[flexcoders] Flex's Layout manager for Flash?

2005-06-06 Thread Aldo Bucchi
After some Flex projects I'm back to Flash. I miss many features, mainly the layout manager... Can Flex classes be used programmatically form within Flash? I have been looking at the sources for both, but besides the obvious differences, there are several extensions to the foundation classes

[flexcoders] Flex best with which server side technology ? (CFM/Java/ASPX?)

2005-06-06 Thread Tolulope Olonade
Can anyone please hit the bulls eye for me on which server side platform Flex is best with? I know there no support for .NET for now. But what of ColdFusion and Java as most of our applications here tie into Databases a lot. Thanks. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Builder is dead, viva Flex builder !

2005-06-06 Thread Jeroen De Vos
R0main, Could you send me the link of this article? Thanks, Jeroen. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens r0main Verzonden: maandag 6 juni 2005 9:56 Aan: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Onderwerp: [flexcoders] Flex Builder is dead, viva

Flex futures...(was RE: [flexcoders] Re: file handling)

2005-06-06 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Good catch Ian. While today was not a product announcement, we are talking more about the long term roadmap for both the Flash Player and Flex. The whitepaper his some high-level information on both. http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf Regards, David

RE: [flexcoders] Flex's Layout manager for Flash?

2005-06-06 Thread David Mendels
Hello, Can Flex classes be used programmatically form within Flash? No, they can not be. This is not the intent of the license. Regards, David Macromedia -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aldo Bucchi Sent: Monday, June

RE: [flexcoders] Flex best with which server side technology ? (CFM/Java/ASPX?)

2005-06-06 Thread David Mendels
Hi, The benefit of ColdFusion is that you get all of the Java platform (it compiles to Java byte code, and can run standalone with our embedded J2EE server or on top of any major J2EE server, and you can extend it with Java code and third party Java libraries directly) *and* it is drop

[flexcoders] Re: Flex futures...

2005-06-06 Thread r0main
Wasn't SVG once introduced as the Flash killer because based on standards so anyone would adopt it ? ;-) r0main --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Rick Bullotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David: One convergence question for you (or product marketing): Ironically, Flash Player Lite has

[flexcoders] RE: Flex futures...

2005-06-06 Thread David Mendels
Hi, What is the problem you want to solve with SVG-T on the mainstream Flash Player? Describe your use case. I'll get it to the team, Regards, David From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick BullottaSent: Monday, June 06, 2005 7:11 AMTo:

RE: [flexcoders] RE: Flex futures...

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Bullotta
SVG helps with an elegant technique for addressible vector graphics. As opposed to explicitly calling methods to draw circles, squares, lines, etc...it provides an declarative, XML-based mechanism for doing so. Also, since the XML elements are addressible, by manipulating the XML (appearance

RE: [flexcoders] RE: Flex futures...

2005-06-06 Thread Abdul Qabiz
Hi, In meantime, you might want to check DENG ActionScript component, which allows you to load SVG on runtime. http://claus.packts.net/deng -abdul From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick BullottaSent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:16 PMTo:

Re: [flexcoders] Custimizing Tooltip

2005-06-06 Thread dave buhler
ToolTips support CSS. TextInputs support CSS ToolTip { background-color:#FF; } TextInput { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height:12px; font-size: 12px; border-style:solid; background-color:#f1f1f1; border-color:#99;

RE: [flexcoders] Flex best with which server side technology ? (CFM/Java/ASPX?)

2005-06-06 Thread Allen Manning
Tolulope, One thing to keep in mind is that ColdFusion is not strongly typed. So although it allows you to whip up server - side Java code rapidly, the compiler doesn't support you in catching typing issues. HTH, Allen

Re: [flexcoders] Re: file handling

2005-06-06 Thread Tarik Ahmed
Oh My Lord... this is the feature I've been DYING to have! This has made my day. Thank you MM Ian Welsh wrote: Just for info., the recent news on the Flash Platform here .. http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf mentions file upload and download

RE: [flexcoders] Macromedia aligns with Eclipse

2005-06-06 Thread Ian Welsh
David, the announcements today are great news but I noticed in this article http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164300480 This week Macomedia will preview its next-generation Flash player, code-named Maelstrom, due to beta this summer and slated to ship by year's end.

RE: [flexcoders] Macromedia aligns with Eclipse

2005-06-06 Thread David Mendels
Hi, Correct. The phrase our CFO used in the financial results was late summer. In that case she was referring to the next generation of our Studio products--not to Flex or to Zorn. Of course, those of us in the product organization noted that she never said whether summer in the northern or

[flexcoders] dragging around a canvas

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Brueckmann
Is there a simple example somewhere of being able to drag and drop a panel around a canvas? I've seen the minimizable/maximizable and the draggable examples previously posted, but I just want to be able to allow the user to move a handful of panels that contain static information around the

Re: [flexcoders] dragging around a canvas

2005-06-06 Thread dave buhler
Hi, Did you look into the TitleWindow (non-modal)? http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0376.htm DaveOn 6/6/05, Mike Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I could come up with, is pre-create all the panels youwould like to have displayed with the content you

Re: [flexcoders] Auto-scroll on TileList

2005-06-06 Thread Manish Jethani
On 6/6/05, Tim Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a TileList component which I add items to via a drag/drop operation; this is all working fine. The problem I'm having is that when the item has been dropped onto the TileList, it appears the resetScrollPositions() function is automatically

Re: [flexcoders] RE: Flex futures...

2005-06-06 Thread Manish Jethani
On 6/6/05, Abdul Qabiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In meantime, you might want to check DENG ActionScript component, which allows you to load SVG on runtime. http://claus.packts.net/deng See this blog entry, it's pretty cool.

[flexcoders] linkbar selected color

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Fitzpatrick
I'm trying to have the links in a linkbar change color when they're selected and remain that color until another link is selected. Setting selectedFillColors doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? - Tom Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: file handling

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Carabetta
On 6/6/05, dave buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *things to put on hold: file-upload workaround Ha. Well, I'd be careful with making that decision at this point. I mean, FP8 won't be out until August/September/October, from what MM has hinted, and it's going to take time before penetration

[flexcoders] MfgQuote Launches Rich Internet Application

2005-06-06 Thread Tarik Ahmed
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 6, 2005 MfgQuote Inc., a leading provider of online sourcing management technology for the manufacturing marketplace, today announced the launch of its first rich Internet application (RIA) capabilities developed with Macromedias Flex technology, part of the Flash

[flexcoders] Is it possible to call a pop-up TitleWindow from a pop-up TitleWindow?

2005-06-06 Thread terry_hrtn
I have a menu, when the user selects an I use TitleWindow to pop-up a form, from this I want the user to select an item from a datagrid to have another popup appear with the first TitleWindow as the parent. Is this even possible? Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go

Re: [flexcoders] linkbar selected color

2005-06-06 Thread dave buhler
Tinkering around I came up with LinkBar { disabled-color: #99ff66; } on... http://www.markme.com/mc/archives/FlexStyleExplorer.html On 6/6/05, Tom Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to have the links in a linkbar change color when they'reselected and remain that color

Re: [flexcoders] dragging around a canvas

2005-06-06 Thread Manish Jethani
On 6/7/05, Joe Berkovitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just add that the drag-and-drop functionality exhibited by TitleWindow and Panel is not all that hard to roll yourself if you need to -- it's implemented with functions for the MovieClip handlers onPress(), onRelease() and onMouseMove(),

Re: [flexcoders] MfgQuote Launches Rich Internet Application

2005-06-06 Thread dave buhler
Tarik, Are there any publically accessible parts of the application or screenshots? DaveOn 6/6/05, Tarik Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATLANTA, Georgia, June 6, 2005 MfgQuote Inc., a leading provider ofonline sourcing management technology for the manufacturing marketplace,today announced

Re: [flexcoders] MfgQuote Launches Rich Internet Application

2005-06-06 Thread Tarik Ahmed
Hi Dave. I'm not sure, I just saw the headline and posted it. I think the MfgQuote guys are on this list though. dave buhler wrote: Tarik, Are there any publically accessible parts of the application or screenshots? Dave On 6/6/05, Tarik Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[flexcoders] Re: Contract between DataProvider and ComboBox or DataGrid

2005-06-06 Thread alex_harui
The combobox measures every row in order to figure out how wide it should be. The datagrid trusts the width information in the columns. -Alex --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Matt Chotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, the DG will probably call getItemAt for every visible row regardless of

[flexcoders] Re: horizontal numeric stepper

2005-06-06 Thread alex_harui
Your sample didn't have a call to inputField.move(), which should reposition the inputfield. You may have to override drawFocus() or adjustFocusRect() to get the focus ring to look right. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alistair McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paulo. Since you're

[flexcoders] Re: Tree dataProviders backingObject

2005-06-06 Thread alex_harui
Ah yes, the ol' convert arrays to children problem. The TreeDataProvider is guilty of trying to hard to figure out which parts of a complex object are children. I can only think of two ways to deal with this: 1) write your own implementation of TreeDataProvider that doesn't munge your data.

[flexcoders] How do you store and then retrieve the backcolor of something

2005-06-06 Thread nostra72
I am asking because what I want to do is change the color of a button to a different color but later on reset it to its original color. How do you first store the value of the original color and how do you call it back later? Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Tree dataProviders backingObject

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff Beeman
My other thought for a simpler, quicker approach was to use the good old variables of data and label for each node, and the data variable would simply contain a number that references the id of what I'm looking at. The full data for the node would be stored elsewhere. The big problem I have

Re: [flexcoders] How do you store and then retrieve the backcolor of something

2005-06-06 Thread dave buhler
getRGB() http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary143.html On 6/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am asking because what I want to do is change the color of a button to a different color but later on reset it to its

Re: [flexcoders] How do you store and then retrieve the backcolor of something

2005-06-06 Thread Manish Jethani
On 6/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am asking because what I want to do is change the color of a button to a different color but later on reset it to its original color. How do you first store the value of the original color and how do you call it back later? Save the

RE: [flexcoders] How do you store and then retrieve the backcolor of something

2005-06-06 Thread Gordon Smith
You should never need to use getRGB() in Flex; this is a low-level Flash API. You would use getStyle() and setStyle() on the Button object, and store the old color in a instance var. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml

RE: [flexcoders] How do you store and then retrieve the backcolor of something

2005-06-06 Thread Abdul Qabiz
You can create a variable at application level and store values in there. You can write some code to back up styles and retrieve later. I am giving following example for just idea, it is not production quality codeIt can be more generic and better... mx:Application

[flexcoders] More interesting than Zorn?

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff Steiner
This is directly out of the http://www.macromedia.com/platform/whitepapers/platform_overview.pdf. The next major release of Flex, code-named Mistral, will provide an extensive set of new features. The class library will be extended with new and improved user interface components. An extended