> Actually, I think "item[myComboBox.selectedItem.data]" should
> actually work just fine
That's it! Don't know why I didn't see that before. Thanks for your
help.
-Peter
> Ed
>
> Peter Demling wrote:
> >
> >
> > (This is a fundamental question, and it' challenging to find a clear
> > way to ask it):
> >
> > Let's say I have an ArrayCollection data source with 50 fields (which
> > I do), and my user selects the name of one of these fields (let's say
> > "PRODUCT") with myComboBox, so that it's now in
> > "myComboBox.selectedItem.data".
> >
> > How can I make actionScript use this value dynamically, so that
> > instead of coding a switch with 50 cases for each property like so:
> >
> > switch(myComboBox.selectedItem.data){
> > case "PRODUCT":
> > return item.PRODUCT;
> > break;
> > case "FIELD2":
> > return item.FIELD2;
> > break;
> > case "FIELD3":
> > return item.FIELD3;
> > break;
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > ? Can I can instead do something like
> > "item.[myComboBox.selectedItem.data]"? Do you know what I mean?
> > Something like
> > "item.getValueofNamedProperty(myComboBox.selectedItem.data);".
> >
> > [Without complicating the question, I ask because this would greatly
> > simplify a complex charting component I'm developing, where the user
> > should be able to summarize the underlying data based on any of the
> > fields; so I need to know the selected property for the filter
> > function, the toolTip, the sort function, etc. Right now I'm only
> > supporting 3 properties, since I'm relying on nested switch statements
> > like the one above].
> >
> > Hopefully I'm just missing a really basic piece of actionScript
> > syntax. Many thanks for any suggestions!
> >
> > -Peter Demling
> > Lexington, MA
> >
> >
>
