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Can Flex 3 handle abstract types in a web service?

UPDATE: It looks like this same question has gone unanswered on the Adobe forums. I have a C# web service exposed via WCF. Some of the exposed operations take/return abstract types. When I use the client stubs generated by Flex Builder 3, I construct the derived types and pass them as parameters to the web service call. This all appears...

How does FLEX session management work

This is a pretty low level question...I'm trying to do a performance test of a JSP\Flex application and I notice in the AMF traffice that some sort of FLEX session seems to be used. All the AMF calls refer to a "DSId" which seems to be an identifier for the session. I need to be able to work out what this DSId is by examing the HTTP tra...

Flex app with large number of UI objects == slow?

I'm building my first Flex custom component, in Flex 3. It is a data table based on the 'Grid' container class, with a simple text Label in each cell. (DataGrid and AdvancedDataGrid were not appropriate starting points for my needs.) The component works quite well using smallish tables, but I tried stress-testing it using a larger table,...

HTML pop-up over flex

Hello How I can show the html pop-up over the Flex application with no changing the wmode of the flex object? Thanks ...

Alternatives of Flex Builder.

What are the alternatives of Flex builder for flex development (Free ware, open source preferred). I know one that is FlashDevelop, but it is not matured/full fledged flex IDE. ...

Flex adding event listeners with callback functions which have no arguments

fileReference.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, uploadCompleteHandler); private function uploadCompleteHandler(event:Event):void {} Above is one way to add an event listener in Actionscript. By default the callback function needs to have an argument with name event and type Event. Is there a way to declare this function without any ...

Are there Decorators / Macros / Annotations in AS 3?

I'm looking for the equivalent of Python decorators / Lisp macros / Java annotations (yes, I know that these are not necessarily equivalent themselves) in Actionscript. Tools that provide similar features would also be great (I'm using the Flex Builder plugin for Eclipse on Linux). I'm writing a Flex application and here's what I want t...

Adobe flex maximum size of uploaded file

Is there a maximum size limit for files being uploaded in Adobe Flex? I am testing it on localhost and can't upload a file of roughly 300MB. Even though I receive the complete event, after I upload the file.... I was able to upload a file of roughly 10MB. I am using PHP on the server side. ...

how to scroll two text boxes with single vertical scroll bar in Flex 3?

how can i scroll two text boxes with single scroll bar? ...

Free Map components For Flex?

I need to create a country map, is there any free map component available in Flex? ...

Using Flex/Air with J2EE

Hi All, I work on a large financial system which is hosted on WebSphere and currently has an applet front end. I am just playing around with Flex for the first time and I am really impressed with the quality of the framework. I am interested to see if there is anyway I can integrate Flex into my J2EE application in a simple type safe ...

Flex spark web browser problem

am using spark web in flex its working fine in IE6 where as in IE7 , Firefox, opera and other browser its not working. on login to spark web its giving error: Problem authenticating with the server or you are not authorised to perform this operation. Please help me out regarding this Thanks n regards Sheela ...

How to examine the contents of the Flash Player cache?

In my case I want to load the signed framework RSLs into the flash player cache. Seems to work, but how can I validate, that the swz is really being loaded into the flash player cache? On my Linux box I tried to find some kind of file in ~/.macromedia, but was not successful. ...

Where should I store reused static string constants in Flex application?

I have two Cairngorm MVC Flex applications (a full version and lite version of the same app) that share many Classes. I have put these Classes into a Flex Library Project that compiles as an SWC. Both applications use some static String constants. Right now, I am storing these in the ModelLocator: package model { [Bindable] publ...

How do you stop a soundeffect once it starts?

Objective: Play a sound effect when the user mouses down on the HSlider. Stop or pause the sound when the user mousses up. The following code starts the sound but a mouseup does not stop it. <mx:SoundEffect id="soundEffectSong" useDuration="false" source="http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/sound/song1.mp3"/&gt; <mx:Form x="10" y="39" ...

Flex TileGrid: Why do you default to copying when I drag and drop your items?

Why is it that, when I enable dragging-and-dropping in a TitleGrid, items are copied when they are dragged instead of moved? For example: <mx:TileList dragEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true"> <mx:dataProvider> <mx:Array> <mx:Object label="Nokia 6630"/> <mx:Object label="Nokia 6680"/> </mx:Array...

HTTPService in Flex with multiconnections

Hello I use HTTPService in my Flex application. I load several xml each about 1mb. Somethimes I need to stop loading previos xml and start to loading new one. If I use HTTPService.cancel(); or HTTPService.disconnect() - it increase the time to get the answer from the server. Is there a quick way to stop the previos loading in HTTPServi...

Collections in Adobe Flex

Is there any open source collection framework, written in ActionScript that would emulate HashMap, HashSet, LinkedHashMap and LinkedHashSet Java class implementations. ...

How can I debug AMF (BlazeDS) serialization of Java objects to Actionscript?

I'm using BlazeDS to remote some Java objects that I'm consuming in a Flex application. I'm getting a type coercion error with one of my classes that I can't for the life of me figure out. I have other classes that are working fine using the same data types, and I've gone over my mapping a dozen times. I'm following all of the necessa...

overridden styles for flex module

Can a flex module have styles different from the main application which loads the modules? Meaning... can I have a main set of styles for the application, and separate styles for each module.. with each of them rendering their own styles without disturbing the other at runtime? My specific case: The main application is developed by me.....