Hi Alex, My ItemRenderer is actually a VBox with an Image, Label and TextInput so it is all wired up differently.
Still not sure the best way to do this, but maybe adding truncating functionality to a TextField/TextArea would be easier... Cheers, Greg On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > A Label as a renderer will be trying to reset its .text from the > dataprovider data unless you've wired it up differently. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Greg Hess > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters > > > > Well, once I can get the text to highlight in the Label, I will need > to do the same in the truncated tooltip. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tracy Spratt <[email protected]> wrote: >> What will happen if the matched characters are in the truncated part? >> >> >> >> Tracy Spratt >> Lariat Services >> >> Flex development bandwidth available >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Greg Hess >> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:52 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [flexcoders] Highlighting Label text characters >> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> I am displaying search results in a DataGrid and I have a custom >> ItemRenderer for the "Name" column and I need to highlight the text in >> the Label that matched the search query. I have seen support for this >> in TextArea and TextField.setSelection(..) and also done with HTML >> text however I need the truncating feature of the Label. >> >> I tried extending Label and providing a highlight( text:String ) >> function that calls down to the Label internal >> TextField.setSelection(..) but it is not working...not sure why... >> >> Does anyone know how I can achieve this? >> >> Any help much appreciated, >> >> Greg >> >> > >
