[flexcoders] Installation on multiple machines (was: Flex Builder 3 on Mac and Win at same time?)

2009-01-09 Thread Blair Cox
Installation on multiple machines If you own, or are the primary user of a single-user Adobe product that is installed on a computer at work, you can also install and use the software on one secondary computer of the same platform at home or on a portable computer. However, you may not run the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Installation on multiple machines (was: Flex Builder 3 on Mac and Win at same time?)

2009-01-09 Thread Blair Cox
I only thought I required the Windows version because when you start a new project and select ASP.net as the server, it requires the dev server or IIS to be local. I would like to stay away from third-party add-ins for communicating with the ASP server. I have to follow the rules of the client¹s

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Installation on multiple machines (was: Flex Builder 3 on Mac and Win at same time?)

2009-01-09 Thread Blair Cox
No idea, new territory for me. I¹m just going on what I¹ve found in the documentation and the options shown when creating a new project. Lets switch the topic slightly: How would you go about creating an application where the server data is handled by someone else and you have very little to no

Re: [flexcoders] Textarea, why the blue border?

2008-12-15 Thread Blair Cox
Well there you go, I was using the wrong component. Thanks! -- Blair From: Alex Harui aha...@adobe.com Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:45:56 -0800 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Conversation: [flexcoders] Textarea, why the blue

Re: [flexcoders] How to: Select range in Datagrid to set range in Chart?

2008-11-13 Thread Blair Cox
What would be really nice is to simply select the range directly from the initial chart, since when first loading the dataprovider, the entire range is loaded. Every time I try to implement filtering before retrieving the data, I get a null reference error. private function

Re: [flexcoders] my first flex website

2008-11-04 Thread Blair Cox
Hi, sorry doesn¹t fit on my screen and I cannot scroll down. Mac OSX 10.4, Firefox 3.03 17² screen, 1440x960 res. Looks good at the top ;) -- Blair From: Gustavo Duenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:06:12 -0500 To:

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Style Explorer is available

2008-10-28 Thread Blair Cox
Has there been a change? I¹ve been trying this on and off for months now and I find there are parts that do not work ­ at least with Firefox on a Mac. Namely, Navigation - Accordion. When I attempt to alter the colours, or pretty well any of the settings, nothing happens in the sandbox. If I

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Style Explorer is available

2008-10-28 Thread Blair Cox
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Style Explorer is available On Tuesday 28 Oct 2008, Blair Cox wrote: and I find there are parts that do not work - at least with Firefox on a Mac. FireFox on 'nix seems OK, in particular Namely, Navigation - Accordion

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-27 Thread Blair Cox
Tim, thanks again for you help. I¹m still learning to use AMFPHP and understand what you are saying. My application is rather simple in terms of showing/hiding certain elements from the user at defined times. However this appears to work perfectly! return item.Date_Collected ==

[flexcoders] filterFunction and selecting a Date Range

2008-10-27 Thread Blair Cox
Hi everyone, just thought I would run this by you. With the help of others on this list, we were able to find a way to sort dates returned from a database in a hacked sort of way. What I need to now is to be able to select a range, so this date and this date. Perhaps I¹m over simplifying this,

Re: [flexcoders] filterFunction and selecting a Date Range

2008-10-27 Thread Blair Cox
Yup, that was a totally newbie question... private function processFilter(item:Object):Boolean {return item.Date_Collected dfconv.format(getdate.text).toString() item.Date_Collected dfconv.format(getdateEnd.text).toString(); } For future newbie¹s :) -- Blair From: Blair

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-24 Thread Blair Cox
Okay, I guess here is where I¹m stuck or confused about what to do exactly. Could you suggest a couple of resources I could refer to? Thanks. -- Blair From: Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:30:02 - To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-24 Thread Blair Cox
This is how I¹m retrieving data. I¹m not sure how or where to define the Date() property. What I would like to maintain is a single call to the required table and have all data returned. MXML: mx:RemoteObject id=myservice source=WorkingDemo destination=amfphp fault=faultHandler(event)

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-24 Thread Blair Cox
Many thanks Tim! I dropped the DateField component and tried a simple text box, plus your suggestion and it works. So even though the database table field is defined as a Date, the AMFPHP is bringing it in as a string. The key part to this was .toString() Okay, so now back to an original dilemma.

Re: [flexcoders] Charts - How to filter dataprovider by date?

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
Hi Maciek, Still new at this, so I¹ll answer the best I can. The chart is getting it¹s data from a RemoteObject using amfPHP. I have an arraycollection and result handler ­ pretty basic stuff. It appears to accomplish what I need it to, I¹m sure there are more elegant means. I¹m investigating

Re: [flexcoders] Do you use a Mac?

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
I use a Mac, however I¹m also coming from the graphic design / web development side. I, a long time ago, was a diehard PC user. Actually I was a technician, skilled in the art of fixing all things WinTel. Then one day, kicking and screaming, I was introduced to the white computer with the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
Hi Cato, Thanks for the hint. I¹m using amfPHP and RemoteObject, I¹ll assume it does the same thing. I¹ll use this as a starting point, cheers! -- Blair From: Cato Paus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:02:27 - To:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
a dateFormatter with -mm-dd as the formatString. This leaves the underlying date alone, but displays it in whatever format that is specified. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Blair Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cato, Thanks for the hint. I¹m using

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
Hmm, it doesn¹t actually work. Though I need to try Cato¹s example. See I discovered this earlier this morning, the .selectedDate actually outputs - Wed Oct 1 00:00:00 GMT-0300 2008, while I would require 2008-10-01. As I mentioned, I had it down to 2008-10-1, but choose to manually enter the

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates

2008-10-23 Thread Blair Cox
Woops, that¹s unpleasant looking. Anyone care to share the proper method of submitting code? -- Blair From: Blair Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:19:58 -0300 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Conversation: [flexcoders] Re: Help

Re: [flexcoders] Basic Printing: Print what you see?

2008-08-29 Thread Blair Cox
Disregard, got it figured out. -- Blair From: cox.blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:23:57 - To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Basic Printing: Print what you see? Hi all, Can someone point me in a direction of

Re: [flexcoders] Combobox to show table columns?

2008-08-26 Thread Blair Cox
Cheers Alex! -- Blair From: Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:40:18 -0700 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Conversation: [flexcoders] Combobox to show table columns? Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Combobox to show table columns? Just

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Change dataProvider at runtime?

2008-08-22 Thread Blair Cox
Thanks everyone for your replies. I must admit I¹m not yet up to speed on all things Flex. Nicholas mentioned combobox.dataProvider = anotherone? At runtime. From my perspective I figured I could do it like this; Chartdp = combobox.selectedItem; or linchart1.dataProvider = combobox.selectedItem

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Change dataProvider at runtime?

2008-08-22 Thread Blair Cox
Okay, try this scenario: Can you change the dataprovider of a series or chart on demand from within the program while it is running? So no matter why I¹m doing it, I have say four completely different dataproviders collecting data from say a static in-line source, a static XML file source and a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Change dataProvider at runtime?

2008-08-21 Thread Blair Cox
Hi Amy, Well, I have complete control over the database. This where we might have a problem, it seemed at the time that creating a table with around 200 columns would be unreasonable. A table was created to handle each of the products. Each product has as many as 20-30 columns and for the most

Re: [flexcoders] PHP vs. Coldfusion 8 for beginner?

2008-08-20 Thread Blair Cox
Thanks Guilherme, we¹ve just come to the same conclusion. Given the cost of implementing ColdFusion and the limited number features we are currently interested in using, we simply can¹t justify the switch. PHP appears to be able to do everything we want to do and it is rooted deeply in our current

Re: [flexcoders] Combobox with multiple data sources?

2008-08-19 Thread Blair Cox
Thanks Alex, do you have a url for that one? Couldn¹t locate via search on your blog. Cheers, -- Blair From: Alex Harui [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:28:36 -0700 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Conversation: [flexcoders] Combobox with

Re: [flexcoders] Combobox with multiple data sources?

2008-08-19 Thread Blair Cox
Perfect, thanks Tracy. -- Blair From: Tracy Spratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:01:14 -0400 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Conversation: [flexcoders] Combobox with multiple data sources? Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Combobox with multiple

Re: [flexcoders] Printing and PDF creation

2008-08-18 Thread Blair Cox
Hmm, well I¹m with the fellow here in another post that stated Flex will not be enterprise ready until it can create reports within the app. This is a basic business practice and should not be some convoluted, insanely expensive add-on. If you purchase the Pro version of flex for nearly a grand,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Using Create App from DB - Saving decimal number 123.123??

2008-08-08 Thread Blair Cox
Ha, too funny ;) I thought it was a simple matter of changing the script. It is set to Number on the flex side and int of the php. Sorry, did you say to set it to Œlong¹? (or is that log?) I¹ll look up the options within php, but I¹m not familiar with this one. Cheers! Thanks for the assistance.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Using Create App from DB - Saving decimal number 123.123??

2008-08-08 Thread Blair Cox
beleive that php uses Float; instead of double or long. -TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com , Blair Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha, too funny ;) I thought it was a simple matter of changing the script. It is set to Number on the flex side and int of the php

Re: [flexcoders] Combobox - How to display 'Click to Select...'

2008-08-01 Thread Blair Cox
For the other newbies... Use the Prompt property. -- Blair From: cox.blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:39:08 - To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Combobox - How to display 'Click to Select...' I have a

Re: [flexcoders] Combobox - How to display 'Click to Select...'

2008-08-01 Thread Blair Cox
Cheers Ryan! Found the answer only moments before your email came in. -- Blair From: Ryan Gravener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:10:49 -0400 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Combobox - How to display 'Click to

Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
it be to modify or create a custom function? What I have now is simply: mx:NumberFormatter id=PrepForDisplayprecision=2 rounding=updecimalSeparatorTo=.thousandsSeparatorTo=, useThousandsSeparator=trueuseNegativeSign=true/ -- Blair Cox http://www.luminultra.com From: Sid

Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
Hi Sid, thanks a lot for your help. I figured it out! Really just need a starting point for where to look. Cheers! isNaN(mynumber) ? 0 : -- Blair Cox http://www.luminultra.com From: Sid Maskit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:51:38 -0700

Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
: -- Blair Cox http://www.luminultra.com From: Sid Maskit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:51:38 -0700 (PDT) To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify? If the format

Re: [flexcoders] NaN to return a string?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
Turns out showing a zero could be implied that the calculation was a zero. This is bad, especially if the result is actually zero. Is there any way to return a string rather than a number? isNaN(mynumber) ? 0 : -- Blair Cox http://www.luminultra.com From: Sid Maskit [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
Application development http://pogopixels.com - Original Message From: Blair Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:19:46 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] NaN and Infinity showing in output - How to modify? Just one more question. The zero works

Re: [flexcoders] NaN to return a string?

2008-07-31 Thread Blair Cox
Doh! Only way to get better at this is to keep working at it. Thanks for all three of your great suggestions. The powers that be want a note, so we¹ll go with that that. I¹ll find uses for the other options for sure. Cheers! -- Blair Cox From: Sid Maskit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply