Newbie to Flex, (but not Flash/AS 2.0) so for me it's like a skier learning to snowboard. I have dabbled with Flex in the past, and recently went through all the lessons in the help docs, as well as read a lot of other things in there. I'm designing a "Team Page" - a site that shows people of the business unit as individual "cards" - like baseball cards. Each card will have elements like a photo of the person, a description of skillsets, and buttons to expand and change to a different state. Making that is easy with a custom component, but I'm having some struggle with the dynamic data part as it relates to the custom component - in other words, making the components generic and then settings the data for them later in my application. I thought I would make a generic "person card" with a placeholder for the photo and data - that would be a single component, and then in another main application MXML I would repeat that component over and over based on some XML data. Easy enough so far - the XML data isn't the problem. In Flex, I'm not sure how to add the image dynamically, or change the value of the image file reference for each component repeated - I can add an image tag easily enough in the component, but having a hard time not hard-coding the image reference. So I guess I have a few questions: 1. What's the best way to set up a generic image "container" for the image file be in the "person card" component and how would I set that in the main application MXML repeat region? Or is making the "person card" as a component not a good approach? Should I just describe the person card within the repeat region and not make it a custom component? 2. How do i set other variables in the custom components like label values? 3. Overall, what would be a good way to architect a site like this? I know how to create and change states, but unsure what should be a component and what should just described right in the main MXML.
Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning & Organizational Effectiveness Multimedia / eTools Team
