Hi Maury, Um. Thanks for that. Without sounding like a complete idiot...where would you put that. I know enough to be dangerous. But not enough to be useful at this point.
Jeremy ----- Original Message ---- From: Maury Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 27 March, 2007 7:20:41 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: <mx:ComboBox> Try this: for (var i:Number=0; i < bob.dataProvider. length; i++) { if (bob.dataProvider[ i].bobid == mybobid) { bob.selectedIndex = i; break; } } --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "flexjeremy" <flexjeremy@ ...> wrote: > > Boy do I feel like a dork. Excellent. Thank you. One last thing if I > were getting a value out of the database is there a way to say that > item is selected? I know how to do this in ColdFusion, but I'm > thinking that would be totally different in Flex. > > SO for example in CF we do it this way. > > <select name="bob" id="bob"> > <option value="#mybobid# " <cfif mybobid IS > mybobidfromdb> selected< /cfif>>#mybob# </option> > </select> > > In flex we do it......? > > > *insert blank look from jeremy* > > > Jeremy > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "Maury Sword" <maury.sword@ > wrote: > > > > Jeremy, > > > > You will need to specify a labelField or labelFunction in order for > > the ComboBox to know what you want to display. > > > > Maury > > > > > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, "flexjeremy" <flexjeremy@ > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello helpful list, > > > > > > I seem to be confusing myself. I'm using ColdFusion to get the data > > > out of our database. Simple. I got a remote object getting the data. > > > > > > <mx:RemoteObject id="remoteService" destination= "ColdFusion" > > > source="Cows3. cows" showBusyCursor= "true"/> > > > > > > Now what I want to do is firstly get the data into it. I tried this > > by > > > doing the following. > > > > > > <mx:ComboBox id="ProcessorName" > > > dataProvider= "{remoteService. getProcessors. lastResult} "> > > > </mx:ComboBox> > > > > > > Now I know that it needs to be in an Array. When I dump the data > > into > > > a grid. It works fine. i.e. > > > > > > <mx:DataGrid > > dataProvider= "{remoteService. getProcessors. lastResult} "> > > > </mx:DataGrid> > > > > > > All the examples on Adobe's site is shitting me. Cause they are put > > in > > > from an Array they manually make. > > > > > > Help. Again. > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > <!-- #ygrp-mlmsg {font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;} #ygrp-mlmsg table {font-size:inherit;font:100%;} #ygrp-mlmsg select, input, textarea {font:99% arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;} #ygrp-mlmsg pre, code {font:115% monospace;} #ygrp-mlmsg * {line-height:1.22em;} #ygrp-text{ font-family:Georgia; } #ygrp-text p{ margin:0 0 1em 0;} #ygrp-tpmsgs{ font-family:Arial; clear:both;} #ygrp-vitnav{ padding-top:10px;font-family:Verdana;font-size:77%;margin:0;} #ygrp-vitnav a{ padding:0 1px;} #ygrp-actbar{ clear:both;margin:25px 0;white-space:nowrap;color:#666;text-align:right;} #ygrp-actbar .left{ float:left;white-space:nowrap;} .bld{font-weight:bold;} #ygrp-grft{ font-family:Verdana;font-size:77%;padding:15px 0;} #ygrp-ft{ font-family:verdana;font-size:77%;border-top:1px solid #666; padding:5px 0; } #ygrp-mlmsg #logo{ padding-bottom:10px;} #ygrp-vital{ background-color:#e0ecee;margin-bottom:20px;padding:2px 0 8px 8px;} #ygrp-vital #vithd{ font-size:77%;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;color:#333;text-transform:uppercase;} #ygrp-vital ul{ padding:0;margin:2px 0;} #ygrp-vital ul li{ list-style-type:none;clear:both;border:1px solid #e0ecee; } #ygrp-vital ul li .ct{ font-weight:bold;color:#ff7900;float:right;width:2em;text-align:right;padding-right:.5em;} #ygrp-vital ul li .cat{ font-weight:bold;} #ygrp-vital a { text-decoration:none;} #ygrp-vital a:hover{ text-decoration:underline;} #ygrp-sponsor #hd{ color:#999;font-size:77%;} #ygrp-sponsor #ov{ padding:6px 13px;background-color:#e0ecee;margin-bottom:20px;} #ygrp-sponsor #ov ul{ padding:0 0 0 8px;margin:0;} #ygrp-sponsor #ov li{ list-style-type:square;padding:6px 0;font-size:77%;} #ygrp-sponsor #ov li a{ text-decoration:none;font-size:130%;} #ygrp-sponsor #nc { background-color:#eee;margin-bottom:20px;padding:0 8px;} #ygrp-sponsor .ad{ padding:8px 0;} #ygrp-sponsor .ad #hd1{ font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;color:#628c2a;font-size:100%;line-height:122%;} #ygrp-sponsor .ad a{ text-decoration:none;} #ygrp-sponsor .ad a:hover{ text-decoration:underline;} #ygrp-sponsor .ad p{ margin:0;} o {font-size:0;} .MsoNormal { margin:0 0 0 0;} #ygrp-text tt{ font-size:120%;} blockquote{margin:0 0 0 4px;} .replbq {margin:4;} --> Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
