Flexponential

HTML’s select control included a tag called optgroup where you could group items in the drop down together and provide a heading that wasn’t selectable. This post looks at making an equivalent component in Flex 4 by extending DropDownList.
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I recently created a form in Flex that required using multiple DropDownLists with a custom item renderer that loads in preview images of each item. This was really easy to do initially, but I noticed a couple performance issues that bothered me. I decided to improve the performance by implementing a simple caching strategy.
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