About repeaters

Hi,
By using repeaters i have dynamically generated some
checkboxes, now on click of each check box i want to capture the
lable of that clicked check box, how can i do that in flex builder
2
thanks in advance
Regards
Rajeev

If inside your Repeater you have:
<mx:CheckBox label="{rep.currentItem.label}
click="handleCheckBox(event)" />
Create the function, handleCheckBox( event:Event ). Then
event.currentTarget will be the CheckBox which was clicked and
event.currentTarget.label will be its label.

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    Oakland CA, 94612

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