Neat Sophistication in Web Application Development
In the last article I have shown how custom collections handle specific programmig problems more efficiently than the built-in data containers Array and Dictionary. I have named a number of common collections which are part of almost every collections library. In this post I am going to compare the performance of such collections from 3 different libraries.
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This post is the continuation of the basic knowledge article Why we need a collection framework in ActionScript and introduces you to the benefits of collections more from a technical perspective.
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Welcome to the AS3Commons Collections framework – the successor of the Lite Collections Fx project.
The TreeView is an extended ListView control with the ability to accept and display hierachical or complex data. The TreeView is equipped with an internal lineariser, which maps the given complex data structure to a linear list by maintaining expanded and collapsed items. The TreeView can be customised in several ways. This document describes all the possibilities to configure a TreeView control.
This is the ASDPC library main blog post.
I started the development of the libray a few months ago with a TreeView component, I wanted to make fully customizable. Soon it turned out, that the tree required additional elements (list, scrollbar, button, label), which I created with similiar perfection. Primarily for the use in my examples, I later added a couple of nifty general purpose components such as a color picker, a combo box or a popup window. Now I am in possession of a sophisticated UI framework, that I am going to share here.
In this post, I will introduce you to the meanings of data collections and the different possiblities to collect data we have in ActionScript. Building on that, I am going to point out the most general requirements to a collection framework before I give a survey to existing solutions.
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