I did something in my fiddling that made this work. What, I don't know.
However, as I posted in http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/119549 , my year is now being displayed as the positive of my GMT offset... --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Dominic Pazula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an advanceddatagrid where I inspect some column metadata and > create appropriate formatters. > > When my column is a DATE (not a DATE TIME), I attempt to create the > formatter like so: > > var fmtDate:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter; > fmtDate.formatString = "DD MMM YYYY"; > column.formatter = fmtDate; > > When I try to run this I get > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null > object reference. > at mx.formatters::DateBase$/get > http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::defaultStringKey() > [E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\formatters\DateBase > .as:173] > at mx.formatters::DateFormatter$/parseDateString() > [E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\formatters\DateForm > atter.as:151] > at mx.formatters::DateFormatter/format() > [E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\formatters\DateForm > atter.as:539] > at > mx.controls.advancedDataGridClasses::AdvancedDataGridColumn/applyForma > tting() > [C:\Work\flex\dmv_automation\projects\datavisualisation\src\mx\control > s\advancedDataGridClasses\AdvancedDataGridColumn.as:1335] > > I am not sure why parseDateString() is getting called. The field on > the data is of type Date. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >
