Consider using mx:Repeater for this kind of thing. It will save you lots of code and provide many other benefits over manually using addChild(). Tracy
--- In [email protected], "mknuttall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can deal with the verbosity and the components will be "predesigned" > and so available at compile time. Got any examples? > > > --- In [email protected], "Richard Rodseth" <rrodseth@> wrote: > > > > You can certainly build a view dynamically, because any component can be > > instantiated in ActionScript. Depending how you structure things, > the code > > may become quite a bit more verbose than you are accustomed to. > > > > I believe there are some restrictions on "creation by name" in > ActionScript, > > but if the types of the components are known at compile time, a simple > > switch statement will do the trick. > > > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 PM, mknuttall <mknuttall@> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone or does anyone know if it is possible to choose what > > > component to display dynamically? For instance if one is displaying a > > > questionnaire, questions are Text, Yes No, List and Date and are not > > > know what they are or what the order is till runtime. > > > > > > > > > > > >
