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http://www.archaeolibrary.com/Gezer/Centers/srcview/

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail.com> wrote:

From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail.com>
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 5:21 PM







 



  


    
      
      
      Can you somehow send me your code?  This is agitating.

Value Objects are abt 100x better anyway tho...

-Julian

From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 5:14:59 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax
 Question








 



    
      
      
      I tried all that in the first hour. None of it works
I have been resisting it but I think I am just going to rewrite the whole damn 
thing in value objects.
i started this app some time ago leveraging off the auto generated php code for 
a database table. The references have been a pain ever since.
I would truely like to know why nothing anybody has suggested has worked tho.
It really bugs me.
Dan


--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:

From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax
 Question
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 4:53 PM







 



    
      
      
      Alright Dan.. so we're going to solve this.  After this much 
back-and-forth, we've gotta make it work.

So here's the deal:

if you use my statement and squat is just XML, then you're almost there.

It should be something like this

<yourObject>
    <name>GZAW08</name>
    <otherProperty>value</otherProperty>
    <etc... />
</yourObject>

With your variable squat, you can then access a specific property of it by 
saying, for example, squat.name - that will give you the value.  If you want it 
as a string, you can also say squat.name.toString ().

Just to clarify earlier, if you had 

<yourObject name="GZAW08" etc.../>


then you would use squ...@name.

-Julian

From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 4:09:59 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question








 



    
      
      
      Yes I would think something this absurdly simple would be a single 
sentence reply which I could cut and paste,... unfortunately not.

This statement with the variable uncast 
var crapola = squaresGrid. selectedItem. NameCol;

returns as follows in the debugger
this    
Center (@137ef0a1)    
    crapola    XMLList (@1ce7c461)    
       [0]      XML    
         <Name>    
           
  "GZAW08"    

Your statement
    var squat:XML = XML(squaresGrid. selectedItem) ;
returned just XML
Neither of the two options you stated worked.
It is the string
 "GZAW08" which I am trying to return.
I am ready to throw something, sorry to visit this on you..


--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:

From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2:08 PM







 



    
      
      
      Why the heck do you need to re-cast as an XMLListCollection?

This is a actually really simple...

var squat:XML = XML(squaresGrid. selectedItem) ;
var myValue:String = squ...@myproperty OR squat.myProperty (depending on if 
it's a node or attribute)

It does work. I've done it hundreds of times.  Don't know what you're doing 
wrong...

-Julian

From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent:
 Sat, November 21, 2009 11:43:34 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question








 



    
      
      
      Thanks for the response.
Its an ArrayCollection of XML objects.

var squat:XMLList = squaresGrid. selectedItem. NameCol;
will trace as an XML List but I can not seem to get the list
to then recast as an XMLListCollection so I can get at it.
   
Thanks
Dan

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:

From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:14 AM







 



    
      
      
      Dan,

The problem (I assume) is that the object you're getitng back isn't XML.  I was 
using that as an example, but when you use the "as" operator if the object 
isn't that type it will always return null.

What is your data provider?  Is it an array of objects? XML? It all depends on 
what you're doing.  Either way, it's based on a list.  Getting the selected 
item will give you a generic "object" that you need to cast to whichever data 
type (actually, you don't have to but it's nicer) at which point you have all 
of the properties accessible and you can grab the same property that the first 
column is bound to.

-Julian

From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sat, November 21, 2009 7:42:28 AM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question








 



    
      
      
      Julian... Apparently you are wrong?

When I do it with an untyped var I get an object with an XMLList for each grid 
column
   var squat = dataGrid.selectedIt em;

This
var myValue:XML = dataGrid.selectedIt em as XML;
returns null for myValue

Why is it such Rocket Science to get the first value in a column?
Very frustrating for something that should be so simple.

Thanks for the help
Dan

--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:

From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
Subject: Re:
 [flexcoders] Syntax Question
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 10:53 PM







 



    
      
      
      You can't access the value from the column name - getting the selected 
value will give you the entire row that the datagrid is displaying from which 
you can get the value you're looking for.  In other words, if you have an 
XMLList as your dataProvider, you can do something like:

var myValue:XML = dataGrid.selectedIt em as XML;
var myName:String = myval...@name.

Make sense?

-Julian

From: Dan Pride
 <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Fri, November 20, 2009 9:43:33 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Syntax Question








 



    
      
      
      On Creation complete I am filling a datagrid and I want to select the 
first value listed from the Name Column (NameCol)



What is the syntax?

dataGrid.selectedIn dex = 0;

Value = dataGrid.selectedIt em.NameCol;



Does not work. why not?



Thanks

Dan





    
     









      

    
     



 







      

    
     











      

    
     



 







      

    
     











      

    
     



 





      

    
     









      

    
     



 





      

    
     











      

    
     

    
    


 



  






      

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