For the first part, you are setting the value of msgString during its
declaration. At this point acctName will be null. You would need to declare
msgString and then assign it in a creationComplete handler.
Secondly, you can't do this in ActionScript:
content.htmlText = "{msgString}"
You have to do this:
content.htmlText = msgString
The "{}" syntax is to bind a variable in MXML.
Also, For the above, the variable does not need to be bindable.
--- In [email protected], "fumeng5" <fume...@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> What I mean is that in the 1st case:
> content.htmlText = "<b>The account " + this.acctName + " has been
> created</b>."
>
> ...the message comes out to be: The account null has been created. However, I
> can use the debugger to see that acctName is definitely being set correctly.
>
> And in the second case:
> [Bindable]
> private var msgString:String = "<b>The account " + this.acctName + " hasbeen
> created </b>.
>
> content.htmlText = "{msgString}"
>
> ...the message comes out to be: {msgString}
>
> Now I'm not setting 'msgString' right away. I build it in the setter for
> acctName, as in:
> [Bindable]
> private var msgString:String;
>
> public function set acctName(s:String):void{
> _acctName = s;
> msgString = "<b>The account " + _acctName + " has been created </b>"
> }
> [Bindable]
> public function get acctName():String{
> return _acctName;
> }
>
> I'm pretty sure this should be working and I must be missing something small.
> Thank you for your help, it's very appreciated.
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], Pedro Sena <sena.pedro@> wrote:
> >
> > try
> >
> > [Bindable]
> > private var msgString:String = "<b>The account " + this.acctName + " has
> > been created </b>.
> >
> > content.htmlText = "{msgString}"
> >
> > and make sure your acctName is not blank.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM, valdhor <valdhorlists@>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > What do you mean by "That didn't work"?
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > "fumeng5" <fumeng5@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi --
> > > >
> > > > I want to output a variable and hardcoded text in the htmlText property
> > > of a Text component.
> > > >
> > > > Here's what I tried first:
> > > >
> > > > content.htmlText = "<b>The account " + this.acctName + " has been
> > > > created
> > > </b>."
> > > >
> > > > ('acctName' is a private var that has accessor methods to get/set it.)
> > > >
> > > > That didn't work, so I read thru the archives and found a solution that
> > > didn't work either.
> > > >
> > > > [Bindable]
> > > > private var msgString:String = "<b>The account " + {acctName} + " has
> > > been created </b>.
> > > >
> > > > content.htmlText = "{msgString}"
> > > >
> > > > What am I missing here? Can anyone offer any helpful pointers?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > /**
> > * Pedro Sena
> > * Systems Architect
> > * Sun Certified Java Programmer
> > * Sun Certified Web Component Developer
> > */
> >
>
