\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?\>\<!-- Created By: Russ Hammett Create Date: 2012-01-03 Description: Text input that validates an email address. use "required" to control if the email address is required. access the public variable isValidEmail to determine if validation passed on the email address Modified By: Russ Hammett Modify Date: 2012-01-06 Modify Desc: Updated validateEmail function to be public and update errorString accordingly when validation fails or passes.--\>\<mx:TextInput xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" maxChars="50"  creationComplete="onCreationCompleted();" focusOut="validateEmail();" \> \<mx:Script\> \<![CDATA[ import mx.events.ValidationResultEvent; private var \_isValidEmail:Boolean = true; public function set isValidEmail(value:Boolean):void { \_isValidEmail = value;  } [Bindable] public function get isValidEmail():Boolean { return \_isValidEmail; }  [Bindable] public var required:Boolean = false; /\*\* \* On Creation Completed \* \*/ private function onCreationCompleted():void { if (required) { emailValidator.enabled = true; } else { emailValidator.enabled = false;  } } /\*\* \* Validate Email \* \*/ public function validateEmail():void { var vldEmail:ValidationResultEvent; if (this.length \> 0) { emailValidator.enabled = true; vldEmail = emailValidator.validate(this.text); if (vldEmail.type == ValidationResultEvent.VALID) { isValidEmail = true; this.errorString = ''; } else { isValidEmail = false; this.errorString = vldEmail.message; } } else { emailValidator.enabled = false; if (required) { emailValidator.enabled = true; vldEmail = emailValidator.validate(this.text); isValidEmail = false; this.errorString = vldEmail.message; } else { isValidEmail = true; this.errorString = ''; } } } ]]\> \</mx:Script\> \<mx:EmailValidator   source="{this}" property="text" required="{required}" requiredFieldError="Email Field is Required." invalidCharError="Invalid characters in your email address."  invalidDomainError= "The domain in your email address is incorrectly formatted."  invalidIPDomainError="The IP domain in your email address is incorrectly formatted."  invalidPeriodsInDomainError="The domain in your email address has consecutive periods."  missingAtSignError="Missing an at character in your email address."  missingPeriodInDomainError="The domain in your email address is missing a period."  missingUsernameError="The username in your email address is missing."  tooManyAtSignsError="Too many at characters in your email address." /\> \</mx:TextInput\>