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Antoine Claval
Antoine Claval

Reputation: 4944

How flex itemRenderer works ? (their life cycle)

By works, i mean : how item renderer are instanciate , call , destroy... what is theire life cycle ?

I had some display bugs, and this link open my mind to the problem http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=cellrenderer_072_14.html

( the doc is the same for flex3 )

But i want to know more. Any links or knowledge to share ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5899

Answers (3)

cliff.meyers
cliff.meyers

Reputation: 17734

Peter Ent wrote a series of blog posts on item renderers that is extremely useful:

itemRenderers: Part 1: inline renderers

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt1.html

itemRenderers: Part 2: External renderers

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt2.html

itemRenderers: Part 3: Communication

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt3.html

itemRenderers: Part 4: States and Transitions

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt4.html

itemRenderers: Part 5: Efficiency

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt5.html

Upvotes: 6

furic
furic

Reputation:

Check this out : http://sites.google.com/site/iamfuric/Home/Flex/about-itemrenderer source code is available :)

Upvotes: 1

Simon Groenewolt
Simon Groenewolt

Reputation: 10665

I'd say that link explains what you need to do: Don't ever assume state, and expect your itemrenderer to be reused for multiple items (so don't store data for one item at object level in the itemrenderer, only use variables inside your function)

Upvotes: 0

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