topic Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:55:55 GMT

I'm really looking forward to digging into the techniques of this sample app shown on front-page video.

Is it available? Will it be available soon?

Thanks
Steve

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:24:04 GMT

Just bumping this post as it seems destined to drift down into obscurity. If any ESRI employees read this board then any info from Julie Powell would be appreciated.

The fact that the code would be made available is mentioned in the major video on the main ArcGIS Viewer for Flex page and also mentioned in a March 22 blog posting.

If the answer is along the lines "The author is too busy and doesn't know when she'll get to it" .. well that's fine at least I know and I can proceed without it. But if it will be released shortly as promised I might delay my project a little so I can use it as a case study.

Thanks again.
Steve

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:42:05 GMT

Looks like as of yesterday, clicking on the sample app:

http://baserver.esri.com/goelectric/index.html

Gives the message: "500...There is a problem with the resource you are looking for..."

Alrighty then. 'Nuff said, moving on....... 😉

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

JuliePowell — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:06:41 GMT

Hi Steve,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I just checked the link where we are hosting the app and it should be up & running (let me know if it isn't).

I have the code ready to be posted and I am writing a short doc explaining how the integration works. I will let you know as soon as it is available.

When is your project deadline? I'm glad you liked the app, it was fun to make.

Julie

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:49:29 GMT

Hi Julie

Thanks for getting back to me. The look of the App is not exactly my cup of tea - but that's just an opinion on what the visual artist came up with !

What I really liked was how you transformed the appearance and behaviour of the viewer while at the same time following good coding practice and staying within safe viewer bounds. Also, if I may say so, I also really liked how you described this and other programming approaches so please keep up the great work on the video tutorials.

Personally speaking I enjoy reverse engineering so I don't need much additional documentation: if the code is ready to go I'd really appreciate a copy.

Thanks again

Steve.Hennity at gmail dot com

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

LeeAllen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:41:55 GMT

Is there any update on when this code will be available?

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:04:04 GMT

Hi Lee

Apparently, the source code is ready and I included my email in my last post above with the hope of having the experience of working through the code.

But alas, almost another two weeks have passed and the only go-electric thing I've experienced is online and email silence !

Steve

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:03:57 GMT

Well I've asked so many times now that it's probably time to grovel and beg. And indeed it's not below me try.

So here goes...

Oh Julie, Julie where art thou Julie?

Let this forum be the east, and your rare presence rise upon it like the sun.

O! your sample App doth teach the torches to burn bright

One better than this App, The all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw its match since first the world begun.

Now can I have a copy of the source code ?

Steve.Hennity at gmail dot com

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

JuliePowell — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:03:40 GMT

How can I say no to that? 🙂

I am having it reviewed and will have it posted by the end of the week.

Thank you very much for your patience, and for the nice poem.

Julie

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

SteveTest — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:09:30 GMT

You're welcome Julie and thanks for the good news!

Steve

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

DavidStajan — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:43:38 GMT

Hi Julie,

I remember seeing your demo at the dev submit and thinking how nice it was to see the flexviewer skined in a completely different way. Unfortunetly I'm like most GIS developers and I struggle trying to use software like catalyst as I have never had any training. It would be nice to have a designer's door to knock on.

Either way I would also love to see the source code and get an idea on how you skined the app. The Flex 4 skinning concept is a bit challaging to wrap my head around so I think checking your code out would help. Can you make the link available in this thread when you have posted it.

Thanks,

DaviD

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

JuliePowell — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:51:23 GMT

Hi All,

I have posted the code here:
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=26747add0aa6412c8b91975087d9cb73

The zip download includes the built application, source code for the customized viewer, and also the original 'go electric' fxp project file that was created by the graphic designer using Catalyst (so that you can see what I started with and how I integrated the design). I also wrote a document describing how everything was integrated which is also part of the download.

If any of you will be at the International User Conference in July, I have 3 sessions that will cover customization/extension of the viewer. This time I will take customization a step further & show how you can configure the application for different user profiles, as well as different platforms (do an agenda search, and use my name as the key word - Julie Powell). Hope to see you there 🙂

Best of luck,
Julie

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

Nik_Mohd_FadhilNik_Mohd_Kamil — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:44:05 GMT

I can't wait to explore it! Thanks Julie!

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

FrankRoberts — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:31:17 GMT

Thanks for posting the sample Julie! And a special thank you to Steve, for his creative genius in the above post on May 5 (you crack me up man!).

Julie the compiled flex code is nice, but would you be willing to provide the source flex code so we can pick it apart a little more?

Thanks,
Frank

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

JuliePowell — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:09:19 GMT

The code is actually there... Look for "FlexViewerGoElectricDemo.fxp" under the code folder - it is a Flash Builder project file.

Julie

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

FrankRoberts — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:47:13 GMT

Thanks, I'm I was looking for a zip or something. Fxp, learn something everyday!!

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

FrankRoberts — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:58:59 GMT

When I import the flash builder project into flashbuilder 4.5 file FlexViewerGoElectricDemo.fxp I get three errors:

1) 1152: A conflict exists with inherited definition spark.components.supportClasses:ButtonBase.iconDisplay in namespace public.    IconButton.as    /FlexViewerGoElectricDemo/src/com/esri/viewer/components/findplace    line 11    Flex Problem

2) 1152: A conflict exists with inherited definition spark.components.supportClasses:ButtonBase.iconDisplay in namespace public.    IconButton.as    /FlexViewerGoElectricDemo/src/com/esri/viewer/components/findplace    line 11    Flex Problem

2) Multiple definitions for state 'normal'.    BaseMapSwitcherWidget.mxml    /FlexViewerGoElectricDemo/src/widgets/BaseMapSwitcher    line 139    Flex Problem

Any ideas?

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

JuliePowell — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:45:13 GMT

When the sample was built, we were on version 2.2 of the viewer, and version 4.0 of the Flex sdk. If you update your project settings to use the 4.0 sdk the errors should go away.

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

FrankRoberts — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:12:41 GMT

I've changed the SDK to 4.0 and it seem to build without error, however when it launches firefox it opens up a site called:
http://www.juliep.com/

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I will update my post for others that might run into this:

By default the "Output Folder URL" is set to: http://juliep/demos/goelectric

I needed to go into the properties for the project and edit the Flex Build Path section, to reflect your own Output Folder URL.

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Frank

Re: 'Go Electric' Sample App

francescodi_vito — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:48:44 GMT

Hi Julie,
splendid application. Great work. But is it available also the others custom applications that i saw in the video of devSummit?
great works