--- In [email protected], Mathe Maema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think I found the solution to the first question though I can't
understand it. I trimmed contents of the node and refreshed the
project. The trimming was motivated by realising that the content in
excel is represented by ##### and despite increasing the column width.
Also I discovered that to actually display the content in the cell
formatting had to be changed to numbers...really strange!
> Yes the node is called comments. I changed its name to commentary
but still all other nodes I can access using
{dg.selectedItem.nodeName} I really have no idea why things aren't
working.
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> Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it really a tag called "comments" or did you use a comments tag
<!..?
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> What gets displayed in the DG for the comments tag?
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> If the grid items are XML, then the items you get in the drop will
be XML and not of type Sport.
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> From: [email protected]
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> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcoders] xml data and drag related questions
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> I have two questions. First, I have the following xml file:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <contenders xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
> <contender pos="1">
> <name>Lewis Hamilton</name>
> <age>22</age>
> <nationality>English</nationality>
> <sport>Motorsport</sport>
> <comments>Everything seems to come easy for the F1 ace. Hamilton
> Academical, you might say. Never mind. He's British, very good, and
> steered his way round a spying row and team turmoil. And can you ever
> tire (tyre?) of seeing him as a cheeky karting schoolboy...?</comments>
> </contender>
> <contender pos="2">
> <name>Ricky Hatton</name>
> <age>29</age>
> <nationality>English</nationality>
> <sport>Boxing</sport>
> <comments>Timing is crucial for the Manchester 'Hitman'. And his
> super fight against Floyd Mayweather could not have been scheduled
> better.</comments>
> </contender>
>
> </contenders>
> I am buffled by the fact that the comments node is not accessible i.e.
> I cannot display its contents in a grid though I have no problems with
> other nodes.
> I am not sure of the reason. Any ideas?
>
> My second question is assuming I wanted to drag a row from the grid
> into an HBox container with intentions of adding items
> to an arraycollection so that the dragged items can effectively be
> diplayed in another grid found in another 'page'.
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> This is my code for the drop function:
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> private function doDragDrop(event:DragEvent):void
> {
> var data:Object = event.dragSource.dataForFormat("items") as
> Sport; //Sport is class
> draggedData.addItem(data); //draggedData is an instance of
> ArrayCollection whose contents will be used as dataProvider for the
> other grid
> } count++;// The HBox will display the count value of number
> of dragged items
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