I'm curious how, in ActionScript 3, to parse the font attributes of an HTML formatted content string. Lets take the following example content string: var content:String = '<font face="Archer-Bold" size="12" color="#000000">My Content</font>'; I'd like to parse that string and create an object with the font attributes in it. So a resul...
I'm in the process of making a game (a shmup) and I've started to question the accuracy of the timers in ActionScript. Sure, they're accurate enough when you want to time things on the order of a few seconds or deciseconds, but it seems to perform pretty poorly when you get to finer ranges. This makes it pretty tough to do things like ...
N.B. Keep in mind the difference between key code and character code. For example, the number 1 (one) and the character ! (bang) both have the same key code but different character codes. Likewise, the number 7 from the row of numbers and the number 7 from the numpad have different key codes but the same character codes. I'm programm...
I'm a Flex rookie tasked with enhancing an existing application. One of those enhancements is getting the field that currently shows the time to smoothly fade back and forth between showing the time and the date. I know the proper way to do this is to embed the font file in the application so I can fade the label in and out directly. ...
I've got a class like this: class Foo extends UIComponent { var someDispatcher:*; ... } And I want to listen for events fired by someDispatcher... But, of course, someDispatcher may not be bound until "later": <components:Foo someDispatcher="{someOtherComponent}" /> What's the best way to listen for events from someDispatch...
I've ran into a weird problem with getCharBoundaries, I could not figure out what coordinate space the coordinates returned from the function was in. What ever I tried I could not get it to match up with what I expected. So I made a new project and and added simple code to highlight the last charater in a textfield, and all of a sudden i...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:Label id="lb" text="check"/> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.managers.BrowserManager; import mx.managers.IBrowserManager; public var brm:IBrowserManager = Brow...
Hi Guys, I am trying to make a text editor in Flex. i can move image on mouse click. Problem is it moves with the key up or down handler. But it moves out of text area after the last line in textarea. And it also doesn't move with scroll. Pls give suggestions for these problems. Thanks. Regards, Shivang ...
Hi All, i am required to zoom a canvas through Hslider. The problem is after zooming the canvas i cannot scroll to the extreme left and top of the canvas i.e some part of left and top canvas are not visible. i cannot find the reason. The source code for the example is given below. " import mx.events.SliderEvent; private functio...
i am opening tabs with click event on tree list view. Problem is that i do not want open tab Pista as u can see in image again. i want to focus that open Pista tab. Pls give ur suggestions. Thanks. Regards, Shivang ...
I am making a input field for keywords, and while the users writing I'm displaying suggestions for keyword on a list underneath the caret position. The input field is single line, so I am using the arrow up/down key to select a suggestion and Enter to insert it. And it's mostly working, with the big exception that the up/down key also ch...
Flex's text-editing controls (mx:TextField, mx:TextArea) offer functions for doing "stuff" with the selected text (selectionBeginIndex, selectionEndIndex, setSelection), but the text-displaying controls (mx:Label, mx:Text) don't seem to offer anything of the sort. After some tinkering, I've tried subclassing Label then writing functions...
I'm using BlazeDS 3 in my application. The dependencies for the BlazeDS libraries are downloaded from a public maven repository. However I can't enable the RDS support on the server because of some missing library. Does anyone know where this class is located: flex.rds.server.servlet.FrontEndServlet in the blazeds distribution? ...
We are loading external swf content into an adobe air application. Content is provided by an increasing number of third parties. Being third party content, it will be loaded in a separate security domain (trustContent=false) and a sibling app domain (loadForCompatibility=true). We are doing this using the Loader class. What are the fea...
Flex gives the ability to export a display object as a bitmap as follows: var bitmapDataBuffer:BitmapData = new BitmapData ( displayObject.width, displayObject.height, false); bitmapDataBuffer.draw ( displayObject, displayObject.transform.matrix); Is there a method to export a display object as a vector graphic instead of ...
I have a grails application that will be rendering an html page into a pdf file and I have a flex application sitting on a server that is going to accept REST parameters and construct a graph based on the parameters (which will be formatted in JSON). What I want to do is make a call to the flex app with my parameters and have the flex ap...
I created a new actionscript project using Flex Builder 3 and tried to run the following file. I get this error : Definitions: fl.controls:Button could not be found. All I want to do is, to add a button to the application. How could I do it? package { import PaperBase; import org.papervision3d.objects.primitives.Cone...
I mean, the mvc for cairngorm and the one in rails don't overlap their functionalities? I'm not sure I understand the need for cairngorm with the rails backend.. ...
I'm working on a flex 3 application which will initially support only one language (which is not English) but may need to support English and other languages later. So I'm using the standard localization technique, with resource bundles. Now, somewhere I use the validators like EmailValidator which have some error messages displayed, the...
I have an an array of objects. I populate the datagrid from the array. The nmber of columns in the datagrid is fix i.e.5 and the first column always shows serial number (0,1,2,3,4). I have a link button called 'CLEAR' in the last column of the datagrid. 1> How do I make the clear button visible only when the row is particularly clicked...