Sorting and filtering data in an XMLListCollection

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 7 Comments

The following code is a brief example of sorting a Flex XMLListCollection using the Sort and SortField classes, and the XMLListCollection.sort property. We also look at filtering the XMLCollection using a custom filter function.

Full code after the jump.

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Validating data using Regular Expressions

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 10 Comments

It looks like I forgot to post this and I’ve had this as a draft for a week. I was looking at creating a regular expression for validating a UPS tracking number and/or InfoNotice number and decided to do a quick RegExp for validating a Canadian postal code instead. Fear not, my 3 loyal readers, [...]

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Using the TitleWindow container to display status messages

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Another example of something I’ve seen lately on the Internet, so I thought I’d build it in Flex. This time I usea TitleWindow to display the status message of a login form. You can close the message by clicking the X button in the upper-right corner of the title window.

Note that there is no [...]

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Using named groups with Regular Expressions

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This is always a neat trick that I seem to always forget about, so I thought I’d post it here. When working with Regular Expressions, the RegExp class supports named groups. So instead of having to go through the RegExp result and access it like an array ([1], [2] .. [n]), you can use named [...]

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Using overlapping slider thumbs in the Flex Slider controls

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 10 Comments

I was playing around with the HSlider component tonight and was checking out the allowThumbOverlap property. The following example creates a horizontal slider with 2 slider thumbs and lets you toggle the allowThumbOverlap property with the showTrackHighlight property set to true.

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Creating a vertical ToggleButtonBar in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example creates a ToggleButtonBar control in Flex and sets its toggleOnClick property to true.

According to the Flex 2.0.1 documentation:

If you set the toggleOnClick property of the ToggleButtonBar container to true, selecting the currently selected button deselects it. By default the toggleOnClick property is set to false.

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Parsing the Kuler RSS feed using Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 22, 2007 · 6 Comments

Just a quick example I threw together last night which loads the Kuler RSS feed and displays some items in a DataGrid along with their rating and theme image (using the Flex Image control as a custom item renderer).

Full code after the jump.

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