Both suggestions so far have what I consider a bad choice. That is to use resultFormat="object" which is the default. This setting converts your xml into a tree of dynamic objects. This has many drawbacks.
I advise setting resultFormat="e4x" which will preserve the xml you get from the server. Private function onResult(event:ResultEvent):void Var xmlResult:XML = XML(event.result); xlDesigners:XMLList = xmlResult.designer; trace(xlDesigners.toXMLString()); //is this what you expect? myCombo.dataProvider = xlDesigners; And you will need to set the ComboBox labelField="@name" Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fidel Viegas Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:56 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Bind ComboBox to returning XML (HOW TO) Here is another alternative: declare an HTTPService like this: <mx:HTTPService id="listService" url="path/to/list.jsp" method="POST" showBusyCursor="true" fault="onFault(event);" result="onResult(event);" useProxy="false"/> and an array collection <mx:ArrayCollection id="designerAC"/> and in your actionscript you create the following handler: private function onResult(event : ResultEvent) : void { if (event.result.response.designers == null || event.result.response.designers.designer == null) { designerAC = new ArrayCollection(); // empty array collection } else if (event.result.response.designers.designer is ObjectProxy) { designerAC = new ArrayCollection([event.result.response.designers.designer]); } else { designerAC = event.result.response.designers.designer as ArrayCollection; } } and your combo box would look like something like this: <mx:ComboBox dataProvider="{designerAC}" labelField="name"/> That should give you an idea. Hope that helped Fidel. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Wildbore, Brendon <b.j.wildb...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: > Heres an example of one way of doing that. > > > > Assuming you xml comes from a webservice or httpservice call and you want > your combobox dataprovider bound to a variable comboboxAC you could try the > following function onResult. > > > > > > private function onResult( event:ResultEvent ):void{ > > // put xml into array > > var returnedData:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(ArrayUtil.toArray( > event.result ) ); > > > > // loop over result array and create a new object > for each xml item > > for (var i:uint = 0;i<returnedData.length;i++){ > > // create object > > var obj:Object = new Object(); > > obj.label=returnedData[i].name; > > obj.data=returnedData[i].id; > > // add item to combobox dataprovider > > > comboboxAC.addItem(obj); > > } > > } > > > > T > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Matthew A. Wilson > Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 8:12 a.m. > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Bind ComboBox to returning XML (HOW TO) > > > > Need help with a combobox... > > I have a combobox that I want to load from a database. The text will be a > name, and the value will be an integer. > > That's it - pretty straightforward. Just can't seem to figure it out. The > xml will look like this: > > <designers> > <designer id="1" name="Matt" /> > <designer id="2" name="Ted" /> > </designers> > > Thanks so much in advance for your help!!! > > ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62 079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
