So I made an executive decision for now. Even though a completely populated component sliding into view is ideal, I think that it is better to respond to the button click immediately with the transition and then for the lists to populate, rather than having a user click a button and wait for 3 seconds for anything to happen. So I do not set a dataprovider for my lists initially. When a user clicks the button, the transition will happen immediately, and on EffectEnd event of the transition, I will set the dataprovider for the lists. That way, the transition happens immediately(and the user won't think the app is broken), and then they will have to wait a second for the lists to populate. When I close the component and it slides off screen again, I set the dataproviders back to null.
In the meantime, I am going to try and write an actionscript itemrenderer(because I probably should know how to anyway), and if the results are stellar, then I may try to populate the lists before the transition as was the original plan. I will report back here every once in awhile to update the difference between actionscript and mxml itemrenderers with my experience. -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Scout-What-does-this-mean-tp14126p14194.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.