Accessing Dynamically created Button

Hi,
Can someone give me an example how to access dynamically created button?
I know how to create a button dynamically but don't know how to access from AS3.
Thanks!

Hi,
Please go through following links.
1) http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/20/objectcollector-accessing-dynamic-generated-flex-obje cts-by-id/
2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6740813/flex-assigning-events-to-dynamically-created-bu ttons
3) http://www.justskins.com/forums/adding-click-event-to-35785.html
Thanks and Regards,
Vibhuti Gosavi | [email protected] | www.infocepts.com

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Dynamically create button

Good evening,
Can you help me,
How can i dynamically create button?
Can you give me example code, and how i can make event for this button.
Regards.
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Hi Paavo,
Your right about the button_id. It's value comes from an input parameter. The button won't show up in the "When button pressed"-list_of_values. This is not only because you write the id yourself, but more because the entire button is created on the fly. The button isn't stored internal in an apex table, that's why it won't show up in a list of values.
If you want to trigger a dynamic action with the button, you can use a jQuery selector as triggering element. Here you can refer to the button_id using the '#' as jQuery marker for ID, e.g. '#myButton'.
What the button that you render does, depends on what you put in the p_link parameter. A normal save button would submit the page with condition 'SAVE', you can do that by setting p_link to 'apex.submit("SAVE")'. If the button should do a page redirect, you set p_link to 'http://www.page2go.com', or whatever url you wish to redirect to.
The text you put in the button attributes is added as HTML element definition, so if you set p_attrs to 'alt="alternate text"', that will be added to the html of your button.
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Regarding your ps: if you mean can you conditionaly create a button using dynamic actions? Then the answer would be yes. Yes you can use the create_button procedure in a dynamic action, however by writing it as stored procedure in the database, or in a database package, you can easily reuse your code and still have only one version of your procedure that you need to maintain.
Regards,
Vincent
http://vincentdeelen.blogspot.com

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Hi Everybody,
as my first experience in AS3 I'm bulding a photo multigallery. In that gallery I have some buttons, each one pointing to its respective set of images.
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<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle01">feio.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle02">muitofeio.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle03">aindamaisfeio.jpg</IMAGE>
</GALERIA>
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<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle01">estranho.jpg</IMAGE>
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menuContainer.y=300;
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// CREATE IMAGES CONTAINER //
var imagesContainer:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
imagesContainer.x=10;
imagesContainer.y=10;
addChild(imagesContainer);
//// LOAD XML ////
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xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, whenLoaded);
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     var setNodesArray:Array = new Array();
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          setNodesArray.push(i);
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          for (var j:int=0; j<mySetsList[i].IMAGE.length(); j++) {
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<GALERIA galeriaTitle="galeria 01">
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle01">feio.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle02">muitofeio.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle03">aindamaisfeio.jpg</IMAGE>
</GALERIA>
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<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle01">estranho.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle02">maisestranho.jpg</IMAGE>
<IMAGE imageTitle="imageTitle03">aindamaisestranho.jpg</IMAGE>
</GALERIA>
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I have a html that has an input field on it. Say we enter a number( e.g. 5) and submit the html.
The html transfers control to 1. jsp which creates input fields based on the number entered. In the above example 5 input(text) fields are created dynamically.
Once I submit 1.jsp, it transfers control to another 2.jsp.
In 2.jsp, I need to access the values entered in the 5 fields on 1.jsp.
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Any help is really appreciated.
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Thanks a lot. That worked!!!!
Even the ordering seem to be ok.
With your other suggestion, I had tried that before but that did not work.
I created field names as field1,field2..etc on the fly and stored this in a String variable - fileName.
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Accessing dynamically created objects

If objects are created dynamically in AS3, using code like
this:
for (var num:Number = 0; num<10; num++){
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
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this.addChild(txtFld);
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TextFields, how can I do that? The only instance listed in the
variables is a single instance of "txtFld" and it is the last one
that is created. How can I access the others?
Thanks

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Give them a name property when you create them and then use
getChildByName().
Push each instance into an array/vector as you create it and
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A combination of both?

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Hello!
I create some images dynamically by running a for from 1 to a
variable preset. The pictures have the IDs image1, image2 ...
("image"+i). I then add other properties.
Problem is for each I need an onMouseOverHandler thant will
swap the image with another.
I can get the target image with event.currentTarget.id. But I
cannot set it's properties with this["image"+i].source (I need to
change the ones up to that as well) and I cannot access it with
this.getChildByName("image"+i).source either.
What am I doing wrong please?

"M*A*S*H 4077" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:go74q6$fbb$[email protected]..
> Hello!
>
> I create some images dynamically by running a for from 1
to a variable
> preset.
> The pictures have the IDs image1, image2 ...
("image"+i). I then add other
> properties.
>
> Problem is for each I need an onMouseOverHandler thant
will swap the image
> with another.
> I can get the target image with event.currentTarget.id.
But I cannot set
> it's
> properties with this["image"+i].source (I need to change
the ones up to
> that as
> well) and I cannot access it with
this.getChildByName("image"+i).source
> either.
>
> What am I doing wrong please?
ID is about as useful as your appendix when you create
objects dynamically.
The event.target property will contain a reference to your
image.

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<f:parameter name="contactID" valueRef="contact.contactID" />
</h:command_hyperlink>
</h:panel_data>
</h:panel_list>
</h:form>
</f:use_faces>
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<tr>
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See the problem... all id's are the same, i.e. "id0".
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linktoaction2
linktoaction3
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IWDNode dynnode = wdContext.currentContextElement().node().getChildNode      ("demo",IWDNode.LEAD_SELECTION);
IWDNodeElement ele = dynnode.getCurrentElement();
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wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess(text);
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Hi Nikil,
Ya i had assigned only one action for the three linktoactions. I am filling my dynamic node according to the number of records coming from the RFC. How can i pass the index value (i.e) how to identify that which action is being clicked. I am little confused. Thia is what i wrote in my coding,
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nodeInfo.addAttribute("Apptext", "com.sap.dictionary.string");
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Thanks,
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Problem with accessing dynamically created movie clips, returns null...

Hopefully this is a stupid question with an easy answer, if my code is straight forward enough.
I am using this snippet of code to create menu items, and then use the jCount variable below to give the clips an index number, like so (which seems to be working just fine):
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for(var j:Number=0;j<Number(global_subi.text);j++)//
trace("GLOBAL SUBI = "+ String(global_subi.text)); //traces out 10, which it should
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My last trace statement returns null. Can anyone see my error, or explain why I can't access my clips after they have been created?
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~Chipleh

Hi kglad,
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"it's not clear from the shown code that jCount is initialized." - I've posted the relevant code below, which shows that I'm initializing jCount.
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           var subVar:Number = i;//mcMenuItem.ivar
           //Submenu content
           var xmlSubMenuLength:Number = xml.sim.bodyText.page[i].subpage.length()
           var menuItemAttachment:MovieClip = MovieClip(mcMenuItem);
           for(var j:Number=0;j<xmlSubMenuLength;j++)
                 var xmlSubPageNumber:XMLList = xml.sim.bodyText.page[subVar].subpage;
                 var subNavLinkNumber:Number = xmlSubPageNumber[j];
                 var subTitleText:String = xml.sim.bodyText.page[subVar].subpage.subNavItem[j];
                 var mcSubMenuItem:mcSubMenu=new mcSubMenu();
                 trace("mcSubMenuItem.ivar = "+ j+1);
                 var mc2Attach2:MovieClip = MovieClip(menuItemAttachment);
                 mcSubMenuItem.btnTxt.htmlText = j+1 +". " +subTitleText;
                 mcSubMenuItem.ivar = Number(subVar);
                 mcSubMenuItem.jvar = Number(j);
                 addChild(mcSubMenuItem);
                 jCount++;
                 mcSubMenuItem.name = "mcSubMenuItem" + jCount;
                 trace ("---------------------------------jCount NAME = "+ mcSubMenuItem.name);
                 mcSubMenuItem.x=mcMenuHolder.x+20;
                 mcSubMenuItem.y =mcMenuHolder.y;
                 //kglad's addition
                 mcSubMenuItem.y+= nextBtnY;
                 nextBtnY+=subtopicSpace;
                 global_subi.text = String(jCount);
            mcSubMenuItem.lExtend.visible = false;
global_i.text = String(i);
Then I try to access the clips like so:
-The first for-loop access the topic movie clips, no problem, and traces out scContent correctly.
-The second for-loop traces out null everytime, when I would expect it to be tracing out the names of the subtopic movie clips.
function accessClips(){
     //This will access the topic movie clips
     for(var i:Number=0;i<Number(global_i.text);i++)
           var scMenuItem:String = "mcMenuItem" + i;
           var scContent:Object = this.getChildByName(scMenuItem);
           trace(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>scContent:Object = "+ scContent);
     //This is supposed to access the subtopic movie clips
     for(var j:Number=0;j<Number(global_subi.text);j++)//
           var scSubMenuItem:String = "mcSubMenuItem" + j;
           var scSubContent:Object = this.getChildByName(scSubMenuItem);
           trace(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>scSubContent:Object = "+ scSubContent);
Hope this makes sense, Chipleh confused. If the code is not clear enough, let me know and I'll try to further clarify.
Thanks again,
~Chipleh

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