Adobe must have thought at least more than one person would need the
functionality otherwise I don't think they would have thoroughly
documented it in the help section.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "valdhor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't know about most people but I never need to know the id of a
> "repeated" item.
>
> All of the items I have in a repeater are instances of a specific
> object. This object has class members and functions and can do
> everything it needs to do on its own. If I need it to (Which is
> infrequent) each object can get to its parent or even the Application
> object itself.
>
> So, I ask, Why would you need to refer to a repeated component?
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <amyblankenship@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "sdl1326" <azsl1326-email@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using the Tile Component along with a repeater and then a
custom
> > > component (image control). Is it possible to give the custom
component
> > > a unique id/name? I have tried to use a variable associated with the
> > > current repeater item ({repeater.currentItem.name}), however, it
does
> > > not seem that this is possible as I am getting an error that the
ID is
> > > not a valid identifier.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any and all replies.
> > >
> >
> > If you have something like this:
> >
> > <mx:Repeater id="theRepeater" dataProvider="{yourAC}">
> > <yourNS:YourComponent id="foo"/>
> > </mx:Repeater>
> >
> > then you can refer to any repeated component by its index within
foo.
> > i.e. foo[0] is the first component. This is pretty thoroughly
> > documented in the help for Repeater.
> >
> > HTH;
> >
> > Amy
> >
>
