RE: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list

[Alex Harui]

Be nice now.  Tracy, the issue is that in the declarative example we are 
parsing the XML, but in the AS example, we are just parsing text and not XML so 
the \uXXXX format is needed there.

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alen 
Balja
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:17 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in 
ComboBox list


Did you try with unicode chars like I told you?

\u00B0 <- this is for the small circle (deegre)

_aHC2SODP = [{data:"0", label:"0 \u00B0F"},{data:"20", label:"2 \u00B0F"}];









On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tracy Spratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:

Aargh, the shoemaker's children are barefoot.



I am creating a static dataProvider for the combobox:

_aHC2SODP = [{data:"0", label:"0 &#176;F"},{data:"20", label:"2 &#176;F"}]; 
//looking for the "degree" symbol



But the above renders literally.



I have discovered that building a string in actionscript and then assigning it 
to a Label.text also does *not* work:
     var sTemp:String = "0 &#176;F";

     lbltest.text = sTemp;



The entity code renders literally.



But declaratively, the degree symbol renders as desired:

<mx:Label text="0 &#176;F" />



So one sure solution is to create my static dataProviders declaratively.  So I 
guess my question changes to "Is there some way to do this in AS?"



Tracy

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Subject: [flexcoders] RE: How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox 
list



Ha!  I've always wanted to say this to you:  "Post your code".  :-)



Isn't that XML syntax that won't work in a CDATA block of ActionScript?



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Behalf Of Tracy Spratt
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Subject: [flexcoders] How to display special characters like ° in ComboBox list



The special character numeric references work fine in Label and Text and such, 
but are interpreted literally in a ComboBox's drop list.

Any sugestions?

Tracy