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In Flex when you bind data to a UI control like a DataGrid, the grid cells refresh every time the dataSource changes. The reverse is also true if the DataGrid is enabled for editing. That is, the dataSource is also updated when you edit a cell.
The TextInput can be bound as well so [...]

Working with SQLite and Flex/AIR Date values can be tricky and various caveats are not particularly well documented. The confusion (for me) is that ActionScript is loaded with UTC functions, and SQLite will happily insert them into DATETIME columns. Everything appears fine, however SQLite does not actually recognize this format as a Date [...]

The following code outputs a SQLite date into a standard date format with month abbreviations that, believe it or not, Flex/AIR will accept as a Date value (Though SQLite itself doesn’t recognize it as a valid DATETIME!). I created this atrocious code while trying to figure out the mysterious interaction between AIR and SQLite [...]