[Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread FlashDev 

Hi Guys, happy new year to you all!

I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is 
populated via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I 
want to automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing 
the first label which is the current default.


I populate my combobox like this:

combobox1.addItem({data:data1, label:lable1});
combobox1.addItem({data:data2, label:lable2});

Now I have a combobox with 2 labels, label1 and label2. I want label2 to 
display as the default instead of label1, now I understand I could do:


combobox1.selectedIndex = 1;

but I actually want to loop through the combobox labels and match if 
label2 = label2 then select that index, so is there any way I can read 
the labels / data of a combobox? I have tried combobox1.data and 
combobox1.labels, but it just returns undefined?


Thanks in advance
SJM
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Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread Eric E. Dolecki 
populate with an array, and then go through the array, and use the matching
index.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, FlashDev fl...@funkdaweb.com wrote:

 Hi Guys, happy new year to you all!

 I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated
 via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I want to
 automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing the first
 label which is the current default.

 I populate my combobox like this:

 combobox1.addItem({data:data1, label:lable1});
 combobox1.addItem({data:data2, label:lable2});

 Now I have a combobox with 2 labels, label1 and label2. I want label2 to
 display as the default instead of label1, now I understand I could do:

 combobox1.selectedIndex = 1;

 but I actually want to loop through the combobox labels and match if label2
 = label2 then select that index, so is there any way I can read the labels /
 data of a combobox? I have tried combobox1.data and combobox1.labels, but it
 just returns undefined?

 Thanks in advance
 SJM
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Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread jonathan howe 
That sounds like a potential for unneeded redundancy/potential sync errors
if things change later.. Better to use the ComboBox.getItemAt() method,
right?

trace(myBox.getItemAt(4).label);
-jonathan



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Eric E. Dolecki edole...@gmail.com wrote:

 populate with an array, and then go through the array, and use the matching
 index.

 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, FlashDev fl...@funkdaweb.com wrote:

  Hi Guys, happy new year to you all!
 
  I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated
  via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I want to
  automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing the
 first
  label which is the current default.
 
  I populate my combobox like this:
 
  combobox1.addItem({data:data1, label:lable1});
  combobox1.addItem({data:data2, label:lable2});
 
  Now I have a combobox with 2 labels, label1 and label2. I want label2 to
  display as the default instead of label1, now I understand I could do:
 
  combobox1.selectedIndex = 1;
 
  but I actually want to loop through the combobox labels and match if
 label2
  = label2 then select that index, so is there any way I can read the
 labels /
  data of a combobox? I have tried combobox1.data and combobox1.labels, but
 it
  just returns undefined?
 
  Thanks in advance
  SJM
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Re: [Flashcoders] [AS2] Set the default value of a ComboBox

2009-01-08 Thread FlashDev 

Thanks Jonathan, Sorted the problem basically i had to use this code...

function setValue (pValue:String):Void
{
for (var i:Number = 0; i  comboBox.length; i++)
{
if (comboBox.getItemAt(i).data == pValue)
{
comboBox.selectedIndex = i;
break;
}
}
}

setValue (MyVariable);


Regards
SJM


jonathan howe wrote:

That sounds like a potential for unneeded redundancy/potential sync errors
if things change later.. Better to use the ComboBox.getItemAt() method,
right?

trace(myBox.getItemAt(4).label);
-jonathan



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Eric E. Dolecki edole...@gmail.com wrote:

  

populate with an array, and then go through the array, and use the matching
index.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, FlashDev fl...@funkdaweb.com wrote:



Hi Guys, happy new year to you all!

I have a combobox added to the stage in the flash IDE and it is populated
via Actionscript 2 from an external XML file. The trouble is I want to
automatically select a label in the combobox rather than showing the
  

first


label which is the current default.

I populate my combobox like this:

combobox1.addItem({data:data1, label:lable1});
combobox1.addItem({data:data2, label:lable2});

Now I have a combobox with 2 labels, label1 and label2. I want label2 to
display as the default instead of label1, now I understand I could do:

combobox1.selectedIndex = 1;

but I actually want to loop through the combobox labels and match if
  

label2


= label2 then select that index, so is there any way I can read the
  

labels /


data of a combobox? I have tried combobox1.data and combobox1.labels, but
  

it


just returns undefined?

Thanks in advance
SJM
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