That seems like a complicated and difficult way to do it.
Why not just loop over tabArray, comparing your value to tabLabel, and when you match, use that loop index to set the selected index. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mic Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: change selected tab using variable containing tab label string? Tried that - I think :-) public function createTabList():void { for each (var node:XML in _paraSightDataset.tab) { var newItem:Object = new Object(); newItem.tabLabel = [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:node.%40label.toString> (); newItem.name = newItem.tabLabel; tabArray.addItem(newItem); } myTabBar.dataProvider = tabArray; } private function traceDisplayList(container:DisplayObjectContainer,indentString:String = ""):void { var child:DisplayObject; for (var i:uint=0; i < container.numChildren; i++) { child = container.getChildAt(i); trace(indentString, child, child.name); if (container.getChildAt(i) is DisplayObjectContainer) { traceDisplayList(DisplayObjectContainer(child), indentString + " ") } } } traceDisplayList(myTabBar); parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab84 Tab84 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab84.upSkin upSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab84.selectedUpSkin selectedUpSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab84.UITextField85 UITextField85 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab86 Tab86 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab86.upSkin upSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab86.UITextField87 UITextField87 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab88 Tab88 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab88.upSkin upSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab88.overSkin overSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab88.UITextField89 UITextField89 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab90 Tab90 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab90.upSkin upSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab90.UITextField91 UITextField91 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab92 Tab92 parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab92.upSkin upSkin parasight0.appPanel.appBox.HBox29.myTabBar.Tab92.UITextField93 UITextField93 So childName is set internally? Wonder how one would even use myTabBar.getChildByName()? Maybe I am missing something? TIA, Mic --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Ralf Bokelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe you can add name="{label}" to the children? > > Ralf. > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Mic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > myTabBar.selectedIndex = > > myTabBar.getChildIndex(myTabBar.getChildByName(e.label)); does not > > work because the child name is not the tab label text. How would I do > > this? TIA, > > > > Mic. > > > > >
