The [Object] object thing means you are trying to look at a complex object, which selectedItem returns. SelectedItem is not a value, as you might expect, but rather a reference to the row/node/object in the dataProvider that populated that particular list item. What you probably want is a property of that object.
What does your dataProvider look like? If you have used the default array of objects, with "label" and "data" properties, and then your selectedItem.data should work. Are you using a result handler and can you debug the result of the remote object? Since selectedItem is an Object, you might need to cast it to the type that your dataProvider really provides. Now, Combobox has a property value, about which the docs say: value value: Object The data property if it exists or the label property of the selectedItem. Note again that it is an object, and your should cast it to a string or number or whatever. Post a bit of your dataProvider content if you are still having trouble. Tracy -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pmarstonuoa Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:26 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Newbie can't find selectedItem in comboBox when dataProvider is remoteObject Hi All, Flex newbie here ;-) As a way of checking out Flex I'm trying to port an ImageBank app that was built using Flash MX, AMFPHP (Remoting) and mySQL I've quickly got an interface up and running and I've managed to populate a comboBox using the same remoting call that the original comboBox uses. In the original, selecting an item from the kingdom comboBox would trigger another remoting call passing the selected item as an argument. The second call would result in the phylum comboBox being populated. I can't get it to work in Flex. I can populate the phylum comboBox if I pass an explicit argument, but I just can't seem to find a way to access the 'selectedItem' from the kingdom comboBox checking what I'm referencing I either get an [object][object] or undefined! :-( I've tried various things like selectedItem.data, getSelectedItem() etc etc Has anyone else done this and got an insight? I've read various bits of documentation and searched this lists archive, but I seem to be missing something? Here's a summary version of my code - any insight would be very much appreciated. Cheers, Phil <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"; initialize="imagebank_ro.getCategories1.send();"> <mx:RemoteObject endpoint="http://localhost/remoting/gateway.php"; id="imagebank_ro" source="ImageBank" protocol="http" showBusyCursor="true"> <mx:method name="getCategories1" /> <mx:method name="getCategories2"> <mx:arguments> <!-- this wont work --> <arg1>{kingdoms_cb.selectedItem.label}</arg1> <!-- but this does work --> <!-- <arg1>Plantae</arg1> --> </mx:arguments> </mx:method> </mx:RemoteObject> ... <mx:ComboBox id="kingdoms_cb" change="imagebank_ro.getCategories2.send();" dataProvider="{imagebank_ro.getCategories1.result.items}" /> <mx:ComboBox id="phylums_cb" dataProvider="{imagebank_ro.getCategories2.result.items}" /> ... </mx:Application> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
