Note that you have to take into account the width of the ToolTip when positioning it to the left of a control.

View source is enabled in the example below.

var buffer:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
var rect:RectangleElement = PageSize.A4;
var writer:PdfWriter = PdfWriter.create( buffer, rect );
var document:PdfDocument = writer.pdfDocument;
var vertPosition:Number = document.getVerticalPosition(false)

What I wanted to do was create a line that extended form the end of a sentence to the end of the page. Something like:

What is your first name? ______________________________________________________________

alivePDF makes this possible but with purePDF/iText, the easiest way I could figure it out was by using Chunk.getWidthPoint():

var ch:Chunk = new Chunk("What is your first name?");
var para:Paragraph = new Paragraph(null, null);
para.add(ch);			
document.add(para); //document is defined in the code block at the top of this post.
var cb: PdfContentByte = writer.getDirectContent();
 
var re:RectangleElement = new RectangleElement(document.marginLeft + ch.getWidthPoint(), document.getVerticalPosition(false), document.pageSize.width - document.marginRight, document.getVerticalPosition(true) + 5);
re.border = RectangleElement.BOTTOM;
re.borderColor = RGBColor.BLACK;
re.borderWidth = 1;
cb.rectangle(re);
 
document.close();
var f: FileReference = new FileReference();
f.save( buffer, "Test.pdf" );

I realize this only works for a single line paragraph but it does work well. If anyone has an alternative solution using page events, etc.. please share!

Original (2010):
MySQL Workbench doesn’t play nice with case insensitive file systems when you try to use the db synchronization feature on schemas with mixed case table names.  …And the lower_case_table_names option in MySQL doesn’t quite fix it.

Ultimately, I decided to copy and move MySQL over to a case sensitive partition that was created.  The result… MySQL Workbench db synchronization now works as expected.

Also, I didn’t have to worry about crapping up anything since I was just making a copy of MySQL and pointing the “mysql” sym link to it’s new location;  plus it only takes 10 minutes to setup.

To get started (this may vary slightly on your OS version):

1. Create a partition using Applications>>Utilities>>Disk Utility.  Make sure under “Format” you select a “Case-sensitive” format.  I went with “Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled)”.
2. Stop MySQL if it’s running:
   $  sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop
3. Copy your current MySQL install to the new partition:
   $ sudo cp -rp /usr/local/mysql  /Volumes/Macintosh/NewPartition
4. Point the symbolic link “mysql” in /usr/local/mysql to the new location:
   $ sudo ln -sf /Volumes/Macintosh/NewPartition/mysql  /usr/local/mysql
5. Start MySQL back up:
   $  sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
6. You’re finished. If it doesn’t work for you, you can always point your “mysql” sym link back to your original install and restart.

If you run $ mysqladmin -u root -p variables      …you’ll see that “lower_case_table_names” automatically sets to zero (case sensitive setting).

Note: You may have to drop and rebuild any schemas/tables that you copied over.  This seems to only apply to schemas with linked tables (the “information_schema.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS.REFERENCED_TABLE_NAMES.” column has case insensitive values which MySQL may choke on).

In short, you need to locate your mysql my.cnf config file and add or change the max allowed packet:

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 50M

At the shell, you can type “mysqladmin” and scroll up a bit to see what the default location options are for my.cnf.

In my case, I tried using MySQL Workbench (awesome tool by the way) to change this parameter.  It changed it but it appeared MySQL wasn’t reading Workbenches location for my.cnf (as circled at the bottom of the screen-shot).  I’m not sure why my.cnf wasn’t in a standard directory like “/etc” or why that location was sniffed out by Workbench but since I couldn’t figure out how to tell Workbench to use a different config location, I just coppied my.cnf and modified it and moved it to “/etc”.  Restarted MySQL and all was good.

If anyone knows how to fix the my.cnf location discrepency or what I might be missing , let me know.  Thx! -Rob

From there, select which hidden files you want to exclude:

After generating the model classes, the one thing I used to have to do manually is add the _explicitType property to my top level classes as such:

class User extends BaseUser{
	public function construct(){
		$this->mapValue("_explicitType","com.persistence.User");
	}
}

If you want to automate this step or add something completely different you can edit the “buildDefinition” function in Doctrine/Import/Builder.php. I simply added my edits to the $tableDefinitionCode variable.

NOTE: This particular hack only inserts your custom code in your top level class and not in your base classes.

Here’s what my modified version looks like to get the example above:

        public function buildDefinition(array $definition)
    {
        if ( ! isset($definition['className'])) {
            throw new Doctrine_Import_Builder_Exception('Missing class name.');
        }
        $abstract = isset($definition['abstract']) && $definition['abstract'] === true ? 'abstract ':null;
        $className = $definition['className'];
        $extends = isset($definition['inheritance']['extends']) ? $definition['inheritance']['extends']:$this->_baseClassName;
 
        if ( ! (isset($definition['no_definition']) && $definition['no_definition'] === true)) {
            $tableDefinitionCode = $this->buildTableDefinition($definition);
            $setUpCode = $this->buildSetUp($definition);
        } else {
        	//This is the top level class where we can do some custom coding.
			$tableDefinitionCode = PHP_EOL . 
'	public function construct(){
		$this->mapValue("_explicitType","com.persistence.' . $className . '");
	}';
 
			$setUpCode = null;
        }
 
        if ($tableDefinitionCode && $setUpCode) {
            $setUpCode = PHP_EOL . $setUpCode;
        }
 
 
        $docs = PHP_EOL . $this->buildPhpDocs($definition);
 
        $content = sprintf(self::$_tpl, $docs, $abstract,
                                       $className,
                                       $extends,
                                       $tableDefinitionCode,
                                       $setUpCode);
 
        return $content;
    }

Since I always have unique class names, I randomly picked “com.persistence” as my _explicitType package name because it’s strictly used for hydrating the object on the Flex side of AMF and doesn’t necessarily need to represent the actual location of the PHP class/service. So as long as my Flexa DTO/VO has the metadata [RemoteClass(alias="com.persistence.User")] set, it’ll come back to Flex correctly typed and not a generic object.

%YOUR HOME DIRECTORY%/Library/Application Support/MySQL/Workbench/modules/DoctrineExport.grt.lua

- or as in my case on my laptop -

/Users/robert/Library/Application Support/MySQL/Workbench/modules/DoctrineExport.grt.lua

Once your drop in the DoctrineExport.grt.lua script, restart Workbench and you’re ready to go.

• The separators width, height and color can be set via ToggleButtonBar mxml attributes.
• Multiline can be set via the “multiline” mxml attribute (true/false).  If you set this to true, you may want to remove the height to allow it to autosize and prevent clipping.
• This was really designed for solid colored states (up, over, down, selectedUp, selectedOver, selectedDown, disabled) but I’m sure it can be used for custom skins just as easy.  Take a look at the example source to see the actual attribute names for setting these.

Note: I haven’t tested this yet but the separators may not remove themselves if you dynamically remove buttons.  I think it was the removeChild function in one of the Super classes that was set to private so I left it as is for now (it’s working for the project I need it for at the moment).   If anyone improves on this (trust me there’s plenty of room), please shoot it back my way and I’ll update the example.  …Thanks, -Rob

Example
Source

One solution is creating a “Shape” object and passing the graphic at hand to the beginBitmapFill method.  The problem with this is that if you need to use constraints like “horizontalCenter” to align it, you’re out of luck as that’s only available with subclasses of the UIComponent which the Shape class is not.

If you need constraint layout capabilities, just use UIComponent instead of Shape.  I also found a lot of examples using the “Loader’ class to get the bitMapData of the image. In the example below, you’ll see a different way to do this with an embedded image. Here’s the image that I was working with and sample code with a button to test:

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" width="100%" height="100%" layout="absolute" creationComplete="init()">
 
	<mx:Script>
		<![CDATA[
			import mx.controls.Alert;
			import mx.core.UIComponent;
 
			[Embed(source="curtain.png")]
			private var curt:Class;
			private var curtBitmapData:BitmapData = new curt().bitmapData;
 
			public function init():void{
 
				var curt:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
				curt.graphics.beginBitmapFill(curtBitmapData);
				curt.graphics.moveTo(82,0);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(100,50);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(95,81);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(52,366);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(12,530);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(0,672);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(222,672);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(222,0);
				curt.graphics.lineTo(82,0);
				curt.setStyle("horizontalCenter", -100);
				curt.y = 60;
				this.addChild(curt);
			}
 
			public function clickMe():void{
				Alert.show("Hit Test");
			}
 
		]]>
	</mx:Script>
 
	<mx:Button horizontalCenter="0" y="216" label="Button" click="clickMe()" width="532"/>
 
</mx:Application>

Instead of blindly figuring out the coordinates, I created a crude app to help me out. I figured I could get away with just using straight lines and not the “Graphics.curveTo” method. Here it is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" minWidth="1024" minHeight="768" creationComplete="init()" backgroundColor="#FFFFFF">
	<mx:Script>
		<![CDATA[
 
 
			[Bindable]
			public var gX:Number;
 
			[Bindable]
			public var gY:Number;
 
			[Bindable]
			public var lX:Number;
 
			[Bindable]
			public var lY:Number;
 
			public function init():void{
				this.curtain.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mouseClick);
				this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoveGlobal)
				this.curtain.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoveLocal)
			}
 
			public function mouseMoveGlobal(e:MouseEvent):void{
				gX = e.stageX; 
				gY = e.stageY;
			}
 
			public function mouseMoveLocal(e:MouseEvent):void{
				lX = e.localX;
				lY = e.localY;
			}
 
			public function mouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void{
				svgLog.text += "curt.graphics.lineTo(" + lX + "," + lY + ");\n";
			}
 
		]]>
	</mx:Script>
	<mx:Image x="385" y="37" source="curtain.png" id="curtain" alpha="1.0"/>
	<mx:Label x="10" y="10" text="Global x: {gX}" id="globalX"/>
	<mx:Label x="10" y="30" text="Global y: {gY}" id="globalY"/>
	<mx:Label x="120" y="10" text="Local x: {lX}" id="localX"/>
	<mx:Label x="120" y="30" text="Local y: {lY}" id="localY"/>
	<mx:TextArea x="10" y="67" height="504" width="247" id="svgLog"/>
 
</mx:Application>

All in all, this works and it was quick. If anyone has any other ideas on how to go about achieving this, I’d love to here it!