Question

For making an online users list (Example at http://www.flashchatdeluxe.com/flash_chat_video_edition.html). Each username is actually a movieclip with their name, photo, etc. So if there were 3 users online, there would be 3 of these movieclips in the list.

So can a MovieClip be added to a regular Flash Listbox component or how would this be accomplished?

Answer 1

Easiest option is to use a TileList since by default it uses an ImageCell as it’s source renderer and you can simply pass your MovieClip as the source propert of an item passed to list’s data provider:

import fl.controls.TileList;
var tl:TileList = addChild(new TileList()) as TileList;
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) tl.addItem({label:"user"+(i+1),source:yourClip});

Otherwise feel free to implement your custom cell renderer.