Thanks, Malcolm and Jester! "listOwner.editField(getCellIndex().itemIndex,
"My_Date_Column_Name_To_Update", Date())" worked like a charm. =)
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Malcolm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You could simply use listOwner.editField inside the cell renderer. For
> example something like:
>
> <mx:CheckBox click="this.clickCheckBox( event )"/>
>
> function clickCheckBox ()
> {
> listOwner.editField( getCellIndex().itemIndex,
> "My_Date_Column_Name_To_Update", Date() )
> }
>
> Thus when a user clicked the checkbox, listOwner.editField will
update the
> dataProvider and the date displayed in the dataGrid.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Malcolm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of fowleryj
> Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 8:46 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Recognizing when a CheckBox inside a DataGrid is
> clicked
>
> [env: Flex 1.5 with Cairngorm architecture]
>
> I am using the CheckBoxCellRenderer provided by Peter Ent via this
> download:
> http://www.markme.com/pent/archives/flex/solutions/cellrenderers.zip
>
> I have my program working such that when a user clicks the Save button
> in my mxml file, all the rows whose CheckBoxes are checked are stored
> in a new Array by a save() function in the mxml's ViewHelper.
>
> What I would like to do now is update the text in one of the cells
> when the CheckBox is clicked. To be more specific, each row in the
> DataGrid has a "date" column, and when the row's CheckBox is clicked,
> I'd like the current date to replace the date displayed in that row's
> "date" column.
>
> However, I can't figure out how to get the CheckBox to realize it has
> been clicked so that I can call the updateDate() function in the
> mxml's ViewHelper. I tried modifying the code in the
> CheckBoxCellRenderer class, but from there, I couldn't find an easy
> way to access the mxml's DataGrid and its dataProvider. I tried using
> the "change" property of the DataGrid, but that only recognizes that a
> row has been selected, not that a CheckBox has been clicked.
>
> [As an aside, I noticed while I was modifying the CheckBoxCellRenderer
> that the setValue() function is called twice everytime the mouse
> passes over a DataGrid row containing a checked CheckBox(es). This
> seemed odd.]
>
> Thanks in advance!
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