Hi Susan, > Can you point me to which snippet of code doesn't work? I > tried the code on pg. 582 of devflexapps.pdf and it works for me.
sure. I was referring to the snippet on bottom of page 582. I pasted it into a bare bone Application, code is as follows: <?xml version="1.0"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"; xmlns:local="*"> <!-- start code block from the docs --> <mx:Model id="date"> <month>{monthInput.text}</month> <day>{dayInput.text}</day> <year>{yearInput.text}</year> </mx:Model> <mx:TextInput id="monthInput"/> <mx:TextInput id="dayInput"/> <mx:TextInput id="yearInput"/> <mx:DateValidator field="date"/> <!-- end code block from the docs --> </mx:Application> This is *not* working. The Validator doesn't gets triggered after changing focus by tabbing, clicking etc. I guess it is because the "field" attribute of the DateValidator is set to the whole model "data" instead of a field of the model, e.g. "data.month". The code is working if you do this e.g. <mx:DateValidator field="date.month"/> now the DateValidator gets triggered after leaving the monthInput TextInput field. Another thing I want to mention here is the following: validators only get triggered if you type at least one char into them - you can delete this characer afterwards but you have to type once. If you leave them blank (that is: load the mxml, click into the first TextInput so that it gets the focus, then change the focus by tabbing) they do not get triggered. Is this the intended/expected behavior? Thanks, Dirk.
