ComboBox and event handlers

[krivedal]

I think my question is two-fold:

How do I capture and/or refer to the current state of a ComboBox? or it's changed state?

Here is a slice of my code:

typefaceNamesCombo.dataProvider = fontMenuFiller_global;
typefaceNamesCombo.addEventListener("change",trace ('eventListner encountered'));
{
var index= typefaceNamesCombo.selectedIndex;
trace('change handler entered; index= ' + index);
myText.text=('Typographer: '+maker_global[index] + '\r'+bio_global[index]);
}

I want to have users choose an item from the drop down list and use that information to display items in another (dynamic) text box.

Using the code above, I get 'undefined' as the value of index. (I want to use that index to reference array's I have created from an XML file.)

[pan69]

Hi and welcome to actionscript.org,

The sort answer:

import mx.utils.Delegate;

this.onChange = function(event : Object) : Void
{
   trace("onChange");
};

typefaceNamesCombo.dataProvider = fontMenuFiller_global;
typefaceNamesCombo.addEventListener("change", Delegate.create(this, onChange) );

the long answer (at least, a start of it): http://www.actionscript.org/resource...ass/Page1.html

Hope this helps.

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[krivedal]

Thanks sooo much. I knew there had to be a tutorial --I just couldn't find it.