Archive for July 31st, 2007

31
Jul

Calculating the number of days between two selected dates in a DateChooser control

Here’s a marginally more interesting sample. I was playing around with the DateChooser (calendar) control and the selectableRange property and figured I’d make a simple application to calculate the differences between two selected dates. The example creates a selectable range of dates from the current date to current date plus 1 year. Users can select any single or range of dates between the start date and end date, and Flex calculates the number of days the user selected using some basic math.

Full code after the jump.

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31
Jul

Using the ColorPicker control’s colorField and labelField properties

In a previous post, “Formatting colors as strings with ActionScript“, A reader asked about the ColorPicker component. So here’s a quick little example of creating a ColorPicker control, as well as setting the labelField and colorField properties to display color names in the ColorPicker control.

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