As I understand it, Repeater is not anywhere nearly as tightly integrated with the framework as an item renderer. I do not think any methods are called by the framework. I always do as you have done, and explicitly pass a reference to the currentItem into the repeated component.
I think of Repeater as a way to save myself a lot of manual addChild() / removeChild() logic. The only framework integration I can think of is the ability to specify whether the child instances are recycled using recycleChildren="true". My expectation is that this sipps the removeChild() stuff and just re-populates the properties. Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of simonjpalmer Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:15 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Repeaters and ListCollectionViews Yup, got it working, however it seemed to need me to explicitly bind a property of the Repeater to the control being repeated before it started working. <mx:Repeater dataProvider="{filtered_planpoints}" id="pp_repeater"> <crm:ctrl_PlanPointDropTarget width="100%" activePlanPoint="{pp_repeater.currentItem}" idx="{pp_repeater.currentIndex}"/> </mx:Repeater> it wasn't until I added activePlanPoint="{pp_repeater.currentItem}" that it started working. I originally was overriding the set data() method on the control expecting to be given the appropriate object from the data array so I could initialise my control and had no reference from the drop taregte control and the repeater. If I get rid of the explicit references to the repeater it stops working. Simon --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "simonjpalmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to use a ListCollectionView as the dataProvider for a > Repeater? > > I think the answer is no because I can't get it to work, but I wanted > to make sure that it is not just me writing buggy code. > > Thanks > Simon >
