Components, comboBox, retrieving data from a txt

[eggnogg]

i got a comboBox with 5 items. is there a way to set the data for thoose 5 item, from an external txt file? using variables maybe..

logicaly thinking i'd do:

txt file
======

&a=10&


Fla file
======

FRAME ACTION : loadVariablesNum("price.txt", 0);
comboBox.item1.data = a


but unfortunately actionscritp isnt writen based on logical phrases!!

can anybody give a hand on this please?

thumbs up fror actionscript.org

[freddycodes]

You'll want to use LoadVars and the onData event handler. Then you can split the results on a newline and loop through them adding them to an array, and use the setDataProvider method of the comboBox to load the values and labels.

The text file

a|10
b|20
c|30
d|40


The actionscript.

tmpArr = [];
myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.load("combo.txt");
myVars.onData = function(raw) {
tmp = raw.split("\n");
for(var i=0;i<tmp.length;i++) {
tmp2 = tmp[i].split("|");
tmpArr.push({data:tmp2[0], label:tmp2[1]});
}
myCombo.setDataProvider(tmpArr);
}

[eggnogg]

ok..thx freddy. :)

gonna try it out and see what happens ;)

[eggnogg]

is there anyway of doing this without creating the array?

isn't there a more simple way ?!

thx
eggnogg

[freddycodes]

Yes but if you wanted to reuse the data from the text file you would need to reload it. Was there something particularly diffcult about that code? I thought it was pretty easy if you ask me.


myVars = new LoadVars();
myVars.load("combo.txt");
myVars.onData = function(raw) {
tmp = raw.split("\n");
for(var i=0;i<tmp.length;i++) {
tmp2 = tmp[i].split("|");
myCombo.addItemAt(i, tmp2[0], tmp2[1]);
}
}

[eggnogg]

The thing is i dont understand half the script yet! :p :)...i was hoping that there would be a simple way to load the data...

i actually dont need to reuse it..i mean...the swf opens and retrievs the info in the txt only once so i dont think ill need to reuse the txt info...

[freddycodes]

Thats pretty darned simple

//Create a new instance of the LoadVars object
myVars = new LoadVars();

//Load the text file
myVars.load("combo.txt");

//Run this when the data has loaded
myVars.onData = function(raw) {
//Split the loaded text into an array by newline
tmp = raw.split("\n");

//Loop through the array
for(var i=0;i<tmp.length;i++) {
//make a new array from each element of the first array splitting on the | symbol
tmp2 = tmp[i].split("|");
//Add an item to the comboBox for this element of the text file
myCombo.addItemAt(i, tmp2[0], tmp2[1]);
}
}

[eggnogg]

yo

how should the data in txt file be formatted??

i need to set a label and a value associated to the label (comboBox)

eggnogg

[freddycodes]

Count 7 posts up from this one, I showed you the format for the text file in there, the data on the left of the | and the label on the right.


Check the attached file