I would like to create an totally re-sizable application using Flex 4.5. I experimented already but my approach seems to be hard to maintain so it does not look good to me. Here is my approach:Concerning the HTML I actually have a first page which detects the user's monitor resolution and then redirects to the flash container HTML(a JSP) which reads the width and height parameters and renders the flash to the size passed.In my application I used the 1280x720 as the reference size so I have created a utility class:
I pass the percentage value relative to height or width and I get back just that. So I actually bind the height/width of components to e.g {LayoutUtils.relativeToWidth(50)} which would return 640 if my applications width would be 1280. But this means setting width and/or height to almost every component and this includes also padding and anchor positions which makes it a mess. I want everything to be re sized correctly(including fonts). All the available sizes I am going to have available will keep the same aspect ratio which is going to be 16:9 for example because I can't see any other way of doing it
how to make the preloader works on the full screen website/ fluid layout. I add the Stage.resize on the code for FYI When I added this code to the bar, it expanded to full screen, but there's no loading bar. The text is also no progress.
I'm learning layouts in Flex. I try to make the following layout.The red arrow means when enlarge the window, the red arrow widget will become large too. Can anyone implement this layout in Flex?
I need to develop a GUI for a self-service kiosk. The kiosk will take food orders (i.e pizza, burgers, salads) and provide the ability to pay using a credit card. Can anyone suggest the best GUI layout or approach? I want to make it intuitive and simple. I want to minimize the number of button clicks. If you can provide examples,
My flex application gets some parameters from URL when the application opens for the first time(ex: layout=<1,2,3,4> ). Based on layout(1,2,3,4) value I have to change the layout. However the problem is the application is already drawn(Layout is initialized) by the time the control reaches the point where it reads the values from the URL. I was wondering how can I redraw once I read the values from URL. Some thing like refresh.
I was modifying the layout of a Flex application in Flex Builder. What I didn't realize was that the changes I made, were made for a particular state. There are around 6-7 states in my application. Now, I need those changes to be made to all of those states. How do I do it? As of now there are multiple lines like this in one state :
I have a randomly-sized array of items. I'd like to display one label for each item in a Repeater component. I want them to display in a grid layout with 5 columns and as many rows as needed. How do I do that in Flex / ActionScript?
I have an mx:vbox and inside i have several mx:text elements.how do i decrease the gap between each line of text that is shown ?i tried doing the following:
I have two panels and a button nested within an hbox. I want the panels to appear side-by-side and the button to appear under both panels equi-distant from the sides of the hbox (i.e. in the center).Getting the panels side-by-side was easy, but how do I get the button below both panels and in the center. Currently, the button show up to the right of the second panel.
In HTML/CSS, if you float items, DIV's that exceed the width of the container are moved down 1 line.
I would like to achieve this in FLEX. I have 3 components with variable width. I would like for the 3rd component to be moved down when it doesnt fit the container any more.
I'm trying to hide both the vertical and horizontal axis renderers in flex so I can take a picture of the chart without them.I've set both renders to visible = false and includeInLayout = false. They don't show up but they still take space. I've tried setting widths/heights to 0 and that doesn't help either.
I have a list with tile layout,I have given the item renderer's width as 100%, but the item dosen't resize to fit the content . The same scenario works well for horizontal and vertical layout.
Does anyone know of a simple way to implement a DividedBox layout similar to flex, but done through Flash/as3 ?
I would think there would be a library out there for that already, or some resources, but I'm having a hard time googling for it, as it;s either Flex or unrelated content I keep finding.
EDIT just came across yahoo's astra library (example)
I have a function that is made up of two main parts (I'll call them A and B). Part B needs to run when part A is fully done with its layout changes. However, there is no "part A is done" signal, and thus I've been calling a validateNow() before part B runs. This works but seems awfully inefficient - was wondering if there are any other tricks to force an immediate measure or something along those lines or if I'm stuck.
I have a fairly straightforward Flex layout question. Is there anyway to get FormItem's contained within a nested container to follow the alignment of the FormItem's in in the parent form container?
I wonder if it is posible to create a new variable in actionscript like this...
ActionScript Code: //create a new variable var ["new_var_" + myNumber]:Array = ["hello, hey, more_silly_stuff"]; //putt my new variable inside my old Array row[myNumber] = ["new_var_" + myNumber];
If you understand what I want to do, is it in some way possible to acomplish this?
I'm trying to develop a simple mxml Flex application to start Skype from the AIR/Flashplayer runtime. Is it possible to get back events from a native Windows application? In the simple example of Skype, the OS returns control to the Flex app when Skype exits. But what about native applications which have their own event model and wants to communicate with the Flex event model. For example, a Face detection system which shows "Hello" on a Flex app when the camera detects a face. Can this be done in the current Flex framework?
I am working on an Adobe AIR Application. The size on Application window is 800X600 and is contains border container and border container contains many controls. What I want is to if user re-sizes the application then that container should also be re-sized according to scale. i.e If user maximizes or minimizes the window then that border container should also be maximized or minimized respectively.
how can i delete storage directory instances or folder while uninstalling any air application. In my application when i first time run my application, application copy some data from application directory to application storage directory. now i want to delete all data and application directory folder also while uninstalling application.
I am doing that because when i launch any update then application is accessing old data which conflict with my application new features.
I'm new to flex. Now I'm writing an flex application. I plan to split my application into some MXML files(Application as the root tag). How can I switch from one mxml to another?BTW, what is the best practice for design large flex application? Just one MXML Application and many MXML component or many MXML Application?
I want to read xml data to a mxml application from a xml file on my filesystem. The example I found was for AIR,link2, link3. But I want to target the Flash Player runtime. If I use the the tag, I can do it; however the xml compiles into my swf. How can I retain the xml file in my release build?
My problem is pretty simple: Flex containers do layout based on un-transformed children, and so rotated children are positioned as if there were no rotation, but then they're rotated around the top-left of that position. I've attached an image to show what I mean. Can I wrap the components in something? Or do I have to resort to custom components or fixed layouts? The image inlining doesn't look like it's working to me. Link to example image: [URL]
I have spark.components.TileGroup that contains buttons. I would like the buttons to appear like tabs on top of the ViewStack they serve At the moment, if I have 6 items in the TileList it lays it out as 2 rows with 4 items in the top tow and 2 in the bottom, so the jaggy edge is at the bottom
I am trying to figure out how I can implement the new Text Layout Framework 2.0 in Flash CS5. There are some Flex and FlashBuilder4 examples, but nothing relating to Flash CS5. How do I update my Flash CS5 to support TLF2.
I am particularly interested in creating new List/Bullets features so some example code for Flash would be great.
So I'm loading a really big pic in this mx:Image manteinAspectRatio enabled with a height constraint and as usual it doesn't work (Flex is definitely not for me):
