retraction, disable events is private. mourn. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Johannes Nel <[email protected]>wrote:
> to dig up an old horse, the main advantage I can see is that arrayList > supports disableEvents and enableEvents, > which in theory should be availible via the fact that ArrayCollection > extends ListCollectionView which has a getter called get list():ArrayList on > which in theory i would want to say disable events, but somehow the compiler > and me disagree on this, since I cannot get to that ArrayList via my > arrayCollection. > > Why? > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ArrayList exists and is written in AS. ArrayList is the underlying >> IList implementation that wraps Arrays and is used internally by >> ArrayCollection. There are relatively few advantages to going straight to >> an ArrayList. If you pass one into a list class it will just wrap it in an >> ArrayCollection anyway. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *DannyT >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:08 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] ArrayList Vs ArrayCollection >> >> >> >> var myList:ArrayList = new ArrayList(); // doesn't throw any error >> >> var myList:ArrayList = new ArrayCollection(); >> gives the following error: >> Implicit coercion of a value of type mx.collections:ArrayCollection to an >> unrelated type mx.collections:ArrayList. >> >> It was my confusion with c# that caused me to write that int eh first >> place when I noticed the error. I've googled and seen it mentioned in code >> snippets but coudln't find much. >> >> >> >> On 06/03/2008, *Paul Andrews* <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you search in help, it's only mentioned as a C# class and does not >> appear to exist in the mx.collections package. >> >> >> >> Where have you seen it? >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> *From:* DannyT <[email protected]> >> >> *To:* [email protected] >> >> *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:29 PM >> >> *Subject:* [flexcoders] ArrayList Vs ArrayCollection >> >> >> >> Can anyone point out the difference between ArrayList and ArrayCollection? >> >> ArrayList seems to be in the mx.collections package but I can't find any >> documentation on it. >> >> Dan >> >> -- >> http://danny-t.co.uk >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://danny-t.co.uk >> >> > > > > -- > j:pn > \\no comment > -- j:pn \\no comment

