At the suggestion of a coworker, I've made a tiny change to my selectComboBox() function. The purpose of this function is to automatically select something in a ComboBox, such as if you're editing a form. But what if the function ends up doing nothing because no matches were found? Now it'll return false in that case. Also I properly capitalized it.
There is a version of this on cflib, but I need a little more. From cfscript, you and pass a whole scope to dump it and stop page execution.
"omg, murloc, it's a post that's not about video games!"
Problem: You programmically are selecting an item from a datagrid.
Solution: The function below! Pass the datagrid, column you're matching, and the value to match on.
Problem: You programmically are selecting an item from a combobox.
Solution: The function below! Pass the combobox, column you're matching, and the value to match on.
Have a RemoteObject (WebService, HTTPRequest) call that takes a while to come back? Can't really do anything until it does come back? Give the user something to do! If you have a long running process and nothing for the user to see/do, they'll get distracted and move from your app to do something else.
PleaseWait.mxml
I was asked the Flex equivalent to <a href="mailto:..."> in Flex. Mailto is just another protocol, like http and ftp, so can be opened the same way as if you were going to load up an external site from Flex.
This opens the user's default mail client. The "_self" keeps it from opening another window/tab.
I had to print something from Flex, but the LiveDocs weren't that helpful. I found this function and modified it to make it more generic...
Then define some display object you'll want to print. I loaded another component into this canvas.
And a button to print, passing it the component above. It's that simple!
Either I've missed something, or there is no DateAdd() function built into the basic Flex installation. Well that simply won't do, I need to be able to add dates! There's no DateDiff(), either. I must be missing something.
