Re: [flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Wesley and others, I have prepared a simple test case to demo my problem - I'm trying to create a custom component which is being fed with XML repeatedly coming from server. My problem is that the CollectionEvent listener isn't fired. Games.mxml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:VBox

Re: [flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-21 Thread Wesley Acheson
Okay from the looks of things. You want the even to change when you change the XML in the games variable? The collectionChange event is fired when you change something in the existing collection. Your changing the collection itself. This means that your listening to a change in a subsequently

Re: [flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Wesley, On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Wesley Acheson wesley.ache...@gmail.com wrote: This means that your listening to a change in a subsequently unbound collection. oh ok thanks, this makes sense. In that case I probably don't need any events at all, because I read the XML data

Re: [flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-21 Thread Wesley Acheson
Alex I don't know I'm not really all that used to e4x. have you tried tracing each step when running in debug? as in trace (_xlist.toString()); trace (_xlist.game.toString()); trace (_xlist.game.length.toString()); On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com

Re: [flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-19 Thread Wesley Acheson
when are you expecting to see the event tiggered. I don't see anywhere it would be triggered in this code. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Alexander alexander.far...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have 2 problems with my custom component (code below), which works ok otherwise. It represents a

[flexcoders] Listening for CollectionEvent in custom component

2010-08-18 Thread Alexander
Hello, I have 2 problems with my custom component (code below), which works ok otherwise. It represents a list of games, with up to 3 players. I feed it with XML data being pulled from server: game id=42 user . user . user . /game game id=47 user . /game game id=56