Comments on: Dynamic Flex CoverFlow Component with dataProvider http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27 Creating stuff that works... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:57:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: BobM http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-833 BobM Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:08:16 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-833 Seb, Can you point out the path to the Reflections class to turn off the reflections? I see on your other post that if reflection is set to 0, this will eliminate reflections. Not sure how to call this path from this component. Would appreciate any insight. Great work again. Regards, BobM Seb,

Can you point out the path to the Reflections class to turn off the reflections? I see on your other post that if reflection is set to 0, this will eliminate reflections. Not sure how to call this path from this component. Would appreciate any insight. Great work again.

Regards,

BobM

]]> By: BobM http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-832 BobM Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:12:00 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-832 Seb, Great work on this component. Works really well. Could you point out how one would turn the reflections off? Thanks in advance. Bob Seb,

Great work on this component. Works really well. Could you point out how one would turn the reflections off? Thanks in advance.

Bob

]]> By: Adam http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-831 Adam Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:06:58 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-831 Seb: Awesome work on this component, I found yours after trying Eli Greenfield's as well as Doug McCune's. I have the component working fine when loading it within the context of a Flex project and running it as a standard flex project. I'd like to include it in my web archive so that retrieval of it is handled through the application server container. That being said, this evening I just moved the code over into that project and built. Everything worked fine, with the exception of the container you have provided. I believe I have found a bug and would love to help debug and find the root of the problem, unfortunately I don't have the source. Do you know why when passing in a list of string locations to images it does not load them? Please email me if you have any suggestions - I'd love to see if I can pitch in any to improve (however little is possible) this great component. -Adam Seb:

Awesome work on this component, I found yours after trying Eli Greenfield’s as well as Doug McCune’s.

I have the component working fine when loading it within the context of a Flex project and running it as a standard flex project. I’d like to include it in my web archive so that retrieval of it is handled through the application server container.

That being said, this evening I just moved the code over into that project and built. Everything worked fine, with the exception of the container you have provided. I believe I have found a bug and would love to help debug and find the root of the problem, unfortunately I don’t have the source.

Do you know why when passing in a list of string locations to images it does not load them?

Please email me if you have any suggestions – I’d love to see if I can pitch in any to improve (however little is possible) this great component.

-Adam

]]> By: Tony http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-696 Tony Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:16:12 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-696 No other words, Just Great! No other words, Just Great!

]]> By: Nancy http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-688 Nancy Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:20:16 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-688 I'm trying to utilize the dyanmic flex coverflow you have here and it's working great so far! The only issue I run into is the scaling of the images as they are displayed. How should I go about scaling the images so they fit nicely in the coverflow? Right now, the images are too big where it overlaps each other. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!! I’m trying to utilize the dyanmic flex coverflow you have here and it’s working great so far! The only issue I run into is the scaling of the images as they are displayed. How should I go about scaling the images so they fit nicely in the coverflow? Right now, the images are too big where it overlaps each other. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

]]> By: Curt http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-687 Curt Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:09:18 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-687 Is it possible to edit the reflection - ie, its transparency, length, etc? I've tried using trace statements to bury into the component but all I've been able to do is affect the transparency of the entire thing. Is it possible to edit the reflection – ie, its transparency, length, etc?

I’ve tried using trace statements to bury into the component but all I’ve been able to do is affect the transparency of the entire thing.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-652 Kevin Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:41:49 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-652 Have you tired working with image sizes of 600x400 also how do you put additional text or image information when a album is clicked. So lets say you click on a album it will have a info window with Artist, Name, CD release date Have you tired working with image sizes of 600×400 also how do you put additional text or image information when a album is clicked. So lets say you click on a album it will have a info window with Artist, Name, CD release date

]]> By: Curt http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-609 Curt Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:47:36 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-609 Yo! I just wanted to post my 2 cents here about using other components with your CoverFlow project. What I'm currently working on requires displaying both video and imagery in the same gallery and since I'm getting that data from a WebService call, I never know what to expect...so in order to support video with your coverflow component, I did the following: 1. Make a placeholder image to represent videos that will be seen in the coverflow. 2. Add an 'animationComplete' event to the coverflow object. 3. Add a Canvas with a VideoDisplay nested inside of it that checks to see if the first item in the gallery is a video on init. 4. Switch the video canvas visibility on or off depending on what kind of media is currently loaded on (via animationComplete event) 5. Make sure that the video closes if you're not viewing it (otherwise it will play in the background and never clear from memory). That's the basic idea...without all the code explaining it. If anyone wants a more in depth explanation, I'd be happy to post my code. Thanks Sebastiaan! If you ever support other objects in your coverflow component, I would love to know about it! --Curt Yo! I just wanted to post my 2 cents here about using other components with your CoverFlow project. What I’m currently working on requires displaying both video and imagery in the same gallery and since I’m getting that data from a WebService call, I never know what to expect…so in order to support video with your coverflow component, I did the following:

1. Make a placeholder image to represent videos that will be seen in the coverflow.
2. Add an ‘animationComplete’ event to the coverflow object.
3. Add a Canvas with a VideoDisplay nested inside of it that checks to see if the first item in the gallery is a video on init.
4. Switch the video canvas visibility on or off depending on what kind of media is currently loaded on (via animationComplete event)
5. Make sure that the video closes if you’re not viewing it (otherwise it will play in the background and never clear from memory).

That’s the basic idea…without all the code explaining it. If anyone wants a more in depth explanation, I’d be happy to post my code.

Thanks Sebastiaan! If you ever support other objects in your coverflow component, I would love to know about it!

–Curt

]]> By: admin http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-479 admin Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:58:57 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-479 @MechanisM: It's not possible to use an XML or XMLList object as a dataProvider, you must use an ArrayCollection as you can read in the documentation: http://sebastiaanholtrop.com/samples/coverFlowcomponent/asdoc/com/sebastiaanholtrop/components/coverflow/SebCoverFlow.html#dataProvider @MechanisM: It’s not possible to use an XML or XMLList object as a dataProvider, you must use an ArrayCollection as you can read in the documentation: http://sebastiaanholtrop.com/samples/coverFlowcomponent/asdoc/com/sebastiaanholtrop/components/coverflow/SebCoverFlow.html#dataProvider

]]> By: admin http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/27/comment-page-1#comment-478 admin Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:56:12 +0000 http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/?p=27#comment-478 @Ret: At this moment it's not possible to use any other component. It's using an mx:Image internally. I'm still thinking to build this components to work with itemRenderers, in that way you can build your own renderers, but I don't think I'll be finishing that any time soon. @Ret: At this moment it’s not possible to use any other component. It’s using an mx:Image internally. I’m still thinking to build this components to work with itemRenderers, in that way you can build your own renderers, but I don’t think I’ll be finishing that any time soon.

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