OK, so I'm new to Flex but I have a lot of experience with other development platforms and languages(.NET, RoR, Javascript, etc.).
I've read a few books and I've just been doing some fairly simple stuff to get my feet wet but already I'm starting to get a little fustrated with things that should be really easy. Perhaps I'm just missing something. For example, I have a colorpicker object and I want to set the selected color programmatically depending on which textinput field a user is in. So I suspected that I could do something like //the name of the color picker is fontColor fontColor.selectedColor = "#D3D3D3" and everything would be good - but that doesn't appear to be the case. It looks like I have to convert the hex into a uint. OK, that seems like a lot more work than it should be but OK, I'll just use the DecimalToHex function of the int class... oh, wait there isn't one. There isn't a conversion anywhere that I can find to do this without writting even more code. Is it just be or does this seem like a lot of work to do something that most other modern languages handle without any additional coding, or an I completely missing something? Dale
