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AS 3 Eval

Hi guys,

I am trying to populate some text fields using this

public var txtName:String ="MovieClip(leaderboard).txtName";
		public var pic:String ="MovieClip(leaderboard).pic";
		public var txtTime:String ="MovieClip(leaderboard).txtTime";
		
		public function popLeaderBoard() : void {
			
			var currentVO:Number = 0;
			
			for each (var scoreVO:Object in leaderBoardDecoded) 
			{
				currentVO++;
				
				var leaderPic = "http://graph.facebook.com/"+scoreVO.fbname+"/picture";
				var leaderPicFile : DisplayObject = loadSmallFBPic(facebookpic);
				
				txtName = "leaderboard.txtName"+currentVO +".text";
				pic = "MovieClip(leaderboard).pic"+currentVO;
				txtTime = "MovieClip(leaderboard).txtTime"+currentVO;

				
				this[txtName]= scoreVO.fname;
				//this[pic].removeChildAt(0);
				//this[pic].addChild(leaderPicFile);
				//this[txtTime].text= scoreVO.scoreTime;
			
			
			}
			
			

		};

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So i am looping the VO and getting the values fine however I need to dynamically get access to the text field , txtName1 -> txtName10.

John

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Antonio Estrada

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john_yourspace

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Hi V,

Tried that got this

       tmpTxtField = TextField(this.getChildByName("leaderboard.txtName" + currentVO));
       tmpTxtField.text = scoreVO.fname;

Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

Your code above gave a coercion error

Symbol 'Leaderboard', Layer 'AS', Frame 1, Line 22      1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type flash.display:DisplayObject to a possibly unrelated type flash.text:TextField.

Antonio Estrada

Well, apparently the object "leaderboard.txtName0" (and txtName1, etc) are in fact MovieClips and not TextFields, is there a TextField within that MovieClip maybe? if so, that's the one who should be called.

Or you can post your files and I'll take a look at them.

Good luck

-V

john_yourspace

ASKER

Thanks V, you sent me in the right direction

This worked

TextField(leaderboard.getChildByName("txtName" + currentVO));

var currentVO:Number = 0;
			for each (var scoreVO:Object in leaderBoardDecoded) 
			{
				currentVO++;

				var tmpTxtField:TextField = TextField(leaderboard.getChildByName("txtName" + currentVO));
				tmpTxtField.text = scoreVO.fname + " " + scoreVO.lname;
				
				var tmpScoreTxtField:TextField = TextField(leaderboard.getChildByName("txtTime" + currentVO));
				tmpScoreTxtField.text = scoreVO.scoreTime;
				
				var leaderPic = "http://graph.facebook.com/"+scoreVO.fbname+"/picture";
				var leaderPicFile : DisplayObject = loadSmallFBPic(leaderPic);
				
				var tmpPicField:* = leaderboard.getChildByName("pic" + currentVO);
				tmpPicField.removeChildAt(0);
				tmpPicField.addChild(leaderPicFile);

			}

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Antonio Estrada

Glad to help!

-V