So I investigated this a lot myself a while ago, and you are pretty much out of luck. itemsChangeEffect does not work with refresh.
You can fake it a bit, by instead of doing a sort or a filter, manually adding/removing/moving elements one at a time in the list, which will trigger the itemsChangeEffect. Unfortunately, this only works for very simple changes, for complex changes the itemEffect will get confused and do the wrong thing. For something like sorting a high scores list with a filter, this will probably NOT work. To solve my very similar problem I had to create a brand new custom component that did this. I basically recreated the features of List that I needed and implemented the animation of them moving around using Move/Fade. The adobe sample that has a similar feature you are requesting also does not use itemChangeEffect, but instead implements a custom component like I did. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/flex_store/ as a side note, I was using itemChangeEffect a lot throughout my ap for the simpler lists, but I ended up encountering so many bugs and problems with it that I have now completely removed it from my application. Bummer, but hopefully they work better in Gumbo when I move to that. -ctm _________________________________________________________________________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of fatmanchan2009 Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:12 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] triggering itemsChangeEffect when using filters on an ArrayCollection's Hey Guys So what im basically doing is creating a List Component of players scores. The dataprovider is type ArrayCollection, and i have applied a sort filter on the collection so it sorts by players score, but when the filter is applied and the order of the collection changes, the itemsChangeEffect doesnt get triggered, so no effects occur. So thats the main problem, does anyone have a clue on how to go around this, or a fix for it? Cheers Regards SCHAN (fatmanchan2009)
