Flex HTML ToolTip Component

To enhance the normal tool tip functionality to have html style break/ font weight for a portion of string:

You need to create a action class like this:
package com.philip
{
import mx.containers.*;
import mx.controls.Text;
import mx.controls.ToolTip;
import mx.core.*;

public class HTMLToolTip extends ToolTip
{
public function HTMLToolTip()
{    super(); }

override protected function commitProperties():void{
super.commitProperties();
textField.htmlText = text;
}
}
}

to use this set this in your main component, call this function on creationComplete:

<![CDATA[
import com.*;
private function init():void{
ToolTipManager.toolTipClass = HTMLToolTip;
myBtn.toolTip = "this is HTMLToolTip."

]]>



The original post has strong tag but that didn’t work for me in Flex 3.5 SDK worked fine



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Adobe Flex Combo box Binding Bug

I was working on one project at 2nd Byte and hit this problem of Combo Box's data provider not being updated intermittently.

I came across one post which described the bug in SDK 3.5 (it was in previous SDK's as well.

I was doing like this:
[Bindable] public var comboDP:ArrayCollection;

myComboBox.dataProvider = comboDP;

and this wasn't getting updated values and had to do like this to get this working:

myComboBox.dropdown.dataProvider = comboDP;


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Enjoy

Upgrade to Flex 3.5 - removes html templates files

I came across the problem when I upgraded my Eclipse Flex Builder Plugin to use Flex 3.5 SDK.

When I was using clean my project option, it was removing html-template folders content, and solution is (I found a solution on web from one blog/ article):

Go to your project's properties (right click, Properties)
Go to Flex Compiler
Under "Html wrapper" un-check "Generate HTML wrapper file" Click "Apply"
Then check "Generate HTML wrapper file" (the same one you just unchecked)
Click "Apply"
You should now see that the html wrapper files are regenerated.

This happened to me when I used the clean option on one of my projects.