Continuos Vibrate and Music Alert until Confirmation

The main phone application that I support at work gets data pushed to it. Part of the data is a Message Page to notify the technician that they have a service call assigned or needing attention. Due to the nature of the service calls, the technician needs this alert to continually go off until they acknowledge the alert. A while back I changed the pop up message to a global message, which makes the pop up show on all screens, regardless if the user is in the application. Unfortunately, when I created this option, I some how broke my continuous Continue reading Continuos Vibrate and Music Alert until Confirmation

TextArea auto scroll update

There was a question on the Flex Forum about how to auto-scroll a TextArea. You can set the VerticalScrollPolicy to auto or you can add a little code to valueCommit to move the vertical scroller. Since I lost where I created the example of adding the code to the valueCommit, I decide to remake the example to show the difference. Both text areas are updated every 10 seconds with a random generated sentence, based off of quotes from Mark Twain. The left TextArea box uses the VerticalScrollPolicy set to “auto” The right TextArea box uses the valueCommit code to move Continue reading TextArea auto scroll update

Date Sort in a DataGrid – the easy way

While trying to give suggestions to a post on the Flex Forum, I modified my Simple Data Grid to include a column for a Date. The poster had an issue with sorting the column with dates in it. My guess is, the Date value is actually a String object. It really isn’t very hard to create a Date from a string, just parse out the String and feed the appropriate date times into the Date object. Here is how I create the random date value. Since I insert the value into the item Object as a Date object, the sort Continue reading Date Sort in a DataGrid – the easy way

Stacked Column Chart with Line Series

On the Flex Forum, I was attempting to help someone find their issue to a Stacked Column Chart with a Line Series. The y-axes values were not corresponding with the data being provided. This seemed like a glitch and I even attempted a work around by finding the minimum and maximum values. Finally, after looking at the Stacking Columns example and the Multiple Axis Example, reconstructed the chart using the static objects instead of dynamically creating the chart. From there, I recreated the chart items in a function and determined that the first issue the poster was having was building Continue reading Stacked Column Chart with Line Series