After addChild and after you set any other props on it
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kenny14390 Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:59 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: RadioButtonGroup numRadioButtons never changing When would be the correct time to validate the buttons? I tried the following but got the same errors... rb.validateNow(); sectRadioCanvas.addChild(rb); --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Radiobuttons don't actually get assigned to the group until validated. > You can call validateNow on the buttons or wait a frame. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of kenny14390 > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 7:22 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] RadioButtonGroup numRadioButtons never changing > > > > I have a canvas consisting of 5 different radio button groups: Lec, > Dis, Ind, Sem, and Act. In my Script I have the following: > > var rb:RadioButton; > rb.label = "(L) "+l.dataProvider.source[m]; > rb.name = l.dataProvider.source[m]; > rb.groupName = "Lec"; > rb.x = x; > rb.y = y; > y+=15; > sectRadioCanvas.addChild(rb); > > This is done a variable number of times, depending on the list "l". > The radio buttons act as if they are in a group (only one of them is > selectable at a time) but when I check the group's "numRadioButtons" > field, it is always set to 0. What I wanted to do was later check the > names of each radio button in the group and if it matches a given > name, then change the radio button to be selected. This seems to be > the best and only way to make a radio button be selected given only > its name and group. Any ideas on how to circumvent this problem? >
