1. If accessing the ComboBoxes you'll create by an index number is sufficient,
declare an instance var of type Array:
private var comboBoxes:Array = [];
When you dynamically create a new ComboBox, simply add the reference onto the
end of this Array:
var newComboBox:ComboBox = new ComboBox();
...
comboBoxes.push(newComboBox);
You can then access the i-th ComboBox as comboBoxes[i].
2. If you need to access them by some kind of name, declare an Object
private var comboBoxes:Object = {};
and do something like
var newComboBox:ComboBox = new ComboBox();
...
comboBoxes["state"] = new ComboBox();
You can then access this ComboBox as comboBoxes["state"].
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Brad Bueche
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 3:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Dynamically Naming Objects
I have a button that creates new combo boxes with dataproviders. I can hard
code things and create combo-boxes as much as I want but thats a little silly.
I need to dynamically create new combo boxes and then reference them for
hooking up the data providers and getting results etc.
I have figured out how to create dynamic variable names. For instance:
this["cbx" + counter].x = xValue;
this["cbx" +
counter].addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE,createRemoteObject);
this["cbx" + counter].labelField = "Label";
addChild(this["cbx" + counter]);
The problem is that I cant figure out how to dynamically create a new ComboBox.
This is as far as I can get (and its wrong)
this["cbx" + counter]:ComboBox = new ComboBox();
brad
