Absolutely Amy, Or if you know that the number items will always be performance acceptable, put your list in a container and set the height of the list to measuredHeightOfItems; to ensure smooth scrolling by instantiating all of the items like a repeater. No right or wrong; just depends.
-TH --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Hoff" TimHoff@ wrote: > > > > > > Tom and Tracy both have good suggestions. However, I'd recommend > using > > any of the List based controls, with an itemRenderer, instead of > using a > > repeater. Unlike the Repeater component, which instantiates all > objects > > that are repeated (no recycling), the List based controls instantiate > > only objects visible in the list. > > However, if you know that the most likely use case is that the repeater > will not be showing enough items to cause scrolling, you may want to > consider this: > > http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/04/is-horizontallist-faster-than- > hbox-with.html >
