Clearing/Resetting input text boxes

[fanmap81]

i have an email form that works built in flash. Id like to know how to clear the fields and make them blank again when the email is submitted and goes through....this is how the code i have looks so far:

on (release) {
if (!Email.length || Email.indexOf("@") == -1 || Email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
}

else if (!FirstName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your first name before Sending";
}
else if (!LastName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your last name before Sending";
}
//else if (!Subject.length) {
//EmailStatus = "Please enter a subject before sending your message";
//}
else if (!Message.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter some text in you message";
}
else if (!Phone.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please input your phone number";
}
else {
loadVariablesNum ("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "Post");
EmailStatus = "Thank you for your message. We at will respond to you promptly";


//else if (!ToEmail.length || ToEmail.indexOf("@") == -1 || ToEmail.indexOf(".") == -1) {
//EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address that you are sending this to";}

//else if (!ToName.length) {
//EmailStatus = "Please Enter the name of how you are sending this to";}

}
}



What would i add to this to make the fields go blank again after the submission? Thanks

[robdillon]

One solution is to put the instance names of each of the input textfields into an array and then go through each item in the array and set the .text property of each input field to "".

[fanmap81]

what would that code look like exactly? So far i tried:

ContactForms = new Array(
{FirstName.text:="",LastName.text:="",Email.text:="",Phone.text:=""}
);

else {
loadVariablesNum ("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "Post");
EmailStatus = "Thank you for your message. We at HST will respond to you promptly";
EmailStatus = ContactForms;


But i am getting errors. How would i write this correctly so that it works?

[robdillon]

You can place the array declaration in the same location as your send button's code. I'm guessing that is what you are trying above.

var contactForms:Array = new Array(FirstName,LastName,Email,Phone);

You just want to use the instance names in the array. Then when you use loadVariablesNum() you can then reset the text:

for (var i:String in contactForms) {
contactForms .text = "";
}

[fanmap81]

Im sorry but i cannot get that code to work.......The fields still remain populated after i hit the submit button. Any idea whats going on?

[robdillon]

Can you show the code that you're using?

[fanmap81]

on (release) {
if (!Email.length || Email.indexOf("@") == -1 || Email.indexOf(".") == -1) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter a valid E-mail address";
}

else if (!FirstName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your first name before Sending";
}
else if (!LastName.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please Enter your last name before Sending";
}
//else if (!Subject.length) {
//EmailStatus = "Please enter a subject before sending your message";
//}
else if (!Message.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please enter some text in you message";
}
else if (!Phone.length) {
EmailStatus = "Please input your phone number";
}
else {
loadVariablesNum ("snowMailPHP.php", "0", "Post");
EmailStatus = "Thank you for your message. We will respond to you promptly";

var contactForms:Array = new Array(First_Name, Last_Name, Email_Address, Phone_Number);
for (var i:String in contactForms) {
contactForms.text = "";
}
}

[fanmap81]

hello?????

[kglad]

if you really want to clear those fields when the email has been successfully processed, you'll need to have your php program return a value to flash. if you just want to fake it, you can use:

[fanmap81]

thank you sir......once again...you've come through for me.

[kglad]

you're welcome.