My quick 2c: Flex has this kind of thing with editable vs enabled and I agree they are not the same thing.
Cheers, Chris 2009/6/15 Sandro Martini <[email protected]> > Hi Greg, > thanks for the help ... but with your answers i guess there isn't the > concept of a read-only mode for elements (look at normal objects, not > disabled, but with selection not changeable by the user) ... is this > wanted or is a missing feature ? > For example could i implement this as a simple listener that always > return without changing the element selection (and maybe in a general > way, so we can reuse it), without changing components API ? > > For this I'm also looking at the read only property of (some) HTML > Form elements ... and at least for some basic elements could be > useful, like Text Inputs, etc ... > > For a user point of view, disabled means "Not available" , "Not > applicable", etc, while read-only it's another thing ... and in this > case for example Substance has optional markers to decorate the > related fields, making more evident to the user that he/she can't > modify the value, but can use it like expand it (think at a Combo box) > etc, while maybe some background logic in the application could update > its values. > > What do you (and others) say ? > > > > Selected state and checked state are maintained independently. It is > possible for an item > to be checked and not selected, and vice versa. > Ok, no problem ... i think this could be a little confusing, but for me is > Ok. > > > >> - in TextInputValidatorTest, in the textinputFloatRange I've seen that > >> giving inputs in the current Locale all works good, but I haven't find > >> a way to change the Locale, or to set a different format to validators > >> ... how can i do this ? > > > > Noel may be able to comment on this one. > Ok, I'll wait his feedback ... > > Bye, > Sandro >
