Hi Alex, Thanks for your reply. I am doing the exact same thing & things are working as I want them to. I was curious about why the DATA_CHANGE event is not received or is it that the DATA_CHANGE event have no relevance here. Please let me know.
-Aejaz --- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The data property is not used in the outer TL it is only used by > renderers. You'd reset the inner TL's DPs when you change the DP on the > outer TL like in your button's click handler > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of aejaz_98 > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Bug or Expected Behavior : TileList refresh > > > > I have a TileList in my application where each element is rendered by > a custom ItemRenderer. Each element of the above TileList > has another TileList in it which is rendered for the first time by > initialize event. > > The outer TileList's dataprovider is an ArrayList of VO's which are > returned from the server side. There is an inner array in each > of the elements of the above ArrayList which requires some processing > to create another ArrayList which becomes the dataprovider for the > inner TileList(s). > > I have a button on my UI clicking on which I change the dataprovider > of the outer TileList to a new ArrayList(containing exact same type of > elements as before but with different data). I could not find an easy > way to re-render the inner TileList(s) based on the new dataprovider > for the outer TileList. > > After searching the list, I found a reply from Matt on a similar > problem where he instructed to override the set data method for the > outer TileList & refresh the datprovider of inner TileList in the body > of the overridden method. This part works perfectly. > > But if I try to dispatch a FlexEvent.DATA_CHANGE from the overriden > set data method & put a dataChange handler on the outer TileList, > the datachange handler doesn't get called. Is this a bug or expected > behavior ? How do I receive the notification for dataChange event ? > I was thinking of switching the dataProvider of the inner TileList > in dataChange handler. Is this not the right way ? > > Thanks, > Aejaz >
