Flex 4 documentation article named "Selecting and modifying text" lists an finite final list of components that supports the selection:
RichEditableText
Label (Spark only)
TextInput (both MX and Spark)
TextArea (both MX and Spark)
RichTextEditor and all controls that have a TextArea as a subcomponent
This list does not include RichText component, but luckily with a new Text Layout Framework (TLF) [...]
Invalidation in Flex is a mechanism by which changes made to a component's property values are queued and processed.This property value invalidation in Flex is controlled by setting and resetting boolean variables called dirty flags.
One of such a dirty flags used internally in Flex invalidation mechanism is invalidatePropertiesFlag flag.
This particular flag is reset in [...]
It is very likely that the authors of Adobe Flex SDK have never devised the following simple use-case for both List and DataGrid components from Flex SDK:
"selectable" property is set to false
"editable" property is set to true
To prove this fact, try to play with the following samples:
mx:List
I was going to enter a new issue into Adobe JIRA Flex SDK bugbase that I could confirm to be present in the most recent milestone Adobe Flex SDK release 3.1.0.2710, shipped together with an August 2008 Flex Builder 3.0.1 update.
Just before submitting the bug issue, I've tested the functionality under the question under [...]
When you want to update already existing data item in your ArrayCollection in ActionScript 3 with a new values for object's properties you have 2 options to select from:
use itemUpdated(obj) ArrayCollection's method.
use setItemAt(obj, index) ArrayCollection's method.
ActionScript code sample:
//Update an existing person in the ArrayCollection via setItemAt
public function [...]
The issue:
I was stumbled upon once ago when I loaded my external SWF file authored by the Flash IDE by the help of component and suddenly (?) every content object that was originally placed outside of the Stage inside the Flash IDE became visible in my Flex 2 based web application outside [...]
The steps I underwent:
I had installed Flex Builder 3 beta 2 (FB 3 beta 2) as a plugin on my Eclipse 3.2
Opened my Flex SWF Library projects inside of Flex Builder 3 beta 2
Selected Flex 3 M3 (Beta 2) SDK at the dialog (default value)
Flex Buidler 2 had given me [...]
Mine Flex 2 authored SWF is 19 levels deep in its full glory:
_level0.index0.VBox5.GradientBox25.indexViewStack.
mainPage.contentPane.mainViewStack.customerViewStack.
presentationViewer.swf.FlexLoader396.instance458.sfiViewer.
bank.foreground.sa04d14eaa39b3fd.content.clip
Sometimes the look of <mx:LinkButton> look is not enough to satisfy the designer's requirement to display hyperlinks inside you Flex 2 application in a way we got used to see them in HTML world, e.g. to display hyperlinks inside Flex 2 in a plain text.
Luckily Flash 9 supports pseudo CSS style selectors like [...]
Problem: Unoccupied space with tree items inside Tree component is always filled with black color if "depthColors" style is applied to Tree UI component from Flex 2.0.1. SDK.
Fix: My ExtendedTree class fixes this error by reusing the old code from method implementation 'drawRowBackgrounds' in Tree.as from old Flex 2.0 SDK.
Example: http://jabbypanda.com/labs/treeDepthColors/treeDepthColors.html
Source files: [...]
