Using an XML data provider with the Spark List control in Flex 4

By On November 4, 2009 · 20 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an XML document as a data provider for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by using an XMLListCollection.

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Merging XMLListCollections in Flex

By On October 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can combine two XMLListCollection objects in Flex by using the addAll() method.

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Filtering an XMLListCollection using Regular Expressions

By On April 1, 2009 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can filter an XMLListCollection collection by using regular expressions in Flex 4.

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Inspecting the properties in a class using the describeType() method and E4X/XML

By On September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the describeType() method to inspect a class’s accessor methods.

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Displaying all the properties of a component instance in Flex

By On August 5, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how you can display all the getters/setters and their current values for a Flex TextArea control by using the describeType() method, some E4X filtering, and an XMLListCollection.

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Dynamically loading XML files using the HTTPService tag

By On March 29, 2008 · 23 Comments

In previous examples, “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex TileList control” and “Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex HorizontalList control”, we saw how you could create a simple image gallery using the TileList and HorizontalList controls.

The following example shows how you can load XML files using the HTTPService [...]

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Sorting XML documents using an XMLListCollection

By On December 4, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can sort an XML document by converting it into an XMLListCollection and applying a sort. You can also easily reverse the current sort by calling the SortField object’s reverse() method and refreshing the XMLListCollection object.

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Sorting and filtering data in an XMLListCollection

By 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.

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Sorting an XMLListCollection using the mx:Sort and mx:SortField MXML tags

By On August 15, 2007 · 3 Comments

I actually searched around and couldn’t find any other examples of this, but here is a quick example of using the <mx:Sort /> and <mx:SortField /> MXML tags in Flex to sort an XMLListCollection.

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Filtering an XMLListCollection using the filterFunction property and regular expressions

By On August 4, 2007 · 20 Comments

Here is another handy little tip that you see all over the web, how do I filter a data grid (or other list-based control) based on a user’s input? Or more specificially, how to I limit the items that show in a list based on what a user types.

Since I already created a simple [...]

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Displaying XML data in a DataGrid

By On July 26, 2007 · 33 Comments

OK, hopefully this example is a bit more interesting than a few of my previous ones. Today’s handy tip comes in the form of loading and embedding an XML file in our Flex application at compile-time (as opposed to dynamically loading at run-time, which we’ll save for a future example), and displaying that information in [...]

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