Advanced Search

Find Index on ArrayCollection for ComboBox Selection

/ Published in: ActionScript 3
Save to your folder(s)
Used to retriev a index, for example to select a item on a combobox with the arrayCollection as dataProvider.

Usage:
comboBoxNames.selectedIndex = findIndex(arrayColNames, "field_on_array_collection", "value_to_compare_with_field_in_array_coll");

Returns the arrayCollection index that corresponds to compared item. If item is not found on arrayCollection it return -1.

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. private function findIndex(dp:ArrayCollection, prop:String, what:String ):int {
  2. 		for(var k:int=0; k<dp.length; k++) {
  3. 			if(String(dp.getItemAt(k)[prop])==what) return k;
  4. 		}
  5. 	return -1;
  6. }

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.