I've forwarded this thread off to people who worked on validators for 2.0 so we'll see if I'm forgetting something and if not we can file some enhancement requests. Feel free to also file at http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish.
Matt -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zach Stepek Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:12 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] flex2 and simple form question 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. 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