Tracy Aaron is right. Just copy and paste into ActionScript. Vis:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" backgroundColor="#FFFFFF" creationComplete="onCreationComplete()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function onCreationComplete():void { var myDP:Array = [{data:"0", label:"0°F"},{data:"20", label:"2°F"}]; myComboBox.dataProvider = myDP; } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:ComboBox id="myComboBox" x="100" y="200" rowCount="2" prompt="ComboBox Test"/> </mx:Application> Steve --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. But I have just learned, this only works with declarative mxml. > > If you want to crate the special char in Actionscript, you must use the hex/Unicode character, that has the format \uXXXX. > > Tracy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Hardy > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list > > Go to a page like this one: > > http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php > > Copy the actual character (not the HTML representation) and paste it > into your code. Bada bing bada boom. > > Aaron > > Tracy Spratt wrote: > > > > The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text > > and such, but are interpreted literally in a ComboBox's drop list. > > > > Any sugestions? > > > > Tracy > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-\ 1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links >
