Thx. Gave it a whirl, no dice.
I need somehow to make the HorizontalList act like it had multiple image sizes,
and measure them to get the largest rather than going with the first.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jamesfin" <james.alan.finni...@...> wrote:
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> I had a similar predicament recently...
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> In my renderer code, I setup a listener to respond to external data changes.
> In my case, I just needed to call invalidateDisplayList but you could reset
> your sizes/etc. based upon the new data.
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> ReportHorizontalList(this.parent.parent).dataProvider.addEventListener(CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE,
> outsideCollectionChanged);
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> private function outsideCollectionChanged(evt:CollectionEvent):void{
> invalidateDisplayList();
> }
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> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "mattgarland2000" <alias@> wrote:
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> > I am using a horizontallist as an answer bar in an e-learning app. The
> > designer wants the answer boxes to stretch according to content (all should
> > have the same size, and there is a minimum).
> >
> > This works fine when the dataProvider is set. BUT there is another
> > requirement: after a wrong answer is clicked, there is feedback and the
> > answers are scrambled.
> >
> > protected function tryAgain(event:Event):void
> > {
> >
> > answers=CollectionUtils.noRepeatRandomizeXMLList(answers);
> > answerListRef.dataProvider=answers;
> > }
> >
> > After the scrambling, the text values are represented in their new places,
> > and the itemRenderers are resized--but all at the minimum size, so any over
> > the min size need scrollbars. The resize code is called it seems before the
> > data is set.
> >
> > I should mention that I have a similar vertical list, with
> > "variableRowHeight" set to true as well, and there the same code works
> > fine.
> >
> > How do I force the HorizontalList to resize the renderers en masse after
> > the new text values are set?
> >
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