Hey TH, I'd tried binding the formatString but I hadn't considered reinstantiation. Thanks. Of course I was hoping for a panacea for all my problems without any code whatsoever. :P
This actually relates to a larger problem regarding dynamic resource switching that I'd got no help on before, and this is the latest in a series of kludges to get there. Thanks again, MrB. --- In [email protected], "Tim Hoff" <timh...@...> wrote: > > > Hi Ben (MrB), > > Looks like you're going to have to do a little trickery. Binding the > formatString doesn't seem to change the date formats. However, if you > re-instantiate the DateFormatter it works: > > [Bindable] private var myDate:Date = new Date(); > [Bindable] private var formatString:String = "YYYY-MM-DD"; > > private function changeFormat():void > { > df = new DateFormatter(); > formatString = "MM/DD/YYYY"; > } > > <mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatString="{ formatString }"/> > > <mx:Text text="{ df.format(myDate) }"/> > > -TH > > --- In [email protected], "Ben Reynolds" <mrben1@> wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > > > Is there a way to trigger the binding on all related items when > > changing the DateFormatter's formatString? eg. MMMM becomes MMM, YYYY > > via actionscript in the following: > > > > <mx:DateFormatter id="df" formatstring="MMMM" /> > > <mx:Text text="{df.format(date)}"/> > > > > I'd prefer not to be manually injecting the new format into each of > the > > text objects every time. > > > > Regards, > > > > MrB. > > >
