Use selectedItems... <?xml version="1.0"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function validateData():void { var selectedItems:Array = theList.selectedItems; for(var i:int = 0 ; i < selectedItems.length ; i++) { trace(selectedItems[i]); } } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:List id="theList" rowCount="15" width="150" allowMultipleSelection="true"> <mx:dataProvider> <mx:ArrayCollection> <mx:String>Item 1</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 2</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 3</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 4</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 5</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 6</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 7</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 8</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 9</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 10</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 11</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 12</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 13</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 14</mx:String> <mx:String>Item 15</mx:String> </mx:ArrayCollection> </mx:dataProvider> </mx:List> <mx:Button label="Submit" click="validateData()"/> </mx:Application>
--- In [email protected], "brucewhealton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd use a list instead of a comboBox. > > > > Next, taking the ComboBox as an example, I could use help figuring out > > > how to pass the item selected by the user to the Object named obj so > > > that it can be passed to the php form processor. How do I access what > > > the user selected? Similarly, if I used a control that allowed for > > > selection of more than one item in a list, how would I access the > > > items selected by the user? > > > > > > What you want to do is create an event handler for the change event > on the > > list. This will fire whenever someone clicks an item in the list. In the > > event handler you want to look at the selected* properties > (selectedItem, > > selectedItems, selectedIndex, selectedIndices). These will tell you > what the > > user has selected in the list. At that point you can send them > immediately > > to your PHP script or set a local variable with their value until > someone > > hits a "submit" type button, or whatever happens before you send the > values. > > > > Since, this item, the list, allows for multiple items to be selected, > you would have to wait till the submit button is clicked to gather all > the items selected by the user, is that not correct? But, how would > you do that? You can't just look at one value for the Form item when > it is a list. More than one item can have the "selected" property, so > how do you find all items that have this value and return the value of > the item selected? And how do you access the value of the items > selected by the user? > > Thanks, > Bruce >
