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I’ve been looking for an example for using Flex MediaTile Component in AS3 class. I really couldn’t find any. So, posting an example code snippet to show how to use it within an AS3 class:

private function draw( ):void
{
    var mediaTile:TileList = new TileList( );
    var mediaCollection:ArrayCollection  = new ArrayCollection( );
    mediaCollection.addItem( {id:"1", url:"image1 .jpg"} );
    mediaCollection.addItem( {id:"2", url:"image2.jpg"} );
    mediaTile.dataProvider = mediaCollection;
    mediaTile.itemRenderer = createItemRenderer( );
}

private function createItemRenderer():ClassFactory
{
    var temp:ClassFactory = new ClassFactory();
    temp.generator = MediaThumbnail; //MXML class to use as a tile
    return temp;
}

MediaThumbnail.mxml:

Tags: AS3 class, Flex Component, itemRenderer, TileList, TileList.itemRenderer()