Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Training from the Source

Lesson 10: Using DataGroups and Lists

What You Will Learn

In this lesson, you will:

• Populate a List control with a dataset

• Populate a DataGroup with a dataset and display the information using a renderer

• Create an MXML component to be used as a renderer

• Use the Generate Getter/Setter wizard

• Learn about virtualization

• Respond to a user’s selection from a list

Approximate Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

In this lesson, you’ll develop your skill in working with datasets. A dataset is really nothing but several data elements consolidated in a single object, like an Array, XMLList, ArrayCollection, or XMLListCollection. Up to this point, you’ve learned a few ways to display, manipulate, or loop over these ...