Populating multiple inputText and Pushing them into Array at once

Yegama

Hey,

I populated 7 inputTexts in a for loop, I want to indentify each one and push each text into an array at one click of a button. I tried using "name" but have been stuck on the next steps on using the "name" beyond that.

public function inputPush2(): void {
			for (l = 0; l < 7; l++) {
				MemoryCard.dayText = new TextInput;
				MemoryCard.dayText.x = 210;
				MemoryCard.dayText.y = 285 + 45.2 * l;
				addChild(MemoryCard.dayText);
				MemoryCard.dayText.typicalText = "100,000,000"
				//MemoryCard.dayText.text = String(qArray[j - 1]);
				MemoryCard.dayText.name = "box" + l;
				MemoryCard.dayText.fontStyles = new TextFormat("Impact", 14, 000000, "center");
				MemoryCard.dayText.text = "Enter";
				MemoryCard.dayText.addEventListener(FeathersEventType.ENTER, input_enterHandler);
				trace(MemoryCard.dayText.name);
				trace(MemoryCard.dayText.getChildByName("box"+String([l])));
			}

ChrisDS

for(var i:int = 0; i< MemoryCard.dayText.numChildren; i++){
    someArray.push(MemoryCard.dayText.getChildAt(i));
    }

Yegama

ChrisDS Thanks for the reply, I tried this out but "numChildren" stays at 0 when I trace it out. IDK why

ChrisDS

I misread due to this line: trace(MemoryCard.dayText.getChildByName("box"+String([l])));

You need to be looking in the container of the textfields, not the actual textfield.... Your code doesnt really make a lot of sense.

Yegama

ChrisDS Thanks for the help, yeah I realized my coding was confusing I left trace statements from past failed ideas. But your help led me to figuring out the asnwer.

Now I'm able to populate any amount of textfields, and when the end user updates lets say someArray[0] the entry updates too.

                           'public function inputPush(): void {
		for (l = 0; l < 8; l++) {
			MemoryCard.dayText = new TextInput;
			MemoryCard.dayText.x = 245;
			MemoryCard.dayText.y = 310 + 32.2 * l;
			addChild(MemoryCard.dayText);
			MemoryCard.dayText.typicalText = "100,000,000"
			MemoryCard.dayText.fontStyles = new TextFormat("Impact", 14, 000000, "center");
			MemoryCard.dayText.addEventListener(FeathersEventType.ENTER, enterHandler);
			MemoryCard.dayText.text = "Enter"
			trace("this is the daytextlength:", MemoryCard.dayText.text);
			trace("number of Children", getChildIndex(MemoryCard.dayText));
		}

		function enterHandler(e: Event) {
			var hourText = e.currentTarget as TextInput;
			var arrayInt = e.currentTarget as TextField;
			arrayInt = hourArray.length;
			
			if (getChildIndex(hourText) == getChildIndex(hourText) && hourArray.length == 0) {
				hourArray.push(hourText.text);
				trace("this is firing", hourArray);
			} else if (arrayInt > 0 && getChildIndex(hourText) == getChildIndex(hourText)) {
				hourArray.splice(arrayInt, 0)
				hourArray[arrayInt] = hourText.text;
				trace("the second array is fring", hourArray);
				trace(" this the hourarray length", hourArray.length);
			}`