About Flex

Hi Guys,
Anyone explain me, what is Flex and how it is in useful in Project management?
Regards
sa2398

Hi Bala,
Adobe Flex is not similar to Java Webdynpro. You can get more information from the Adobe Webpage and also a trial version. Adobe Flex is part of Visual Composer Compiler capabilities. At SAP TechEd in Munich was an interessting demo of rendering webdynpro with Flex during the Demo Jam. For more information you can download the Demo Jam Video <a href="http://www.sapteched.com/emea/activities/videos/DemoJam.wmv">here.</a>
Best Regards,
Marcel

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Need information about Flex widgets

can anyone tell me about Flex widgets.
Does adobe has the support for it.
any kind of resource link will be useful.
thanks

I'm not sure if there is something out there called "Flex
widgets", but if not, and then maybe you mean can you create
components in Flex, then yes, you can create them in MXML and AS,
and the FB3 help and LiveDocs can show you how.

Where I can download the ebook about flex?

I'm new to flex,where I can download the ebook about
flex?Thank you.

I'm not sure what you mean by eBook, but the Flex usage
documentation is available from the Flex Help resource center:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/
They are available as PDFs and as part of a zip file that
contains the entire set of content.

Simple question about flex and AS 3.0

Hi, this might sound like a simple question so I apologize...
I have both a copy of flex 2 and 3, and i want to simply code in AS
3.0 not mxml. I referred to the help of both flex 2 and 3, and all
i could come up with is "you can add dynamic behavior to your
documents using actionscript", which means to me, you only write
your functions in AS and create instances with mxml (...ugh).
personally, i find mxml to be ugly (mainly because it looks like
html to me), and i'd rather not use it. coming from programming in
an IDE in Java, it seems like it would be nicer to have something
similar, all the while having the power and cool features of flash.
I'm not fully educated in this matter so i understand that i could
be totally wrong.
i mean, if i have to code in mxml, i will. i'm a web
programmer for a living, and if a more experience programmer said
something like "if you don't code mxml in flex, you'll never get a
job coding in flex", i would trust the advice, and learn the ugly
code. :)
yes, i do have Flash cs3, it's great but it seems like a pain
to me the way you organize classes.... i've only seen a few
tutorials, ones that explain how you cannot simply import a custom
class, you have tell your movie to link to it, put it in the same
directory, or manually name the package, it's sort of confusing.
my main point here is that i'm very eager to start building
apps in straight AS 3.0 instead of using flash cs3 (for some
projects), and it would be cool to get some help or be pointed in
the right direction.
to simplify:
can i write AS 3.0 and only as 3.0 in flex 2 or 3? how? can
you link me to a tutorial? any advise?
thanks!

Hey William, thanks for the post. It's a great coincidence
because I'm reading that book as well. I'm about half way through
it, and I love it. I installed mxmlc on my linux box and am writing
pure AS 3 apps. I think that's the way to go, though I know it's
not for everybody.
My problem with mxml is that it has a weird syntax for
function calls, and it's not as 'intuitive' for a person like me,
who came from C++ and Java programming in the past. I like writing
programs in the C++ and Java style syntax, and since so many other
languages use a similar syntax, I don't see any reason to learn the
nuances of mxml, unless I was getting paid to do it. As far as I
can tell there is no benefit.
I hate using Flash to write flash apps as well, I feel like
they become messy and confusing, especially when trying to write an
OOP application. I only use it if I want to move an object in a
very specific way and can't do it with the Tween methods.

About Flex 3 POPUPMANAGER

Hi ,
Yesterday i got a chance to look at FLex's POPUPManager . i have used its createUo and removePop Methods to dsiplay Containers on to the Form .
I couldn't find it this POPUpManger useful , because i feel that the same thing can be achivied by ActionScript , so please let me know if i am wrong .
Please correct me if i am missing anything related to this related to where it is exactly useful .
Thanks in advnace .

Hi Kiran,
This is with Reference to you doubt about popup manager and the project in which you want the Login window. Use user name and password both as
'admin '. I have worked on those classes which you are having in your another thread.You work either in action script or mxml you have to use
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Test.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Module xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" width="400" height="300" backgroundColor="0xDDDDDD">
   <mx:Label text="This is Test Module."/>
</mx:Module>
MainApplication.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
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        import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
        import mx.controls.Alert;
        import vo.User;
        import events.LoginEvent;
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</mx:Script>
<mx:ModuleLoader id="testModuleLoader" width="500" height="500" creationComplete="onCreationComplete()">
</mx:ModuleLoader>
</mx:Application>
with Regards,
Shardul Singh Bartwal

Need Information about Flex Books

I want to learn flex perfectly. please give me book names
with author name and URLS

I think lynda.com flex materials are wayy too shallow just
barely scratching a surface,
I personally recommend following :
http://www.theriabook.com/
plus it comes with a free dvd,
at first I was little skeptical about that book, but IMHO,
this is the most advanced book I have ever found, and I have
safari subscription so I have looked at several of flex books so
far,
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The three problems about flex

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Hi -
Looking for advice from more experienced Flex users here.
I am completely new to Flex, and am curious if its the right
tool for something I'd like to accomplish. Any feedback is welcome.
The goal is to create a video template page and we want the
ability to pass sources to this template. Basically, we do a lot of
online training, and want to have one page where any video can
play, regardless of how many videos could be linked to it. We were
wondering if Flex might provide a sleek way of accomplishing that.
I have downloaded the source for a Flex video player (
http://www.fxcomponents.com/flex-video-player/)
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flex uses Actionscript to develop internet application.
Flash also uses Actionscript to do that. now why i should use
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instead of Flash , what is the answer for that ?
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IMHO I would say:
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About Flex ContextMenu

Dear Sir or Madam:
We may need help from you when we develop an applicaton by using Flex.
1、 when the ContextMenu class is used when we develop an appliction. It should access the remote services or method by an asynchronous operations. However, the context menu cannot be displayed as we expect. (please see attach ContextMenuExample.as.txt).
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Comparing these two measures, we prefer to using the custom context menu to solve the problem, if the input method editor (IME) problem can work properly. Whatever, which method is used, we need to solve this out.
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Yours regards,
Zhang Yanwei

Sry, but as I was told you do it thusly,
var myContextMenu:ContextMenu =
Application.application.contextMenu;
myContextMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
var defaultItems:ContextMenuBuiltInItems =
myContextMenu.builtInItems;
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Now to hide the browser context menu is a different matter.
HTH,
Andy C.(never #)

About Flex Builder3 File Search.

1.In Flex Builder3 's menu -- Search , I only can see two
items: declarations and references.
But when I press Ctrl+Shift+F, then pop File Search window.
Forget menu ??
2.In File Search window, press Search button, then
perspective change to DataBase Development perspective.
Is this a bug?

Hi,
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menu item. And it has the shortcut key combination that you
mentioned.
As for the second problem, my only guess is that you have
installed another plugin after Flex Builder and it associated the
search dialog with its own specific perspective. If you can provide
a list of installed plugins, and in which order they were installed
we will try and duplicate this issue. (tight now it doesn't happen
for me).
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Cristian

About Flex SDK3

1. Coldfusion 8:
Flex Compiler Show: Project is being compiled with Flex 3.0,
but server has Flex 2.0.1
How to make Flex 2.0.1 upgrade to Flex 3.0 of coldfusion
gateway? modify file " wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml"?
2. Why compiled SWF document than the original?

The issue is likely that the swcs from LCDS 2.5.1 are still
based on Flex
2, and early pre-releases of Flex 3 had issues reading these
swcs.
Flex 3 Beta 1 had a problem with reading Flex 2 swcs due to a
change in the
way resource bundles work for locales (Flex 3 now supports
multiple locales).
This was fixed for normal Flex projects in Flex Builder 3
Beta 2 and normal
mxmlc compilation in Flex SDK 3 Beta 2, but there is still an
issue with
Flex Library projects and compc compilation.
This should be resolved post Beta 2, so instead of waiting
for Beta 3 you
can download a new SDK from the Adobe Labs nightly builds:
http://frpbugapp.macromedia.com/bugapp/detail.asp?ID=206734

Questions about Flex Builder purchase

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Now I am going to have to develop on Mac, and want to buy Flex Builder. On the purchase page, it shows "Platform - Win/Mac". Does that mean it contains the software for Mac and Windows platforms? Or does this mean the Eclipse plugin which can work with Eclipse on Mac as well as Win?
Also I know that the Flex Builder 4 is in its Beta stage. Is it going to be released soon? Should I make the purchase when the latest version is released?
Please guide me.
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Learning AS3... curious about Flex..

Good morning..
I've been working pretty hard the last few months learning AS3.. I am starting to fell pretty competent with AS3 and am enjoying working with it.
I am now looking to implement a program that can be run through a Flex API.
How is Flex different than AS3?
Can anyone suggest some good starting steps to familiarize myself with Flex and start learning?
What is mxml and do i need to learn it for Flex?
thanks in advance,
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I am newly introduced to flex as well and had to "try" to get famailar with it very quickly.
some good resources were learn flex in a week video training located here and also try lynda.com. I have not had to build anything in flex yet, but I had to have a good understanding of how some flex stuff was built and both those resources gave me a pretty good understanding of what flex is, what it does and how to use it.
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Hey! Teach me about Flex Charting!

Hi.
I've got the following XML coming in from an http service
(XML at bottom)
I want to draw a line chart that has anywhere from 1 to 10
LineSeries, depending on the number of unique
<id>n</id> that come back.
I know I would have to do this in actionscript - found an
example of building a chart
here:
It looks pretty interesting, but still a bit perplexed about
how to refine this based on my data structure.
Any ideas?
Here's the XML code that might come back - notice 3 different
unique <id>'s - but could be more, or less, depending on
other stuff.

"oaktown_matt" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gju9e2$6k6$[email protected]..
> Hi.
>
> I've got the following XML coming in from an http
service (XML at bottom)
>
> I want to draw a line chart that has anywhere from 1 to
10 LineSeries,
> depending on the number of unique <id>n</id>
that come back.
>
> I know I would have to do this in actionscript - found
an example of
> building
> a chart
>
http://flexr.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/piechart-purely-in-actionscript-3/:
>
> It looks pretty interesting, but still a bit perplexed
about how to refine
> this based on my data structure.
You might find this useful:
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/08/charting-example.html

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