Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
A collection of items organized in an ordinal fashion.
Provides access and manipulation methods based on index.
An IList
may be a view onto data
that has been retrieved from a remote location.
When writing for a collection that may be remote,
it is important to handle the case where data
may not yet be available, which is indicated
by the ItemPendingError
.
The ICollectionView
is an alternative
to the IList
.
length:int
[read-only]
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
The number of items in this collection.
0 means no items while -1 means the length is unknown.
Implementation public function get length():int
public function addItem(item:Object):void
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Adds the specified item to the end of the list.
Equivalent to addItemAt(item, length)
.
Parameters
| item:Object — The item to add.
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public function addItemAt(item:Object, index:int):void
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Adds the item at the specified index.
The index of any item greater than the index of the added item is increased by one.
If the the specified index is less than zero or greater than the length
of the list, a RangeError is thrown.
Parameters
| item:Object — The item to place at the index.
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| index:int — The index at which to place the item.
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Throws | RangeError — if index is less than 0 or greater than the length of the list.
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public function getItemAt(index:int, prefetch:int = 0):Object
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Gets the item at the specified index.
Parameters
| index:int — The index in the list from which to retrieve the item.
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| prefetch:int (default = 0 ) — An int indicating both the direction
and number of items to fetch during the request if the item is
not local.
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Returns | Object — The item at that index, or null if there is none.
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Throws | ItemPendingError — if the data for that index needs to be
loaded from a remote location.
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| RangeError — if index < 0
or index >= length .
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public function getItemIndex(item:Object):int
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Returns the index of the item if it is in the list such that
getItemAt(index) == item.
Note: unlike IViewCursor.findxxx()
methods,
The getItemIndex()
method cannot take a parameter with
only a subset of the fields in the item being serched for;
this method always searches for an item that exactly matches
the input parameter.
Parameters
| item:Object — The item to find.
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Returns | int — The index of the item, or -1 if the item is not in the list.
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public function itemUpdated(item:Object, property:Object = null, oldValue:Object = null, newValue:Object = null):void
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Notifies the view that an item has been updated.
This is useful if the contents of the view do not implement
IEventDispatcher
and dispatches a
PropertyChangeEvent
.
If a property is specified the view may be able to optimize its
notification mechanism.
Otherwise it may choose to simply refresh the whole view.
Parameters
| item:Object — The item within the view that was updated.
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| property:Object (default = null ) — The name of the property that was updated.
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| oldValue:Object (default = null ) — The old value of that property. (If property was null,
this can be the old value of the item.)
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| newValue:Object (default = null ) — The new value of that property. (If property was null,
there's no need to specify this as the item is assumed to be
the new value.)
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See also
public function removeAll():void
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Removes all items from the list.
If any item is not local and an asynchronous operation must be
performed, an ItemPendingError
will be thrown.
See the ItemPendingError documentation as well as
the collections documentation for more information
on using the ItemPendingError
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public function removeItemAt(index:int):Object
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Removes the item at the specified index and returns it.
Any items that were after this index are now one index earlier.
Parameters
| index:int — The index from which to remove the item.
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Returns | Object — The item that was removed.
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Throws | RangeError — is index is less than 0 or greater than length.
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public function setItemAt(item:Object, index:int):Object
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Places the item at the specified index.
If an item was already at that index the new item will replace it
and it will be returned.
Parameters
| item:Object — The new item to be placed at the specified index.
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| index:int — The index at which to place the item.
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Returns | Object — The item that was replaced, or null if none.
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Throws | RangeError — if index is less than 0 or greater than length.
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public function toArray():Array
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Returns an Array that is populated in the same order as the IList
implementation.
This method can throw an ItemPendingError.
ReturnsThrows | ItemPendingError — If the data is not yet completely loaded
from a remote location.
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Event Object Type: mx.events.CollectionEvent
property CollectionEvent.type = mx.events.CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE
Language Version: | ActionScript 3.0 |
Runtime Versions: | Flash Player 9, AIR 1.1 |
Dispatched when the IList has been updated in some way.
The CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE constant defines the value of the
type
property of the event object for an event that is
dispatched when a collection has changed.
The properties of the event object have the following values.
Not all properties are meaningful for all kinds of events.
See the detailed property descriptions for more information.
Property | Value |
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bubbles | false |
cancelable | false |
currentTarget | The Object that defines the
event listener that handles the event. For example, if you use
myButton.addEventListener() to register an event listener,
myButton is the value of the currentTarget . |
items | An Array of objects with
information about the items affected by the event.
The contents of this field depend on the event kind;
for details see the items property |
kind | The kind of event.
The valid values are defined in the CollectionEventKind
class as constants. |
location | Location within the target collection
of the item(s) specified in the items property. |
oldLocation | the previous location in the collection
of the item specified in the items property. |
target | The Object that dispatched the event;
it is not always the Object listening for the event.
Use the currentTarget property to always access the
Object listening for the event. |
type | CollectionEvent.COLLECTION_CHANGE |