Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Cosma Colanicchia
Ok, in my (brand new) github at [1] I tried to reimplement the thing, refactoring the EmptyItemComboBox code into an IList implementation as suggested by Alex. I also quickly adapted the same simple test app that I attached to the stackoverflow response to see the class in action [2]. [1] https:

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Cosma Colanicchia
@Alex didn't know that MX components received this kind of upgrades in the 4.x branch, I thought they were in "maintenance mode" (exluding the work on spark skins for halo). 2012/4/10 Cosma Colanicchia : > The EmptyItemComboBox class posted by David Coleman looks similar to > some code I posted y

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Cosma Colanicchia
The EmptyItemComboBox class posted by David Coleman looks similar to some code I posted years ago on StackOverflow [1]. I added some explanation and a snippet of code showing its usage there. I'm not particularly proud of this code, but didn't managed to find a better way. The behavior approach se

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Harui
On 4/10/12 12:17 PM, "Jeffry Houser" wrote: > I gave it a selectedValue property, a valueField property, and a > valueFunction property; similar--in concept--to how the selectedItem, > labelField, and labelFunction work. > > Really the code is just a layer of abstraction for a loop. If I

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 4/10/2012 2:59 PM, Dany Dhondt wrote: Hi, Now there's a discussion about the comboBox, I'd like to address an issue. Sorry in advance if it had been addressed already. Using the component, one can set the selectedIndex or the selectedItem properties. There's no way to set a 'selectedValue'

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Dany Dhondt
Hi, Now there's a discussion about the comboBox, I'd like to address an issue. Sorry in advance if it had been addressed already. Using the component, one can set the selectedIndex or the selectedItem properties. There's no way to set a 'selectedValue' property. I've solved this by using a cust

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Jeffry Houser
On 4/10/2012 1:30 PM, John Cunliffe wrote: Great thinking. Personally I would love seeing something like the flexlib library being revived. Anybody else? John I'm not sure about FlexLib; since most of those components were pre-spark. However, I think there is a lot of potential to create S

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Harui
On 4/10/12 10:59 AM, "David Coleman" wrote: > > Wow, what a great idea... maybe we can merge both of our ideas into a single > better component! > Possibly. In theory, you can grab code off my blog and just use it, although the licensing is not explicit. I've been planning to get a ruling

RE: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread David Coleman
Wow, what a great idea... maybe we can merge both of our ideas into a single better component! > From: aha...@adobe.com > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:56:33 -0700 > Subject: Re: combo box > > > > > On 4/10/12 10:45

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Alex Harui
On 4/10/12 10:45 AM, "David Coleman" wrote: > > sure give me a few days to dedicate some time to this example, I'm up to my > eyeballs in work for the next 48 or so! > > my github user is davidcoleman007 and I'll share something asap! > Interesting. Several years back I proposed doing thi

RE: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread David Coleman
sure give me a few days to dedicate some time to this example, I'm up to my eyeballs in work for the next 48 or so! my github user is davidcoleman007 and I'll share something asap! > From: f...@tink.ws > To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: combo box > Date:

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Tink
On 10 Apr 2012, at 18:40, David Coleman wrote: Yes and no. with this you can set the actual emptyItemValue to be whatever you want. For instance if you have some complex set of dto's etc, you can set the emptyItemValue to be an actual object and have it be able to work more seamlessly w

RE: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread David Coleman
a few edge cases where you might want to distinguish the empty item by some value other than -1, but still represent the selectedIndex as -1 for compatibility with the framework. > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:36:09 -0700 > Subject: Re: combo box > From: s9tpep...@apache.org

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:32 AM, David Coleman < david_coleman_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > h it seems the listsrv ate my file. :-( > > here, I'll paste it in. And BTW: it is for spark. > > ... Hey David, http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/components/

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:30 AM, John Cunliffe wrote: > Great thinking. Personally I would love seeing something like the flexlib > library being revived. Anybody else? > John Honestly, I'd rather see the developers of those components start to contribute components to the Apache Flex SDK. ;)

RE: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread David Coleman
mLabel():String { return _emptyItemLabel; } public function set emptyItemLabel(value:String):void { _emptyItemLabel = value; _emptyItem.label = value; clearEmptyItem(); addEmptyItem(); //LogObj(emptyItem); } } } >

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread Omar Gonzalez
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM, David Coleman < david_coleman_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. Mike's most recent mail (mentioning that ComboBoxes have > changed nearly every other release) made remember something that i have had > sitting around in my personal files for some time. It i

Re: combo box

2012-04-10 Thread John Cunliffe
Great thinking. Personally I would love seeing something like the flexlib library being revived. Anybody else? John On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:23 PM, David Coleman < david_coleman_...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. Mike's most recent mail (mentioning that ComboBoxes have > changed nearly eve