LOL, I posted this way before the other guys, why is it taking so long for my messages to show up?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "kevintuhumury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The @ symbol is basicly a shortcut for attribute(). > > var oXML:XML = <xml><element type="text" /></xml> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for example will retrieve 'text' and xml.child( > 'element' ).attribute( 'type' ) is basicly the same. > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Ingram" <mingram@> wrote: > > > > Hi, what does the "@" symbol do when using the xml class? I had the > > following columns in a datagrid and when the data was bound it made the > > correct number of rows, but didn't display anything in the cells: > > > > > > > > <mx:columns> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Avatar" dataField="avatarUrl"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="ID" dataField="id"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Username" dataField="username"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Site ID" dataField="siteId"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="First Name" dataField="firstname"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Last Name" dataField="lastname"/> > > > > > > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Nickname" dataField="nickname"/> > > > > </mx:columns> > > > > > > > > But then I changed all dataField properties to have the "@" symbol at > > the front and it worked fine. What's the "@" symbol do? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Mark > > >
