 1900

 on server side timezone offset is -330
 here actually 23 min 20 seconds are being added.

 case 2 - 01 Jan 1900 05:59:59 and timezone offset is -330
 hence UTC should be 31 Dec 1899 23:59:59 and it is as expected

 When I look at Network Monitor it is birthTime=Mon Jan 01 05:59:59 IST 1900
 which gets translated on server side correctly. since timezone offset there
 is -330

 So I think that when AMF message is created conversion routine is
 behaving as expected but since I dont know much about timezones and other
 related matters First I will dig on server side about timezone offsets
 values and let you know. So long untill then.

 Thanks once again and regards

 Raja.

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Evan
 Klein e...@... wrote:
 
  The crux of it is that on transfer of time the client is converting time
 to
  local timezone. On get/set of these values the time must be converted to
  whichever timezone you would like to operate in.
 
  Read this blog:
 
  http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Date_time_transfer_in_BlazeDS-13114.html
 
  Evan Klein
  
 http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Date_time_transfer_in_BlazeDS-13114.html
  On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, raja_s_patil kpr.rspa...@... wrote:
 
  
  
   Hello I am developing my first application in which I have to deal with
   time. On server side java VO i have defined the field as java.sql.Time
   and on flex side VO it has to be date.
  
   This is happening in windows XP client (browsers Firefox  Chrome)
   while inserting data I am making a fresh copy of Flex VO and time
   is set as 10:00:00 the timezone set for XP is +05:30 when its
   received at Java service its 10:23:20+0553 and gets saved to database
   as 10:23:20. When I retrieved from Java and send back to Flex for
 editing
   it comes back as 10:23:20+0553 and now if I set it again to 10:00:00 it
 gets
   saved properly. Means in edits no 00:23:20 additions
   are there but for inserts addition is there.
  
   I guess that since TimeZone is taken as +0553 rather than +0530
   23 minutes might have added but what about 20 seconds why, where and
 how 00
   23 20 being added ?
  
   Are any settings to be done on client side or server side.
   Server is KUbuntu 9.10 java latest installed from repository and
 windows
   xp being used as VM on Vmware all set up is on Dell Vostro 1710 Laptop.
  
   Thanks and best regards
  
   Raja
  
  
  
 

  




-- 
Evan Klein

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation

BTW, this is what the code looks like if you want to try...

//
// flashMovie
//
this.flashMovie.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
this.flashMovie.Enabled = true;
this.flashMovie.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.flashMovie.Name = flashMovie;
this.flashMovie.OcxState =
((System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.State)(resources.GetObject(flashMovie.OcxState)));
this.flashMovie.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(279, 128);
this.flashMovie.TabIndex = 1;
this.flashMovie.Visible = false;
. . .
private void PreviewMp3Content(SamTreeNode node)
{
if (File.Exists(node.File))
{
if (!this.flashMovie.Visible)
this.flashMovie.Visible = true;

this.flashMovie.Width = this.splitContainer1.Width;
this.flashMovie.FlashVars = sound= + node.File;
this.flashMovie.LoadMovie(0, this.pluginMain.MP3Player);
}
}

[flexcoders] Custom keyboard navigation on AdvancedDataGrid

2010-05-25 Thread Paul

I am trying to make the left and right arrows on scroll the columns on 
AdvancedDataGrids. The default keyboard navigation keys work with 
SHIFT+PAGEDOWN and SHIFT+PAGEUP. But my client would like the functions to work 
with left and right arrows.

I am able to create an event handler for KeyboardEvent.KeyDown and check for 
event.keyCode == KeyBoard.RIGHT and KeyBoard.LEFT. But I can't figure out what 
code to execute from the handler to scroll the columns.

Does anybody know how to make this work?

Thanks,
Paul

[flexcoders] How to show a hand cursor when mouse over a s:Label control ?

2010-05-25 Thread itaid1

Hi

I'm using this inside a spark skin class, but the mouse does not change when 
hovering over the control.

Tnx

-Itai

s:Label
id=labelDisplay
left=5
fontSize=16
styleName.up=upStyle
styleName.over=overStyle
styleName.down=downStyle
styleName.disabled=disabledStyle
buttonMode=true
useHandCursor=true 
mouseChildren=true
mouseOver=Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.HAND;
mouseOut=Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.ARROW;
/

Re: [flexcoders] Having trouble justifying Flex to the higher-ups... It only seems to be appropriate for media based sites...

2010-05-25 Thread Baz

Thanks Oleg. You confirmed my suspicions. You are right that Flex/Flash
performs very well for exactly the type of site you referenced (pixlr.com).
I can affirm though, that it does not perform great with text heavy
activities - especially if we are talking about RichEditableText with the
span and b, etc - even excluding discussion of load times and such, just
runtime performance is flickery, choppy, etc.

I guess I have to master JQuery now, sad... I love Flex.

[flexcoders] Re: Time Problem flex4 + blazeDS + spring

2010-05-25 Thread raja_s_patil

hello Evan Klein,

I studied Whats happens to timezone offset on server side

for case I i.e Time is 05:30 which is received as 05:53:20 on server
has timezone offset as 2120 millisecs. which translate to 05:53:20

for case 2 i.e. Time is 05:29:59 which is recived correctly on server
has timezone offset as 1980 which translate to 05:30:00

it seems that on serverside when date is translated offset of 05:30:00
is taken though it should be 05:53:20 hence difference of 00:23:20
is being there. Yes I got answer how 23:20 difference is occuring
but there are two offsets are there when standard IST is +0530 how this 
05:53:20 offset is comming in to picture ? that to precisely at threshold of 
05:30 has it something to do with DST ?

One more question Flex is also converting 05:29:59 with 05:30:00 offset and 
when time is 05:30:00 its also using 05:53:20 then
why java is using 05:30 offset when time is 05:30 and letting discrepancy of 
23:20 to slip in in converted time.

Really this is driving me mad. it seems that time date dealing in flex java has 
lots of tricks which need to reveal.

Thanks and best regards. 

Raja  



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, raja_s_patil kpr.rspa...@... wrote:

 Thanks Evan Klein for response,
 
 I read the link you mentioned and tried to dig further to root cause of the 
 problem. Just before executing the RO's method the values of birth time are 
 as follows 
 
 case 1 - 01 Jan 1900 05:30:00 and timezone offset is -330
  hence UTC should be 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 and it is as expected
 
 but when I look at network monitor trace for request/response it is like -- 
 birthTime=Mon Jan 01 05:53:20 IST 1900
 
 on server side timezone offset is -330
 here actually 23 min 20 seconds are being added.
 
 case 2 - 01 Jan 1900 05:59:59 and timezone offset is -330
  hence UTC should be 31 Dec 1899 23:59:59 and it is as expected
 
 When I look at Network Monitor it is birthTime=Mon Jan 01 05:59:59 IST 1900
which gets translated on server side correctly. since timezone offset 
 there is -330
 
 So I think that when AMF message is created conversion routine is
 behaving as expected but since I dont know much about timezones and other 
 related matters First I will dig on server side about timezone offsets values 
 and let you know.  So long untill then.
 
 Thanks once again and regards
 
 Raja. 
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Evan Klein evan@ wrote:
 
  The crux of it is that on transfer of time the client is converting time to
  local timezone. On get/set of these values the time must be converted to
  whichever timezone you would like to operate in.
  
  Read this blog:
  
  http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Date_time_transfer_in_BlazeDS-13114.html
  
  Evan Klein
  http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Date_time_transfer_in_BlazeDS-13114.html
  On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM, raja_s_patil kpr.rspatil@ wrote:
  
  
  
   Hello I am developing my first application in which I have to deal with
   time. On server side java VO i have defined the field as java.sql.Time
   and on flex side VO it has to be date.
  
   This is happening in windows XP client (browsers Firefox  Chrome)
   while inserting data I am making a fresh copy of Flex VO and time
   is set as 10:00:00 the timezone set for XP is +05:30 when its
   received at Java service its 10:23:20+0553 and gets saved to database
   as 10:23:20. When I retrieved from Java and send back to Flex for editing
   it comes back as 10:23:20+0553 and now if I set it again to 10:00:00 it 
   gets
   saved properly. Means in edits no 00:23:20 additions
   are there but for inserts addition is there.
  
   I guess that since TimeZone is taken as +0553 rather than +0530
   23 minutes might have added but what about 20 seconds why, where and how 
   00
   23 20 being added ?
  
   Are any settings to be done on client side or server side.
   Server is KUbuntu 9.10 java latest installed from repository and windows
   xp being used as VM on Vmware all set up is on Dell Vostro 1710 Laptop.
  
   Thanks and best regards
  
   Raja

[flexcoders] Looping to addChild TextInputs, then removeAllChildren, are they GC'd?

Hi,

If I looped ten times and added ten Ten TextInputs to the 'stage' (addChild)
they would remain in memory until they were removed (removeAllChildren) and
then Garbabe Collected? Right?

Let's say I created an Array and changed my loop to add them to the 'stage'
(addChild) *AND* put the object reference into the Array. If I then removed
them from the stage, am I right in thinking they'd remain in memory because
they are referenced by the Array so therefore wouldn't be GC'd?

I'm trying to tick some boxes in my head about how the inners of Flex works
so if by reading this you think I might benefit from reading soemthing, I'd
appreciate some links to articles.


Thanks guys,
Nick

[flexcoders] DataGrid ItemRenderer Problem

2010-05-25 Thread jmfillman

I have an itemRenderer:

mx:DataGridColumn headerText= dataField=remove width=20
mx:itemRenderer
fx:Component
mx:Image source=assets/Remove-32.png height=20 width=20 
useHandCursor=true buttonMode=true click=trace (parentDocument); 
parentDocument.removeItem()/
/fx:Component
/mx:itemRenderer

When I first load the state where the DataGrid is, add items to the grid, 
remove items from the grid, etc., the trace returns the root application 
(My_Site). When I subsequently change states and then back to the state where 
the DataGrid is located, the trace returns the container:

My_Site.ApplicationSkin2._ApplicationSkin_Group1.contentGroup._My_Site_SkinnableContainer1.mainContainer6

This causes an error, so the question is, how do I call the function regardless.

Re: [flexcoders] Looping to addChild TextInputs, then removeAllChildren, are they GC'd?

You are correct.


On 5/25/10 3:30 AM, Nick Middleweek n...@middleweek.co.uk wrote:






Hi,

If I looped ten times and added ten Ten TextInputs to the 'stage' (addChild) 
they would remain in memory until they were removed (removeAllChildren) and 
then Garbabe Collected? Right?

Let's say I created an Array and changed my loop to add them to the 'stage' 
(addChild) *AND* put the object reference into the Array. If I then removed 
them from the stage, am I right in thinking they'd remain in memory because 
they are referenced by the Array so therefore wouldn't be GC'd?

I'm trying to tick some boxes in my head about how the inners of Flex works so 
if by reading this you think I might benefit from reading soemthing, I'd 
appreciate some links to articles.


Thanks guys,
Nick






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

Re: [flexcoders] Having trouble justifying Flex to the higher-ups... It only seems to be appropriate for media based sites...

There should be some improvements to text performance real soon (4.1) which you 
can try out in the nightly builds, but it still won’t beat HTML.  The question 
is really if there are other advantages of Flex/Flash that will outweigh the 
trade-off.  Sometimes you can do things that will make Flash appear faster even 
though raw performance may be lacking.


On 5/25/10 3:56 PM, Baz li...@thinkloop.com wrote:






Thanks Oleg. You confirmed my suspicions. You are right that Flex/Flash 
performs very well for exactly the type of site you referenced (pixlr.com 
http://pixlr.com ). I can affirm though, that it does not perform great with 
text heavy activities - especially if we are talking about RichEditableText 
with the span and b, etc - even excluding discussion of load times and 
such, just runtime performance is flickery, choppy, etc.

I guess I have to master JQuery now, sad... I love Flex.






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

Re: [flexcoders] How to show a hand cursor when mouse over a s:Label control ?

MouseEnabled=true?


On 5/25/10 9:54 AM, itaid1 ita...@yahoo.com wrote:






Hi

I'm using this inside a spark skin class, but the mouse does not change when 
hovering over the control.

Tnx

-Itai

s:Label
id=labelDisplay
left=5
fontSize=16
styleName.up=upStyle
styleName.over=overStyle
styleName.down=downStyle
styleName.disabled=disabledStyle
buttonMode=true
useHandCursor=true
mouseChildren=true
mouseOver=Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.HAND;
mouseOut=Mouse.cursor = MouseCursor.ARROW;
/






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

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Security sandbox violation