Tag Archives: Flex

Column Chart with Fill Function

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When you have a column chart, sometimes you want to change the column colors based on the data. A question in the Flex Forum asked how to alter the column color on each column. To do this, yo need to use the fillFunction on a ColumnSeries to set the color of the fill. One issue with doing this, is how it affects the chart legend. If you use the fills property or the fillFunction to define the fills of chart items, and you want a legend, you must manually create the Legend object for that chart. But, this just gives Continue reading Column Chart with Fill Function→

TextArea auto scroll update

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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

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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

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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→

Find minimum or maximum value from Array

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Browsing through the questions at the Adobe Flex forum again and came across one about having an issue with the Y-axis display on a dual-Y axis column/line chart. I’m not sure I gave the answer the poster was looking for, but my guess was that the minimum and maximum values for each LinearAxis was not set. You could set them to static values, but that wouldn’t be too useful. So, I did a quick search for some code to find the max value of an array and then modified it for AS3. — update — There is apparently even an Continue reading Find minimum or maximum value from Array→

Simple DataGrid with Row Background Update

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On the Adobe Flex forum, a question was asked about changing the background color for a row to a different color if the user selected it and hit the DELETE key. So, I updated the Simple Data Grid to include this feature. It doesn’t delete the row, but changes the background color to grey. The first step is to capture the keyboard action. To do this, a listener has to be created and set to listen for a KeyBoard event. I set it for the stage, but doing so requires that the function is called when applicationComplete instead of earlier. Continue reading Simple DataGrid with Row Background Update→