I would like to say thank you very much for all these answers. This blog is so great. I searched a lot time to find the answer how I can select items in a list without holding down the ctrl key and Brian’s answer is exactly what I needed! Thank you Brian and thank you all for helping answers!!!

Matze

Thanks in advance.

Tamil

Thankyou very much to all.

There is just one thing I need to add it, to allow the multiple selection that we need:

Another thing, for other people like me who are new to Flex and rusty with OOP/programming – this is a class defintion and is not an instantation – declare a separate component using this code and create an instance of this within your own code, otherwise you will get an error that says something different: “1020: Method marked override must override another” – basically this code tells the Flex runtime that Ctrl is pressed all the time

Check out my co-worker Alex Harui’s excellent blog post; “SelectedItem and ComboBox”.

Peter

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:List xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.controls.listClasses.IListItemRenderer;
            override protected function selectItem(item:IListItemRenderer, shiftKey:Boolean, ctrlKey:Boolean, transition:Boolean = true):Boolean {
                return super.selectItem(item, false, true, transition);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
</mx:List>

I really don’t understand what you guys are doing here I tried this in about 15 different ways and I just don’t understand on how to include it in what I posted above. Could you please look through what I posted and try to put whatever you are doing in code. I get that you are sending a xml page to the php file however I am not in need of something like this.

I think I posted everything that one would need for the testing of the app. If you could please try it out and then post back the complete view so I can start to understand how this works would help me better. Thank you