daddyo_buckeye wrote:
> I'm trying to add a number of colorpickers and textareas to my app
> dynamically. Each item needs a separate id, and the colorpickers need
> to call an open() and change() method and pass the textarea id as a
> parameter along with the event.
>
> I'm a little baffled on how to set the methods, but my ids are
> setting successfully. Here's my code:
>
> public function addPicker():void {
> var i:int;
> for (i = 0; i < 5; i++){
> var ssPicker:ColorPicker = new ColorPicker();
> var ssTextArea:TextArea = new TextArea();
> var ssVBox:VBox = new VBox();
> ssPicker.id = "cp"+i;
> //note: following two lines don't work.
> ssPicker.open = openEvt(event,"descriptBox"+i);
> ssPicker.change = changeColor(event,"descriptBox"+i);
>
> ssTextArea.id = "descriptBox"+i;
> ssTextArea.width = 125;
> ssTextArea.height = 22;
> ssTextArea.text = "Select Color";
> myVBox.addChild(ssVBox);
> ssVBox.addChild(ssPicker);
> ssVBox.addChild(ssTextArea);
> }
> }
>
> Any thoughts on how I can accomplish this?
As a guess..
ssPicker.open = openEvt;
ssPicker.change = changeColor;
lookup[ssPicker.id] = ssTextArea; //associate picker and text
function openEvt(event:Event){
var colorPicker:ColorPicker = ColorPicker(event.target);
var t:TextArea = lookup[colorPicker.id];
t.text = colorPicker.id;
...
}
HTH.
- shaun
