Using a Hierarchy of Components to Populate a Flex Tree Control

September 29, 2006

Object Tree ControlThis post is about creating a flex tree control that uses a component hierarchy as the data provider. It is a little long and WordPress is killing me with their code style so I did my best to make it readable. Nevertheless, it took me about 5 individual attempts to get this post written completely so I hope it is understandable to everyone. Also, I am a beginner Flex 2 developer, so any constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated. As with most of my Flex development, after struggling for days and then finally getting something to work, I later find out that there is a much easier way to do it that none of my searches ever turned up.

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