Comments on: Direction of the TileList behaves strange

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Horizontal Scrollbar in TileList « saumya — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:10:47 +0000

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By: Arno Manders

Arno Manders — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:31:45 +0000

The adobe quick start guide says something else. That it is for the scroll direction.

And in this example I changed only the direction from vertical to horizontal:
http://blog.arnomanders.nl/upload/flex/TileListTest2/TileListTest.html

and the scroll direction also changed but still wrong in my opinion

By: Thomas Ruehl

Thomas Ruehl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:04:57 +0000

Hi there. Don’t know, if this is still a ‘problem’ for you, but here’s how the drection property should be interpreted:

The direction property of a TileList dosen’t affect the scrolling direction of the component at all! Furthermore, it specifies, how the TileList orders the individual tiles – in a vertical or a horizontal manner (2×2 matrix i.e.):

vertical: [r1, c1], [r2, c1], [r1, c2], [r2, c2]
horizontal: [r1, c1], [r1, c2], [r2, c1], [r2, c2]

To define the direction and scrolling behaviour, you need to set the rowCount/columnCount properties and use verticalScrollPolicy and/or horizontalScrollPolicy.

Cheers, Thomas