http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/25/creating-a-simple-label-function-on-a-flex-combobox-control/

Thanks

Steve

I’ve tried some labelFunctions, but though they work well with datagrids, I can’t seem to find out how to make them work with ComboBoxes.

Your help would be greately appreciated.

Cheers

Steve.

I’ve never tried it, but I’m sure it is possible. You’d need a way to convert videos using a command line, I imagine.

Something like:
1) User uploads a WMV/source video file using FileReference (or HTML or whatever).
2) Server-side script (ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET, Perl, Ruby, Java, etc) calls a command-line script to convert the video file from formatX to formatY (or even copies/FTPs the video file to a separate server for transcoding).
3) Once transcoding is complete, delete the original WMV/source video file and store the FLV back on the web server (or wherever).

I imagine the tricky part is finding the appropriate conversion software that works best for you.
You may have better luck asking on a high-traffic list, such as FlexCoders.

Peter

example:
User uploads WMV through Flex2/AS3 interface
System auto-magically converts to FLV
System stores FLV
Stores a link to it for later display in Flex2/AS3 interface

cheers,
Smark A Myth

I replied in the forum. Would you mind posting a sample of the XML in the Adobe forums (my blog comments are pretty hard to paste code into) and I can try and take a look.

Peter

I can’t get the combobox to display data properly. The server returns a list of photos and other data in xml. I want to have the combobox display a list of the photo id numbers, and let the user select a photo. When I use the xml as the dataprovider, then set LabelField to @id, it just says [object Object] in each of the items. When I use an item renderer inside the combobox (as shown in the attached code), the items display properly in the drop down part, but the Prompt is replaced with [object Object] and when an item is selected it shows as [object Object].

Any ideas on how to fix this?

You mean like this?:

var selectedAbbrev:String = String(comboBox.selectedItem.abbrev);

Peter

etc..

How would I display name in the combo box but access empnum in the code?

Thanks for your help!

Greg

To display the “abbrev” instead of the “name”, you could use the following code:

<mx:ComboBox id="comboBox"
        prompt="Please select a State..."
        dataProvider="{statesXMLList}"
        labelField="@abbrev" />

Peter

You’ve been a great help!
Thanks,

Greg