Radio Silence

Like I have done in the past, I am declaring radio silence today. I will not be check my feeds, look at any Apple news sites, or check my personal email until I can view Apple’s video stream of the WWDC keynote. 

You can view the MacRumors WWDC 2008 Spoiler Free news page if you want to do the same.

Looping Through Datagrid Rows in Flex

It wasn't readilly apparent to me how to loop through some datagrid rows in Flex. Finally, I came across Abdul Qabiz's DataGridDataExporter class, which basically does just that.

The key is to set up a cursor that will loop through the Data Provider for the datagrid.

Something like this:

var dp:Object=MyDG.dataProvider;
var cursor:IViewCursor=dp.createCursor();
while( !cursor.afterLast )
{
  // Access each column field like: cursor.current.MyFieldName
  trace(cursor.current.MyFieldName);
  // Obviously don't forget to move to next row:
  cursor.moveNext();
}

That's all there is to it.

Biased Flash Series by AppleInsider

This is old news now, but it's worth noting that AppleInsider released a 3-part series of articles about Flash. Check them out here:

Whether you love Flash, hate Flash, love Adobe, hate Adobe, or are neutral with the whole thing, this series is disturbingly prejudicial and biased. Comments on the posts even say as much. This is certainly disappointing, because I like AppleInsider, Apple, Adobe, and Flash. But these articles have a predisposition that results in negative interjected commentary in what would otherwise have been an interesting consideration of the history of Flash.

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