Thanks a lot Hans,
Just after sending that message (and thus having tried everything that
seemed to make sense) I tried new Array() and it did work. Your explaination
makes sense and it is marked as an api in a note of the components language
reference, but then it's also described as a class. I understand the
mechanics of mixins, but it still makes no sense to me as to why something
would want to be like this. I guess the good news is that I still have lots
to learn.
Initialize isn't listed in the documentation, I'll do some searching and
find out if I can learn anything more about that. I think I need to forget
that as1 ever existed if I'm ever going to enjoy as2 in time to forget it
ever existed and enjoy as3.
Thanks again.
On 11/29/05, Hans Wichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> if i do this:
> DataProvider.Initialize(Array);
> and var layers = new Array();
>
> it works just fine. Don't know if this is the accepted way to go about it
> though ;)).
>
> As for as i know i thought DataProvider was some kind of adapter class for
> arrays not really meant to be instantiated on its own.
>
> greetz
> Hans
>
>
>
> At 06:56 PM 11/29/2005, Cortlandt Winters wrote:
> >Hi Folk,
> >
> >I can't believe I'm having trouble using a dataprovider, but well... I
> am.
> >If somebody could lend me a brain I would appreciate it. Mine apparently
> is
> >having some problems. Here is the most reduced case. This code is in the
> >main timeline.
> >
> >import mx.controls.listclasses.DataProvider;
> >
> >var layers = new DataProvider();
> >layers.addItem({guy:"a"});
> >
> >var thingtestLength = layers.getItemAt(layers.length);
> >var thingtestItem0 = layers.getItemAt(0);
> >var thingtestItem1 = layers.getItemAt(1);
> >
> >trace(layers.length); // returns "undefined"
> >// but this one which uses layers.length to get the item
> >trace(thingtestLength.guy); // returns "a"
> >
> >// these both just return undefined
> >trace(thingtestItem0.guy); // returns "undefined"
> >trace(thingtestItem1.guy); // returns "undefined"
> >
> >So the item is being filed with an "undefined" key.
> >I thought that maybe we needed to have a label and tried this as well,
> but
> >with the same results.
> >layers.addItem({label:"joe", guy:"g", data:"a"});
> >and
> >layers.addItem({label:"joe2", data:{thing:"a2"}});
> >with the same results
> >
> >Does this make sense to anyone?
> >
> >By the way I also tried
> >var thingtestLength = layers.getItemAt(layers.length-1);
> >as that is what is supposed to be the proper syntax, but that gets us
> >"undefined" as well.
> >
> >And of course I tried getLength() as well and I tried using
> >DataProviderClass as well in desperation. I also tried "dataProvider"
> with a
> >lower case d as that shows up syntax highlighted but then the compiler
> says
> >it cant find the file. It's been years since I've been this bewildered
> with
> >something not working. I even uninstalled and reinstalled flash thinking
> >that my configuration must be broken, but no. It seems to be me.
> >
> >Thanks for any thoughts.
> >
> >-Cort
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