populate with an array, and then go through the array, and use the matching index.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, FlashDev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, happy new year to you all! > > I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated > via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I want to > automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing the first > label which is the current default. > > I populate my combobox like this: > > combobox1.addItem({data:"data1", label:"lable1"}); > combobox1.addItem({data:"data2", label:"lable2"}); > > Now I have a combobox with 2 labels, label1 and label2. I want label2 to > display as the default instead of label1, now I understand I could do: > > combobox1.selectedIndex = 1; > > but I actually want to loop through the combobox labels and match if label2 > = label2 then select that index, so is there any way I can read the labels / > data of a combobox? I have tried combobox1.data and combobox1.labels, but it > just returns undefined? > > Thanks in advance > SJM > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
