[flexcoders] Formatting Dates/Times
Is there a way to format a date/time. For example if I use some thing like var newDate:Date = new Date(); dateLabel.text = newDate.toDateString(); what I get is something like 'Mon Aug 25 2008' and what I want is something like 'Monday, August 25th, 2008'. I would have thought this would be straightforward but I can't seem to find a way for formatting these dates. Dale
[flexcoders] User resizable TextArea
Apart from using the ObjectHandles library to achieve this, does anyone know of a TextArea replacement that can be resized by the user? Dale
[flexcoders] How to determine object type
Is there a simple way to use reflection to determine the type of an object. I would have thought that that Object would have a method called class (or something similar) that would return a string representation of the type of the class but that doesn't seem to be the case. Dale
[flexcoders] TextInput and TextArea ancestory
I need to write a class that can contain either a TextArea or TextInput as one of it's private parameters. Essentially it's a composite component that can be either a TextInput or TextArea with some additional properties. My problem arises from the fact that the common ancestor to both of these controls is UIComponent that does not have a text attribute so I can't cast down to that common ancestor when setting the text attribute. Since I don't know that much about Flex I was wondering if there's a common interface I'm missing or some other way to achieve access to what I thought would be a common attribute. Dale
[flexcoders] Setting combobox selected item manually
I have a number of TextInput components on a form, and each input can
have a different font, which is chosen from a combo box. The combo box
definition looks something like this
mx:ComboBox id=fontType dataProvider={fonts} change=changeFont()
/mx:ComboBox
the fonts data source is defined like this
[Bindable]
private var fonts:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(
[
{label:Arial, data:Arial},
{label:Blue Highway, data:BlueHighway},
{label:High Strung, data:HighStrung}
]);
Pretty straight forward. My issue arises when I move from TextInput to
TextInput. I want the ComboBox to reflect the font of the TextInput
with the focus. The problem is that I can't work out a better way to
do that than this:
for(var index:int = 0; index fonts.length; index++)
{
if(fonts[index].data == currentFocus.fontFamily)
{
fontType.selectedItem = fonts[index];
}
}
where currentFocus is the TextInput and fontFamily is a function that
returns the current font of that control (actually the TextInput
controls are housed in custom components that supply the fontFamily
function but that isn't important here).
Is there an easier way to do this?
Dale
[flexcoders] Re: Is It Just Me?
Actually, just to be clear, I'm certainly not saying the Flex sucks - far from it, I'm actually saying that I'm just surprised that some things that should be really easy don't seem, to me anyway, to make logical sense. However, that being said some things that should be really hard are surprisingly easy. So I suspect that it's me who just isn't getting it. Perhaps I'm just looking for answers in the wrong places. Dale --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing says please help me out like your tech sucks you jerks. fontColor.selectedColor = parseInt(textbox.text.replace(#,),16); -Josh On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dale Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so I'm new to Flex but I have a lot of experience with other development platforms and languages(.NET, RoR, Javascript, etc.). I've read a few books and I've just been doing some fairly simple stuff to get my feet wet but already I'm starting to get a little fustrated with things that should be really easy. Perhaps I'm just missing something. For example, I have a colorpicker object and I want to set the selected color programmatically depending on which textinput field a user is in. So I suspected that I could do something like //the name of the color picker is fontColor fontColor.selectedColor = #D3D3D3 and everything would be good - but that doesn't appear to be the case. It looks like I have to convert the hex into a uint. OK, that seems like a lot more work than it should be but OK, I'll just use the DecimalToHex function of the int class... oh, wait there isn't one. There isn't a conversion anywhere that I can find to do this without writting even more code. Is it just be or does this seem like a lot of work to do something that most other modern languages handle without any additional coding, or an I completely missing something? Dale -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[flexcoders] Re: Is It Just Me?
Right, it does have a text box, with the color in Hex notation, so you'd assume that there'd be a real easy way, in ActionScript, to pass a hex value to it, but there isn't. I find this perplexing. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Josh McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the first case wouldn't help mapping from a text-field, and the post was more about I can't figure our how to parse a number than how should I work with colours? StyleManager.getColorName is an awful, *awful* name for that API if it converts from hex colours to uints :) But I'd still just use parseInt. Wait, doesn't the colour picker *have* a textbox you can copy/paste a hex code to and from? -Josh On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Maciek Sakrejda [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Well, in this particular case, you could do // just use uint directly fontColor.selectedColor = 0xd3d3d3; // or use StyleManager fontColor.selectedColor = StyleManager.getColorName(#D3D3D3); Admittedly, getColorName() is rather poorly named, and StyleManager is not the most obvious place to look (and the looks-like-it-should-be-the-right-thing ColorUtil class is not very helpful). Every framework has some unfortunate design decisions; Flex is really quite good once you get the hang of it. -- Maciek Sakrejda Truviso, Inc. http://www.truviso.com -Original Message- From: Dale Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Is It Just Me? Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:55 - OK, so I'm new to Flex but I have a lot of experience with other development platforms and languages(.NET, RoR, Javascript, etc.). I've read a few books and I've just been doing some fairly simple stuff to get my feet wet but already I'm starting to get a little fustrated with things that should be really easy. Perhaps I'm just missing something. For example, I have a colorpicker object and I want to set the selected color programmatically depending on which textinput field a user is in. So I suspected that I could do something like //the name of the color picker is fontColor fontColor.selectedColor = #D3D3D3 and everything would be good - but that doesn't appear to be the case. It looks like I have to convert the hex into a uint. OK, that seems like a lot more work than it should be but OK, I'll just use the DecimalToHex function of the int class... oh, wait there isn't one. There isn't a conversion anywhere that I can find to do this without writting even more code. Is it just be or does this seem like a lot of work to do something that most other modern languages handle without any additional coding, or an I completely missing something? Dale -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[flexcoders] Is It Just Me?
OK, so I'm new to Flex but I have a lot of experience with other development platforms and languages(.NET, RoR, Javascript, etc.). I've read a few books and I've just been doing some fairly simple stuff to get my feet wet but already I'm starting to get a little fustrated with things that should be really easy. Perhaps I'm just missing something. For example, I have a colorpicker object and I want to set the selected color programmatically depending on which textinput field a user is in. So I suspected that I could do something like //the name of the color picker is fontColor fontColor.selectedColor = #D3D3D3 and everything would be good - but that doesn't appear to be the case. It looks like I have to convert the hex into a uint. OK, that seems like a lot more work than it should be but OK, I'll just use the DecimalToHex function of the int class... oh, wait there isn't one. There isn't a conversion anywhere that I can find to do this without writting even more code. Is it just be or does this seem like a lot of work to do something that most other modern languages handle without any additional coding, or an I completely missing something? Dale
