Recent content by paron

Whoops! Peter Bromberg, at EggHead Cafe shows a nifty way to compress (92%, in one case) Binary Serialized objects and use them as a virtual database in the CF. Or, at least that's what I think I read. Data compression, object serialization, and no SQL Server license needed? Sign me up! The...

Now I have written the Server portion of the code, which grabs the records from the db, makes a Culvert object using the data from each record, and serializes them into an xml file for the inspectors to load onto their handhelds. An observation: datatables have nulls. I found two ways to...

Ok, now I have written a test form that uses the autogenerated classes from my class library and persists/recovers objects using XmlSerializer. Two things I discovered: First -- XmlSerializer can't handle jagged arrays (nested 0..many). For one thing, xsd.exe autogenerates the classes...

OK, I made a schema for a list of 0..many Culverts, each of which has 0..many Inspections. Then I ran xsd.exe and autogenerated classes for XmlSerializer. Now I need to add methods so that the Culvert object can have attributes set by the usual means as well. There are all kinds of warnings...

We have a number of inspectors who go into the fields (far from any network connection), inspect culverts, and record the results of their inspections using PocketPCs. Given the PocketPC keyboard (none), it is essential that as much data possible be pre-entered. When they get back in, the...

While it is far too late to help jason, if anyone else finds this in a keyword search, I believe that "Dim fd as FileDialog" should be "Dim fd as Application.FileDialog"

Thanks for the response! I got to play around a bit with the packages idea, and with your response in mind, this is how it shapes up (sorry for being so elementary, billwatson, this response is really written for other newbies who get here by searching): I read in one of MM's tutorials that...

I read in one of MM's tutorials that the .as files have to be in the same folder as the .fla that compiles them. Is that true? What about all this "package" stuff? If the files have to be in the same directory as the fla, how do I reuse them? Make copies of the class to live with...

I made the component described above -- not all that difficult to do, in the final analysis, but hard to do just by reading the documentation and on-line tutorials! This is one area where everything changed a lot between MX and MX04, so most of the tutorials are outdated, because they refer to...

I have a button that I am using multiple places in multiple swfs. It has a graphic that means "Copy to clipboard", and for my users means "from whatever textbox it is near." I am going to convert it to a movieclip so that I can have a tooltip pop up after a hover of a...

Ahh -- and that's where the player for WinCE is hiding, too! Thanks! Have a star! Ron

How does one upgrade the stand-alone and test players? I searched Flash Online Help, but no joy. Ron

Nope, Bill, I have tried every setting known to man, and it comes out the same -- those RadioButton components are SLOW for me, even if I am careful to drag them from the library instead of the Components window. And once I have added them, the file is slow to publish even if I delete them. I...

OK, the egg hits the fan if you have ever added a Macromedia RadioButton group to the movie. Even if you erase it. Once you have put a RadioButton on the page, the compile will be slow. Very, very slow. And the only way to get it speeded up is to copy all the other components into a new, blank...

Hold the phone. If I paste the frames into a blank file and compile right away, it's quick -- instantaneous. If I save the file, it is a 60 sec or so compile for an 84kb fla file. WIERD. I guess I'll rebuild from scratch and try to determine where the egg hits the fan.