> I understand that arrays can hold references to components > so I've recoded to push and pop the images from ImageArray > to set the properties on the individual Images.
You shouldn't have to push and pop anything. If the ith element of the array is a reference to an Image instance, then setting imageArray[i].source in a loop should work fine. What are you setting it to, and how does it not work? Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of smitade Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Define repeaters at runtime --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Gordon Smith <gosm...@...> wrote: > > So that the doc team understands... What is it that you found surprising? That an Array can hold anything, including references to components? > > Gordon Smith > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of smitade > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:50 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Define repeaters at runtime > > > It works - please ignore the previous post. Wow, the ability to push > components into arrays like this opens up so many possibilities - > especially when working with flex frameworks. I find it strange the > documentation doesn't highlight this feature - otherwise I missed it. > Thanks again! > Gordon - sorry for the confusion - I'm confused myself! When I started this thread I was looking for a way to dump components into an Array e.g. 64 Images into an array ImageArray so that I could set the properties of the images by setting the array directly e.g. for (i=0;i<64;i++) { ImageArray[i].source="some.png"; } I mistakenly thought it was working as initially all of the 64 images have the same source and this was showing up correctly. What I found out that this is not the case (and probably why I didn't find it in the docs). I understand that arrays can hold references to components so I've recoded to push and pop the images from ImageArray to set the properties on the individual Images. I liked the functionality of using a repeater defined in MXML where I could reference my "ImageArray" directly. I haven't found a way to define this repeater at runtime though. Sorry for the long reply - hope it makes sense.
