Cheers, I'd already tried what you'd suggested below and for whatever reason it is still not updating the model.
I did see this in the standard DateField.as class [DefaultBindingProperty(source="selectedDate", destination="selectedDate")] [DefaultTriggerEvent("change")] [RequiresDataBinding(true)] I think it's just down to the way that the custom component is using the sets and gets and some weird flex magic. I've ended up doing the following as a work around. <myCustomComponents:CustomComponent id="DoB" change="{updateModel( )}"/> And whenever the change event is fired, I can pick it up here, although I can't get any other bindings to pick up the event. The updateModel() just gets selected date and puts that into a holder date variable which the model binds to. I've had a look at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhel p.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=metadata_141_01.html and it's not exactly a full list. Hmmmmm. Bah there are times when the documentation for using flex is just rubbish. Not to mention the search facility of livedocs doesn't seem to be well indexed or something. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Just seen the email from Daniel F, cheers for that link, I'm currently trying to ask adobe's gold (plated & somewhat tarnished) support and if they get back to me I'll let you know what the extra tags do. Thanks K. ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dimitrios Gianninas Sent: 01 May 2007 13:16 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] metadata tags and events in order to tell other classes your object is bindable, it has to have this metatag: [Bindable("change")] public function get text():void { .... } then somewhere is your component once the text field data is set, broadcast the change event like so: dispatchEvent( new Event("change") ); Dimitrios Gianninas Developer Optimal Payments Inc. ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Sutherland Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:52 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] metadata tags and events Does anyone have information on the various metadata tags that can be used in flex. I've been going through some of the source files to find out a way of getting my custom component to tell a model to update itself. Some of the tags I've seen that I don't know what they do are [DataBindingInfo] [DefaultBindingProperty] [DefaultTriggerEvent] I've seen others but I won't to list everything here. I've searched Livedocs and I can't find somewhere where all the tags with explanations are listed. Also if someone knows about models being updated can you advise on the below problem If my model is <mx:Model id="requiredFields"> <theForm> <all> <name> { name.text } </name> <birth> { DoB.selectedDate }</birth> </all> </theForm> </mx:Model> <myValidator:FormValidator id="formValidator" source="{requiredFields}" property="all"/> When I call the validator the information it gets from the model is the text from the text input which is updated everytime the user changes the said text input, but the date comes from a custom date entry component and the model doesn't get the latest date from the component. It would seem like the binding isn't working or my custom component isn't firing of the required events for the model to update itself when the user changes the date. I've tried getting my custom component to fire of the following events [Event(name="change", type="flash.events.Event")] [Event(name="valueCommit", type="mx.events.FlexEvent")] As well as making the getter function for selectedDate [Bindable], but the model still doesn't pick up on any changes after the component has been initialised. Cheers for any info. Kenneth. <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12286167/grpspId=1705007207/ msgId=73069/stime=1178021803/nc1=4507179/nc2=3848642/nc3=3>