arrays and repeaters in Flex 1.5

January 23rd 2006

So a hard lesson learned in Flex last week. We have two seperate tags in some custom components that are fed by Arrays of objects. User interaction triggers adding/deleting objects in these arrays. Of course this does not tell the repeater to redraw itself. Originally I had coded use of

repeater.executeBindings()

and things appeared kosher. After a bit of testing strange things would happen with the UI display. Stuff like missing text, etc. We spent a week tag-teaming on it, then finally contacted our Gold Support rep. About 15 minutes into a Breezo, bamm! Doh! Somehow I mssed the fact that the Array class extends te DataProvider class. So, instead of

Array.push(object)

use

Array.addItem(object)

addItem() does a push() and then fires off all needed events to redraw the repeater. Voila!

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coldfusion cookbook

January 16th 2006

Ray ‘Jedi’ Camden has put together another great Coldfusion website, http://www.coldfusioncookbook.com. A great place to find help on how to do this or that in Coldfusion. For those wannabe Jedis out there, be sure to submit some recipes.

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new blog

January 13th 2006

hello fans and stalkers. So I moved my whole home grown self coded PHP based blog over to Wordpress. Why? Well, Wordpress has many nifty cool features that my home grown code didn’t have. I could have whipped up the code for it, but alas I’d rather not spend my time with it, there are more intersting things to code and learn than a blog, eh? Anyhoo…enjoy!

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