But a combo should only get added to stage once, and often before it is finished validating so it isn't in its final state.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hardaur55 Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: ComboBox Problems it's got a lot of mess and debug junk, but: public function addedToStageHandler():void { Application.application.log.text += "&&&&Got Add event\n"; Application.application.log.text += "MONTH = " + monthCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; Application.application.log.text += "DAY = " + dayCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; Application.application.log.text += "YEAR = " + yearCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; if (date != null) { dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE, true)); dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RENDER, true)); Application.application.log.text += "&&&&&date is NOT null\n"; monthCB.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE, true)); dayCB.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE, true)); dayCB.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RENDER, true)); yearCB.dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.CHANGE,true)); Application.application.log.text += "3 MONTH = " + monthCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; Application.application.log.text += "3 DAY = " + dayCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; Application.application.log.text += "3 YEAR = " + yearCB.selectedIndex + "\n"; } else { Application.application.log.text += "&&&&&&Date IS null\n"; } } So every time it's added to the stage, I'm seeing what the values are, and the values remain constant and correct, just the option that the comboboxes are showing are incorrect. G --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How are you verifying that selectedIndex is correct? I assume the > dropdowns still contain the correct arrays? > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of hardaur55 > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 6:47 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] ComboBox Problems > > > > Hey all. > > Having a silly problem with 3 comboboxes and can't seem to find > anything very helpful via google. > > I'm creating a user registration wizard with multiple pages that > contains a custom component. The custom component is a date selection > component consisting of 3 combo boxes (month, day, year). They are > all populated with simple arrays as the dataProvider. > > Every thing works perfectly except. . .If you select your date (DOB in > this case) and go back to a previous page in the wizard when you > return to the page with the DOB control, the comboboxes are showing > the prompt again. The selectedIndex/Item !IS! correct, it's just not > displaying the that correct value. They're not being reinstantiated, > etc. > > I've tried firing off CHANGE and RENDER events on the comboboxes but > nothing (programatically) will force them to show the value they have > for selectedIndex that I've been able to find. > > Anybody have any pointers on this one? Seems silly to me that the > default behavior wouldn't be to always show the current selectedIndex > *shrug*. > > Thanks! > > Gerald >
