Using An Array Collection Produced From XML In Conjunction With Shared Object

Question

I have an old app that Greg LaFrance helped me out with greatly which allows the user to drag items between two tilelists and then save the contents of both tilelists by clicking a save button using the sharedObject method. The tilelists are populated by array collections defined in the app. I want to change this so that the tilelists are instead populated by an array collection which I've retrieved from a remote xml file via http request but I can't get this to work. Basically I need to replace both the predefined array collections profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksFullAC and profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC with my xml/httprequest produced newsAC array collection and still make the tilelists saveable. Can anyone help me out? Here's the code:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="newsService.send(); initprofile1NewsAndSportSO()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.collections.*;
import flash.net.SharedObject;
Bindable]
private var newsAC:ArrayCollection;
private function newsResultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void{
newsAC=newsService.lastResult.newscategory.news;
public var profile1NewsAndSportSO:SharedObject;
private var profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksFullAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{label:
"BBC News"},{label:
"ITV"},{label:
"Sky News"}]);
private var profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([{label:
"BBC News"},{label:
"ITV"},{label:
"Sky News"}]);
private function profile1NewsAndSportReset():void{resetprofile1NewsAndSportAC();
profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider
= profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC;
profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice.dataProvider =
new ArrayCollection([]); }
private function resetprofile1NewsAndSportAC():void{profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC.removeAll();
for each(var obj:Object in profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksFullAC){profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC.addItem(obj);
private function initprofile1NewsAndSportSO():void{profile1NewsAndSportSO = SharedObject.getLocal(
"profile1NewsAndSport");
if(profile1NewsAndSportSO.size > 0){
if(profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportaddList){
if(profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportaddList != "empty"){
var profile1NewsAndSportaddList:Array = profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportaddList.split(",");
var profile1NewsAndSporttempAC1:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
for each(var str:String in profile1NewsAndSportaddList){
for each(var obj1:Object in profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC){
if(str == obj1.label){profile1NewsAndSporttempAC1.addItem(obj1);
continue;}
if(profile1NewsAndSporttempAC1.length > 0){profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider = profile1NewsAndSporttempAC1;
if(profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList){
var profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList:Array = profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList.split(",");
var profile1NewsAndSporttempAC2:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
for each(var str2:String in profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList){
for each(var obj2:Object in profile1NewsAndSportaddLinksAC){
if(str2 == obj2.label){profile1NewsAndSporttempAC2.addItem(obj2);
continue;}
if(profile1NewsAndSporttempAC2.length > 0){profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice.dataProvider = profile1NewsAndSporttempAC2;
else{profile1NewsAndSportReset();
private function saveprofile1NewsAndSport(event:MouseEvent):void{
var profile1NewsAndSportaddList:String = "";
if(profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider){
if(ArrayCollection(profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider).length > 0){
for each(var obj1:Object in profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider){
profile1NewsAndSportaddList += obj1.label +
else{profile1NewsAndSportaddList =
"empty";}
profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportaddList = profile1NewsAndSportaddList;
var profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList:String = "";
for each(var obj2:Object in profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice.dataProvider){
profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList += obj2.label +
profile1NewsAndSportSO.data.profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList = profile1NewsAndSportchoiceList;
profile1NewsAndSportSO.flush();
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HTTPService id="newsService" resultFormat="object" result="newsResultHandler(event)" url="http://www.coolvisiontest.com/getnews.php"/>
<mx:Button click="profile1NewsAndSportReset()" id="reset" label="
Reset" y="5" height="25" x="5"/>
<mx:TileList id="profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice" fontWeight="bold" dragEnabled="
true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" height="129" width="
650" top="5" left="521" columnCount="5" rowHeight="145" columnWidth="
125" backgroundColor="#000000" color="#FFFFFF"/>
<mx:TileList id="profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist" fontWeight="bold" dragEnabled="
true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" height="129" width="
385" top="5" left="128" columnCount="3" rowHeight="145" columnWidth="125" backgroundColor="
#000000" color="#FFFFFF"/>
<mx:Button click="saveprofile1NewsAndSport(event)" id="save" label="Save Changes" x="
5" y="38" width="113" height="25.5"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

Answer 1

It might be easy to solve these issues if you post your form.
Post your form if it doesn't contain any confidential information.
Nith