Tag Archives: Flex

Simple Chart Overlay

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One of the screens I created for work is a “dashboard” type that allows the view to quickly see the current status of service call volume.   There are multiple charts on the display, but one of them is a column chart that shows the current day’s numbers vs. the prior week of the same day.  By having this information, the viewer can see if the volume of calls is in a “normal” range, because the it fluctuates throughout the day and the week, but is similar based on the day of the week.  Friday’s call volume is usually lower than Continue reading Simple Chart Overlay→

Update to Egg Timer

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On one of my projects at work I ended up using two Egg Timers but in different states. Since it would be easier to know if the correct Egg Timer was in the correct state, I added a couple of new parameters to the Egg Timer. Then I replaced the static colors with these defined variables to make it work. After those simple changes, the Egg Timer parameters can easily be added when placing the component. Fairly simple. Since the color parameters are already set as uint, there is no for any further conversion to make the color. I also Continue reading Update to Egg Timer→

ArrayCollection SortOn before a Sort

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I have a display screen that shows a list of items waiting to be acknowledged by technicians. If the page isn’t acknowledged, then the page is escalated up to the next level. The display uses a DataGrid and when the number of items exceeds the displayable rows on the DataGrid, it uses pagination functions to create multiple pages for viewing the other items. When an ArrayCollection is sliced for each page, it causes an issue with sorting. When the data was sorted by level and datetime, it would only sort on the current slice of data, even if I sorted Continue reading ArrayCollection SortOn before a Sort→

Simple DataGrid with ArrayCollection Update Example

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I was helping out on the Flex community forum and one of the posts needed a little more of example than I could give using the forum post tools. So, I decided to create a quick example of a DataGrid using an ArrayCollection for the dataprovider. The ArrayCollection is created dynamically using a randomization selection from two static arrays. Then there is an option for updating the list showing which of the items have “Red” as the color value. I also put a couple of other items in the example, including an ItemRenderer for the DataGrid and a button holder Continue reading Simple DataGrid with ArrayCollection Update Example→

New sprite Egg Timer

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At work I upgraded to Flex 4.5 and started updating one of my projects.  I started running into errors with my components that used Degrafa.  Apparently the Degrafa group has stopped working on updates and code in Flex 4 has broken the arc and wedge drawing utilities.  This causes a problem with my Egg Timer component, because it relies on the wedge or arc for the display.  I decided to use the new functions of Flex to create the timer.  Unfortunately, Flex still doesn’t have it’s own wedge or arc drawing utilities.  It does have a curveTo method as part Continue reading New sprite Egg Timer→

Horizontal Slider and List synch

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As I stated in a previous post, I am working on a little project for work that dealt with including arrays inside of arrays.  Part of this also had me putting lists inside of lists.  The layout of one of the display has an Accordion navigation control with a HorizontalList, that also contained an accordion with it’s own HorizontalList.  I am using the horizontal list to scroll through main items with sub-items below.  On top of this, I am creating the HorizontalList, the HSlider and the Accordion controls all dynamically. The first part of setting up the slider and list, Continue reading Horizontal Slider and List synch→