Using TileList

[paulv2k4]

Hi all,

I understand that a server browser should be in essence a TileList.

I know how to access back and forth between actionscript and unrealscript.

What I do not understand is how to set up the TileList.

Allar's great screenshot really shows what I mean.



I would like help on getting:
5 columns of differing sizes.
Help on understanding how to input data into each tile.

Currently I use a dataprovider (to try it out) like so;

this.ServerList.dataProvider = ["Server1.", "Server2", "Server3", "Server4", "Server5"];

This only enters data for the first column of each row. How to do I enter data for the rest of the columns?

Any help on this would be great. As you could probably tell, my weakest area is actionscript.

[Matt Doyle]

Multiple columns are typically achieved using the following code:

list.dataProvider = [{col1: "something cool", col2: "something awesome"},
{col1: "something nice", col2: "something naughty"}];

The following comes from our CLIK user's guide (released to licensees):

The TileList automatically will use the property named 'label' if found in the item object:

list.dataProvider = [{label: "one", data:1}, {label: "two", data:2}];

However if the item object has a different label property, such as the following, then the list can be configured to use that property instead:

list.labelField = "name";
list.dataProvider = [{name: "one", data:1}, {name: "two", data:2}];

If the logic to construct a label from the item object is complicated and requires a function, then set the labelFunction property:

list.labelFunction = function(itemObj:Object):String {
// Logic to construct a label
}
list.dataProvider = [{p1: "foo", p2: 1}, {p1: "bar", p2: 2}];

[Allar]

The way Matt described is probably the best way to do it, however when I tried that attempt I couldn't get it functioning like I wanted (mainly because I'm not the best in actionscript). In any case, I made a class derived from TileList with functions that would automatically handle turn a server data struct I created and i'd pass the struct into the data provider, with another class i derived from TileListRenderer using this to format and display the data correctly.

Hopefully that makes as much sense as it does in my head.