It can't be in 4 as it'd require an update to Player, and Fx4 is using Player 10.
We definitely need some serious upgrades to AIR, and to AS3 / AVM for Player 11 (or a 9.5 if I had my way)... It's too damned close to awesome, but Silverlight 3 will become a big threat if the development environment ever goes cross-platform as it's going to include an AIR competitor. As it is now, JavaFX is stupid, but Update 10 (and to a lesser degree FX Script) will also be a good platform for a solid competitor to Flex. Frankly as long as it's not from Microsoft, I don't mind who wins, since I'm a Java guy from way back. But I much prefer AS3 over FX Script. -Josh On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Ryan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be a great feature. Maybe in FB4? The addition of typed > collections through Vectors seems like it would allow this as well as: > > - the ability to have some good type code hinting while writing loops > that iterate Vectors > - standard aggregate functions like sum, group, etc through an > interface named something like IEnumerable > > Wait a minute, this is starting to sound a little too much like C#. :) > Would still be some awesome features though! I'm all for it. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Josh McDonald > *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:46 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] E4X equivalent to SQL where 'like %' > expression ? > > It's a great syntax. The real question now becomes: "When are we going to > get to run .() on Array, Proxy, and IList?" > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Ryan Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Ah, like a true lambda expression -- good tip! >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >> Behalf Of *Tracy Spratt >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:46 PM >> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] E4X equivalent to SQL where 'like %' >> expression ? >> >> If you need complex calculations within an e4x expression, you can >> call out to a function of your own. The () just requires a boolean value, >> so you can do something like below, where I wanted to a bit of string >> manipulation within the expression: >> >> xlFilteredItems = >> _xmlData..item.(itemContains(attribute("item"),sFilterString)) >> >> and the function: >> >> private function itemContains(sItem:String, sMatch:String):Boolean { >> >> sItem = sItem.toLowerCase(); >> >> sMatch = sMatch.toLowerCase(); >> >> return (sItem.indexOf(sMatch) != -1); >> >> }//itemContains >> >> Obviously you can do just about anything inside such a function including >> traversing the xml, and looping etc. >> >> Tracy >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >> Behalf Of *Ryan Graham >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:07 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] E4X equivalent to SQL where 'like %' >> expression ? >> >> Haha, looking at that, a more intuitive option would probably use the >> indexOf() function instead of substring, that way >> >> indexOf(input) == 0; //starts-with behavior >> >> indexOf(input) > -1; //contains behavior >> >> HTH, >> >> Ryan >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >> Behalf Of *Ryan Graham >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:00 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] E4X equivalent to SQL where 'like %' >> expression ? >> >> The child nodes can be accessed like properties. For a starts-with effect, >> you would use a similar expression that compares the what you want to search >> for with the equivalent substring of the name nodes in that list. You can >> get more complex and robust searches using string functions like toLowerCase >> or RegExps, but this will return the 2 emp nodes for Johnson and Jones given >> your input list: >> >> var input:String = "Jo"; >> trace(emplist.(name.substring(0, input.length) == input)); >> >> HTH, >> >> Ryan >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On >> Behalf Of *pbrendanc >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:03 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [flexcoders] E4X equivalent to SQL where 'like %' expression ? >> >> I'd like to extract the list of emps from the following XML where name >> starts with 'Jo' (returns Jones, Johnson). In SQL I can use the >> expression 'where name like 'Jo%'. >> >> Anyone have examples of how this be done via an E4X expression >> (I could not find any examples of this in the docs). >> >> TIA, >> Patrick >> >> <mx:XMLList id="emplist"> >> <emp> >> <id>1</id> >> <name>Smith</name> >> <mrn>1000</mrn> >> <dob>1/1/1964</dob> >> </emp> >> <emp> >> <id>2</id> >> <name>Jones</name> >> <mrn>1001</mrn> >> <dob>11/11/1951</dob> >> </emp> >> <emp> >> <id>3</id> >> <name>Johnson</name> >> <mrn>1003</mrn> >> <dob>3/3/1953</dob> >> </emp> >> </mx:XMLList> >> >> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in >> error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. >> >> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in >> error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. >> >> This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in >> error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. >> > > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ > :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk > > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, > please notify the sender and remove it from your system. > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk
