Ahhh I see, well I did know I was missing something blindingly obvious and
getting a bit
fixated on mouseOver. Brilliant it works perfectly - thanks for your help.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Roman Protsiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't really see problem in this. You just have to add event handler to
> handle "itemRollOver" event of your TileList. That's all. Handler may look
> like:
>
> protected function onItemRollOver(event : ListEvent) : void {
> someLabelUnderTheList.text = event.itemRenderer.data.name;
> }
>
> Or something like this. Here event.itemRenderer is list element you rolled
> over and event.itemRenderer.data is this elements data (from data provider).
>
> R.
>
> On 2/9/07, bensmith5774 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, I hope someone can help me with my problem - I think I may be
> > missing something
> > rather obvious.
> >
> > I have a TileList populated with data (ArrayCollection). Underneath the
> > TileList I have a blank
> > area. When the user mouseOver's a row in the TileList I want some of that
> > data (for example
> > name, category) to appear in the blank area. This sounds rather straight
> > forward but I having
> > a bit of a hard time getting it to work.
> >
> > Is there a way to explicitly reference the currently "mouseOver'd" object
> > so it can be displayed
> > outside the TileList. item renderers and repeaters don't seem to help much
> > as I'm trying to
> > display the content OUTSIDE of the TileList. I've also tried using
> > IViewCursor
> > (cursor.current.name) but it only ever displays the first element of the
> > ArrayCollection.
> >
> > Any ideas much appreciated.
> > Iain.
> >
> >
> >
>
