Definitely look at what Amy is offering. I am pretty sure I myself have never written the "best code ever written", but I have solved a lot of problems anyway!
My suggestion would be a component that takes a node and uses the xml children to build its child list. Each child gets a ref to its node, and then uses it to build its children, etc. I am personally a big fan of mx:Repeater for this kind of stuff. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: XML Document and Navigation --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Patrick J. Jankun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I run into a problem, something that probably a lot of people here > knows how to solve. > But after sitting for 2 days building nestes for loops, i can't see > the light by the end of the tunnel :-) > > So, here is a problem: > > I have to build an xml based navigation, so far, quite simple and > clear. Made it already a few times, > but, now, this is a bit more complicated, because i got a much deeper > nested sub levels, and i really > don't know how to efficient traverse the document and build the > navigation out of it :| > > The most complex navigation i made had 2 levels, so it wasn't really > hard to imagine the code for this task: > 2 for loops done the nav creation and that's it, but i got now, an > "undefined" deep, and i don't know how to > bite the code that will build the nav, that goes a bit deeper then one- > sub level. > > Do you guys got any examples or thoughts on how to solve the task? > Im pretty sure that i got an logical error in my approach, since i > will use some nested for loops, but i can't > think the "formula" since i don't know how deep each of the nodes > goes, and this task gives me headaches. > > any kind of help and pinpointing to right direction would be VERY > appreciated You might want to look at Eli Greenfield's RandomWalk http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/randomwalk-component/ <http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/randomwalk-component/> If that doesn't do what you want, post back. I have some code I don't feel comfortable posting publically but that I could share off list. It's not the best code ever written, but it does work. HTH; Amy
