mrblonde100
Technical User
Hi,
I hope you can help me; i might be trying to achieve the impossible. But i thought I would give it ago and see if there are any minds that can put theory into practice ?
I have in fact two questions; in essence what I’m trying to do is pull a series of counties and localities from a database and populate them into two separate combo boxes. The contents of the locality box will be dependent on the county that is selected by the user. So the contents of the locality combo box will automatically change once the county has been selected.
The variables are being sent and flash is picking them up.
Populating the first text box
The variables are formatted thus:
“countid0=34&name0=Berkshire&countid1=32&name1=Hampshire&countid2=30&name2=Devonshire&...”
So each county has an associated value. So in the case of Berkshire, 34. The values are not numerically ordered.
First question!
What i need is for Flash to take the county that it’s being sent and the associated value for that county and pop it into a combo box. Then continue adding the counties and values till there are no more counties left to add. The number might change you see.
I have managed to get it to work using this code:
myComboBox.addItemAt(0,myData.name1); but its not dynamic, and not taking the value and requires all the items to be manually coded in. I imagine a while loop would work, but im unsure how to this would be coded.
Populating the second text box
The variables are formatted thus:
“locid0=34&name0=Newbury& value0=486&locid1=34&name1=Andover&value1=487& locid2=34&name2=Basingstoke& value2=488...”
The locid relates to the county it belongs to, so there is an association. If Berkshire was selected then all the localities would be entered in the second combobox that had the locid of 34.
Does that make sense?
Finally the associated values for each selection would be put in two separate variables
So one var for county and another for locality.
It seems simple in logic, but how this would be coded is beyond me. Is it even possible?
Any advice or guidance is gratefully received.
Many thanks
I hope you can help me; i might be trying to achieve the impossible. But i thought I would give it ago and see if there are any minds that can put theory into practice ?
I have in fact two questions; in essence what I’m trying to do is pull a series of counties and localities from a database and populate them into two separate combo boxes. The contents of the locality box will be dependent on the county that is selected by the user. So the contents of the locality combo box will automatically change once the county has been selected.
The variables are being sent and flash is picking them up.
Populating the first text box
The variables are formatted thus:
“countid0=34&name0=Berkshire&countid1=32&name1=Hampshire&countid2=30&name2=Devonshire&...”
So each county has an associated value. So in the case of Berkshire, 34. The values are not numerically ordered.
First question!
What i need is for Flash to take the county that it’s being sent and the associated value for that county and pop it into a combo box. Then continue adding the counties and values till there are no more counties left to add. The number might change you see.
I have managed to get it to work using this code:
myComboBox.addItemAt(0,myData.name1); but its not dynamic, and not taking the value and requires all the items to be manually coded in. I imagine a while loop would work, but im unsure how to this would be coded.
Populating the second text box
The variables are formatted thus:
“locid0=34&name0=Newbury& value0=486&locid1=34&name1=Andover&value1=487& locid2=34&name2=Basingstoke& value2=488...”
The locid relates to the county it belongs to, so there is an association. If Berkshire was selected then all the localities would be entered in the second combobox that had the locid of 34.
Does that make sense?
Finally the associated values for each selection would be put in two separate variables
So one var for county and another for locality.
It seems simple in logic, but how this would be coded is beyond me. Is it even possible?
Any advice or guidance is gratefully received.
Many thanks
