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TCP Flow control in AS3?

I am currently working on a Flash socket client for a pre-existing service/standard. The service uses TCP flow control to throttle itself and the Flash socket is reading in everything as fast as it can despite not being able to process it as fast as it's being taken in. This causes the bytesAvailable on the socket to keep increasing an...

update facebook status using flex

Want to find out if facebook status can be updated through flex or air. ...

How do you properly set the horizontal focus in a TextArea control?

In Flex, I created a TextArea control and slapped in text data. If I do .setSelection(begin, end) and then call .setFocus() on the TextArea, it usually works fine (selected text comes into focus view correctly). However, if I have wordwrapping turned OFF and let's say text goes beyond the visible horizontal viewing area of the TextArea...

flex 4 and facebook-actionscript-api : cannot login

Hi. I wrote a simple application for facebook and it seems that i fail to login. I created a test application on facebook and i test my application by going to apps.facebook.com/ i have the following function that is being executed after ApplicationComplete event of my main application. private function initFacebook():void { ...

Simplifying Flex deployments in services-config.xml?

I am using Flex/Flash to build a UI which front-ends my Rails server application. I am using WebORB as the communication mechanism. My question should apply beyond just WebORB, however. (I think). Specifically, it has to do with the services-config.xml file. I have a local (laptop) dev environment, a remote dev and a remote production e...

Flex DataGrid ItemRenderer Issue

I have a grid filled with >1000 datasets. one column uses a custom itemRenderer which is used to display the value of a foreign key. All the datasets which are displayed without scrolling are displayed with the right information. But when it comes to scrolling, some datasets will have displayed the wrong value in the itemRenderer. As fa...

Post to Facebook via Flex

Is there a way to post to a users Facebook wall via fbConnect? (php/as3) I can authenticate and pull info but not post anything. I have searched extensively and not found a working example or docs on how to post directly via AS3. My current work around is to external link to an Ajax page. blah. J~ ...

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@1e286071 to mx.events.ListEvent

Hi everybody, I have this message, always when I paste something in my datagrid. I tried to figure out why that is, but I cant find Any ListEvent in the functions which do get called... Can anyone give me a hint how I could approach to reason of that problem? I tried to comment parts of the code but I still couldn't find the basic of t...

What is the correct way to to update Accordion children in Flex?

Hi, Right now I have an Accordion component in Flex that has two children, I want to give the children a reference to my application model when they have completed their instantiation (after the accordion changes index). The following notation fails for me because the children are instantiated after the event is triggered (accordionCh...

Add setter in a prototype in Flex

In Flex, you can add functions to the prototype of a Class; but how do you add a setter? For example, with A some (non-dynamic) class, you can do this: var o:Object = new A(); A.prototype.myFunction = function():void{trace("foo");} o.foo(); And that will call the foo function. But how could you add a setter, so that setting the prope...

Flex3: Load contents of an embedded text file into a variable

I have a block of html text which is displayed to the user in a TextArea. Currently, the I have embedded the HTML as an XML object within one of my classes, but this seems like a terrible design. I would like to put the HTML in an embedded file and load it into an XML or String object. I've tried to search for how to do this, but my s...

Why is the 'Range' URLRequestHeader in Flash restricted?

Can anyone tell me why the Range, header is restricted in the Flash player? I want to be able to pause and resume downloads in my flex application, but I get a RTE when trying to set the Range header. Error #2096: The HTTP request header Range cannot be set via ActionScript. I imagine there isn't going to be a work around client side...

Using the Flex Tile component to incorporate a paging control

Hello Everyone, I am trying to combine paging functionality with a Tile control. Has anyone seen an example of how this has been done? Thanks in advance for any insight, Orville ...

Flex binding in AS3 - Negate boolean value

I am binding a checkbox to a property on a control. Everything is fine, but I need to bind the checkbox to another property, and the value needs to be the opposite of chkbox.checked. BindingUtils.bindProperty(obj, "propertyBool", checkBox, "selected"); I need something like this... BindingUtils.bindProperty(obj, "propertyBool", chec...

Why am I getting this warning: 3594: parent is not a recognized method of the dynamic class XML?

It's coming from this line of code: var dropTargetXML:XML = XMLTemplate.template.component.section.question.(@question_questionID == nNode.parent().@question_questionID)[0]; nNode is an XML node sent as an argument to the function this is called in. The code runs, and does everything expected but the compiler sends out that warning. D...

Detecting TextInput changes on an editable ComboBox in Flex

If my ComboBox is editable how can I tell if a change event comes from a change to the TextInput or a change in the selectedIndex of the drop down? Is there a way to check for this in the event object? ...

How can I speed up Ant Compilation in FDT / Flex Builder

Is there any way to speed up MXMLC compiles using Flextasks in Ant in Eclipse. Compared to FDT and Flex Builder's in-built compilation, it is painfully slow. ...

Flex bug trying to import actionscript files

The "import "Player.as" line throws the error: 1084: Syntax error: expecting rightbrace before semicolon. package { import "Player.as"; //ERROR import "Card.as"; public class Game { I was going great with Flex, until I tried to split up my code into separate files. Now I'm struggling. Here are my files and their dependencies:...

How can I add an image to my Flex application at with ActionScript?

EDIT: I just needed to add: import mx.controls.Image; I have an MXML file, and when I can add image tags to the XML and it works. But, I can't figure out how to create an image and add it to the canvas programatically with AS. I was hoping this would have worked: var card:Image = new Image(); //ERRORS ON THIS LINE: call to possibly u...

Frustrating XML Error, Flex, & OpenX

Hi, I'm trying to get Flex and OpenX to work together. OpenX is returning XML. I've got two Flex classes that clean-up the XML and place the ads on my site (thank you Daryl Bowden). Unfortunately, I get Error #1090: XML parser failure, when I test it. And I can't figure out why. The first class is: package com.darylbowden.ads { imp...