I would suggest to create a real data structure and skip the version with the play Object instances. Following this approach, you could add references to the parents, add eventlisteners and reconstruct the structure when needed automatically (you have to implement th logic thogh ;) ).
Best regards. --- In [email protected], "timgerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > I am using an array collection as a dataprovider for the Kap Lab > (http://lab.kapit.fr/display/visualizer/Visualizer) which is like a > spring graph. So when I click on an end node, I get the id of the > node. If I have an id to an object, how can find the parent object and > get access to it? Has anyone done this before? Here is my > ArrayCollection: > > private var myDataProvider:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([ > {Region:"Southwest",ID:"1", children: [ > {Region:"Arizona",ID:"2", children: [ > {Territory_Rep:"Barbara Jennings", ID:"3"}, > {Territory_Rep:"Dana Binn",ID:"4"}]}, > {Region:"Central California",ID:"5", children: [ > {Territory_Rep:"Joe Smith", ID:"6"}]}, > {Region:"Nevada", ID:"7", children: [ > {Territory_Rep:"Bethany Pittman",ID:"8"}]}, > {Region:"Northern California", ID:"9", children: [ > {Territory_Rep:"Lauren Ipsum",ID:"10"}, > {Territory_Rep:"T.R. Smith",ID:"11"}]}, > {Region:"Southern California",ID:'12', children: [ > {Territory_Rep:"Alice Treu", ID:'13'}, > {Territory_Rep:"Jane Grove",ID:"14"}]} > ]} > ]); > > Thanks for the read, > happy TGiving , > timgerr >
