Flex Monkey Patches

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        <mx:object articlename="Setting an icon in a Button control" data="13">
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        <mx:object articlename="Detecting which button a user pressed to dismiss an Alert dialog" data="9">
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        <mx:object articlename="Using the Alert control\nFormatting data tips in a Slide\n" data="8">
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            <mx:datagridcolumn>
                headerText="Name of the article in question"
                itemRenderer="MyRenderer" dataField="articleName"
                itemEditor="MyEditor" editable="true"
                editorUsesEnterKey="true" />
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    implements="mx.controls.listClasses.IDropInListItemRenderer">
<mx:script>
    <!–[CDATA[
        import mx.controls.listClasses.ListData;
        import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridListData;
        import mx.controls.listClasses.BaseListData;

        private var _listData:DataGridListData;            

        [Bindable]–>       public var txt:String;

        override public function set data(value:Object):void {
            super.data = value;
            var str:String = data[_listData.dataField];
            var myPattern:RegExp = /\\n/g;
            var newStr:String=str.replace(myPattern, "\n");
            txt = newStr;
        }

        override public function get data():Object {
            return super.data;
        }            

        override public function get listData():BaseListData
        {
            return _listData;
        }

        override public function set listData(value:BaseListData):void
        {
            _listData = DataGridListData(value);
        }   

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    implements="mx.controls.listClasses.IDropInListItemRenderer">
<mx:script>
    <!–[CDATA[
        import mx.controls.listClasses.ListData;
        import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridListData;
        import mx.controls.listClasses.BaseListData;

        private var _listData:DataGridListData;            

        [Bindable]–>       public var txt:String;

        override public function set data(value:Object):void {
            super.data = value;
            var str:String = data[_listData.dataField];
            var myPattern:RegExp = /\\n/g;
            var newStr:String=str.replace(myPattern, "\n");
            txt = newStr;
        }

        override public function get data():Object {
            return super.data;
        }            

        override public function get listData():BaseListData
        {
            return _listData;
        }

        override public function set listData(value:BaseListData):void
        {
            _listData = DataGridListData(value);
        }   

    ]]>
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