Comments on: Better form validation in Flex

By: gembin

gembin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:27:16 +0000

if i put the form in the TitleWindow, when i drag the window the toolTip is not following the window, how to manage this situation?

By: switcher

switcher — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:55:51 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip, but you have to write :
var toolTipExists:Boolean = errorMessageToolTips.hasOwnProperty(target.name);
before
if (target.text == “”)

if not, it can’t work because var toolTipExists doesn’t exist !
else
{
// TextInput is valid. Hide the error message if one exists.
if (toolTipExists)
{
(errorMessageToolTips[target.name] as ToolTip).visible = false;

By: Tami

Tami — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:07:13 +0000

Abstraction also adds scalability to a solution–and as “Hmm” pointed out this “simple” solution won’t scale to large forms. My plug for “complex” yet “elegant” solutions…

By: Hmm

Hmm — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:57:43 +0000

Abstraction??
This won’t work for large forms. A more sophisticated solution is needed.

By: Quinton

Quinton — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:58:24 +0000

Thanks!!! This is good stuff.

By: Leandro

Leandro — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:55:14 +0000

Hi, send me tutorial of Flex?
thank you
Leandro

By: justin

justin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:57:08 +0000

abstraction for those that know what they’re doing saves a lot of time and money. Real programmers know that…

By: Hmm

Hmm — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:37:07 +0000

Your point about the red borders not being enough information is a good one, but what if your form is complicated with about 10 or 15 fields? You can’t display them all (especially if the page just loaded). It’d be good if an error tip only displayed like this for the component that currently has the focus.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:12:27 +0000

i was talking about the HBox workaround (HBox word has been removed from previous post)

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:10:57 +0000

Thanks for the workaround !!! I was starting to go crazy with my tooltip not EXACTLY where i wanted it to be ! Saved my day !