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Holy $4|T!!!

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Quotes of note:

“The main piece of news I want to share is that we’re opening up Breeze and Breeze Live to flash developers. What I mean is that we’re planning to publish an API for building custom Pods, and have exposed all of the Breeze Platform (the Web App, as I affectionaly call it) through Web Services.”

“If instead you are a freelance FlashCom or a Flash+WebServices developer or a small Flash shop…well…here’s a whole new way to market yourself, as a “Breeze Pods builder” or “Breeze Customizer”. It could be a small but profitable niche, considering that Breeze clients are usually pretty large corporations.”

Ok, since this was a pain to make complicated and I got it working simply, I figured I’d share so you only have to go through pain doing more than I did. …not that I want you to go through pain, but it certainly makes the pleasure more worth it. At any rate, check this sample. I made a custom cell renderer for the DataGrid so I could have it render HTML hyperlinks. I tried using the TextArea to no avail, but a TextField works just fine!

Cell Renderer – <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/cell_renderer/”>HTML</a> | <a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/downloads/cell_renderer.zip”>ZIP</a>

Update: Jared, you may be able to use getCellIndex to get the itemIndex, and if it’s odd or even, change the display of the renderer to an alternate color. Hope that helps!

Not sure if I’m doing this right, or if the interface is already in the framework, but here’s what I garnered from trying to make a cell renderer for the DataGrid:

<code>interface CellRenderer
{
// Returns the preferred height of a cell
function getPreferredHeight(Void):Number;

// Returns the preferred width of a cell
function getPreferredWidth(Void):Number;

// Sets the width and height of a cell
function setSize(width:Number, height:Number):Void;

// Sets the content to be displayed in the cell
function setValue(suggested, item, selected:Boolean):Void;
}</code>

I think if you throw that in an as file, and then #include it, you can then do:
<code>class YourClass implements CellRenderer{}</code>

At any rate, I’m using it that way, and if it breaks, or doesn’t compile, I’ll let you all know.