Cool, I knew that you would get. For aomething like this, you can
also bypass the change event (if you just need a value) by binding
directly:
<mx:TextArea id="forChange"
width="150"
height="100%"
text="{ ProcessorName.selectedItem.ProcessorID }/>
or, whatever field you want.
Cheers,
-TH
--- In [email protected], Jeremy Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hey Tim,
>
> Thanks for that. I tried id then realised that it wouldn't work
because I needed to have the id name out of the database i.e.
ProcessorID. Then it worked. Thanks again!
>
> Jeremy
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tim Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, 31 March, 2007 11:00:03 AM
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: <mx:ComboBox> Again.
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> Alert.show(Processo rName.selectedIt em.lastResult)
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> to
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> Alert.show(Processo rName.selectedIt em.id)
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> -TH
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>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Jeremy Watson
<flexjeremy@ ...>
>
> wrote:
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> >
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> > Hey Guys,
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> >
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> > Man this combo thing is pissin me off! Let me ask this simple
>
> question first.
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> >
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> > Is this the correct way of getting data out of the database and
>
> into the combobox? What I'm trying to do is just get the ID out
of
>
> the combobox and alert it. ONCE i get that far I would like to
call
>
> another function (yet to be created) which will do a remote call
>
> and bring in values to bind to a text box based on what was
selected
>
> from the combo box (can this even be done?). Does that make sense?
I
>
> would've had this done in about 10 mins in CF and HTML....god do I
>
> miss it.
>
> >
>
> > My Example code is below. Any help would be grateful.
>
> >
>
> > Jeremy.
>
> >
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> >
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> > <mx:Script>
>
> > <![CDATA[
>
> > import flash.events. Event;
>
> > import mx.events.DropdownE vent;
>
> > import mx.collections. ArrayCollection;
>
> > import com.sml.cows. DrawDown;
>
> > import com.sml.cows. MyDropDownTCowsR _Processor;
>
> > import mx.utils.ObjectUtil ;
>
> > import mx.events.FlexEvent ;
>
> > import mx.formatters. NumberBase;
>
> > import mx.controls. TextArea;
>
> > import mx.messaging. messages. AcknowledgeMessa ge;
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> > import mx.controls. Alert;
>
> > //import mx.rpc.remoting. RemoteObject;
>
> > import mx.utils.ArrayUtil;
>
> > import mx.rpc.events. ResultEvent;
>
> > import mx.rpc.Fault;
>
> > import mx.rpc.events. FaultEvent;
>
> > import mx.rpc.soap. mxml.WebService;
>
> > import mx.events.Validatio nResultEvent;
>
> > import mx.events.ItemClick Event;
>
> > import mx.events.DropdownE vent;
>
> > import mx.events.ListEvent
>
> >
>
> > public function onCreationComplete(
event:FlexEvent) :void
>
> > {
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> >
>
> > remoteService. getProcessors( );
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> >
>
> > }
>
> >
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> > // Display the type of event for open and close events.
>
> > private function dropEvt(event: DropdownEvent) :void {
>
> > forChange.text+ =event.type + "\n";
>
> > }
>
> >
>
> > // Display a selected item's label field and index for
>
> change events.
>
> > private function changeEvt(event: Event):void {
>
> > Alert.show
>
> (ProcessorName. selectedItem. lastResult)
>
> > forChange.text+ =event.currentTa rget.selectedIte
m.label
>
> + " " +
>
> > event.currentTarget .selectedIndex + "\n";
>
> > }
>
> > ]]>
>
> > </mx:Script>
>
> > <mx:RemoteObject id="remoteService" destination= "ColdFusion"
>
> source="Cows3. cows" showBusyCursor= "true"/>
>
> >
>
> > <mx:ComboBox id="ProcessorName" change="changeEvt( event)"
>
> open="dropEvt( event)" close="dropEvt( event)"
>
> dataProvider= "{remoteService. getProcessors. lastResult} "
>
> labelField=" ProcessorName" x="403" y="97">
>
> > </mx:ComboBox>
>
> >
>
> > <mx:ComboBox open="dropEvt( event)" close="dropEvt( event)"
>
> change="changeEvt( event)" >
>
> > <mx:ArrayCollection >
>
> > <mx:Object label="AL" data="Montgomery" />
>
> > <mx:Object label="AK" data="Juneau" />
>
> > <mx:Object label="AR" data="Little Rock"/>
>
> > </mx:ArrayCollectio n>
>
> > </mx:ComboBox>
>
> > <mx:TextArea id="forChange" width="150" height="100% "/>
>
> > </mx:Application>
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > Send instant messages to your online friends
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