Does anyone know of a method or strategy through which a shortcut can be created through Flex for the various platforms? I've been examining the various flash.filesystem.File methods but did not notice anything that seemed noteworthy.
Thanks for the time and attention.
You won't be able to do it with Flex.
If you target AIR, there is this XXMKLINK program that allows you to create shortcuts from the command line. You can use the native process feature of AIR to leverage it.
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I am developing a qml app in qt5 with circular gauge. I want to port application qt 6. But in qt 6 qtquick extras is missing, so circular gauge is not available. Is qt planning to make it available in next releases of qt6? What can I do instead of using circular gauge in qt6?
Is there anyone who knows about it?
As far as I know there are no plans yet to port it to Qt 6. You could create a suggestion on Jira to express your interest in having it.
The code is here and here if you want to try to port it yourself or just use parts of it (keeping in mind the license, which is LGPL).
As you stated in the question, CircularGauge is not available in Qt6. So what can you do?
As a minimal effort, you can substitute CircularGauge with a functional similar component, for instance, RangeSlider. Of course, a RangeSlider looks nothing like a CircularGauge, but, it will, at least, allow you to compile and run your application. It will give you an application to test whilst you decide your options.
Then, as others have stated, you need to spend more effort allocated to porting. If you refer to the source code of CircularGauge, you see that they're using Canvas with a custom onPaint implementation. You could do the same in your port, or, you can find an alternative, e.g. Shape with ShapePath, etc. These efforts are non-trivial, and it boils down to the level of effort you wish to invest.
Once I've seen a nice tool called .NET Reflector. It can show the entire object hierarchy of .Net binaries/apps (sorry if the term is wrong).
Is there something like this for Qt? As Qt has very good QMetaObject abilities, it should be possible to traverse object-trees, call methods(slots), change properties, etc.
I am currently re-factoring a Qt project. The naming of variables is very domain specific and I am not the expert in this domain. So, it is difficult for me to map a widget-variable to the widget on the screen. Such tool would be a great help for me to understand the code.
Thank you very much in advance!
For simple uses you might want to take a look at QObject::dumpObjectTree()
If you need something more advanced there's kspy
kspy: examines the internal state of a
Qt/KDE app KSpy is a tiny library
which can be used to graphically
display the QObjects in use by a
Qt/KDE app. In addition to the object
tree, you can also view the
properties, signals and slots of any
QObject. Basically it provides much
the same info as
QObject::dumpObjectTree() and
QObject::dumpObjectInfo(), but in a
much more convenient form. KSpy has
minimal overhead for the application,
because the kspy library is loaded
dynamically using KLibLoader. See /usr
/share/doc/kspy/README for usage
instructions. This package is part of
the KDE Software Development Kit.
It depends on KDE's klibloader so if you are not under KDE you have to modify it but it should be rather easy. Sources are here.
There's QSpy project. It inspects all QWidgets of running application. I'm not sure how well it works, because I couldn't use it on Mac OS X. Maybe on Windows it works better. https://github.com/sashao/martlet
http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/QSpy?content=102287
I need to convert complete .air project to flex project which can run in flash player in browser. Anybody do it?
Look what's inside of .project file. I believe it is set here:
...
<natures>
<nature>com.adobe.flexbuilder.apollo.apollonature</nature>
<nature>com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.flexnature</nature>
<nature>com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.actionscriptnature</nature>
</natures>
Apollo is codename for AIR. If you remove this nature, project may turn into Flex-based. Never did it myself though, so you have to experiment.
That depends on the air-project. I don't think you can get an air-project running as a flex app if it uses air-only features like directory/file selectors or the like ...
Thanks for all. I've built my project by simple copying the files one-by-one and correct the errors.
I've been working on a Flex component and I'd like to write some automated tests for it. The trouble is, the UI testing tools I've looked at (FlexMonkey and Selenium Flex API) don't simulate "enough":
Most of the bugs which have come up so far relate to the way Flex deals with dragging and dropping, which these libraries can't simulate accurately enough. For example, I need to test a case where there is a "drop" event which occurs in the bottom half of a component – neither FlexMonkey nor Selenium Flex API can do that (they may simulate a mouse event, but they won't include coordinates).
So, is there any "good" way to automate that sort of testing?
Edit: After much research, it looks like the only piece of software that can do this is iMacros, which is Windows-only and the interface is... Lacking. So I'm going to be writing my own. Basically, it will put an HTTP interface on java.awt.Robot so code (in any language) can simulate mouse/keyboard events. If you're interested, PM me and I'll keep you updated.
Edit 2: I have published the first version of the framework I wrote, Blunderbuss, over at BitBucket: http://bitbucket.org/wolever/blunderbuss/ . You'll need Jython to run it (http://www.jython.org/), but after that the flex-client example should work.
Videos of Blunderbuss live over at Vimeo:
Automating Flex testing with Blunderbuss
Blunderbuss test suite running
At the moment this remains a proof-of-concept, as I haven't had the cycles to clean it up and make it more useable… But maybe enough people bothering me would give me that time :)
I've used Eggplant to test Flash and AIR apps without having to add any hooks into the code. It's a great tool but it's quite expensive. It simulates a real user by VNC-ing into a system and uses image recognition - among other things - to interact with the app.
I am definitely interested in your custom Java class, and (though I am not the best at Java (yet...)), I would be willing to help out if you're thinking of making this collaborative.
As to Flash MouseEvents. Unfortunately, there really isn't an accurate way to simulate the drag/drop experience in Flash. MouseEvents, when generated by the mouse, are handled in a very different way than regular events and while you could simulate actions by passing events into the handling functions, or by making the dispatcher fire a new DragEvent( DragEvent.DRAG_DROP..., it will not be the same as having the user interact with it. And for some functionality (like gaining access to the clipboard), nothing inside Flash will accomplish your goals.
To be honest, you're probably headed in the right direction -- using something which is not written in Flash to drive faked mouse events is probably your best bet.
I've never had to use it in Flex but i recently stumbled across some info on automation packages in the MS Surface SDK... after looking into it those classes automated user behavior which can be used for testing i.e. move a fake mouse to this point, perform this action. As you're using Flex mx.automation packages and classes. My guess (and hope) is that you'd be able to achieve what you want using these classes.
You could also try auto-hotkey - it is similarly a macro-editing program but it has proven to be very efficient and you can write scripts and set it up very easily.
HI,
I'm currently working on a project that uses Flex and Java. In Java we easily enforced a coding standard with Checkstyle, and we want to do this for Flex.
Does anybody know of a tool similar to Checkstyle that would allow coding standard checks?
(I've googled for this but found only one project written in python and it seams abandoned)
Thanks
The long and the short is that there is... kind of, but only for Actionscript, and you have to test it yourself... There is a prototype of an Actionscript 3 version, but it is not even in Beta yet (and I admit that I haven't had the time to test it). I haven't found anything similar for XML, let alone MXML. This is in at least one list of feature requests for Flex 4, however.
I'm working too on a project uses Flex and Java. Like you, in Java, we easily use plugins like checkstyle, findBug, javaNcss or PMD. My personal project is to do this for Flex. I have test the prototype 'checkStyleas3' but it just verify the code source en returns you 0 or -1 as result. So you will have (me too in fact), to implement this prototype if you want to do more than that.
Keep an eye on this : http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/05/20/as3v-preview/