Question

I am trying to bind data within a ArrayList to a list, but here only the last element shows up on the list(99), not the entire contents of the arraylist.

private function completeHandler(event:Event):void
        {
            var xmlData:XML = XML(event.target.data);
            trace(xmlData);
             var i:int = 0;
            for (i;i<100;i++)
            {
                var arr:ArrayList = new ArrayList();
                arr.addItem(i);
                trace(arr);
            } 
            list.dataProvider = arr;
        }

I am not able to figure out what to do here?

Answer 1

You’re creating an ArrayList with one item a 100 times. Replace with this and you should be fine:

var arr:ArrayList = new ArrayList();
for (var i:int = 0; i<100; i++) {
    arr.addItem(i);
} 

Or better yet, just wrap your XML in an XMLListCollection instead of copying the nodes one by one (assuming it is the actual content of the XML data you want instead of the indices):

private function completeHandler(event:Event):void
{
    var xmlData:XML = XML(event.target.data);
    list.dataProvider = new XMLListCollection(xmlData.children());
}

(Note that this is not DataBinding: it is just setting the dataProvider property)