A lot of programming languages and frameworks do/allow/require something that I can't seem to find the name for, even though there probably is one in computer science. What they basically do is bind to a variable/object/class/function by name. Flex example ("selectAll()"): <mx:Button click="selectAll()" label="Select All"/> Mate exa...
I am tring to get the ASDoc Ant task to work: <target name="asdoc" depends="compile"> <mkdir dir="${dist_asdocs}"/> <asdoc docSources="${srcdir}" output="${dist_asdocs}" executable="${FLEX_HOME}/bin/asdoc.exe" /> </target> When I run it I get errors from ASDoc like "Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: X...
I have a swf that is run from C:/ in the browser instead of a server (long story) and that swf loads a video that it located at ../../videos/video in relation to that swf. Problem is, When I run it in Flex, everything is cool. Running locally, it can't find the file (not a security error) and is throwing a connectionError. Any ideas...
Hi, I would like to develop Adobe Flex applications using Linux and a free environment. I'd prefer a free as in freedom alternative, but as in beer would work as well. ;-) Are any of you developing Adobe Flex rich internet applications using such an environment? Or should I face the "facts" that Flex Builder is an essential tool for Fl...
I have an AIR app with an <mx:HTML> component, which renders a page that includes an HTML/Javascript-based WYSIWYG/rich-text editor. Various keyboard shortcuts are assigned for formatting and what have you, but if I type a shortcut which isn't assigned (eg. cmd [or ctrl on Win] + M), the character is entered as if no modifier key was pre...
How do you get an instance of the actionscript class Class from an instance of that class? In Python, this would be x.__class__; in Java, x.getClass();. I'm aware that certain terrible hacks exist to do this, but I'm looking for a built-in language facility, or at least a library routine built on something reliable. ...
A client of mine is looking to convert a critical 'application' based on multiple (very complex) spreadsheets into a web app. As part of this they'd like some of the web pages they use to enter/model data to resemble a spreadsheet as much as possible. I'd be interested to know if anyone has any experience/recommendations for embeddable...
I have a few GridItem components that gets filled with dynamic data. Sometimes this data longer than the GridItem's fixed width, causing the GridItem to get a horizontal scrollbar. How can I disable this (I'm assuming you can...) Is there a general style that handles this for other Flex components as well? Thanks. ...
I know that you can apply CSS in order to style objects in Flex using the StyleManager: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=styles_07.html You can also load compiled CSS files (SWFs) dynamically: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=styles_10.html However, I'm dynamically creating my CSS files...
This is similar to my previous posting. But this time I want to call a function that exists on the main mxml page. This is my main mxml page: main.mxml <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:ns1="*"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public function changeText(currentText:String):void{ ...
Does anyone know if it is possible to add other controls to a Flex 3 Alert? What I need is a modal dialoge that allows the user to type in a filename before clicking OK or CANCEL. This seems like it would be best achieved with an Alert but in the documentation I don't see an obvious way to add a TextInput (or any other control except a B...
I have a class which extends SWFLoader, I use it like a normal SWFLoader: var loader:MySWFLoader = new MySWFLoader(); loader.load("myFile.SWF"); myScene.addChild(loader); The loading works OK, except that it remains 0 because the width & height never change from 0. I had to override the width/height get properties to make it work: cl...
Are most flash video players created all programmatically? Or they done using static buttons that are referenced in classes? Is it better to create all your buttons on the fly or does it not really matter? ...
I have a requirement on my current project (a Flex app which will be run in Flash player) to display an arbitrary subset of the components on a form while hiding all the other components based on certain aspects of the application state. There are about a dozen different text boxes and drop downs, but some become irrelevant based on pre...
I have a CircleButton class in Actionscript. I want to know when someone externally has changed the 'on' property. I try listening to 'onChange' but it never hits that event handler. I know I can write the 'on' property as a get/setter but I like the simplicity of just using [Bindable] Can an object not listen to its own events? publi...
Is there any way to run ASDoc on your project via the Flex Builder UI? Or, is there a good (preferably free) plugin that will do so? If there is no UI for it, does someone have a link to a tutorial on how to set it up to be automatic when I build my project, maybe via Ant (which I've never used, but am more than happy to try) or someth...
My company has been working on a Flex dashboard that displays realtime financial information. It will be deployed over a corporate WAN to perhaps a few dozen users. This is our first Flex project, and while development has been very pleasant, we're a little concerned about what production issues might come up (users not having the righ...
I want to load the flex framework as an RSL (SWZ, using player caching) but I need to monkey patch a couple of bug fixes in the framework. A number of forums suggest this is not possible. Has anyone gotten this to work? ...
Hello all, I am attempting to load an activex object on the same page where my flex application resides. Is this possible? Can I have 2 object tags on one page? As of right now the flex application loads fine but when I attempt to access the activeX control it says its null. But if I have the same activex control on its own webpage i...
What kind of security issues am I going to run into when hosting a Flex site (with multiple modules) using Amazon S3's hosting? Can I even communicate between two different swfs if they're loaded from two different subdomains? (These will be modules) I dont yet know if i would host all modules on S3 or just some. For testing impact to ...