Combo Box Component

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to figure out how to put a comboBox in my Flash
form and normally I just use something like:
countryList.dataProvider = ["Country1", "Country2",
"Country3", "Country4"];
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.change = function(evtObj:Object) {
// code placed here executes
// when the event is triggered
trace("Selected Item: "+countryList.selectedItem);
countryList.addEventListener("change",listenerObject);
This will give me the selected item's value which I can chuck
in a variable and send off to my form...
Well that is usually good enough but now I want to have a
Label AND a Value so that when the user does the drop down they see
the Label but I am actually sending the Value. I am messing around
with the Flash Help code and I kind of see how this is working yet
I can not get at the data I need which is the Value not the Label.
my_cb.dataProvider = [{name:"Gary", gender:"male"},
{name:"Susan", gender:"female"}];
my_cb.labelField = "name";
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.change = function(evtObj:Object) {
// code placed here executes
// when the event is triggered
trace("Selected Item: "+my_cb.selectedItem);
my_cb.addEventListener("change",listenerObject);
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

> You would think there was something easy to allow for a
label being
> different
> from the variable I'm sending. All I want to do is make
the drop down menu
> say
> "Afghanistan" while I am sending the form data "AF" to
the .php script
> that
> will save the data to a mySQl database. I can easily
send the name of the
> country (Afghanistan) as thats the name of
my_cb.selectedItem. I'm just
> not
> sure why it is so difficult to send the value (AF)
instead. I'm just not
> getting it.
Did you put the code I supplied in the event handler?
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.change = function(evtObj:Object) {
// code placed here executes
// when the event is triggered
trace("Selected Item Data: "+my_cb.selectedItem.data); //Put
code here
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