Declare an instance variable of type Object or Dictionary for storing
named references to dynamically created components:
public var dynamicallyCreatedComponents:Object = {};
In a method where you create a component at runtime, do
var b:Button = new Button();
b.label = "OK";
dynamicallyCreatedComponents["okButton"] = b;
Later you can access this button as follows:
dynamicallyCreatedComponents["okButton"]
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
________________________________
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jason B
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: getChildByName using it to get the value of a
textbox
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] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
, "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:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
] On
> Behalf Of Jason B
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:47 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> 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>
<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:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> ] On
> > Behalf Of Jason B
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:07 AM
> > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
<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);
> >
>
