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Adobe Catalyst: rounded corners

I've created a rectangle in catalyst and under the "properties" panel, all I can see is Corners 10 for the rectangle. Is there a way to individually define each corner similar to CSS. I can't see any source code view in catalyst to enable me to fine tune it for each of the 4 corners. How do I specify the roundedness of each corner separa...

Disable printing in adobe Flex

I am building my website in adobe flex(i am n00b). I have some photographs which I would like to make sure that people cannot print. I do understand that it is not possible to completely stop users from printing. But atleast disable the context menu or just the print option and the copy option. Any and all things about this is helpful...

Good or Bad Examples of Flash/Flex Technology Use

I'm a PHP programmer who's learning more about adobe products including flex, and would like to train myself to recognize when flash/flex is the right technology to use for a client/project (and of course when it's not the right technology to use). I guess the best way to get it is by experience, so if you know of any examples (full si...

How to highlight cells in datagrid?

How can I toggle cell's background color by clicking on this cell? (Adobe Flash Builder beta 2) ...

Adobe Air App Starts in Centre

In my application.xml I can set the position of the initial window. However this is set in pixels from the top left corner of the screen. So how would I centre it? ...

Using an external css in Flex 4

I'm using the Flex 4 beta and the ability to load an external css seems to be broken. Running the code below shows no styling at all. Have I missed something? Here's the code: package components { import flash.events.Event; import flash.net.URLLoader; import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.text.StyleSheet; import ...

TextField getCharBoundaries not giving proper co-ordinates

Hi all, I'm developing one AS3 application in which I need to add blank editable box between string. I use tag to define blank. The problem I'm having is, getCharBoundries may b not giving proper bounding box for characters. to get boundingBox of word, I use getCharBourndries of First char of word and last char of word and calculate x,...

How do I add XML data into an local XML file, so I can read it later.

I want to save XML data into a XML file. So I can load it on the next startup. ...

Web page serving FDF appears to go into infinite loop with Adobe Reader

I'm trying to figure out a situation where when reaching a web page that is supposed to pull some data from database and push that to the user. Behavior in IE: Instead of serving up the page, the user is presented with a dialog asking the user if they want to open, save or cancel. Clicking "open" and the dialog disappears for a second...

why a pdf document could be not searchable?

Hi experts,,, I have a pdf document with content in Arabic language and when I try to search inside the document for a specific word, adobe reader returns no results. it seems a format problem... how can I fix that? thanks. ...

Adobe photoshop

How to write programs for tools used in adobe photoshop? may i know the algorithms used in adobe photoshop? ...

Connect to Facebook with Javascript Client Library using Adobe AIR

I'm having an issue connecting to Facebook through the Javascript Client Library in Adobe AIR. It works fine in the browser but in Adobe AIR it seems to not be able to find the Facebook functions. Here is some code I copied from the Facebook website: (Oh and I have the xd_receiver.htm file in the correct path too) <textarea style="width...

Could not open the editor: Editor could not be initialized

Happy New year everyone!Have a healthy and prosperous 2010! Now for the question that I have : I am getting error "Could not open the editor: Editor could not be initialized." when i try to open the CF3 builder. Neglecting this error I am continuing with my work and I am able to access all my project/files etc ,but what i feel is tha...

Auto-sizing and positioning in Flex

I am working on a flex app that uses XML templates to dynamically create DisplayObjects. These templates define different layouts that can be used for each page of content in the app (ie , 2 columns, 3 columns etc etc). The administrator can select from one of these and populate each area with their content. The templates add one of 3...

Adding dynamic DisplayObjects in Flex

I am adding DisplayObjects to a Canvas using ContentContainer.addChild(c); Where ContentContainer is my Canvas object and c is the DisplayObject I have created at run-time Some of these DisplayObjects also have children of there own which are added at run-time prior to the DisplayObject being added to the Canvas I then need to iter...

Is there a programmatic way to convert PDFs to images using Adobe's PDF renderer?

We trying to set up automated regression testing our generated PDFs by converting our them to images and then using Python Imaging library to test the difference, pixel by pixel, between new and old versions. Right now, the only step that isn't automated is converting the PDFs to images. I know there are ways to convert PDFs to images ...

Database abstraction layer for AIR (JS)?

Hello guys, I was wondering if there are any abstraction layers for the SQLite database thats integrated into Adobe AIR. I don't expect something like Doctrine or Zend_Db (coming from the PHP world) but a bit more abstraction and comfort would be really nice. I'm using the HTML/JavaScript flavor of AIR so any ActionScript stuff is of ...

When listening for keypress in Flash Lite should I be listening for Key.Down or the numeric code for this key?

The adobe documentation says that when listening for a keypress event from a phone you should listen for Key.Down, however when I trace the Key.getCode() of keypresses I see a number not the string "Key.Down". I am tesing this locally in device central and do not have a phone to test this with at present. Here is my code - keyListener =...

Install adobe air application while preserving the file timestamp (thru command line)

i have a app.air file which has the files with different timestamp inside it, when i install it, it expands the .air file and reset all the timestamp of its files. is there a way to install the application and NOT change the timestamp? preferably thru a command line way too. Also, what exactly does the installation process do to the .a...

Reading PDF Forms Data into SharePoint Lists

I have an application where customers fill out a PDF form and then post it to a sharepoint library. Once the document is posted, we want to kick of an event handler to extract the user data from the form and post it into one or more sharepoint lists. Any ideas on how I get started- I'm a novice with PDF forms but have a good understan...