On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Dan Vega wrote:
I am pretty new to Flex but a vet in the programming world so
Action Script 3 is great and I think I am coming along quickly with
it. I am trying to create a footer bar 800w 60h that will display
an animated marquee of all the images i load from an xml file. I
have about 30 images in there right now. I am using a tile list to
display them and the way I have it the first 8 are showing up. Is
there a way to animate the rest of the images in a scrolling
animation or am I completely on the wrong track here? Here is what
I have so far, any help is greatly appreciated!
In this specific instance (if I read you right), you probably do not
want to use a TileList. The TileList doesn't 'animate' in any simple
fashion across all of the content in the list.
Your best bet if the number of items you are using is manageable (ie,
not 200 or so), is to use a Repeater component with a custom item
renderer. For the animation, I'd suggest running a timer to set the
scroll position of the repeater.
You could also look into the TileCanvas at http://code.google.com/p/
jwopitz-lib/. The point being that both the repeater and Canvas
components have smooth scrolling, whereas TileList does not (a point
of contention a lot of people have had).
cheers,
jon
