Skip the Array entirely.
Use the "devicesCollection" directly as the dataProvider: nvrsInPoolList.dataProvider = devicesCollection; Then do: <mx:List id="nvrsInPoolList" labelField="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .../> labelField tells List what to display. Then nvrsInPoolList.selectedItem will contain the entire xml node and you can access any value from it, Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of anuj sharma Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Is there any Name -Value Pair concept for Arrays? Hi Tracy Yes I have attached code to tell you exactly how I am doing this. I am assigning an Array to my dataProvider and my array consists of XML Nodes. I hope I answer all of your questions. I am putting array of XML Nodes as dataProviders in List. I hope the code below will help you. Please let me know how to solve the problem of displaying different entities as labels and values in the List. Thanks for all your help Anuj //MXML Code <mx:HTTPService id="devicesXML" method="GET" resultFormat="e4x" result="devicesXMLHandler(event)" showBusyCursor="true"> </mx:HTTPService> <mx:List id="nvrsInPoolList" allowMultipleSelection="true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dragEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" y="105" x="17" height="462" width="294"/> //Action Script Code [Bindable] private var devicesInList:Array=new Array(); [Bindable] private var devicesList:XMLList; [Bindable] private var poolsList:XMLList; [Bindable] private var devicesCollection:XMLListCollection; public function init() { devicesXML.url="http://121.0.30.6:8182/config/devices <http://121.0.30.6:8182/config/devices> "; devicesXML.useProxy=false; } private function devicesXMLHandler(event:ResultEvent):void { devicesList = event.result.device; devicesCollection = new XMLListCollection(devicesList); //Checks every device for each (var devicesInPool:* in devicesList) { var deviceName:String = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; var label:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; devicesInList.push(deviceName); } nvrsInPoolList.dataProvider = devicesInList; } On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Tracy Spratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: dataProviders do not "display" anything. But whatever your display component, there is a way to specify which property on the item you want to display. You say your dataProvider is an "array". Are you sure? How are you sure? Are you using the work "array" in its purely technical sense, or in a more generic sense, that includes "associative array" and "arrayCollection"? If it is an Array, what is it an array of? (dynamic objects, scalar values, xml nodes?) What is your resultFormat? Have you inspected your data in the result handler function? Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of anuj181 Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:48 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcoders] Is there any Name -Value Pair concept for Arrays? Hi All I am retrieving some data using HTTP from PostGres database. I would be successfully able to put all the entries in UDN's in the list box (using REST Calls). Now my requirement is that I need to display an attribute name Friendly name which is already in the database as the label (VISUAL entry ) in the list but when user performs different operations like drag and drop, I need the complete string in form XML to be send. So to make long story short I need to display friendly name as list entries but behind the curtain that label have exact complete value coming from the Database. Now is there any way that I can tell my data provider (which is an Array in my case) that to display just the specific attribute for the database and while doing operation send the whole value. Any links, examples and help will be appreciated. Thanks Anuj
