Re: FLASH: Using the List Smart Clip.

[Helen Triolo]

Daryn Nakhuda wrote:

> 

> Does anyone have experience using the list smart clip in F5?

> 

> I want to use it along with some actionscript to create a dynamic dropdown

> menu. I can get it to work fine if I populate the items array manually,

> but can't figure out how/when to reference it to populate it dynamically.

> 

> here's what i tried:

> 1. I dragged the clip from the library to the stage

> 2. named the instance "mcname"

> 3. a. tried mcname.items[i] = "xxx" (in a loop of i)

>    b. tried myarray[i] = "xxx" for the loop, then mcname.items = myarray

> 

> I tried this in a frame action, and then also in the onClipEvent(Load) for

> the list clip.

> 


Daryn,


It should work if you put it in the onClipEvent(load) routine (not sure

why it didn't for you since what you say above sounds like the right way

-- maybe you don't have an onmenu function defined?)  I used a dropdown

menu to populate a textfield with the selected value (values assigned at

runtime) with this code on the menu instance:


onClipEvent (load) {


    function onMenu (item, label) {

        _root.selectedValue = label;  // this was to display the result

in a textfield

    }

        this.items[0] = "first choice";

        this.items[1] = "second choice";

        this.items[2] = "third choice";

        this.items[3] = "fourth choice";

        this.items[4] = "fifth choice";

}


I wasn't successful in later changing these values without creating a

whole new instance of the smartclip and putting new values into it's

onClipEvent(load) routine, but it sounds like you'd just be setting it

once, so this shouldn't be an issue.


Regards,

Helen 

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