Same thing happened to me last month. I'm doing what I think I did then--we'll see if it makes it to the forum. --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, very odd, that makes sense, because my response went to flexcoders. > Maybe it was really just my mailreader failed to move the message into > the flexcoders folder. > > > > Whatever, at least I was polite in my rebuff! 99.99 percent of posters > understand the protocol, but I am firm with those few that don't. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robb Cundick > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] RE: ItemRenderer Problem > > > > Hmmm... I re-checked and I did indeed send my original message to > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Perhaps you received a private copy because I'm a new member of the > list? > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tracy Spratt > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] RE: ItemRenderer Problem > > > > I don't answer private requests for help (for free, that is). I am very > willing to try to help, but I require that my work benefit the entire > community, not just one person. > > > > Take this question ot one of the public lists like flexcoders or the > Adobe forums. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Robb Cundick > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ItemRenderer Problem > > > > Hello, I'm a Flex newbie in need of some help. > > I'm grabbing an array of data from a Web service and displaying it in a > List component. On the Flex side I store the data in an ArrayCollection, > the name of which I set as the Data Provider for my list. I have a field > called "Display" which I set as the List's labelField. > > Everything works fine, but then I wanted to get a little fancier and > vary the color of each line based on another field called > "MemberStatus." To do that I wrote an ItemRenderer component which > contains a label that I use to vary the text display. > > In the itemRenderer I override the "set data" function, expecting that I > can then use the supplied Object parameter to reference both the > "Display" field to set as the text of the label, and the "MemberStatus" > field to determine the text color I want for the label. Unfortunately, > things don't work as I think they should. If I override "set data" as > follows: > > override public function set data(oItem:Object):void > { > displayItem.text = oItem.Display; > (Followed by additional code using oItem.MemberStatus to determine the > color) > } > > > I get the following error: > > ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property Display not found on String and > there is no default value. > at memberListRenderer/set data() > at > mx.controls::List/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::setupRen de > rerFromData() > at mx.controls::List/measureWidthOfItems() > at mx.controls::List/mx.controls:List::commitProperties() > at mx.core::UIComponent/validateProperties() > at mx.managers::LayoutManager/::validateProperties() > at mx.managers::LayoutManager/::doPhasedInstantiation() > at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply() > at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher2() > at mx.core::UIComponent/::callLaterDispatcher() > > Here's a sample of the output of the web service: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> > <ArrayOfMemberSearchList > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance > <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance> " > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema > <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema> " xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ > <http://tempuri.org/> "> > <MemberSearchList> > <ID>414</ID> > <Display>Doe, Jane</Display> > <MemberStatus>O</MemberStatus> > </MemberSearchList> > <MemberSearchList> > <ID>109</ID> > <Display>Smith, John</Display> > <MemberStatus>C</MemberStatus> > </MemberSearchList> > </ArrayOfMemberSearchList> > > If I just insert the above data exactly "as is" in a test program as > type mx:Model I have no problem; the oItem.Display and > oItem.MemberStatus fields are "legal" and yield the results I want. But > when I use the web service I get the error. > > I can set the label in the itemRenderer to have a data provider of > {data.Display} and it works using the web service. But that doesn't do > me any good because I have no way to access the MemberStatus field and > alter the color. Obviously the problem has something to do with the > oItem field in "set data" not being what I think it is. Does anyone know > what I'm doing wrong? > > TIA, > Robb >
