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cdugga
cdugga

Reputation: 3859

ActionScript 3 - retrieving text values from TexInput created in component

I have a tile layout containing a list of TextInputs and text fields , i have created these fields in a custom component using the following code;

var newTextInputs:Array = [];
        var newTextLabels = [];
        var space:Number = 30;
        var count:Number = 0;
        for (var i:String in columnsData)
        {
            //create text labels
            var label:Text = new Text();
            label.name = "label" + count;
            label.text = i;
            newTextLabels[count] = label;
            addChild(newTextLabels[count]);

            // create text fields
            var field:TextInput = new TextInput();
            field.name = "field" + count;
            field.width = 100;
            field.height = 25;
            field.text = columnsData[i];
            newTextInputs[count] = field;
            addChild(newTextInputs[count]);
            count++;    
        }

users are allowed edit the values in each TextInput field, now i need to retrieve the newly udpated values however how can i access these fields? Because the identifiers are created dynamically i cant simply go componentName.InputFieldName, any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2612

Answers (2)

evilpenguin
evilpenguin

Reputation: 5478

I think what you're looking for is getChildByName

later edit: tested with Flash and TextField and it works: 

trace(TextField(getChildByName('textfield')).text);

Upvotes: 2

dkretz
dkretz

Reputation: 37655

You can add an event handler for the TileList CHANGE event; when it fires, I think the event.target property will have the specific TextInput field. Alternatively you can look at the TileList.SelectedItem property.

You may also be able to have a DataProvider bound to the TileList instead of your code as shown, which will handle this automatically for you. Try just assigning your NewTextLabels array as the dataProvider.

Upvotes: 1

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