[ann] World's Largest Flex Application

Robin Hilliard of Rocketboots (www.rocketboots.com.au) will
talk about the lessons learnt from the world's largest Flex (1.5)
application.
Mon 3rd July at the Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
(www.flashdev.org.au) at 6:30 pm for 7pm start at the NSW Sports
Club (www.flashdev.org.au/venue).
Please RSVP (www/flashdev.org.au/rsvp) for catering purposes.
Chris
Chris Velevitch
Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
www.flashdev.org.au

You're using Flash CS5 so you're only going to be able to compile for iOS. CS5.5 outputs AIR for iOS and AIR for Android as well as Blackberry Tablet (FB).
Make sure you've overlayed the latest AIR 3.1 SDK on your version of flash and your CS5 is up to date.
Going the AIR route or using Flash Builder (or elipse fdt for free) will be a better albit more complex route but will yeild far better results. The only thing CS5 is really good for is it does not use AIR therefore apps can be built for 3g devices. However most of the things you care about are in AIR (GPU accel video, etc) and you'd be doing yourself a favor to update to Flash Builder.
You can still use Flash CS5 to craft your assets in the library. Then you simply export a SWC of them and reimport into Flash Builder and code it from there.
FWIW I never had your issue in Flash CS5 when I just started dabbling with iOS apps.

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[Ann] Tonight: World's Largest Flex Application

Tonight, Robin Hilliard of Rocketboots
(www.rocketboots.com.au) will
talk about the lessons learnt from the world's largest Flex
(1.5)
application. 6:30 pm for 7 pm start.
Details about the group, venue and program are available from
http://www.flashdev.org.au.
Please also note, whilst the meetings and
the use of the club are free, the club does require us to
purchase
beverages and/or snacks in exchange.
Please RSVP at
http://www.flashdev.org.au/rsvp.
There will be lucky
door prizes for those who rsvp.
(Put yourself on the
http://www.frappr.com/flexdevelopers
map)
Chris
Chris Velevitch
Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
www.flashdev.org.au

Hi,
You can make use of complete event of SwfLoader and within that function get the instance of Flash Buttonm and register an evnet for the click within the Flex app as shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" fontSize="12">
    <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
    import mx.controls.Alert;
    private var loadedSWFMainTimeline:*;
    public function testResult(event:MouseEvent):void{
         Alert.show("Hello World");
    public function onSWFLoadComplete():void {
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         loadedSWFMainTimeline = flash.content;
         if(loadedSWFMainTimeline)
            var _button:SimpleButton = loadedSWFMainTimeline.flash_button_instance as SimpleButton;
            _button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,testResult);
    ]]>
    </mx:Script>
<mx:SWFLoader id="flash" source="flash/test3.swf" complete="onSWFLoadComplete();"/>
</mx:Application>
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If this post answers your question or helps, please kindly mark it as such.
Thanks,
Bhasker Chari

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In a flex application I use the SWFLoader to load a flash,the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" fontSize="12">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
public function testResult():void{
        Alert.show("Hello World");
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:SWFLoader id="flash" source="flash/test3.swf"/>
</mx:Application>
There's a button in the embeded flash(flash/test3.swf),
when I click this button,how to call the the testResult method of the flex application?Thank you!

Hi,
You can make use of complete event of SwfLoader and within that function get the instance of Flash Buttonm and register an evnet for the click within the Flex app as shown below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" fontSize="12">
    <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
    import mx.controls.Alert;
    private var loadedSWFMainTimeline:*;
    public function testResult(event:MouseEvent):void{
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    public function onSWFLoadComplete():void {
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            var _button:SimpleButton = loadedSWFMainTimeline.flash_button_instance as SimpleButton;
            _button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,testResult);
    ]]>
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<mx:SWFLoader id="flash" source="flash/test3.swf" complete="onSWFLoadComplete();"/>
</mx:Application>
Note: In the above code "flash_button_instance" is the instance name of the Flash button.
If this post answers your question or helps, please kindly mark it as such.
Thanks,
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2. There is another 2nd Remote Server which support workspace for each user
3. Flex Builder installed in the 2nd Remote Server
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Hi
The concept of cloud computing is not even very clear to me
I think this is what I understood about it ...........from this link http://communication.howstuffworks.com/cloud-computing.htm
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"There's a good chance you've already used some form of cloud computing. If you have an e-mail account with a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, then you've had some experience with cloud computing. Instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely"
My issue is not with the license. The solution that I am looking for is
1. Don't want the developer to download the source code in any fashion either checked out or anything else in the local machine
2. Want the developer to work directly on the server
3. Looking for a solution where each developer is not required to install Flex Builder locally and the developer can use Flex Builder that is installed on the server and in his workspace and create/modify build on the server itself
Hope I could make you understand this time ................
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Biswamit

Flex application running under AIR takes a long, long time to start.

I have a flex application which runs on a desktop under AIR. The application has an assets folder with 3,500 mp3 soundclips totalling about 50MB. The problem is, the application takes around 90 seconds to load. I'm sure that AIR is scanning the application folder and doing something with the contents because if I delete the assets folder it loads in about 5 seconds. Does anyone know why AIR/Flex would do this, and why it doesn't exhibit the same problem if I run or debug in Flexbuilder on eclipse? It's making my killer app unusable!
Thanks
Paulo

Well, I've spent a bit longer looking at this now, and the problem appears to lie with my encrypted local store. The first thing that happens is for the app to read the product key from the ELS. But, it fails (for some unknown reason). So, the app seems to hang there for 90 seconds until it eventually renders the welcome screen. If I remove the assets folder it still fails to read from the ELS, but only takes a couple of seconds to start the welcome screen. This is where the scanning of the application folder seems to come into play, because if I remove the code which reads from the ELS the app starts within 2 seconds whether the asset folder is there or not.
I think the slow startup and the scanning of the assets folder are just symptoms of a different problem, i.e. a problem with the ELS. I don't have the same problem with my development environment though - it's only when I test deploy the application.
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I am looking for a way to show UTF-8 formatted data in a Flex
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It turned out to be my XP that didn't have the the right lang
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Hello,
I am trying to figure out what I need to look for in a web
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don't anticipate having any special requirements other than the
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me figure out what the server-side requirements are?
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How to Call a AIR application from Flex Application

Hi,
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I need to Call this AIR(Desktop application) from my Flex Application.... i.e
I am using a link button to send a event using Script and Forward that Desktop application from Flex Screen
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<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
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"_self");
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In this code i forward using s url to Open tat Desktop application but a blank screen appears with out the proper output...
Please Help me in this to forward AIR from Flex Screen..
Thanks in Advance
With Regards
Gopinath.A
Software Developer
First Internet Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Chennai

try this
http://www.leonardofranca.com/index.php/2009/09/17/launching-an-installed-air-application- from-the-browser/
regards
Leonardo França
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Hi All,i am currently working on a flex application that will allow the user to change the language

Hi All,i am currently working on a flex application that will allow the user to change the language within the application from english to Japanese and vice versa. And everything works fine.
I am using flex 4.5
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When the user manually enters Japanese text and tries to save it the record defaults back to the default name (which is in english). But if you copy the entered text and paste it and then save it.It works fine.
Any idea , why this is happening?
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Looks like there was already a bug
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-28894?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.iss uetabpanels:all-tabpanel
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-KB
Message was edited by: bKartik.b

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Alex thanks for reply
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Flex Application does not work outside of the default dir

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"rtalton" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gjlmvm$hrv$[email protected]..
> Stubborn, aren't we? Ok, let me try again:
> You only use "loadPolicyFile" to load a non-default
policy file. remove
> that
> line from your code.
> Also you do not need this line:
> flash.system.Security.allowDomain("*");
> ...in your code. Remove it. This is used when you have
two SWFs on two
> different servers. You do not.
>
> Again, read this page:
>
>
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=deployingoverview_12.htm
> l
>
> Your answer is there.
> Hint: all you need is to *properly* deploy a
cross-domain policy file.
> Really.
> I'm being very honest here. Have I ever lied to you
before? No, I haven't.
> So
> you're buying the first round tonight after work, ok?
Some people will do anything for a date ;-)

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