Never mind. This was easier than I thought. I added an event listener for CLICK on the checkbox, and in the handler, updated the data and dispatched an event. This is fine. Thanks for the help.
--- In [email protected], "arieljake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main problem is that there is no way to tell the difference, as > far as I can tell, between the checkbox selected value being updated > by the List due to rendering (like reusage of renderers during > scrolling) and when the user clicks it. > > I am receiving events from the checkbox that do not signify user input. > > How can I handle this? > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote: > > > > Do you mean that the .selected property isn't set right? or the data > > object isn't updated? > > > > It should be set by the time the Checkbox (not the List) dispaches > > CHANGE. > > > > If you're referring to the data object, you're responsible for updating > > it. It is better to work from that than from the renderers anyway since > > they might get recycled. > > > > You can also try low priority listeners as well. > > > > -Alex > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of arieljake > > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:38 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [flexcoders] List of checkboxes control - help handling events > > > > > > > > I have a list of checkboxes just like the one posted on alex h's blog. > > > > I am trying to modify it so I get an event when a checkbox is clicked > > so I can POST to the server. The trouble is asking for the right > > event, because none seem to work right. > > > > Though the CLICK and CHANGE events on the LIST do result in changes to > > the state of the checkbox renderers, they are fired BEFORE the > > checkbox is updated. > > > > I added a bubbling CHANGE event to the checkbox renderer when its > > state is changed, but it gets fired when the list is rendering itself. > > > > I tried to fix this by adding an "isActive" field to the checkbox list > > itself that gets set to false when its state is being changed and back > > to true when its UPDATECOMPLETE event is fired. But that only works > > when I am responding to changes in its dataProvider. Not when > > scrolling happens, as I just found. > > > > Any ideas? > > >
