The following example shows how you can detect when the vertical scroll bar is scrolled on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the change event on the List control’s VScrollBar instance.

The following example(s) require Flash Player 10 and the Adobe Flex 4 SDK. To download the Adobe Flash Builder 4 trial, see http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/. To download the latest nightly build of the Flex 4 SDK, see http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.
For more information on getting started with Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4, see the official Adobe Flex Team blog.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/05/31/detecting-when-the-vertical-scroll-bar-is-scrolled-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_List_scroller_verticalScrollBar_change_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
 
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import spark.components.VScrollBar;
 
            private function init():void {
                list.scroller.verticalScrollBar.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, list_verticalScrollBar_change);
            }
 
            private function list_verticalScrollBar_change(evt:Event):void {
                var vsb:VScrollBar = evt.currentTarget as VScrollBar;
                var obj:Object = {};
                obj.type = evt.type;
                obj.val = vsb.value;
                obj.max = vsb.maximum;
                arrColl.addItem(obj);
                callLater(dgScroll);
            }
 
            private function dgScroll():void {
                dataGrid.verticalScrollPosition = dataGrid.maxVerticalScrollPosition;
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
 
    <fx:Declarations>
        <mx:ArrayCollection id="arrColl" />
    </fx:Declarations>
 
    <s:HGroup horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <s:List id="list"
                creationComplete="init();">
            <s:layout>
                <s:VerticalLayout gap="0"
                        horizontalAlign="contentJustify"
                        requestedRowCount="4" />
            </s:layout>
            <s:dataProvider>
                <s:ArrayList>
                    <fx:String>The</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Quick</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Brown</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Fox</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Jumps</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Over</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>The</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Lazy</fx:String>
                    <fx:String>Dog</fx:String>
                </s:ArrayList>
            </s:dataProvider>
        </s:List>
        <mx:DataGrid id="dataGrid"
                dataProvider="{arrColl}"
                width="200"
                verticalScrollPolicy="on">
            <mx:columns>
                <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="type" />
                <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="val" />
                <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="max" />
            </mx:columns>
        </mx:DataGrid>
    </s:HGroup>
 
</s:Application>

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This entry is based on a beta version of the Flex 4 SDK and therefore is very likely to change as development of the Flex SDK continues. The API can (and will) change causing examples to possibly not compile in newer versions of the Flex 4 SDK.

 
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Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. While not working on Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion applications, Peter enjoys making up bios and writing in 3rd person. Peter's rarely updated blog can be found at blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/, actionscriptexamples.com, airexamples.com, and coldfusionexamples.com.

2 Responses to Detecting when the vertical scroll bar is scrolled on a Spark List control in Flex 4

  1. Tyrone Neill says:

    Seems to only be the case when you use mouse buttons and not the mouse wheel! very strange

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