I’ve been messing around with the FlexOnRails Cairngorm/WebORB app and wanted to add some more fields to the flex form for projects (I’m building a construction project tracker so I need to add the project’s address). However as I’m a lazy programmer I quickly got tired of typing all the values to be passed in the event dispatcher. Here’s the original code:

private function projectFormValues () : Object
{
    var values : Object = new Object();

    values.street_address = street_address.text;
    values.suite = suite.text;
    values.city = city.text;
    // etc…

    return values;
}

And below is my revised ‘projectFormValues’ method, it now loops over the form and gets all the values:

private function projectFormValues () : Object
{
    var values : Object = new Object();

    // get form items
    var formItems = project_form.getChildren();

    // loop items and add values
    for (var i = 0; i < formItems.length; i++)
    {
        // formItem
        var formItem = formItems[i].getChildren();
        values[formItem[0].name] = formItem[0].text;
    }

    return values;
}

The form just for reference…

<mx:Form height=“100%” width=“100%” id=“project_form”>
        <mx:FormItem label=“Street Address:”>
            <mx:TextInput id=“street_address” text=“{model.selectedProject.street_address}”/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:FormItem label=“Suite:”>
            <mx:TextInput id=“suite” text=“{model.selectedProject.suite}”/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <mx:FormItem label=“City:”>
            <mx:TextInput id=“city” text=“{model.selectedProject.city}”/>
        </mx:FormItem>
        <!– more form items… –>
    </mx:Form>