>
Right, it does have a text box, with the color in Hex notation, so
>
you'd assume that there'd be a real easy way, in ActionScript, to pass
> a hex value to it, but there isn't.
> I find this perplexing.
The way Flex displays the data or let you interact with it doesn't necessarily
match the way it is stored internally. I think it's true of any framework
including .NET and Java.
--
Laurent Cozic
Flash, Flex and Web Application development
http://pogopixels.com
--- On Tue, 8/12/08, Dale Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dale Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Is It Just Me?
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 1:09 AM
Right, it does have a text box, with the color in Hex notation, so
you'd assume that there'd be a real easy way, in ActionScript, to pass
a hex value to it, but there isn't.
I find this perplexing.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "Josh McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well the first case wouldn't help mapping from a text-field, and the
post
> was more about "I can't figure our how to parse a number" than "how
should I
> work with colours?"
>
> StyleManager. getColorName is an awful, *awful* name for that API if it
> converts from hex colours to uints :)
>
> But I'd still just use parseInt.
>
> Wait, doesn't the colour picker *have* a textbox you can copy/paste
a hex
> code to and from?
>
> -Josh
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Maciek Sakrejda <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..>wrote:
>
> > Well, in this particular case, you could do
> >
> > // just use uint directly
> > fontColor.selectedC olor = 0xd3d3d3;
> >
> > // or use StyleManager
> > fontColor.selectedC olor = StyleManager. getColorName( "#D3D3D3" );
> >
> > Admittedly, getColorName( ) is rather poorly named, and StyleManager is
> > not the most obvious place to look (and the
> > looks-like-it- should-be- the-right- thing ColorUtil class is not very
> > helpful).
> >
> > Every framework has some unfortunate design decisions; Flex is really
> > quite good once you get the hang of it.
> >
> > --
> > Maciek Sakrejda
> > Truviso, Inc.
> > http://www.truviso. com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dale Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Is It Just Me?
> > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:55 -0000
> >
> > 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.selectedC olor = "#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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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