[flexcoders] Flex Prototyping Best Practices

2007-03-02 Thread Clarke Bishop
I've become a big believer in iterative development and in starting my Flex apps by working on the U/I. Then, only after I can freeze the U/I, do I start on the backend. It's easy enough to drag some controls into an application, but I'm not as sure the best ways to populate the controls with sam

[flexcoders] Re: Error icon on my Project folder, but no errors!

2006-09-06 Thread Clarke Bishop
Never mind. I had a filter on that was hiding the error! On 9/5/06, Clarke Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My FlexBuilder 2 project folder has an error icon (Little red X) and when I launch the project, it gives me the "There are errors ..." dialog box. But, No errors s

[flexcoders] Error icon on my Project folder, but no errors!

2006-09-05 Thread Clarke Bishop
My FlexBuilder 2 project folder has an error icon (Little red X) and when I launch the project, it gives me the "There are errors ..." dialog box. But, No errors show up under the Problems tab and there are no error icons anywhere else in my project! And, my project seems to run fine. How can I

[flexcoders] Best way to use Formatters and Bindings

2006-08-31 Thread Clarke Bishop
What's the best practice for using Formatters and Bindings together?   For example: - I have a currency value that's stored as a number in my model (And in the database) - I retrieve the value and use the CurrencyFormatter to make it look like $15,123 which is displayed in a TextInput component.

[flexcoders] Event to detect data was loaded in a tree

2006-08-17 Thread Clarke Bishop
I have a tree control that's bound to a dataprovider. When the data loads, I want to open the tree to the first node. So, I need to detect when the data actually loads, and then open up the appropriated tree elements.   I've looked all through the docs, but I can't find a "data loaded" event. P

[flexcoders] Dumping the State of a Flex 2 Application

2006-08-05 Thread Clarke Bishop
Is there an easy way to dump the state of a Flex 2 application? When there's an error or a user hits the Help button, I want to know where they are in the app. I have various view stacks containing tab navigators, etc. I'd like to know which view stack, tab navigator, etc. the user was on when t

Re: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid ItemRenderer

2006-08-05 Thread Clarke Bishop
In case it helps anyone else, I've got this bullet thing working now. Three things were needed: - Setting the horizontal and vertical scroll policy as sinatosk suggested- Specifying the width, but not the height or the Text component. When you do this the text box will automatically adjust its h

[flexcoders] DataGrid ItemRenderer

2006-07-31 Thread Clarke Bishop
I would like to put in a datagrid:- A header title- Some HTML formatted text bullets- Use variableRowHeight since some entries are a lot taller than others.This doesn't sound that hard, but I'm having a devil of a time getting this to display properly! When you scroll down and back up, some of t

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Word Wrap in FlexBuilder

2006-07-25 Thread Clarke Bishop
Thanks George! I tried this little plug-in. It's not perfect, but it definitely solves 90% of my problem. Thanks again!   ClarkeOn 7/24/06, george_w_canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's a tiny plug-in available. http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t7

Re: [flexcoders] Word Wrap in FlexBuilder

2006-07-24 Thread Clarke Bishop
always one line.   TextInput is always one line.     - Original Message - From: Clarke Bishop To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Word Wrap in FlexBuilder Is there a way to turn on Word Wrap in FlexBuilder?I have some long text st

[flexcoders] Word Wrap in FlexBuilder

2006-07-23 Thread Clarke Bishop
Is there a way to turn on Word Wrap in FlexBuilder?I have some long text strings that are used for instructions. Without, Word Wrap, they are really hard to edit. And, if I manually insert returns, it messes up the formatting when displayed. What's the best practice for handling this situation?

RE: SPAM-LOW: [flexcoders] Is anyone having trouble contacting Adobe and/or purchasing Flex?

2006-07-12 Thread Clarke Bishop
I was able to purchase FlexBuilder with no trouble last Sunday.   I chose the download option, but I really would have preferred to also get the boxed version, too. Macromedia used to support this, I think. At least, I could get a printed manual.      Clarke From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.c

[flexcoders] Setting a Background Image in Flex 2 - Final

2006-07-04 Thread Clarke Bishop
I want to set a background image to match the gradient in a graphic I've got. Sounds simple, right? Just specify the backgroundImage in the Application object.   However, I must be totally missing something since I've tried everything I can think of, and I still can't get any background im

[flexcoders] Flex2 Formatted Text

2006-05-16 Thread Clarke Bishop
For instructions and simple reports, I want to have nice formatted text that supports various font faces and font sizes, bold, italic, ordered and unordered lists, simple tables, etc.   HTMLText is close, but doesn't do tables or ordered lists. And it seems to be finicky about the actual H

RE: [flexcoders] Beta3 - Error with @Embed - worked in Beta2

2006-05-15 Thread Clarke Bishop
Put a "/" in front of the path like this: "/af/images/config.png"   That fixed if for me!      Clarke From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of thunderstumpgesatworkSent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:14 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] Beta3

[flexcoders] CF_FB Extensions

2006-05-11 Thread Clarke Bishop
I am having trouble installing the CF_FlexBuilder Extension. I unzipped the as per the instructions. Right now, I have:   /Adobe/     |_Flex Builder 2.0 Plug-in Beta 3    |_ plugins    |_The jar files from the Zip file   Is this right? How can I tell if it installe

[flexcoders] InstallAnywhere Error

2006-05-09 Thread Clarke Bishop
I'm trying to install FlexBuilder2_B3_5-08.exe. I uninstalled all my old stuff and launched the installer.   But, I get an error: "Please select another location to extract the installer to:" There's a Choose button, so I click it and select a temp folder with plenty of space. But, nothin

[flexcoders] Server-Side Architecture for Flex App

2006-05-02 Thread Clarke Bishop
I am in the process of choosing a server-side technology for a Flex App I'm building, and I'd like to get ideas from the experts on this list. Right now, my candidates are:   - ColdFusion - Java - PHP - .Net   I'll probably use AMF rather than web services for transfering data back and

[flexcoders] Setting the focus to a tree branch

2006-03-29 Thread Clarke Bishop
I've just finished moving my app from Flex2 b1 to Flex2 b2, but I've still got one problem I can't solve. I'm trying to set the focus to a specific branch of a tree component. Here's the function that worked in Beta 1: private function initTree():void { var

RE: SPAM-LOW: [flexcoders] FES & .Net

2006-03-13 Thread Clarke Bishop
Do you know about Blue Dragon? The language is CFML and it can run on top of .Net just like CF runs on top of Java. This might help you with your migration! From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Battershall, JeffSent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:54 AMTo: