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Difference between Adobe AIR and FLEX?

What is the difference between Adobe AIR and FLEX? ...

How to open real popup window in Flex

I need to open popup window in my flex / air application that will be displayed like normal application window. All I could manage is to open a window which is displayed inside my main flex window. Is it something like that possible, and is there some workarounds if not? ...

work on a particular RDF file in flex

Hi all, I'm still working on a particular RDF file, but seems that something is not going in the right way for me. The code of my RDF file is the following: <?xml version = '1.0"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dp = "http://www.telemed.uniud.it/d...

Flex 3 DataGridColumn HeaderText Localization

I'm working in a multi-language application using ResourceBundle in Flex 3. I'm displaying data in a DataGrid and defined DataGridColumn headerText like this headerText="{localizedHeaderText('LABEL_USER_NAME')} this function returns the localized label for the username, but when I dynamcally select another language evertying gets refr...

flex 3 webservice results issue

hi, im having trouble with the result of a webservice call. When the result comes in and kicks off the resultHandler function i set a break point so i can examine the result. I can see that there are 0 records in the array collection however i can see content so im assuming that the zero is just referring to the first index of the array...

Flex Viewstack's children, if you can't see them, do they exist?

I seem to be running into an issue (Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference) binding events in actionscript to a viewstack layer not currently showing. Are those objects not created until that layer is visible for the first time? I remember something about a creation policy, if this is the case, can I force it to cr...

Problem with handling keyboard events inside a Canvas using Flex.

For some reason, the event listener I define never seems to receive any events, although I believe it should. Here's a very short description of the MXML code I'm using: WindowedApplication VBox (root box) MenuBar TabNavigator VBox (first tab) Canvas VBox (second tab) If I ad...

Getting the status of a stream from FMS in ActionScript

I'm looking for a way to get the status of a stream from Flash Media Server to action script. I need to know if a stream has any publishers/listeners from flex/ActionScript. ...

Flex Truncating Button Labels

First and foremost, I apologize for any vagueness in this question. At this point, I'm simply trying to get some new ideas of things to try in order to diagnose this bug. Anyway, the problem I'm having is with an application that's using a custom moduleloader. That moduleloader has been compiled into an swc and the moduleloader is be...

In terms of performance, which is better Flex or Silverlight?

In general, which performs better? How are they like when processing vector graphics? ...

proper dictionary/map/tree/hash container in Flex

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Flex's Dictionary (which is really just an array with string indices). Trivial things seem not to be possible, like getting the last element, or even iterating over the sorted container according to keys (the order seems to be arbitrary), and the sort functions seem to make a mess of everything i...

How can I play a youtube video in swfloader?

hi, I embed a youtube video in my air application. It loaded and played well, but I cannot play more than one video at the time, only one video is played at the time, do you know why? The code is: url:String = "http://in.youtube.com/v/fVGk5qm6Mac&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"; //texturl.text=url; swfloader.load(url) please anyone ...

Bookmark a page

How can we bookmark a page on clicking a button or a link button in flex using actionscript ...

Automating QA on Flex Application

I have a Flex Application that needs to be tested and our QA department is really adament on using some form of automated-testing tools like HP's QuickTest Pro (QTP). However, QTP requires that you write some custom code if you wish to automate some home-made components... Unfortunately, we have some 3rd-party components which we do not ...

Where does the Flex compiler put the .aso files?

I want to be able to hand delete the intermediate .aso files generated by the Flex mxmlc compiler. Where are they stored? (I know the Flash IDE has a "delete asos" button, but I'm using the FlashDevelop IDE, which doesn't. The reason I want this is so I can play around with the compiler's warning settings on a fairly large project, an...

Flex container with items of variable size

I need to display a horizontal list of images using Flex. I can't use a horizontal TileList because the tiles all end up the size of the first item. Is there a flex control that will allow me to have items with different sizes? Edit: The list of items would ideally come from a data provider. Unfortunately the control in Chetan Sastry's...

Any way to analyze the size of a SWF built in Flex?

I have a Flex application that seems larger than it should be. There is a lot of code in it, but not a lot of assets and it just seems large, but I'm not sure how to go about figuring out where the space is going. I know about the –link-report option, but it only gives the sizes of externally linked library classes. I'm very interested ...

How to disable the default open menu effect in Flex?

By default in Flex 3.2, clicking on an item in a MenuBar navigator results in a menu rolling out over a small period of time. How would I disable this and make the menu pop out instantly? Thanks! ...

Should I learn FLEX, is it a marketable enough?

I haven been recently laid off and was considering what to learn in the down time while trying to get another job. I had heard that Adobe's FLEX was starting to become more in-demand, and have seen it increasingly on job postings. Has anyone else been successful (career wise) in learning FLEX? Is it worth spending time to learn FLEX to ...

How to make the Canvas clip its contents in Flex?

I draw a line on a Canvas object with the moveTo and lineTo graphics methods. If one end of the line lies outside the Canvas, the line spills out and is drawn over or under other elements in the application. How do I make the Canvas keep the line contained within itself? Thanks! ...