RE: [flexcoders] role based security vs session based security with a servlet container

2006-11-29 Thread Seth Hodgson
Hi Hank, How do you do your logins now against your account database? You're not using general J2EE auth? Role based security in FDS just wraps the existing J2EE auth machinery provided by your app server. You can code your login UI in your Flex app and before any calls or data exchange are

Re: [flexcoders] role based security vs session based security with a servlet container

2006-11-29 Thread hank williams
Hi Seth, Thanks for the response but I am a bit of a dummy in this area so I need a bit more direction. On 11/29/06, Seth Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hank, How do you do your logins now against your account database? You're not using general J2EE auth? I am not live yet, but as a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: to form or not to form that is my question

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Hindle
I'd love an explanation too - I skipped them myself. On 11/29/06, bghoward3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is my main issue as well layout seems to be a hassle please someone in the know add somthing here, my development is stalled until i have a clear understanding of why to use or not use

RE: [flexcoders] Re: to form or not to form that is my question

2006-11-29 Thread Tracy Spratt
Form is just a container. Containers are for layout. If Form doesn't give you the layout you want, don't use it. (I don't) De gustibus non disputandum est. Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bghoward3 Sent:

Re: [flexcoders] To Adobe - new release improvements??

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Hindle
Will 2.0.1 have Flex builder on a more recent eclipse? I'd also love an eclipse 'quick fix' or whatever they call it for changing a property from variable based to getter/setter based! On 11/29/06, David Mendels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It may be worth adding however that we are of

[flexcoders] Bug? - field not visible?

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Hindle
I just spent _hours_ chasing this one down... I have an mxml component that displays a model. Text fields are editable to allow data entry. If I enter text in field 'a' and hit tab to go to field 'b' - all text in field 'b' is now highlighted. If I then load a new model into the component (I

[flexcoders] Re: role based security vs session based security with a servlet container

2006-11-29 Thread Jamie O
Just like Red Two in Star Wars Episode 3 I'll try to Stay on Target Stay on Target and not hijack this thread. Like Hank I'm sometimes feeling the 'newb' factor. One of the next web services I'm looking to integrate uses a username / password to create token via WSSAddUsernameToken. Its package

[flexcoders] Active Record CFC wizard issue

2006-11-29 Thread tedevang535
I used the Active Record CFC wizard to generate 2 cfc's - Users.cfc and UsersGateway.cfc. I can bring in a series of records without a problem using ArrayCollection but if I want to bring in just one record using a getByID function in the CFC and then populate a series of text input fields with

[flexcoders] Problems with the SWFLoader

2006-11-29 Thread Yaison
Hi coders, I've been trying to make an application that searches videos using the youtube.com server and it's API. But the SWFLoader isn't working properly. The error is: 1)When the user clicks a thumbnail the SWFLoader expands more than it should. 2)When the user close the PopUp the video

[flexcoders] User Preferences for FDS/Hibernate

2006-11-29 Thread graysonpierce
We have an application built in Flex 2 with uses FDS / Hibernate for managing the metadata (application logic). I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts about how to implement user preferences in this environment where you want the core application objects to be the same for all users however some

[flexcoders] Re: installing FDS

2006-11-29 Thread Jennifer Chan
Russ, FDS comes with an integrated JRun customized for FDS. Is your current CF server running standalone or on top of a J2EE server? On another note, Adobe put out some documentation regarding installing FDS (http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/2/install.html?

[flexcoders] Can't get value after labelfunction

2006-11-29 Thread bsdensmore
I have 2 DataGridColumns that use a labelfunction to multiply a couple of fields and display the value in another column. For some reason after the field is updated with the total I can't get at that value. The dataProvider that the DataGrid is bound to is a query result that is converted to an

[flexcoders] Re: Problem with Flex ColdFusion

2006-11-29 Thread Israel
Philip, I don't have a JRun 4, I'm running ColdFusion in IIS in Windows Server 2003 I don't know if I have JRun Server...can you tell me more information about...Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Philip Bedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Israel, You need to put the

RE: [flexcoders] FDS - possible bug???

2006-11-29 Thread Jeff Vroom
It does look like this is a bug I think there is an easy workaround which is to just have autoRefreshFill always return true and just have the refreshFill method return the DO_NOT_EXECUTE_FILL value. The end result is the same - the fill is not refreshed unless you manually refresh it.

[flexcoders] Resize effects with constraint-sized objjects?

2006-11-29 Thread Ethan Miller
Greetings - I'd like to use resize effects on objects which are sized using constraints; something like rightTo (rather than xTo) would be perfect. Any ideas? cheers, ethan

Re: [flexcoders] Problems with the SWFLoader

2006-11-29 Thread Angus Johnson
Hi Yaison, Can you get to the movie content in your code (I haven't used the utube library)? I've found that you have to explicitly stop sounds and video otherwise they continue to play even when unloaded. How are you sizing the swfloader? It's a little more flexible if you declare the class in

RE: [flexcoders] Chart :Clipping segment from a line serie

2006-11-29 Thread Claude Hussenet
Thank you Ely.It's exactly what I was looking for ! Ely Greenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default, series filter out datapoints not in the min/max range. If you set the filterData property to false, they'll render all points. Ely.

RE: [flexcoders] Can't get value after labelfunction

2006-11-29 Thread Tracy Spratt
I don't think labelFunction is intended to update the dataProvider. I don't see how it possibly could, since it can use multiple columns and does not even have to have a dataProvider property associated with it. If you want this, I heard of a technique that uses a custom item object, with

[flexcoders] Re: Styling in Flex is officially ridiculous

2006-11-29 Thread ben.clinkinbeard
Michael, I have no desire to split semantic hairs with you. While Button may not utilize the border API, it most certainly does have a border. My frustration is in how that border is implemented. I assumed (wrongly, apparently) that that was clear from my two previous posts. Consider this.

[flexcoders] change properties in itemRenderer at runtime ?

2006-11-29 Thread arpan srivastava
Hi, I have created an itemRenderer for the datagrid. I have lots of properties in the itemRenderer that can be set at rumtime by the user. How to set those properties in my itemRenderer. This is what I did: lineChartColumn.itemRenderer = new ClassFactory(gridItemRenderer); Now in

RE: [flexcoders] many-to-many managed association in Hibernate destination

2006-11-29 Thread Jeff Vroom
Thanks for this info. The performance problem is most likely due to the fact that FDMS is fetching the list of films for each actor... this is the lazy loading issue we have currently that I mentioned in a previous post. If we were to follow the hibernate model more closely, we'd send actor

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Text instance does not calculate its height properly when in scrollable Box

2006-11-29 Thread Andriy Panas
Hello Sergey, Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:15:57 PM, you wrote: SK Any suggestions?.. Use mx:TextArea for a time being to display long texts. Investigate how mx:TextArea treats the text in a different way from mx:Text component. -- Best regards, Andriy

Re: [flexcoders] Is there any native media player component?

2006-11-29 Thread Andriy Panas
Hello Sergey, Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 1:08:07 AM, you wrote: SK I remember FLVPlayer (or some kind of this) component in Flash 8 IDE. SK Is there any similar component available in Flex 2? mx:VideoDisplay/ or flash.media.Video http://tinyurl.com/wmfkf -- Best regards, Andriy

Re: [flexcoders] To Adobe - new release improvements??

2006-11-29 Thread Nick Collins
It would also be awesome to have ANT built in without having to have the JDT installed. I don't really do Java, but love the power of ANT for building projects. Also, including an integrated XML editor with functionality like OxygenXML or XMLspy would be nice for working with XML data types.

Re: [flexcoders] Is there any native media player component?

2006-11-29 Thread hank williams
the videoDisplay is not analagous to the FLVPlayer, which is a full component with pause and play buttons and a scruber etc. Regards Hank On 11/29/06, Andriy Panas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sergey, Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 1:08:07 AM, you wrote: SK I remember FLVPlayer (or some kind

[flexcoders] Re: Can't get value after labelfunction

2006-11-29 Thread ben.clinkinbeard
Tracy is right, you should use an itemRenderer for this. calculatedValueRenderer should override the data method (like all good little renderers do :)) and in the method retrieve the values to be calculated as well as updating the calculated value in the dataProvider. Using the ClassFactory

Re: [flexcoders] role based security vs session based security with a servlet container

2006-11-29 Thread hank williams
By the way, after feeling quite insecure that I should really understand all of this, but not, I did a little googling and discovered that either this is so simple that it requires no documentation or discussion, or no one is doing security properly with FDS or no one is using FDS with

[flexcoders] ActiveX with Flex

2006-11-29 Thread boy_trike
I am building a desktop INTRANET application in Flex for a tele-marketing company. We choose flex for the ability to better use the limited desktop real-estate for a very complex UI. One of my epiphanies was realizing that I have PIXEL control and not just COMPONENT control!) Of course,

[flexcoders] Upper Case ONLY in text fields

2006-11-29 Thread boy_trike
I have an address field (textinput) that I want to NOT allow lowercase. (Using the restrict property does not work since I want to allow numbers, #, $, etc. and I can not think of all the characters) Is there an easy way to restrict lower case letters? Thanks Bruce

RE: [flexcoders] Upper Case ONLY in text fields

2006-11-29 Thread Gordon Smith
From the ASDoc for the 'restrict' property of TextInput: Flex scans the string from left to right. You can specify a range by using the hyphen (-) character. If the string begins with a caret (^) character, all characters are initially accepted and succeeding characters in the string are

[flexcoders] Re: FLEX.war and PROJECT.war

2006-11-29 Thread sanjaypmg
Hi Seth, Thanks for responding.. :) I have copied all CLASSEs and JARs from flex.war folder to my existing project.war folder and thereafter I have made the all entries from flex.war's web.xml to exisiting project's web.xml. Though I havent changed anything in any file, it was

RE: [flexcoders] ActiveX with Flex

2006-11-29 Thread Gordon Smith
Couldn't you write your Flex app to run in I.E. and use ExternalInterface to execute JavaScript that talks to the dialer OCX? I can't think of a way to do it out of the browser. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [flexcoders] Built-in way to determine the number of XML elements

2006-11-29 Thread Lachlan Cotter
Why don't you just test the length of the matches element? ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute creationComplete=output() mx:Script ![CDATA[ [Bindable]

RE: [flexcoders] Built-in way to determine the number of XML elements

2006-11-29 Thread Gordon Smith
Daniel said but length doesn't do it without mentioning what it gave him (Probably undefined.) I suspect the problem is that he said match.length instead of match.length(). The length() of the matches element would always be 1, because there is always exactly one matches element, but the length()

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Problem with Flex ColdFusio

2006-11-29 Thread Nick Collins
Based on how you describe your setup, unless you're using Tomcat or something, Coldfusion is most likely running with the integrated JRun 4 server. On 11/29/06, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip, I don't have a JRun 4, I'm running ColdFusion in IIS in Windows Server 2003 I don't know if

RE: [flexcoders] To Adobe - new release improvements??

2006-11-29 Thread Matt Chotin
The plugin will support 3.2 but I don't think our standalone will be based on 3.2, I think it's still based on 3.1. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Hindle Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:22 PM To:

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder with Vista RTM

2006-11-29 Thread John C. Bland II
I'm upgrading from RC2 and RC1 tomorrow to RTM (well, maybe this weekend) so I'll post any issues I have. There have been issues with FB since early (pre-beta) days on Vista (same error message). Run As Admin solves your UAC probs on the dev tools (especially VS 2k5). On 11/27/06, Kelly Birr

RE: [flexcoders] ActiveX with Flex

2006-11-29 Thread Mike Shaw
Have you tried Janus. It is targeted at .NET integration with flash/flex. http://www.spaghettisort.com/janus/ Mike. _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Thursday, 30 November 2006 4:16 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject:

RE: [flexcoders] role based security vs session based security with a servlet container

2006-11-29 Thread Seth Hodgson
Hi Hank, No reason to feel insecure about any of this :) The specifics of authentication configuration are generally going to vary a bit depending on the servlet container you're using. I think one reason why the FDS docs for this are on the light side is because configuring a servlet

[flexcoders] Resource Management: problems unloading swf's that are using changeWatcher

2006-11-29 Thread Russell Munro
I've have a Flex interface that loads other swf's as modules. I ran into some trouble with 'unloading' the swf, as in they wouldnt unload because of the eventListeners. BUT I discovered gSkinners article on weakly referencing listeners:

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