Hi Cato, Thanks for the hint. I¹m using amfPHP and RemoteObject, I¹ll assume it does the same thing. I¹ll use this as a starting point, cheers!
-- Blair From: Cato Paus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:02:27 -0000 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Help: filterFunction and Dates Hi if you use java as backend do you serilaze the object ? if so you can map the date objec to the date object in actionscript and back.. here is a datefilter connetced to a arraycollection. public function chkToDay():void { //Allways set to null first!!!! else you get filter inside the filter! myArrayCollection.filterFunction=null; myArrayCollection.refresh(); myArrayCollection.filterFunction=toDayDateFilterFunc; /* Refresh the collection view to apply the filter. */ myArrayCollection.refresh(); } and the filter function private function toDayDateFilterFunc(item:Object):Boolean { var toDay:Date = new Date(); //item.date is if you have a public var named date in your DTO(Data Transfer Object) return item.date== toDay; } Cato --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "cox.blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > With the help of another poster I was pointed in the correct direction > to solve a problem I have: > > The two links were helpful: > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=controls_12.html > > http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/12/using-a-combobox-to-filter-items\ -in-a-datagrid-in-flex/ <http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/12/using-a-combobox-to-filter-items-in -a-datagrid-in-flex/> > > Based on the above information, I was able to accomplish all my tasks, > except being able to sort dates. > > Problem #1 - How to format the date so that it displays as 2008-10-01. > I have it all the way up to 2008-10-1. Apparently the 'day' is > represented as a single digit. That won't work - using a MySQL db. > > Problem #2 - I am apparently lacking in my knowledge of ActionScript > to correctly write the proper script to filter the date. What I can't > seem to figure out is the correct syntax for working with dates, or > perhaps simply a string or number containing "-" dashes? > > Sorry, I'm not providing code you to ponder over, I really only need a > reference to start with so I can learn as I go. I've been searching > but have not been able to locate a reference which deals with sorting > dates? > > Thanks, >
