So I worked on a project recently that required drag/drop support for list based components, however, some custom porcessing was required when the item was dropped into the new list that would make my life easier when  the time came to save the data back to the database.  My data provide... [More]

So I got this idea last night to use an e4x expression as the source of a chart and advanceddatagrid dataProvider. I’ve found that mostly all of the “examples” online and in all the books only look at one or(at most) two nesting levels inside of an xml document. Unfortunately, ... [More]

After much chagrin, I finally discovered the solution to a problem I was having last night.  Here's the scenario, I have a data set that is being returned in deeply nested XML and from that set I am wanting to create several groups of radiobuttons that will act as filters for an e4x expre... [More]

Continuing my discussion on filtering, I would like to talk about complex Flex Chart filtering/grouping at runtime.  Now the majority of ASDoc docmentation, and other examples do a great job of demonstrating the filtering of chart series wheneach series is based on a different value in the ar... [More]

There are a couple interesting things to note about Flex filtering that I have learned over the past few days. Let's say, for example, you have something like this: private var myColl:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([ {id:1, color:"Red", shape:"Circle", siz... [More]