Hi there,
quite a simple problem I’m sure, but I can’t for the life of me get it to work.
I have made a placed a combobox called ‘genreselect’ on the stage and I am trying to output genreselect.value to a dynamic textbox called ‘output’ but I get the following error:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at fl.controls::ComboBox/get value()
at cataloguemenu_fla::MainTimeline/cataloguemenu_fla::frame1()
Here is the AS:
import fl.data.DataProvider;
import fl.events.ComponentEvent;
var items:Array = [
{label:"Choose Genre", data:"ignore"},
{label:"Action", data:"screenData1"},
{label:"Antipodes", data:"screenData2"},
{label:"Children", data:"screenData3"},
{label:"Classic English", data:"screenData4"},
{label:"Classic Erotica", data:"screenData5"},
{label:"Comedy", data:"Comedy"},
{label:"Documentary", data:"Documentary"},
{label:"Drama", data:"Drama"},
{label:"Eighties Classics", data:"Eighties Classics"},
{label:"Gangster", data:"Gangster"},
{label:"Girl's Night In", data:"Girl's Night In"},
{label:"Godfrey Ho", data:"Godfrey Ho"},
{label:"East Asia", data:"East Asia"},
{label:"Horror", data:"Horror"},
{label:"Independent,Auteur,Cult", data:"Independent,Auteur,Cult"},
{label:"Kids", data:"Kids"},
{label:"Oldies", data:"Oldies"},
{label:"Rest of the world", data:"Rest of the world"},
{label:"Sci-Fi and Fantasy", data:"Sci-Fi and Fantasy"},
{label:"Seventies America", data:""},
{label:"Singing and Dancing", data:"Singing and Dancing"},
{label:"Television", data:"Television"},
{label:"Thriller", data:"Thriller"},
{label:"Trash", data:"Trash"},
{label:"UK Independent", data:"UK Independent"},
{label:"War", data:"War"},
{label:"Western", data:"Western"},
{label:"Woody Allen", data:"Woody Allen"},
{label:"World Greats", data:"World Greats"},
];
genreselect.dataProvider = new DataProvider(items);
var myFormat:TextFormat=new TextFormat()
//myFormat.size=14;
myFormat.color=0xFF0000
genreselect.textField.setStyle("textFormat",myFormat)
genreselect.dropdown.setRendererStyle("textFormat",myFormat)
//if (genreselect.value !="ignore")
output.text = genreselect.value
//trace (genreselect.value)
As you can see I tried to trace genreselect.value and had the same result.
Can anyone help?