When I have an HBox component and I dynamically add items, items get added, but when I have a HorizontalList and I dynamically add items, nothing gets added. The item I am trying to add is a class that extends mx.core.UIComponent.
Thanks, Veena --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gordon Smith <gosm...@...> wrote: > > No, I don't have an example and don't have time to create one for you since > I'm a development engineer, not a support engineer. But here is what you > should try, learning as you go: > > 1. Create an app with an <mx:HorizontalList>. > 2. Make it show data items by assigning its dataProvider. Put in more data > items that will fit. > 3. Turn off its scrollbar by setting horizontalScrollPolicy="off". > 4. Create <mx:Button>s for "Previous" and "Next", positioned to the left and > right of the HorizontalList. > 5. In their 'click' handlers, put code like > horizontalList.horizontalScrollPosition += 1. Use -= for the Previous button. > > Gordon Smith > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of veena_kris2003 > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:42 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Question about a flex component > > > > Do you mind posting an example. It sounds like this is what I was looking > for. I need a horizontal list component with an icon at the right end of the > component that I can click and scroll to more items. > > Thanks, > > Veena > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > Gordon Smith <gosmith@> wrote: > > > > Why not just allow scrolling instead of paging? Scrolling components can > > scroll through thousands of items quickly. > > > > Suppose there are 100 items and you can only see 10 at a time. So first you > > see 0-9. When you click the icon you see 10-19. When you click it again > > you'd see 20-29. So you'd need another icon ("previous page" instead of > > "next page") to go back to 10-19 and then 0-9. > > > > Gordon Smith > > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On > > Behalf Of veena pandit > > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:22 AM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [flexcoders] Question about a flex component > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am new to Flex. I am looking for help on designing a custom component > > that will > > hold a lot of items. When the items exceed the number that are visible in > > the ui > > of this horizontal component on the webpage an icon appears, which if you > > click > > will show a list of the other components you can click again and restore > > the ui with > > that item. Hope you understand what I am talking about. If not please post > > for clarification. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Veena > > >