Compile Flex 3 SDK from the Command Line

Here is a guide to setting up a Flex 3 project so that you can compile it from the command line:

• download and set up the Flex 3 SDK, make sure the bin/ directory is on your path
• make a directory for your project
• in your projects directory make src/ and bin/ directories
• copy the flex-config.xml from the flex SDK's frameworks directory into the root of your project
• edit the flex-config.xml in your project, prepending ${flexlib}/ to all the libs/ paths and before the path references to manifest.xml and locale/
• edit the flex-config.xml in your project, uncommenting the source-path element and setting its path-element element to src
• create a compile file in the root of your project with the following content:
  

  	#!/usr/bin/env bash
  	mxmlc -load-config flex-config.xml src/com/dburger/HelloWorld.mxml -output bin/HelloWorld.swf

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  Make this file executable.
  
• Run the compile script to compile the project. The compiled swf will go to the bin/ directory and can be opened with your browser.

Here is a link to a zipped up version of a project where all the previously described steps have already been done for you (other than setting up the Flex 3 SDK of course).

This information primarily came from Simple Blog.

UPDATE: To use the trial data visualization components you need to copy several files over from a user that has installed flex builder. The instructions on which files and where they need to be placed in your sdk directory can be found here.

UPDATE UPDATE: The good people at Adobe have now made the data visualization components available as a separate download. You can find it here. You can download this archive and unzip it into your sdk and you will be good to go with the data visualization components - you won't need to download flex builder.

Firefox Greasemonkey Outlook Web Access Extension Part III

Other posts on OWAX: [ Part I | Part II ]

I have reverse engineered the way Microsoft Outlook Web Access uses Ajax to mark records read / unread under Internet Exploder and have added similar functionality to my Firefox Greasemonkey Outlook Web Access Extensions.

The code, also shown below, can be downloaded here.

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Outlook Web Access Extensions
	// @namespace http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dburger
	// @description Extensions to using the bastard child Outlook Web Access
	// ==/UserScript==
	(
	function() {
	var UNREAD_IMG = '/exchweb/img/icon-msg-unread.gif';
	var READ_IMG = '/exchweb/img/icon-msg-read.gif';
	function walkTheDom(node, func) {
	func(node);
	node = node.firstChild;
	while(node) {
	walkTheDom(node, func);
	node = node.nextSibling;
	}
	}
	function getToolbarTable() {
	var tables = document.getElementsByTagName('table');
	for (var i = 0; i < tables.length; i++) {
	var table = tables[i];
	if (table.className === 'trToolbar') return table;
	}
	return null;
	}
	function getFindNamesForm() {
	var forms = document.getElementsByTagName('form');
	return (forms.length == 1 && forms[0].name == 'galfind') ? forms[0] : null;
	}
	function getBaseHref() {
	var bases = document.getElementsByTagName('base');
	return (bases) ? bases[0].href : null;
	}
	function addToolbarButton(toolbarTable, text, func) {
	var row = toolbarTable.tBodies[0].rows[0];
	var newCell = row.insertCell(row.cells.length - 1);
	newCell.setAttribute('valign', 'middle');
	newCell.setAttribute('nowrap', 'nowrap');
	var font = document.createElement('font');
	font.setAttribute('size', '2');
	font.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
	var nobr = document.createElement('nobr');
	nobr.appendChild(font);
	var a = document.createElement('a');
	a.href = 'javascript:void(0);';
	a.addEventListener('click', func, true);
	a.appendChild(nobr);
	newCell.appendChild(a);
	}
	function changeSelectState(state) {
	var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
	for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
	var input = inputs[i];
	var evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
	if (input.type == 'checkbox' && input.checked != state) {
	// this won't fire the events to color the row
	// input.checked = true;
	// so dispatch as an event instead
	evt.initEvent('click', true, false);
	input.dispatchEvent(evt);
	}
	}
	}
	function addSelectAll(toolbarTable) {
	addToolbarButton(toolbarTable, 'Select All', function() {
	changeSelectState(true);
	});
	}
	function addSelectNone(toolbarTable) {
	addToolbarButton(toolbarTable, 'Select None', function () {
	changeSelectState(false);
	});
	}
	function setProps(sXml, loadFunc, errorFunc) {
	GM_xmlhttpRequest({
	method: 'BPROPPATCH',
	url: getBaseHref(),
	headers: {
	'Accept-Language': 'en-us',
	'Content-Type': 'text/xml'
	},
	data: sXml,
	onload: loadFunc,
	onerror: errorFunc
	});
	}
	function changeReadStatus(status) {
	var selInputs = [];
	var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
	for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
	var input = inputs[i];
	if (input.type == 'checkbox' && input.checked) selInputs.push(input);
	}
	if (selInputs.length > 0) {
	var sFlags = 'd:flags="1"'; // suppress receipt
	var sXml = '<?xml version="1.0"?\><a:propertyupdate xmlns:a="DAV:"><a:set><a:prop><d:read xmlns:d="urn:schemas:httpmail:" ' + sFlags + '>';
	sXml += (status) ? '1':'0';
	sXml += '</d:read></a:prop></a:set><a:target>';
	for (var i = 0; i < selInputs.length; i++) {
	var input = selInputs[i];
	sXml += '<a:href>' + getBaseHref() + input.value + '</a:href>';
	}
	sXml += '</a:target></a:propertyupdate>';
	var loadFunc = function(res) {
	var parser = new DOMParser();
	var doc = parser.parseFromString(res.responseText, 'text/xml');
	var responses = doc.getElementsByTagNameNS('DAV:', 'response');
	var baseHrefLength = getBaseHref().length;
	for (var i = 0; i < responses.length; i++) {
	var response = responses[i];
	var href = response.getElementsByTagNameNS('DAV:', 'href')[0];
	var id = href.firstChild.nodeValue.substring(baseHrefLength - 1);
	for (var j = 0; j < selInputs.length; j++) {
	var input = selInputs[j];
	if (input.type == 'checkbox' && input.value == id) {
	var tr = input.parentNode.parentNode;
	walkTheDom(tr, function(node) {
	if (node.nodeType == 3) {
	var text = node.nodeValue;
	var parent = node.parentNode;
	var grandParent = parent.parentNode;
	if (status && parent.tagName == 'B') {
	grandParent.removeChild(parent);
	var font = document.createElement('font');
	font.size = 2;
	font.color = 'black';
	font.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
	grandParent.appendChild(font);
	} else if (!status && parent.tagName == 'FONT') {
	grandParent.removeChild(parent);
	var b = document.createElement('b');
	b.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
	grandParent.appendChild(b);
	}
	} else if (node.nodeType == 1 && node.tagName == 'IMG') {
	if (status && node.src.match(UNREAD_IMG + '$')) {
	node.src = READ_IMG;
	} else if (!status && node.src.match(READ_IMG + '$')) {
	node.src = UNREAD_IMG;
	}
	}
	});
	}
	}
	}
	};
	var errorFunc = function(res) {
	alert('Change of read status failed, code: ' + res.status);
	};
	setProps(sXml, loadFunc, errorFunc);
	}
	}
	function addMarkRead(row) {
	addToolbarButton(toolbarTable, 'R', function() {
	changeReadStatus(true);
	});
	}
	function addMarkUnread(row) {
	addToolbarButton(toolbarTable, 'U', function() {
	changeReadStatus(false);
	});
	}
	var toolbarTable = getToolbarTable();
	if (toolbarTable) {
	addSelectAll(toolbarTable);
	addSelectNone(toolbarTable);
	addMarkRead(toolbarTable);
	addMarkUnread(toolbarTable);
	}
	// if this is the find names popup form let <enter> work as submit
	var findNamesForm = getFindNamesForm();
	if (findNamesForm) {
	var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
	for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
	var input = inputs[i];
	if (input.type == 'text') {
	input.addEventListener('keypress', function(evt) {
	if (evt.keyCode == 13) findNamesForm.submit();
	}, true);
	}
	}
	}
	}
	)();

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