simple flex question (how to do a menu)

Question

/* i'm very new to flex */

i need to do a side menu in flex 3, how would you do that

on the side of the page you have like a bunch of menuitems and on the click of a item you have some action

Answer 1

There's many ways to do this... if i were you I'd take a look at the controls that are available in the flex tool box. A great place to start would be the Flex 3 Component Explorer.

In it's simplest form... you're asking for a list of buttons all stacked on top of one another. You'll probably need a VBox components and a number of Button components. Something like:

<VBox>
   <Button id="menuItem0" />
   <Button id="menuItem1" />
   <Button id="menuItem2" />
   <Button id="menuItem3" />
</VBox>