Hi Matt, if you're thinking about the validators in general, another thing I'd love to have is something like a defaultErrorMessage attribute which automatically sets the value for all the more specific error attributes if one doesn't specify those in particular.
Cheers Kai MC> I think someone else ran into this (maybe Mika?) but I don't MC> remember if it had a work around. This is something we're fixing MC> in 2.0, I don't have a solution for you off the top of my head. MC> Matt MC> -----Original Message----- MC> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com MC> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai König MC> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:56 AM MC> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com MC> Subject: [flexcoders] Changing the wrongLengthError in a DateValidator MC> Hi all, MC> another validator-related question: MC> Having to validate for a date using a DateValidator, the requirements MC> are to just deliver one validation message if the validation fails. MC> Following the concept, I'd have to add a long list of attributes to my MC> validator call, as in: MC> <mx:DateValidator ... invalidCharError="blabla" MC> invalidFormatCharsError="blabla" ... /> MC> So we thought it might be nice to subclass the DataValidator and to MC> define a defaultErrorMessage which we can pass into our own validator MC> class and internally, the class is responsible to overwrite the values MC> of the pre-defined errors. MC> Works quite good, BUT doesn't work for wrongLengthError. The docs MC> state: >>Error message when the length of the date doesn't match that of the >>inputFormat. Default is "Please type the date in the format >><i>inputFormat</i>.". MC> That means the default error might be something like: MC> "Please...format mm/dd/yyyy" MC> As far as I understand, I'd expect to be able to overwrite the default MC> with anything I like, but regardless to what I set the value for MC> wrongLengthError, Flex always adds the value of inputFormat to my MC> error message - I end up with something like MC> "This is my errortext and I want you to type it correct mm/dd/yyyy" MC> This is especially annoying with localized error messages in which the MC> inputFormat has to be at another place within the error message by MC> grammar: "Bitte nutzen Sie das Format dd.mm.yyyy in diesem Feld". MC> Is there a way to get rid of the automatic concatenation of the MC> inputFormat within the wrongLengthError of this validator? MC> Cheers MC> Kai MC> -- MC> Flexcoders Mailing List MC> FAQ: MC> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt MC> Search Archives: MC> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com MC> Yahoo! Groups Links MC> -- MC> Flexcoders Mailing List MC> FAQ: MC> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt MC> Search Archives: MC> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com MC> Yahoo! Groups Links -- Best regards, Kai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hpdvqk2/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124357529/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</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/
