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DataGrid Hyperlink CellRenderer

Need a hyperlink in a DataGrid? Want an event when someone clicks on it? Check out what Leif (my manager) and I did!

DataGrid Hyperlink CellRenderer – Source (ZIP)

January 6, 2005
Six Apart Bought LiveJournal

Mirroring her majesty’s statement, “OMG!”

When I started blogging, I used LiveJournal. I never liked how their tools for integration, so simply used their win32 client to post. I’ve attempted 3 times to write a client for LJ; my 3rd is currently in Flex & in Central using it’s XMLRPC API. I surely hope they keep that. I’m excited about the technical possibilities, and increase of exposure for both professional & personal bloggers, but mainly developers. It’ll be interesting how some of LiveJournals tried and true server solutions mesh with SixApart’s MoveableType mainly.

I will say, though, that I disagree with the attitude they are portraying of the developer community of LiveJournal. I know her majesty’s experiences when helping redesign their site was wrought with great pressures of responsibility, and tons of political & PR bs. The LJ Team from that angle, appeared from my view, supportive… the community I guess just cared so much so that they lashed out at any weird change they didn’t feel comfortable with. My experiences with client development have been negative, cold, and extremely hard to “dive into”, unlike Flash where they run up to hug you. My guess is, they’ve had soo many questions on forums & email that the redundancy of saying RTFM has mentally scared them. Maybe it was my approach, who knows.

At any rate, very interesting news indeed.

Six Apart’s Entry

January 6, 2005
Something I Noticed at New Years Eve

*click* *click* As soon as we toasted champagne, and everyone downed whatever they were drinking, those who weren’t double-fisting whipped out their cell phones (excluding those who already had their cell phones out), and started taking pictures. I’ve never seen that before.

Someone always has a camera, and sometimes a video camera… but everyone at the party was doing it! Pretty neat to see the change.

January 2, 2005
Flex Chronicles #5: Alert Drama
There’s a known issue with Alert’s in Flex, using the application level alert, or Alert.show. When you do:
```
function initApp()
{
        ref = Alert.show("test",
              "",
              Alert.OK,
              this,
              Delegate.create(this, onAlertClose),
              null,
              Alert.OK);
}

function onAlertClose()
{
        ref.deletePopUp();
}
```
The Alert’s background will stay around. In my investigations, he’s an mc in a very low negative depth. Removing him forcely messed up my app. Matt Chotin then recommended using a doLater. Upon doing so, it fixed my problem. I guess the invalidation routines co-chillin’ deep in the depths of UIObject remove the rect. ::shrugs::

At any rate, if you do this instead:
```
function onAlertClose()
{
        doLater(this, "killPopup");
}

function killPopup()
{
        ref.deletePopUp();
}
```
It works good.

Took me 3 days to work through that mess; here’s to you not having to do so.
January 2, 2005