Adobe AIR Development

[oznawab]

Hi Guys,

In my app I have a messages section, which displays new events,service calls assigned to the agent.

I want to periodically check for new messages by querying webservice.

I am displaying this messages in a roundlist so how can I change the datasource on the fly to be able to display new messages?

Regards,

[JohnPinkerton]

I don't think we have the abilities to run a "service" in the background to do this. The app would need to be open, and if the app were open couldn't you just have a timer set to trigger the function that checks for updates?

[oznawab]

Hi,

Accept my apologies if I couldn't explain it better.

I have been checking the messages periodically but how would I reflect them in the list by changine the dataprovider.

Changing dataprovider doesn't do anything to list, I mean it doesn't refresh, so am I missing something here?

let's say the list was loaded with dataprovider dp1 while loading the app. Then new cases were assigned to the user and now these new messages have to be in the list but it doesn't update after I assign dp2 to the list.

I hope I am explaining right.

[jtegen]

What type of control is the data provider assigned to?

Can you supply ample code of the issue?

[oznawab]

Hi,

Its a RoundList control.

Code is some what like

//constructor

app()

{

        list.dataProvider=new DataProvider(messages);

}

then a function which check for update every 300 seconds and update the messages array and assigns update array to dataProvider of the list.

But it doesn't work and I am sure I am missing something here but don't know what.

Thanks in advance.

[jtegen]

Try just the QNX List class.  I have lots of issues with the RoundList and having it update properly.  One of those item you may need to change back after 1.0.

[tensioncore]

The way I get new information into lists and updating them is by using URLLoader and parsing the output of the web page the app downloaded (which is an API for my app, and outputs data similar to JSON)...then the app puts the parsed info into the dropdown list.