I have a problem that has been driving me nuts. I create a Form dynamically in Flex using the following code:
private function init():void {
//Dynamically create form based on profiles
for each(var role:AclRoleDTO in _profiles) {
//Create form item
var fi:FormItem = new FormItem();
fi.label = role.name;
//Create checkbox
var cbx:CheckBox = new CheckBox();
cbx.id = "role_"+role.id.toString();
cbx.label = role.description;
cbx.width = 250;
cbx.selected = true;
//Add Checkbox for form item
fi.addChild(cbx);
profileForm.addChild(fi);
}
//Add save button
var fib:FormItem = new FormItem();
var btn:Button = new Button();
btn.name = "Save";
btn.label = "Save";
btn.id = "saveButton";
btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onSubmitClicked);
fib.addChild(btn);
profileForm.addChild(fib);
}
This works fine and creates a Form with FormItems that include CheckBoxes based on the available profiles + a save button to save these profiles.
However, when a user clicks on the save button to save the profiles, I use the following method to retrieve the selected boxes but the function only recognizes the last added CheckBoxes as a CheckBox...
private function onSubmitClicked(event:MouseEvent):void {
var formElements:Array = profileForm.getChildren();
var roleIds:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
var i:int = 0;
var j:int = 0;
//Parse the entire form
for (i; i < formElements.length; i++) {
if (formElements[i] is FormItem) {
var formItem:FormItem = formElements[i];
var itemElements:Array = formItem.getChildren();
for (j;j<itemElements.length;j++) {
//If form item is a checkbox, check if the box is checked!
if (itemElements[j] is CheckBox) {
var tmpBox:CheckBox = itemElements[j];
if (tmpBox.selected) {
//random stuff
}
}
}
}
}
//Send event with roleIds!
//More random stuff
}
I have tried all sorts of things to make sure that the loop works properly and it does: it loops through the proper amount of FormItem elements and retrieves the proper amount of childrenElements. It just doesn't recognize any child as a CheckBox other than when looping through the last FormItem that was added. If I use flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName(itemElements[j]) to find out what the other FormItem children are it returns an empty string.
What am I doing wrong?