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1. I have been struggling with making a list component represent a display list.

   I would love to get some in put from you on this.
   You can follow with others as we try to figure it out.

   http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274308

   Please note that it was hard to formulate my question add it may seem vague at first, but I think I became more clear as to what I was trying to achieve in later posts. So you may want to skip to the end of the discussion to get a better idea of whats going on.

   - thanks

   Comment by josh chernoff — September 6, 2007 #

2. josh,

   The suggestion by cesig near the end is probably the best idea. Place the items in the List in reverse, then do a conversion whenever you need to reference the real index.

   myList.dataProvider.length - index

   You don’t seem to be very interested in that idea though, and I’m not sure why. The alternative I think you’re trying to get someone to suggest is to reimplement the List component to make it display items from the bottom instead of the top. Sounds like a lot more work to me.

   Josh Tynjala
   Yahoo! Flash Platform

   Comment by Josh Tynjala — September 7, 2007 #

3. OMG how did I not see this, lol.

   var childIndex:uint = (myList.dataProvider.length - index -1);

   you had it besides the (-1)

   thanks.

   Comment by josh chernoff — September 8, 2007 #

4. Nice article!

   I’ve known these things before but it is always nice to see how the other do it

   g²,
   Johannes

   Comment by Johannes — September 14, 2007 #

5. I’ve been using AS2 for a long time for semi-advanced stuff, and recently had a need for the superior processing power of AS3. I was a heavy user of _root, and your article was a huge help into why what I was used to isn’t there anymore, and why it shouldn’t be either. I wasn’t really interested in the display list, that all made sense to me, but the rest of the article really helped me understand AS3 much better!

   Thanks!

   Comment by Brent — October 22, 2007 #

6. Brent,

   I’m glad I could help!

   Josh Tynjala
   Yahoo! Flash Platform

   Comment by Josh Tynjala — October 23, 2007 #

7. Big thanks , it helped clarifying a lot of things for me !!!!

   Comment by Lau — March 31, 2008 #

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