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How to save a string into file in applicationdirectory and get its real location? (Adobe Air)

How to save a string into file (file.superlongextention) in applicationdirectory and get its real locationon Hard drive (like C:/files/...)? ...

Flex 4 IntelliJ IDEA wrapper html crashes browser

I'm building an Flex 4 application using IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 generated sample Flex application. I replace the generated mxml with the following code from the book Hello Flex 4. It simply crashes the browser when I run it. It says "Waiting for fpdownload.adobe.com..." and then crashes! I tried it on both FF 3.5.9 and Chrome 4. Any clues?...

How do I set the dimensions of a custom component defined in an ActionScript class?

I'm trying to set the height of a vertical bar (activityBar) but it does not appear to do anything. i have tried something similar with the whole component, but setting the dimensions does nothing (even in the mxml used to instantiate the class). Indeed, I've added transparent graphics just to give the component some dimensions I'm not ...

MXMLC Ant task results in java.lang.OutOFMemoryError

I'm making a change to a set of code for a Flex project that I didn't write and was set up to compile using ant tasks. I assume that the codebase was stable at the last checkin but I'm running into memory issues when trying to build a project using MXMLC and ant (see stack trace below). Before, I was just getting an out of memory error. ...

Styling buttons of Flex TabNavigator

I created a TabNavigator with a bunch of NavigatorContent inside it, and want to skin just the buttons of the tabs themselves. So I added a skinClass, but looks like in the documentation, there's no skin part to target the button specifically. Do I have to style the mx:TabNavigator itself to accomplish this?...

Difference between UIComponent and Sprite in Flex

What is the difference between a UIComponent and a Sprite in Flex. ...

Detect activity level of microphone in flex

Hi, I have to detect avtivityLevel of microphone in Flex. I am using the activityLevel property of Microphone class but as I found out it always return -1 even if I have done Microphone.getMicrophone(). To detect activity level we have to set microphone.setLoopback = true; Does anybody know how to do this without using loop back as I d...

How to create an object from 2 arrays?

So I hava array Links and array Params with same langth N So what I need is to create an object where for each link from Links I will be able to see param from Params And than for example to be abble to call something like for each( item in object) if (item.param == "some value") { // some code } else... How to do such thing (C...

binding to arraycollection does not work

Hi, I am using flex SDK 3.5. I have model.as and in it i have an ArrayCollection (name it arr_mod) which is Bindable. From my mxml i link to this arr_mod in three places: 1) in DataGrid i set dataprovider={arr_mode} ... 2) in Button i add new item to the arr_mod this way: mx:Button .. click = "{arr_mod.addItem(new Item)}" 3) in textBox...

Flex-AIR: Make application with NO tab in taskbar?

Following up on the question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1100480/flex-air-make-application-with-no-tab-in-taskbar The question is, where to put/insert the stuff, I don't get it where exactly you have to put it and what needed to be changed. I'm using Flex 4. Thanks, Yan ...

Flex-built SWF's no longer work, error 2048, 2046, 2032

I'm really confused about this problem, and I'm pretty new to Flex. Basically, anything I try to build with mxmlc fails to run now, giving me the above three errors depending on what I do. It was working 30 minutes ago, I've been spending that time trying to figure out what has changed. I redownloaded the Flex SDK, cleared my assetcache,...

Prefix for element not bound

Hello! I am a newbie in Flex development and using Flash Builder 4 with SDK 4. Now I get the error that "the prefix "fx" for element "fx:Style" is not bound" in line number 4. I searched for it, and it has sth. to do with namespaces, but I can not solve it by myelf. I have the file called "UserStory.mxml" in the directory "components" ...

flex custom events bubbling

Dear Richard Szalay, i go through your answers regarding bubbling, i want explore bubbling more. Please see my sample below <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:view="com.view.*" > <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import com.events.ImgLoaded; private function loadedd(evt:ImgLoaded):void{ t...

How to set tooltip for buttonbar button

I have a buttonbar that has 3 buttons. I'm trying to set a tooltip for each of the buttons, but not sure where. The ButtonBar itself has a skin, which in turn includes a skin for each of the buttons. <s:ButtonBar id="bb" selectedIndex="0" skinClass="skins.bbSkin"> <s:dataProvider> <s:ArrayList> <fx:Object la...

String replace method not doing anything in Flex 4 app

I have a string called userEmail in my Flex 4 app that has a value of: my%40email.com I need to have an @ symbol instead of %40, so I run this line: userEmail.replace("%40","@"); But the string has the same value after. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for reading. ...

FileReference.download() not working

I'm building a Flex app which requires me to download files. I have the following code: public function execute(event:CairngormEvent) : void { var evt:StemDownloadEvent = event as StemDownloadEvent; var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(evt.data.file_path); var localRef:FileReference = new FileReference(); localRef.addEv...

Graph Generation in flex

I need to generate a graph using the following XML in FLEX. [Bindable] public var stockDataAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection( [ {date: "2010, 4, 27", close: 41.71}, {date: "2010, 4, 28", close: 42.21}, {date: "2010, 5, 2", close: 42.71}, {date: "2010, 5, 3", close: 42.99}, {date: "2010, 5, 4", close: 44} ]); ...........

How to show hand cursor when mouse is over List component?

I am aware that the follow will show a hand cursor: component.mouseChildren = true; component.useHandCursor = true; component.buttonMode = true; When I do the above on a List component, the hand button is shown and the whole component loses it's interactivity (Hand cursor is shown even on scrollbars). So how can I show the hand curs...

I'm trying to use CSS to position my Flex app but it's not working

I'm trying to position my Flex app so that its in the bottom 40% vertically, and the left 70% horizontally. This is how I define the flash section in CSS: #flashContent { display:none;position:absolute; top:60%;width:70%;height:40%;} Here is the HTML: <div id="flashContent"> <p> To view this page ensure th...

s:Label does not load the font

Hello! I have a mxml component with a "s:Label" and fontFamily="notes" as an attribute. Source code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:SkinnableContainer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" mouseUp="skinnablecontain...