Nice overkill. I'll put in my 2c:
var anySelected : Boolean = false;
var i : Number;
for (i = 0; i < things.length && !anySelected) {
anySelected = things[i].selected;
}
-Josh
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Rick Winscot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Did I hear someone say 'fancy?' The best loop… isn't one! Especially if
> you have other mechanisms, like events, that can help reduce the cost of
> keeping track of a particular item. I've coded two classes; Thing and
> ThingCollection as an example.
>
>
>
> http://www.quilix.com/node/16
>
>
>
> Overkill? Don't much care… can't sleep anyway.
>
>
>
> Rick Winscot
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *Toby Ashley
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:02 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Looking for the right loop
>
>
>
> There are fancier ways of doing it I'm sure, but changing your code to the
> following will make it work.
>
>
> var numThings:int = things.length;
>
> var nothingSelected:Boolean = true;
>
> for (var i:int=0;i<numThings;i++){
>
> // note that it should be things[i] below, not numThings[i] , as
> numThings is just an integer.
> if( things[i].selected ){
>
> nothingSelected = false;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> // traces true if 0 items are "selected", false if one or more is
> "selected"
> trace (nothingSelected);
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:57 PM, fumeng5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm confused on how to best create a loop to do the following:
> discover if each element's "selected" property is set to false.
> Basically, I just want to detect when all elements of my array have a
> "selected" property set to false.
>
> Here's my code:
> var numThings:int = things.length;
>
> for (var i:int=0;i<numThings;i++){
> if(!numThings[i].selected){ //
> }
> }
>
> I know I'm not using the correct loop, I just can't figure out how to
> better approach this problem. Any tips are very much appreciated.
> Thank you.
>
> Fumeng.
>
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