Have you ever been presented with a tree containing 1000 items? It is a horrible experience.
Given that is sounds like you are in the fortunate position to be in a design phase with your UI then do your users a huge favour and give them search. Whatever you do - tree or grid - don't show them 10,000 items, they will not thank you for it and your app will be slow, unweildy, difficult to code and ultimately unusable. Remember, most users start to creak when the number of things gets much above 6. By the time it is 50 they have lost interest and are looking for the search button. Only Rain Man can cope with 1,000 items in a list. If you feel you must show them all the data at once, then think of a creative alternative to a list, like a graph/network or Ely's fisheye component. After all you have flex at your fingertips, not HTML. Do something radical with it. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Luke Vanderfluit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jason. > > Merrill, Jason wrote: > >> > No, I guess I can't think of cases when showing 10,000 records with no > >> > filtering would be important in a Flex app. What examples were you > >> > thinking of? > > > >>I am thinking of a tree. > >>When I expand a node I might expand all the children down to the > >>leaf node. > > > > Funny then, as per the topic title, I thought we were talking about > > DataGrid. > > Well. Im a newbie to flex and want to eventually move a whole > heap of stuff to flex. To begin Id like to represent one of our > company's structures as a tree in flex. As a starting point Ive > tried to list that structure in a Datagrid. > I hope that explains more where Im coming from. > Sorry about the confusion. > > Kr. > Luke. > > > > > > > > Jason Merrill > > *Bank of America * > > GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development > > eTools & Multimedia > > > > *Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community* > > > > > > > -- > Luke Vanderfluit > Analyst / Web Programmer > e3Learning.com.au > 08 8221 6422 >
