Re: [flexcoders] SDK 3.2 upgrade to 3.4 issue

2009-09-23 Thread Jim Cheng
/bulletins/apsb09-13.html http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/495/cpsid_49530.html Hope this helps, Jim Cheng EffectiveUI Jake Churchill wrote: Thanks for the info. I was just upgrading to stay current, no particular reason so I'll hang back on 3.3 for a while until 3.5 is released.

Re: [flexcoders] SDK 3.2 upgrade to 3.4 issue

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Cheng
brave, or stick with 3.3 for the time being if you can afford to wait for them to roll out the next official build. Here's the bug: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-22883 Jim Cheng EffectiveUI Jake Churchill wrote: I just installed the 3.4 SDK (previously was using 3.2). I have

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Reading compressed file in AS 3

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Cheng
I'm assuming you're using PHP based upon gzopen. From reading the zlib library documentation, you'll want to use the gzcompress function instead of gzopen to compress your string into the zlib data format (which corresponds to ByteArray's compress/uncompress methods). Note that gzopen uses a

Re: [flexcoders] custom preloader

2008-06-04 Thread Jim Cheng
Take a look at the documentation: Adobe provides a handful of examples for hiding, customizing and replacing the preloader's default download progress bar. See: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/app_container_4.html Jim Cheng EffectiveUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone have

Re: [flexcoders] How to remove space at the end of line chart when using disabledDays = [6,0]!

2008-03-27 Thread Jim Cheng
It's a Flex 3 charting bug alright. This was originally reported about 9 months ago during the beta cycle on the Flex bugbase and was later closed by Adobe with a resolution of Cannot Fix for what I believe to be a rather spurious reason, see: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FLEXDMV-963

Re: [flexcoders] Complex chart application - general performance issues.

2008-02-18 Thread Jim Cheng
execution can be resumed on the next frame. Hope this helps, Jim Cheng EffectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Combination zipCode and state formatter

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Cheng
Patrick Lemiuex wrote: Hi: Is there a way to get a state from a zipCode in flex, with a formatter or such? While the default Flex zip code validator only checks whether the value looks like an acceptable US ZIP or Canadian postal code, it wouldn't be too hard to subclass it to emit the

Re: [flexcoders] Fw: output formats (excel/word)

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Cheng
anything more than a simple tabular data of the sort that HTML tables and CSV formatted data are well suited for. Among other things, it supports styling and accurate handling of localized decimal notation, both of which we wanted in the eBay demo. Jim Cheng effectiveUI -- Flexcoders Mailing List

Re: [flexcoders] enhancement for AS4

2007-03-30 Thread Jim Cheng
of your company joining ECMA and the ES4 task group. Join the mailing list here: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] AMF Serialization hooks?

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Cheng
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Re: [flexcoders] Decompiler for Flash 9

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Cheng
out down the line to decompile directly to re-compilable ActionScript 3. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] E4X expression: return node by matching text() value

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Cheng
. Replacing the string burger with fries returns 2. I assume that this is the behavior that you're looking for. E4X makes XML node resolution much easier than before, but getting the proper syntax for some of the more unusual constructions can be a little tricky. :( Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Right-Click - View Source

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Cheng
. It outputs the source in HTML format and adds in the link as an attribute to your main MXML's application element. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Not able to generate GUID

2007-03-05 Thread Jim Cheng
to creating a database entry. This tactic also gets you around the possibility of malicious folk passing in faked GUIDs that they know may result in a collision. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Application Idleness

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Cheng
Framework, can be found in your Flex 2 SDK frameworks directory. There's a ton of neat stuff just waiting to be discovered in there. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Apollo Book: Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Cheng
-implement some heavy lifting in the form of encryption algorithms for authentication or stream protection. Apollo, however, might make remote access in general easier for all of us if Adobe got rid of the crossdomain access restrictions for desktop applications though. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] flex bluetooth.

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Cheng
, a third party extender like Zinc or SWF Studio might be able to do the trick via direct API calls. Unfortunately, such solutions are more hackish than not and are unlikely to work well outside of IE (with additional trusted ActiveX controls) or a third party wrapper to the SWF. Jim Cheng

Re: [flexcoders] Save a BitmapData as a local file

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Cheng
ecpmaz wrote: ... and that without passing by the server :S I don't know if my question is stupid.. but all I've been able to do till now was to send as a POST var my bytes to my server to assemble them, and send them back to the user as a JPEG... It seems not to be an optimal solution,

Re: [flexcoders] Save a BitmapData as a local file

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Cheng
into primitives before they can be persisted into shared objects, for instance, as Base64-encoded string or a packed array of 8-byte Numbers. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Java to Flex shifting ! Major Hurdles!!! (Shud I say Roadblocks! )

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Cheng
, Intel and ARM processors, and the new garbage collection implementation. Note however, that it does not come with a compiler for compiling ActionScript 3 into bytecode. For that, you'll still need to use the free ones from the Flex SDK or a third-party compiler. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Just curious, A big development team or individual developers

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Cheng
on project needs, specific skill sets, and availability. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Test for Network Connection

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Cheng
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Re: [flexcoders] Quick Flex 2.0 questions

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Cheng
pays for itself in development time saved. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Re: BigInteger class for ActionScript

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Cheng
/BigInt.html If you're planning on doing a lot of such heavy lifting, I suspect that you'd likely see markedly better performance using a numerical analysis library compiled with processor-specific optimizations into native code, but to each his own Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Getting duration of FLV 1.0 videos

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Cheng
for the timestamp byte order, it's a 32-bit unsigned integer, but is formatted as a big-endian UI32 followed by a most significant UI8 rather than the typical order expected by the built-in readUnsignedInt() method. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Flex Automation API

2007-02-02 Thread Jim Cheng
the quick summary of how it all hangs together--there's a bunch of additional stuff like synchronization and identifier mangling that I haven't yet had enough time to figure out yet, but this should be enough to get you started making good use of the automation framework. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] AS3 shell

2007-02-01 Thread Jim Cheng
of work, although such an implementation would obviously not include the Flash Player intrinsic classes. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Flex UG in Denver?

2007-02-01 Thread Jim Cheng
. We usually have free drinks and pizza or some other kind of food for all comers, though it'd be much appreciated if you RSVP at the Meetup page so that we have a better idea of how much to food to get. Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] Onscreen keyboard

2007-01-31 Thread Jim Cheng
, hint). Jim Cheng effectiveUI

Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript Mozill

2007-01-24 Thread Jim Cheng
Abdul Qabiz wrote: What does it mean to me as ActionScript developer? I can use my existing skills and write code in other environment which uses Tamarin. Absolutely. I've been working with the Tamarin source code quite a bit recently and have found that the AVM+ run-time can be readily

Re: [flexcoders] AS3 code obfuscators

2007-01-18 Thread Jim Cheng
Daniel Wabyick wrote: Does anyone know of any AS3 code obfuscators out there? I don't know of any publicly available obfuscators. But, given the fact that Adobe has contributed the source code for the AS3 virtual machine to the the Mozilla community as the Tamarin project, it would not be

[flexcoders] URLStream.readObject() Bug?

2006-10-19 Thread Jim Cheng
very much appreciate it if some others can verify this so I can be sure that I'm not smoking the crack rock. Thanks, Jim Cheng effectiveUI -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Character Sets?

2006-10-16 Thread Jim Cheng
Ethan Miller wrote: Wondering if Flex and the Flash player use the character set specified in the HTML wrapper or if there is character set support/ configuration elsewhere? The Flash Player uses Unicode by default. However, it can be instructed to use the host operating system's

Re: [flexcoders] Calling one Flex app from another

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Cheng
mthielman11 wrote: So my question is, is this even possible?? Can I open a certain state in another flex application from a different flex application? ? Yes, you have a few of options for client-side cross-SWF communication. The first option is to use the LocalConnection class. This has the

Re: [flexcoders] bad graphical glitches using Flex in Firefox

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Cheng
Pan Troglodytes wrote: Can some other folks here do a test and see if you can reproduce this on your machine? Remember, big windows are key. I found if I dragged a very small window around, I never got it. I've run into very similar issues on a somewhat similarly configured machine (dual

Re: [flexcoders] Re: company branding in flex??

2006-06-27 Thread Jim Cheng
dandiodati wrote: Has any one had to do company branding? Is there not a way to change the external style sheet dynamically? As you've already noted, the CSS styles are compiled into the SWF at compile-time, so there isn't a quick way to together a SWF that'll be can load and apply external