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I ran into issues with Flex Itemrenderers after applying custom styles to a Datagrid.

Displaying the data in a standard Datagrid Column worked fine, such as:

<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="First Name" dataField="firstName" >

But an itemrenderer component just ignored all style declarations.

All I wanted to achieve is having my itemrenderer using the same text color and
textSelectedColor as I declared for the DataGrid in my css file.

After a bit of research I found a solution that works.

In order to use some declared styles from the ListBase (in my case the Datagrid) in my
custom itemrenderer I had to override its updateDisplayList Method.

My inline itemrenderer now looks like this

<mx:itemRenderer>

<mx:Component>

</mx:Component>

</mx:itemRenderer>

Now this seems all a bit weird cause it has to be done for each itemrenderer and each style that needs to be applied.
But it is the only quick solution I could find so far.

Note:
If using the Advanced Datagrid you need to change ListBase to:

mx.controls.listClasses.AdvancedListBase

for this example to work.

I recently needed to replace all  Degree ( ° )  symbols with a dot ( . ) symbol in a String.

So I tried this: $result = str_replace("°" , "." , $mystr) ;

It did not work, because the String ($mystr) was encoded in UTF8, since it was read in from a file.
PHP could not properly compare the characters.

I fixed it by changing the default encoding of my string:
$mystr = utf8_encode  ( $mystr) ;

After that the str_replace function returned the expected result.

It seems to be a good idea to always declare the encoding when loading local or remote files in PHP.