Hmm. The request to the server could take a long time. What would you want to show in the interim? Waiting too long for lastResult will cause the UI to appear stuck.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:17 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips I want to get information about the item that is being hovered over. I don't have this information in memory, I need to get it from the web server, that requires waiting for a result event from HTTPService before returning the data I need. Thanks! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dataTipFunction should be the answer, but I don't get what you are doing > in the loop. Can you give more detail of what you are trying to > accomplish? > > > > -Alex > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of James > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:47 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid dynamic toolTips or dataTips > > > > Hi all, my name is James Wilson, I am a flex programmer in the atlanta > area, new to the list. > > On a datagrid, I'd like to display more information about the item the > user is hovering over in a tooltip, but I want to get this information > (a fair bit) dynamically based on a case number/id from the datagrid > item that is being hovered over. > > The best way I can think of is to do a loop in the dataTipFunction: > > public function myDataTipFunction(e:HitData):String > { > > while(httpService.lastResult == null){} > //return tooltip based on result. > } > > Surely there is a better way. > > Thanks everyone. Nice to meet you all. :) > > James Wilson >
