you could try making a repeater that creates a label for each item.. <HBox> <repeater id="rpt" dataprovider="theXMLListCollection"> <label text="{rpt.currentItem.label}" /> </repeater> </HBox>
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "markcavins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok so here's the skinny: > > I have this flex app that works fine > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" > layout="absolute" width="100%" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"> > <mx:Style source="source.css"/> > <mx:Image x="15" y="4" source="images/title.jpg" width="210" > height="65"/> > <mx:Image source="images/title1.jpg" id="image1" > horizontalAlign="right" verticalAlign="top" top="3" width="784" > height="58" x="241"/> > <mx:XML id="tempXML" > source="http://development.company.net/interface.php?username=user&password=pass&customer=customer&action=showopen&operation=defects&format=xml&critcal=both" > /> > > <mx:XMLListCollection id="defectXMLList" > source="{tempXML.defect}" /> > <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid" > dataProvider="{defectXMLList}" > width="1024" rowCount="{defectXMLList.length + 1}" x="0" y="62" > borderThickness="2" borderColor="#fda600" themeColor="#fda600" > alternatingItemColors="[#fda600, #ffffff]" cornerRadius="0" > color="#000000" borderStyle="none" alpha="0.73"> > <mx:columns> > > <mx:DataGridColumn id="assetCol" > dataField="asset" > headerText="Asset:" /> > <mx:DataGridColumn id="componentCol" > dataField="component" headerText="Component:" /> > <mx:DataGridColumn id="conditionCol" > dataField="condition" headerText="Condition:" /> > <mx:DataGridColumn id="ffdCol" > dataField="ffd" > headerText="FFD:" /> > <mx:DataGridColumn id="inspidCol" > dataField="inspid" > headerText="Inspection ID:" /> > <mx:DataGridColumn id="mileageCol" > dataField="mileage" > headerText="Mileage:" /> > > </mx:columns> > </mx:DataGrid> > </mx:Application> > > However they now want to just display the asset and not in a data grid > but as a horizontal list and I have tried and tried to look for an > effective example of this and how to make it work. > I have tried Horizontal List, Vertical List, HBox, and VBox but all I > want the thing to do for now is to just display data > Horizontally. > > any help would be great >