[flexcoders] Loading External wysiwyg editor

[Jonathan Ackerman]

Hey All,

I have been playing with some options to try and get a better editor to 
work in Flex. As we all know, the RTE that comes as a standard control 
in Flex is a but limited, and I thought to try and get one of the 
javascript based editors to load.

Does anyone know if it is possible to load lets say TinyMCE into a Flex 
app? If not, is anyone aware of a way to extend the functionality of the 
supplied Flex RTE to allow for additoinal html formatting?

Thanks!
Jonathan

[flexcoders] Delaying Component Load

[Jonathan Ackerman]

I have a small issue that I am sure that is solved relatively easily by 
all the pros here.

I have been running into a IUIComponent issue on a component that is 
loading and I have determined that I need to delay the loading of this 
component a second or so.

The component sits on a canvas with a tab navigator and I want to delay 
the load of this component until the specific tab is clicked on. I was 
thinking that I need to set the show event of the tab to run a function 
that would launch the component but I don't the syntax for doing this.

Something like this?

public function loadItem(event:Event):void{
  mycomponent.load()
}


Thanks!

[flexcoders] DragDropEvent Question

[Jonathan Ackerman]

Hi All,

I have a scenario where I have to drag a node from one tree to another. 
Both trees are driven by XML and they display great. Once the drag is 
complete I need to isolate the data that was dragged and send it back to 
php so that I can update the database with the information that was added.

Here is my issue.

When I set the method to fire on the DragDropEvent, it almost seems like 
that event is firing before the actual drop happens. I can access the 
two trees when I debug, but the actual data driving the droptarget tree 
does not seem to be updated yet when the event fires and I am not able 
to reference the data that I dropped.

I also see that there is a property in the event called draggedItem 
but that is always coming up as null when the event fires.

Does anyone know of a solution to this?

[flexcoders] User Input of Super and Sub scripts

[Jonathan Ackerman]

Hey All,

Does anyone know of a solution to allowing users to enter either super 
or subscripts into a text input area? I have seen solutions regarding 
embedding fonts for displaying the super/sub scripts but not for 
allowing a user to enter the character.

Thanks!
Jonathan

Re: [flexcoders] Working With Dynamic Datagrid

[Jonathan Ackerman]

I had a thought. Instead of doing it with a DataGrid, would I be better 
of doing this in an AdvancedDataGrid?

Thanks!