I agree with Ray that it seems odd with everything else that Flex makes it easy to do that validation is as complex as it is, even though it's not _that_ complex. Personally, I think that the best thing to do would be to offer the option of doing things either way. That way, if you want to do more complex validations on a field, you can write your own custom validation function that parses the array, but if you just want to do simple validation, you could set a property, maybe autoValidate="true", on the mx:Form or the mx:Button control that would do simple validation automatically. Honestly, I think things like Drag and Drop and History are considerably harder to hand-code, and we have managers for those that make it considerably easier.
- Zach Raymond Camden wrote: > Matt, I can understand the desire to give more control to users - but > considering how easy everything else is, it seems a bit odd that there > isn't a simpler way to do validation. It's like everything was done > for us (auto marking of required fields with *, nice validators out of > the box) except the final piece (auto validate on submit). I'm not > saying it makes it useless per se.... it was just surprising that > everything else was done _but_ that. > > > On 12/17/05, Matt Chotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Validators in Flex 2 are faceless objects which means you can store them > > in an array and then go through that array and call validate on each > > one. In 1.5 we have a validateStructure method, but that's been > > deprecated to give everyone more control over the validator > > infrastructure. > > > > So store your validators in an array, and then in the submit button go > > through and call validate() on each. If all of the return values have a > > results property with length of 0 you're good to go, if any have a > > non-zero length it was invalid. > > > > Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Raymond Camden > > Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:36 AM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] flex2 and simple form question > > > > So I've got a form. Each field has a validator. These work fine if you > > click in the field and then leave it w/o entering data. I've marked > > the form items required, and a nice little * shows up. In general, > > everything works, but you can still hit the submit button and none of > > the validators run. > > > > It seems like there should be a simple way to say, on submit - check > > each field and run the validator, but I can' t seem to find an example > > on that. > > > > -- > > ======================================================================= > > Raymond Camden, Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc > > (www.mindseye.com) > > > > Member of Team Macromedia > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > <http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia%29> > > > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog : ray.camdenfamily.com > > Yahoo IM : cfjedimaster > > > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ======================================================================= > Raymond Camden, Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc > (www.mindseye.com) > > Member of Team Macromedia > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > <http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia%29> > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog : ray.camdenfamily.com > Yahoo IM : cfjedimaster > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > -- > 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 > > * Visit your group "flexcoders > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders>" on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- 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/
