Question

I have a form in as3 flash with textfields and radio buttons with their “instance name” all set consecutively such as:
field_1
field_2
field_3
…etc

Is there an easy way in AS3 code to loop over all those fields and get their values in an array? Ideally I’d like a simply loop to get the values (so I can add in a simple popup if a value is missing) and then with the filled array simply post it using URLRequest.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to use a for statement. I’ve also used a multi-dimensional array to store the instance names, and the text that they contain. I like to use the variable _path to define the scope of my code.

var _path = this;
var text_ar:Array = new Array(['instance_1',''],['instance_2',''],['instance_3','']);    //instance name, instance text.

for(var i=0; i<ar.length; i++)
{
     text_ar[i][1] = _path[text_ar[i][0]].text
}

trace( text_ar[1][1] ); //Traces the text that's entered in instance_1.