Re: [flexcoders] Mac OSX and Flex builder

2009-09-29 Thread Nate Beck
I'm fairly certain it's Adobe Update Manager. And for those who aren't aware, the Rosetta we're talking about here is an OS X thing: http://www.apple.com/rosetta/... not Rosetta Stone Language training software. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/29

Re: [flexcoders] Beginner Questions

2009-09-27 Thread Nate Beck
Not to pimp a project that I'm a contributor on... but you should check out the PushButton Engine: http://www.pushbuttonengine.com. We have discussions (and debates) about some the points you've raised in your initial email in our forums as well as in the IRC channel. Cheers, Nate Beck

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Full flex site or not

2009-08-21 Thread Nate Beck
Google already indexes SWF content, they talked about it at MAX last November. Here is a recording of the presentation: http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f15384v1000 On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:09 AM, toofah_gm ga...@byu.edu wrote: If you are a competitor of mine, build a full flex site, otherwise HTML

Re: [flexcoders] Voice transmission

2009-08-04 Thread Nate Beck
Check out AFCS. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/afcs/ HTH, Nate On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, charleswcng charlesw...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I saw this karaoke app in the flex showcase and was wondering how they do the voice transmission between users. You can see the app here:

Re: [flexcoders] Weborb Genius Desparetley Needed!!!

2009-06-30 Thread Nate Beck
There is a weborb specific mailing list at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flashorb/ Cheers, Nate On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM, [p e r c e p t i c o n] percepti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know about using weborb with jruby??? I'm using Charles to see what's being sent,

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 4/Catalyst Now Available for Download on Adobe labs?

2009-06-01 Thread Nate Beck
http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/05/the-flash-builder-4-and-flash-catalyst-betas-are-out/ http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/05/flash-builder-and-flash-catalyst-betas-now-available/ http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/05/31/get-your-flash-catalyst-flash-builder-beta-now/

Re: [flexcoders] Re: May I install Flex 3 builder and new Flash builder in same computer

2009-06-01 Thread Nate Beck
When I asked about the license... I was told... It's a 30 day trial currently, we'll shortly be putting out how to use your fb3 license to get an extended beta license. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM, markgoldin_2000 markgoldin_2...@yahoo.comwrote: Do we provide an existing license for

Re: [flexcoders] Re: May I install Flex 3 builder and new Flash builder in same computer

2009-06-01 Thread Nate Beck
Which version of the Flex SDK are you compiling against? If it's the Flex 4 SDK, you MUST compile and run against Flash Player 10. What do you mean you don't want to go thru its installation? On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:20 AM, markgoldin_2000 markgoldin_2...@yahoo.comwrote: When I try to

Re: [flexcoders] Value Objects

2009-05-26 Thread Nate Beck
Hey Mike, You'll see VO and DTO used interchangeably, I believe this is because Cairngorm used to use Data Transfer Object and then switched to Value Objects at some point. That being said... this article gives a very basic example of passing data to and from a server strictly typed, which is

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Waiting for Flash Player to connect to the debugger

2009-05-22 Thread Nate Beck
Did you install the Debug version of Flash Player? http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html Under this section: Adobe Flash Player 10 — Debugger Versions (aka debug players or content debuggers) On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, a.scavarelli a.scavare...@yahoo.comwrote: Hmm, I

Re: [flexcoders] Send parameters to .SWF

2009-05-04 Thread Nate Beck
What you're describing is called Deep-Linking in Flex. http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Deep_Linking Look at that URL to get started. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:24 AM, p...@vin Uttarwar pravinuttar...@gmail.comwrote: Hello. U can use flashvars for passing

Re: [flexcoders] Re: how to compare dates?

2009-04-22 Thread Nate Beck
A date object has a .time property, The number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970, universal time, for a Date object. Just take the end date and see if the time property is greater than the start date. quick example: var startDate:Date = new Date(); var endDate:Date = new Date();

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flash player 10 Debug not recognized in FB3

2009-04-22 Thread Nate Beck
This happens to me all the time whenever I upgrade to a new version of the flash player because a site says I need it. And I forget that I need the debug version. You need to go to the http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html page and pick out the debug player. Adobe Flash Player

Re: [flexcoders] Flash/FLex gravity

2009-04-22 Thread Nate Beck
Yup Josh is correct, creating a vector is the way to go... The slowing down force you're talking about is friction (at least in physics). If you're interested in this kind of stuff, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Keith Peters book:

Re: [flexcoders] How do I detect 'enter' key on a textInput control?

2009-04-20 Thread Nate Beck
The TextInput control has an Enter event that you can catch. Example: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute mx:Script ![CDATA[ import mx.events.FlexEvent; private function

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Developer Needed (Fulltime)

2009-04-15 Thread Nate Beck
LinkedIn is a great place... and http://flex.org/jobs On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:42 PM, geeky developer geekydevelo...@gmail.comwrote: Just a curosity sake, Does anyone recommend any good website for looking for a Flex Developer job. If anyone can recommend any good website except Monster or

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex Component Kit still needed for CS4?

2009-04-06 Thread Nate Beck
I think the question.. is the Flex component kit already installed in CS4? To that, I don't know that answer right off the bat. Flash and Flex workflows are quite confusing. Someone from Adobe needs to write an updated article on DevNet explaining the preferred way of working with Flash and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: When is Gumbo expiration date?

2009-04-06 Thread Nate Beck
You probably shouldn't programming anything critical in Gumbo in the first place. There are many things that are changing since the Flex Builder Gumbo preview came out, particularly the FxPrefix. That being said, you can still go and grab that latest version of the Flex SDK from

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Bizarre browser inconsistencies...?

2009-04-06 Thread Nate Beck
Carlos is correct, sub-domains are considered different websites when it comes to cross-domains. You could of course add a wild-card entry (*. domain.com) into your cross-domain file if you wish, that way any sub-domain you have will be able to access www and every other and sub-domain. On Mon,

Re: [flexcoders] var circle:Sprite = new Sprite(); Not working

2009-04-05 Thread Nate Beck
Tracy beat me to it... but I'm going to send my email as well :). This is because your code isn't in an event handler. In MXML you can't have free-floating script, just like in an ActionScript 3 class, you can't have circle.graphics.beginFill(0x99) outside of a method. I recommend doing the

Re: [flexcoders] Module unload GC

2009-03-05 Thread Nate Beck
Garbage Collection happens when it needs to happen. You have no control over it. This is from Grant Skinner's blog: *Deferred GC and Indeterminacy* A *very* important thing to understand about the Garbage Collector in FP9 is that it's operations are deferred. Your objects will not be removed

Re: [flexcoders] Module unload GC

2009-03-05 Thread Nate Beck
... -- *From:* Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, March 5, 2009 7:55:01 PM *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Module unload GC Garbage Collection happens when it needs to happen. You have no control over it. This is from Grant Skinner's blog: *Deferred

Re: [flexcoders] Re: try, catch, finally ...

2009-03-04 Thread Nate Beck
I need to agree with Tim on this one. I posted my thoughts on try... catch in a blog post a little while ago. http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/01/tip-of-the-day-when-to-use-try-catch-finally/ On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Tim Hoff timh...@aol.com wrote: Hi Kevin, Try-Catch blocks are an

Re: [flexcoders] Debug wont run because I have flash 10 player installed

2009-02-22 Thread Nate Beck
A common issue, You just need to install the Flash Player 10 debug player, get it here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp10 I kick myself a few times over this whenever a new player update comes out. HTH, Nate On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM, brad.bueche b...@bueche.com

Re: [flexcoders] HELP! - Can not access Web Service!

2009-02-22 Thread Nate Beck
Try removing the http://; Use YouTube's cross domain as a reference ( http://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml): ?xml version=1.0? !-- http://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml -- !DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd; cross-domain-policy

[flexcoders] The first Flex BugQuash has been announced. Register Now

2009-02-19 Thread Nate Beck
Hey everyone, Just opened up registrations for this event: http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/02/register-for-the-flex-sdk-bugquash-its-free/ Any questions, feel free to shout at me. Cheers, Nate http://blog.natebeck.net

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Idiots guide to crossdomain.xml

2009-02-13 Thread Nate Beck
That is the most down to earth explanation of cross domain policies that I have ever read. Thanks Sunil! On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:38 PM, sunild99 sunilbd...@gmail.com wrote: If your SWF is hosted on server A, and it needs to access data from servers B, C, and D then you need to put a

Re: [flexcoders] AIR uninstall shortcut

2009-02-12 Thread Nate Beck
Launch the AIR file that you used to install the application. This of course won't work if you used a Badge install. But usually you can just open the AIR installer file, and there is an uninstall button. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, arieljake arielj...@yahoo.com wrote: I want to file

Re: [flexcoders] Traffic Light Component

2009-02-10 Thread Nate Beck
That seems like a very specific implementation. However, I was able to find this. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Filtering_Visual_Objects_15.html Should help get you started. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, jeffreyr6915 jrwalk...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering

Re: [flexcoders] Check out my Facebook profile

2009-02-10 Thread Nate Beck
Facebook What's that? ;) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Sreejith P Nair sreejith@gmail.comwrote: facebook Check out my Facebook profile Hi Flexcoders, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can

Re: [flexcoders] Making the impossible possible, something odd is happening

2009-02-07 Thread Nate Beck
I haven't had a change to play with your code... but just in general... It's bad practice to compare a Boolean value to True or False. You should simply be doing: if( x y) instead of if (x == true y == true) Cheers, Nate On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Cordova Aaron basic...@yahoo.com

Re: [flexcoders] C and ActionScript

2009-02-05 Thread Nate Beck
Convert your C code into AS3 bytecode using Alchemy. Alchemy will generate a SWC file which you can use within Flex / ActionScript On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote: You can't, without a whole lot of plumbing in between, or possibly using the experimental

Re: [flexcoders] Memory leak in mx:HTML

2009-02-05 Thread Nate Beck
I just started with with the Adobe AIR HTML component this week. I hadn't noticed the memory leak, but of course I'm actively in development. I'll have a look at it today to see if it's happening to me as well. Also, mx:HTML is a Flex wrapper for HTMLLoader, I wonder if the same memory leak

Re: [flexcoders] Problem in Streaming Live data using Flash Media Server

2009-02-05 Thread Nate Beck
When you say... present in the same directory.. which directory are you referring to? The FLV file resides in the same directory as your application? It's been a while since I've used FMS... but in Wowza Media Server there is an audio folder where all of the stream FLV files are located. On Thu,

Re: [flexcoders] The First Flex Open Iteration Meeting

2009-02-05 Thread Nate Beck
Fx prefix is an ongoing discussion that will NOT be discussed in this meeting Awesome. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, flex_coders ve...@adobe.com wrote: *When:* February 10th – 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:00pm GMT (duration 1 hour and 15 minutes) Find your time zone

Re: [flexcoders] Geting the 3dWall Pro to work as flex component ?

2009-02-04 Thread Nate Beck
You never added the 3d wall to the stage. addChild(wall); On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Grant Davies gr...@bluetube.com wrote: Hey guys, I have the 3d wall pro component from : http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/3dwall/ I successfully created a flex component from it,

Re: [flexcoders] Picnick interface

2009-02-04 Thread Nate Beck
Just reiterating what the people above me wrote. Picnik does an excellent job of Skinning their flex components and applications. I'm pretty sure it's just a simple TabNavigator, and I'm positive that they have a graphic designer employed in house to make the application look good. On Wed, Feb

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Simplest way to create a webservice and deploy

2009-02-04 Thread Nate Beck
The easiest thing to do would be to use HTTPService to just grab the data. http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/16/using-httpservice-tag-to-sendreceive-variables-to-a-server-side-script/ Has a great example of this. To get started with HTTPService 1. Place an xml file on your webserver 2.

Re: [flexcoders] Local computer access - best practices/successes

2009-02-04 Thread Nate Beck
+1 for Merapi. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Andrew Powell a...@infoaccelerator.netwrote: Things like the Merapi project: http://www.merapiproject.net aim at tackling this issue. ap On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:29 PM, schneiderjim wrote: We have a need to access resources on the local

Re: [flexcoders] apparently iphone and flash coming together

2009-02-03 Thread Nate Beck
Keith Peters posted to his blog about this issue. And he gives some interesting insight to this who, flash iPhone thing... http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1948 On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:11 PM, dnk d.k.emailli...@gmail.com wrote: Just an interesting read. hope it is true.

Re: [flexcoders] ActionScript design patterns chapter pdf

2009-02-02 Thread Nate Beck
I have the book sitting on my desk, it's a great article. I'm not sure where a PDF version of it resides though... maybe check scribd? On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Matthew Kim kimmatt...@yahoo.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the pdf of the chapter from the

Re: [flexcoders] Does anyone know how to disable mouseover for a button.

2009-01-30 Thread Nate Beck
He doesn't want to disable the button... He just doesn't want the button to change it's look when he rolls over it with the mouse. The way I've done it in the past is to make the upState and the overState the same. HTH, Nate On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Martyn Bowis

Re: [flexcoders] Playing sound from an array instead of a file

2009-01-30 Thread Nate Beck
I saw a demo at MAX where they used Alchemy ( http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/) to unencode an OGG Vorbis file and play it. Maybe it's something similar to what you're trying to do. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Jo Morano jo.moran...@gmail.com wrote: Can the Sound object be used

Re: [flexcoders] Silent Print from Flex on Kiosk

2009-01-29 Thread Nate Beck
Just a theory... but you might be able to use ExternalInterface to call the same methods within user.js, and pass the content. Since you're already got it working within Javascript. I wish I knew more about FlexPrintJob. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jeremi Bergman jere...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] Thanks to Adobe...

2009-01-29 Thread Nate Beck
Yes thanks Matt (and team), I think this is a great direction that you guys are headed! On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Matt Chotin mcho...@adobe.com wrote: Yes, the next meetings will be more organized. I think we probably anticipated most of the questions but frankly I wanted to see how

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-29 Thread Nate Beck
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nate Beck *Sent:* Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:17 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone Timezones within Flex (or Flash in general) are a very VERY tricky thing to pull off. I've been writing

Re: [flexcoders] flex date and timezone

2009-01-28 Thread Nate Beck
Timezones within Flex (or Flash in general) are a very VERY tricky thing to pull off. I've been writing a DateTime proxy object that supports Timezones, and I now understand why the Flex team hasn't worked with Timezones yet. They are a mess. Is the Timezone daylight savings? What about

Re: [flexcoders] Flex of JavaFX?

2009-01-28 Thread Nate Beck
Flex Data Services aren't really around anymore. I would recommend Flex + BlazeDS, it's java based. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:45 AM, TCash21 tanya_cashor...@dfci.harvard.eduwrote: Hi all, I'm currently trying to push Adobe Flex at my company for complex network visualizations. The

Re: [flexcoders] local date is wrong

2009-01-20 Thread Nate Beck
What you are looking for is the DateFormatter. var df:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter(); df.formatString = -DD-MM; trace(df.format(longdate)); HTH, Nate On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Link Mckinney lmckin...@tygate.com wrote: I am just simply trying to set a simple date var

Re: [flexcoders] Playing Mp4 audio with Sound class?

2009-01-16 Thread Nate Beck
process how does that change with Merapi? Charlie On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: Hey... another situation that can be solved with Merapi (http://merapiproject.net/) I'm not on the Merapi team... but maybe I should be :D On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:45

Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?)

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
Red5 is a great open source project, and a great solution for your needs. However, if you want support on your project, I've found Red5 to be a bit... lacking. If you have the funds... my recommendation would be to use Wowza Media Server (http://www.wowzamedia.com/). A single license will run

Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?)

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
://osflash.org/red5) Cheers, Nate On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Sceneshift j...@sceneshift.com wrote: Thanks for the replace Nate, I didn't consider Wowza but I'll certainly check it out. Just wondering if you had any thoughts on BlazeDS? Nate Beck wrote: Red5 is a great open

Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?)

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
! Even though Wowza is moderately priced in comparison to FMS, looks like Red5 is my only option within my budget. It's a shame there is barely any documentation online for this kind of thing! Thanks again Nate. Nate Beck wrote: I haven't used BlazeDS on anything other than some of my

Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?)

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
is moderately priced in comparison to FMS, looks like Red5 is my only option within my budget. It's a shame there is barely any documentation online for this kind of thing! Thanks again Nate. Nate Beck wrote: I haven't used BlazeDS on anything other than some of my small pet projects

Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?)

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
] *On Behalf Of *Nate Beck *Sent:* Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:11 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Microphone BlazeDS (Red5?) WebORB is great, but it's not a media server. Also Jon, you can email me off list if you need any help with the recording

Re: [flexcoders] Playing Mp4 audio with Sound class?

2009-01-15 Thread Nate Beck
Hey... another situation that can be solved with Merapi ( http://merapiproject.net/) I'm not on the Merapi team... but maybe I should be :D On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Charlie Hubbard charlie.hubb...@gmail.comwrote: No can do. I'm in an AIR app so I'm trying not to rely on the server

Re: [flexcoders] When to use the include directive?

2009-01-14 Thread Nate Beck
that's not an IEventDispatcher (Proxy, I'm looking at you). -Josh 2009/1/14 Tom Chiverton tom.chiver...@halliwells.com On Tuesday 13 Jan 2009, Nate Beck wrote: is an include Header.as statement that has 30 include statements within it. Sounds like someone used to programing in C

Re: [flexcoders] Interfaces not working the way I understand anyway

2009-01-14 Thread Nate Beck
Post code please. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, mmormando m...@mormando.com wrote: Ok, I've got a module implemented in an mxml file that implements an interface IMyInterface, so marked with the implements=com.my.interface.IMyInterface tag in the right place. So, after dynamically

[flexcoders] When to use the include directive?

2009-01-13 Thread Nate Beck
Hey list, I just wanted to ping everyone and get their opinion on something. Why would anyone ever want to use the include directive? I've recently been working on poorly designed project where at the top of every module there is an include Header.as statement that has 30 include statements

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Clearspring and facebook

2009-01-13 Thread Nate Beck
I can tell you that most people on this list probably have never looked at the Facebook API. From my experience, using the Facebook Developer Platform Forums are a much better way to get answers specific to Facebook, than the flexcoders list. http://forum.developers.facebook.com/ HTH, Nate On

Re: [flexcoders] How to register a dynamicEvent in an Actionscript class

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
It's exactly the same as a standard Event. As you can see in the Language Reference ( http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/events/DynamicEvent.html): var event:DynamicEvent = new DynamicEvent(credentialsChanged); event.name = name; event.passsword = password; // misspelling won't be

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
Doing a quick google search for, flex maximize, minimize panel Returns loads of examples of what you're trying to do I think... http://www.comtaste.com/DashboardExample/DashboardExample.html and http://blog.comtaste.com/2008/12/how_to_use_the_flex_dashboard_1.html Right? On Mon, Jan 12, 2009

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How to register a dynamicEvent in an Actionscript class

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
Events don't bubble by default. So if you're depending on the Cairngorm Front Controller to pick them up, and the object dispatching the event isn't directly below the Application, you need to enable event bubbling. new DynamicEvent(myType, true); Cheers, Nate On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
in many places, but nowhere can I find code that will force the objects in a container to increse in size by n%. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nate Beck n...@... wrote: Doing a quick google search for, flex maximize, minimize panel Returns loads

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
After thinking about it for a minute... now I'm understanding what you're saying. You want to actually ZOOM in, make them larger. Have you tried taking the easy way out and telling the people to change their monitor resolution? :D On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
an easy solution. Paul --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.commailto:flexcoders% flexcoders%25 40yahoogroups.com, Nate Beck nate@ wrote: After thinking about it for a minute... now I'm understanding what you're saying. You want to actually ZOOM in, make them larger. Have you tried

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects.

2009-01-12 Thread Nate Beck
[mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Nate Beck *Sent:* Monday, January 12, 2009 2:15 PM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: Expanding size of panel, and its contained objects. What Wesley is saying seems like a good starting point. I haven't heard

Re: [flexcoders]How do I get the key of an Object?

2009-01-10 Thread Nate Beck
If you're trying to compare one object to... the same object, you can use the strict equality operator (===) http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary044.html Variables, objects, arrays, and functions are compared by reference. Two variables

Re: [flexcoders] chaining effects together

2009-01-09 Thread Nate Beck
You can also use the Sequence class. http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/23/sequencing-effects-in-flex-using-the-mxsequence-tag-redux/ Has a great example of this. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ward Loockx w...@loockx.be wrote: Just use the effectend event.. small quick and dirty example

Re: [flexcoders] Re: use an actionscript class from a SWC in actionscript

2009-01-09 Thread Nate Beck
I didn't know that. Amy, I'm stealing that for a tip :D On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Amy amyblankens...@bellsouth.net wrote: --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, John McCormack j...@... wrote: dnk wrote: Hi there i have written a very simple class

Re: [flexcoders] use an actionscript class from a SWC in actionscript

2009-01-08 Thread Nate Beck
Using xmlns (XML Namespace) is mostly for the benefit of MXML. In your xmlns you're pointing to *, which is the default package. So your Tracer.as file is on the root of the SWC file. Let's say you adding a longer package name within your SWC... net.natebeck.utils.Tracer. Which is essentially a

Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex

2009-01-08 Thread Nate Beck
In addition to what Tim said. The Merapi project (http://merapiproject.net/), is an excellent candidate for a project like this. You can use Java to communicate to the GPS unit's device drivers, and then use that data with webservices or the yahoo maps API to serve maps in real time. Just a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cannot decode concrete complex type

2009-01-07 Thread Nate Beck
Hey Ramsey, You should be looking into the SchemaMarshaller. I ran into some issues like this a little while back, I blogged about them here. http://blog.natebeck.net/2008/12/test/ Cheers, Nate On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, rtapia_archimage rta...@archimageonline.com wrote: Hello,

Re: [flexcoders] Documentation on Flex 3

2009-01-07 Thread Nate Beck
AS 2 Documentation - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htmFlex3 Language Reference - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/ Flex 4 Language Reference - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/ On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:17 PM, brucewhealton

Re: [flexcoders] Looping Properties on User-Defined Classes | for..in Does Not Work

2009-01-07 Thread Nate Beck
As far as I know... which is pretty much the quote from the documentation you posted there. You cannot unless you're dynamically adding properties to the object. I do know, however, that if your class extends flash.utils.Proxy, you can setup an iterator by overriding the nextName, nextNameIndex,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: FLEX soap client and php soap client

2009-01-06 Thread Nate Beck
Yea, if you're WSDL is public facing, I'll see if I can create a Flex Client against it as well. On a similar note... Have you looked into AMFPHP (http://www.amfphp.org/)? SOAP is a great standard but, like everything, there are issues with it. If you are only using your SOAP webservice to talk

[flexcoders] flash.utils.Proxy -- Unable to compile.

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
So this is kind of annoying, I have a proxy Class that I am working with... here is a trimmed down version of it. -- DateTime.as (Trimmed version) -- package net.natebeck.core { import com.flexoop.utilities.dateutils.DaylightSavingTimeUS; import flash.utils.Proxy; import

Re: [flexcoders] How to create an ActionScript 3 (AS3) project in FlexBuilder without using Flex

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
The fl.* package is not included in the Flex SDK. Kirupa's Forum has a thread discussing this. http://www.kirupa.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-268080.html I have CS4 on my machine... however... if you don't want to go out and buy it... I don't think there is any issue with installing the Trial

Re: [flexcoders] Re: flash.utils.Proxy -- Unable to compile.

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
: I've ran into this before. I think that you just want to declare your class as dynamic. -Dale --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nate Beck n...@... wrote: So this is kind of annoying, I have a proxy Class that I am working with... here is a trimmed down

Re: [flexcoders] Install both Flex 2 and Flex 3

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
You can install additional SDKs as well. For example, I have 2.0, 2.0.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and Gumbo setup. Then you can just pick your version of choice and code away. Adding the Flex 4 SDK to Flex Builder To add the fresh copy of your Flex 4 SDK to Flex Builder, open the * Preferences* window

Re: [flexcoders] Install both Flex 2 and Flex 3

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
That's what we're saying. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Jack @ Zingit jwcaldw...@zingit.com wrote: Paul: So you are saying there is no need to install Flex 2? In other words, I can just load the Flex 2 application and code/edit/debug/run from FlexBuilder 3? Yes . . . No ?

Re: [flexcoders] Spell Check for RichTextEditor

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
Ah... that's Grant Skinner to the rescue again. http://www.gskinner.com/products/spl/about.php Man, I should be getting a commission for this. :D HTH, Nate On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Naveen Booma flexmachi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was working on a Rich Text Editor and I wanted to

Re: [flexcoders] Spell Check for RichTextEditor

2009-01-05 Thread Nate Beck
, Naveen Booma flexmachi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Nate, I looked at it before and it is not free .. Sorry man my company doesnt pay for components.. is there any other ways to get this working ??? Thanks, Naveen On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: Ah

Re: [flexcoders] Using ActiveXObject with Adobe AIR and Flex

2008-12-31 Thread Nate Beck
Can you possibly give some more code? I'm trying to understand what it is you are trying to do. If you are using Adobe AIR, then you are running the application outside of the browser completely. The MX:HTML tag is a version of webkit within the Adobe AIR runtime, not within IE. Cheers, Nate

Re: [flexcoders] Any Developers on a Mac?

2008-12-29 Thread Nate Beck
I've developed on a MBP using Flex Builder 2 and 3 for years. I've never had any issue. Just recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to 4 gigs of RAM over the original 2, mostly so I can run a Fusion Virtual Machine at the same time I'm working in OS X. As far as Apple hardware goes... I always get

Re: [flexcoders] Adobe closed for the holidays

2008-12-19 Thread Nate Beck
... We look forward to making beautiful things together in 2009! Is Matt hitting on us? On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Matt Chotin mcho...@adobe.com wrote: Hi all, Just a note to let you know that Adobe is shut down from 12/23 until Monday 1/5, though most of our team is also taking

Re: [flexcoders] Passing a varibable back to ActionScript via HTTPRequest

2008-12-18 Thread Nate Beck
Just out of curiosity.. Why wouldn't you use a CFC with access=remote? Then you could use the Flex mx:RemoteObject and pretty much be good to go. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex_cf.html has the information you need to accomplish such a thing. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tracy

Re: [flexcoders] What is the largest Flex app?

2008-12-18 Thread Nate Beck
That's an interesting question... because Flex is client side, it's the same as asking about scalable javascript. So when we're talking about scalability issues and flex, the majority of issues will reside on the server. At that point it's the same discussion as every other web technology... php,

Re: [flexcoders] data returned from WSDL call

2008-12-17 Thread Nate Beck
You can also put a mx:TraceTarget / at the top of your MXML document to see all the data going back and forth. That's how I troubleshoot when I'm dealing with SOAP. Cheers, Nate On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote: Have you set resultFormat=e4x? If

[flexcoders] RestExpressionNode not yet implemented

2008-12-17 Thread Nate Beck
I wanted to get some input on this. I'm writing a DateTime object using Proxy, (for all of the timezone stuff I'm working on) and I'm a little annoyed trying to make the DateTime constructor work exactly like the Date constructor. Here's my code... commented out code was other attempts: public

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How many classes are there in flex 3 framework?

2008-12-16 Thread Nate Beck
I had the same idea... except using ruby: require 'find' dirs = [/workspaces/flex_sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src,/workspaces/flex_sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects] dirs.each do |dir| count = 0 Find.find(dir) do |path| if (path =~ /(\.as|\.mxml)/) if(path =~

Re: [flexcoders] Re: How many classes are there in flex 3 framework?

2008-12-16 Thread Nate Beck
Yours is probably more accurate. :D On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: I had the same idea... except using ruby: require 'find' dirs = [/workspaces/flex_sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src,/workspaces/flex_sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects] dirs.each

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Loading .fxg with Actionscript - got it :-)

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
Awesome!! I've been trying to figure that out. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Mic chigwel...@yahoo.com wrote: displayGroup = new Group(); var source2 : comp.FlowerPower2 = new comp.FlowerPower2(); displayGroup.addItem(source2); addItem(displayGroup); --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Re: [flexcoders] Disable Flash Player Settings Panel

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
That's a tough problem that I've had to deal with before. Here is what I figured out. - You widget MUST be 216 x 140 (some people will argue you can do 215 wide, but in my testing sometimes that causes issues) - The main issue that you will run into is... When the player window is

Re: [flexcoders] Creating an URL to a subsection of UI

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
Check out: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Deep_Linking Cheers, Nate On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:53 AM, ozziegt osman.ul...@gmail.com wrote: I have a pretty complicated UI with 2-3 layers of tab-like navigation. So imagine if you will, a top level menu of 3-4

Re: [flexcoders] Re:FlexBuilder on 64bit machine any good?

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
Ooooh Deniz, that sounds tempting. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Deniz Davutoglu d...@7ist.com wrote: Hi, I use flex builder in 64 bit Linux. it improve performance by twice Strongly I suggest it. It crashes less than 32 bit and works faster. Deniz

Re: [flexcoders] Application.application.parameters doesn't hold GET query parameters

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
I don't believe Flash natively reads URL parameters from the browsers query string. However, here are a few ways you can do it: - Write a javascript (or serverside) method that takes the browsers query string and the passes them in as flashvars. - You CAN add a query string directly to

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Application.application.parameters doesn't hold GET query parameters

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
supposed to work. Thanks --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com, Nate Beck n...@... wrote: I don't believe Flash natively reads URL parameters from the browsers query string. However, here are a few ways you can do it: - Write a javascript (or serverside

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Application.application.parameters doesn't hold GET query parameters

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
much nicer. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Nate Beck n...@tldstudio.com wrote: I think you're just misreading the documentation. It's exactly as I described before: There are two sources of parameters: the query string of the Application's URL, and the value of the FlashVars HTML parameter

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-15 Thread Nate Beck
I'm working on timezone support within flash that I'm going to release as open source very soon. I'll update this thread when I do. But Tracy is right, you can always just pass a string from the server. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Tracy Spratt tspr...@lariatinc.com wrote: Pass the date

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