Hi Frédéric, How are you able to create an app for the App Store? I'm very interested in doing this myself but don't know how. ... View more

How can you tell it is faster to not use embedded fonts? I have been checking for events and any indication for when the text has rendered and I have found none. ... View more

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What platforms? On Android there is or was a bug with audio latency that would interfere with your goals. The bug is in the Android OS IIRC. If you want to contact me offlist I can put together an AIR project to test mixing as many tracks as you'd like and include buttons to trigger them (source included). ... View more

In OLED type screens setting pixels to black turns the pixels off. I don't know how you would keep a process running but you may be able to hide the screen by setting the alpha on the application to 0 and setting the application visible properties to false in the xml descriptor file. Please let us know if this works. ... View more

It sounds like something outside of MyView is keeping a hard reference to it so it is not getting garbage collected. It could also be the destruction policy in MyView is set to "never". ... View more

Hi, Yes. I sent you a private message with my email. Can you also send me what you have working? I will integrate it into my project so we have as many ad options as we can get working then post it online where we can get more help and exposure. ... View more

@Lax - is your question answered? UPDATE: Just noticed you are using contentBackgroundColor (was looking at the post title). Use contentBackgroundColor and contentBackgroundAlpha. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"         xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="Home">     <fx:Script>         <![CDATA[             protected function textinput1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {                 event.currentTarget.setStyle("color", "#0000ff");                 event.currentTarget.setStyle("contentBackgroundColor", 0x00ff00);             }         ]]>     </fx:Script>         <s:TextInput contentBackgroundColor="#666666" text="Hello color filled World" click="textinput1_clickHandler(event)"/>     </s:View> FYI keep in mind you now have access to the FXG MXML markup. This can be a quicker solution than recreating a new skin. If the contentBackgroundColor property didn't exist this is what you could have done prior to creating your own skin: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"         xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="Home"     <fx:Script>         <![CDATA[             protected function textinput1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {                 event.currentTarget.setStyle("color", "#0000ff");                 backgroundColorFill.color = 0x00ff00;             }         ]]>     </fx:Script>         <s:Group>         <s:Rect width="100%" height="100%">             <s:fill>                 <s:SolidColor id="backgroundColorFill" color="#00ffff"/>             </s:fill>         </s:Rect>         <s:TextInput contentBackgroundAlpha="0" text="Hello color filled World" click="textinput1_clickHandler(event)"/>     </s:Group> </s:View> ... View more

Thanks Lax. I'm not new to the platform but new to mobile and I will be finishing my first simple mobile app soon. My comments are below and below that I've listed my own issues. Forms and Fields 1. What you're describing is a Text Input with prompt (goes by various names). It's listed as "coming next" on the Mobile Flex components roadmap. There are some 3rd party components that do this but I have not used them. 2. For validation and formatting you can use Validators and Formatters. These will highlight fields in a red border that do not validate. They're very sophisticated intrinsically but after numerous forms there's a feeling it could be consolidated. I've been working on some form components that I use that I might release if there's interest. In the mean time you have to dispatch a mouse over event on invalidate fields to show the build in error messages. It's sortof clunky but looks nice when it's working. 3. There's a property on Text fields called restrict that only lets you enter the characters you specify. So you could put 0-9 in that and the keyboard would only show those keys. But if you do something like that or only show the numbers in a zip code field there's a chance you might frustrate your users if you miss something. For example, those weirdo canadians have letters in their zip code. If you restrict the input or keypad to only numbers you effectively piss off a huge majority of users... well there's only a few people in canada so those guys. User Prompts I ran into this too. Alert.show() only shows text. Everything else was missing. Can you post your alert class??? In a more broad scope I need my app to be able to show Alert messages and Notifications. For example, even if it's not running I need to be able to show a prompt, "You have a meeting in 45 minutes. Take your weekly shower..." and "Your meeting is in 15 minutes, did you brush your teeth?" Running Projects +1. Sometimes it does automatically close it down other times it shows that prompt. Native Device Functions Yeah. This is a sore spot for me. I'm praying that these features are coming soon. - Push Notifications - "Ronnie just sent you a ppt and said, 'here's the final draft of the presentation.'  Click here to view it. " - System Alerts - "Your meeting starts in 10 minutes in conference room B" - Intents - add text and image content to SMS and Email - Contacts - let app access contacts - Ad Support* - a way, anyway, to add ad's into my app *ads allow me to offer free versions of my apps. they also lower the barrier of entry for user installation and thus user feedback and also provide a revenue stream on apps that may not fit in the direct sale model Spark Components Not all MX components have been converted to Spark equivalent. In those cases we have to fall back to MX component set and include that additional framework. For example, top MX components I'd like to have in Spark, Tree, Alert, DividerBox, RichTextEditor, TabNavigator, Color Picker, etc mx.controls.Alert mx.controls.OLAPDataGrid mx.containers.Accordion mx.controls.AdvancedDataGrid mx.controls.PopUpButton mx.containers.DividedBox mx.controls.ColorPicker mx.controls.PopUpMenuButton mx.containers.Form mx.controls.DataGrid mx.controls.ProgressBar mx.containers.Grid mx.controls.DateChooser mx.controls.RichTextEditor mx.containers.TabNavigator mx.controls.DateField mx.controls.Tree mx.containers.ViewStack mx.controls.Menu All chart classes in the mx.charts.* packages mx.controls.MenuBar All Flex AIR components in the mx.controls package ArrayCollection, XMLListCollection and UIComponent are still in the mx package. If they haven't changed just copying them into the spark package would help identify remaining mx dependancies. ... View more

What are you trying to do? If you're using Flex Mobile you can use  constraints to set the size and position of the component regardless of  screen resolution or orientation. I'll send you the Flash Builder Mobile project I'm using to get ad's to work through PHP. If Flex Mobile is not an option then I can get the code for you to check when the orientation changes. ... View more

Update I've been searching the web for the last 2 weeks and haven't found anyway to do this. Does anyone have any idea how to get any ad into any app? ... View more

Any examples of either of these? I'd be willing to test! ... View more

Is it possible to access the Intent API through AIR? Update: Just read this response where the Intent API is not supported http://forums.adobe.com/message/3387060#3387060. Android Code: Intent picMessageIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); picMessageIntent.setType("image/jpeg"); File downloadedPic =  new File(     Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(     Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS),     "q.jpeg"); picMessageIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(downloadedPic)); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(picMessageIntent, "Send your picture using:")); Taken from: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-sdk-sending-pictures-the-easy-way/ ... View more

Hi Joe, Yeah, that's been the method I've been testing with. Is there a way for AIR to access the Intent API? Android code: final Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); i.putExtra("sms_body", msgText); i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imageUri); i.setType("*/*"); startActivity(i); Thanks ... View more

To say I'm excited is an understatement! THANK YOU!!! ... View more

i hope this helps ... View more

@Gordon - Yes. @Richard - Yeah, I tried to reproduce and it was only happenning when I was logged in to my app automatically and i don't think the text was ever displayed. It might be happenning when state change is involved. <mx:RemoveChild target="{signUpBottomText}"/> I could switch it to spark but the last time I checked (on another issue) I had issues with the htmlText not being valid. Is there an easily equivalent spark alternative I could try? Do you need any more information from me? ... View more

Thank you so much that was it! ... View more

Why can't you just embed a mx datagrid inline? That would make life so much more easier. ... View more

TLF supports the following tags: div – a division of text, can contains only div or p elements p – a paragraph, can contain any element but div a – a link; can contain tcy, span, img, tab, br tcy – a run of horizontal text, used in vertical text; for example in Japanese you can have this type of element; can contain a, span, img, tab, br span – a run of text in a paragraph; can contain only text img – an image in a paragraph tab – a tab character br – a break character. Text will continue on the next line, but it doesn’t start a new paragraph At the same time, each node has an ActionScript class implementation: TextFlow, DivElement, ParagraphElement, LinkElement, TCYElement, SpanElement, InlineGraphicElement, TabElement, and BreakElement. All these classes inherit directly or indirectly from the class FlowElement. Can we create our own class implementations inherited directly or indirectly from FlowElement? For example, if I wanted to create a TableElement, a ChartElement, a SyntaxHighlightElement, VideoElement,  a MusicElement, etc My original question pertained to embedding a regular MXML Component, like mx:List, mx:DataGrid, mx:Button, etc. ... View more

Hi Abhishek, I just read new documentation on mx and spark Text controls and I misunderstood the HTML importer. If that class will import HTML markup and convert HTML tags like "<p>" to TLF class elements like "<s:p>" is it possible for it to remove or ignore tags it doesn't understand? For example, if it encounters a "<em>" tag can the importer have settings to remove or ignore this tag? And can we have it fix or ignore our code so it follows the rules of TLF and mercifully ignore without error if for example, <div> accidentally happens to be a child of a <p> tag? If I understand it correctly will we be able to have our own components in a TLF text flow? For example, if we have this markup, "<p>My music player<br/><local:MusicPlayerComponent width='100%' height='200'/></p>" Will we be able to embed our own components like that? Sorry, lots of questions. ... View more