This is definitely possible, and is essentially what Flash Builder's Design View does (FB's Design View is just a large Flex application) under the hood.
You will want to parse your XML and build up Flex objects at runtime (using the new operator), set properties on the objects based on the attribute values in the XML data (by setting properties directly, using setStyle() to set style attributes, etc) and add the newly created objects to the display list while mimicking the correct containment hierarchy. I'll leave it up to knowledgeable folks on this list to point you to community/blogosphere resources. deepa Flex SDK Team -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prodanzr Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Building components at runtime Hi all Thanks to the success of my first Flex application I've been asked to write a new one that is required to build the user interface from XML data it receives from a server. So the app sends a request to an HTTP Server and gets XML back that signifies such things as "username, string, maxlength=40; startdate, date and so on" from which the app would build a component and display it, capture values and send them back to the server. So far all my (limited) Flex work has been MXML-specified user interfaces so I'd like to ask if people think this idea is hard to implement in ActionScript (I assume it's doable) and if there are any examples anywhere I could look at? Thanks Paul ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
