In Part 1 of this series we learned how to create an ItemRenderer for a List in Flex 4. I wanted to get through 2 steps tonight, but only have the code for the next step finished. This code creates the item renderer seen at ~4:20 of Ely’s video.
If you haven’t seen Ely’s video on Adobe TV about improving the designer/developer workflow (which is an updated version of what he infamously previewed at MAX last year), you should probably check that out to see what the goal of this series is.
I’m going to attempt to go through the steps and recreate what he demonstrated, which was to take a simple list and iteratively transform it into a rich, accordion-like interactive list. To get started, be sure that you’re setup to compile Flex 4 code and that you have Flash Player 10. Here we go…