Dynamically loading XML files using the HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On March 29, 2008 · 23 Comments

In previous examples, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control” and “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, we saw how you could create a simple image gallery using the TileList and HorizontalList controls.

The following example shows how you can load XML files using the HTTPService [...]

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Passing parameters to an HTTPService

By Peter deHaan On October 29, 2007 · 23 Comments

The followig example shows how you can pass parameters to an HTTPService by passing an Object in the HTTPService’s send() method. The remote ColdFusion script is a simple “hello world” type script which accepts a single parameter, “name”, and returns a single parameter, “welcomeMessage”.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating multi-line list rows with variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On October 27, 2007 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can create multi-line rows with wrapping text and variable row heights with the Flex List control.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Converting XML to objects using the Flex SimpleXMLDecoder class

By Peter deHaan On September 19, 2007 · 23 Comments

Similar to the previous post, “Converting XML to objects using the Flex HTTPService MXML tag“, the following example shows how you can use the decodeXML() method in the SimpleXMLDecoder class to convert an XMLDocument object into an ActionScript Object object.

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Converting XML to objects using the Flex HTTPService MXML tag

By Peter deHaan On September 19, 2007 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can convert an XML file loaded at run-time using the HTTPService tag, into an ActionScript Object by simply setting the resultFormat property to “object”.

Full code after the jump.

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Parsing the Kuler RSS feed using Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 6 Comments

Just a quick example I threw together last night which loads the Kuler RSS feed and displays some items in a DataGrid along with their rating and theme image (using the Flex Image control as a custom item renderer).

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Using HTTPService tag to send/receive variables to a server-side script

By Peter deHaan On August 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example demonstrates a very simple usage of sending parameters from Flex to a server-side script (written in ColdFusion) and then displaying the server response in our Flex application. The server-side script is a simple echo/”Hello world” type script, but it accepts URL or FORM variables, so you can send using the GET or [...]

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Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars loaded using the HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On August 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In a previous post, “Dynamically creating ActionScript cue points from FlashVars received from the HTML container”, we looked at how to create ActionScript cue points based on variables passed in to our Flex application from the HTML template’s “FlashVars” parameter. In this post we look at a similar approach, although using the <mx:HTTPService /> [...]

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Loading name/value pairs using the mx:HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On July 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Semi-related to my previous post, I was playing around and figured out a way (probably not the best method) for loading a page of remote name/value pairs and putting them in a DataGrid using the HTTPService tag.

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Loading XML at run-time using the mx:HTTPService tag

By Peter deHaan On July 27, 2007 · 15 Comments

In the previous post we looked at how to load an XML document in at compile-time and have it embedded in our Flex application. But that technique really only works if the XML data in question never changes. What if you had an XML document that was constantly changing on a daily, or hourly, basis. [...]

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