Comments on: Setting the selected index of a Flex LinkBar control

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:59:46 +0000

I’m trying to remove all spacing between linkbar link buttons, I have a design that calls for the links to be stacked vertically with 5px of space between them, I’ve cleared out all padding, for the linkbuttonstyles, and removed vertical gap, and set separator width to zero. What am I missing it seems like this shouldn’t be that hard? Any help is much appreciated thanks!

By: Flexman

Flexman — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:19:29 +0000

Helps is I use the right tags… ;)

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:LinkBar xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” itemClick=”myFunc(event)”>

<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[

import mx.events.ItemClickEvent;
import mx.controls.Button;

private function myFunc(event:ItemClickEvent):void
{
var n:int = this.numChildren;
for (var i:int = 0; i
</mx:Script>

</mx:LinkBar>

By: Flexman

Flexman — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:17:46 +0000

This allows you to use the LinkBar without a viewstack when selecting an index…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:20:00 +0000

You can try this code:

linkBar.dataProvider=null;
linkBar.dataProvider=arr;
linkBar.selectedIndex=event.index;

By: Sohail

Sohail — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:35:43 +0000

True this will not work "linkBar.selectedIndex = some_value". To do this make your own custom linkbar let say call it myLinkBar ========================================================================== ========================================================================== And then in the itemClick (itemClick="myFunc(event)") do the following:-

private function myFunc(event:ItemClickEvent):void
{
    mylinkbar.setIndex(event.index);
}

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:42:27 +0000

It seems that linkBar.selectedIndex = some_value is not supported if the linkbar is not paired with a viewstack, which is also the implicit dataprovider, thus the issue mentioned above.
It’s a bit of a pain…

By: Zuhair

Zuhair — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:57:03 +0000

Hi,

the actionscript code is not working:

Could you pleas check that

Thanks

By: Anome

Anome — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:11:33 +0000

There is a bug, try to click on the LinkBar’s items then use the slider : several items can be selected !
to be honnest, i fixed the problem by setting the ‘enabled’ property of each LinkButton to false, except the one that should be selected.