[flexcoders] Re: Help with XML Data

[aseelund]

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&amp;password=pass&amp;customer=customer&amp;action=showopen&amp;operation=defects&amp;format=xml&amp;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
>