Item Renderers are pretty easy and they give you full control of the layout.
One issue I had and I am sure you will run into at some point is accessing
other ui components or methods from within the item renderer. There is a
special static variable called outerDocument when using a component. In my
example there is a drop down combo box that contains the selected album, to
get the value I wrote a quick function but without the outerDocument you are
unable to access the methods because they are out of scope. Hope this helps.
<mx:TileList id="tlPhotos" dataProvider="{_photos}" width="800"
height="500" itemClick="onItemClick(event)">
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:VBox horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off" width="125" height="125"
horizontalAlign="center">
<mx:Image
source="albums/{outerDocument.getSelectedAlbum()}/{data.Name}" width="100"
height="100" buttonMode="true"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
</mx:TileList>
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> yes an itemrenderer will definitely do it - and they are quite easy to
> do in Flex.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
> On 2 Jun 2008, at 15:57, Dominic Watson wrote:
>
> >> I am still pretty new so I am not sure if there is a way to do
> >> that. I do
> >> know that you can create your own Item Renderer though that would
> >> have the
> >> text first and then an icon.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> > Thanks dan, was hoping to avoid that learning curve (started Flex on
> > Saturday night) but I guess its time to get stuck in there!
> >
> > I must say though, I have a fully working slideshow presentation app
> > that takes an external xml file for its slide content configuration
> > - playing videos & sound clips much like cfpresentation, and
> > developed in a weekend starting at zero Flex knowledge = Flex & Flex
> > Builder are awesome!
> >
> >
>
>
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