Plus, beware of this line: modules = e.result as XMLListCollection
It will succeed, but will give you a single item in the XMLListCollection. If that is what you want, ok, but usually you would specify an expression that returns some child nodes. trace(modules.toXMLString()); //to be sure you have what you expect. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott - FastLane Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Getting xml in code only Steve - I believe you intend to be adding the listener for the Event.RESULT event instead of the Event.COMPLETE. hth Scott Steve Hueners wrote: All the samples i've come across so far show the mxml route - I'm able to instantiating and fireing the send correctly with: public var myRequest:HTTPService = new HTTPService; public var modules:XMLListCollection; public function MenuItemEnum ( value:String, ordinal:int ) { myRequest.url = "/xml/modules.xml"; myRequest.resultFormat="e4x" myRequest.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onResult) myRequest.send(); //>>>>>> Is hit. } private function onResult(e:ResultEvent):void { modules = e.result as XMLListCollection; } private function onFault(e:FaultEvent):void { Alert.show(e.fault.message, "Could not load"); } But the handlers never fire.
