Thanks for the info. Any ideas on setting up a timer, or did I do it right?
~Steve http://lanctr.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew D. Goodfellow Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 / AIR: Creating a Timer and binding Text Hi Steve, You need a [Bindable] meta tag in front of every property you need to be bindable. You only have it on callID, not callStatus. -Andy On 4/23/08, Steve Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:sgood%40lanctr.com> > wrote: > (I sent this earlier, but it never made it through, so I apologize if it > ends up being a double post) > > > > I'm trying to make a call to a remote script at regular intervals. I can > get it to make the calls, but I can't figure out how to apply a timer to the > second call. I thought I had figured out how to bind the data to a text > object, but I'm not getting any results displayed. Here's a sample of the > code. > > > > <mx:HTTPService id="startCall" url="http://domain.com/dir/script1.cfm"; > result="getCallID(event)"/> > > <mx:HTTPService id="getCallStatus" > url="http://domain.com/dir/script2.cfm"; result="showStatus(event)"/> > > > > <mx:Script> > > <![CDATA[ > > import mx.core.Application; > > import mx.controls.Alert; > > import mx.events.CloseEvent; > > import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; > > import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; > > import flash.utils.Timer; > > import flash.events.TimerEvent; > > > > [Bindable] > > private var callID:Number; > > private var callStatus:String; > > > > private function placeCall():void{ > > startCall.cancel(); > > var params:Object = new Object(); > > params.foo = "bar"; > > startCall.send(params); > > } > > private function getCallID(event:ResultEvent):void{ > > callID = event.result as Number; > > } > > private function getStatus():void{ > > getCallStatus.cancel(); > > var params:Object = new Object(); > > params.callID = callID; > > getCallStatus.send(params); > > } > > private function showStatus(event:ResultEvent):void{ > > callStatus = event.result as String; > > } > > private function setupTimer():void{ > > var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 0); > > myTimer.addEventListener("timer",timerHandler); > > myTimer.start(); > > } > > private function timerHandler(event:TimerEvent):void{ > > getStatus(); > > } > > ]]> > > </mx:Script> > > > > <mx:Button x="78" y="150" label="Place Call" click="placeCall()"/> > > <mx:HBox x="10" y="196" width="93%"> > > <mx:Label text="Call Status:"/> > > <mx:Text text="{callStatus}"/> > > </mx:HBox> > > > > Also, the mx:text is giving this warning: "Data binding will not be able to > detect assignments to "callStatus"." > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ~Steve > > http://lanctr.com/ > > > > > > > > ~Steve > > http://lanctr.com/ > > > >
