A brief example of changing the first day of the week for the DateChooser control using the firstDayOfWeek property.

Full code after the jump.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle" backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private var dayNames:Array = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"];

            private function getDayName(item:Number):String {
                return dayNames[item];
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:DateChooser todayColor="red" firstDayOfWeek="{slider.value}"/>

    <mx:VBox>
        <mx:Label text="First day of week:" />
        <mx:HSlider id="slider" minimum="0" maximum="6" liveDragging="true" snapInterval="1" dataTipFormatFunction="getDayName" />
    </mx:VBox>

</mx:Application>

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Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

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