instead of just calling openTree(), need to actually use: callLater(openTree);
http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?ObjectID=570 If only I'd found it sooner... :D --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "nathanpdaniel" <ndan...@...> wrote: > > I'm attempting to open all nodes in a Tree control (expandItem on > everything possible). There's plenty of code out there explaining > how to do it - works GREAT on static data. But, I'm loading XML data > from an external source and deriving an XML Tree from that data at > runtime. I set my Tree controls dataProvider property to my new > XMLList/XMLListCollection I create, and no nodes get > opened/expanded. I can loop through it and see which items SHOULD > get opened, but when I actually look at the Tree control, no nodes > are opened. I can take the same data I generate and create a static > variable in the Script block or MXML (say <mx:XMLListCollection > id='xlc'><mx:XMLList><item label="one"><item > label="two"/></item></mx:XMLList></mx:XMLListCollection> or var > xlc:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection(new XMLList(<item > label='one'><item label='two'/></item>); ) and it'll work every time > I run it. But when I try something like: > > function initTree():void > { > // where xmlList is loaded at runtime > myTree.dataProvider = new XMLListCollection(xmlList); > openTree(); > } > function openTree():void > { > var xlc:XMLListCollection = myTree.dataProvider as XMLListCollection; > var node:XMLList = xlc.source; > for (var i:int = 0; i < node.length(); i++) > { > if (node.children() != null) > myTree.expandItem(node, true); > } > } > > I can run this code, and looping through openTree(), > myTree.expandItem get's "run" for all the appropriate nodes > (although, this particular function will only open nodes one level > below the root - my actual function has a bit more to open all > nodes), however, in the display, none are actually opened just looks > like: > one > Any ideas? >
