I got it working with a Custom Component. Now, is there an easy way to pass
a value from the Application to the Custom Component?
Thanks!
Luke
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Knudsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> DataGrid.selectedItem is set based on user interaction at runtime, so you
> can't really set it the way you are trying. You could setup a binding there
> in your code using BndUtils, but ugghh, ugly. I suggest you create a new
> custom component component based on Canvas that has your DataGrid and
> TextArea in it. I'd use MXML for this, its more descriptive eh? In this
> component you could have
>
> <TextArea text="{ myDG.selectedItem.someProperty}" ....
>
> The skinny is that you don't try and 'call from the DG based on ID'.
> Either use bindings as above in a custom component or use the event system.
>
> HTH!
>
> DK
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Lucas Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've created a Datagrid and Accordion dynamically based on my XML (It
>> creates a Accordion tab per "header" node and then inside of the Datagrid it
>> puts a DG item for each "Question" node inside of the respective "Header"
>> node). Now, I'm wanting to bring up text in to a TextBox based on the
>> selected item of the created Datagrid. Now, I know you would normally do
>> this via the text attribute of the TextArea being set to something like
>> "text = {DatagridID.selectedItem.displayText}". However, it seems I'm
>> having problems identifying the ID of the Datagrid I'm trying to call from.
>> I've tried setting the Datagrid ID, but since it's not defined at compile
>> time, it cannot see it as a valid ID to read from if I try to just use it.
>>
>> The following is the code of the Accordion creation function and I'll mark
>> where I need the text to be written out. Thanks again!
>>
>> -------CODE-------
>>
>> public function buildAccordian(contentArray:ArrayCollection):void
>> {
>> var accordian:Accordion = new Accordion();
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> for (var i:int = 0; i < int(contentArray.length); i++)
>> {
>>
>> if(contentArray[i].blnIsHeader == 1)
>> {
>> var newCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas();
>> newCanvas.label = contentArray[i].label;
>> newCanvas.id = "Tab" + contentArray[i].oID;
>> newCanvas.width = 600;
>> newCanvas.height = 400;
>>
>>
>> DGArray = contentArray[i].Question;
>>
>>
>>
>> var newDG:DataGrid = new DataGrid();
>> var newDGCol:DataGridColumn = new
>> DataGridColumn("Questions");
>> newDGCol.dataField = "label";
>> newDGCol.wordWrap = true;
>> var cols:Array = newDG.columns;
>> cols.push(newDGCol);
>> newDG.variableRowHeight = true;
>> newDG.selectedIndex = 0;
>> newDG.columns = cols;
>> newDG.width = 200;
>> newDG.height = 350;
>> newDG.x = 15;
>> newDG.y = 15;
>> newDG.id = "QDG" + i;
>> newDG.dataProvider = DGArray;
>>
>> newCanvas.addChild(newDG);
>>
>> var newTextArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
>>
>> newTextArea.width = 350;
>> newTextArea.height = 330;
>> newTextArea.x = 230;
>> newTextArea.y = 35;
>>
>> if(DGArray != null)
>> {
>>
>> *THIS IS WHERE I NEED TO BE ABLE
>> TO SET THE TEXT BOX TEXT*
>> newTextArea.htmlText =
>> newDG.selectedItem.answer; *<---THIS DOES NOT WORK.*
>>
>> }
>>
>> newCanvas.addChild(newTextArea);
>>
>> var newLabel:Label = new Label();
>> newLabel.text = "Answer";
>> newLabel.x = 230;
>> newLabel.y = 15;
>> newCanvas.addChild(newLabel);
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>> accordian.addChild(newCanvas);
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> pageCanvas.addChild(accordian);
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again everyone!
>>
>> Luke Golden
>>
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