Adobe AIR Development

[mplacona]

Hi, I'm building a new app, and would like some advice.

Basically what I'd like to accomplish, is a view that gets populated dynamically with items coming from the DB.

Almost like the Playbook's main home screen, where you have 6 columns with three items (apps) in each, totaling 18 items (until you scroll down, but I;m not looking to have this functionality)

I wouldn't want to build my view with 18 static slots, but make it so it "knows" how many items came back from the database and fill up the gaps.

An example to that, is if you have a playbook in hand, and go to the Media tab. You will only have a few items in there, but as soon as you install an extra item, it automatically displays. What I'm trying to accomplish is exactly the same. I just want to start with an empty canvas, and have new items added as they become available on the DB.

I'm sure there must be a simple way of doing that, but my limited knowledge is stopping me from going any further.

Could anyone please shed me a light, and possibly give me an example?

Thanks in advance 

[peter9477 · Accepted solution]

I'd just use a TileList with a custom CellRenderer.  Pretty sure you'll find examples in the forum or on the web of doing that.

The "automatically display" part is handled already, if you simply update the data in the associated DataProvider or do it through the list component itself.

[mplacona]

Awesome, I knew it was gonna be something simple. Thanks!!!!

Now, just to reuse the same topic. I can't seem to be able to make the tiles background transparent. Is it not possible?

UPDATE:

Think i figures the transparent background on my own. If on my cellRenderer I do:

this.skin.visible = false;

It then hides everything, and just show the contents of my tile

[peter9477]

That should do it. I think you could also just supply a custom skin that basically doesn't display anything, like a Shape with nothing drawn on it, but this seems even easier.