Avoid overlapping while resizing a panel in flex - apache-flex

In my application i am using a borderContainer which contains two or more panels.All these panels are resizable.
My problem is while resizing a panel if it touches the panel next to it i have to stop resizing automatically.
I used hittestObject and able to catch the hitting point but i dont know how to stop resize event.
Please help me.

I haven't tested this code but you can try. :). Basically I have to use the preventDefault method whenever I need to stop the execution of the default behavior of that specific method.
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.containers.Panel;
import mx.events.ResizeEvent;
//Your other codes here
public function panel_resizeHandler(event:ResizeEvent):void
{
var isTouched:Boolean = firstPanel.hitTestObject(secondPanel);
if(isTouched)
{
event.preventDefault();
}
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel id="firstPanel" resize="panel_resizeHandler(event)>
<!-- Panel contents here-->
</mx:Panel>
<mx:Panel id="secondPanel" ">
<!--Panel Contents Here -->
</mx:Panel>

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I have a mxml flex application where I have to launch a VideoPlayer on button click event. Any idea what solutions I can use to open a new "frame" or "view" (I'm not sure what the right terminology is) with the VideoPlayer playing a media clip so that it wouldn't interfere with the original "view"?
What I would do is create a component (like a TitleWindow, Group, Panel, etc.) that has your VideoPlayer added to it and then use the PopUpManager to display it on screen when your button is clicked. Make sure you add a method to close the pop up when you're done with it.
Some links on the PopUpManager to get you started:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/managers/PopUpManager.html
http://blog.flexexamples.com/category/popupmanager/
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/20/creating-custom-pop-up-windows-with-the-popupmanager-class-redux/
A (really) rough example:
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var myVideoPlayerComponent:VideoPlayer;
protected function btnHistory_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
myVideoPlayerComponent = PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, VideoPlayer, false);
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(myVideoPlayerComponent);
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:Button label="Play" id="myButton" click="myButton_clickHandler(event)" />

how to provide functionalities for buttons in flex 3?

i am new to flex. I want to create some buttons and when v click on that button, it should open some images. how to give this functionality in flex builder 3. Thanks for ur time
Try this example if it helps.
The important thing is embedding the image before you use it.Another way of embedding is inline in the mx:Image tag.Please be careful with the path to the location of the image.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
/*in the source put the absolute path(like directory:/folder/image.gif) or the relative path (../image.gif where ../ is your project directory )to the location of your image
*/
[Embed (source="../src/assets/images/image.gif")]
[Bindable]
//this variable of type Class is used to refer to the aboveimage..
public var img:Class;
public function buttonClickHandler():void{
if(image.visible)
image.visible = false;
else
image.visible = true;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Image source="{img}" visible="false" id="image"/>
<mx:Button x="172" y="225" label="Button" id="button" click="buttonClickHandler()"/>
</mx:Application>
hi have a click handler for the button. in the function of click handler handle displaying of image by switching visibilities.have the image embedded in the design before itself. then play with its visibilities on button click.
try going through the examples here.explains about all kind of asset embedding,including sound
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=04_OO_Programming_09.html

Fxcomponent: Flex video player issue

I'm using the fxcomponent: Flv video player to play my flv/mob files.
You may get it from here.
Now, player works perfectly as shown in their site, but when I try to use the FXVideo control in popup window (popup manager help is here), the component gives mirror image!, strange, I didn't change any code in that.
So can any one help me out to fix this issue, as I'm novice to action script?
Image:
For quick set up, I'm putting my code here:
FXVideo_Example.mxml file (No change at all except variable)
[Bindable]
private var source:String = "http://localhost/greatcatches.flv";
]]>
</mx:Script>
<controls:FXVideo width="480" height="360" source="{source}" autoPlay="false" bufferTime="10" />
MainPage.mxml:
import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject;
import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
private function showW():void {
// Create a non-modal TitleWindow container.
var helpWindow:IFlexDisplayObject =
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, FXVideo_Example, false);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox width="480" height="360">
<mx:Button click="showW();" label="Show"/>
</mx:VBox>
Ended up by using spark component!
<s:VideoPlayer id="videoPlayer"
source="http://localhost/greatcatches.flv"
autoRewind="true"
muted="true"
horizontalCenter="0"
verticalCenter="0" />

Why does updateDisplayList stop happening in Flex?

Reward: Has been claimed.
Overview: The code giving me the problem is deployed here: http://www.johnuckele.com/MastersOfTime.html
The problem I am running into is that a certain sequence of actions (I don't fully understand how or why) is causing my calls to invalidateDisplayList to fail to produce a subsequent call to updateDisplayList. What I know is that during this period, some other visual effects will fail to occur (such as changing the width of a component or the addition of a new child).
Example: The program below draws two columns of horizontal lines. The column on the left is drawn during commitProperties, the column on the right is drawn during updateDisplayList. A certain sequence of actions can cause the right column to stop updating.
To trigger this bug: First add a new item. Now hit the start button and a bar starts filling up. If you press the add row button, the right column and the filling bar both stop growing. The left column continues unfettered. The extra component won't appear until the last line of the if statement in TEComputeRow.tick() doesn't execute for a frame. Click on the stop button to halt the execution of the block inside the if statement in TEComputeRow.tick() and everything goes back to normal.
Question: What is going on here?
I can force it to behave by using validate now but it doesn't cure the problem, it merely covers it up for a frame. It also seems like a really sloppy hack. Is there a nicer way to deal with the loss of updateDisplayList than using validateNow? Are there any ways to accurately identify the state of the world?
MastersOfTime.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute"
backgroundColor="white"
backgroundGradientAlphas="[1,1]"
initialize="init()"
enterFrame="tick()"
creationComplete="addComputeArray()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.containers.HBox;
import mx.controls.Button;
import mx.containers.VBox;
import flash.utils.getTimer;
private var global:int = 0;
private function addComputeArray():void
{
var addButton:Button = new Button;
addButton.label = "Add Row Item";
addButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, addComputeBox);
box.addChild(addButton);
}
private function addComputeBox(a:* = null):void
{
box.addChild(new TEComputeRow());
}
private function init():void
{
box.clipContent = false;
box.graphics.lineStyle(1);
}
private function tick():void
{
global++;
this.invalidateDisplayList();
this.invalidateProperties();
//this.validateNow();
}
protected override function commitProperties():void
{
super.commitProperties();
box.graphics.moveTo(100, (global*3)%800);
box.graphics.lineTo(200, (global*3)%800);
}
protected override function updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number, unscaledHeight:Number):void
{
super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
box.graphics.moveTo(200, (global*3)%800);
box.graphics.lineTo(300, (global*3)%800);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox id="box"/>
</mx:Application>
TEComputeRow.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
height="60"
width="352"
verticalGap="0"
borderStyle="solid"
enterFrame="tick()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public var doStuff:Boolean = false;
private var parameter:Number = 0;
private function tick(e:Event = null):void
{
var value:*;
if(doStuff)
{
parameter = parameter+1;
value = parameter;
fill.width = value;
}
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Button label="turn on" click="{doStuff = true;}" height="20"/>
<mx:Container id="fill" x="7" width="0" height="20" backgroundColor="0x8888AA"/>
<mx:Button label="turn off" click="{doStuff = false;}" height="20"/>
</mx:VBox>
Well for starters, you are abusing the Flex life-cycle horribly, and doing things you are not meant to do... Changing the width of the fill in the tick of the row kicks off another invalidation cycle is the one that immediately jumps out. If you drove things via the Timer rather than on enterFrame, you'd immediately be better off.
My guess is that you spend so much time per frame re-invalidating the properties (changing the width will invalidate properties), the player never fits in the updateDisplayList.
Read up on both the elastic race track, and Deepa's presentation on the Flex 3 lifecycle.
The use of .width is what is triggering this problem. If I replace .width with .setActualSize the problem stops. These pieces of code travel through separate paths and .width and .height apparently have the capacity to skip part of the frame cycle (the updateDisplayList part).

Can a custom component call PopUpManager.addPopUp on itself? How does one put the pop-up logic inside the component?

I'm trying to organise my code better and figured it would be good to place the pop-up logic within the component that's being popped-up. However, I can't seem to do this without causing one error or another. I also need to make the pop-up modal.
I'm doing something along these lines (psuedo code):
<mx:TitleWindow >
<mx:Label id="messageLabel" />
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public function show():void{
PopUpManager.addPopUp(this, Application.application as DisplayObject, true);
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(this);
}
public function hide():void{
PopUpManager.removePopUp(this);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:TitleWindow>
Can anyone help?
It appears that this works, after all.
I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but after Ryan's response I rewrote the code, using the above pseudo code as a starting point. Now it seems to work.

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