RE: [flexcoders] FlexNativeMenu crash in the LayoutManager

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher McArthur
ntext menu being used in this scenario? You might try calling validateNow() before doing the rest of the work of the context menu option. On 7/22/10 11:44 AM, "Christopher McArthur" wrote: This is in Flex 3.2:

[flexcoders] FlexNativeMenu crash in the LayoutManager

2010-07-22 Thread Christopher McArthur
This is in Flex 3.2: We have a rare crash in one of our components. We have no repro case, but we were able to catch it in the debugger once and get a callstack. Ive included the callstack at the bottom of this message. The error is: -": TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot

RE: [flexcoders] Set Width of An Item Renderer Component Based on Visible Property of the Control

2010-05-20 Thread Christopher McArthur
the "includeInLayout" property may also be helpful to you in this case, try: includeInLayout="{outerDocument.fncVisible()}" From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Angelo Anolin Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:46 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subje

RE: [flexcoders] mvc pattern for flex

2010-05-05 Thread Christopher McArthur
using Swiz here which works well for dependency injection, I would recommend it. However, Ive been hearing a ton of great things about RobotLegs recently. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fernando Wermus Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:46 AM

RE: [flexcoders] Flash Builder 4 "java heap space" error.

2010-04-28 Thread Christopher McArthur
Thanks for the detials. Unfortuantely, Ive increased the numbers a great deal, tried a variety of different values, and read through the nice page you linked, and I am *still* getting the errors. And not just me, my entire development team on a large variety of hardware. Any suggestions on

[flexcoders] Flash Builder 4 "java heap space" error.

2010-04-27 Thread Christopher McArthur
Flash Builder 4 is crashing constantly for me with a "java heap space" error when compiling. It is driving me nuts. Im running on Windows Vista 64bit and 4GB of RAM. When this error occurs FlashBuilder is using about 780MB of RAM, and I have about 1.5GB of ram still free Research online sug

RE: [flexcoders] What is the MXML syntax for this?

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher McArthur
coders] What is the MXML syntax for this? Are you looking for: On 4/14/10 12:53 PM, "Christopher McArthur" wrote: I have a component, that has a property of type Image. I need to assign a new Imag

[flexcoders] What is the MXML syntax for this?

2010-04-14 Thread Christopher McArthur
I have a component, that has a property of type Image. I need to assign a new Image component to it. this is trivial to do in action script. But, how do I do it in MXML? Example: mxml: actionscript: var myImage:Image = new Image("myTestImage.jpg"); containerComponent.imageVar = myImag

[flexcoders] Component Lifecycle Change in Flex4?

2010-04-09 Thread Christopher McArthur
We are porting our project from Flex3 to Flex4. One of the common patterns we used for our components in Flex3, was to listen for the CreationComplete event, and then set some initial properties on that components children (defined in MXML). This worked fine in Flex3, however with the Flex4

[flexcoders] How do you tell when a new component is actually displayed?

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher McArthur
l of these). Is there any way to tell when a new flex component is actually finished being layed out and is being rendered? -Christopher

RE: [flexcoders] Flex Builder Out of Memory Errors

2010-03-19 Thread Christopher McArthur
Yeah, I get this constantly too. I have 4GB of ram, and Flexbuilder never goes above 700Mb, but still get the errors constantly. Ive also tried everything I can find on google adjusting the memory settings, tried values all over the place, and nothing, constnatly out of memory crashes. Our

[flexcoders] Skinning Spark Components in Flash CS4?

2010-03-18 Thread Christopher McArthur
I cant find any information on how to skin Spark components from Flash, perhaps using something similiar to the Flash Component Kit for Flex3. Here are two examples of Flex Components I would like to build in Flash. 1) A normal "Button" skin. Positioning the text label, and creating all of the

RE: [flexcoders] help - code assist stopped working

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher McArthur
Im having the same probem. Using "Flash Builder 4 Beta 2" code assist does not work, and give the same error as the OP. Tried deleting the codemodel folder as Deane suggested, but unfortunately, saw now no change. Any other suggestions? -Christopher From:

RE: [flexcoders] Need effect for ViewStack w/o changing the view

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher McArthur
when the content changes you can call fadeIn.play([view1]); if you want to make it fade out, then fade back in, make a new sequence effect that contains two fade effects. then call it like above. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of joyh2002 Sent: Thu 3/4/2

RE: [flexcoders] Trouble with ProgressBar and manual updates.

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher McArthur
ime I hear the event, I addChild and update the percentComplete. This works perfectly. Listening for ENTER_FRAME, EXIT_FRAME, RENDER, etc did not work, so I had to add the custom event. -Christopher -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Peeyush Tuli Sent: Thu

RE: [flexcoders] My APP momentarily freezes I pass through my A.C. and create my objects.

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher McArthur
If you see my recent posts, I just had this exact same problem, check out the post I just made, if you need more details let me know, i can post the code I used. Since flash is singlethreaded, you can NOT have a progress bar update in a loop. If you want to update a progress bar while you do wo

RE: [flexcoders] Trouble with ProgressBar and manual updates.

2010-03-03 Thread Christopher McArthur
-calllater.htm l ~Peeyush http://www.mds.asia http://jimmyflex.blogspot.com/2007/11/dont-forget-power-of-calllater.htm l On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Christopher McArthur wrote: Using Flex3 in AIR standalone application. I have a ton of children I need to add to a Canvas dynamically

[flexcoders] Trouble with ProgressBar and manual updates.

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher McArthur
Using Flex3 in AIR standalone application. I have a ton of children I need to add to a Canvas dynamically. When I do this, it takes a long time. So I wanted to display a loading bar to the user. I create a Timer, and every time the timer ticks, I update the loadingBar and I add the child.

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Does DataBinding to a function create a ChangeWatcher?

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher McArthur
- waters-by-michael-labriola/ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Christopher McArthur" wrote: > > I am doing some performance/memory cleanup in my rather large > application and looking to reduce the number of eventListeners and > c

RE: [flexcoders] A loading progress bar with a WindowedApplication?

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher McArthur
following to the WindowedApplication tag: preinitialize="visible=true" On 3/1/10 9:18 AM, "Christopher McArthur" wrote: My AIR application is a standalone WindowedApplication. On startup, it does not have a loading

[flexcoders] A loading progress bar with a WindowedApplication?

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher McArthur
WindowedApplication have one as well? If so can anyone point me in the right direction for how to activate it? -Christopher

[flexcoders] Does DataBinding to a function create a ChangeWatcher?

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher McArthur
the invalidateProperties/commitProperties pattern instead of dataBinding when applicable, for the simple cases of binding to local properties? -Christopher

[flexcoders] A certain .swc is breaking all of my other .swc containers?!!?

2009-12-14 Thread Christopher McArthur
y kind of error message anywhere (not sure where I would see it though). Ive even stripped the "broken" .swc completely clean and it still causes the problem. Any clues out there to what this could be? -Christopher

RE: [flexcoders] Re: How to know when a popup component is visible?

2009-12-07 Thread Christopher McArthur
I was unable to find any way to do this either after a lot of experiment I finally gave up. A callLater after creationComplete, or any other of a host of events that it looks like you tried as well still happens before the popup is visible as you found. I ended up just doing a timer of about 1s

RE: [flexcoders] TitleList Sort Data - Animation

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher McArthur
I had the exact problem you did, and also someone asked a similiar question last week and I responded, I would check that response as it applies here as well Basically, you are out of luck. ItemChangeEffect does not work with sort or filter. You will need to create your own custom component. Ad

RE: [flexcoders] triggering itemsChangeEffect when using filters on an ArrayCollection's

2009-11-23 Thread Christopher McArthur
So I investigated this a lot myself a while ago, and you are pretty much out of luck. itemsChangeEffect does not work with refresh. You can fake it a bit, by instead of doing a sort or a filter, manually adding/removing/moving elements one at a time in the list, which will trigger the itemsChan

RE: [flexcoders] I've got a [Bindable] boolean var - can I setup a eventlistener on it?

2009-11-23 Thread Christopher McArthur
assuming your in the same class as changeme: private var changemeWatcher:ChangeWatcher; this.changemeWatcher = ChangeWatcher.watch(this, "changeme", changemeChangedFunction); this function will get called every time it changes: private function changemeChangedFunction(event:PropertyChangeEvent)

RE: [flexcoders] dynamically show multiple containers?

2009-11-13 Thread Christopher McArthur
Ive done something like this before. Here is how I might try to do it: -First I would create a class called CityData, it would have a stateName:String, and an cityNames:ArrayColleciton of strings. -I would then create an ArrayCollection of cityData and fill it will all of my data. -I woul

RE: [flexcoders] Why never create an item renderer?

2009-09-04 Thread Christopher McArthur
Can anyone recommend any good reading material on this? Im having some memory issues with my itemrenderers lately ;) From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:53 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject

[flexcoders] Flex Module issue

2008-08-06 Thread Christopher DUPONT
Why child is null in the first case ? private function btnStatsClickHandler(event:Event):void { var module:IModuleInfo = ModuleManager.getModule("com/test/module/pictureviewer/PictureViewer.swf\ "); module.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.READY, fun

[flexcoders] netStream netConnection

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Olsen
Has anyone ever had an issue where a netStream netConnection causes the flash player to crash? It seems to happen frequently to some people more than others. -Christopher

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Focus Question

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Olsen
Thank you for the help it worked great. Daniel Freiman wrote: or you could set the focusAlpha style equal to 0. - Dan Freiman On Nov 28, 2007 8:48 AM, m.ar80 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Look into implementation of TextInput.focusInHandler() and override it

[flexcoders] Focus Question

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, When I have something like a textInput and it's in focus it gets a blue highlighted border around it... Is there a way to disable that particular border? -Christopher

[flexcoders] Project

2007-10-29 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, I'm working on a sort of VOD project however after a movie has queue into your buffer it gets a little jittery. The test app can be seen at www.ubixonline.com I'm not sure if anyone has any feedback on why it would do that. -Christopher

[flexcoders] Question about Video()

2007-10-26 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, I have attached a netstream to a video and it starts out playing just fine but as soon as the file is done buffering because for some reason it will buffer 100% of the flv it starts to get choppy.. Has anyone ever experienced this? -Christopher

[flexcoders] Video() Question

2007-10-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
I am having a weird issue When i am watching a streamed flv file as soon as the file is done downloading the vidoe gets choppy however while it's still uploading it plays fine Has anyone ever seen this?

[flexcoders] Quick Question List & XMLList

2007-10-04 Thread Christopher Olsen
vider = tvMaster.userList; I am just checking if there is a more efficient way to do this. -Christopher

[flexcoders] Storing Values

2007-06-15 Thread Christopher Olsen
Does flex have something similar to cookies? -Christopher

[flexcoders] Making a flex app pretty

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Olsen
What tool would one use to make a flex apps interface pretty? -christopher

[flexcoders] Re: Socket Question

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Olsen
Thanks i hit reply by accident Hey Chris...try posting your question on a new thread, people might oversee your post and you won't get as many replies :) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com, Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone have an issue with call

[flexcoders] Socket Question

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Olsen
Anyone have an issue with calling connect again following a close on the remote side? I call connect after a failed connection and the socket just sits there -Christopher

[flexcoders] SWFLoader

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hey, I'm not sure if this is possible but if I load a swf with swfload is there a way to halt the execution of that swf and then resume it? -Christopher

Re: [flexcoders] PDF in Flex

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
tween them... And the overlay/child indexing is where it become an issue For an example see http://cupid.ubixos.com/reddawg -Christopher Paul deCoursey wrote: Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 07 Jun 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: Well if we want to add bloat an html render wou

Re: [flexcoders] PDF in Flex

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 07 Jun 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: Well if we want to add bloat an html render would be nice since the IFRAME hack is above the player itself Why does the Flash player (that runs in a browser) need a HTML renderer ? OK, so RichTextEditor has issues

Re: [flexcoders] PDF in Flex

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Well if we want to add bloat an html render would be nice since the IFRAME hack is above the player itself Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 07 Jun 2007, Ben Marchbanks wrote: I would be shocked if the next release of Flex did not include support of PDF rendering as has been announced for p

Re: [flexcoders] Caching issue in HTTPService

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Guido, I did it on the server side with my php script that generates the XML but I see HTTPService has a .headers That's a good place to look to see if you can specify it there. -Christopher Guido wrote: Is there a way to specify the HTTPService to no-cache mode? If I access the URL

Re: [flexcoders] Caching issue in HTTPService

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Peter, Thanks for the thought I didn't think about that... But it's tested and it worked... -Christopher Peter Farland wrote: Can your script also set HTTP response no-cache and expires headers? *From:*

Re: [flexcoders] Caching issue in HTTPService

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
? -Christopher Guido wrote: > > I've had the same issue and I wasn't able to bypass it. In my case, I > access an XML file throug HTTPService, and I always get the same XML > even if I modify (or even delete!) the file from the server > > On 6/7/07, *Christopher Olsen* &

[flexcoders] Caching issue in HTTPService

2007-06-07 Thread Christopher Olsen
Anyone ever have an issue where an HTTPService result gets cached? I'm use an httpservice to call a script which generates html however after the time run it's always returning the same results the *data* appears to be cached -Christopher

[flexcoders] Tree leafnodeicon

2007-06-04 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, What's the best way to dynamically control a leafnodeicon? I have my tree bound to xml variable inside the xml i have an property @online and i want if online = 1 the leafnode is one icon and if online = 0 the leafnode is a different icon -Christopher

[flexcoders] Sleep / Blink Image

2007-06-03 Thread Christopher Olsen
Is there a way to make flex sleep for a specified amount of miliseconds? I'm trying to make an icon flash or does anyone have any alternate solutions for this

Re: [flexcoders] Question about delete

2007-05-31 Thread Christopher Olsen
] *On Behalf Of *Christopher Olsen *Sent:* Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:02 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Question about delete Hello, Quick question.. The following doesn't work says it must be dynamically defined... how do we make something a pointer?

[flexcoders] Question about delete

2007-05-30 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, Quick question.. The following doesn't work says it must be dynamically defined... how do we make something a pointer? var tmpPod:Podz = new Podz(); delete(tmpPod);

[flexcoders] Two was chat

2007-05-29 Thread Christopher Olsen
Anyone here working on a two way chat application? -Christopher

[flexcoders] Flex Apps

2007-05-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
Flex Developers, I'm putting together a small showcase for flex apps if anyone is interested in having the app showcased let me know. Thanks, Christopher -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www

Re: [flexcoders] link inside textarea

2007-05-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
Tom, Sorry to hear... Anyways I got it TextEvent.LINK thanks a bunch you've been a great help -Christopher Tom Chiverton wrote: On Friday 25 May 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: for your example it would be addEventListener("makeSugList",doSugList); ?? addEven

Re: [flexcoders] link inside textarea

2007-05-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
Tom, for your example it would be addEventListener("makeSugList",doSugList); ?? Tom Chiverton wrote: On Friday 25 May 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: What I'm trying to do is put a link or something inside of a text are so when it's clicked it calls a functions If

Re: [flexcoders] link inside textarea

2007-05-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
I'm going to check it out Thanks ;) Tom Chiverton wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: > >> What I'm trying to do is put a link or something inside of a text are so >> when it's clicked it calls a functions >> > > If yo

[flexcoders] link inside textarea

2007-05-25 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, I'm not sure if anyone has seen anything like this or would know how to do it... What I'm trying to do is put a link or something inside of a text are so when it's clicked it calls a functions -Christopher

[flexcoders] Checking if an Object has as property/element

2007-05-24 Thread Christopher Olsen
What's the best way to check if an Object has a particular element If i do if Object.blah == null i get an error because blah doesn't exist -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40

Re: [flexcoders] Quick Question

2007-05-24 Thread Christopher Olsen
Yes a little easier to keep organized... Over time I'll get a little more rounded with AS Are you familiar with modules? Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote: It's not a simple transition from c/c++ Oh, no, not at all. import != include

Re: [flexcoders] Quick Question

2007-05-24 Thread Christopher Olsen
Tom, Thanks... I'm a bit new to AS... But I'll tell you one thing... It's a very different way to program compared to what I'm used to... It's not a simple transition from c/c++ -Christopher Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2007, Christopher Olsen wrot

[flexcoders] Quick Question

2007-05-24 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, Quick question may sound a bit silly But if I include a .as file in my project it can't directly reference variables in the mxml file that's imported it... this.parent.variable doesn't seem to work either... is there a special way to reference parents objects? -Christopher

Re: [flexcoders] Dragging onto a tree

2007-05-24 Thread Christopher Olsen
Michael, Thanks for the help... What I found that works good is dropTarget.calculateDropIndex(event); -Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably need to look at the: event.dragInitiator.selectedItem Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]ntic. To com> [EMAIL PRO

[flexcoders] Dragging onto a tree

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Olsen
Hello, What I am trying to do is drag an icon off of a panel and drop it onto an item in a Tree and get the value of the item that I dropped on in the tree... tree.selectedItem does not return this. How should I be handling this? Thank you all, Christopher

Re: [flexcoders] Re: RTMP Server

2007-05-17 Thread Christopher Olsen
Sure it's in the early stages right now I plan to by the end of the weekend having a good beta version of it... I know it current works with flex messaging I haven't tested it as far as streaming audio and video bhaq1972 wrote: Hi Christopher I would be interested to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: RTMP Server

2007-05-17 Thread Christopher Olsen
this type of application will be > handy for me. > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "bhaq1972" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Christopher > > > > I would be interested to know more see

[flexcoders] RTMP Server

2007-05-15 Thread Christopher Olsen
For anyone interested I've been working on an RTMP server written in C to handle messaging & streaming.. If anyone is interested in testing it out please let me know and I'll let you know where you can obtain a copy of the source. -Christopher

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex: Modular Applications

2007-05-15 Thread Christopher Olsen
Kyle, Thanks a bunch this should help... I'm guess things like producers/responders would also need to be disconnected first before garbage collection happens? Because when i unload a module all these things appear to continue to hang around. -Christopher kyle.vanvranken wrote:

[flexcoders] Question: Modules

2007-05-15 Thread Christopher Olsen
What's the best way to make sure a module has no current dependencies before unloading it? I'm having an issue that unloaded modules are leaving things behind such as event listeners -Christopher

[flexcoders] Some Tutorials...

2006-10-08 Thread Christopher
I'm looking to find some fairly simple tutorials that focus on taking information from form elements and putting them into variables, maniplating them and then bring them manipluated new variable out to a datagrid. I'm having a hard time finding the documentation that talks about moving data from f

[flexcoders] RemoteObject with standalone app - how do I point to specific remote CF server?

2006-08-27 Thread Christopher
I am creating a standalone Zinc app with Flex 2 which will run off a DVD and connect to a CF server on the backend. I'm confused as to where within my Flex app I would set the url to point my RemoteObjects to a specific CF server. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Flexcoders Mailin

[flexcoders] Hibernate adapter: No channels are available for use

2006-05-01 Thread Christopher Sharon
I'm trying to get the hibernate adapter to work with fds by testing out 2 tables from my database. The two tables represent the make and model of a car. Hibernate and fds seem to start up fine, the *.hbm.xml files are found but I receive the following message. Error: No Channels are available

[flexcoders] Using captivate within flex

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Sharon
I'm just about to start a project for a training site.  The goal of the site is to track trainees progress through  several modules.  Each module will contain  either : 1)  links to external sites, a powerpoint presentation (probably converted to captivate) or a video. 2) A quiz that cover

[flexcoders] FDS2 on JBoss flex.messaging.MessageException:jms not bound

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Sharon
I'm starting to mess with fds2, I deployed the sample.war file to jboss, most of the samples work but the chat app throws a flex.messaging.MessageException:jms not bound exception when sending a message.  I'm somewhat new to jboss and it's probably somethingthing simple I'm missing but does anyo