thanks Tracy could you provide an example of how this is done, examples always help others out, or tell me what i should be searching for to find an example
--- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A good solution to that issue is to maintian a structure of references > pointing to each dynamically created component. > > > > I personally like an Associative Array/Object/Hashtable. This is way > more positive than attempting to loop through the DOM. > > > > There will be plenty examples available. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jason B > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: getChildByName using it to get the value of a > textbox > > > > Because the items are not in MXML its in actionscript which > dynamically creates the items for my form from a database and i want > to dynamically loop the text box's so i can then save the data back to > the database. > you cant refer to a ID since the components are created at runtime > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > , "Gordon Smith" <gosmith@> wrote: > > > > Why are you trying to use getChildByName to get a reference to a > > component? If you give it an 'id' attribute in MXML, you can then > refer > > to it by that id. > > > > > > > > Gordon Smith > > > > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > ] On > > Behalf Of Jason B > > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:07 AM > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [flexcoders] getChildByName using it to get the value of a > > textbox > > > > > > > > when using getchildbyname variable i've not been able to get the value > > can someone please post an example of how to get a value using > > getChildByName. > > > > var test:DisplayObject = this.getChildByName("inputtext" + i); > > >
