Thank you Gordon. This was very helpful. Gets me what I need.
Thanks!
Don
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Trace output appears in the Console pane. To see trace output, you need
> to Debug rather than Run you app. If you trace an Array, each element of
> the Array will be converted to a String (using its toString() method)
> and the resulting strings will be output with a comma between each one.
>
> As the docs for getChildren() state, it "returns an Array of
> DisplayObject objects consisting of the content children of the
> container." Each child in the Array has properties like id, title, x, y,
> width, height, etc. So you could write code like
>
> var children:Array = getChildren();
> var n:int = children.length;
> for (var i:int = 0; i < n; i++)
> {
> var child:DisplayObject = DisplayObject(children[i]);
> trace(child.x, child.y, child.width, child.height);
> }
>
> If you simply do trace(getChildren()), you will see a comma-separated
> list of unique strings produced by the toString() method that is
> inherited from FlexSprite; each unique string is produced from the
> 'name' properties of the child and its ancestors.
>
> You can also simply use numChildren and getChildAt() to enumerate the
> children:
>
> var n:int = numChildren;
> for (var i:int = 0; i < n; i++)
> {
> var child:DisplayObject = getChildAt(i);
> trace(child.x, child.y, child.width, child.height);
> }
>
> - Gordon
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of nasawebguy
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:12 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] getChildren() ... what's in it?
>
>
>
>
> I'm trying to save the Panel children of a Canvas to the database.
>
> Docs say myCanvas.getChildren() creates an array.
>
> How can I output the contents of getChildren() to an Alert or
> something? Just to confirm what data is in it?
>
> I need to know if the getChildren() will give me back the properties
> of each child panel: id, title, x, y, width, height, etc. Couldn't
> find any examples of what it actually stores in the array.
>
> Secondly, I've not used trace() yet. Can you dump getChildren() to a
> trace to see what is in it? Where in Flex Builder 2 do I see the
> output of a trace?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
