Flex Monkey Patches

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1. Philip Damra Says:
   July 17th, 2008 at 8:22 am

   Thanks for the info. You are teh awesome!!!1!1!!!

2. Nolan Says:
   September 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

   for the most part this is super clean and nice. one thing i am noticing is that the date picker is defaulting to today’s date rather than the date of the string being provided. this also causes the original date value to get lost if the user doesn’t make a new selection.

3. Stephen Gray Says:
   September 15th, 2008 at 7:01 am

   Hi,

   Thanks for the post. To make the DateField show and select the correct date (from the dataProvider), just add this:

   super.text = value;

   I also added showToday=”false” into the extended DateField component.

   I believe this line:

   newDate = new Date(Date.parse(data as String));

   is meant to be:

   newDate = new Date(Date.parse(value as String));

   Cheers,
   Stephen.

4. nate Says:
   October 30th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

   Cant get it to work… where do you put super.text? you should update the code example or be more specific. with the follow-up. As it might show, I dont know much about super’s and overrides

5. Emerson Moretto Says:
   May 13th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

   Hi, thanks for idea. But I need to modify your code to works.

   Basically, need to set super.selectedDate, not super.date.

   take look in my code (works very well for me):

   //If original value is a XML (field is a required attribute from your new component), else, remove this line
   var value:String = XML(value).attribute(field);

   if (value is String){
   newDate = new Date(Date.parse(value as String));
   super.selectedDate=newDate;
   }
   else if (value is Date){
   super.selectedDate=value as Date;
   }

6. evilkyro1965 Says:
   June 15th, 2009 at 5:17 am

   try to edit like bellow, but don’t forget to set showToday=”false”, one more thing is very important value.dateString is depend on array collection we use from data provider… so change dateString with your own data provider field for date editor, ok!

   if(listData){
   var newDate:Date;
   var value1 = value.dateString;
   if (value1 is String){
   newDate = new Date(Date.parse(value1 as String));
   super.selectedDate=newDate;
   }
   else if (value1 is Date){
   super.selectedDate=value1 as Date;
   }
   }

7. Edwin Says:
   January 12th, 2010 at 10:30 am

   Thanks for the Code provided here. It is very useful to me. I changed the code for Indian date format. And it work on any data provider, no need to change the code.

8. Doug in Paia Says:
   January 23rd, 2010 at 1:05 am

   Kyle, thanks for the great post, it may very well save my bacon! I’ve got the same problem as Nolan, how do you set the default data to the text in the date chooser? Thx.

9. daiana Says:
   January 25th, 2010 at 10:39 am

   thanx a lot for the suggestions, i searched a lot for a thing that in theory should be easy to implement, but is not.
   here the code i modified in order not to create an extra class:

10. Tramaine Says:
    March 25th, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    Wonderful example. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

11. FuX Says:
    April 29th, 2010 at 4:39 am

    I used the DateField as itemeditor in the ADG and faced the same issue. My solution was to set the editorDataField-Property of the ADGcolumn in the following way …

    This solved the error that occured during the string into date conversion.

    Kind Regards!
    FuX

12. FuX Says:
    April 29th, 2010 at 4:44 am

    Unfortunatelly the comment-script striped the coding of my last post. I forgot to remove the surrounding brackets

    editorDataField=”selectedDate”

    Kind Regards!
    FuX

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    May 31st, 2010 at 9:12 pm

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14. lporiginalg Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Ok I finally got a nicely working version with the date not getting removed when you go to edit it. it the date editor component use this code (you don’t need the old code):

    import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridListData;
    import mx.controls.listClasses.BaseListData;

    private var _ld:BaseListData;
    override public function get listData():BaseListData{
    return _ld;
    }

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

    private var _dd:Object;

    [Bindable(event="dataChange")]
    override public function set data(value:Object):void{
    _dd = value;
    if (_ld && _ld is DataGridListData){
    super.text = value[DataGridListData(_ld).dataField].toString();
    dispatchEvent(new Event(“datagrid data”));
    }
    }

    Then in your datagrid invoke it like so:

    <mx:DataGridColumn headerText=”Delivery Date” width=”120″ dataField=”deliverdate” editorDataField=”text” itemEditor=”DateEditor” />

    boooyah

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