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flex expand and collapse icon in Tree control

I am having some trouble with the flex Tree control. I have a control in my system and of course it is data driven. I have a group which shows a folder icon and that's fine but it also shows an expand icon when the item has no children. I don't what it to show the expand icon when the group has no children but I do want to show the fol...

Adobe Air encryption of mp3 file with as3crypto only encrypts the first few bytes

I am using the as3crypto library to encrypt mp3 files in an Adobe Air application. The code below runs without error but I realized that only the first few bytes of the mp3 file are getting encrypted but not the whole file. I have no idea what’s the problem. Could someone please be so kind and have a look at my code below? import com.h...

Problem with Flex unit testing in IntelliJ

Hello, I have some problems running FlexUnit tests in IntelliJ. Every time I execute test, Internet Explorer (which is not even set as default browser) pops up and blocks unit test, i.e. blocks it as add so I must allow access through that dumb top bar and then another confirmation and then finally test runs. Is there any way to reconf...

AS3 Simple Event Questions....

Hi guys.... I am trying to get the percentage x coordinate of a MC. For example, My MC is 500px wide and 20px height. When I clicked the part of my MC, I want to get the percentage of my MC' x coordinate... (20% will be 100px of my MC...)..Anyone knows how to do it?? Thanks.. my code progressBa.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bar...

Is there a way, in As3, to modify a class variable within a function, if you have a it passed as a parameter?

Here is a simple example of what I mean: private var ex:String="day"; ...... closeWindows(ex); trace(ex);//I would like it to trace "night" ...... //this can be in another class, we assume that the "ex" variable can't be accessed directly private function closeWindows(context:String):void { context = "night" } Somehow I would ne...

When to extends EventDispatcher

Hi guys.. Simple question..I was wondering when you guys extends EventDispatcher in your class. It seems to me that as long as we have import event package, we can dispatchEvent without problems....I saw sometime people extends EventDispatcher in their class...not sure why...anyone care to explain? Thanks a million... ...

Im using gaesessions with flex in a gae web application. but the cookie delete itself between ajax request. why?

Im using gaesessions with flex in a gae web application. but the cookie delete itself between ajax request. why? ...

last occurrence of a string in a string in flex

Is there any inbuild function to find out the last occurrence of a string pattern in a string in action script . ...

AS3 youtube library event question...

Hi guys.. I am trying to build my youtube video search project in AS3.. and I found the following link... http://blog.martinlegris.com/2008/02/20/youtube-data-api-as3-youtubeclient-functions-associated-events/ His library has YouTubeClient.getStandardFeed(…) Event: StandardVideoFeedEvent.STANDARD_VIDEO_DATA_RECEIVED .feed: VideoF...

Gettinf Property **text** not found error in DataGrid

Hi All, I am using a custom itemEditor for my DataGrid. The itemEditor has a simple TextField as a component. But when ever i am clicking the cell i am getting an error as : ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property text not found on editors.customItemEditor and there is no default value. at mx.controls::DataGrid/itemEditorItemEditEndHandl...

flex menubar clicking event

I have a menuBar that looks like this: <mx:MenuBar id="myMenuBar" labelField="@label" cornerRadius="8" color="black" fillColors="[green, green]" itemClick="menuItemClickHandler(event);" dataProvider="{menuBarCollection}" change="onTopSelection(event)" /> The XML for my menuBar looks like this: <menuitem label=...

how to reduce a gap between pieseries

hi all.. 1. i have a piechart with some inner radius 2.next i have added a pieseries to same chart the problem is that a small gap comes in between them ...how to reduce it the image looks like this! image is here ...

embedded button.swf does not fire CLICK event

i'm trying to embed a swf to my as3 flex project like this: [Embed(source = "../assets/next_button.swf")] [Bindable] protected var nextButtonClass:Class; protected var next_btn:MovieClip = next_btn = new nextButtonClass() as MovieClip; // ... next_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onAdChange); next_button.swf is as2 and created w...

VLC-Player in adobe Air App does not stop/quit

Well i have an adobe air , downloaded from below link.. it is wonderful app.. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/air_screenrecording.html and this works fine. It captures my screen , record audio but it just does not stop or quit as vlc-player.exe continues to run in the task manager. i tried lots of vlc- commands but it ju...

how to access to mxml component through another mxml

Hi all I have an mxml canvas component with grid and I have in the mx:Script tag a public function that add a GridItem child into the grid. When I call this public function thorugh my main application and run the project, it stuck. so how can I do this? how to change my grid in the canvas through my main application and why my code doesn...

Flex: datagrid select all items

What would be the best way to select all items in a datagrid. I was thinking of doing a for loop and then select each item, but is there a better way for achieving this? ...

AS3 Pass Custom Event Data Question...

Hi guys.. I am trying to pass custom event data from 1 class to another class...here is my codes.. a.as private function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void{ dispatchEvent(new YouTubeSearchEvent(YouTubeSearchEvent.CHANGE_VIDEO_READY, videoId)); } b.as private var newVideoID:String; public function get selectedVideoID():String{...

Flex 4 Spark List setting scroll position

Hello! How can I set the scroll position for a Spark List control please? Thank you! ...

Flex 4 fileReference selected image file dimmensions (width and height)

Hello! I use a fileReference.browse() to select an image file from the harddrive. How can I check the Width and Height of the selected image file please? Thank you! ...

Flex 3 - Change box border colors

Hi! I have a question that might seem "basic" but I just cannot figure out how to do it... I have a box and I'd like to change the borderColor. Till there, nothing special. Just a box.bordercolor = xxxxxx... BUT, I'd like to have the top and bottom border with one color, and the left and right border with another color... And that's t...