Combobox Alpha

when changing combobox alpha from 1 to 0, the combobox itself
fades, but the selection is still visible.. is there any way around
this?

You can also use the Dissolve effect instead of the Fade. The
Dissolve
effect places a DisplayObject on top of the target and then
adjusts the
alpha of that overlay.
Jason Szeto
Adobe Flex SDK Developer
"Mike Morearty (Adobe)" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:e7rshb$csq$[email protected]..
> The issue is that if you don't "embed" the fonts --
meaning, compile them
> right into the .swf -- then text will not fade along
with the ComboBox.
>
> There are two ways around this problem:
>
> 1. Embed your fonts. Search the Flex Builder docs for
help on this; in my
> copy (a recent internal build), this is discussed under
"Flex 2
> Developer's Guide > Customizing the User Interface
> Using Fonts > Using
> embedded fonts."
>
> 2. After the fade, set combobox.visible = false.
Although the "alpha"
> property does not work on non-embedded fonts, the
"visible" property does.
> This works fine except that is has the slightly quirky
effect of having
> the text remain at 100% alpha while the rest of the
combobox fades around
> it; then the text disappears. If the fade is pretty
quick, e.g. 1/2
> second or less, then this isn't much of a problem; but
for slower fades,
> it will look odd. So, solution #1 is probably a better
way to go.
>
>
> --
> Mike Morearty
> Developer, Flex Builder team
>
http://www.morearty.com/blog

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Regards,
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To replicate the problem simply open Photoshop and create a document any size, here we'll do 5 x 7 and set to transparent. Draw on the layer. I used a hard edged brush and made three circles. Saved as a .psd. Open Illustrator make a new document
6 x 8. Rectangle tool draw to fit doc. Fill with default gradient. Now place the photoshop file created earlier. Looks fine on screen but when I print either to our plotters or to our laser printer the problem appears. It happens with many different files. Attached is a scan of one of the prints. You can see where the boarders of the 5 x 7 image are when all you should see is the 3 circles. The alpha is not being read by illustrator correctly when printing. All 3 of our machines running CS5 are exhibiting this behavior. Is anybody else getting this? It's a pretty big show stopper.
Thanks.

Thanks. I saw those threads but this is not that issue. I really think that this is a bug in the latest update for illustrator.

Use ComboBox TableCellEditor - values are not saved to the table model

Hi,
I got a combobox cell editor that uses to edit one of the columns.
And i got an ok button that uses to collect the data from the table and save it to the db.
In case i started editing of a cell and the editor is still displayed- if i will click on the button the data that will be colected from the table model will not contained the updated value in the cell editor.
In this case the user think his changes were saved but the last updated field is not updated.
Is this a bug i got in the cell editor or this is the normal behaviour?
Can it be fixed? (So that if the cell is in the middle of editing the value that will be saved is the last value that was selected).
public class PriorityCellEditor extends StandardComboBox implements TableCellEditor {
    private boolean isEditMode=false;
     * A list of eventlisteners to call when an event is fired
    private EventListenerList listenerList = new EventListenerList();
     * the table model
    public StbAreaClusterPriorityCellEditor(boolean isEditMode) {
        super(StbAreaMapper.clustersPriorities);
        setEditMode(isEditMode);
        setEditable(false);
        this.setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.LEFT_TO_RIGHT);
        setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
    public boolean isEditMode() {
        return isEditMode;
    public void setEditMode(boolean editMode) {
        isEditMode = editMode;
        setEnabled(editMode);
    public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value,boolean isSelecte, int row, int column) {
        int selectedIndex;
        if (isSelecte) {
            setForeground(table.getSelectionForeground());
            setBackground(table.getSelectionBackground());
        } else {
            setForeground(table.getForeground());
            setBackground(table.getBackground());
        if(value instanceof String){
            selectedIndex=StbAreaMapper.mapGuiPriorityDescToGuiCode((String)value);
            setSelectedIndex(selectedIndex);
        return this;
    public void cancelCellEditing() {
        fireEditingCanceled();
    public Object getCellEditorValue() {
        return getSelectedItem();
    public boolean isCellEditable(EventObject anEvent) {
        return isEditMode;
    public boolean shouldSelectCell(EventObject anEvent) {
        return false;
    public boolean stopCellEditing() {
        fireEditingStopped();
        return true;
     * Adds a new cellEditorListener to this cellEditor
    public void addCellEditorListener(CellEditorListener l) {
        listenerList.add(CellEditorListener.class, l);
     * Removes a cellEditorListener from this cellEditor
    public void removeCellEditorListener(CellEditorListener l) {
        listenerList.remove(CellEditorListener.class, l);
     * Notify all listeners that have registered interest for notification on
     * this event type.
     * @see javax.swing.event.EventListenerList
    protected void fireEditingStopped() {
        // Guaranteed to return a non-null array
        Object[] listeners = listenerList.getListenerList();
        // Process the listeners last to first, notifying
        // those that are interested in this event
        for (int i = listeners.length - 2; i >= 0; i -= 2) {
            if (listeners[i] == CellEditorListener.class) {
                ((CellEditorListener) listeners[i + 1]).editingStopped(
                        new ChangeEvent(this));
     * Notify all listeners that have registered interest for notification on
     * this event type.
     * @see javax.swing.event.EventListenerList
    protected void fireEditingCanceled() {
        // Guaranteed to return a non-null array
        Object[] listeners = listenerList.getListenerList();
        // Process the listeners last to first, notifying those that are interested in this event
        for (int i = listeners.length - 2; i >= 0; i -= 2) {
            if (listeners[i] == CellEditorListener.class) {
                ((CellEditorListener) listeners[i + 1]).editingCanceled(new ChangeEvent(this));
}

Try this
yourTable.putClientProperty("terminateEditOnFocusLost", Boolean.TRUE);

Photos app bug resurrects long-removed photos (related to PNG alpha)

Wanted to report/discuss a possible privacy concern and image glitch, and understand it better for submission to Apple's feedback page: the iPad (and maybe iPhone) Photos app will consitently resurrect long-deleted photos in your Camera Roll, under certain circumstances. These are long-removed photos (as in removed many months ago, prior to the iOS 5 update), and possibly only the reduced-size thumbnail versions.
Note: as near as I can tell, the deleted photos were NOT originally from the camera roll! That's where they resurface, but I believe they are photos from other albums, maybe once which used to by synched to iPad but which I no longer synch. So "removed" might mean deleted or it might mean "no longer synched to iPad"... the images are so old I can't recall.
So the bug, I'm guessing, it two-fold:
1) The Photos app (and/or iPhoto during wired synch?) is not fully removing photos (or at least, their thumbs). They're no longer visible in Photos app, but are being retained somewhere on the device.
2) A glitch in the Photos camera roll PNG handling (which I think may be new with iOS 5) causes those old images ro re-surface when you add a PNG to the camera roll. (The old photos were JPEG, but the image that triggers the bug must be a PNG with alpha channel)
I have seen this on both an iPad 1 and iPad 2, running iOS 5.
Here's how to reproduce it:
1) Synch some photos to your iPad, then deselect them for synching and re-synch (so they're not there any more). Also, add some photos or screenshots to the camera roll and then delete them. I say to do both because I'm not 100% where the old photos come from, and I'm hoping this covers all bases! Actually, most people have already done these things in the past, and can probably skip this step.
2) Generate a transparent PNG using the art app Procreate (and probably any app that saves PNGs to the camera roll with alpha channel). All you have to do is scribble somethign into a blank Procreate canvas, then export it to your photo album. There is no need to do anything special to get an alpha channel or PNG format: you always get that. (Unless you used the Fill command to completely cover the canvas.) Now in the camera roll there should be your scribble on a transparent background. You can email it to yourself and see that clearly in Photoshop or Preview.
3) Here's the glitch: look at your camera roll (thumbnails view) and you'll see that the alpha-transparent background of the image has become one of your old removed photos! Tap it to enlarge and the alpha becomes black (which is fine, although it may seem odd if you intended to paint onto the default white canvas). But for just a moment, before you see the black, you will get a full-size glimpse of the old photo. (Or, maybe, an enlargement of the thumbnail?)
4) If you keep saving more alpha PNGs, you'll keep seeing more and different old photos coming back to life in the alpha regions of the thumbnails (and, briefly, at full size).
5) If you delete all those PNGs and then save some new ones, you'll see the same sequence of old photos reappear again.
Needed fix: removed phtos/thumbnails should be properly purged, and alpha PNGs should show simply black (or some default background) at all times.

Ok, I replicated it and I don't like it! I didn't use the one you marked cause I couldn't call it up properly but I did Bing
transparent gifs and loaded up 3, one was totally invisible in the thumbnail and I could clearly see one of my pics perfectly in the thumbnail but when I brought it to page the gif filled the frame.
I have no idea where the pic came from, I mean I recognize it but from where in the album I have no idea.
Oh yeah, I was wrong about the first pic coming to page, it wasn't the same image but a different one...and I have no idea how the one that came up, (what i thought was the underlying pic) did, or how it got there or even from where.
This is some weird stuff though not as weird as that silly *** movie, what a load of tripe; I should have just spent my
time on this, it's infinitely more enjoyable!
Ok, here's the consensus from my layman iPad view:
What happened now and most probably before was a 'transparent gif' or a partially transparent gif like the one I spoke of first that I could see the edge of or the outer perimeter of, the underlining image with the gif taking up say 3/4 of the thumbnail; this it what it was.
This is totally apparent to me now because of your having me import a totally transparent gif which was invisible over my pic, thus the freaky part I didn't like...keying the thumbnail with one thing and ending up with something totally different when brought to page.
Still doesn't explain where this silly iPad is grabbing these pics from?
But here's something funny; my camera roll shows say 9,200 pics but my, 'iMy System' app say I have like 11,300 which I always thought was a fluke, that it was just reading wrong but maybe it's seeing something we're not. What if all those pics we're deleting to save space or just generally culling have never left the system? Maybe that goofy app is really reading the true count!
Those others up above us here who mentioned privacy concerns.. this could be whats going on, there's a ghost
in the machine and it be our old pics and god knows what else floating around in that iPads memory.
Ok, I'm crazy tired and I have to wrap this up. Least now we know how to replicate this but on the other hand I think we opened up an even bigger can of worms... the mystery of where all those images are hiding in our iPads?
I haven't hardwired to a computer since I upgraded to ios5 so whatever's going on here, leastwise for me is iPad
based and can't be blamed for synching issues like you discuss up above unless what I'm grabbing here is old stuff
reimported back into my pad from the mainframe when I was backed up for the ios5 upgrade?
Oh well, let me know what you think. Please do forgive my not getting back to you sooner on account of the movie
but you already know I regret choosing that over this! Hope you had a good night and thanks...

Getting data in a combobox from database

I have done database connectivity in flex using .net. Now I am getting data in flex in a data grid. Everuthing is working fine if I take data in a data grid.
My problem is that if I try to take that data in any other control, other than data grid, it shows up no data, it only shows "object[object].
for ex:
if I am getting 3 rows from databse and I try to get those in a combo box, den I am getting 3 items in combo box like this:
object[object]
object[object]
object[object]
instead of actual data.
I am stuck in this problem for last 3 days. I have tried lot of things but nuthing is working. Plz anyone help me out soon. Its really urgent.
I am working on a live project and not able to proceed because of this problem.

Hi Bhavika,
You need to tell your combobox which value should be displayed in the ComboBox...for display...
You are getting 3 rows from database which are objects since you haven't told your combobox which value to be displayed it is displaying as [Object,Object]...
So you need to tell your ComboBox which values to be displayed ..and you can do this by assigning the labelField property of the ComboBox..
Say in your object you have three properties say..data, value, name...etc;;
Then if you want display name as your ComboBox display label then simply write ....labelField="name" in your ComboBox ...
Thanks,
Bhasker Chari

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