Content not appearing after first time

Question

I could really do with some help on this one.
I have a screen (State) in my application that displays some
custom mxml components using a repeater. The first time I come to
this screen, all the data appears correctly. However if I navigate
away from this screen to another screen (State), then return to it,
all that appears is a scroll bar, with no custom components
appearing.
I would appreciate if anyone can take a peek at my code below
to try and identify the problem. Perhaps this is a problem others
have experienced?
The relevant code is as follows:
<mx:State name="ComponentFolderScreen"
basedOn="QualificationSummaryScreen">
<mx:RemoveChild
target="{qualificationSummaryScreenDG}"/>
<mx:AddChild relativeTo="{vbox1}"
position="lastChild">
<mx:Tile autoLayout="true" width="740" height="230"
id="tile1" borderStyle="none">
<mx:Repeater id="productsRepeater"
dataProvider="{this.category1}" >
<local:ComFolderItem
mouseOver="CFSMouseOver_Folder(event)"
click="CFSClick_Folder(event)"
studentName='{productsRepeater.currentItem.productName + "(" +
productsRepeater.currentItem.productPrice + ")"}'
componentStatus='{productsRepeater.currentItem.componentStatus}'
>
</local:ComFolderItem>
</mx:Repeater>
</mx:Tile>
</mx:AddChild>
</mx:State>
And here is the code that populates the ArrayCollection that
is the dataprovider
var ComponentFolderData:ArrayCollection = new
ArrayCollection();
ComponentFolderData =
_dataManager.returnComponentFolderData(componentCode);
var howManyObjects:uint = ComponentFolderData.length;
var objectInstance:Object = new Object();
category1 = new ArrayCollection();
for (var objectIndex:uint = 0; objectIndex <
howManyObjects; objectIndex++) {
objectInstance.productName =
ComponentFolderData.getItemAt(objectIndex).productName;
objectInstance.componentStatus =
ComponentFolderData.getItemAt(objectIndex).componentStatus;
category1.addItem(objectInstance);

Answer 1

Hi there
600 seconds? Seriously? OMG, that's ten minutes!
Personally, I would never recommend having a slide longer
than maybe ten
seconds. I'm not sure how you even manage a timeline that
long.
At any rate, whatever floats your boat I suppose. My guess is
that you have some object (Click Box, Button or Text Entry Box)
that is sitting on the timeline and pausing things before the
button you wish to see has a chance to appear.
Cheers... Rick