Waiting for a property to change

Question

I'm trying to create a class to return data from a database.
The class returns a value before its value has changed. How can I
get the class to wait?

Answer 1

"SiHoop" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm trying to create a class to return data from a
database. The class
> returns
> a value before its value has changed. How can I get the
class to wait?
>
> package{
> public class ImportText {
>
> import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
> import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
> private var service:HTTPService;
> public var returnVal:String
> private var params:Object = new Object();
>
> public function ImportText(_value:String,
_url:String):void{
> params.passageId = _value
> service = new HTTPService();
> service.url = _url;
> service.method = "GET";
> service.addEventListener("result", httpResult);
> service.send(params)
> trace("returnVal1="+returnVal)
> }
> public function httpResult(event:ResultEvent):String{
> returnVal=event.result.returnVal
> trace("returnVal2="+returnVal)
> return returnVal
> }
> }
> }
Are you saying that the httpResult function gets called
before there's a
result?
I'm not clear on what the problem is here.
>