I retrieve XML data in Flex via HttpService. I have the resultFormat property on the HttpService instance set to HTTPService.RESULT_FORMAT_OBJECT. The result contains data similar to this: <!-- ... --> <children> <item><!-- ... --></item> <item><!-- ... --></item> <!-- ... --> <children> <!-- ... --> I get an array named item be...
I have an application that requires resizing of a component that will be scaled up and down quite frequently. I noticed that when I scale the component, any filter I use on it will not scale with it. I realize this makes sense, but I was wondering if Flex had a tool built in that would allow me to scale the filter with the component. I k...
This is a test program to measure the time it takes Flash to draw a triangle 10,000 times. The app (code below) calls runTimeTest() every N seconds which draws the triangle 10,000 times. Now for the "interesting" part: each call takes increasingly more processor until after about the 6th or 7th call it goes to "infinity" (see screen sh...
In an AS3 project, we can access loaderInfo in the first line of the root class' constructor. This means that the entire AS3 application can take advantage of the loaderInfo object. However, in Flex, it seems that the loaderInfo object is not available until after the applicationComplete event is sent. This is problematic for me, as o...
Hi, I'm on planning/modeling phase to develop a remote desktop sharing solution, which must be web browser based. In other words: an user will be able to see and interact with someone's remote desktop using his web-browser. Everything the user who wants to share his desktop will need, besides his browser, is installing an add-in, which...
Hi, is it possible to have multiple layers in a flex mxml document? What I actualy want is a panel with a form in it, but with a movieclip as a background. What is the best way to implement this? Using Flex 3.4 ...
I have a PresentationModel AS class that holds all the values used in SomeView.mxml. The entire class for the model is bindable, and the model property in the view is also bindable. However, I am unable to inject the model into the view using the PropertyInjector tag: - INFO: Data binding will not be able to detect assignments to model...
Hi, Will there be any difference between the swf generated by Flex Builder and mxmlc? In my application, there is a page with certain fields to be filled in. Upon clicking a button, it opens up a popup. Upon selecting an option in the popup and clicking OK, it makes a request to the server, fetches some data and adds it to the main pag...
I need to familiarize myself with this technology. My problem is that Google is swamp with results for tutorials. Where should I start? What development environment should I use assuming this is only for learning purposes and I don't want at the moment to buy any expensive software? What tools should I use? Any road maps for dummies? ...
I am creating a chart using mxml. The mxml tags only create a chart with a horizontal axis and vertical axis. My result event handler has actionscript code that loops through the xml result set and creates all the series (line series and stacked bar). This part of the code works fine. Now I need to use the functionfill function to set ...
Is there anyway I can effectively call the equiv. of setText on a Flex Graphics object ? Specifically I'm using a custom cell renderer to display data in a datagrid. The renderer uses the Graphics object to set the background colour of only a portion of the cell (say the left half) based upon the underlying data. I would like to be able...
I have a List and the item renderer displays an image and text from xml (news rss). Not all news have an image. Whenever you scroll the list, and the item renderer refreshes, it move images of news of a position, so the news "1" have the image of news "2", and the news "2" have the image of news "3" ecc., but the text (the title of news...
We use [Embed(source="assets/styles/basic/my_skins.swf",symbol="preloader_3")] private var PreloaderAnim:Class; for embedding a movieclip from an swf file. How can I do the same using a CSS file (which is loaded at runtime) and use it in my class? ...
how to create organisation chart in flex using xml ...
I am using a Tab Navigator component in which there are three canvas components. When i click one of the canvas (or tab), a Pie Chart is displayed. Actually what happens is that on-click 1. the canvas sends an HTTPService whose url is set to a php file 2. That php file actually gets information from a database. Based on that informati...
How to stream video over Socket Class (or XMLSocket) with ActionScript? or\and How to do it using Socket Class (or XMLSocket) in AIR? ...
I'm developing a Flex application. Since I'm not a very talented graphical designer, I leave all stylings etc. at their defaults. Once I finish the app, I would like to give it to a graphical designer, together with all the fonts, icons, styles etc. that Flex has put into my app, so she can swap them out and make my app pretty and theme ...
I herd about RED5, but unfortunately I can't find any examples for feeding it with external source. I know RTSP is in development, but I'm thinking about (named) pipes or something like this. There is is also project named xuggle that is as far as I understand ffmpeg wrapper for Java, but I herd they have also problems with live streamin...
If you have two text areas with different styles (fontFamily, weight, color etc) and you copy text from one to the other it also copies the style from the originating text area. Is there any slick way to prevent that? Here is a sample of code that will illustrate the problem. Type some text in the top box and some text in the bottom, ...
I have an HBox with width=500. I actually want to add two arrows buttons that will scroll the contents of the HBox. But when I turn HBox's scroll policy to off, I can't scroll it programmatically using horizontalScrollPosition. What should i do now? Thanks ...