This may or may not help. It is a combination of the examples in the help for DateValidator and Binding:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Simple example to demonstrate the DateValidator. --> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";> <mx:Script> import mx.controls.Alert; </mx:Script> <mx:DateValidator source="{dob}" property="text" allowedFormatChars="/" trigger="{myButton}" triggerEvent="click" valid="Alert.show('Validation Succeeded!');" invalid="Alert.show('Thats not a date!!');" required="true"/> <mx:Binding source="Date.parse(dob.text).toString()" destination="myText.text"/> <mx:Panel title="DateValidator Example" width="75%" height="75%" paddingTop="10" paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" paddingBottom="10"> <mx:Form> <mx:FormItem label="Enter date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy): "> <mx:TextInput id="dob" width="100%"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem > <mx:Button id="myButton" label="Validate" /> </mx:FormItem> </mx:Form> <mx:Text id="myText"/> </mx:Panel> </mx:Application> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hardaur55" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all! > > I have a TextInput field that is to accept a date. There is a date validator attached to the > field and the text property of the date field is bound to a property in another field. Here's > the code: > > mxml: > > <mx:DateValidator id="validateBirthdayTI" > source="{birthdayTI}" > property="text" > required="true"/> > > > <mx:Binding source="{Date.parse(birthdayTI.text)}" > destination="tideContext.user.birthday"/> > > Actionscript: > > formIsValid = formIsValid && validate(validateBirthdayTI); > > > When the validator runs, I get the following error when doing a try/catch, otherwise it fails > silently. > > "The source attribute must be specified when the property attribute is specified." > > This seems to say that the source attribute for the validator isn't correct, but I don't see > anything wrong with it (and other fields/properties are fine). It also seems to somehow be > tied in to the binding as if I comment out the binding it works (and validates) just fine. I > have a feeling I'm running up against one of those very strange Flex errors that don't mean > what they say exactly ; ) > > Any help is very much appreciated, I've been beating on this thing off and on for a week > and am getting pretty frustrated. > > Thanks! > > G >
