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comboBox - iterate through dropdown elements?

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July 11, 2013
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I need to subdivide a large list of elements in a comboBox into smaller groups in Flash. Is there anyway to loop throught the elements and set te background color of each element to a value in the dataProvider object?

I can run through the loop using myPoS_combobox.dropdown

var ddList = myPoS_combobox.dropdown

for(var propertyName in ddList) {

trace(ddList[propertyName])

}

But I can't seem to get to the individual elements, much less change their properties.

THANKS!

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Correct answer kglad

I don't know if I have explained myself adequately.

I want to programatically change the background of each item in the combobox to a specific color. I have attempted to use the technique you stated above, but all it does is change the background color of the combobox in it's closed state. I need to loop through each element (I am doing this on the OPEN handeler). I can't seem to acess any cell in particular.

if you want to change the background colors in the list component portion of the combobox, you'll need to use a cellrenderer: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_UsingComponentsAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9c65b32-7fd4.html

kglad

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loop through myPoS_combobox'es dataProvider property.

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Duke_BoyneAuthor

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I can do that, but what I need to do is change individual cell background colors. Here is my data provider:

private var PoS_label_array:Array = new Array(

{label:"SN\tsubject noun", data:"SN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"CSN\tcomp subject noun", data:"CSN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"OP\tobject of the preposition noun", data:"OP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"COP\tcomp object of the preposition noun", data:"COP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"DO\tdirect object noun", data:"DO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"CDO\tcomp direct object noun", data:"CDO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"IO\tindirect object noun", data:"IO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"CIO\tcomp indirect object noun", data:"CIO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"PrN\tpredicate noun", data:"PrN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"CPrN\tcomp predicate noun", data:"CPrN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"OCN\tobject compliment noun", data:"OCN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

{label:"COCN\tcomp object compliment noun", data:"COCN", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyBlue},

/* PRONOUNS */

{label:"SP\tsubject pronoun", data:"SP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

{label:"CSP\tcomp subject pronoun", data:"CSP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

{label:"OPP\tobject of the prep pronoun", data:"OPP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

{label:"DO\tdirect object pronoun", data:"DO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

{label:"IO\tindirect object pronoun", data:"IO", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

{label:"OCP\tobject compliment pronoun", data:"OCP", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPurple},

/* VERBS */

{label:"V\tverb", data:"V", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

{label:"CV\tcomp verb", data:"CV", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

{label:"V-t\tverb transitive", data:"V-t", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

{label:"CV-t\tcomp verb transitive", data:"CV-t", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

{label:"CV\tcompound verb", data:"CV", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

{label:"LV\tlinking verb", data:"LV", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyRed},

/* DESCRIPTIVE */

{label:"Adv\tadverb", data:"Adv", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyPink},

{label:"Adj\tadjective", data:"Adj", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"CAdj\tcomp adjective", data:"CAdj", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"PNA\tpos noun adjective", data:"PNA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"PPA\tpos pro adjective", data:"PPA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"A\tarticle adjective", data:"A", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"OCA\tobject compliment adjective", data:"OCA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"COCA\tcomp object compliment adjective", data:"COCA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"PA\tpredicate adjective", data:"PA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

{label:"CPA\tcomp predicate adjective", data:"CPA", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyGreen},

/* */

{label:"P\tpreposiiton", data:"P", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyOrange},

{label:"C\tconjunction", data:"C", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyDarkGray},

{label:"I\tinterjection", data:"I", myColor:ShurleyColors.shurleyLightGray}

);

What I want to do is se the cells of the dropdown to the myColor property in the data provider.

kglad

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enable their textField.textField background and assign their backgroundColor

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