[flexcoders] Can ComboBox display an Image as its LabelField

[kroghadam]

Hi, 

I am trying to create a combo box that displays only images. I can get
images being displayed in the drop down list. But when I select one of
the images the selected label of the combo box is always text.
labelField and labelFunction only display Strings.

Is there anyway to display the image that they selected from the drop
down list in the combo boxes label?

[flexcoders] Change TileList ItemRenderer Programatically

[kroghadam]

Hi everybody,

My current problem involves the need to change how items in my
tilelist are being rendered. When a button is clicked I want to switch
from one item view to the other. Doesn't seem to hard, my button
handler somehow has to reassign the itemRenderer property. 
Nothing I try succeeds though. Everything I have tried results in an
implicit coercion error. I'v tried many different assignments
including the obvious:

list.itemRenderer = components.ProjectTile;

But it spits out this:

Implicit coercion of a value of type Class to an unrelated type
mx.core:IFactory.

Anyone done this before? Or know how I can programmatically change the
itemRenderer of a Tile List? 

Thanks in advance,

Adam

[flexcoders] Re: Custom Context Menu in flex app

[kroghadam]

I think the problem here is that you are using the same name for your
menu item as one of the built in menu items. These include
forwardAndBack, loop, play, print, quality, rewind, save and zoom.
Set the label of your menu item to anything but these and it should work.

-Adam

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, vipinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am trying to add a custom context menu in my flex app. I am writing
 below code in a method which i am calling on applicationComplete event
 of the main application.
 
 //
 customMenu = new ContextMenu();
 var saveItem:ContextMenuItem = new
 ContextMenuItem(Save,true,true,true);
 saveItem.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,
 doSaveCommand);
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
 customMenu.customItems.push(saveItem);
 Application.application.contextMenu = customMenu;
 
 //
 
 I am able to hide the default menu items when using the
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); code, but the custom 'Save' item is not
 getting added.
 
 What could be wrong?
 
 Thnx
 Vipin

[flexcoders] Re: Custom Context Menu in flex app

[kroghadam]

I think the problem here is that you are using the same name for your
menu item as one of the built in menu items. These include
forwardAndBack, loop, play, print, quality, rewind, save and zoom. Set
the label of your menu item to anything but these and it should work.

-Adam

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Looks ok to me.  Make sure you're right clicking on the app and not
 something that has its own context menu
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of vipinck
 Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:14 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Custom Context Menu in flex app
 
  
 
 I am trying to add a custom context menu in my flex app. I am writing
 below code in a method which i am calling on applicationComplete event
 of the main application.
 
 //
 customMenu = new ContextMenu();
 var saveItem:ContextMenuItem = new
 ContextMenuItem(Save,true,true,true);
 saveItem.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,
 doSaveCommand);
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
 customMenu.customItems.push(saveItem);
 Application.application.contextMenu = customMenu;
 
 //
 
 I am able to hide the default menu items when using the
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); code, but the custom 'Save' item is not
 getting added.
 
 What could be wrong?
 
 Thnx
 Vipin

[flexcoders] Re: Custom Context Menu in flex app

[kroghadam]

I think the problem here is that you are using the same name for your
menu item as one of the built in menu items. These include
forwardAndBack, loop, play, print, quality, rewind, save and zoom. Set
the label of your menu items to anything but these and it should work.

-Adam

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Looks ok to me.  Make sure you're right clicking on the app and not
 something that has its own context menu
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of vipinck
 Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:14 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Custom Context Menu in flex app
 
  
 
 I am trying to add a custom context menu in my flex app. I am writing
 below code in a method which i am calling on applicationComplete event
 of the main application.
 
 //
 customMenu = new ContextMenu();
 var saveItem:ContextMenuItem = new
 ContextMenuItem(Save,true,true,true);
 saveItem.addEventListener(ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT,
 doSaveCommand);
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
 customMenu.customItems.push(saveItem);
 Application.application.contextMenu = customMenu;
 
 //
 
 I am able to hide the default menu items when using the
 customMenu.hideBuiltInItems(); code, but the custom 'Save' item is not
 getting added.
 
 What could be wrong?
 
 Thnx
 Vipin

[flexcoders] Stop execution till Popup is closed

[kroghadam]

Hi, 

I am trying to create a button that when clicked shows a popup, the
user then enters information into this popup and clicks create. My
main application then takes this information creates an object and
uses it as a data provider to show a node on a graph. 
The problem I am having is that when I show the popup code is still
executed in the parent, which is not what I would like. I would only
like to create and show the object if the user clicked create in the
popup and not do anything if he clicks cancel. 

This is the function called when the user selects new:

private function newItem(): void {
var item: Item = new Item();
var newProj:newProject =
newProject(PopUpManager.createPopUp(this,newProject,true));
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(newProj);
//This is where i would like to pause till the user clicks a
button in the popup
item.data = newProj.project;
g.add(item);
s.dataProvider = g;
}   

Is there anyway to do this? Should I be using somethin different in my
event handlers in my popup then just closing the popup?
Any help would be appreciated!

-Adam

[flexcoders] Re: Newbie Nested Remote Object Question

[kroghadam]

Perhaps I should provide a little more detail on my problem, here are
three stripped down java classes I am using,


public class Project {
  private String name;
  private Summary summary;

  public Project(){
  }

  ...usual get/set methods

}

public class Summary {
  private String clientName;
  private int budget;

  public Summary(){
  }

  ...usual get/set methods
}

public ProjectList {
  private ArrayListProject projects;

  public ProjectList(){
  }

  public Project[] getProjects() {
buildProjects();
return projects.toArray(new Project[0]);
  }

  public void buildProjects() {
Project project;
Summary summary;
projects = new ArrayListProject();
for(int i = 0; i10;i++) {
  project = new Project();
  project.setName(Name+i);
  summary = new Summary();
  summary.setBudget(1);
  summary.setClientName(Client+i);
  project.setSummary(summary);
  projects.add(projects);
}
}

Within my flex code I use a remote object to the ProjectList and bind
an ArrayCollection to the return value of getProjects(). I then pass
the Project elements of this array to a component to display its values. 
This is where my problem comes in. I can display the name of the
project fine in the component by just using {project.name} but I have
no idea how to access my Summary object to get its data. 
I thought I could just do {project.summary.budget} but that doesn't
display anything. 
I really hope someone can help me solve this problem as I'v been stuck
on it for some time now. 

Thanks again,

-Adam
--Flex Newbie


--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi everybody, I am really enjoying my first look into flex! 
 Unfortunately I have ran into a problem with remote objects to java
 classes that have compositions of objects in them. In other words my
 class has an instance variable that is another object whose data i
 also want to access, preferably through the same remote object.
 
 If anyone has some pointers, links to examples or even source code I
 would really appreciate it.
 
 Thanks in advance,
 
 -Adam
 --Flex Newbie

[flexcoders] Re: Newbie Nested Remote Object Question

[kroghadam]

Sorry I am really new to flex, I'm not sure what you mean by value
objects. The three classes I gave are Java Classes that are
essentially a facade to further backend persistence code.

I remote directly to the ProjectList.java class and return an array of
Projects. I cannot do what you suggested in actionscript as I only
have the java objects that i am remoting to, and cannot reference those.
I am beginning to think I am doing something seriously wrong as I only
have one remote object, and am trying to access java objects contained
in it. Do I need to have some kind of mapping of action script objects
as well?
Any articles and tutorials about accessing java objects would be a
great help to.

Thanks for your patience,

Adam



--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, valdhor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Caveat: I use PHP with WebORB but I have done a lot of C++ in the past.
 
 So, to get this straight, you have a value object with a property that
 contains another value object, right? Try...
 
 (project.summary as Summary).budget
 
 or
 
 Summary(project.summary).budget
 
 
 
 
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam akrogh@ wrote:
 
  Perhaps I should provide a little more detail on my problem, here are
  three stripped down java classes I am using,
  
  
  public class Project {
private String name;
private Summary summary;
  
public Project(){
}
  
...usual get/set methods
  
  }
  
  public class Summary {
private String clientName;
private int budget;
  
public Summary(){
}
  
...usual get/set methods
  }
  
  public ProjectList {
private ArrayListProject projects;
  
public ProjectList(){
}
  
public Project[] getProjects() {
  buildProjects();
  return projects.toArray(new Project[0]);
}
  
public void buildProjects() {
  Project project;
  Summary summary;
  projects = new ArrayListProject();
  for(int i = 0; i10;i++) {
project = new Project();
project.setName(Name+i);
summary = new Summary();
summary.setBudget(1);
summary.setClientName(Client+i);
project.setSummary(summary);
projects.add(projects);
  }
  }
  
  Within my flex code I use a remote object to the ProjectList and bind
  an ArrayCollection to the return value of getProjects(). I then pass
  the Project elements of this array to a component to display its
 values. 
  This is where my problem comes in. I can display the name of the
  project fine in the component by just using {project.name} but I have
  no idea how to access my Summary object to get its data. 
  I thought I could just do {project.summary.budget} but that doesn't
  display anything. 
  I really hope someone can help me solve this problem as I'v been stuck
  on it for some time now. 
  
  Thanks again,
  
  -Adam
  --Flex Newbie
  
  
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam kroghadam@ wrote:
  
   Hi everybody, I am really enjoying my first look into flex! 
   Unfortunately I have ran into a problem with remote objects to java
   classes that have compositions of objects in them. In other words my
   class has an instance variable that is another object whose data i
   also want to access, preferably through the same remote object.
   
   If anyone has some pointers, links to examples or even source code I
   would really appreciate it.
   
   Thanks in advance,
   
   -Adam
   --Flex Newbie
  
 

[flexcoders] Re: Newbie Nested Remote Object Question

[kroghadam]

Yay, I got something working. I added in a couple actionscript classes
that map to my java classes...somehow. One is as follows:

package
{
[RemoteClass(alias=test.summary)]

[Bindable]
public class Summary {
public var clientName:String = ;
public var budget:int;

public function Summary() {
}
}
}

This works, now I can cast the properties that I get in the way you
said. Is this the only way of doing it? And if it is, is there a code
generation tool that will create these .as files automatically?


-Adam

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sorry I am really new to flex, I'm not sure what you mean by value
 objects. The three classes I gave are Java Classes that are
 essentially a facade to further backend persistence code.
 
 I remote directly to the ProjectList.java class and return an array of
 Projects. I cannot do what you suggested in actionscript as I only
 have the java objects that i am remoting to, and cannot reference those.
 I am beginning to think I am doing something seriously wrong as I only
 have one remote object, and am trying to access java objects contained
 in it. Do I need to have some kind of mapping of action script objects
 as well?
 Any articles and tutorials about accessing java objects would be a
 great help to.
 
 Thanks for your patience,
 
 Adam
 
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, valdhor stevedepp@ wrote:
 
  Caveat: I use PHP with WebORB but I have done a lot of C++ in the
past.
  
  So, to get this straight, you have a value object with a property that
  contains another value object, right? Try...
  
  (project.summary as Summary).budget
  
  or
  
  Summary(project.summary).budget
  
  
  
  
  
  
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam akrogh@ wrote:
  
   Perhaps I should provide a little more detail on my problem,
here are
   three stripped down java classes I am using,
   
   
   public class Project {
 private String name;
 private Summary summary;
   
 public Project(){
 }
   
 ...usual get/set methods
   
   }
   
   public class Summary {
 private String clientName;
 private int budget;
   
 public Summary(){
 }
   
 ...usual get/set methods
   }
   
   public ProjectList {
 private ArrayListProject projects;
   
 public ProjectList(){
 }
   
 public Project[] getProjects() {
   buildProjects();
   return projects.toArray(new Project[0]);
 }
   
 public void buildProjects() {
   Project project;
   Summary summary;
   projects = new ArrayListProject();
   for(int i = 0; i10;i++) {
 project = new Project();
 project.setName(Name+i);
 summary = new Summary();
 summary.setBudget(1);
 summary.setClientName(Client+i);
 project.setSummary(summary);
 projects.add(projects);
   }
   }
   
   Within my flex code I use a remote object to the ProjectList and
bind
   an ArrayCollection to the return value of getProjects(). I then pass
   the Project elements of this array to a component to display its
  values. 
   This is where my problem comes in. I can display the name of the
   project fine in the component by just using {project.name} but I
have
   no idea how to access my Summary object to get its data. 
   I thought I could just do {project.summary.budget} but that doesn't
   display anything. 
   I really hope someone can help me solve this problem as I'v been
stuck
   on it for some time now. 
   
   Thanks again,
   
   -Adam
   --Flex Newbie
   
   
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, kroghadam kroghadam@ wrote:
   
Hi everybody, I am really enjoying my first look into flex! 
Unfortunately I have ran into a problem with remote objects to
java
classes that have compositions of objects in them. In other
words my
class has an instance variable that is another object whose data i
also want to access, preferably through the same remote object.

If anyone has some pointers, links to examples or even source
code I
would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

-Adam
--Flex Newbie
   
  
 

[flexcoders] Newbie Nested Remote Object Question

[kroghadam]

Hi everybody, I am really enjoying my first look into flex! 
Unfortunately I have ran into a problem with remote objects to java
classes that have compositions of objects in them. In other words my
class has an instance variable that is another object whose data i
also want to access, preferably through the same remote object.

If anyone has some pointers, links to examples or even source code I
would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

-Adam
--Flex Newbie