Receiving Flex Objects in Coldfusion, coldfusion component argument types
Flex Remoting with Coldfusion. Coldfusion Services and custom objects/components I was getting frustrated when I COULD NOT receive a flex object as anything when a coldfusion service was receiving a...
View ArticleLine break in Flex or Actionscript 3 text
Displaying a newline in a UI component in flex was a bit tricky. The following would not work: somevar:String = “Here is line 1 text \n followed by line 2 text”; The following worked in my situation....
View ArticleFlex error 1105: Target of assignment must be a reference value.
From Adobe “You can assign a value to a variable, but you cannot assign a value to another value”. For me this happened when the ObjectProxy was not editable, but the object property on it was. What...
View ArticleFlex Panel has to have a solid border for rounded corners
The rounded corners weren’t showing up on my mx:Canvas component. It turns out I had the border set to “outset” or something, and once the border was changed the rounded corners showed up fine.
View ArticleFlex Builder – Please specify a context-root compiler argument.
I don’t remember ever having to do this, but all of a sudden I needed to: add ‘-context-root /’ to the Properties->flex compiler ->additional compiler arguments The error was: The services...
View ArticleFlex mx:Tree not showing children or leaves. Problems with alpha opacity...
When the opacity attribute is present on the mx:Tree tag, it can cause the thing to break. Mine wasn’t showing icons or children nodes.
View ArticleFlex Tree not allowing Drops
The Skinny By using mx:Tree dropEnabled=”false” and registering the drag and drop listeners separately using the addEventListener Method with the use_capture parameter set to true, items could be...
View ArticleCruise Control and/or ANT out of memory error
When setting up a flex app auto build task, I started getting the following error consistently. Error: null java.lang.OutOfMemoryError THE FIX, for me was: Add to ant.bat, antRun.bat set...
View ArticleEvents with non-DisplayObjects in the Mate Flex framework
So I was loving the MVC framework Mate, but started to run into issues trying to figure out best-practices for dispatching and handling events. Researching: 1) How you dispatch events from non-view...
View ArticleRuby on Rails and Flex using rubyamf association errors
I’ll have to re-duplicate the exact error message on ruby’s side. From what I recall, this was obscured by a bunch of weird error messages that were deep in the codebase for rubyamf. Basically, if your...
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