Nothing says "please help me out" like "your tech sucks you jerks".
fontColor.selectedColor = parseInt(textbox.text.replace("#",""),16); -Josh On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Dale Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]