The problem is that the validators won't fire until they've seen a valid (non-empty) value come across. We explicitly made a decision that tabbing through an empty field would not cause an error, so binding doesn't trigger validation in this case. What you can do is programmatically set the value temporarily to a non-null value and then set it back. Maybe you could add a focusOut handler on yourself and basically check if the value is "", and if so set your value to be " " and then immediately back to ""?
Sorry, definitely a wacky solution for now. Matt -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai König Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:13 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Validation TextInput Hi all, I want a bunch of TextInputs within a form to be required and to validate against a common mx:Validator. This works fine in general, but the customer wants that the validation comes up even if someone just sets the focus to the particular TextInput, doesn't type anything and immediately removes the focus from that field. An example would be to just use the tab key to speedo through the whole form... But obviously, the validation shouldn't trigger before that (so - not loading a form which is full of failed validations) To fullfill another requirement (validation during typing) I subclassed TextInput and made the change Event committing as Steven and Allister explained in their book on pg. 189: [ChangeEvent("change")] So, my idea of triggering the validation for my particular issue was to broadcast the focusOut event in the subclass as committing as well: [ChangeEvent("focusOut")] But, it doesn't work out. What works is to add focusOut="mx.validators.Validator.isValid(this,'mymodel.myfield')" as an attribute to my subclassed MyTextInput. But that doesn't seem to be the best way doing it as there might be a bunch of input fields, isn't there a better solution? Cheers Kai -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h7buku1/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124354286/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
