Latest Contributions by ReneRubalcava

yeah, you'll want to exclude your .* files and folders from the svn because they will usually be machine specific and path dependant. So they won't play well across multiple machines. I have never used the fb.exportReleaseBuild, but this is probably going to be a FlashBuilder dependant tool. I have not checked to see if it's in the SDK folder or the FlashBuilder App folder. I have been using your very scenario for a couple of years now, svn->automated build. To get started, I would recommend the following walkthroughs. http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/07/using-ant-to-build-an-application/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/14/building-a-library-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/19/building-the-html-wrapper-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/20/building-a-custom-html-wrapper-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/21/including-assets-files-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/26/building-a-library-and-application-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/01/28/building-asdocs-with-ant/ http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos/2010/02/09/the-master-flex-ant-file/ There are a couple of others that have to do with building FlexUnit tests with ANT, but you could find them in there. Now, I have not tried creating build scripts for Flexviewer, but ideally, I would invest the time into creating a build script per widget. This way, a co-worker can work on a widget, I could work on a widget and we could both run our widget specific build scripts without having to rebuild the whole project. So in a per widget ANT build scenario in your svn, you could have a master ANT build that would run each individual build file, while at the same time it should allow you to build the widgets independantly. Here is a sample of using ANT to compile modules. http://jvalentino.blogspot.com/2010/03/flex-ant-build-optimized-modules_24.html http://modular.theflexsite.net/blog/ant/build.xml ... View more

I know it still works with the current Flex API as myself and others still use it, but I don't save remotely, so I'm not sure if that might be the issue. I let users save locally, so mine just looks like this. var bytes:ByteArray = _pdf.save(Method.LOCAL); fileReference.save(bytes, "map.pdf"); ... View more

I maintain a library using the ESRI Flex API and I know that error all too well. Granted, this error will ONLY occur in Flex/FlashBuilder, I can successfully link my library files in IntelliJ and FDT withouth issue. Go figure. Anyway, in the Properties for your main project, add your library file (Add Project), make sure Link Type is RSL (runtime shared library). FlashBuilder will compile and link to the library swf. Now, here is the kicker. If you make any changes to your library file at all that force it to rebuild, you will need to remove the library project from your Main project and re-add it following the steps above. You'll need to do this every single time you update your library project. It's a horrible workaround, but I do it on a daily basis. I am really not a fan of Flashbuilder at all. ... View more

If it's just the one name you're worried about you could do this var qName:String = qTextFname.text.toLowerCase(); var len:int = qName.length; var ucase:String = qName.charAt(0).toUpperCase(); var temp:String = qName.substr(1, len); var newName:String = ucase + temp; AS3 doesn't have a simple capitalize function. OOh, found a regex method to do it for multiple words http://stackoverflow.com/questions/860394/flex-capitalize-words-in-string ... View more

I don't even remember what was in the core swc, but technically you could load the swf standalone in your app, but not sure what kind of interaction you were hoping to get with it from the rest of your application. I think you'd just need to load viewer into it's own domain to avoid conflicts. Not an elegant solution, but something you could probably play with. ... View more

Todd, I can't answer with certainty in trying to compile the Flex API apps with CS3, but don't think it would work, or at least not easily. FlashDevelop is a free Flash/Flex IDE I have heard lots of good things about. http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Page ... View more

There's a zillow api where you can sign up for an id to make REST requests to various web services. The results include a Lat/Long, so you could display them with the Flex API. There's a limit of 1000 per day though, after that I think you have to pay to make more requests. ... View more

It wasn't up this morning when Robert posted, but I just submitted my widgets and seems to work fine. Is there a page where we can see what we submitted? Or will it just warn us that the link was already submitted? I only ask, because I almost submitted a widget twice while I had a dozen browser tabs open. Thanks and this is kind of fun. ... View more

There was a case Dasa before the latest release fixed the clearing lod issue where I could have probably worked around it by overriding the map_extentChangeHandler() of Map to check the given extent before doing a super.map_extentChangeHandler(). As far as I can tell, it's a private function. ... View more

You can do that because FeatureLayer is a subclass of GraphicsLayer http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/apiref/com/esri/ags/layers/FeatureLayer.html It inherits all the methods/fields of a GraphicsLayer, but some such as clear have been overriden so they don't do anything. ... View more

FlexViewer can't natively load shapefile data, but someone made a widget that might help. http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bc6a88cf51364d9ea767347954363d7d ... View more

If you set up your xml config file to let you know the Layer type, "dynamic", "tiled", etc, you can iterate through your list, create layers, then iterate through the layers to get the layerinfos. ... View more

I have a widget with some functionality that can load services via a config.xml that might help. http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ca9e4de998714d07a6bdc59ededa0efc /** * Takes URL for a ArcGIS Server Rest directory and * will attempt to extract the SiteMap. * @param directory */ protected function loadServices(servername:String):void { var service:HTTPService = new HTTPService(); var sitemap:String = "/ArcGIS/rest/services/?f=sitemap"; var url:String = "http://" + servername + sitemap; service.url = url; service.resultFormat = "e4x"; var token:AsyncToken = service.send(); token.addResponder(new AsyncResponder(onServiceResults_handler, onFault_handler)); } /** * Handles the results of accessing the SiteMap. * @param event * @param token */ protected function onServiceResults_handler(event:ResultEvent, token:Object = null):void { var xml:XML = event.result as XML; var xmlColl:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection(xml.children()); var list:Array = []; var qn:QName = new QName(sitemapNS, "loc"); var sxml:XML; for each (sxml in xmlColl) {   var url:String = sxml[qn].text();   var tmp:Array = url.split("/");   var i:uint = tmp.length;   if (tmp[i-1] == "MapServer")   {    var item:ServiceItem = new ServiceItem();    item.serverType = tmp[i-1];    item.name = tmp[i-2];    item.url = url;    list.push(item);    findServiceDetails(item);   } } list.sortOn("name"); dataList = new ArrayList(list); vUrls = new Vector.<String>(list.length); servicesList.dataProvider = dataList; } /** * Parses <code>ServiceItem</code> object url to find layer details * in service REST. * @param item */ protected function findServiceDetails(item:ServiceItem):void { var jsonurl:String = "?f=json&pretty=false"; var url:String = item.url + jsonurl; var srv:HTTPService = new HTTPService(); srv.url = url; srv.resultFormat = "text"; var token:AsyncToken = srv.send(); token.addResponder(new mx.rpc.Responder(onJSONResult_handler, onFault_handler)); function onJSONResult_handler(event:ResultEvent):void {   var data:String = event.result.toString();   // this regex replace can be used to make parsing the JSON faster.   // It removes spaces, but it will mess up service description.   //data = data.replace( /\s/g, '' );   var details:Object = JSON.decode(data);   item.description = details["serviceDescription"];   if (!details["singleFusedMapCache"])    item.type = DYNAMIC;   else    item.type = TILED; } } This will get you as far as loading the individual URL's for each service in a server, like "sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com", then you can create a layers using the URL and pull out the Layer info via layerInfos. I have a function for another tool that does just that. /** * Will find all the items that make up a given map service layer. * @param lyr */ protected function findLayerDetails(lyr:Layer):void { if (layers)   layers.removeAll(); layers = new ArrayList(); var layerInfos:Array; layerIDSet = null; layerIDSet = {}; if (lyr is ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer)   layerInfos = ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer(lyr).layerInfos; else if (lyr is ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer)   layerInfos = ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer(lyr).layerInfos; else if (lyr is FeatureLayer) {   var lyrId:int = FeatureLayer(lyr).layerDetails.id;   var lyrName:String = FeatureLayer(lyr).layerDetails.name;   layerIDSet[lyrName] = lyrId;   layers.addItem(lyrName); } if (layerInfos) {   var info:LayerInfo;   for each (info in layerInfos)   {    layerIDSet[info.name] = info.id;    layers.addItem(info.name);   } } } ... View more

I have a CollapseContainer skinnable container that I use that can be tweaked via the skin. https://gist.github.com/773635 Here is the Skin I use to collapse the container on the left of the of the page to a small bar. https://gist.github.com/773640 Not at work at the moment, so I can't get a screenshot of how it works, but you pretty much let the skin do the work to resize and move the parts. ... View more