Accessing .NET Web Service securely from Flex 3
We can successfully consume a .NET 2.0 web service from a Flex/AS3 application. Aside from SSL, how else can we make the security more robust (i.e., authentication)? ...
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Google Maps in Flex Component
I'm embedding the Google Maps Flash API in Flex and it runs fine locally with the watermark on it, etc. When I upload it to the server (flex.mydomain.com) I get a sandbox security error listed below: SecurityError: Error #2121: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: http://mydomain.com/main.swf?Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:46:03 UTC can...
Silverlight Install Base - How big is it?
Silverlight v2.0 is getting closer and closer to RTM but I have yet to hear any stats as to how many browsers are running Silverlight. If I ask Adobe (by googling "Flash install base") they're only too happy to tell me that 97.7% of browsers are running Flash player 9 or better. Not that I believe everything I read, but where are these ...
Terminal emulation in Flex
Hi. I need to do some emulation of some old DOS or mainframe terminals in Flex. Something like the image below for example. The different coloured text is easy enough, but the ability to do different background colours, such as the yellow background is beyond the capabilities of the standard Flash text. I may also need to be able to...
E4X : Assigning to root node
Hello, I am using Adobe Flex/Air here, but as far as I know this applies to all of JavaScript. I have come across this problem a few times, and there must be an easy solution out there! Suppose I have the following XML (using e4x): var xml:XML = <root><example>foo</example></root> I can change the contents of the example node using ...
How do I prevent Flash's URLRequest from escaping the url?
I load some XML from a servlet from my Flex application like this: _loader = new URLLoader(); _loader.load(new URLRequest(_servletURL+"?do=load&id="+_id)); As you can imagine _servletURL is something like http://foo.bar/path/to/servlet In some cases, this URL contains accented characters (long story). I pass the unescaped string to UR...
Editing XML in Flex using e4x
Hello, In Flex, I have an xml document such as the following: var xml:XML = <root><node>value1</node><node>value2</node><node>value3</node></root> At runtime, I want to create a TextInput control for each node under root, and have the values bound to the values in the XML. As far as I can tell I can't use BindingUtils to bind to e4x ...
How to make Flex RIA contents accessible to search engines like Google?
How would you make the contents of Flex RIA applications accessible to Google, so that Google can index the content and shows links to the right items in your Flex RIA. Consider a online shop, created in Flex, where the offered items shall be indexed by Google. Then a link on Google should open the corresponding product in the RIA. ...
Best Way to Animate Sprites in Flex
Is there a preferred way to handle animation when using Flex -- For instance, if I want to render a ball and bounce it around the screen? ...
Looking for better End-to-End Comms with Flex, .NET and DBMS
We're reviewing some of our practices at work - and the specific thing we're looking at right now is the best method for doing Comms with Flex based clients, and .NET web services. Our typical approach is to first model the interactions based on requirements, mock up some XML messages and sanity check them, turn those into XSDs, and fi...
Can you return a String from a summaryObjectFunction
In a Flex AdvancedDatGrid, we're doing a lot of grouping. Most of the columns are the same for the parents and for the children, so I'd like to show the first value of the group as the summary rather than the MAX, MIN or AVG This code works on numerical but not textual values (without the commented line you get NaN's): private functi...
Flex: How to add a tab close button for TabNavigator component
I'd like to have a TabNavigator component that has a close button for some of the tabs. How do I do that? It seems that the TabNavigator component does not allow (or I could not find) extensibility of this form. Help. Thanks ...
What Causes Flash Error #2012 (Can't instantiate class)?
I am new to ActionScript 3 and have run into a problem: Using Flex Builder 3, I have a created a project with a few simple classes. If code in class A instantiates an object of class B (class B is in its own source file) then the code compiles fine, but I get the following run time error: ArgumentError: Error #2012: B class cannot be i...
How does a Rails developer talk to Flex front ends?
I'm looking at Rails development as a backend to a Flex application and am trying to figure out the communication layer between the Rails app and the Flash Player. All of the things I am finding suggest using SOAP web services to communicate. However, Flash supports AMF which is nice and fast (and native). Is there any way of communic...
Automated testing of FLEX based applications
What tools, preferably open source, are recommended for driving an automated test suite on a FLEX based web application? The same tool also having built in capabilities to drive Web Services would be nice. ...
what is the difference between invalidateList and invalidateDisplayList?
I have a DataGrid, populated with objects in an ArrayCollection. After updating one of the objects' fields, I want the screen to update. The data source is not bindable, because I'm constructing it at runtime (and I don't understand how to make it bindable on the fly yet -- that's another question). In this situation, if I call Invali...
what is the flex (ActionScript3) syntax for a function valued function's type?
What is the syntax to declare a type for my compare-function generator in code like the following? var colName:String = ""; // actually assigned in a loop gc.sortCompareFunction = function() : ??WHAT_GOES_HERE?? { var tmp:String = colName; return function(a:Object,b:Object):int { return compareGeneral(a,b,tmp); }; }(); ...
How do I implement custom drag functionality in a Flex list control?
Flex has built in drag-n-drop for list controls, and allows you to override this. But they don't cover this in examples. The built-in functionality automatically drags the list-item, if you want to override this you find the handlers are being set up on the list itself. What I specifically want to do, is my TileList shows small thumbnail...
How to send SOAP requests in ISO-8859-1 with Flex ?
Flex uses by default UTF-8. I have not fount a way to specify a different encoding/charset on the actionscript WebService class. Thanks in advance for your help ...
What does BlazeDS Livecycle Data Services do, that something like PyAMF or RubyAMF not do?
I'm doing a tech review and looking at AMF integration with various backends (Rails, Python, Grails etc). Lots of options are out there, question is, what do the Adobe products do (BlazeDS etc) that something like RubyAMF / pyAMF don't? ...