Hey Aaron,
I figured it would be easier to show you a sample to illustrate what I'm talking about. Select a folder from the first tree. You could easily cast to a collection or array if desired. One caveat is that nothing will happen if the user selects an item instead of a folder.
-TH
--- In [email protected], "aaron smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> well, I actually need reference to the xml from where the selection occurs..
>
>
>
>
> say this is the XML:
>
> <node label='flash platform' id='1' type='folder' >
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='2' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='3' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
> <node label='bmx biking' id='4' type='folder' >
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='5' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='6' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
> </node>
> </node>
>
>
>
> if you select flashplatform in the tree.. it should return the entire xml
> structure...
>
>
> VS if you select bmx biking, it would spit this out:
> <node label='bmx biking' id='4' type='folder' >
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='5' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='6' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
> </node>
>
> now if you select an actual item( id=5) it would spit this out:
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='5' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The next step after getting the XML where the selection has occured, is
> getting all the individual items in the xml..
>
> so if you select bmx biking, the items i'm looking for are:::
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='5' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='6' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
>
>
> Or if you selected "flash platform" the items would look liek this;
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='2' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='3' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
> <node label='www.somelink.net' id='5' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.net' />
> <node label=somelink' id='6' type='item' feedLocation='
> http://www.somelink.com' />
>
>
>
> i'm using this so that when you select a folder in the Tree, I can
> recursively get all the actual Items in the XML (type=item)...
> see what I mean? so like, from the folder you've seleted and down it's tree
> of nodes, it should get the items in its xml..
>
> i hope that explains it better...
>
> or am I complicating this too much? does tree.selectedItem return the xml
> nodes?
>
> thanks
>
> smith
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9/24/06, Tim Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Sure Aaron,
> >
> > Instead of loopin, have you tried something like this?
> >
> > var myNode:XML = XML(myTree.selectedItem);
> >
> > -TH
> >
> > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "aaron
> > smith"
> >
> > beingthexemplarylists@ wrote:
> > >
> > > I am just trying a simple example with trying to parse some xml. I
> > want to
> > > be able to find what node is selected according to what is
> > selected in a
> > > Tree component.
> > >
> > > here is my AS:
> > >
> > > private function getSelectedNodeFromSelectedItem( searchXML:* ,
> > > selectedItem:Object ):XMLList
> > > {
> > > var foundNode:*;
> > >
> > > for each( var prop:* in searchXML )
> > > {
> > >
> > > if( [EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> > > {
> > > foundNode = XMLList( prop );
> > > break;
> > > }
> > >
> > > else if( [EMAIL PROTECTED] == "folder" )
> > > {
> > > getSelectedNodeFromSelectedItem( prop.node );
> > > }
> > > }
> > > return foundNode;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > this is what the XML Looks like: (dataProvider to a Tree )
> > >
> > > <node label='flash platform' id='1' type='folder' >
> > > <node label='www.somelink.net' id='2' type='item' feedLocation='
> > > http://www.somelink.net' />
> > > <node label=somelink' id='3' type='item' feedLocation='
> > > http://www.somelink.com' />
> > > </node>
> > >
> > >
> > > Say for instance you selected the 2nd child of the flash platform
> > node. it
> > > would spit back:
> > > <node label=somelink' id='3' type='item' feedLocation='
> > > http://www.somelink.com' />
> > >
> > > Say for instance you selected the root node which is a folder. it
> > would spit
> > > back:
> > > <node label='flash platform' id='1' type='folder' >
> > > <node label='www.smithaaronlee.net' id='2' type='item'
> > feedLocation='
> > > http://www.smithaaronlee.net' />
> > > <node label='teguh mualim' id='3' type='item' feedLocation='
> > > http://www.capcai.com' />
> > > </node>
> > >
> > >
> > > It seems to be working correctly to the point where it knows that
> > the right
> > > node is selected, but then the return value is of type [object]. I
> > can't
> > > figure out how to get it back as a string..
> > >
> > > From the results that are spit back from that method I will pass
> > that value
> > > to another parsing method to just grab all the individual items
> > (type=item)
> > > in the selected node. See what I'm going for?
> > >
> > > Maybe I need to cast the xml into an ArrayCollection?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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