Combox interaction with submit button

Question

Hi i have a university project, where i have to create an
flash file that letes 7-11 year old kids to write a story.
i have desgined it so that i have written most of the story
but the user can sellect say for example the name for the character
by selecting a comobox.
i now need to create a submit button that will store their
choices, and it anther use them in another frame. to basically to
show the user their finished story.
can anybody help me, and tell me how can i can do this, im
not very good with flash or action script,
i will paste my code onto here. note the options for
combo-boxes are loaded from a simple xml file.

Answer 1

Well, I doubt anyone will have time to write whole thing for
you but, conceptually what you can do is;
1. Create their choices holder. It can be either an array or
an object. I don't know what is the best because I am not sure how
you are going to use these choices - in particular you need to
decide how you will match the choices with whatever you use them
for:
var userChoices:Array = new Array();
2. Add a listener to you submit button:
submitButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
submitListener);
function submitListener(e:MouseEvent):void{
// here retrieve the current drop down choice and add it to
array
// again, what you add - index of choice or the value of it
depends on further usage
return;
3. Create a listener function that will retrieve the info
from your array or object and does whatever:
populateButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
populateListener);
function populateListener(e:MouseEvent):void{
// get info and continue
return;
This for starter.
Let us know if you have any particular problem.