Greg Jessup Blog

By Greg • August 5th, 2008

I was getting this error when clicking my AdvancedDatagrid. This only seemed to occur after converting the app to a module.
The answer to the problem was to add the following to your main application.
Hope this helps you spend a lot less time than I did resolving the problem

import mx.managers.IDragManager;
private var iDragManager:IDragManager;

Here is the […]

Well after doing a bunch of searching and hacking away, I have managed to come up with a solution!
What I wanted was to set a variable when a change was made in my Flex application. (In my case it meant that a new module was loaded to my dashboard application) This way if a user […]

Create the custom Event.
In this case I will need to pass an object along with the event.
Save the actionscript as ParseFixClickEvent.as
package modules.FIXParser.Events
{
import flash.events.Event;
 
public class ParseFixClickEvent extends Event
{
public var params:Object;
public static const PARSE:String = “parseEvent”;
public function ParseFixClickEvent(params:Object, type:String )
{
super(type);
this.params = params;
}
public override function clone():Event {      
     return new ParseFixClickEvent(params,type);
    }
public override function toString():String
  {
   return formatToString(”ParseFixClickEvent”,”type”);
  }
}
}
 
 
In my case I […]

I have been a moderate investor in Dividend Reinvestment Plans. aka (DRIPS) If you are not sure what that is, check out http://www.fool.com/school/drips.htm as they do a pretty good job explaining it.
But basically it allows investors to buy shares of a particular equity on a periodic basis (bi-weekly, monthly,quarterly etc). Dividends on that […]

Need to export a Flex Datagrid to Excel CSV?
Here is a link to the Flex code
The flex code will convert the DataGrid to a CSV string. Which you will then post to a cgi….code below.
You can see it in action on my Dividend Reinvestment Tool 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $count = 0;
use […]

1) First make sure that the security level in IIS (at least for the WebOrb virtual Directory is set to Windows Integrated security)
2) CREATE A C# CLASS with the following function
public string getUsername()
{
System.Security.Principal
.WindowsPrincipal p = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal as System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal;
string strName = p.Identity.Name;
return strName;
}
Flex Client Code Action Script
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
//import mx.rpc.remoting.RemoteObject;
import flash.net.registerClassAlias;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.messaging.config.ServerConfig;
private var […]