On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Dan Vega wrote:
I am pretty new to Flex but a vet in the programming world so Action Script 3 is great and I think I am coming along quickly with it. I am trying to create a footer bar 800w 60h that will display an animated marquee of all the images i load from an xml file. I have about 30 images in there right now. I am using a tile list to display them and the way I have it the first 8 are showing up. Is there a way to animate the rest of the images in a scrolling animation or am I completely on the wrong track here? Here is what I have so far, any help is greatly appreciated!
In this specific instance (if I read you right), you probably do not want to use a TileList. The TileList doesn't 'animate' in any simple fashion across all of the content in the list.
Your best bet if the number of items you are using is manageable (ie, not 200 or so), is to use a Repeater component with a custom item renderer. For the animation, I'd suggest running a timer to set the scroll position of the repeater.
You could also look into the TileCanvas at http://code.google.com/p/ jwopitz-lib/. The point being that both the repeater and Canvas components have smooth scrolling, whereas TileList does not (a point of contention a lot of people have had).
cheers, jon
