Drag and drop item renderer(panel) within list - apache-flex

I have a spark List,its item renderer is a panel,and in the panel there are some components such as Textinput,now I want to drag and drop a panel within the List,how can I do that,could you pls show me the code,thanks.

The list in flex has a default drag and drop functionality. So basically all you need to do is to set 3 properties to true to your list:
dragMoveEnabled, dragEnabled and dropEnabled. So your list if you add it from mxml will look like this:
<s:List dataProvider="{yourDataProvider}" dragMoveEnabled="true" dragEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" />
For more details about these 3 properties you can check the spark list documentation:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/components/List.html#dragMoveEnabled

thanks for your help.Now I catch an error while draging the itemRenderer(my flex sdk is 4.5.1).
My list itemRenderer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
width="100%" height="100%">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.events.CloseEvent;
override public function set data(value:Object ) : void{
super.data = value;
}
protected function closeHandler(event:CloseEvent):void
{
//ToDo
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:TitleWindow x="0" y="0" title="{data.label}"
width="100%" height="100%" creationPolicy="all"
skinClass="skin.titleWindowSkin"
close="closeHandler(event)">
<s:Label text="{data.value}"/>
<s:TextInput x="123" y="58" text="#{data.value}"
focusIn="parentDocument.owner.dragEnabled=false"
focusOut="parentDocument.owner.dragEnabled=true"/>
</s:TitleWindow>
</s:ItemRenderer>
While draging,catch an error like:
Error: Skin for DragProxy261.ListItemDragProxy260.DspDesktopItemRenderer262._DspDesktopItemRenderer_TitleWindow1.titleWindowSkin264.Group265.contents._titleWindowSkin_Group5.contentGroup._DspDesktopItemRenderer_TextInput1 cannot be found.
at spark.components.supportClasses::SkinnableComponent/attachSkin()[E:\dev\4.5.1\frameworks\projects\spark\src\spark\components\supportClasses\SkinnableComponent.as:698]

Related

How to access MXML component instance in ItemRenderer

I have been developing an Adobe Flex (v3.5 Flex SDK) based application and I have a question on How we can access (call) a method written in MXML file (embeded in script tag) from the ItemRenderer file.
The MXML component has a datagrid and for one of the columns, the itemrenderer is my own custom item renderer.
In my custom item renderer, for some event I need to call a method which exist in its parent MXML component. How do we get access to its parent MXML instance ?
I have explored for this in google and found that we can access to 'data' object which refers to the dataProvider of the datagrid. But I wanted access to the instance of MXML component (so that I can call a method in it) which has the datagrid.
The AdvancedDataGridColumn in AdvancedDataGrid is like this
<mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn dataField="total" headerText="Total" width="120" itemRenderer="renderers.MyItemRenderer"/>
Here MyItemRenderer is a separate action script file.
Appreciate the response.
Thanks
Raagu
As Raghavendra Nilekani suggested This works:
TestGrid.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var data:Array = [
{name:"name",value:"valeu1",timestamp:"423423"},
{name:"name1",value:"valeu2",timestamp:"423423"},
{name:"name2",value:"valeu3",timestamp:"423423"},
{name:"name3",value:"valeu5",timestamp:"423423"}
]
public function calculateValue():Number{
return Math.random();
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
</fx:Declarations>
<mx:VBox height="100%" width="100%">
<mx:AdvancedDataGrid dataProvider="{data}">
<mx:columns>
<mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn itemRenderer="ItemRenderer">
</mx:AdvancedDataGridColumn>
</mx:columns>
</mx:AdvancedDataGrid>
</mx:VBox>
</s:Application>
e ItemRendere.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:MXAdvancedDataGridItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
focusEnabled="true"
addedToStage="mxadvanceddatagriditemrenderer1_addedToStageHandler(event)"
>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
var value:Number;
import mx.containers.VBox;
import mx.controls.AdvancedDataGrid;
protected function mxadvanceddatagriditemrenderer1_addedToStageHandler(event:Event):void
{
var grid:AdvancedDataGrid = ((AdvancedDataGrid)(this.owner));
var box:VBox = ((VBox)(grid.owner))
var comp:TestGrid = (TestGrid)(box.owner);
value = comp.calculateValue();
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:Label id="lblData" top="0" left="0" right="0" bottom="0" text="{value}" />
</s:MXAdvancedDataGridItemRenderer>
Anyway I agree with zenbeni that this lead to a not reausable item renderer.

Adobe Flex 4.5 Spark: Binding ItemRenderer Component to Parent

In Flex 3, it used to be possible to bind a component property within an itemRenderer via outerDocument. So for instance, if there was a image inside an itemRenderer that was only displayed on a given condition of the parent, something like this would work perfectly:
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:Label text="{data}"/>
<mx:Image id="img" visible="{outerDocument.ShowImage}" includeInLayout="{outerDocument.ShowImage}"/>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
where the outer document (not the list, but the mxml the list is in) contained something like
[Bindable]
public function get ShowImage():void
{
return showImage;
}
public function set ShowImage(val:Boolean):void
{
showImage = val;
}
I've tried to do the same thing in Flex 4.5 using Spark item renderers using parentDocument, but it doesn't seem to be aware to the binding. When I do this in Flex 4.5, the itemRenderer doesn't seem to be aware when the parentDocument ShowImage changes.
Has anyone seen this issue and is able to offer a solution?
EDIT: Add Spark Source
As requested here is my spark source:
MyItemRenderer.mxml
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<s:Label id="myLabel" text="{data}/>
<s:Image src="something.png" visible="{parentDocument.ShowImage}" includeInLayout="{parentDocument.ShowImage}"/>
</s:ItemRenderer>
RendererContainer.mxml
<s:Panel xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var showImage:Boolean = false;
[Bindable]
public function set ShowImage(val:Boolean):void
{
showImage = val;
}
public function get ShowImage():Boolean
{
return showImage;
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<!-- Content Group -->
<s:List id="lstCell" width="100%" height="100%" itemRenderer="MyItemRenderer">
</s:List>
</s:Panel>
Ok so there is a checkbox in a wrapper outside of RendererContainer.mxml that dispatches a custom event that is handled by changing a Bindable Boolean. The change in that var then changes the ShowImage property on my RendererContainer component. I would expect that the binding would then be picked up by MyItemRenderer but it doesnt seem to be working.
So my outer wrapper would access ShowImage like this
<comp:RendererContainer id="myId" ShowImage="{myCheckbox.selected}"/>
I think this should do the trick for you, YourTypeHere would be the class of the containing
object, make sure the ShowImage property is public and bindable.
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import YourTypeHere;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label text="{data}"/>
<mx:Image id="img"
visible="{YourTypeHere(this.parent.ShowImage)}"
includeInLayout="{YourTypeHere(this.parent.ShowImage)}"/>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
P.s. please don't name properties with a starting uppercase letter, including getters, consider naming it showImage and your private var to something like _showImage instead :D
Your getter seems to have return type as void. Change that to Boolean
[Bindable]
public function get ShowImage():Boolean
{
return showImage;
}
public function set ShowImage(val:Boolean):void
{
showImage = val;
}
This will help.
<s:Image src="something.png" visible="{RendererContainer(ListSkin(parentDocument).parentDocument).ShowImage}" includeInLayout="{RendererContainer(ListSkin(parentDocument).parentDocument).ShowImage}"/>
Following works perfectly fine:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<s:layout>
<s:VerticalLayout/>
</s:layout>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
]]>
</fx:Script>
<fx:Declarations>
<!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
</fx:Declarations>
<s:Panel xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<s:layout>
<s:VerticalLayout/>
</s:layout>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var showImage:Boolean = false;
[Bindable]
public function set ShowImage(val:Boolean):void
{
showImage = val;
}
public function get ShowImage():Boolean
{
return showImage;
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:CheckBox label="Select" change="{ShowImage = !ShowImage}"/>
<!-- Content Group -->
<s:List id="lstCell" width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{new ArrayCollection(['A','B'])}">
<s:itemRenderer>
<fx:Component>
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
autoDrawBackground="true">
<s:layout>
<s:HorizontalLayout/>
</s:layout>
<s:Label id="myLabel" text="{data}"/>
<s:Button label="something.png" visible="{outerDocument.ShowImage}" includeInLayout="{outerDocument.ShowImage}"/>
</s:ItemRenderer>
</fx:Component>
</s:itemRenderer>
</s:List>
</s:Panel>
</s:WindowedApplication>

Navigation within ItemRenderer

How can we navigate within an itemRenderer?
For example, in Views we use the View.navigator (ViewNavigator) to push and pop views, there is no such feature in ItemRenderer.
Navigation within a View (Easy)
<s:View>
<s:HGroup >
<s:Button label="Questionnaire" click="navigator.pushView(view.QuestionnaireCategory1View)"/>
</s:HGroup>
Navigation within a Item Renderer (Impossible?)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
autoDrawBackground="true" height="56">
<s:HGroup>
<s:Button text="Button" click="?????????"/>
</s:HGroup>
</s:ItemRenderer>
You want to use bubbling events to catch when the user interacts with an item renderer.
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
<s:HGroup>
<s:Button text="Button" click="dispatchEvent(new Event('buttonClicked', true));"/>
</s:HGroup>
</s:ItemRenderer>
Then when do this with whatever is using your item renderer:
<DataGroup id="group" itemRenderer="YourItemRenderer" dataProvider="{someData}" creationComplete="group.addEventListener('buttonClick', someHandlerFunction);" />
And then within your handler function, do whatever action you wanted to do. In this case, I'm adding the event listener on creation complete of the DataGroup, but you can add it to the creation complete event of the main container. This way you keep your item renderer decoupled and reusable, as well as using proper software practices (data in, events out).
In when you create your itemRenderer
<comp:MyItemRenderer navigator="{navigator}"/>
In your itemRenderer (here call MyItemRenderer)
<s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
autoDrawBackground="true" height="56">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import spark.components.ViewNavigator;
private var _navigator:ViewNavigator;
public function set navigator(value:ViewNavigator):void
{
_navigator = value;
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:HGroup>
<s:Button label="Button" click="{_navigator.pushView(view.QuestionnaireCategory1View)}"/>
</s:HGroup>

flex Spark Tab bar rollover index

I am using a the spark tabbar and gave a view stack as dataprovider.....in the view stack there are n elements ...and each element has a panel....
my code would be some thing like this....
<s:tabbar dataprovider = {viewstck-id} height="100%" width="100%"/>
<viewstack id="viewstck-id">
<navigatorContent >
<s:panel title="title - 1"/>
</navigatorContent >
<navigatorContent >
<s:panel title="title - 2"/>
</navigatorContent >\
<navigatorContent >
<s:panel title="title - 3"/>
</navigatorContent >
My requirement is something like this......initially the panel of the select tab should show its own title..suppose if we are on tab-1 the title should be title-1 ...but when we roll over our mouse on tab-2 the title of the panel in tab-1 should be changed to tittle-2 and if the mouse is on tab3 the title of the panel in tab-1 should be changed to tittle-3 and on roll out it should be changed to selected tab's panel's title , i.e. title-1....and in similar way it should work for all the tabs.....
So is there any way to get the get the rollOverIndex of the tab Or some one please provide me a solution.
--
Thanks
Red
Well, my Idea is to use ItemRenderer subclass to handle roll_over event and get item index. By default, TabBar item renderer is ButtonBarButton class with TabBarButtonSkin skin. and ButtonBarButton class has itemIndex property. Let's do it:
---> code for MyButtonBarItemRenderer.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:ButtonBarButton xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
creationComplete="creationCompleteHandler(event)"
skinClass="spark.skins.spark.TabBarButtonSkin"
>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import events.MyTabBarEvent;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
protected function creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
{
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, rollOverHandler);
}
private function rollOverHandler(e:MouseEvent) : void
{
var tbe:MyTabBarEvent = new MyTabBarEvent(MyTabBarEvent.ITEM_ROLL_OVER, true);
tbe.itemIndex = this.itemIndex;
dispatchEvent(tbe);
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
</s:ButtonBarButton>
Here we are using custom event with itemIndex property:
---> code for MyTabBarEvent.as placed in 'events' package
package events
{
import flash.events.Event;
public class MyTabBarEvent extends Event
{
public static const ITEM_ROLL_OVER:String = "MyTabBarEvent.ItemRollOver";
public var itemIndex:int;
public function MyTabBarEvent(type:String, bubbles:Boolean=false, cancelable:Boolean=false)
{
super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
}
}
}
All we have to do now is handle our custom event in our application:
---> code for application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
creationComplete="creationCompleteHandler(event)"
>
<fx:Declarations>
<!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
</fx:Declarations>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import events.MyTabBarEvent;
import mx.events.FlexEvent;
protected function creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
{
tabBar.addEventListener(MyTabBarEvent.ITEM_ROLL_OVER, itemRollOverHandler);
}
protected function itemRollOverHandler(e:MyTabBarEvent) : void
{
trace ("Item " + e.itemIndex + " roll over event handled");
tabBar.selectedIndex = e.itemIndex;
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:VGroup>
<s:TabBar id="tabBar" dataProvider="{viewstckId}" width="100%" itemRenderer="MyButtonBarItemRenderer"/>
<mx:ViewStack id="viewstckId">
<s:NavigatorContent label="Title 1">
<s:Panel title="title - 1"/>
</s:NavigatorContent >
<s:NavigatorContent label="Title 2">
<s:Panel title="title - 2"/>
</s:NavigatorContent>
<s:NavigatorContent label="Title 3">
<s:Panel title="title - 3"/>
</s:NavigatorContent>
</mx:ViewStack>
</s:VGroup>
</s:Application>
With a Spark TabBar, you could try adding an event listener on MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER and then checking event.target.label to get the tab name and event.target.itemIndex for the index of the tab that the mouse is hovering over.

Flex: creating a multi column navigation bar for viewstack

I have created a Viewstack and using a Tile component and repeating LinkButtons I was able to make a multi column navigation with the viewstack as the dataprovider. My question is can this be done better? My code is below and I am wondering if I took the long way around this approach.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<s:layout>
<s:BasicLayout />
</s:layout>
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
private var _listItem:Object;
private var n:int=0;
public function get listItem():Object
{
return this._listItem;
}
public function set listItem(listItem:Object):void
{
try{n++;
this.changeSelection(this._listItem);
}catch(e:Error){}
if(n==1 || n > this.viewStack.length){
this._listItem = listItem;
this.changeSelection(listItem);
}
}
private function setSelection(obj:Object):void{
this.viewStack.selectedIndex = this.viewStack.getChildIndex(this.viewStack.getChildByName(obj.target.getRepeaterItem().name));
this.listItem = obj.target;
}
private function checkSelection(obj:Object):void{
if(obj.target.getRepeaterItem() == this.viewStack.selectedChild){
if(this.listItem != obj.target){
this.listItem = obj.target;
}
}
}
private function changeSelection(obj:Object):void{
if(obj.getRepeaterItem() == this.viewStack.selectedChild){
obj.setStyle("color","#000000");
}else{
obj.setStyle("color","#999999");
}
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<mx:Tile id="tiles" horizontalGap="20" verticalGap="0" y="210" direction="vertical">
<mx:Repeater id="masterList" dataProvider="{viewStack}">
<mx:LinkButton
id="btn"
label="{masterList.currentItem.label}"
click="this.setSelection(event)"
color="#999999"
creationComplete="checkSelection(event);" />
</mx:Repeater>
</mx:Tile>
<mx:ViewStack id="viewStack" height="200" width="300" backgroundColor="#000000" >
<mx:VBox id="vb1" backgroundColor="#FF0000" label="Screen One"/>
<mx:VBox id="vb2" backgroundColor="#00FF00" label="Screen Two"/>
<mx:VBox id="vb3" backgroundColor="#0000FF" label="Screen Three"/>
<mx:VBox id="vb4" backgroundColor="#00FFFF" label="Screen Four"/>
</mx:ViewStack>
</s:Application>
Looks to me like you've got navigation links that expose different and that those links change color based on which one is selected. Assuming that's the case, it sounds an awful lot like a tab-based navigation model. My approach would be to use the spark TabBar and skin the tabs to look like links. That way you can get rid of most of your code and let the tab skin handle changing the colors based on their current state. Also, you wouldn't need any of the code you have for changing the view stack since the TabBar would handle that for you. Hope that helps.

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