Archive for March 7th, 2008

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Mar

Preventing line feeds in a TextArea control in Flex

The following example shows how you can prevent a user from pressing Enter in a Flex TextArea control by listening for the textInput event and checking the TextEvent object’s text property for a newline character (”\n”).

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07
Mar

Performing case [in]sensitive sorts using the DataGrid control in Flex

The following example shows how you can perform numeric sorts, case sensitive sorts, or case insensitive sorts in the Flex DataGrid control by setting a custom sort compare function on the DataGridColumn using the sortCompareFunction property, the static ObjectUtil.numericCompare() method, and the static ObjectUtil.stringCompare() method.

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