[RESOLVED] Dynamic News Editing

[pyramidhead]

I am trying to create a news editing system. All parts of the news (title, author, date, content) are loaded from a mySQL database. PHP is exporting the variables from the database to flash. I then load the variables into a combo box. Now, the name is working, or in essence, the "label" of the combo box. The entries show up in the combo box, however clicking on them does not change the text inside the textboxes I have created for this. My textboxes have the correct variables of "texttxt" and "authortxt" and so forth. I am using a mix of input and dynamic boxes.

Please examine my script, I have been stuck on this for days and would really like to get over the hurdle.

//populating the combobox "dropDown"
function AddItems() {
	for (i=0; i<NumItems; i++){
		var Name = eval("Name"+i);
		var TextData = eval("TextData"+i);
		var Author = eval("Author"+i);
		var TheDate = eval("TheDate"+i);
		var ListBoxData = { textData:TextData, author:Author, theDate:TheDate};
		
		dropDown.addItem(Name, ListBoxData);
	}
	dropDown.setChangeHandler("SelectItem");
}
//loading variables into text boxes "newstitle_input" and "newstxt_input"
function SelectItem(){
	titletxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().label;
	texttxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["textData"];
	datetxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["theDate"];
	authortxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["author"];
}

[Chris_Seahorn]

Already tested with fake data
http://flex.hobby-site.com/examples/pyramidhead.html

Change this:

dropDown.setChangeHandler("SelectItem");
}

function SelectItem(){
titletxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().label;
texttxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["textData"];
datetxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["theDate"];
authortxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["author"];
}



To this:

dropDown.addEventListener("change", this);
}

function change(evt){
_root.titletxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().label;
_root.texttxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["textData"];
datetxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["theDate"];
authortxt = dropDown.getSelectedItem().data["author"];
}

[pyramidhead]

Thank you so much. This was a perfect fix... hours and hours of debugging and now it works!

[Chris_Seahorn]

No sweat. Glad to help