Flex 4 / Flash Builder 4: Repeater changed to DataGroup
April 14, 2010
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Author: Roelof (13 Articles) - Author Website
Roelof is a SAP Consultant specialized in Front-End development. In his spare free time he is either developing on the web, playing basketball, watching soccer or traveling. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
I guess it is well known information already, but since I’ve been only playing around with the new Flash Builder 4 environment for a while I still wanted to post something about the this subject. The Repeater, not just a regular pain in the ass. Flex 4 brings us the DataGroup.
Progressbar in Datagrid Example
January 11, 2010
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Author: Roelof (13 Articles) - Author Website
Roelof is a SAP Consultant specialized in Front-End development. In his spare free time he is either developing on the web, playing basketball, watching soccer or traveling. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
In the comments of our previous post about using the ProgressBar, one of our readers asked if a ProgressBar could be used inside a DataGrid.
This is, ofcourse, possible. So we decided to write an example about this.
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Image as Button in a DataGrid
February 14, 2009
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Author: Arjan (47 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
Just as the MouseWheel controlled slider idea, I had this idea when I was working on my flex MP3 player as well. I wanted to give the user the possibility to add tracks to a playlist by clicking a small plus icon in a DataGrid. There are a couple of things that have to be done to achieve this:
- Use an itemRenderer to show an Image instead of text
- Put the image in button mode so that it can be clicked
- Put an event handler on the click or double-click event of the image
- Code the event handler



