Comments for Ryan Phelan

Comment on Flex Builder Shortcuts and Timesavers by venkat

venkat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:09:12 +0000

Ctrl+M will maximize/minimize a panel. I use that very frequently.

Comment on Taking Control of Flex Charting Styles by Amy

Amy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:54:39 +0000

How much difference is there between using your tick marks set to the background color and placed outside of the axes and using the labelGap on the axes?

Comment on Flex Menu Accelerators by Yusheng

Yusheng — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:55:32 +0000

Sorry it does not allow me to paste the change I made:
Here is what I did:
in the MenuAccelerators.mxml file:
under the “window” menu, remove all the menu items except the menuitem labeled “Submenu” and its two sub items.

So basically the error occurs if the menu bar item has only one composite menu items

Comment on Flex Menu Accelerators by Yusheng

Yusheng — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:49:55 +0000

The change to the code is:

Comment on Flex Menu Accelerators by Yusheng

Yusheng — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:48:05 +0000

Hi:
It is a nice implementation. I am also trying to create a custom MenuBar with accelerator keys. But I found a very strange error and I don’t know why. So I did some test on your code.
If I remove extra menu items from “Window” menu and run it in Flex Builder 3. The code failed when I tried to open the “window” menu. I am very confused with error. Does any one what exactly happed?

The error message is:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at mx.controls.listClasses::ListBase/drawItem()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\listClasses\ListBase.as:4906]
at mx.controls::Menu/drawItem()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\Menu.as:1202]
at mx.controls::Menu/mouseOverHandler()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\Menu.as:1752]

Thanks very much

Comment on Flex Menu Accelerators by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:09:02 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys. John - keyCodes map to specific keys on the keyboard whereas charCodes map to characters. It’s been a while, so I don’t actually remember why i chose keyCodes… maybe I just wanted the challenge of creating the KeyUtils class ;)

Anyway - you could follow Ivan’s suggestion of swapping out the use of keyCodes for charCodes, but just remember that many of the combos don’t work anyway because they get trapped by the browser. The REAL solution to the accelerator problem is much much more complex! If you are interested, use a program like Fiddler2 to capture the javascript files used by Adobe’s Buzzword application. They are intercepting keystrokes outside of the flash player and passing them in via ExternalInterface.

Comment on Taking Control of Flex Charting Styles by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:43:46 +0000

Yes, the Gridlines tag has the styles “verticalFill”, “verticalAlternateFill”, “horizontalFill” and “horizontalAlternateFill”. In this example you would use the vertical fills for the BarChart and horizontal fills for the ColumnChart and LineChart.

You should consider the fact that the fills will add some clutter to the graph which could reduce readability in some cases, but if you do choose to use them, I would suggest using the background color (white) for the vertical fill and a very light gray (like #F2F2F2) for the alternateFill.

Comment on Taking Control of Flex Charting Styles by Ritu

Ritu — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:19:11 +0000

can we provide alnate row colors in charts background in flex?

Comment on Flex Menu Accelerators by John Hall

John Hall — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:53:16 +0000

This is fantastic! Thanks. What do I need to explore to expand it for mac and windows compatibility?

Comment on Running Cairngen on a Mac by Jürgen

Jürgen — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:55:09 +0000

thanks for this tutorial, now i got this tool to work! I have tried for hours before