<parsley:ContextBuilder config="{HelloWorldConfig}">
<parsley:PropertiesFile file="data/config.properties"/>
</parsley:ContextBuilder>
 

In this context, I have a config.properties file in the 'data' folder. The documentation explains about retrieving the values from the Parsley configuration object file directly by using properties.anyPropertyName, but just wondering if I want to access it from the application context??

Flex:

 
 @font-face {
	src: url("fonts/GOTHICBI.TTF");
	font-family: GOTHICBI;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-style: italic;
	advancedAntiAliasing: true;
}
 
@font-face {
	src: url("fonts/GOTHIC.TTF");
	font-family: GOTHIC;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	advancedAntiAliasing: true;
}
 

Remember to specify font weight and font style.

In actionscript 3

 
[Embed(source="TT0005M_.TTF", fontFamily="Swiss 721 Bold BT", fontWeight="bold", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]
         static public var  Swiss721BoldBT:String;
 

1) Download this file: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/attachment/54265/global-log-workaround.jar
2) Copy the downloaded jar file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\plugins directory, which is nothing but the 'plugins' directory of your flash builder 4 installation.
3) Now open FlashBuilder.ini file in a notepad/text editor, from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4, which is again your configuration directory in the flash builder 4 installation.
4) Add this configuration variable, *=file\:plugins/global-log-workaround.jar in the end of the file.
Now your config.ini file should look similar to this:

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-nl
en_US
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-XX:PermSize=64m
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=dropins
-dev plugins/global-log-workaround.jar

5) Now restart your flex builder and unsurprisingly it should have been recovered.

This is the syntax of the gradient fill in AS3:

 
beginGradientFill(type:String, colors:Array, alphas:Array, ratios:Array, matrix:Matrix  = null, spreadMethod:String  = "pad", interpolationMethod:String  = "rgb", focalPointRatio:Number  = 0):void
 

ratios:Array - An array of ratio colors in the gradient. The values ranges from 0 to 255, for example, [0,100, 255], implies that at 0 the first color will be at its highest value(original color) similarly, at 100 and 255 the rest of the two colors will be at their highest values. So, you can see a gradient from 0 to 100 and 100 and 255.

focalPointRatio:Number - This is the value between -1 and 1, with 1 at the right hand side and -1 on the left side for the focal point when a radial gradient is drawn, and is horizontal. 0 is the default value. If you want to draw the focal point on the vertical axis, the trick is to use the 'rotation' property in the createGradientBox() and rotate it at an angle to acheive the desired direction.
]]> http://uicomponent.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=285 1 http://uicomponent.com/blog/?p=278 http://uicomponent.com/blog/?p=278#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:43:34 +0000 Kiran http://uicomponent.com/blog/?p=278 This is one of the errors I have stumbled upon today working on an older project. Everything was working fine until I have upgraded to flex builder 3.0.1.
Usually, my flex builder doesn't recognize the 'graphics' property and BitmapData class, in auto completion. I lately realized that I am using flex builder 3.0.0 and haven't
upgraded to the next version. After upgrading, flex builder started to give this error and few other errors on binding events such as Watcher, PropertyChangeEvent etc.
I've done all quick fixes which didn't work and couldn't get any help from web search as well. As I was messing around the problem, I've checked my flex build path and realized that it doesn't contain the framework.swc and rpc.swc files. After, adding these swc files from the sdks installation of flex(C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.3.0\frameworks\libs) everything is kushti. Hope, this helps someone trying to fix this issue.

A bezier curve can be drawn using a cubic equation which has two control points that renders the curve. In flash, we can only draw quadratic beizer curves, where you can only specify one control point. The control points acts like a magnet that pulls the line towards itself.

 
  curveTo(controlPointX, controlPointY, anchorX, anchorY);
 

 
package LCTest {
	import com.kcode.flex.utils.debug.MessagePacket;
 
	import flash.events.StatusEvent;
	import flash.net.LocalConnection;
	import flash.net.registerClassAlias;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;
 
	import mx.utils.UIDUtil;
	/**
	 *
	 * @author kiran.mannava
	 */
	public class LCTest {
 
		public static var active:Boolean;
		protected static var instance:Debug;
 
		/**
		 * connection string to talk to an AIR application is made up of
		 * app# + application id + . + publisher id + : + application id
		 * example: app#Slave.130A080AFCC69239D6F9896EEBED2327BC93ED43.1:Slave
		 * to use this sample, you must fill in your appropriate connection string below
		 */
		private static const slaveLCConection:String = "app#Slave.130A080AFCC69239D6F9896EEBED2327BC93ED43.1:Slave"
 
		public static function custom(message:String, transferObject:Object=null):void {
			if (active) {
				var mp:MessagePacket = new MessagePacket();
				mp.data = transferObject;
				mp.message = message;
				mp.guid = instance.guid;
				mp.logLevel = LogLevels.CUSTOM;
				instance.messQueue.push(mp);
			}
		}
 
		public static function getInstance():LCTest {
			if (!instance) {
				instance = new LCTest();
			}
			return instance;
		}
		/**
		 * Initialize this object; establishes a connection with the slave and starts the half/full-duplex communication
		 * @param p_appName
		 *
		 */
		public static function init(p_appName:String):void {
			// create LocalConnection
			getInstance();
			registerClassAlias("com.kcode.flex.utils.debug.MessagePacket", com.kcode.flex.utils.debug.MessagePacket);
			instance.guid = UIDUtil.createUID();
			instance.primaryLC = new LocalConnection();
			instance.primaryLC.allowDomain('*');
			//primaryLC.client = this;
			instance.primaryLC.connect(instance.guid);
 
			instance.lcToConsole = new LocalConnection();
			instance.lcToConsole.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, instance.lcStatusChanged);
			//
			instance.lcToConsole.send(slaveLCConection, "testSlave" );
 
		}
		// slaveLC is the remote app
		public var lcToConsole:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
		// primaryLC is this application
		public var primaryLC:LocalConnection;
		private var isConnected:Boolean = true;
		// timer to ping LocalConnection
		private var messQueue:Array = [];
		private var packetFragmentSize:int = 39200;
 
		// handle status changes, we keep checking the status of the slave,
		//any message queued, will be sent directly or will testSlave
		private function lcStatusChanged(event:StatusEvent):void {
			//trace(event.level);
 
			switch (event.level) {
				case "error":
					connected = false;
					instance.lcToConsole.send(slaveLCConection, "testSlave", primaryLC.domain + ':Primary');
 
					break;
 
				case "status":
					connected = true;
					if (instance.messQueue.length > 0) {
						instance.sendMessageToConsole();
					} else {
						instance.lcToConsole.send(slaveLCConection, "testSlave", primaryLC.domain + ':Primary');
					}
 
					break;
 
			}
		}
 
		/* Chop up a message into LocalConnection size packets */
		private function makeMessagePackets(p_orig:MessagePacket):void {
 
			var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
			ba.writeObject(p_orig);
			ba.position = 0;
 
			var packets:Array = new Array();
			var offset:Number = 0;
			//For now left 800 Bytes availabe for packet wrapper data
			var length:int;
			var finalMessage:Boolean;
			while (offset < ba.length) {
 
				var packet:MessagePacket = new MessagePacket();
				packet.guid = p_orig.guid;
				packet.isChunked = true;
				if (offset + packetFragmentSize > ba.length) {
					length = ba.length - offset;
					packet.finalMessage = true;
				} else {
					length = packetFragmentSize;
					packet.finalMessage = false;
				}
				var dataFragment:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
				dataFragment.writeBytes(ba, offset, length);
				dataFragment.position = 0;
				packet.data = dataFragment;
				instance.messQueue.push(packet);
				offset += packetFragmentSize;
			}
		}
 
		// this is where the messages are send to the slave swf, the argument error implies that
		// the message has exceeded the 40K limit, so should chunk into pieces..
		private function sendMessageToConsole():void {
			trace("sendMessageToConsole");
			try {
				var mp:MessagePacket = instance.messQueue.shift() as MessagePacket;
				instance.lcToConsole.send(slaveLCConection, "traceOutput", mp);
				trace("MessagePacket -> " + mp.guid + " - " + mp.message + " - " + mp.isChunked + " - " + mp.finalMessage + " - " + mp.timeStamp + " - ");
 
			} catch (aErr:ArgumentError) {
				trace(aErr.message);
				instance.makeMessagePackets(mp);
				instance.sendMessageToConsole();
 
			} catch (err:Error) {
				trace(err);
			}
		}
 
		// receive LocalConnection response
		public function invokeByDebug(... rest):void {
			connected = true;
		}
 
	}
 
}