holy event bubbles batman! I knew it had something to do with the
fact that it was a string. I tried playing with eval(). I had no
idea you could ref vars using bracket notation in AS though.
obviously I'm a n00b.
danke flexdaddy.
DK
On 7/26/05, Andrew Spaulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem here is selectedItem.value is a String and is being
> treated like a String. Yet in your controller it is declared as the
> variable name. So rather than passing the string reference into
> broadCast event, why not use the selectedItem.value as a reference to
> the variable name in the Controller. Like this:
>
>
> <mx:List width="100%" height="100%" change="getRpt( event );">
> <mx:dataProvider>
> <mx:Array>
> <mx:Object label="Current Open Bugs"
> value="EVENT_GET_ALL_OPEN_BUGS" />
> <mx:Object label="All Bugs"
> value="EVENT_GET_ALL_BUGS" />
> </mx:Array>
> </mx:dataProvider>
> </mx:List>
>
> ----change event ----
> public function getRpt( event:Object ) : Void
> {
> mx.controls.Alert.show( event.target.selectedItem.value, "choice" );
> EventBroadcaster.getInstance().broadcastEvent(BugTrackerController[event.target.selectedItem.value]);
> }
>
> I've tested this and it broadcasts the appropriate event.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andrew Spaulding
> www.flexdaddy.info
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Knudsen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > so, I have a list. The change event calls the function below. I want
> > a click on an item to broadcast an event, using cairngorm by the way.
> > I can't seem to get it to work. The Alert tells me the event name is
> > coming in correctly, but nothing is happeing. I hardcoded the event
> > to BugTrackerController.EVENT_GET_ALL_BUGS, and things work fine. So
> > I know the approach is correct.
> >
> > <mx:List width="100%" height="100%" change="NavPanelViewHelper.getRpt(
> > event );">
> > <mx:dataProvider>
> > <mx:Array>
> > <mx:Object label="Current
> > Open Bugs"
> > value="BugTrackerController.EVENT_GET_ALL_OPEN_BUGS" />
> > <mx:Object label="All Bugs"
> > value="BugTrackerController.EVENT_GET_ALL_BUGS" />
> > </mx:Array>
> > </mx:dataProvider>
> > </mx:List>
> >
> > ----change event ----
> > public function getRpt( event : Object ) : Void {
> >
> mx.controls.Alert.show(event.target.selectedItem.value,"choice",mx.controls.Alert.OK);
> > EventBroadcaster.getInstance().broadcastEvent(
> > event.target.selectedItem.value));
> > }
> >
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