Toggling a Flex container’s visibility

By On August 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows a pretty crude method for toggling a container’s visibility and removing it from the Flex application layout. Mind you, this probably isn’t the preferred/recommended method of doing this (I imagine using states would be a lot nicer/cleaner) but hey, I’ll have to save that method up for another entry.

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Setting the DateChooser control’s dayNames property and firstDayOfWeek property

By On August 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This is kind of silly, but I was looking through the DateBase class today and figured “why not?”. This example takes a quick look at setting the DateChooser control’s dayNames property and switching between the default values (“S”, “M”, “T”, …, “S”) with the longer versions such as “Sun”, “Mon”, “Tue”, …, “Sat”, and the [...]

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Determining a DataGridColumn object’s current sort order

By On August 23, 2007 · 6 Comments

OK, I’m convinced there is a better way to do this, but so far this is the only solution I’ve found…
Any other ideas? Leave em in the comments!

Basically the following post shows one possible way of determining the current sort order of a data grid by grabbing the sortDescending property whenever a [...]

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