Toggle viewstack within child component - apache-flex

I have a viewstack with two tabs.
In one of them there is a data grid shows a list of notes. The other one is includes a form that can edit notes or crates new note. I want the user to be able to add new note or edit existing note when clicks an item in data grid. I mean when user clicks an item the viewstack must become editor.

You can use the "selectedIndex" or "selectedItem" property on the viewstack to switch the active view. In your case, an event should be dispatched that bubbles up to the component containing the viewstack. When it arrives, the viewstack's active view can then be changed.

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How to make pop-up data reflect selected record?

The case:
I have Activities as datamodel.
I have set Activities to have many-to-many relationship with themselves to represent a Parent / Child relationship.
I have set up an accordion widget. Each row of the accordion contain basic data about the Activity record + some buttons.
I have set one of the button's onClick functions to open a popup, which allows me to edit the Activity detail in a form.
When I click a different record from the same accordion, the form from the popup reflects the data in the selected record.
The problem:
I have nested accordions which represent the "Child" Activities of the Parent Activity.
I have also added a similar button, which opens a popup. I can open the popup, which targets the child records, but cannot make it open the specific record, from which I pressed the button.
So the popup open by default on the first child.
Please help - how can I make the popup change naturally to reflect the datasource / selected record of even nested datasources?
What I tried:
In order to try and make to popup work I have tried to set the datasource based on the relationship:
Activities: Sub_Activities(relation)
This works to the extent of showing the related items, but popup content does not dynamically change on clicking a different child record or clicking the button from a different child record.
In both cases what is shown is the first child record.
What I understand is that you have a set up in which you click a button and a popup shows. The popup should let you view/edit the record referenced in the row where the button is. If that is the case, then probably you already have almost everything setup for the next thing to work. First, add a string custom property to the popup and name it selectedKey. Then, on the onClick event of the button that opens the popup, add something like this:
var key = widget.datasource.item._key;
app.popups.MYPOPUP.properties.selectedKey = key;
app.popups.MYPOPUP.visible = true;
Now, go to the popup content and add the following on the onAttach event handler:
var key = widget.root.properties.selectedKey;
widget.datasource.selectKey(key);
This is the general idea of how to make it work; However, in order for it to work, your datsources in the widgets should be properly set up. Good luck!

Flex custom component first item not read by JAWS

Flex application is being made accessibility compliant. When a custom component is made visible based on some condition, the first item (either text or formitem or textarea) inside the component is skipped by Jaws. It reads from the second item. On pressing UP arrow, the first item is then read.
Is there a way to make the first item accessible without need for pressing UP arrow?
This is likely going to be related to focus management.
You're likely going to want to assign componentId.setFocus() to the first component in the current view when the view state changes.
You need to re-assess the focus when the state of your display changes. If you post how you are managing display state I can suggest exactly how to trigger that via an event or in your custom state method.
Also, if that doesn't work, try this once your screen is ready / state changed :
focusManager.moveFocus(mx.events.FocusRequestDirection.TOP);

Flex List Item's Accessory View

I am new to this Technology.
I want to display Accessory View(Right Side Arrow Button) in Flex List View.
How can I do this.?
I assume by accessory view you mean something like this; where you are displaying details on the selected item in the list.
First create a List with a custom itemRenderer. The itemRenderer should display the item's label and the arrow.
Second, create a component to display the detail from the selected item in the list. The implementation of this component will depend greatly on the data you want to display.
Third, listen to the change event of the List, and when the item changes, update the values being displayed in your "accessory" component.

Flex ComboBox user choice reset

To be more descriptive here's a live example:
http://interklub.biz/CTPonLine.html
In last column there's a ComboBox with some values.
When user choose an option in ComboBox from first row and then scroll down the first choice disapears (comes back to default state).
There's something more strange, earlier I've tried to apply a one more ComboBox in additional column, with highly dynamic values (completly different for different rows), but with after same action (scroll down and then scroll down) values dataProviders from different ComboBox were switch.
It looks like you're not initializing your item renderer properly--when the renderer is reused, it's keeping its old value rather than updating from your data.
You should be able to resolve this by doing one of the following:
binding the item renderer's selectedValue to some property of its data element
overriding set data() to update the control for the current data
acting on the dataChange event and updating there
See Adobe's Working with Item Renderers for more.

Flex: How can I Load data, then create required components?

I have a flex application that has three tabs. Each of these tabs has a component that loads a ‘form’ that has a dropdown combo box. These combo boxes depend on external data in order to populate correctly. Currently the first tab is being created and the data that should be populated in the combo box is not in there. The combo box for the second tab is populated with the required data.
What I’d like to do is create an event that is dispatched after the data is loaded. When this event happens I’d like to then create these tabs, or the components of the tabs. Is there a way to wait for the data to be loaded before the application creates the components?
You could create the components in actionscript.
this code will create a ComboBox:
var newBox = new ComboBox();
newBox.dataProvider = aDataProvider;
// You could alternativley use (v/h)box.addChild(newBox)
// to add it as a child of a specific element
Application.application.addChild(newBox);
You can use that sort of technique to create the components in actionscript, you will still need to set all the properties that are usually set in mxml, but they all have the same names.

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