This post is about how to make a simple custom list item renderer, by extending the HBox, and decreasing its height so you can see more items…
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Making an ItemRenderer for the List Smaller
the key is in the renderer code… and setting the padding to be negative…
<mx:HBox>
xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”
paddingTop=”-3″
paddingBottom=”-3″
>
doing this makes me feel like i’m back doing [...]

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