THANK YOU...... its always nice to have another pair of eyes when dealing with this syntax!!!
My current dev. tool is nothing like this... Roger --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is catalog misspelled? > > categories = event.result.catelog.category; > > If there's no catelog child of the XML root, then trying to access a > child of that node will probably throw the error. > > Doug > > Roger Ross wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Working my way throught the "Training From the Source" turorial and > > ran into this error message. > > > > Not sure why I am getting it. I compared my code to the completed code > > for the lesson and it looks the same with no problems when I compile it. > > > > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null > > object reference. > > at Dashboard/::catHandler() > > at Dashboard/__catRPC_result() > > at > > flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction() > > at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() > > at > > mx.rpc.http.mxml::HTTPService/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::dispatchRpcEvent > > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::dispatchRpcEvent>() > > at > > mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resultHandler > > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resultHandler>() > > at mx.rpc::Responder/result() > > at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge() > > at ::DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler() > > at > > flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction() > > at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() > > at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete() > > > > Here is a copy of the code that it has me write with the comboBox that > > is to receive the data: > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml > > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml>" > > layout="horizontal" > > creationComplete="catRPC.send()"> > > > > <mx:Script> > > <![CDATA[ > > import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; > > import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; > > > > [Bindable] > > private var categories:ArrayCollection=new ArrayCollection(); > > > > private function catHandler(event:ResultEvent):void{ > > categories = event.result.catelog.category; > > var catObj:Object = new Object(); > > catObj.name = "All"; > > catObj.categoryID = 0; > > categories.addItemAt(catObj, 0); > > catCombo.selectedIndex = 0; > > } > > > > ]]> > > </mx:Script> > > > > <mx:HTTPService id="catRPC" > > url="http://www.flexgrocer.com/category.xml > > <http://www.flexgrocer.com/category.xml>" > > result="catHandler(event)"/> > > > > <mx:ComboBox id="catCombo" > > dataProvider="{categories}" > > labelField="name"/> > > > > Any Idea's... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Roger > > > > >
