[flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
Thanks for the tips. I did finally get a slightly different Contact Form working. So, I still want to get this approach to work as well. I do see some of the obvious errors like not even giving the input fields on the form an id. Similarly, I get it... one should not have the custom component rely upon what is in the application. The other application I found in a tutorial online used XML to package the data which is a little different from my use of an Object data type. Would there be any benefits to doing things one way or the other? I think things are closer to working now, having followed your suggestions. I am also going based on the other design I found that did work for me also. So, hopefully I have this. Is name a reserved word in Flex? It was having a problem with the variable name, but when I capitalized it, the error went away. Lastly, in a longer form that I want to use I will have combo boxes and check boxes. I understand that php needs these to be arrays. How would I setup the Object to handle this? On the right side of the = sign in the Object, I am still grabbing data from a text field on the form, correct? So, any tips/advice on this, please? Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick look. You have in sendMyData:: obj.Name = Name.text; obj.Email = Email.text; obj.Message = Message.text; Yet FormComp has: mx:FormItem label=Name: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Email: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Message: mx:TextArea/ /mx:FormItem None of the form fields has an id.. Also, mx:Button label=Contact Us fontSize=16 click=sendMyData()/ shows a click handler function sendMyData(), yet there's no function called that in FormComp. sendMydata() is part of the parent application. You can probably get away with referring to Application.application.sendMyData, but that's really bad practice. The coupling of these components is really not as it should be try and build components that can be used standalone without having to refer directly to what is happeining outside. The formComp shouldn't be accessing a handler in the parent application. The form should dispatch a custom event saying that the form has been filled in and that event should include a payload of the form content. The application should listen for that event and despatch a message using the event payload. I would suggest recapping some of your classes. Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like this: form.Name = Name.text; No, that doesn't work. It still gives me an error saying: Access to undefined property Name. I really didn't follow that either. I thought I would need an object that would have properties sent to the HTTPService request which calls the php form processor which will email me the results. Please, check out the code I include and if you or someone else would, please replace
Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
- Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 8:52 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Thanks for the tips. I did finally get a slightly different Contact Form working. So, I still want to get this approach to work as well. I do see some of the obvious errors like not even giving the input fields on the form an id. Similarly, I get it... one should not have the custom component rely upon what is in the application. The other application I found in a tutorial online used XML to package the data which is a little different from my use of an Object data type. Would there be any benefits to doing things one way or the other? I think things are closer to working now, having followed your suggestions. I am also going based on the other design I found that did work for me also. So, hopefully I have this. Is name a reserved word in Flex? It was having a problem with the variable name, but when I capitalized it, the error went away. Lastly, in a longer form that I want to use I will have combo boxes and check boxes. I understand that php needs these to be arrays. How would I setup the Object to handle this? On the right side of the = sign in the Object, I am still grabbing data from a text field on the form, correct? So, any tips/advice on this, please? My suggestion would be to follow flex in a week on the adobe site, then you'd know most of the answers to these these questions. For the moment I think you're trying to run before you've got to grips with walking. Paul. Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A quick look. You have in sendMyData:: obj.Name = Name.text; obj.Email = Email.text; obj.Message = Message.text; Yet FormComp has: mx:FormItem label=Name: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Email: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Message: mx:TextArea/ /mx:FormItem None of the form fields has an id.. Also, mx:Button label=Contact Us fontSize=16 click=sendMyData()/ shows a click handler function sendMyData(), yet there's no function called that in FormComp. sendMydata() is part of the parent application. You can probably get away with referring to Application.application.sendMyData, but that's really bad practice. The coupling of these components is really not as it should be try and build components that can be used standalone without having to refer directly to what is happeining outside. The formComp shouldn't be accessing a handler in the parent application. The form should dispatch a custom event saying that the form has been filled in and that event should include a payload of the form content. The application should listen for that event and despatch a message using the event payload. I would suggest recapping some of your classes. Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like
[flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like this: form.Name = Name.text; No, that doesn't work. It still gives me an error saying: Access to undefined property Name. I really didn't follow that either. I thought I would need an object that would have properties sent to the HTTPService request which calls the php form processor which will email me the results. Please, check out the code I include and if you or someone else would, please replace what I did wrong with the right code. That way I can see exactly how to make this work. I just got a little confused when you were saying that I need to use form.Name as I didn't know if you meant just replace that in the function that I have and that we are talking about this on the left or right of the equals sign and if not, then what are we setting equal to form.Name. Lastly, I have two large books for learning AS 3.0 and OOP, ActionScript 3.0 Bible and Flex 3.0 Bible. They are rather extensive and long and AS 3.0 Bible does get into OOP. If you would recommend a different or additional text, please let me know. I'll definitely start reading the information at the link you sent to me - to the livedocs article. thanks, Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Haykel BEN JEMIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problems you are having are related to very basic actionscript and object oriented programming knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way blaming you, I just want to give you the advice to read some documentation about AS and OO programming because otherwise you will be loosing much time with basic things! You can start with Programming ActionScript 3.0 from the Flex documentation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Part6_ProgAS_1.html Now to the problem. You are getting this error because the Name field is not defined where you are calling it, but in the FormComponent. If you instantiate the FormComponent with an id of form for example, you can access it with: form.Name. Note that it has to be declared public in the component to be able access it from outside the component. Hope it helps! On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:10 AM, brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, thanks for the help. I did what you mention below. Someone else posted somethingsimilar about putting the Object property into the function. It still doesn't like that yet. It gives me an error on the line in the function where I am assigning values to the Object properties... Specifically it doesn't like: obj.Name = Name.text; it says: Access to undefined property Name Now, one problem might be that I am not passing any parameters to the function. I'll see about the way you specified the function and see if that fixes things. To see more specifically what I did, please click on this to download the zip archive file of my Flex Project: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip thanks, Bruce
Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
A quick look. You have in sendMyData:: obj.Name = Name.text; obj.Email = Email.text; obj.Message = Message.text; Yet FormComp has: mx:FormItem label=Name: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Email: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Message: mx:TextArea/ /mx:FormItem None of the form fields has an id.. Also, mx:Button label=Contact Us fontSize=16 click=sendMyData()/ shows a click handler function sendMyData(), yet there's no function called that in FormComp. sendMydata() is part of the parent application. You can probably get away with referring to Application.application.sendMyData, but that's really bad practice. The coupling of these components is really not as it should be try and build components that can be used standalone without having to refer directly to what is happeining outside. The formComp shouldn't be accessing a handler in the parent application. The form should dispatch a custom event saying that the form has been filled in and that event should include a payload of the form content. The application should listen for that event and despatch a message using the event payload. I would suggest recapping some of your classes. Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like this: form.Name = Name.text; No, that doesn't work. It still gives me an error saying: Access to undefined property Name. I really didn't follow that either. I thought I would need an object that would have properties sent to the HTTPService request which calls the php form processor which will email me the results. Please, check out the code I include and if you or someone else would, please replace what I did wrong with the right code. That way I can see exactly how to make this work. I just got a little confused when you were saying that I need to use form.Name as I didn't know if you meant just replace that in the function that I have and that we are talking about this on the left or right of the equals sign and if not, then what are we setting equal to form.Name. Lastly, I have two large books for learning AS 3.0 and OOP, ActionScript 3.0 Bible and Flex 3.0 Bible. They are rather extensive and long and AS 3.0 Bible does get into OOP. If you would recommend a different or additional text, please let me know. I'll definitely start reading the information at the link you sent to me - to the livedocs article. thanks, Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Haykel BEN JEMIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problems you are having are related to very basic actionscript and object oriented programming knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way blaming you, I just want to give you the advice to read some documentation about AS and OO programming because otherwise you will be loosing much time with basic things! You can start with Programming ActionScript 3.0 from the Flex documentation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Part6_ProgAS_1.html Now to the problem. You are getting this error because
Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
- Original Message - From: Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help A quick look. You have in sendMyData:: obj.Name = Name.text; obj.Email = Email.text; obj.Message = Message.text; Yet FormComp has: mx:FormItem label=Name: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Email: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Message: mx:TextArea/ /mx:FormItem None of the form fields has an id.. Also, mx:Button label=Contact Us fontSize=16 click=sendMyData()/ shows a click handler function sendMyData(), yet there's no function called that in FormComp. sendMydata() is part of the parent application. You can probably get away with referring to Application.application.sendMyData, but that's really bad practice. The coupling of these components is really not as it should be try and build components that can be used standalone without having to refer directly to what is happeining outside. The formComp shouldn't be accessing a handler in the parent application. The form should dispatch a custom event saying that the form has been filled in and that event should include a payload of the form content. The application should listen for that event and despatch a message using the event payload. I would suggest recapping some of your classes. Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like this: form.Name = Name.text; No, that doesn't work. It still gives me an error saying: Access to undefined property Name. I really didn't follow that either. I thought I would need an object that would have properties sent to the HTTPService request which calls the php form processor which will email me the results. Please, check out the code I include and if you or someone else would, please replace what I did wrong with the right code. That way I can see exactly how to make this work. I just got a little confused when you were saying that I need to use form.Name as I didn't know if you meant just replace that in the function that I have and that we are talking about this on the left or right of the equals sign and if not, then what are we setting equal to form.Name. Lastly, I have two large books for learning AS 3.0 and OOP, ActionScript 3.0 Bible and Flex 3.0 Bible. They are rather extensive and long and AS 3.0 Bible does get into OOP. If you would recommend a different or additional text, please let me know. I'll definitely start reading the information at the link you sent to me - to the livedocs article. thanks, Bruce --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Haykel BEN JEMIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problems you are having are related to very basic actionscript and object oriented programming knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way blaming you, I just want to give you the advice to read some documentation about AS and OO programming because otherwise you will be loosing much time with basic
Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help
I completely missed out the fact that the sendMyData() function in the main application refers to fields ( currently with no id) in FormComp, so there are two reasons why, for example, Name.text, cannot be found: The TextInput field has no id and should have an id 'Name' - I already mentioned that. If the field had an id it would be in the FormComp component, not part of the main application. FormComp is in the main application but again has no id. Even with an id you are trying to access fields inside the class that are not public. The real problems are coming from a lack of understanding of scope and the relationship between classes/components. Paul - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help A quick look. You have in sendMyData:: obj.Name = Name.text; obj.Email = Email.text; obj.Message = Message.text; Yet FormComp has: mx:FormItem label=Name: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Email: mx:TextInput/ /mx:FormItem mx:FormItem label=Message: mx:TextArea/ /mx:FormItem None of the form fields has an id.. Also, mx:Button label=Contact Us fontSize=16 click=sendMyData()/ shows a click handler function sendMyData(), yet there's no function called that in FormComp. sendMydata() is part of the parent application. You can probably get away with referring to Application.application.sendMyData, but that's really bad practice. The coupling of these components is really not as it should be try and build components that can be used standalone without having to refer directly to what is happeining outside. The formComp shouldn't be accessing a handler in the parent application. The form should dispatch a custom event saying that the form has been filled in and that event should include a payload of the form content. The application should listen for that event and despatch a message using the event payload. I would suggest recapping some of your classes. Paul - Original Message - From: brucewhealton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:34 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: My Flex Form - please help Hi, I have to ask something else... when you said change the reference to Name, I wasn't sure that you meant on the left of the = or right. I have taken a class on AS 3.0 and two on Flex 3 and it was very extensive... getting into OOP. I thought I had things figured out. Could you or someone please look at my code and specifically edit it to work. It is very small and I only need to have one field in the form for demonstration purposes. It might be only a line or two that needs to be changed or added. There are only two files so far. Here's the link: http://fwweb.biz/ContactForm.zip Please email me directly or post the fixed code specifically as it would need to be for this to work. I'll reproduce the code below as well. It's not long. As a note, I did find a free Flex/PHP application that does this. However, I want to figure out how to get the very basic application that I started, working right, instead of just taking something else. I want to figure out the exact logic that would work to accomplish what I am trying. By being real basic, I can focus mainly on the details and concepts that I am getting wrong. The instructor in the two classes I took on Flex Builder 3, stated that I needed an HTTPService tag which calls the php form processing script that emails form results to a specified email address - setting the method to POST. In the form component, I would call an AS 3.0 function that creates the object, obj:Object = new Object(); - then in the function sendMyData, I call the HTTPService send method. It sounds like you are saying that I shouldn't use obj but should use something like this: forms:FormComp id=form/ Then, in the function sendMyData(, I just do it like this: form.Name = Name.text; No, that doesn't work. It still gives me an error saying: Access to undefined property Name. I really didn't follow that either. I thought I would need an object that would have properties sent to the HTTPService request which calls the php form processor which will email me the results. Please, check out the code I include and if you or someone else would, please replace what I did wrong with the right code. That way I can see exactly how to make this work. I just got a little confused when you were saying that I need to use form.Name as I didn't know if you meant just replace that in the function that I have and that we are talking about this on the left or right of the equals sign and if not, then what are we setting equal to form.Name. Lastly, I have two large books for learning AS 3.0 and OOP, ActionScript 3.0 Bible and Flex 3.0
