2010 August | Cyril Mazur

Aug 12

Sort an ArrayCollection in Flex

As nothing’s as straight forward as PHP, I had to write my own class to sort ArrayCollections. My work was inspired by what Peter Dehaan did. The method is to be used as follows: ArrayUtils.sort(games, "playerScore", "DESC", true); to sort an ArrayCollection of games by player score, with a de ...

Aug 08

getDefinitionByName(), ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable is not defined

In Flex (as in Java, or even PHP) you can dynamically get references to a class from its name. Just to remind you, it’s that easy in PHP: $className = 'User'; $myUser = new $className; Not a lot more complicated in Java: Class className = Class.forName("User"); Object myUser = className.newIns ...

Aug 05

Unique ID for Java classes

As I was writing some Java code for my finale dissertation, I wanted to give my objects an unique ID in order to distinguish them easily. I thus wrote the following abstract class that does the job well for me: package motd.utils; /** * Makes a class identifiable with an unique ID for its ob ...

Aug 03

onChange and checkbox/radio in IE

I was writing a bit of Javascript this afternoon. Everything was fine until it came to test it on IE, and there the nightmare began (again, and again, and again…). Yes, IE (all versions) sucks at handling onChange events for checkboxes and radio buttons. Sometimes it works, sometimes not at al ...

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Sort an ArrayCollection in Flex

getDefinitionByName(), ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable is not defined

Unique ID for Java classes

onChange and checkbox/radio in IE

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