It is generally unwise to use alerts to debug things that happen when focus is lost as the alerts steal and restore focus.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of donvoltz Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Event result not making sense Hello everyone, I have a form in an application that when it is edited, I want to send the information back to the server to be updated in the database. I am using focusOut to trigger the event at each text input field such as this <mx:TextInput id="first_name" change="validateForm(event)" focusOut="updateUserFormField(event)"/> The function I have writted to do the update is as follows private function updateUserFormField(event:Event):void { if (formType == "update"){ fieldName = event.target.parent.id; fieldValue = event.target.parent.text; Alert.show('Name = ' + fieldName); Alert.show('Value = ' + fieldValue); updateUserForm.send(); } } I put the alert's in for debugging to make sure I was extracting the correct information to send in an httprequest call. The question I have is why are both alert's displaying twice? This function is somehow being called multiple times when I exit a field. Does anyone have any insight into this? Thanks in advance Don
