var crapola = squaresGrid.selectedItem;
var name:String = crapola.NameCol..toString();
Thanks. That worked.
Dan
--- On Sat, 11/21/09, turbo_vb <timh...@aol.com> wrote:
From: turbo_vb <timh...@aol.com>
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Syntax Question
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 8:51 PM
Ok, so it is e4x, look into the double dot notation and, as others have
said. try toString() and toXMLString( ). As close as you are it shouldn't be
that hard, even through trial and error, to drill down to the string.
-TH
--- In flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com, Dan Pride <danielpride@ ...> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 5:21 PM
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> From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax
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> 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
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> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:
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> From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax
> Question
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 4:53 PM
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> 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 ().
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> From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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> From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:
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> From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Syntax Question
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:14 AM
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> 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.
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> -Julian
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> From: Dan Pride <danielpride@ yahoo.com>
> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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> Very frustrating for something that should be so simple.
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> Dan
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> --- On Fri, 11/20/09, Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com> wrote:
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> From: Julian Alexander <wb...@ymail. com>
> Subject: Re:
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> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
> Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 10:53 PM
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> From: Dan Pride
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> To: flexcod...@yahoogro ups.com
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