Jason,
I'm doing something similar with checkboxes and the DataGrid.
Are you able to turn the visibility of your component on/off ?
Rather than modify the dataset, you may be able to use a checkbox event
to trigger the visibility change of your display component.
~Mike
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Merrill, Jason" <jason.merr...@...>
wrote:
>
> So in my Flex 3 project I have an ArrayCollection, like this:
>
> [Bindable]
> private var myDataProvider:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(
> [
> {country:"Apple", quantity:5},
> {country:"Pear", quantity:3},
> {country:"Banana", quantity:7},
> ]);
>
> This is the dataprovider for another visual component (this is not the
> actual data, I've simplified it for the sake of clarity in asking this
> question). I have some checkboxes that I want to use to toggle
elements
> in and out of the arrayCollection, thus changing what's shown in the
> visual component which is bound by databinding. I thought about just
> having a visual property in the dataprovider, but then found out I
> cannot access display list items in this third party chart component I
> am using, so the only way to change what is shown in the chart
component
> is to change what's contained in the array collection.
>
> My question is, while I can think of ways to do this (adding and
> removing elements in the ArrayCollection), but they all involve some
> pretty ugly Actionscript. Is there a good way to handle this, but
keep
> my data intact? How would you use checkboxes to toggle data in and
out
> of the ArrayCollection elegantly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Merrill
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