[flexcoders] Moving ROs CFCs from Flex - Flash CS3

2008-03-26 Thread qnotemedia
So I'm experimenting with moving my RemoteObject development to Flash 
CS3 instead of Flex.  My main reasoning for this is filesize (300KB min 
with Flex vs 15KB min with Flash).

Here's my problem.  I currently use CFCs.  With Flex, as long as the 
swfs are on the same server, I can set my CFCs to access=public.  
Moving the CFCs out of the root is unfortunately not currently an 
option.

In Flash CS3, I'm using an RO wrapper I found from 
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=122.  It returns an error saying that my 
CFCs are not remote.  Setting the CFC to remote fixes the problem, but 
then leaves open the CFC for anyone to access.

Is there a solution to this?  I would be happy either with smaller Flex 
swfs or being able to access non-remote CFCs with Flash.



[flexcoders] DataGridColumn - vertical styling...

2007-10-22 Thread qnotemedia
How can I set a selction style that runs vertically AND horizontally in 
a DataGrid?  i.e. selecting a cell by default selects the entire row.  
I want one that selects both the row and the column.



[flexcoders] Re: DataGridColumn - vertical styling...

2007-10-22 Thread qnotemedia
Yikes...project is due today...nothing for Flex2?


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

 AdvancedDataGrid in Moxie.
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of qnotemedia
 Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:05 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] DataGridColumn - vertical styling...
 
  
 
 How can I set a selction style that runs vertically AND 
horizontally in 
 a DataGrid? i.e. selecting a cell by default selects the entire 
row. 
 I want one that selects both the row and the column.





[flexcoders] Effect on VBox with Repeater...

2007-10-18 Thread qnotemedia
Stupid question here probably, but I've been struggling with effects 
and generally doing visual design in Flex.

OK - I have Vbox.  Within it is a repeater.  The component repeated is 
just a line of text and an image.  I have rollOver and rollOut styles 
applied that will highlight the text by making the backgroundalpha of 
the component 0-1 and the text changes color.

However, I would like to have an effect that fades out the entire Vbox 
and its children, including the repeater and all of its repeated 
components, and fade back in.  When I apply the sequenced effect 
(animate alpha property on the VBox) it only fades in/out the single 
highlighted repeated item.  How come?



[flexcoders] Detect text wrap?

2007-05-03 Thread qnotemedia
I have a collection of vertically placed TextInput and TextArea boxes.  
I'm using a resize function that manually resizes each of the boxes' 
heights depending on the amount of text that is in each, so that 
there's never any extra space, and all of the text is always displayed.

Since these are editable, the problem is when a user is typing in new 
text, and they go past the height of the box.  I'd like to stretch 
the box vertically as they are bringing in new lines.  Any way to 
detect that and re-run the resize function?  I suppose I could do it on 
change, but that seems a bit extreme doesn't it?



[flexcoders] Re: How to have a SWF load a different SWF

2007-04-20 Thread qnotemedia
In the case of the swf being loaded is a Flex2 app, you can use the 
SWFLoader control.  Check out:
Flex 2 Developer's Guide  Building User Interfaces for Flex 
Applications  Using Controls  SWFLoader control

If the swf is Flash 8, I believe you use the loadMovie function to load 
swfs.

 - Chris

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

 I would like my main swf, load another SWF and pass some parameters, 
(UserID, etc.).  Can 
 someone help me with the syntax for that?
 
 thanks
 bruce





[flexcoders] Re: Event Dispatching through more than one component

2007-03-23 Thread qnotemedia
Argh!  It worked!

So all I had to do actually was set useCapture in the 
systemManager.addEventListener to true, and it worked right away.  Is 
bubbling then set to true by default?

Also, should I be in the habit of removing the listener when popups 
are removed?  I've been noticing that in other code I've looked at 
online.

Thanks Alex!  Makes a whole lot more sense now!
 - Chris



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

 The top of the display list is the stage.  The stage always has one
 child (the root) which in Flex apps is a SystemManager.  The app 
and all
 popups are children of the systemManager.
 
  
 
 Stage - SystemManager -  Application
 
 PopUp1
 
 PopUp2
 
  
 
 The event model in Flash/Flex is based on the DOM event model
 http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html
 
 If you search for bubbling and capture in our docs you'll find 
easier to
 read descriptions.
 
  
 
 But basically, when PopUp2 dispatches an non-bubbling event, the 
stage
 first dispatches the event in capture phase, then the SystemManager 
in
 capture phase, then PopUp2 as a regular event.
 
 If the event was a bubbling event, the same would happen, but then
 SystemManager would dispatch it again in bubbling phase and finally 
the
 Stage in bubbling phase.
 
  
 
 addEventListener has a parameter as to whether you want to listen in
 capture phase or not.  Events have a constructor parameter as to 
whether
 the event bubbles or not.  Capture phase basically allows 
containers to
 supervise and block events going to their children.  Bubble phase 
serves
 as notification that the child dispatched an event.
 
  
 
 In theory this makes the Popups even more loosely coupled from each
 other than the other suggestions.  Each Popup simply dispatches 
events.
 Other code can capture all events coming from popups (yes, it has to
 know what the event name is).  Popups can listen to other popups 
without
 having to watch for their creation and destruction since you are 
going
 to addEventListener on systemManager instead of the actual popups.
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of qnotemedia
 Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:44 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Event Dispatching through more than one
 component
 
  
 
 OK, I understood the other responses, but not this one. Agreed that 
I 
 tried setting bubbles to true in my customEvent, and then each 
event 
 instance, and the dispatched event did not pass through embedded 
 windows. But I've never used systemManager, nor do I entirely 
 understand bubbling. Can you forward me to an example or doc 
 explaining this?
 
 And does this somewhat move away from loosely-coupled components 
(which 
 I'm trying real hard to achieve!).
 
 Thanks,
 - Chris
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
 , Alex Harui aharui@ wrote:
 
  Each popup is parented by the systemManager so it won't bubble 
from 
  one popup to the next. However, each popup can listen to the 
  systemManager for the event to bubble to it, or listen in capture
  phase so you don't have to use bubbling.





[flexcoders] Re: Event Dispatching through more than one component

2007-03-22 Thread qnotemedia
Thanks Alex.  This theoretically could fix another problem I was 
having as well.  I'll give it a shot.

Thanks a bunch,
 - Chris

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

 The top of the display list is the stage.  The stage always has one
 child (the root) which in Flex apps is a SystemManager.  The app 
and all
 popups are children of the systemManager.
 
  
 
 Stage - SystemManager -  Application
 
 PopUp1
 
 PopUp2
 
  
 
 The event model in Flash/Flex is based on the DOM event model
 http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html
 
 If you search for bubbling and capture in our docs you'll find 
easier to
 read descriptions.
 
  
 
 But basically, when PopUp2 dispatches an non-bubbling event, the 
stage
 first dispatches the event in capture phase, then the SystemManager 
in
 capture phase, then PopUp2 as a regular event.
 
 If the event was a bubbling event, the same would happen, but then
 SystemManager would dispatch it again in bubbling phase and finally 
the
 Stage in bubbling phase.
 
  
 
 addEventListener has a parameter as to whether you want to listen in
 capture phase or not.  Events have a constructor parameter as to 
whether
 the event bubbles or not.  Capture phase basically allows 
containers to
 supervise and block events going to their children.  Bubble phase 
serves
 as notification that the child dispatched an event.
 
  
 
 In theory this makes the Popups even more loosely coupled from each
 other than the other suggestions.  Each Popup simply dispatches 
events.
 Other code can capture all events coming from popups (yes, it has to
 know what the event name is).  Popups can listen to other popups 
without
 having to watch for their creation and destruction since you are 
going
 to addEventListener on systemManager instead of the actual popups.
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of qnotemedia
 Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:44 AM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Event Dispatching through more than one
 component
 
  
 
 OK, I understood the other responses, but not this one. Agreed that 
I 
 tried setting bubbles to true in my customEvent, and then each 
event 
 instance, and the dispatched event did not pass through embedded 
 windows. But I've never used systemManager, nor do I entirely 
 understand bubbling. Can you forward me to an example or doc 
 explaining this?
 
 And does this somewhat move away from loosely-coupled components 
(which 
 I'm trying real hard to achieve!).
 
 Thanks,
 - Chris
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
 , Alex Harui aharui@ wrote:
 
  Each popup is parented by the systemManager so it won't bubble 
from 
  one popup to the next. However, each popup can listen to the 
  systemManager for the event to bubble to it, or listen in capture
  phase so you don't have to use bubbling.





[flexcoders] Re: Event Dispatching through more than one component

2007-03-21 Thread qnotemedia
OK, I understood the other responses, but not this one.  Agreed that I 
tried setting bubbles to true in my customEvent, and then each event 
instance, and the dispatched event did not pass through embedded 
windows.  But I've never used systemManager, nor do I entirely 
understand bubbling.  Can you forward me to an example or doc 
explaining this?

And does this somewhat move away from loosely-coupled components (which 
I'm trying real hard to achieve!).

Thanks,
 - Chris

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

 Each popup is parented by the systemManager so it won't bubble from 
 one popup to the next.  However, each popup can listen to the 
 systemManager for the event to bubble to it, or listen in capture
 phase so you don't have to use bubbling.




[flexcoders] Event Dispatching through more than one component

2007-03-20 Thread qnotemedia
I'm still messing around with custom events.

If I have a popup embedded within another popup and want to dispatch an 
event from the top-most component down to the parent application, do I 
have to dispatch it to the first popup, and then redispatch the same 
event to the parent app?

Is there any way to dispatch an event, but have it automatically go 
through all components down to the root?  Obviously I've tried, but 
events seems to stop at the parent component, and they are not 
automatically delivered to their parent's parent, etc.


What I'm thinking of doing instead is having each popup send a message 
to the root to open other embedded popups, so that they are ALL created 
from the root application rather than the popup.  In essence, a custom 
popup manager.

But I'm still curious if there's a way around the above scenario.

Thanks,
 - Chris



[flexcoders] Simulating clicking the X of a TitleWindow

2007-03-16 Thread qnotemedia
I have a popup TitleWindow where I've added a listener for clicking the 
X-close button so that I can do something on-close...i.e.:

myPopup.addEventListener(CloseEvent.CLOSE,postPopupFunction);

My popup has other methods of closing tho - a cancel button and 
listening for the ESC key.


How do I dispatch the CloseEvent.CLOSE manually?  And if I have more 
than one popup, will it close all of them?





[flexcoders] Re: Simulating clicking the X of a TitleWindow

2007-03-16 Thread qnotemedia
I had to change it to CloseEvent rather than Event, but yeah, that 
worked.  Thanks.



[flexcoders] Re: Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-15 Thread qnotemedia
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Are you saying that myAC[0] was
 modified so that the sub AC was removed?  I'd go find out what 
 actually got changed.

Actually no - I was simply reading the subAC, and when checking it a 
second time, the subAC was not actually removed, but all of its 
valueObjects were.  i.e. length = 0 as seen in the gif.


All of this said, after banging my head through this last night, I 
found that I was somehhow incorrectly assigning myGrid.selectedItems 
to the foundItems() function's returned Array (which loops and builds 
an array of found items).  I definitely don't prefer to it this way, 
but in the end it was necessary, and its allowed me to move on past 
this!

IMHO, should've been as easy as myGrid.selectedItems = myAC or some 
simple derivative.  I would love to see a more thorough explanation 
of why this didn't work, and if you look at my gifs you can see my 
frustration!  One of those few times where I feel like the debugger 
is just lying to me.

Problem1: qnotemedia.com/wontwork.gif
Problem2: qnotemedia.com/dissapearing.gif


Thanks to all for your input.
 - Chris



[flexcoders] Custom Event Handler from Popup?

2007-03-14 Thread qnotemedia
So I'm still trying to dig through all of this OO stuff.  Its been 
tough!

I've made a couple of custom events from views.  The handling I've 
learned is usually like this:

view:CustomComp somethingReturned=handler(event)/

But I have one that is a popup.  The popup is invoked like this:

private function showPopup():void {
  var myPopup:customPopup = customPopup(PopUpManager.createetc)
  myPopup.passedVar = somethingPassed... etc
}


The popup has a custom event that is dispatched on closing the popup.  
How can I create a handler for it?  myPopup.somethingReturned = handler
(event) returns an error in Flex.  If I make the popup a view in MXML, 
the event handler works fine.



[flexcoders] Re: Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-14 Thread qnotemedia
Got it!

It appears that selectedItems is dependent on the data being 
*absolutely identical* to the dataProvider. And while I thought my data 
was identical, it really wasn't. In the debugger, if you look at a 
variable, its always: Array (@123456). What I found was that although 
the data was definitely the same, that number was not.

To fix the problem, I centralized all data to go through one data 
manager, whereas before I was reinitializing a different data component 
in each component.

So now, I'm basically calling parentApplication.dataManager.someFunction
() from all of my components. This isn't good quite frankly, but by 
doing so, the @123456 is always the same.

If anyone else can think of a better way, I'm all ears... 



[flexcoders] Re: Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-14 Thread qnotemedia
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If you want to set the selection based on data, you'll have to loop
 through all the items, inspect whether each item has the data you
 want, and select it if so.

I actually tried something like that.  But myGrid.selectedItems += item 
doesn't work.  What's the best practice way to push the item to 
selectedItems?



[flexcoders] Re: Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-14 Thread qnotemedia
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Arrays in Flex and Flash are not watched for changes.  After
 you mutate the array you have to set it again.

 var tmp:Array = myGrid.selectedItems
 tmp += item;
 myGrid.selectedItems = tmp;

OK - I've retried specificaly what you've shown, and it still doesn't 
work.  I assigned a findItems() function to a temporary array, 
arTemp.  The function returns an Array of items found.  The very next 
line is myGrid.selectedItems = arTemp.

As mentioned in earlier posts, the items in this found array have 
precisely matched data to the dataProvider of the grid, and the 
selection still doesn't occur, without any errors either.  The *only* 
difference between the two is the @123456 following the Array 
description in the debugger.

At least I have something that works (three posts back), but now I'm 
running into a similar problem in another area of my app, and I'd 
like to move forward with this thread...


I have another popup with two grids.  Grid A has a multi-level 
ArrayCollection.  i.e.:
myAC[0].something
myAC[0].somethingElse
myAC[0].anotherAC[0].anotherSomething
myAC[0].anotherAC[1].anotherSomethingElse

myAC[1].something
...etc...

When the user clicks on Grid A (not multi-select), Grid B's 
selectedItems is populated with the second-level AC anotherAC, like 
this:

gridB.selectedItems = gridA.selectedItem.anotherAC.source


And it works!

BUT!!!  When I select another item and come back to the first one, 
the anotherAC level has disappeared without a trace!  It disappears 
from all bound ACs.

WTF?!  And BTW, I additionally tried the findItems() function as 
mentioned here.  The same problem happens in that nothing is selected.


Again, I've put together a gif to express my anxiety:
qnotemedia.com/dissapearing.gif

...this is a before and after shot.  On the left is before anything 
has been selected, and on the right, is immediately after a selection 
has occured.  On the right side, notice that the 
dgAllRoles.selectedItems is correctly populated, but that both the 
dgSelectedNames dataProvider AND the original AC, selectedDevTeam 
have had thei second tiered item collectedRoles completely 
dissapear.


Crossing my fingers that someone can understand this...
 - Chris



[flexcoders] Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-08 Thread qnotemedia
I have a very odd problem, related to some other unanswered posts 
here.

An application has a popup window called on click that is using data 
from a custom event.  The popup has a datagrid.  The get all data 
for the grid is coming from a simple data management component, 
called inside the popup - lets say an AC allData.  The data manager 
inside the popup brocasts an event saying done loading and I'm 
handling that event in the popup to select selectedItems based on the 
data passed from the main application.

The selectedItems data is definitely available to the popup.  It is 
an AC of myValueObject.  The get all data is definitely there and 
showing in the grid.  Its also an AC of myValueObject.


In the above scenario, it doesn't work when I say DG.selectedItems = 
selectedData as Array.  Instead, I have another function getSelection
(selectedData) which basically loops through the selectedData AC and 
pushes each item to a new Array.  I've triple checked this, and it 
also does not work.  As a test, to make sure its not realted to 
the loading process of the popup, I've even set the getSelection 
to run via a button click well after everything is in the popup.  It 
selects nothing.


BUT!  If I say DG.selectedData = getSelection(allData), where allData 
is the same thing used to populate the grid's dataProvider, it 
selects all items in the grid.  What's totally odd, is the AC from 
the dataProvider and the AC for selectedData look absolutely 
*identical* in the debugger, minus a bunch of items for the 
selectedData, as it should be.

The only working alternative I can find is to create another function 
in the data manager that re gets the selectedData.  This is not 
doable, because other areas of the application might change the 
selectedData, without calling to the database.  I need to keep moving 
that data around to components freely without calling him.

Any thoughts on what's wrong here?



[flexcoders] Re: Getting selectedItems to properly *select*...

2007-03-08 Thread qnotemedia
To truly express my frustration, I've put together this shot of some 
code:

qnotemedia.com / wontwork.gif

...note that in the above example, only arSecondSelection actually 
works.  The others select nothing.



[flexcoders] Re: ArrayCollection to comma-delimited list?

2007-03-01 Thread qnotemedia
How I did this for anyone interested...

Made a component based on VBox that contains one Text.  The Text's 
text is set to a function that passes a bound ArrayCollection.  The 
function then does all the looping needed and returns a String.

Purely luck of the draw for me - I had no idea you could put a 
function in a text property.



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

 Couldn't quite figure this one out.  I have a multi-level 
 arraycollection and I need to write it out in flex as two separated 
 lists - i.e.
 
 itemA[0]: 1, 2, 3, 4
 itemB[1]: 5, 6
 itemC[2]: 7, 8
 
 I'm currently using two repeaters with mx:Text to properly view the 
 data, but of course, that just ends up as a bunch of separate text 
 boxes vertically.  Since mx:Text doesn't have an itemRenderer, I'm 
not 
 quite sure how to do this.





[flexcoders] Re: CF/Flex OOP Question - based on Matt Boles' Tutorial

2007-03-01 Thread qnotemedia
Of course, I'm moving on now.  My solution as of now has been to do a 
bit of both.  I'm passing the all of needed objects (four of them) 
through a custom event, and then building them as necessary in the 
view.  I'm still not quite sure if this is correct or not.  My 
example differs quite a bit from flexGrocer, so its a bit tought to 
compare.

Sorry for the length.
 - Chris



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

 Hi all,
 
 I've developed a number of Flex projects in the past few months, 
but 
 as I started to make bigger ones, I've run into a lot of problems.  
I 
 went back through a hands-on tutorial I had taken that was hosted 
by 
 Matt Boles at MAX, and I think its time to move up to the advanced 
 table.
 
 But there's something fundamental I'm still missing.  Some 
background 
 first - Matt basically ended the tutorial with showing us how to 
send 
 a custom event up from a component to the main application, and 
 passed to another component.  It wasn't until I put this in my own 
 application that I finally understood the point behind needing to 
 create loosely-coupled components.  I just did a google, and 
 strangely enough, the PDF for this hands-on is found here:
 
 
http://www.ammug.org/drupal/system/files/Building+a+Rich+Internet+Appl
 ication+with+Flex+2+and+ColdFusion.pdf
 
 The example he gave was a rather simple one.  Make your CFC using 
the 
 Flex wizard, and base your custom event off sending the wizard's 
 object - i.e. in reality, only a single table's fields, because in 
 the wizard, that's all you can create!
 
 But typically, us developers need much more than that in order to 
 view our data.  On to my question...
 
 
 Lets say I have a contact list - this would require names (names 
 tables) and a list of departments (dpts table), likely something 
 like: where names.dptID = departments.dptID.  Using Matt's 
tutorial, 
 I would create my CFCs by running the wizard on the Names table, 
make 
 a list all names component and a view selected name component.  
I 
 would create a custom event object that would dispatch the name 
 object, i.e. the selected name and fields from the names table - 
to 
 the view selected component, which would display the detailed 
data.
 
 
 But what about the non-name tables that are directly related, like 
my 
 list of departments (again: where name.dptID = departments.dptID)?  
 My question is, since ALL names will have ONE department, should 
this 
 SQL join be formed by editing the name object CFCs, and the name 
 object then includes things like Department Name and Department 
 Description every time its used - OR, should I have a completely 
 separate department object that is dispatched additionaly when the 
 selected name object is dispatched, which is in essence, forming 
the 
 join inside Flex?
 
 Considering that at some point the departments will be a separately 
 edited item, with their own add/remove/edit, I'm assuming the 
 latter?  And IF that's the case, what would the dispatch function 
 look like on page 76 of the tutorial?
 
 
 A long question - but typing it out helps me understand it, and I 
 need to get over this small bump in order to move on.
 
 Thanks for reading ;)





[flexcoders] ArrayCollection to comma-delimited list?

2007-02-26 Thread qnotemedia
Couldn't quite figure this one out.  I have a multi-level 
arraycollection and I need to write it out in flex as two separated 
lists - i.e.

itemA[0]: 1, 2, 3, 4
itemB[1]: 5, 6
itemC[2]: 7, 8

I'm currently using two repeaters with mx:Text to properly view the 
data, but of course, that just ends up as a bunch of separate text 
boxes vertically.  Since mx:Text doesn't have an itemRenderer, I'm not 
quite sure how to do this.



[flexcoders] CF/Flex OOP Question - based on Matt Boles' Tutorial

2007-02-24 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all,

I've developed a number of Flex projects in the past few months, but 
as I started to make bigger ones, I've run into a lot of problems.  I 
went back through a hands-on tutorial I had taken that was hosted by 
Matt Boles at MAX, and I think its time to move up to the advanced 
table.

But there's something fundamental I'm still missing.  Some background 
first - Matt basically ended the tutorial with showing us how to send 
a custom event up from a component to the main application, and 
passed to another component.  It wasn't until I put this in my own 
application that I finally understood the point behind needing to 
create loosely-coupled components.  I just did a google, and 
strangely enough, the PDF for this hands-on is found here:

http://www.ammug.org/drupal/system/files/Building+a+Rich+Internet+Appl
ication+with+Flex+2+and+ColdFusion.pdf

The example he gave was a rather simple one.  Make your CFC using the 
Flex wizard, and base your custom event off sending the wizard's 
object - i.e. in reality, only a single table's fields, because in 
the wizard, that's all you can create!

But typically, us developers need much more than that in order to 
view our data.  On to my question...


Lets say I have a contact list - this would require names (names 
tables) and a list of departments (dpts table), likely something 
like: where names.dptID = departments.dptID.  Using Matt's tutorial, 
I would create my CFCs by running the wizard on the Names table, make 
a list all names component and a view selected name component.  I 
would create a custom event object that would dispatch the name 
object, i.e. the selected name and fields from the names table - to 
the view selected component, which would display the detailed data.


But what about the non-name tables that are directly related, like my 
list of departments (again: where name.dptID = departments.dptID)?  
My question is, since ALL names will have ONE department, should this 
SQL join be formed by editing the name object CFCs, and the name 
object then includes things like Department Name and Department 
Description every time its used - OR, should I have a completely 
separate department object that is dispatched additionaly when the 
selected name object is dispatched, which is in essence, forming the 
join inside Flex?

Considering that at some point the departments will be a separately 
edited item, with their own add/remove/edit, I'm assuming the 
latter?  And IF that's the case, what would the dispatch function 
look like on page 76 of the tutorial?


A long question - but typing it out helps me understand it, and I 
need to get over this small bump in order to move on.

Thanks for reading ;)



[flexcoders] java.lang.Runtime complete message?

2007-02-06 Thread qnotemedia
So I'm developing a simplified Flex2 application that allows a user to 
upload video, and a serverside conversion is made to flv via ffmpeg.  
The back-end code is windows-based CFMX7.

Basically, after the video is uploaded I'm running a cfc function that 
takes the filenames and runs it through ffmpeg.exe via:

myobject = createObject( java, java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime()
myObject.exec(ffmpeg.exe) etc.


This is done as an alternative to cfexecute.  It WORKS - the file 
converts and everything, but:

1) it converts very very slowly - the server's performance monitor 
shows a very low CPU usage, and
2) I don't know when its finished.

Is there any way to monitor when the exec is complete and send a flag 
to Flex2?  Or perhaps, when someone tries to view the video, Flex can 
check to see if the process is done or not?  I'd like to stay away from 
using FDS.





[flexcoders] Re: java.lang.Runtime complete message?

2007-02-06 Thread qnotemedia
I'm looking at java's waitFor().  When I use it in a CFC though, I 
think its just looping forever.

Here's what I have so far:

cfset var myObject = createObject
(java, java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime()
cfset startProcess = myObject.exec(someSoftware.exe)
cfset checkProcess = myObject.waitFor()
cfreturn checkProcess

When running this cffunction as a WebService from Flex2, it leaves a 
never ending busy cursor.  If I remove checkProcess and return 
startProcess instead, I have some kind of java string - a thread 
identifier or something?  i.e.:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Its really quite simple - I don't know enough about java to make this 
happen and the Java reference perplexes me when in-context with 
Coldfusion.  Any help is appreciated.



[flexcoders] hostmysite, mySQL5, CF7, WebService, and Flex2 problems...

2007-01-11 Thread qnotemedia
I have two Flex apps using all of the above that perform flawlessly on 
my localhost, but after moving them to hostmysite.com, they have 
sporadic issues.  Its always an error statement that I have created, in 
a Flex Alert.show fault return, though I'm not entirely sure if where 
the actual error is taking place - I would assume in CF.

What I have is two CFCs, one with all of my DB-changing functions, and 
the other with my get-data-only functions.  At the beginning of my app, 
I call out maybe seven webservice calls to the read-only CFC to grab 
data, and again, while it works perfect on my localhost, once on 
hostmysite, anywhere from 1-3 of these may or may not fail.  Its very 
random.  Many times, the app will work just fine.  I wanted to use 
remote object, but unfortunately, hostmysite doesn't support this, so 
I'm stuck with WebService.


Where do you think these random failures are happening, why is it 
happening, and what can I do about it?



[flexcoders] Re: hostmysite, mySQL5, CF7, WebService, and Flex2 problems...

2007-01-11 Thread qnotemedia
Wow - ServiceCapture is really cool!  I didn't know you could see 
stuff like that so easily.  Unfortunately, its not showing me 
anything new.  i.e. when an error occurs, the results in 
ServiceCapture look the same as a session where the app doesn't 
return any errors.  What does that mean?

There's eight webservice calls when an app is first loaded.  One 
thing I did notice is that the order of these calls appears to differ 
depending on the session.  I didn't think that any one service call 
requires another, but considering the sporadic nature of the errors, 
is it possible that the problem here is that simple?

Thanks,
 - Chris

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

 You should try using ServiceCapture or Charles debugging proxy to 
 inspect the data being sent over the wire when an error occurs.
 
 Patrick
 
 qnotemedia a écrit :
 
  I have two Flex apps using all of the above that perform 
flawlessly on
  my localhost, but after moving them to hostmysite.com, they have
  sporadic issues. Its always an error statement that I have 
created, in
  a Flex Alert.show fault return, though I'm not entirely sure if 
where
  the actual error is taking place - I would assume in CF.
 
  What I have is two CFCs, one with all of my DB-changing 
functions, and
  the other with my get-data-only functions. At the beginning of my 
app,
  I call out maybe seven webservice calls to the read-only CFC to 
grab
  data, and again, while it works perfect on my localhost, once on
  hostmysite, anywhere from 1-3 of these may or may not fail. Its 
very
  random. Many times, the app will work just fine. I wanted to use
  remote object, but unfortunately, hostmysite doesn't support 
this, so
  I'm stuck with WebService.
 
  Where do you think these random failures are happening, why is it
  happening, and what can I do about it?
 
 





[flexcoders] Re: Filter as you type - two comboboxes?

2006-12-13 Thread qnotemedia
You know - I think the problem was I just didn't quite understand 
how filterFunction works, and what exactly happens when return true 
occurs.

Finally got it tho, and here it is!!  The trick was just 
understanding when to end the statement, and when to check 
something first or last.  Its basically:

1) Still not sure what the first line does, but its comparing the 
text of my search box with one column in the grid.  If the text box 
has nothing OR has something, it passes either way.
2) If the first combobox is NOT Show All, and the second combobox 
IS Show All, then check the first combobox
3) If the second combobox is NOT Show All, and the first combobox 
IS Show All, then check the second combobox
4) If BOTH comboboxes are NOT Show All then check BOTH comboboxes
5) If BOTH comboboxes ARE Show All then check nothing.

Surely there's an easier way to implement this, but darnit, it works!!

Now I will need to stretch out my search box to include more than one 
column.  Wish me luck, ;)
 - Chris


private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
  var result:Boolean=false;
  dgObjectList.selectedIndex = -1;

  if(item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase().indexOf
(searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0) {
if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName != Show All  
cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName == Show All) {
  if (item.typeName == cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName) {
return true;
  }
} else if (cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName == Show All  
cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName != Show All) {
  if (item.courseName == cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName) {
return true;
  }
} else if (cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName != Show All  
cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName != Show All) {
  if (item.typeName == cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName  
item.courseName == cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName) {
return true;
  }
} else if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName == Show All  
cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName == Show All) {
  return true;
}
  }
  return result;
}




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

 Looks like a few too many return statements in the processFilter() 
 function, causing some of the code to be skipped instead of being 
 processed.  Probably ought to be something like result = x 
 instead, so that you can return a single result at the end of the 
 function.
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, qnotemedia qnotemedia@ 
 wrote:
 
  Hi all - I have two questions to post today, but will keep them 
  separate.
  
  I'm using some filter as you type code from Ben Forta and 
 cflex.net.  
  The following code is basically an InputText search box along 
with 
 a 
  combobox, and they both are filtering a datagrid's 
 arraycollection.  
  What I want to do is add a second combobox to the process.  It 
 never 
  seems to work correctly, but each combobox, along with the text 
  search seems to work on their own.  Note that in the code below, 
 the 
  course combobox is commented out.
  
  I suppose what I don't understand is how exactly the 
processFilter 
  function works.
  
  
  dgObjectList = DataGrid with 3 columns: objName, typeName, 
 courseName
  objectList = DataGrid's dataprovider
  
  cbTypeList = Combobox with labelField=typeName.  Data includes 
 typeID
  typeListFilter = cbTypeList's dataprovider
  
  cbCourseList = Combobox with labelField = courseName.  Data 
 includes 
  courseID
  courseListFilter = cbCourseList's dataprovider
  
  searchText = textInput box for keyword search.
  
  Code is as follows.  Thanks for reading,
   - Chris
  
  [Bindable]
  private var objectList:ArrayCollection;
  
  [Bindable]
  private var typeListFilter:ArrayCollection;
  
  [Bindable]
  private var courseListFilter:ArrayCollection;
  
  private function resultHandlerGetAllObjects
 (event:ResultEvent):void {
objectList = event.result as ArrayCollection;
/* add function for filtering */
objectList.filterFunction=processFilter;
  }
  private function resultHandlerGetAllTypesFilter
  (event:ResultEvent):void {
typeListFilter = event.result as ArrayCollection;
  }
  private function resultHandlerGetAllCoursesFilter
  (event:ResultEvent):void {
courseListFilter = event.result as ArrayCollection;
  }
  
  /* Code from:
  http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/13/Filtering-Data-In-
 Flex 
  http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?
  ObjectID=415Object=FileChannelID=1
  */
  
  private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
var result:Boolean=false;
dgObjectList.selectedIndex = -1;
  
if(item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase
().indexOf
  (searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0) {
  if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName != Show All) {
return item.typeName == cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName;
  } else if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName == Show All) {
return true

[flexcoders] Filter as you type - two comboboxes?

2006-12-11 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all - I have two questions to post today, but will keep them 
separate.

I'm using some filter as you type code from Ben Forta and cflex.net.  
The following code is basically an InputText search box along with a 
combobox, and they both are filtering a datagrid's arraycollection.  
What I want to do is add a second combobox to the process.  It never 
seems to work correctly, but each combobox, along with the text 
search seems to work on their own.  Note that in the code below, the 
course combobox is commented out.

I suppose what I don't understand is how exactly the processFilter 
function works.


dgObjectList = DataGrid with 3 columns: objName, typeName, courseName
objectList = DataGrid's dataprovider

cbTypeList = Combobox with labelField=typeName.  Data includes typeID
typeListFilter = cbTypeList's dataprovider

cbCourseList = Combobox with labelField = courseName.  Data includes 
courseID
courseListFilter = cbCourseList's dataprovider

searchText = textInput box for keyword search.

Code is as follows.  Thanks for reading,
 - Chris

[Bindable]
private var objectList:ArrayCollection;

[Bindable]
private var typeListFilter:ArrayCollection;

[Bindable]
private var courseListFilter:ArrayCollection;

private function resultHandlerGetAllObjects(event:ResultEvent):void {
  objectList = event.result as ArrayCollection;
  /* add function for filtering */
  objectList.filterFunction=processFilter;
}
private function resultHandlerGetAllTypesFilter
(event:ResultEvent):void {
  typeListFilter = event.result as ArrayCollection;
}
private function resultHandlerGetAllCoursesFilter
(event:ResultEvent):void {
  courseListFilter = event.result as ArrayCollection;
}

/* Code from:
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/13/Filtering-Data-In-Flex 
http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?
ObjectID=415Object=FileChannelID=1
*/

private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
  var result:Boolean=false;
  dgObjectList.selectedIndex = -1;

  if(item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase().indexOf
(searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0) {
if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName != Show All) {
  return item.typeName == cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName;
} else if(cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName == Show All) {
  return true;
}
/* Course ComboBox - works on its own, but not WITH the other 
combobox!   
if(cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName != Show All) {
  return item.courseName == cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName; 
} else if(cbCourseList.selectedItem.courseName == Show All) {
  return true;
} */
  }
  return result;
}

Code in App:
mx:HBox width=100%
  mx:Label text=Search:/
  mx:TextInput id=searchText width=100% 
change=objectList.refresh();/
/mx:HBox
mx:HBox width=100%
  mx:Label text=Type:/
  mx:ComboBox id=cbTypeList width=100% 
dataProvider={typeListFilter} labelField=typeName 
change=objectList.refresh();/
/mx:HBox
mx:HBox width=100%
  mx:Label text=Course:/
  mx:ComboBox id=cbCourseList width=100% 
dataProvider={courseListFilter} labelField=courseName 
change=objectList.refresh();/
/mx:HBox
mx:HBox width=100% height=100%
  mx:DataGrid id=dgObjectList width=100% height=100% 
dataProvider={objectList} change=displayObject();
mx:columns
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Name wordWrap=true 
dataField=objName/
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Type dataField=typeName/
  mx:DataGridColumn headerText=Course dataField=courseName
/mx:columns
  /mx:DataGrid
/mx:HBox






[flexcoders] Processing Filedata / Filereference with a CFC instead of CFM?

2006-12-11 Thread qnotemedia
I'm using a component from eFlex, called Uploader.  Has anyone else 
run into this?  Its really quite brilliant and was a breeze to 
implement and customize for my own needs:

Go here: http://www.everythingflex.com/
and search for Uploader.

But, from what I understand, the cfm processing for this, is the same 
as any other methodology when using Flex and Coldfusion for uploading 
data.  The CFM I have that works, is a single line:

cffile action=upload filefield=Filedata destination=#ExpandPath
('./logos')# nameconflict=OVERWRITE

Can someone show me an example of this when used with a CFC instead 
of a CFM?  I want to do some checks and balances in ColdFusion before 
physically using the cffile, and if those checks don't validate, 
return an error message to Flex.  Is that possible?  In fact, one 
problem with this component is when an upload error occurs, no 
message is sent to the user.

What follows is the getFile() function found in the Uploader mxml.

Thanks,
 - Chris

public function getFile():void {
  if(this.uploadToURL.length  0){
this.uploadURL = new URLRequest();
this.uploadURL.url = this.uploadToURL;
/* uploadURL.url is defined per component instance and leads to 
the CFM for processing */
this.file = new FileReference();
this.configureListeners(file);
this.file.browse(new Array(new FileFilter(Images, 
this.imagesFilter)));
  } else {
Alert.show(uploadToURL is undefined, Syntax Error);
  }
}



[flexcoders] Simple Flex2 Security?

2006-12-07 Thread qnotemedia
I have an application that has two states (View and Edit), and one 
button toggles between the two states.  There are a few components, but 
none of them are required for the non-logged-in state.

Can someone recommend a methodology for implementing some very simple 
security in he main app?  i.e. typing in a username/password (or maybe 
just a password only), and on success, enabling the button that toggles 
the states.

It seems that most articles I've read on the topic are at a much higher 
level, but not all of us are building enterprise level Flex apps.  I 
don't have FDS, I can't use RemoteObject on my server (HostMySite), and 
I'm using ColdFusion 7.01 on the backend.

Thanks - Chris



[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-06 Thread qnotemedia

I've developed a test mxml file of the current combobox note updating
problem at hand.

In the following example, click Fill Data.  The combobox's data fills
up.  Choose either the first or second item in the combobox.  Now click
the associated Rename Data button for the item chosen.

Notice that nothing happens?  But wait, if you click the combobox to
open it, you'll see that the data was in fact updated, but we're just
not seeing it.

Now change the ComboBox to a DataGrid.  Everything works fine.

What gives?
  - Chris

PS - you're probably wondering why I used ObjectProxy.  This was because
I noticed in my debugger that everything else was as well for the
particular place where I was testing this.  Regardless, it doesn't seem
to matter what I used (Array, Object, etc.), as the problem still
occurs.

-testProblem.mxml-

?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml  layout=vertical

  mx:Script
   ![CDATA[
import mx.utils.ObjectProxy;
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;

[Bindable]
private var ac:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection;

private function init():void {
 var buildData1:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
 buildData1.field1 = object1-field1;
 buildData1.field2 = object1-field2;
 buildData1.field3 = object1-field3;
 var buildData2:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
 buildData2.field1 = object2-field1;
 buildData2.field2 = object2-field2;
 buildData2.field3 = object2-field3;
 ac.addItem(buildData1);
 ac.addItem(buildData2);
}
private function setFirstItem():void {
 var buildData1_renamed:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
 buildData1_renamed.field1 = object1_renamed-field1;
 buildData1_renamed.field2 = object1_renamed-field2;
 buildData1_renamed.field3 = object1_renamed-field3;
 ac.setItemAt(buildData1_renamed,cbTestData.selectedIndex);
}
private function setSecondItem():void {
 var buildData2_renamed:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
 buildData2_renamed.field1 = object2_renamed-field1;
 buildData2_renamed.field2 = object2_renamed-field2;
 buildData2_renamed.field3 = object2_renamed-field3;
 ac.setItemAt(buildData2_renamed,cbTestData.selectedIndex);
}
   ]]
  /mx:Script

  mx:ComboBox id=cbTestData dataProvider={ac} labelField=field1
width=50%/
  mx:Button label=Fill with Data click=init()/
  mx:Button label=Rename Data in Item #1 (select the first item before
clicking) click=setFirstItem()/
  mx:Button label=Rename Data in Item #2 (select the second item before
clicking) click=setSecondItem()/
  mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field1}/
  mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field2}/
  mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field3}/
/mx:Application



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

 Concerning this last post - I even changed the combobox to a
 datagrid, nothing else changed, and it works perfectly fine.

 What gives? What's so different about the two?

 - Chris

 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, qnotemedia qnotemedia@
 wrote:
 
  I hear ya Tracy. Been browsing it from my MAX docs, and maybe
 we'll
  do it in the next project. ;)
 
  Still harping on this particular thing, I've run into a weird
  unrelated snag. When the object in the main app is a combobox
  instead of a datagrid, the combobox's display doesn't update (even
  tho the data is).
 
  i.e. running the titlewindow as an editor, I edit some values in
  text boxes from, and when I click OK from the titlewindow, the
 AC's
  are updated with setItemAt and the window closes and the object on
  the main app updates (because its bound to a public AC variable).
 
  If the object is a datagrid, everything updates fine. If its a
  combobox, it updates the data correctly, but initially it doesn't
  look like it - the displayed label hasn't changed. Clicking the
  combobox to open it, you can see that the selected label and data
 are
  in fact updated. Closing the combobox without choosing anything
  updates he label correctly. How come its not immediately updated
  when the AC is, like the datagrid?
 
  Tried refresh() on the AC just before closing the window, but that
  didn't seem to do anything. Not sure what else to try!
 
  Thanks all,
  - Chris
 
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt tspratt@ wrote:
  
   I am slowly becoming comfortable with using event driven
  functionality,
   so this opinion is only that.
  
  
  
   However, the primary benefit of loose coupling is re-usability,
  and
   maybe maintainability, in the sense that it will be easier to
  drop-in
   replacement parts. (any others, anyone?). But event code is a
  little
   harder to write read and debug than straight calls to directly
   referenced members. If you are reasonably sure what you are
  building
   will not need to be re-used, then there may be little benefit in
 the
   effort to gain loose

[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-06 Thread qnotemedia
OK - If I reassign the ArrayCollection (and retell it what the 
selectedIndex is), it updates correctly.  i.e., at the end othe 
setFirstItem(),setSecondItem():

cbTestData.dataProvider = ac;

But seriously, there's got to be a better way than that.  Otherwise, 
what's the point of using an ArrayCollection binding with a combobox?

 - Chris

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

 
 I've developed a test mxml file of the current combobox note 
updating
 problem at hand.
 
 In the following example, click Fill Data.  The combobox's data 
fills
 up.  Choose either the first or second item in the combobox.  Now 
click
 the associated Rename Data button for the item chosen.
 
 Notice that nothing happens?  But wait, if you click the combobox to
 open it, you'll see that the data was in fact updated, but we're 
just
 not seeing it.
 
 Now change the ComboBox to a DataGrid.  Everything works fine.
 
 What gives?
   - Chris
 
 PS - you're probably wondering why I used ObjectProxy.  This was 
because
 I noticed in my debugger that everything else was as well for the
 particular place where I was testing this.  Regardless, it doesn't 
seem
 to matter what I used (Array, Object, etc.), as the problem still
 occurs.
 
 -testProblem.mxml-
 
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
 mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
 http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml  layout=vertical
 
   mx:Script
![CDATA[
 import mx.utils.ObjectProxy;
 import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
 
 [Bindable]
 private var ac:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection;
 
 private function init():void {
  var buildData1:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
  buildData1.field1 = object1-field1;
  buildData1.field2 = object1-field2;
  buildData1.field3 = object1-field3;
  var buildData2:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
  buildData2.field1 = object2-field1;
  buildData2.field2 = object2-field2;
  buildData2.field3 = object2-field3;
  ac.addItem(buildData1);
  ac.addItem(buildData2);
 }
 private function setFirstItem():void {
  var buildData1_renamed:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
  buildData1_renamed.field1 = object1_renamed-field1;
  buildData1_renamed.field2 = object1_renamed-field2;
  buildData1_renamed.field3 = object1_renamed-field3;
  ac.setItemAt(buildData1_renamed,cbTestData.selectedIndex);
 }
 private function setSecondItem():void {
  var buildData2_renamed:ObjectProxy = new ObjectProxy;
  buildData2_renamed.field1 = object2_renamed-field1;
  buildData2_renamed.field2 = object2_renamed-field2;
  buildData2_renamed.field3 = object2_renamed-field3;
  ac.setItemAt(buildData2_renamed,cbTestData.selectedIndex);
 }
]]
   /mx:Script
 
   mx:ComboBox id=cbTestData dataProvider={ac} 
labelField=field1
 width=50%/
   mx:Button label=Fill with Data click=init()/
   mx:Button label=Rename Data in Item #1 (select the first item 
before
 clicking) click=setFirstItem()/
   mx:Button label=Rename Data in Item #2 (select the second item 
before
 clicking) click=setSecondItem()/
   mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field1}/
   mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field2}/
   mx:Text text={cbTestData.selectedItem.field3}/
 /mx:Application
 
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, qnotemedia qnotemedia@ wrote:
 
  Concerning this last post - I even changed the combobox to a
  datagrid, nothing else changed, and it works perfectly fine.
 
  What gives? What's so different about the two?
 
  - Chris
 
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, qnotemedia qnotemedia@
  wrote:
  
   I hear ya Tracy. Been browsing it from my MAX docs, and maybe
  we'll
   do it in the next project. ;)
  
   Still harping on this particular thing, I've run into a weird
   unrelated snag. When the object in the main app is a combobox
   instead of a datagrid, the combobox's display doesn't update 
(even
   tho the data is).
  
   i.e. running the titlewindow as an editor, I edit some values 
in
   text boxes from, and when I click OK from the titlewindow, the
  AC's
   are updated with setItemAt and the window closes and the object 
on
   the main app updates (because its bound to a public AC 
variable).
  
   If the object is a datagrid, everything updates fine. If its a
   combobox, it updates the data correctly, but initially it 
doesn't
   look like it - the displayed label hasn't changed. Clicking the
   combobox to open it, you can see that the selected label and 
data
  are
   in fact updated. Closing the combobox without choosing anything
   updates he label correctly. How come its not immediately updated
   when the AC is, like the datagrid?
  
   Tried refresh() on the AC just before closing the window, but 
that
   didn't seem to do anything. Not sure what else to try!
  
   Thanks all,
   - Chris
  
  
   --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt tspratt@ 
wrote:
   
I am slowly becoming

[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-05 Thread qnotemedia
Well - what I've done, after finding a titlewindow example on cflex, 
is create a public variable in the titlewindow component of the same 
name as one in the application, and I send it to the component from 
the main app AND back via the title window's instance variable.  i.e.:

TitleWindow Component:

[Bindable]
public var aListOfData:ArrayCollection;

private function sendData():void {
- runs when you click submit in titlewindow
  var compilation:Obect = new Object;
  compilation.setting1 = something in component;
  aListOfData.addItem(compilation);  (or setItemAt, etc)
}


Main Application looks like this:

[Bindable]
private var aListofData:ArrayCollection;

private function openComponent():void {
   - runs when you click open window in the main app
  var openingWindowblah blah, opening the TitleWindow;
  openingWindow.aListOfData = aListOfData;
}


OK - so those variable names are random thoughts off the top of my 
head, bu you get the picture.  From what I understand, this doesn't 
follow the idea behind loosely coupled components, but is there 
anything really wrong with this methodology?  It seems to work very 
well in my case.  I can even have a window within a window, all 
passing variables between windows, all the way down to the main app 
quite easily, and so far its been a breeze to setup.

Thoughts anyone?  If I continue down this path, where will I start to 
run into problems?
 - Chris


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

 Hi.
 
 Why don't your pop up dispatch some event (e.g. submitData) and 
you listen
 to it?
 
 R.
 
 On 12/5/06, qnotemedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
OK - so I'm using the generic TileWindow example found on the
  Component Explorer. It basically shows you how to build something
  where:
  1) User clicks a button, Window pops up.
  2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
  3) Text typed in appears in the main app.
 
  
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
 
  But, I'm having a little difficulty understanding the assignment 
of
  the returned data. i.e.:
 
  login.loginName=returnedName;
 
  ...where login is the instance of the TitleWindow, loginName is a
  public Text variable inside the component, and returnedName is a 
text
  box in the main app.
 
  My confusion comes up when I try to edit this so that:
  1) App has a combobox. Dataprovider for the combobox is an
  ArrayCollection of data: data and label. User clicks a button,
  TitleWindow pops up.
  2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
  3) The text is a passed as a label, along with a generated ID
  (generated in the component) and is added to the combobox's
  dataprovider.
 
  The problem appears to be that there is no handler of the Submit
  button click on the main application. Obviously, I would add to a
  datasource and return an ID from that, but I can't even get this 
to
  work manually (i.e. for testing purposes, setting a static data 
and
  label).
 
  Just trying to keep this as simple as possible. Seems to me that 
if
  I can pass a string of text, I should also be able to pass an 
Object
  that is added to a dataProvider in the main app? Right?
 
  Help!
  - Chris
 
   
 





[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-05 Thread qnotemedia
I hear ya Tracy.  Been browsing it from my MAX docs, and maybe we'll 
do it in the next project. ;)

Still harping on this particular thing, I've run into a weird 
unrelated snag.  When the object in the main app is a combobox 
instead of a datagrid, the combobox's display doesn't update (even 
tho the data is).

i.e. running the titlewindow as an editor, I edit some values in 
text boxes from, and when I click OK from the titlewindow, the AC's 
are updated with setItemAt and the window closes and the object on 
the main app updates (because its bound to a public AC variable).

If the object is a datagrid, everything updates fine.  If its a 
combobox, it updates the data correctly, but initially it doesn't 
look like it - the displayed label hasn't changed.  Clicking the 
combobox to open it, you can see that the selected label and data are 
in fact updated.  Closing the combobox without choosing anything 
updates he label correctly.  How come its not immediately updated 
when the AC is, like the datagrid?

Tried refresh() on the AC just before closing the window, but that 
didn't seem to do anything.  Not sure what else to try!

Thanks all,
 - Chris


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

 I am slowly becoming comfortable with using event driven 
functionality,
 so this opinion is only that.
 
  
 
 However, the primary benefit of loose coupling is re-usability, 
and
 maybe maintainability, in the sense that it will be easier to 
drop-in
 replacement parts. (any others, anyone?).  But event code is a 
little
 harder to write read and debug than straight calls to directly
 referenced members.  If you are reasonably sure what you are 
building
 will not need to be re-used, then there may be little benefit in the
 effort to gain loose coupling.
 
  
 
 So wrong? No. Best practice? It depends.  Think ahead.
 
  
 
 Tracy
 
  
 
 
 
 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of qnotemedia
 Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:19 PM
 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: [flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!
 
  
 
 Well - what I've done, after finding a titlewindow example on 
cflex, 
 is create a public variable in the titlewindow component of the 
same 
 name as one in the application, and I send it to the component from 
 the main app AND back via the title window's instance variable. 
i.e.:
 
 TitleWindow Component:
 
 [Bindable]
 public var aListOfData:ArrayCollection;
 
 private function sendData():void {
 - runs when you click submit in titlewindow
 var compilation:Obect = new Object;
 compilation.setting1 = something in component;
 aListOfData.addItem(compilation); (or setItemAt, etc)
 }
 
 Main Application looks like this:
 
 [Bindable]
 private var aListofData:ArrayCollection;
 
 private function openComponent():void {
 - runs when you click open window in the main app
 var openingWindowblah blah, opening the TitleWindow;
 openingWindow.aListOfData = aListOfData;
 }
 
 OK - so those variable names are random thoughts off the top of my 
 head, bu you get the picture. From what I understand, this doesn't 
 follow the idea behind loosely coupled components, but is there 
 anything really wrong with this methodology? It seems to work 
very 
 well in my case. I can even have a window within a window, all 
 passing variables between windows, all the way down to the main app 
 quite easily, and so far its been a breeze to setup.
 
 Thoughts anyone? If I continue down this path, where will I start 
to 
 run into problems?
 - Chris
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com
 , Roman Protsiuk 
 roman.protsiuk@ wrote:
 
  Hi.
  
  Why don't your pop up dispatch some event (e.g. submitData) and 
 you listen
  to it?
  
  R.
  
  On 12/5/06, qnotemedia qnotemedia@ wrote:
  
   OK - so I'm using the generic TileWindow example found on the
   Component Explorer. It basically shows you how to build 
something
   where:
   1) User clicks a button, Window pops up.
   2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
   3) Text typed in appears in the main app.
  
   
 http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
 
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
 
  
   But, I'm having a little difficulty understanding the 
assignment 
 of
   the returned data. i.e.:
  
   login.loginName=returnedName;
  
   ...where login is the instance of the TitleWindow, loginName is 
a
   public Text variable inside the component, and returnedName is 
a 
 text
   box in the main app.
  
   My confusion comes up when I try to edit this so that:
   1) App has a combobox. Dataprovider for the combobox is an
   ArrayCollection of data: data and label. User clicks a 
button,
   TitleWindow pops up.
   2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
   3) The text is a passed as a label, along with a generated ID
   (generated

[flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-05 Thread qnotemedia
Concerning this last post - I even changed the combobox to a 
datagrid, nothing else changed, and it works perfectly fine.

What gives?  What's so different about the two?

 - Chris

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

 I hear ya Tracy.  Been browsing it from my MAX docs, and maybe 
we'll 
 do it in the next project. ;)
 
 Still harping on this particular thing, I've run into a weird 
 unrelated snag.  When the object in the main app is a combobox 
 instead of a datagrid, the combobox's display doesn't update (even 
 tho the data is).
 
 i.e. running the titlewindow as an editor, I edit some values in 
 text boxes from, and when I click OK from the titlewindow, the 
AC's 
 are updated with setItemAt and the window closes and the object on 
 the main app updates (because its bound to a public AC variable).
 
 If the object is a datagrid, everything updates fine.  If its a 
 combobox, it updates the data correctly, but initially it doesn't 
 look like it - the displayed label hasn't changed.  Clicking the 
 combobox to open it, you can see that the selected label and data 
are 
 in fact updated.  Closing the combobox without choosing anything 
 updates he label correctly.  How come its not immediately updated 
 when the AC is, like the datagrid?
 
 Tried refresh() on the AC just before closing the window, but that 
 didn't seem to do anything.  Not sure what else to try!
 
 Thanks all,
  - Chris
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt tspratt@ wrote:
 
  I am slowly becoming comfortable with using event driven 
 functionality,
  so this opinion is only that.
  
   
  
  However, the primary benefit of loose coupling is re-usability, 
 and
  maybe maintainability, in the sense that it will be easier to 
 drop-in
  replacement parts. (any others, anyone?).  But event code is a 
 little
  harder to write read and debug than straight calls to directly
  referenced members.  If you are reasonably sure what you are 
 building
  will not need to be re-used, then there may be little benefit in 
the
  effort to gain loose coupling.
  
   
  
  So wrong? No. Best practice? It depends.  Think ahead.
  
   
  
  Tracy
  
   
  
  
  
  From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
  Behalf Of qnotemedia
  Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:19 PM
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [flexcoders] Re: TitleWindow Component...help!
  
   
  
  Well - what I've done, after finding a titlewindow example on 
 cflex, 
  is create a public variable in the titlewindow component of the 
 same 
  name as one in the application, and I send it to the component 
from 
  the main app AND back via the title window's instance variable. 
 i.e.:
  
  TitleWindow Component:
  
  [Bindable]
  public var aListOfData:ArrayCollection;
  
  private function sendData():void {
  - runs when you click submit in titlewindow
  var compilation:Obect = new Object;
  compilation.setting1 = something in component;
  aListOfData.addItem(compilation); (or setItemAt, etc)
  }
  
  Main Application looks like this:
  
  [Bindable]
  private var aListofData:ArrayCollection;
  
  private function openComponent():void {
  - runs when you click open window in the main app
  var openingWindowblah blah, opening the TitleWindow;
  openingWindow.aListOfData = aListOfData;
  }
  
  OK - so those variable names are random thoughts off the top of 
my 
  head, bu you get the picture. From what I understand, this 
doesn't 
  follow the idea behind loosely coupled components, but is there 
  anything really wrong with this methodology? It seems to work 
 very 
  well in my case. I can even have a window within a window, all 
  passing variables between windows, all the way down to the main 
app 
  quite easily, and so far its been a breeze to setup.
  
  Thoughts anyone? If I continue down this path, where will I start 
 to 
  run into problems?
  - Chris
  
  --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%
 40yahoogroups.com
  , Roman Protsiuk 
  roman.protsiuk@ wrote:
  
   Hi.
   
   Why don't your pop up dispatch some event (e.g. submitData) 
and 
  you listen
   to it?
   
   R.
   
   On 12/5/06, qnotemedia qnotemedia@ wrote:
   
OK - so I'm using the generic TileWindow example found on the
Component Explorer. It basically shows you how to build 
 something
where:
1) User clicks a button, Window pops up.
2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
3) Text typed in appears in the main app.
   

  
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
  
 
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
  
   
But, I'm having a little difficulty understanding the 
 assignment 
  of
the returned data. i.e.:
   
login.loginName=returnedName;
   
...where login is the instance of the TitleWindow, loginName 
is 
 a
public Text variable inside the component

[flexcoders] TitleWindow Component...help!

2006-12-04 Thread qnotemedia
OK - so I'm using the generic TileWindow example found on the 
Component Explorer.  It basically shows you how to build something 
where:
1) User clicks a button, Window pops up.
2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
3) Text typed in appears in the main app.

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

But, I'm having a little difficulty understanding the assignment of 
the returned data.  i.e.:

login.loginName=returnedName;

...where login is the instance of the TitleWindow, loginName is a 
public Text variable inside the component, and returnedName is a text 
box in the main app.

My confusion comes up when I try to edit this so that:
1) App has a combobox.  Dataprovider for the combobox is an 
ArrayCollection of data: data and label.  User clicks a button, 
TitleWindow pops up.
2) User types into a text box in the window, clicks Submit.
3) The text is a passed as a label, along with a generated ID 
(generated in the component) and is added to the combobox's 
dataprovider.

The problem appears to be that there is no handler of the Submit 
button click on the main application.  Obviously, I would add to a 
datasource and return an ID from that, but I can't even get this to 
work manually (i.e. for testing purposes, setting a static data and 
label).

Just trying to keep this as simple as possible.  Seems to me that if 
I can pass a string of text, I should also be able to pass an Object 
that is added to a dataProvider in the main app?  Right?

Help!
 - Chris



[flexcoders] Re: Calendar...visually show selection for related data?

2006-11-28 Thread qnotemedia
Never really found an answer to this.  Anyone know where I can find 
more primers on extending Components?  I've gone through a few, but 
none of them seem to really apply to this particular dilemma.

 - Chris

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

 Sorry - posted this in the wrong thread!!
 
 So how about this? If you CTRL-Click on a default Datechooser in 
MXML,
 you get the built-in DateChooser.as. I'm particularly interested in
 the section on the showToday property, which of course has its own
 style for a specific date. I would think that maybe this could 
perhaps
 be edited to accept an array of dates instead of a single date? I 
just
 don't quite know enough yet on exactly how to do something that
 simple...
 
 - Chris
 
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Andrew D. Goodfellow 
 agoodfellow@ wrote:
 
  Yeah, I've been trying to figure this one out in my spare time as 
 well.
  selectedRanges is definitely not what you want. I haven't dug 
 into sub
  classing the DateChooser yet, but I am sure that will be required.
  
  Can anyone from Adobe shed some more light on this components 
 rendering
  grid?
  
  -Andy
  
  On 11/9/06, qnotemedia qnotemedia@ wrote:
  
 Nah, not selectedRanges - cause, I'd like to highlight 
specific 
 dates
   randomly, not consecutive ones. Though I haven't used
   selectedRanges...can you specify the same date as the range? 
 Will
   look into that...
  
   Anyone use Outlook's Calendar? i.e. when you look at the whole
   month, numbers (dates) that have meetings are bolded. That's 
what
   I'd like to accomplish.
  
   I figured this would clearly require extending the DateChooser 
 class
   and passing the data to it as a property. However, I'm not sure 
 how
   to selectively apply a bold style or something to a specific 
date.
   What part of the DateChooser is rendering the dates?
  
   - Chris
  
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   Chiverton tom.chiverton@
   wrote:
set selectedRanges ?
   
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Re: [Jõnk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Flex2 Sensitive Data Security Thoughts?

2006-11-16 Thread qnotemedia
So how about this?  If you CTRL-Click on a default Datechooser in MXML, 
you get the built-in DateChooser.as.  I'm particularly interested in 
the section on the showToday property, which of course has its own 
style for a specific date.  I would think that maybe this could perhaps 
be edited to accept an array of dates instead of a single date?  I just 
don't quite know enough yet on exactly how to do something that 
simple...

 - Chris




[flexcoders] Calendar...visually show selection for related data?

2006-11-07 Thread qnotemedia
I have a calendar component and an ArrayCollection of data that is 
filtered depending on the selected date of the calendar.  Selecting a 
date brings up a list of items in the array.

Is there any way that I can visually extend the calendar component to 
show markers where dates not selected have this associated data?




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[flexcoders] Re: Calendar...visually show selection for related data?

2006-11-07 Thread qnotemedia
Perhaps a more specific example will help with my question...

I'm digging through the Flex2 docs and found the textDecoration 
property of the DateChooser.  Seeting this to underline will make ALL 
dates in the datechooser have lines under them.

Given the original scenario, is there any way that I can apply this 
property to only a specfic collection of dates through something like a 
for loop?  i.e. loop through the ArrayCollection, and for each date 
found, underline the specific matching date in the component, but leave 
the others alone.


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 I have a calendar component and an ArrayCollection of data that is 
 filtered depending on the selected date of the calendar.  Selecting a 
 date brings up a list of items in the array.
 
 Is there any way that I can visually extend the calendar component to 
 show markers where dates not selected have this associated data?






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[flexcoders] Re: hostmysite.com...RemoteObject not working

2006-11-05 Thread qnotemedia
Bummer - here was their reply:

Yes, we know that ColdFusion MX 7 Updater 2 provides integration 
between ColdFusion and Flex 2 applications. HostMySite does not 
currently support Flex in a shared environment. It would be possible 
in a dedicated environment provided the you purchased a license.

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

 The last time I spoke with HostMySite, they did not support it, 
however they
 had it in a test environment and was planning on deploying it 
eventually.
 They would not give me a hard date, sorry.  However, I would email 
them
 anyway and apply the pressure.  :)
 
 Thanks
 -Pat
 
 
 On 11/4/06, qnotemedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Hi all - back from MAX, and I'm finally using RemoteObject!
 
  I have a simple calendar application. All is working fine with my
  dev copy of ColdFusion, but when I put it up on hostmysite.com it
  fails to connect - error follows at the end of this post. The
  remoteobject looks like this.
 
  mx:RemoteObject
  id=calendarRO destination=ColdFusion
  source=g3calendar.cfcs.CalendarGateway
  mx:method name=getAll result=getAllHandler(event)/
  /mx:RemoteObject
 
  I have tried with and without g3calendar in the source, though I
  think its finding the CFC, because instead, I would get a CFC not
  found right?
 
  I used the make CFCs wizard in Flex Builder 2.
  They do have the servers updated to v7.02.
  I have double-checked that the datasource is working.
  I have made a CFMapping to the g3calendar folder.
  Other Flex Apps work fine via WebService and HTTPService.
 
  Here is the error - not quite sure how to toubleshoot this!
 
  - Chris
 
  [RPC Fault faultString=Send failed
  faultCode=Client.Error.MessageSend
  faultDetail=Channel.Connect.Failed error 
NetConnection.Call.Failed:
  HTTP: Status 500]
  at
  
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::fa
  ultHandler()
  at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()
  at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()
  at mx.messaging::ChannelSet/::faultPendingSends()
  at mx.messaging::ChannelSet/channelFaultHandler()
  at
  
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEv
  entFunction()
  at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
  at mx.messaging::Channel/mx.messaging:Channel::connectFailed()
  at
  
mx.messaging.channels::PollingChannel/mx.messaging.channels:PollingCha
  nnel::connectFailed()
  at
  
mx.messaging.channels::AMFChannel/mx.messaging.channels:AMFChannel::st
  atusHandler()
 
   
 






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[flexcoders] hostmysite.com...RemoteObject not working

2006-11-04 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all - back from MAX, and I'm finally using RemoteObject!

I have a simple calendar application.  All is working fine with my 
dev copy of ColdFusion, but when I put it up on hostmysite.com it 
fails to connect - error follows at the end of this post.  The 
remoteobject looks like this.

mx:RemoteObject
  id=calendarRO destination=ColdFusion
  source=g3calendar.cfcs.CalendarGateway
mx:method name=getAll result=getAllHandler(event)/
/mx:RemoteObject

I have tried with and without g3calendar in the source, though I 
think its finding the CFC, because instead, I would get a CFC not 
found right?

I used the make CFCs wizard in Flex Builder 2.
They do have the servers updated to v7.02.
I have double-checked that the datasource is working.
I have made a CFMapping to the g3calendar folder.
Other Flex Apps work fine via WebService and HTTPService.

Here is the error - not quite sure how to toubleshoot this!

 - Chris

[RPC Fault faultString=Send failed 
faultCode=Client.Error.MessageSend 
faultDetail=Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.Failed: 
HTTP: Status 500]
at 
mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::fa
ultHandler()
at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()
at mx.messaging::ChannelSet/::faultPendingSends()
at mx.messaging::ChannelSet/channelFaultHandler()
at 
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEv
entFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.messaging::Channel/mx.messaging:Channel::connectFailed()
at 
mx.messaging.channels::PollingChannel/mx.messaging.channels:PollingCha
nnel::connectFailed()
at 
mx.messaging.channels::AMFChannel/mx.messaging.channels:AMFChannel::st
atusHandler()





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[flexcoders] Re: Time Validating

2006-10-06 Thread qnotemedia
Thanks Tom - very nice stuff.  Just goes to show that there's so many 
different ways to do the same darn thing.  I really need to learn Reg 
Exp's!

 - Chris

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 In the same spirit, here's an untested regexp:
 /(\d){1,2}:(\d){0,2}/
 You get hours in result[0] and if result.length 1 you have minutes 
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[flexcoders] Re: Time Validating

2006-10-04 Thread qnotemedia
Having the same problem here.  IMHO, this is so much easier in CF7 
Flash Forms with the mask property (mask=99:99 always forces four 
numbers with a colon in the middle), and I'm not sure why it has to 
be as complicated as it is in Flex2.

The closest I've gotten is by using a number validator and changing 
the decimalSeparator property to colon.  Unfortunately, this will 
still allow times like 1:234, 123:4, 1234, etc.  I'm assuming 
though you can probably develop something with RegExp, but I don't 
quite understand enough about regular expressions.

Another interesting thing...I noticed that DateChooser's selectedDate 
property includes time as part of its data.  Any way to format or 
access that?

Agreed though - surely someone has taken care of this.

 - Chris

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 Flex has a NUMBERformatter and a DATEFormatter.  I have the need 
for a time formatter and 
 would not like to re-invent what someone else must have already 
done.  Ideally I want to 
 have a textinput field which restricts input to 0-9: APM.  I would 
like to accept the following 
 and convert all to 3PM
 
 3P
 3
 3:00
 03:00
 15:00
 3:00PM
 
 Of course, if the time is invalid (i.e. 2:65PM, 25:2, etc.) I would 
like to display an error
 
 Does something like this exist or must I roll my own?
 
 thanks:
 
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[flexcoders] Re: Time Validating

2006-10-04 Thread qnotemedia
Well - just spent some time with this.  Here's what I came up with.  
Sloppy, but it works.  This allows standard times (1:00, 12:00, 
12:59), but not military time (24:00, 13:59, etc.).

private function validateTime():void {
var setTime:String = new String;
setTime = timeToAdd.text;
if ((setTime.length == 4  setTime.charAt(1) == :  int
(setTime.charAt(0)) = 1  int(setTime.charAt(0)) = 9  int
(setTime.charAt(2)) = 5  int(setTime.charAt(3)) = 9)
 || (setTime.length == 5  setTime.charAt(2) == :  int
(setTime.charAt(0)) == 1  int(setTime.charAt(1)) = 2  int
(setTime.charAt(3)) = 5  int(setTime.charAt(4)) = 9)) {
Alert.show(Valid Number);
} else {
Alert.show (Plesae enter a correct time (i.e. 12:00, 
9:00, etc.);
}
}
mx:HBox
mx:Label text=Type in a Time:/
mx:TextInput id=timeToAdd width=100% text=12:00 /
/mx:HBox

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wrote:

 Having the same problem here.  IMHO, this is so much easier in CF7 
 Flash Forms with the mask property (mask=99:99 always forces four 
 numbers with a colon in the middle), and I'm not sure why it has to 
 be as complicated as it is in Flex2.
 
 The closest I've gotten is by using a number validator and changing 
 the decimalSeparator property to colon.  Unfortunately, this will 
 still allow times like 1:234, 123:4, 1234, etc.  I'm assuming 
 though you can probably develop something with RegExp, but I don't 
 quite understand enough about regular expressions.
 
 Another interesting thing...I noticed that DateChooser's 
selectedDate 
 property includes time as part of its data.  Any way to format or 
 access that?
 
 Agreed though - surely someone has taken care of this.
 
  - Chris
 
 --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, boy_trike boy_trike@ wrote:
 
  Flex has a NUMBERformatter and a DATEFormatter.  I have the need 
 for a time formatter and 
  would not like to re-invent what someone else must have already 
 done.  Ideally I want to 
  have a textinput field which restricts input to 0-9: APM.  I 
would 
 like to accept the following 
  and convert all to 3PM
  
  3P
  3
  3:00
  03:00
  15:00
  3:00PM
  
  Of course, if the time is invalid (i.e. 2:65PM, 25:2, etc.) I 
would 
 like to display an error
  
  Does something like this exist or must I roll my own?
  
  thanks:
  
  Bruce
 








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[flexcoders] Dynamic Button Icon

2006-09-30 Thread qnotemedia
The icon property of a button appears to require an embedded object.  
Is there any way to make it dynamic - i.e. using say a URL to a gif?

Tried icon=http://URL; but it comes back as not being able to parse 
the value of type Class.

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[flexcoders] Re: As you type Grid Filtering with Textinput and Combobox

2006-09-30 Thread qnotemedia
New question - how do I add a second combobox?





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[flexcoders] CF/Flex2 connectivity differences between DataGrid and Tree

2006-09-30 Thread qnotemedia
I'm working on a new Flex2/CF app.  My first had a tree that received 
XML, and I had it setup to edit each node, and one button would send 
the entire Tree back to CF.

I'm having a little trouble doing something similar with a DataGrid.  
In the new app, I'm seing a query from a datasource as an array of 
structs to a DataGrid.  How can I send this entire datagrid back to CF?

In my first app I sent myTree.value via webservice request and parsed 
the XML.  Sending datagrid.value isn't working however.  Changing it to 
datagrid.selectedItem.columnName works, but then I'm stuck with 
clicking a button for every single item in the datagrid, rather than 
sending the entire grid at once.

It seems that there's something fundamentally different between grids 
and trees that I'm not quite understanding.  What exactly is the 
datagrid sending in a webservice request?






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[flexcoders] As you type Grid Filtering with Textinput and Combobox

2006-09-28 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all - I'm trying to mix together two blocks of code:

Ben Forta's As you type Grid filtering:
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/13/Filtering-Data-In-Flex

Filter a Grid with Combobox:
http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?
ObjectID=415Object=FileChannelID=1

I have successfully implemented either one or the other, but can't 
quite get both to work at the same time.  What I have so far is 
below.  The application has a datagrid's dataProvider bound 
to objectList - it has an objName field for text search and a 
typeName field for the combobox.

The combobox is cbTypeList and the textinput is searchText.text.  
Both have change=objectList.refresh()

If I use the code below, the combobox still filters, but the textbox 
typing does not.  If I remove either set's function, they each work 
fine on their own.

private function resultHandlerGetAllObjects(event:ResultEvent):void {
objectList = event.result as ArrayCollection;
objectList.filterFunction=processFilter;
objectList.filterFunction=typeFilter;
}
/* http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/13/Filtering-Data-In-
Flex */
private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
var result:Boolean=false;

if (item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase
().indexOf(searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0) {
result=true;
}
return result;
}
/* http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?
ObjectID=415Object=FileChannelID=1 */
private function typeFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
var result:Boolean=false;
if(item.typeName == cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName) {
result=true;
}
return result;
}





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[flexcoders] Re: As you type Grid Filtering with Textinput and Combobox

2006-09-28 Thread qnotemedia
Crazy - already got this to work.  Code follows below.  Its ugly, but 
it works.

New question - how do I add a second combobox?

private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {
var result:Boolean=false;
if(item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase
().indexOf(searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0  
cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName != Show All) {
return item.typeName == 
cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName; 
} else if(item.objName.length == 0 || item.objName.toUpperCase
().indexOf(searchText.text.toUpperCase()) = 0  
cbTypeList.selectedItem.typeName == Show All) {
return true;
}
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}






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[flexcoders] Re: Customizing Default Drag with List Components

2006-09-10 Thread qnotemedia
Still looking for an answer to this if anyone has one.  Also postedo 
n the Macromedia forums.  Seems like it should be doable with 
DragDrop, but again, I'm a bit confused as to what's talking to what 
when using the built-in drag-drop implementation.

 - Chris

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 I have implemented a very simplistic drag/drop with a single Tree 
 component (dragEnabled=true dropEnabled=true) and would like to 
 keep it as simple as possible.
 
 But is there any way to limit items within the component that can 
or 
 can not drag or be dragged to?
 
 i.e. in my case, my tree will always consist of three levels (Root 
 Folder:Collection of folders:Collection of files), and files will 
only 
 exist in the last level.
 
 I want to be able to limit:
 1) Can not start dragging any item except for a file
 2) Can not drop a file to anywhere except another last-level folder 
 (i.e. can't drop to the root).
 
 Should be simple, but I'm a bit confused by the drag examples given 
at 
 the livedocs...
 
  - Chris








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[flexcoders] Flex2 and Breeze syncSWF

2006-09-10 Thread qnotemedia
Is there any way to dispatch/receive breeze syncSWF functions in 
Flex2?  Other than loading the extension, is there anything else I need 
to do to get started in Flex?

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/breeze/articles/intro_sync_swf.html

 - Chris





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[flexcoders] Customizing Default Drag with List Components

2006-09-04 Thread qnotemedia
I have implemented a very simplistic drag/drop with a single Tree 
component (dragEnabled=true dropEnabled=true) and would like to 
keep it as simple as possible.

But is there any way to limit items within the component that can or 
can not drag or be dragged to?

i.e. in my case, my tree will always consist of three levels (Root 
Folder:Collection of folders:Collection of files), and files will only 
exist in the last level.

I want to be able to limit:
1) Can not start dragging any item except for a file
2) Can not drop a file to anywhere except another last-level folder 
(i.e. can't drop to the root).

Should be simple, but I'm a bit confused by the drag examples given at 
the livedocs...

 - Chris





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[flexcoders] Re: Flex Books? Suggestions...

2006-09-01 Thread qnotemedia
This is a great topic that needs to stay alive, as books and 
tutorials are just now showing up now that Flex2 has been officially 
released.

lynda.com has a Flex2 Essential and I sat through most of it.  It 
might be too noob for some, but it covers the bases really well.

Looks like the official Macromedia books won't be out until later 
this year.

Also, definitely check out the sites listed in the FAQ.  cflex.net 
has particularly been useful for me.

 - Chris

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 There's the RIA book that's currently in it's pre-release stage.  
I've
 seen some drafts and I can say it seems promising. I guess that the 
url is
 www.ria-book.com, not sure though.
 
 Marcelo.
 
 On 9/1/06, Micky Hulse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Hi,
 
  Just joined the list... Nice to meet ya'll! :D
 
  Background: I can do Flash (been using it on/off for years), PHP, 
CSS,
  XHTML... Yadda...
 
  I am just now learning about Flex... Looks promising.
 
  Anyone have good book recommendations? I would prefer something
  fast-paced and not super-noob.
 
  Found this on Amazon, but not yet released:
  http://snipurl.com/vrth
 
  Any suggestions would be great. :)
 
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[flexcoders] Success!!! But I still need help!! (RE: Custom scrolling with TileList)

2006-09-01 Thread qnotemedia
Well - never received a reply to this thread, but I've figured out 
how to get the look, feel, and interactivity that I wanted via lots 
of nested Canvas', HBox's, VBox's, etc...Here's what I've basically 
done.  Again, the goal was to make a vertical TileList with component 
itemRenderer, that scrolls smoothly, and rather than using the 
default scrollbar, create my own scrollDown and scrollUp buttons 
(with no scrollbar actually available - just the buttons).

 - I have a TileList of course, and its height is dynamically set to 
the number of items in the itemRenderer * 125 (an item's height).  
scrollingPolicy is disabled.  With 75 items that makes its height.

 - itemRenderer consists of an image and label.  The images can be 
large - width of 640 - and are scaled down via maxWidth/Height.

 - The TileList is within a VBox with scrollingPolicy disabled.

 - An Up/Down button calls a function that sets the 
verticalScrollPosition of the VBox to += 20 or -= 20 via buttonDown 
with autorepeat.  This creates the effect of a nice smooth scroll!


PROBLEM I need help with now:
Performance has become an issue.  When the TileList contains 75 
thumbnails, that makes its height nearly 10,000 (75*125)!  The 
problem is that, to Flex, the entire list is being displayed, whereas 
when you normally display a smaller sized TileList, items are not 
loaded until they are physically displayed by the user.  When it 
first loads, it really chokes up cause its calling to load every 
single thumbnail in the list all at the same time.

Is there any way to fix this!?

 - Chris





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[flexcoders] Custom scrolling with TileList

2006-08-31 Thread qnotemedia
I have a vertical scroll-only TileList.  Is there anyway to:
1) remove the scrollbar, and
2) Use buttons at the top and bottom of the TileList that scroll the 
list while mouse over?

As a test, so far, I have a skinny and short TileList with a bunch of 
items in it.  When you mouseover a button it runs a function with the 
following code:

while (tileListing.verticalScrollPosition  5) {
tileListing.verticalScrollPosition = 
tileListing.verticalScrollPosition + 1;
}

Unfortunately, this obviously has the following problems:
a) The code runs so fast that the list jumps.  Is there any way to 
make the movement slow?
b) How can I get the maximum length of the tileListing's dataProvider 
(i.e. to replace the 5 in the above example).
c) In the end, I'd like the scroll to stop based on both the 
mouseOver and the tileList's dataProvider length.  Is there a 
button.mouseOver == true type of condition?

Thanks!
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[flexcoders] Re: Custom scrolling with TileList

2006-08-31 Thread qnotemedia
Still fudging my way through the Flex2 reference...here's another 
possibile method to do this?

mx:Sequence id=scrollDown 
mx:AnimateProperty property=verticalScrollPosition 
fromValue=1 toValue={maxVerticalScrollPosition} duration=1000 /
/mx:Sequence

...which I can bind from tileListing's mouseDownEffect but there is 
no mouseOverEffect, and even then, it would occur anytime a mouse is 
over the entire list, not just an area of it.  This is also still 
scrolling one complete item at a time, whereas I thought it might be 
possible to have a smooth scroll...no?

I also tried binding the sequence to a button, and then making the 
propety tileListing.verticalScrollPosition but this throws an error, 
as it appears that the animation must occur on a property of the object 
that is bound to the sequence.

Closer tho...any thoughts?
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[flexcoders] Re: Refresh Tree from HTTPService

2006-08-29 Thread qnotemedia
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'd use a
 result handler and assign the result to a {Bindable}global variable,
 then bind to that.  That way you can trace ou the data to see what
 is happening.

Didn't have a chance to try that - but it makes sense.

In the meantime, I moved to a webservice and just call a CFC to re-read 
the XML.  Not ideal, but it works, and since this isn't a critical app, 
I'm going to move on.

Thanks for the replies.
 - Chris






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[flexcoders] Re: Component access to dynamic application variable

2006-08-29 Thread qnotemedia
 So create a variable (rootURL) in main application. When you create
 dataProvider for TileList, pass this variable to thumbnails via 
 dataProvider.

Abdul - could you show me some basic code for this?

To be clear, in the main app, I currently have:
a) HTTPService, retrieves xml file (layed out as root.folder.file
b) ComboBox, dataProvider=HTTPService.lastResult.folder
c) TileList, dataProvider=ComboBox.selectedItem.file, 
itemRenderer=view.Thumbnail
d) view.Thumbnail Component, has an Image with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

So when we get to step d, the Thumbnail component only has fileName 
available.  The folder/complete path is in the root node 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

I understand that I can call a function via comboBox change (and the 
ResultHandler on returning the service), but how do I add a variable 
to the repeating file node before its sent to the TileList? 

Thanks,
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[flexcoders] ArrayCollection...how can I edit the data?

2006-08-28 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all - I'm still running around in circles trying to get a certain 
type of functionality from CF/Flex2.

I have a Coldfusion CFC sending data to Flex2.  I've been fine doing 
this in a number of ways - HTTPService read from xml built by CF, or a 
WebService reading an array return from CF, etc.

What I'm having trouble with is 1) editing the data returned in the 
Flex GUI as an ArrayCollection, and 2) Successfully returning the AC to 
CF for re-processing.

Case in point - these first three steps I've gotten to work fine:
1) Flex2 app sends a text string variable of a path to CF via WebService
2) CF writes the data as an xml file, and then returns a *multi-level* 
result of the path's directories and files as a multi-level array of 
structs to Flex2. (This is actually an array.struct.array.struct 
layout - long story, but it works).
3) After the return from CF (as ArrayCollection), the Flex2 GUI has 
options for displaying a listing of the folders (listed in a combobox) 
and files (listed in a datagrid).  User selectes a folder, and datagrid 
repopulates correctly.

--- What I can't accomplish:
4) Edit any field of selected data in the ArrayCollection via various 
TextInputs.  I've tried many things.  The only thing that works is 
editing the values of the Flex2 objects (the combobox or the 
datagrid).  This is not ideal, since in step5, I will have to rebuild 
from multiple variables.  How can I edit any of the items available 
form the ArrayCollection?
5) Return the edited (or ANY) ArrayCollection to CF as something it can 
read (which will later pass through a cfxml tag loop).


Help!
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[flexcoders] Refresh Tree from HTTPService

2006-08-26 Thread qnotemedia
I have an HTTPService that imports a multi-level xml file, and a tree 
with dataprovider={httpservice.lastResult}.  How can I refresh the 
tree when the XML data changes?

I've tried just rerunning httpservice.send() via a resulthandler or 
a refresh button but neither seems to work.  The changed data does 
show correctly when I reload the app.

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[flexcoders] Component access to dynamic application variable

2006-08-25 Thread qnotemedia
I'm currently learning how to utilize components.

In a slideshow app, I have a thumbnail component (image) that is 
rendered by a TileList in the main application.  dataProvider in the 
TileList is being used to supply the path, image name, etc, by sending 
a repeating node of an xml file.  However, I'd like the thumbnail 
component to also be able to read a property of a selected parent 
node (via a ComboBox in the main application) of the data its receiving.

Can I make a bound variable in the main application dynmaically 
accessible by the component?

The xml is basically laid out as root(i.e. URL to root).album(i.e. 
folder name).image(i.e. filename), and any time I render an image, I'm 
recollecting the various nodes to produce an absolute URL to the image.

Hope that makes sense...still learning my Flex2 terminology.
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[flexcoders] Re: Send Tree data to CF

2006-08-23 Thread qnotemedia
Answered my own question after browsing through cflex.net - what a 
great resource!

For anyone interested, check out the Beginner Tutorials section of 
cflex.net, and then the Intro to Flex 2 with Coldfusion Remoting 
tutorial.  This gives a very nice layout of both sending and receiving 
between Flex2 and CF7.02.

Worked great - moving right along...

Thanks,
 - Chris

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 if needed) that can receive this data and place it in a CF array - or 
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[flexcoders] Send Tree data to CF

2006-08-22 Thread qnotemedia
Hi all - a bit of a newbie here, but I'm coming along with some 
basics in Flex2 / CF7.02.  I went quite far with CF Flash Forms, and 
am ready to dig deep into flex.

I've successfully learned how to load XML data to a tree and make it 
look right (using httpservice).  The original external xml file I'm 
using was written from cfxml in CF.  But I'm a bit stuck with trying 
to send data FROM Flex2 over to a cfc for manipulation.  Most 
tutorials simply run functions, but don't pass any data to CF.

I'm currently loading a cfc via Webservice.  A button's click 
parameter is set to run a function in the cfc (i.e. myService.sendData
(myTree.selectedItem)).

Based on that could someone write me some basic cfc code (and/or mxml 
if needed) that can receive this data and place it in a CF array - or 
at least lead me in the right direction to a tutorial online?

Once manipulated, the tree will be written straight back to xml via 
cfxml, then re-read via the Flex app's httpservice - i.e. kind of 
like saving your settings.  If there's a better way to do this, I'm 
all ears!

Thanks - looking forward to this,
 - Chris






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