Good idea for break; loop... :D thanks.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Except that assumes the dataProvider for the ComboBox is an array of
> simple values, which is often/usually not the case.
>
>
>
> Also, break; the loop inside the if(). No point in continuing the loop
> once the match is found.
>
>
>
> Tracy
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of danielvlopes
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:30 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Sugestion for ComboBox component
>
>
>
> Hello Tracy, i made exactly this, extended and use this function:
>
> public function setComboItem(combo:String,item:String):void{
> for(var i:Number = 0; i < this[combo].dataProvider.length; i++)
> {
> if(this[combo].dataProvider[i] == item){
> this[combo].selectedIndex = i;
> }
> }
> }
>
> But i'm think this is good think to be inside original comp.
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> , "Tracy Spratt" <tspratt@> wrote:
> >
> > Extend combobox yourself, add this functionality, it is not difficult.
> > You only need to do it once. And there are components available that
> do
> > this, I have one that is part of an item renderer, here:
> >
> >
> http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&objectI
> <http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ChannelID=1&Object=File&object
> I>
> > D=767 It is just an example, not a production level component, the
> main
> > problems are with the renerder part, defining the row-level
> dataProvider
> > for the combo drop down. Take that out and it gets much simpler.
> >
> >
> >
> > One issue with doing it generically is specifying which property of
> the
> > ComboBox dataProvider item to use for the match. You may not be
> matching
> > on the "label". See how I handled it im my example.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tracy
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> ] On
> > Behalf Of danielvlopes
> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:32 PM
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Sugestion for ComboBox component
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello everybody, i want make a sugestion for Adobe Flex Team, and i
> > know some members of Flex team participate here, in my projects when i
> > use combobox to recover data from database and selected item of this
> > combo must be set to the data recorded in database i do loops in
> > entire dataprovider to find the value and your index to use
> > selectedIndex to receive this index.
> >
> > This is very common when you use combo to add and edit data in
> > database and i think everybody need this, why adobe don't incorpore
> > some new method in next release for do this? Something like
> > setSelectedLabe(label:String) ...
> >
>
