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		<title>Opening branches by clicking rows in a Tree control in Flex</title>
		<link>http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/05/opening-branches-by-clicking-rows-in-a-tree-control-in-flex/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/05/opening-branches-by-clicking-rows-in-a-tree-control-in-flex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter deHaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dataDescriptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expandItem()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getChildren()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isBranch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isItemOpen()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[itemClick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can expand/collapse branches in a Flex Tree control by clicking on the row instead of having to click on the disclosure/arrow icon.</p> <p></p> &#60;?xml version=&#34;1.0&#34; encoding=&#34;utf-8&#34;?&#62; &#60;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/05/opening-branches-by-clicking-rows-in-a-tree-control-in-flex/ --&#62; &#60;mx:Application name=&#34;Tree_itemClick_test&#34; xmlns:mx=&#34;http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml&#34; layout=&#34;vertical&#34; verticalAlign=&#34;middle&#34; backgroundColor=&#34;white&#34;&#62; &#160; &#60;mx:Script&#62; &#60;![CDATA[ import mx.collections.ICollectionView; import mx.events.ListEvent; &#160; private function tree_itemClick(evt:ListEvent):void { var item:Object [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can expand/collapse branches in a Flex Tree control by clicking on the row instead of having to click on the disclosure/arrow icon.</p>
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<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #808080; font-style: italic;">&lt;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/04/05/opening-branches-by-clicking-rows-in-a-tree-control-in-flex/ --&gt;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #7400FF;">&lt;mx:Application</span> name=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Tree_itemClick_test&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">        xmlns:mx=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">        layout=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;vertical&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">        verticalAlign=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;middle&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">        backgroundColor=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;white&quot;</span><span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #339933;">&lt;mx:Script&gt;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">        &lt;![CDATA[</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">            import mx.collections.ICollectionView;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">            import mx.events.ListEvent;</span>
&nbsp;
<span style="color: #339933;">            private function tree_itemClick(evt:ListEvent):void {</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                var item:Object = Tree(evt.currentTarget).selectedItem;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                if (tree.dataDescriptor.isBranch(item)) {</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                    tree.expandItem(item, !tree.isItemOpen(item), true);</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                }</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">            }</span>
&nbsp;
<span style="color: #339933;">            private function tree_labelFunc(item:XML):String {</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                var children:ICollectionView;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                var suffix:String = &quot;&quot;;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                if (tree.dataDescriptor.isBranch(item)) {</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                    children = tree.dataDescriptor.getChildren(item);</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                    suffix = &quot; (&quot; + children.length + &quot;)&quot;;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                }</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">                return item[tree.labelField] + suffix;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">            }</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">        ]]&gt;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">    &lt;/mx:Script&gt;</span>
&nbsp;
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        <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;root<span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
            <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;folder label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One&quot;</span><span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
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                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.A.2&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.A.3&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.A.4&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.A.5&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;/folder<span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
                <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.1&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;One.2&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
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            <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;folder label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Two&quot;</span><span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
                <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Two.1&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;folder label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Two.A&quot;</span><span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Two.A.1&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
                    <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;item label=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Two.A.2&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
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            <span style="color: #000000;">&lt;/folder<span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span>
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&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #7400FF;">&lt;mx:Tree</span> id=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;tree&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            dataProvider=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;{dp}&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            showRoot=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;false&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            labelField=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;@label&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            labelFunction=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;tree_labelFunc&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            width=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;300&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            rowCount=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;6&quot;</span></span>
<span style="color: #000000;">            itemClick=<span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;tree_itemClick(event);&quot;</span> <span style="color: #7400FF;">/&gt;</span></span>
&nbsp;
<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #7400FF;">&lt;/mx:Application</span><span style="color: #7400FF;">&gt;</span></span></pre></div></div>

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		<title>Displaying the number of children in each branch of a Flex Tree control</title>
		<link>http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/01/11/displaying-the-number-of-children-in-each-branch-of-a-flex-tree-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter deHaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dateDescriptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getChildren()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hasChildren()]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can display the number of children in each branch of a Tree control in Flex by using the dataDescriptor property, labelFunction property, hasChildren() method and getChildren() method.</p> <p>Full code after the jump.</p> <p></p> <p class="download"><a href="http://blog.flexexamples.com/wp-content/uploads/Tree_dataDescriptor_hasChildren_test/main.mxml">View MXML</a></p> &#60;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&#62; &#60;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/01/11/displaying-the-number-of-children-in-each-branch-of-a-flex-tree-control/ --&#62; &#60;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle" backgroundColor="white"&#62; &#60;mx:Script&#62; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can display the number of children in each branch of a Tree control in Flex by using the <code>dataDescriptor</code> property, <code>labelFunction</code> property, <code>hasChildren()</code> method and <code>getChildren()</code> method.</p>
<p>Full code after the jump.</p>
<p><span id="more-439"></span></p>
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&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/01/11/displaying-the-number-of-children-in-each-branch-of-a-flex-tree-control/ --&gt;
&lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white"&gt;

    &lt;mx:Script&gt;
        &lt;![CDATA[
            private function tree_labelFunc(item:XML):String {
                var label:String = item.@label;
                if (tree.dataDescriptor.hasChildren(item)) {
                    label += " (" + tree.dataDescriptor.getChildren(item).length + ")";
                }
                return label;
            }
        ]]&gt;
    &lt;/mx:Script&gt;

    &lt;mx:XML id="treeDP"&gt;
        &lt;root&gt;
            &lt;node label="i) One" /&gt;
            &lt;node label="i) Two" /&gt;
            &lt;node label="i) Three" /&gt;
            &lt;node label="i) Four"&gt;
                &lt;node label="ii) One" /&gt;
                &lt;node label="ii) Two" /&gt;
                &lt;node label="ii) Three"&gt;
                    &lt;node label="iii) One" /&gt;
                    &lt;node label="iii) Two" /&gt;
                &lt;/node&gt;
                &lt;node label="ii) Four" /&gt;
            &lt;/node&gt;
            &lt;node label="1. Five" /&gt;
            &lt;node label="1. Six" /&gt;
        &lt;/root&gt;
    &lt;/mx:XML&gt;

    &lt;mx:Tree id="tree"
            dataProvider="{treeDP}"
            labelFunction="tree_labelFunc"
            showRoot="false"
            width="200" /&gt;

&lt;/mx:Application&gt;
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		<title>Changing text alignment in an Flex Accordion header</title>
		<link>http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/13/changing-text-alignment-in-an-flex-accordion-header/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter deHaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accordion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getStyleDeclaration()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[StyleManager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getChildren()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[icon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[setStyleDeclaration()]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textAlign]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can use the textAlign style to control the text alignment of a label in an Accordion header.</p> <p>Full code after the jump.</p> <p></p> <p class="download"><a href="http://blog.flexexamples.com/wp-content/uploads/Accordion_textAlign_test/main.mxml">View MXML</a></p> &#60;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&#62; &#60;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/13/changing-text-alignment-in-an-flex-accordion-header/ --&#62; &#60;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle" backgroundColor="white" creationComplete="init();"&#62; &#60;mx:Style&#62; .MyHeaderStyle { color: haloBlue; fontWeight: bold; textAlign: left; textRollOverColor: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following example shows how you can use the <code>textAlign</code> style to control the text alignment of a label in an Accordion header.</p>
<p>Full code after the jump.</p>
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&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/09/13/changing-text-alignment-in-an-flex-accordion-header/ --&gt;
&lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white"
        creationComplete="init();"&gt;

    &lt;mx:Style&gt;
        .MyHeaderStyle {
            color: haloBlue;
            fontWeight: bold;
            textAlign: left;
            textRollOverColor: haloOrange;
            textSelectedColor: black;
            icon: Embed(source="assets/asterisk_orange.png");
        }
    &lt;/mx:Style&gt;

    &lt;mx:Script&gt;
        &lt;![CDATA[
            import mx.events.IndexChangedEvent;
            import mx.events.ListEvent;

            private function init():void {
                comboBox.dataProvider = accordion.getChildren()
            }

            private function comboBox_change(evt:ListEvent):void {
                accordion.selectedIndex = comboBox.selectedIndex;
            }

            private function accordion_change(evt:IndexChangedEvent):void {
                comboBox.selectedIndex = accordion.selectedIndex;
            }

            private function changeTextAlign(evt:ListEvent):void {
                var cssDecl:CSSStyleDeclaration = StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".MyHeaderStyle");
                cssDecl.setStyle("textAlign", evt.currentTarget.selectedItem);
                StyleManager.setStyleDeclaration(".MyHeaderStyle", cssDecl, false);
            }
        ]]&gt;
    &lt;/mx:Script&gt;

    &lt;mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true"&gt;
        &lt;mx:Label text="Selected child:" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:ComboBox id="comboBox"
                change="comboBox_change(event);"&gt;
        &lt;/mx:ComboBox&gt;

        &lt;mx:Spacer width="50" /&gt;

        &lt;mx:Label text="textAlign:" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:ComboBox change="changeTextAlign(event)"&gt;
            &lt;mx:dataProvider&gt;
                &lt;mx:String&gt;left&lt;/mx:String&gt;
                &lt;mx:String&gt;center&lt;/mx:String&gt;
                &lt;mx:String&gt;right&lt;/mx:String&gt;
            &lt;/mx:dataProvider&gt;
        &lt;/mx:ComboBox&gt;
    &lt;/mx:ApplicationControlBar&gt;

    &lt;mx:Accordion id="accordion"
            headerStyleName="MyHeaderStyle"
            themeColor="haloSilver"
            width="100%"
            height="100%"
            change="accordion_change(event);"&gt;
        &lt;mx:VBox label="One" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:VBox label="Two" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:VBox label="Three" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:VBox label="Four" /&gt;
        &lt;mx:VBox label="Five" /&gt;
    &lt;/mx:Accordion&gt;

&lt;/mx:Application&gt;
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