I've reviewed all the documentation and Google results surrounding this and I think I have everything setup correctly. My problem is that the symbol is not appearing in my app. I have a MovieClip symbol that I've embedded to my Flex Component. I need to create a new Image control for each item from my dataProvider and assign this embedded symbol as the Image's source. I thought it was simple but apparently not. Here's a stub of the code:
[Embed(source="../assets/assetLib.swf", symbol="StarMC")]
private var StarClass:Class;
protected function rebuildChildren():void {
iterator.seek( CursorBookmark.FIRST );
while ( !iterator.afterLast ) {
child = new Image();
var asset:MovieClipAsset = new StarClass() as MovieClipAsset;
(child as Image).source = asset;
}
}
I know the child is being created because I can draw a shape and and that appears. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you!
You should be able to simply set child.source to StarClass:
child = new Image();
child.source = StarClass;
See the MovieClipAsset Language Reference for more details:
you rarely need to create MovieClipAsset instances yourself
because image-related properties and
styles can be set to an
image-producing class, and components
will create instances as necessary.
For example, to set the application
background to this animation, you can
simply write the following:
<mx:Application backgroundImage="{backgroundAnimationClass}"/>
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I am building an RIA application using Flex 4.6 that contains a main borderContainer (page) that can contain some other borderContainers (graphic or text elements).
I added an event listener on the page to listen to click events:
page.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler, true);
clickHandler looks like this:
private function clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// Remove event listeners
page.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler, true);
// Get click position
objX = event.localX;
objY = event.localY;
}
My problem is that although the event's currentTarget is always the page (normal), the target can either be the page or one of its children, and then localX doesn't give me the position on the page but on the child.
Is there a way to make sure the page is always the target of the event? Something like stopping the capturing phase on the page so it doesn't go deeper?
Thanks in advance for your help
Darrel
I think you may be asking the wrong question. As I understand it, you want the x/y position relative to 'page'. You can use the DisplayObject#globalToLocal() function to find this.
Just take the the global coordinates and convert them to local coordinates relative to 'page':
var coordinates:Point = new Point(event.stageX, event.stageY);
coordinates = page.globalToLocal(coordinates);
objX = coordinates.x;
objY = coordinates.y;
I'm having a problem similar to FLEX: dialog not display immediately . Code follows:
private function saveBitmap(event:ContextMenuEvent):void
{
loadingScreen.visible = true;
loadingScreen.appLoadingText.text = "Preparing bitmap...";
addChild(loadingScreen);
validateNow();
var bmpd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(canv.width, canv.height);
bmpd.draw(canv);
var fr:FileReference = new FileReference();
fr.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, removeLoadingScreen);
fr.addEventListener(Event.CANCEL, removeLoadingScreen);
var png:PNGEncoder = new PNGEncoder();
var iba:ByteArray = png.encode(bmpd);
fr.save(iba, "export.png");
}
Basically, bmpd.draw and/or png.encode are dog slow, so I'd like to have a nice "please hold while we prepare your png" dialog to appear. I can't use callLater() because of the FileReference.
And just for good measure, the loading screen appears at the same time the save dialog appears from the call to fr.save().
Any ideas?
Cheers!
You're adding the child in this function. Are you doing any other work to the loadingScreen, such as sizing it? Or positioning it? Most commonly this is done in updateDisplayList(). What container are you using?
Are you sure the Z-order of your two children is correct? You can swap children with the swapChildren method
I am creating a canvas in actionscript like :
private var cvs_preview:Canvas = null;
private function show_preview():void
{
this.cvs_preview = new Canvas();
this.cvs_preview.id = "cvs_preview_1";
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('backgroundColor', 0x000000);
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('backgroundAlpha', 1);
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('borderColor', 0x417FDD);
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('cornerRadius', 10);
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('borderStyle', 'solid');
this.cvs_preview.setStyle('dropShadowEnabled', true);
var pt:Point = image.localToGlobal(new Point(image.x, image.y));
this.cvs_preview.x = pt.x - 50;
this.cvs_preview.y = pt.y - 50;
this.cvs_preview.height = 200;
this.cvs_preview.width = 250;
//this.cvs_preview.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, get_focus_on_canvas);
//this.cvs_preview.focusManager.setFocus(
//this.cvs_preview.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, end_preview_on_focus_change);
this.cvs_preview.addEventListener(FocusEvent.MOUSE_FOCUS_CHANGE, end_preview_on_focus_change);
Application.application.addChild(this.cvs_preview); //add as top-most visible container
btn_mini_preview.enabled = false;
}
So on the focus change i want to run the "end_preview_on_focus_change()"
but this is not working.
As per my understanding, i think the canvas not getting any focus in the first place. I was trying to use focusManager.setFocus to do that after the canvas's creation complete. but even that is giving me an error.
the code i was trying on Creation.Complete is :
private function get_focus_on_canvas(e:FlexEvent)
{
focusManager.setFocus(e.target);
//Alert.show("testing img complete");
}
this is giving me an error "1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type mx.managers:IFocusManagerComponent."
basically i just want to use the focus out event of the canvas.
Can someone help me with this...
I have been on this issue since a long time.
Regards
Zeeshan
The error is correct. You have an object of type Object which you are trying to use as an IFocusManagerComponent. This will not work. To accomplish that line of code, you need to do something like
focusManager.setFocus( IFocusManagerComponent( e.target ) );
This, of course, assumes that the target implements IFocusManagerComponent. It will give you an error otherwise (and likely will in this case because Canvas is not listed as an IFocusManagerComponent). The good news is that Canvas does have a drawFocus method which will accomplish the same thing.
As to your MOUSE_FOCUS_CHANGE event, that will only be fired if an object already HAS focus and then loses it. I think you are better off using FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE. This will ensure that the component has registered itself with all of the appropriate classes in the Flex SDK so that the FocusManager can even be aware of the new object. Whatever you do, do not try to set focus on something which has not been added to the stage (ie: Event.ADDED has been called).
As another piece of advice -- Event.ADDED bubbles, make sure that event.currentTarget == event.target to make sure that you are listening to the correct object. Otherwise, you might be calling the same function multiple times erroneously.
Only a few classes implement IFocusManagerComponent as others mentioned and Canvas is not one of them. If you really must call FocusManager.setFocus() you will have to extend the canvas class to implement this interface and use that class instead. You don't have to write any methods to implement this interface, all methods have already been implemented by UIComponent itself
//FocusableCanvas.as (include appropriate package and import statements)
public class FocusableCanvas extends Canvas implements IFocusManagerComponent
{
public function FocusableCanvas()
{
super();
}
}
//Now use this class instead of Canvas
this.cvs_preview = new FocusableCanvas();
//setFocus in creation complete handler
FocusManager.setFocus(IFocusManagerComponent(e.target));
But if all you want to do is to set focus on the canvas upon it's creation, you can call canvas.setFocus() from the creationComplete handler instead.
private function get_focus_on_canvas(e:FlexEvent)
{
Canvas(e.currentTarget).setFocus();
trace("done");
}
I see two problems, and no perfect solutions. With any luck, this can help you out.
First of all, e.target returns an object typecast with type Object. This explains your implict coercion error, because Object does not implement IFocusManagerComponent.
Second, iFocusManagerComponent is only implemented by Accordion, AdvancedListBase, Button, ButtonBar, ChartBase, ComboBase, DateChooser, DateField, HTML, ListBase, MenuBar, NumericStepper, TabNavigator, TextArea, TextInput, UIMovieClip as per this entry in the Flex 3.4 AS3 Reference.
This leads me to believe that a Canvas element cannot take focus and has simply inherited access to the FocusManager through inheritance of UIComponent.
The only solutions I can see are to utilize something other than Canvas to handle your focus related concerns, or subclass Canvas and implement iFocusManagerComponent, though that looks fairly complex.
Edit
Apologies for missing drawFocus in the above solution.
Please try;
private function get_focus_on_canvas(e:FlexEvent)
{
this.cvs_preview.setFocus();
}
We are creating a LinkButton programmatically and would like to set it's icon to an image retrieved from the remote server rather than something embedded within the SWF. The .icon property expects a Class but I can't figure out how to create one equivalent to an #Embed but from a dynamically generated URLRequest or URL String.
var myImage:Image = new Image();
myImage.source = "http://www.domain.com/img/1234.png";
myImage.width = 16;
myImage.height = 16;
myImage.scaleContent = true;
var myButton:LinkButton = new LinkButton();
myButton.label = "Some text"
// This is what I'm trying to figure out.
myButton.setStyle("icon", ???)
I'm probably missing something obvious - I've tried passing in the URL and myImage separately but both throw errors. Stepping into the setStyle() method shows that the code is expecting a Class - so what do I pass in place of the ???
I can't embed the image itself because it's dynamic - the URL is different each time the software runs.
Thanks for any assistance!
Why not just set the buttonMode of a mx:Image to true then add a click event?
<mx:Image source="{imageSource}" buttonMode="true" click="action()" />
I'm not sure its possible without using an embedded images with a linkButton
This might be worth a read
Edit... in AS3:
var img:Image = new Image();
img.source = "...";
img.buttonMode = true;
img.addEventListenever(MouseEvent.CLICK, funcName);
I think that instead of trying to set the style, you need to change the child object that holds the icon. You can access it by something like:
Var:Bitmap icon = myButton.getChildByName("upIcon") as Bitmap
It should be easy to replace the bitmapData in there with the one from a Loader.
If memory serves, you'll want to use button.setStyle('icon', img), where img is an image loaded via Loader class.
for laalto,
this may be too late of an answer but somebody might find it useful or as a starting point to a solution to your problem. Have you tried referencing your image icon as a class? I don't know if this will work for an image which is in a dynamic URL but this worked for me:
[Embed("assets/LinkButton.png")]
private const linkButtonIcon:Class;
Then in your code:
myButton.setStyle("icon", linkButtonIcon);
See this example here:
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/09/03/setting-the-icon-on-a-linkbutton-control-in-flex/
<mx:Button id="example" label="Example" icon="{IconUtility.getClass(example, 'http://www.exampledomain.com/image.jpg')}" />
http://blog.benstucki.net/?p=42
Flex has built in drag-n-drop for list controls, and allows you to override this. But they don't cover this in examples. The built-in functionality automatically drags the list-item, if you want to override this you find the handlers are being set up on the list itself.
What I specifically want to do, is my TileList shows small thumbnails of items I can drag onto a large Canvas. As I drag an item from the list, the drag proxy should be a different image.
So, I followed the technique suggested and it only works if I explicitly set the width/height on the proxy Image. Why?
It's not obvious until you've tried it =) I struggled with the same thing just a few weeks ago. This was my solution:
The list:
<List>
<mouseDown>onListMouseDown(event)</mouseDown>
</Tree>
The mouse down handler:
private function onMouseDown( event : MouseEvent ) : void {
var list : List = List(event.currentTarget);
// the data of the clicked row, change the name of the class to your own
var item : MyDataType = MyDataType(list.selectedItem);
var source : DragSource = new DragSource();
// MyAwsomeDragFormat is the key that you will retrieve the data by in the
// component that handles the drop
source.addData(item, "MyAwsomeDragFormat");
// this is the component that will be shown as the drag proxy image
var dragView : UIComponent = new Image();
// set the source of the image to a bigger version here
dragView.source = getABiggerImage(item);
// get hold of the renderer of the clicked row, to use as the drag initiator
var rowRenderer : UIComponent = UIComponent(list.indexToItemRenderer(list.selectedIndex));
DragManager.doDrag(
rowRenderer,
source,
event,
dragView
);
}
That will start the drag when the user clicks an item in the list. Notice that I don't set dragEnabled and the other drag-related properties on the list since I handle all that myself.
It can be useful to add this to the beginning of the event handler:
if ( event.target is ScrollThumb || event.target is Button ) {
return;
}
Just to short circuit if the user clicks somewhere in the scrollbar. It's not very elegant but it does the job.
I found a simpler answer here. That example extends a DataGrid control, but you can do the same with a List control. In my case, I use an image source instead of Class:
public class CustomDragList extends List {
[Bindable]
public var dragProxyImageSource:Object;
override protected function get dragImage():IUIComponent {
var image:Image = new Image();
image.width = 50;
image.height = 50;
image.source = dragProxyImageSource;
image.owner = this;
return image;
}
}
Then use that custom list like this:
<control:CustomDragList
allowMultipleSelection="true"
dragEnabled="true"
dragProxyImageSource="{someImageSource}"
dragStart="onDragStart(event)"/>
Where 'someImageSource' can be anything you'd normally use for an image source (embedded, linked, etc.)