Comments on: Announcing flexmdi: Robust, extensible MDI framework for Adobe Flex

By: Karel

Karel — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:09:04 +0000

Hi.

I am trying to addButton example is not working. error comes in
//code
this.addControl(menuBtn,0);
//code

anyone please help me. thanks

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:37:53 +0000

Ben, that’s great news! I’m looking forward to the new release. Your work is a valuable contribution to the Flex framework.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Hi Stefan, you are correct on both accounts. The 2.0.1 compatible download was assembled while the library was in flux and it shows. The controls package, for instance, is no longer present at all. I apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate you pointing these out. Look for an update early next week with some new features that is fully compatible with 2.0.1.

Thanks!

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:26:17 +0000

Also, I just noticed that some of the CSS style names in “styles.css” do not match the style names in the MDIWindowControlsContainer class. For example, the style name “increaseBtn” in the CSS file has to be renamed to “mdiWindowMaximizeBtn”, and “decreaseBtn” should read “mdiWindowRestoreBtn”.

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:31:37 +0000

There’s another flaw in the FlexMDI source code. In “MDIWindow.as” the interface mx.core.IUITextField is used. This class is only available in Flex 3, it’s not part of the Flex 2.0.1 SDK.

By: Joeflash

Joeflash — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:56:26 +0000

Thanks Ben! I don’t have SVN installed on this machine yet, so it never occurred me to look for the 2.01sdk source files.

DOH! :)

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:10:10 +0000

Hi Joe, I responded to your post on flexcoders about this issue. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/98630

By: Joeflash

Joeflash — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:54:50 +0000

Darn, the XML didn’t show up in my last comment. Let’s see if this works.

Here’s what’s in the catalog.xml file in the 1.0 swc on the project site:

By: Joeflash

Joeflash — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:52:03 +0000

Hi Ben,

I’m also having problems getting FlexMDI working with FB 2.01. I keep
getting the errors “Unable to load SWC flexmdi.swc” and “An internal
build error has occurred. Please check the Error Log.”

I took a look at your 1.0 release downloaded from the project site, and checked the catalog.xml in the swc, and it’s actually compiled for Flex 3, version 1.1. which is probably why FB is having a coniption fit.

Ben, do you have a version of the FlexMDI swc compiled in Flex 2.01? Seems like you might have uploaded the wrong file?

Thanks,

Joseph

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:58:21 +0000

Hi, Ben
how can you add the flexmdi folder as a source path?
I currently have a project with flex. I whould like to use flexmdi feature. My project is running under Tomcat. I downloaded flexmdi v1.0, extracted it under tomcat\webapps\mxlm directory, and downloaded mdi example, also extracted under the same dir. when I run the mxml file:MDIExampleExplorer.mxml, it gave me the following error:
Could not resolve flexmdi:MDICanvas to a component implementation

Not sure what I miss.

Thanks

Rose