Tag Archives: ItemRenderer

Flex :: ImageCache, a cheap way to cache images

By Mister | Published: January 29, 2009
In a previous post about Ely’s SuperImage, I mentioned that we decided to implement a simpler method for caching images within a Flex application. ImageCache is a simple class file that extends the Image control by adding the ability for the control to cache bitmap data. Unlike SuperImage, ImacheCache can handled SWF files, it just [...]
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Bubble ItemRenderer Events

By Mister | Published: August 10, 2007
Often times I find myself needing to bubble events from an itemRenderer to the parent control.   This is especially important when using a CairngormEventDispatcher.  Events should be used by the views, rather than having them nested within the itemRenderer.  This is commandment #10 on Jesse Warden’s post 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm (or the way Jesse [...]
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Flex List Control with Editable InputText ItemRenderer

By Mister | Published: June 13, 2007
I think the title of this post says it all.   I needed a InputText for the label of images in my TitleList control.  I wanted users to click on the text and edit it in place.  I started out creating a simple ItemRenderer with a InputText and skinned the InputText to look like a regular [...]
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Using XML with DataGrid itemRenderers

By Mister | Published: August 23, 2006
For a recent project I needed a way to create a ComboBox in a DataGrid component that was populated by an XML file.   I found an older example by Brendan Meutzner that used an ArrayCollection. This was a good starting point, so I modified and added to the file to create an example that uses [...]
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