[flexcoders] Version Recommendation for New Project

l beta 3 months from now (around Jan/Feb 2010) - CF 8 backend (probably won't be upgrading to v9 for a long time) Any insight would be greatly appreciated. --dj

[flexcoders] trapping a right click on a column header

Hey there, Can anyone point me in the right direction to track a right-click (or control-click) on a column header in a datagrid? Is this even possible? Thanks, Mark

[flexcoders] headerRenderer with combobox - problem with events

Hello, I have a custom headerRenderer with a combo box, the combo box loads data by week, day or month into my datagrid. Unfortunately, clicking on an item in the box automatically loads items into the dataGrid which was last selected, how do I prevent this from happening? Why does clicking on a

[flexcoders] combobox in itemRenderer header of datagrid, sending events to datagrid... not wanted

Hi it's me again, I have a custom item Renderer for my header of my datagrid with a combo box. When I click on the combo box, the dataGrid is receiving the click event for an item that is highlighted. How do I prevent this from happening? Why does clicking on the combo box trigger an event in

[flexcoders] newbie question: dataProvider - dataGrid ArrayCollection

I'm trying to populate a simple dataGrid and add two arrays, one for the id that's not shown and one for the title, which is... the non-commented line works with just adding an array, but how do I do the line that's commented out, so I can ge the id field, thanks, sorry for the newbie question va

[flexcoders] Flash9 Player Penetration Rates

Is it really only 40%, that's the impression that people here are under. I need a current please so I can fight the good fight for flash 9 since I don't want to have to develop for flash 8 in eclipse. Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] non-wordwrapping text... has me cuckoo for cocoa puffs

I have this component, and inside i have some nested stuff... I'm trying to get my textHolder to wordwrap... i don't know what's throwing it off... but my tileHolder is a second component, 30 pixels tall right below it might be throwing this off, but I'm drawing it with the draw api... Please, he

[flexcoders] customizing - positioning preloader

Preloader, on the preloader, any suggestions how to move it to the top when my application loads, or completely change it all together..

[flexcoders] Not a flex question neccessarily... extracting SWF size with a php command

Hi, no fan of Ajax here, is there a way to extract the swf size: height & width, through php? Anybody done this before? Thanks, Patrick

RE: [flexcoders] URLRequest - Want to make a request but not navigateToURL

Easy, eh, nothing easy is for me: var myHTTPService:HTTPService = new HTTPService(); myHTTPService.url = "/_poll/takeit.php?pollid="+_pollid; myHTTPService.method = "GET" myHTTPService.send(); What am I doing wrong, not be a luddite, but i need examples of everyt

[flexcoders] URLRequest - Want to make a request but not navigateToURL

Hi, I want to run a script on page like: var userURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("/_poll/takeit.php?pollid="+_pollid); I don't want to navigate to the page just execute the script, how to this please? Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] Radio Button in Separate components, how to receive events?

Curious how to i get an event of a radio button, if my radio buttons are in different child components? Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] Button setStyle("selectedBorder" ... how to? not listed in styles of mx:button

I'm setting my button styles in my stylesheet, then I'm overriding the color scheme with a setStyle, the problem is that I don't see a style for "selectedBorder" on the button control and it's defaulting back to a blue border... I guess it's getting that color from my stylsheet..

[flexcoders] Pop Up - how to add the close button?

How do i put the close button there on my pop-up panel... also, how do I change the color and style of one of those?

[flexcoders] How to place a component absolute over the top of another relative

I made an animated preloader, so visually i want to plant that thing right dead center over my application, basically on top of all my other components absolute?

[flexcoders] ActionsScript 3 Cookbook Companion Classes: Number Utilities Bug

Wow, the description says that this number will be rounded up to the next decimal point: trace (NumberUtilities.round(3.75,.1)); .1, being the flag to round up, so the result should be 3.8. It's not it's: 3.8003! I know I'm using this method correctly, any tips or suggestions. Than

RE: [flexcoders] AMFPHP / databinding nested arrays

The way you constructed your array might come out like this, but not sure, looks a little crazy… myResultObject[0].day.mon.start.100.end.300 Nested Arrays return into Flex as objects. I haven’t tried nesting an array as complicated as this, I guess it’s doable – but it might be better to reorg

[flexcoders] Spanish language charcaters on button labels

I know how to render spanish language characters in htmlText but how do I put them into button labels? What's the best practice for this... these are the kind of utf-codes my Remoting methods are returning: ¿ Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] What was second nature has me researching through pages of docs

These little things take me forever to find and i simply can't find these solutions easily, if you have a moment. Answer one or two of them. I appreciate it, i'd gladly paypal you a few bucks for a peet's coffee, i'm going to get one myself and maybe i'll have my answer when i return, yum. Than

[flexcoders] Event Propogation - how to bubble up through components??

I'm using bubbling, or at least i think i am to capture an event... I've extended the event class to make my own event mechanism. the events are being dispatched, however the problem is, that I'm adding an event listener to my custom mxml component to receive the events and nothing happens. I've

[flexcoders] EventDispatching - need a little help with this one

I'm using bubbling, or at least i think i am to capture an event... I've extended the event class to make my own event mechanism. the events are being dispatched, however the problem is, that I'm adding an event listener to my custom mxml component to receive the events and nothing happens. I

Re: [flexcoders] OK, seriously. Why can't I make a global var?

Van De Velde: I tried you example to get the singleton pattern down of creating some global static variables. Of course I created my package and class for my own set-up and I'm getting compile errors. Thanks for your help, being a relative newcomer, I appreciate your time and patience, Patr

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Ely: How do you wordwrap a label on a bar chart?

g to do with the gutters, fontSize and the > height of your chart. > > -TH > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, dj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Tim: > > > > I gave this a shot am I m

Re: [flexcoders] Communicating with an embedded SWF from Flex App

Ryan: Here's a cheap and fast, dirty way to pass flashvars to a loaded swf file. I did this with some text effects. Cheers, Patrick textEffectsVar1 ="components/TextEffects.swf?displayname="+displayName+"&fontColor="+displayNameColor; Igor Costa wrote: > > Ryan > > Using Localconnect

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Ely: How do you wordwrap a label on a bar chart?

de-by- > > > side, on the same side of a ColumnChart. Or, create a single > > > LabelRenderer to simulate this. One of the labels needs a shaded > > > background with text, while the other is just text. While digging > > > into it, the docs say to use IFactory for a chart LabelRenderer. Is >

Re: [flexcoders] Looping & creating objects...

this.addChild(myRadios[i]); } dj wrote: > > I know I've posted this already. Sorry, just trying to get this > populated in Actionscript, so I thought I'd > post again since I've been kind of stuck on this point here. > > Thanks, > Patrick > >

[flexcoders] Looping & creating objects, how do you do this: var myRadio["b"+i]:RadioButton = new RadioButton();

I know I've posted this already. Sorry, just trying to get this populated in Actionscript, so I thought I'd post again since I've been kind of stuck on this point here. Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] events? Should I use mx.events or flash.events?

What's the difference between the two? Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] Ely: How do you wordwrap a label on a bar chart?

A Vertical Axis why Field, my labels are being cut off, my width dimension is fixed to 280 pixels, so the column needs to wrap down? Thanks, Patrick

[flexcoders] Iterating through a loop with radiobuttons - giving unique instance

Flex Wizards: I need to iterate through a loop and create radio buttons, i have to add loaders for images next to them etc. How do you something like this in AS3.0? var myRadio["b"+i]:RadioButton = new RadioButton(); Also, when you send an event with the currentTarget property, which is t

[flexcoders] RegExp Validator

Hey there, I'm trying to use a standard regular expression in a RegExpValidator. Here's the validator markup: It keeps saying that a password like '64months' (without the apostrophes) is no good when it should be. The expression should validate such that any characters from a-z and A-Z and 0

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to handle an event and call a method to it's parent?

emClick="handleCard(event)"; > > and in your handleCard function > event.currentTarget.parent.someHandler(); > > Cheers > Wayne > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, dj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[flexcoders] How to handle an event and call a method to it's parent?

Hi: This doesn't work, what's the best practice? Thanks, Patrick

Re: [flexcoders] Error in Flex 2.0.1 MX: States Example

doc did you find it? > > Thanks, > > Stephen > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *On Behalf Of *dj > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:58 PM > *

[flexcoders] Error in Flex 2.0.1 MX: States Example

The example from the documentation gives me an Actionscript error: SeverityDescriptionResourceIn FolderLocationCreation TimeId 2Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: states. [Generated code (use -keep to save): Path: states-generated.as, Line: 304,

[flexcoders] Placing images next to bars in bar charts?

I want to put a 50x50 jpg image to the left of my bart chart, next to each of the bars. How would i go about doing this? Thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40y

Re: [flexcoders] Barchart - trying to make it display the way i want

l style on barSeries to change the colors. > > > tell me more about what it is you want to do with images, and I can > give you more help. > > Ely. > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogro

[flexcoders] How to get a sample archive to work - steps involved please (Distortion Effects)

Hello: This looks really cool, but I can't figure out how to make these work: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/DistortionEffects.zip How does one go about making this a new flex project - and get it to compile right? I’m a little confused the steps involved for importing thes

[flexcoders] Barchart - trying to make it display the way i want

trying to finagle with a barchart, how do i change the widths of the bars and the spacing between the bars and the color of the bars? Also, if i want to put images next to the bars - would i do that with a canvas and in AS3? thanks Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.

[flexcoders] input type="reset"

Hey there, Is there something in flex that's similar to the input type="reset" in html? So that all the form fields will reset to the values they were created with? Or do you have to program this yourself? Thanks, mark -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcod

[flexcoders] 2 questions

Hi there, Have some questions about the best practice way of designing apps. I'm building a simple email server preferences application. And I've created two components. One for handling the login (which hits amfphp and ldap on the backend) and one for loading and changing/saving the user pre

[flexcoders] Anyone have any problems using "Clean..." in FlexBuilder 2 Mac Beta?

I just tried to "Clean..." my project, and now I can't build any more because it says that the bin/.html file is missing. In fact, there is nothing in the bin directory any more. I've even tried to create new projects and i get the same issue. I'm going to reinstall flex builder to see if I

Re: [flexcoders] Flashvars

existing server-side type page (like asp, jsp, php). > > http://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/?p=37 > > dorkie dork > > On 10/25/06, *dj* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > How does this work with the generated .html that flex produces &g

[flexcoders] Flashvars

How does this work with the generated .html that flex produces with php, i tried in the old fashioned way of adding the flashvars to the embed tag with no luck no working. mymovie.swf?username=someuser works tho... any help here, Thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http:

[flexcoders] Overriding "center" control when removing children in an HBox

I have an HBox that displays a list of children, I want to remove the Children and override the "center" positioning when I remove the children but for adding it's ok. Is this possible by overriding whatever the HBox does to do this? Thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://gr

[flexcoders] Little mask question/container bounding issue

Hey guys and girls, I know this seems a little simple to add to the list, but I am eagerly awaiting my Actionscript3.0 book, coming from Amazon tomorrow, then I'll be able to study this stuff with out listing. I have an HBox holding a bunch of images for the my thumbnail, I have an issue where i

[flexcoders] Simple way to put a border around an image?

How do you do a simple border around an image, easiest way. Do I really have to use the Rect method for this? thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroup

Re: [flexcoders] Trash/bugs in Flashplayer 9 filters

Matt: When flex uses relative values for x and y for placement it always uses an integers, right? I'm confused how this would show up then. Of course all images i load are height and width = integers, of course. Do masks behind images have any affect because i am using a mask behind the filter

[flexcoders] Unusual Behavior of a text Area with HTML & Spanish Characters

Before I assume it's a bug, I'm probably doing something wrong, but I'm trying to display Spanish language characters in html in a textArea. However, characters with accents work like an escape sequence and makes the formatting skip lines: The problem seems to start at: marrón Altura: altoCu

[flexcoders] cross domain best practices?

Cross domain policy check? can somebody give me the best set up for a cross-domain policy, should it be an xml file or System.Security.allowDomain? Do you have to check the policy for every image/swf that's loaded? How do you check the domain policy inside an mxml tag? is it better to make a

[flexcoders] try catch

Hi, I don't want a message like this to stop my flash, i want to try to catch a pop up from displaying like: The image actually loads but this error comes up: "SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: " Can somebody shoe me a try-catch situation? I'm loading

Re: [flexcoders] Background transparancy - Help File

- > *De :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *De la part de* sumeet k > *Envoyé :* vendredi 29 septembre 2006 08:23 > *À :* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Background transparancy

[flexcoders] Background transparancy

How do you set the background alpha of an application to 0, possible? Thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit you

[flexcoders] HBox inside a vbox - inside an Accordion (possible bug)

I was having the damnest time adding a little thumbnail component to the inside of a HBox -> inside a VBox -> inside an Accordion... I had no problem as the code demonstrates inside the first vbox in my accordion:

[flexcoders] Background alpha

I noticed there's always a background in all flex apps, how do make it transparent, if possible. Thanks, Patrick -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo!

[flexcoders] AutoSuggest TextField

Hey there, Has anyone seen any auto suggest style text fields for flex? Similar to what google is doing? Thanks, mark -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Ya

[flexcoders] Re: HTTPService Result to ArrayCollection

Whoops, Here is the xml I'm getting returned: NY SPRI Non-Project Time 93106 NY SPRI Trafficking TOS 93110 What didn't come across before was that i also have in my mxml: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.c

[flexcoders] HTTPService Result to ArrayCollection

Hi there, I'm new and I don't understand something :) Hopefully someone can help me out. I have a datagrid that I am attempting to populate. I've been able to successfully populate the grid with xml from and HTTPService with no problem. But now I want to be able to filter and create specific so