Sorry I've been having a bad head day today... but, it's still a case of
first having to work out you want to use List.selectedIndex, from the many
members of the component; then the documentation is fine granted. Surely it'd
be a good idea to include use of selectedIndex in the "Creating an
application with the List component" section!!
Generally I feel MM's documentation could be a fair bit better... especially
code examples, some of them are like Ebeneezer Scrooge
"Muzak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure which docs you're using, but here's what's in mine:
>
> <quote>
> List.selectedIndex
>
> The following example selects the first item in a list by default and
displays
> the index of the currently selected whenever the user
> selects a new item:
>
> var my_list:mx.controls.List;
>
> my_list.addItem({data:"flash", label:"Flash"});
> my_list.addItem({data:"dreamweaver", label:"Dreamweaver"});
> my_list.addItem({data:"coldfusion", label:"ColdFusion"});
>
> // Select first item by default.
> my_list.selectedIndex = 0;
>
> var listListener:Object = new Object();
> listListener.change = function(evt_obj:Object) {
> trace("selectedIndex = " + evt_obj.target.selectedIndex);
> }
> my_list.addEventListener("change", listListener);
>
> </quote>
>
> Muzak
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Flashcoders mailing list" <flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Selecting an item off a List component
> withactionscript
>
>
> > it would really help if MM would supply more code examples, it's damn
> annoying
> > for a single developer spending ages trying to find one line of code that
is
> > no doubt used a great deal
> >
> > by changing search engines found it:
> > articles_list.selectedIndex=0;
> >
> >
> > "Peter O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi List, this concerns you the component. How does one select an item
off
> a
> >> dynamically created List with actionscript?
> >>
> >> The following:
> >> > articles_list.dispatchEvent( {type:'change', target:{value:0}} );
> >> causes the event to fire but not for the item on the List to appear
> > selected.
> >>
> >> Please help me o kings of actionscript!
>
>
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