How to create a country and state combobox

[Learner]

Hi! I'm currently creating a website which need the user to fill in a form that have country and state. I would like to create a combobox for it. The user should choose their country 1st before the state. Once they had choose theiy country, the state combobox will appear and show a list of all the state base on the country.

However, I do not have any experience in create combobox before. I do find for the example and other source from internet, but I found that they are too complex and hard for me to understand.

Do anyone know where can I find a more simple tutorial that show how to create combobox step by step? And is it possible to create the combobox only in flash? without using other programme such as php or asp...

[Sgaspar11]

Well, this is by no means something that is "easy" it'll take some thought around how you would want this to look.

Flash has a components window that will automatically let you create combo boxes and list specific values.

You could create a combo box with an instance name of "Country" which lists all of your countries. And one for each country which lists the states. (i.e. USA_states)

Set all of the state combo boxes to visible = false.

Then, use some actionscript to say if "country" = USA, then make the USA_states combo box visible and so on for each country.

I'm not sure of any tutorials, but give this idea I try and we can walk you through any issues you might have.

[Learner]

Thanks for your reply.
Well I found the components that you mentioned which create the combobox automatically and i got a code from other source which I think is more simple and I can understand abit and the original file is look like this.

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//
//Populate ISO Country Codes & US States in Combo Box
//
countries = "Andorra, Principality of  |United Arab Emirates|Afghanistan, Islamic State of|Antigua and Barbuda |Anguilla|Albania|Armenia|Netherlands Antilles|Angola |Antarctica |Argentina  |Old style Arpanet|American Samoa|Austria|Australia  |Aruba  |...";
countrycodes = "AD|AE|AF|AG|AI|AL|AM|AN|AO|AQ|AR|ARPA|AS|AT|AU|...";
usstates = "none|AL|AK|AZ|AR|AP|CA|CO|CT|DE|DC|FL|GA|HI|ID|...";
aISOCountries = countries.split("|");
aISOCountryCodes = countrycodes.split("|");
aUSStates = usstates.split("|");
//Populate Combo Box
for (i=0; i<aISOCountries.length; i++) {
 cbCountry.addItemAt(i, aISOCountries[i], aISOCountryCodes[i]);
}
//USA = 234
cbCountry.setSelectedIndex("234");
// sort the list
cbCountry.sortItemsBy("Label", "ASC");
//Populate Combo Box
for (i=0; i<aUSStates.length; i++) {
 cbUSState.addItemAt(i, aUSStates[i], aUSStates[i]);
}
// Sort the List
cbUSState.sortItemsBy("Label", "ASC");
cbCountry.setChangeHandler("sendCountryToTextBox")
cbUSState.setChangeHandler("sendStateToTextBox")
function sendCountryToTextBox() {
 _root.txtCountry = "country = "+cbCountry.getValue();
}
function sendStateToTextBox() {
 _root.txtState = "state = "+cbUSState.getValue();
}

I'm not so profesional i using the actionscript. From this code, the thing that I know is where to change the country and state. But the states is showing all the time, not shown base on the country that the user select.
Can anyone edit it for me or have any other suggestion code for this combobox?

[Sgaspar11]

Can you post the .fla and I will mess around with it a bit over this weekend.

You should be able to use some if/then statements to make this work properly.

[Learner]

Sorry for reply late.
I had attach the fla file. Thank for your help in advance!