Re: [flexcoders] Can't find bug in this piece of ActionScript

[Ralf Bokelberg]

Doesn't it have to be stateCB.selectedIndex = i;
Cheers,
Ralf.

On 2/2/07, malik_robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Hi,

I am trying to set the selectedIndex of my U.S. States custom combo box
equal to what the user has stored in their record in our database.  Someone
posted a link to a similar tutorial, but I could not get it to work and I
think it seems to be slightly different than what I am doing.  When the
screen loads, the state the user is associated with should be selected,
otherwise set the selectedIndex equal to 0.

As of now it does not select anything it seems the condition where I test
for equality fails and I always get the selectedIndex set to 0.

*The code:*

*public function** initStateCB(employeeStateId:Number):void** {*

   for ( var i:int=0; i stateCB.dataProvider.length; i++ ) {
   if( employeeStateId == stateCB.dataProvider[i].stateId ) {
  stateCB.selectedIndex = employeeStateId ;
   }
   else {
stateCB.selectedIndex = 0;
  }
}

*} **// close function*

**
mx:FormItem label=State:
comp:StateCombo id=stateCB dataProvider={model.stateList}
labelField=stateName creationComplete=initStateCB(
model.employeeProfileArray[0].stateId)/
/mx:FormItem


 





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[flexcoders] Can't find bug in this piece of ActionScript

[malik_robinson]

Hi,

I am trying to set the selectedIndex of my U.S. States custom combo
box equal to what the user has stored in their record in our database. 
Someone posted a link to a similar tutorial, but I could not get it to
work and I think it seems to be slightly different than what I am doing.
When the screen loads, the state the user is associated with should be
selected, otherwise set the selectedIndex equal to 0.

As of now it does not select anything it seems the condition where I
test for equality fails and I always get the selectedIndex set to 0.

The code:

public function initStateCB(employeeStateId:Number):void {


for ( var i:int=0; i stateCB.dataProvider.length; i++ ) {
if( employeeStateId == stateCB.dataProvider[i].stateId ) {
   stateCB.selectedIndex = employeeStateId ;
}
else {
 stateCB.selectedIndex = 0;
   }
 }

} // close function



mx:FormItem label=State:
 comp:StateCombo id=stateCB dataProvider={model.stateList}
labelField=stateName
creationComplete=initStateCB(model.employeeProfileArray[0].stateId)/
/mx:FormItem