DRK Message Board Data Grid Sample Errata

by | Nov 17, 2002 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Creating a custom cell symbol for datagrid is very easy. Every cell gets a function, setValue and setSize. When the grid is built, resized or value is changed, these functions will be called.

Message Board is a datagrid sample application that comes with the The Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit in which you can send and receive message like a email application.

In that sample they have created a custom cell symbol for showing indicating new messages. The following code is used for building the custom cell component

[UPDATE] included the ActionScript 3 version as well 🙂 It became lot more simpler with the regular expressions

/*
 ************************************************************
   Developed by R.Arul Kumaran [[email protected]]
   for more code keep visiting [www.luracast.com/all/blog]
 ************************************************************
 */
 /*
Coming Soon....
*/


 */
/*
/*
 ************************************************************
   Developed by R.Arul Kumaran [[email protected]]
   for more code keep visiting [www.luracast.com/all/blog]
 ************************************************************
 */

 /*
Object.Clone creates a perfect copy of an object
Modified from FlashGuru's version to support Arrays
*/

Object.prototype.clone = function() {
        if (this instanceof Array) {
                var to = [];
                for (var i = 0; i

Here setValue function is wrongly mentioned as setLabel function. Find and replace 'setLabel' with 'setValue' to make it work.

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