Several Adobe® Flex® controls take input from a data provider, an object that contains data. For example, a Tree control reads data from a data provider to define the structure of the tree and any associated data assigned to each tree node.

Several of the controls that use a data provider let you visualize complex data, and there are different ways to populate these controls by using a data provider. The following topics also provide information on data providers and controls that use data providers:

• Using Data Providers and Collections contains details on data providers and how to use collections as data providers.
• Using Menu-Based Controls contains information on using Menu, MenuBar, and PopUpMenuButton controls.
• Using the AdvancedDataGrid Control contains information on using the AdvancedDataGrid control, which expands on the functionality of the standard DataGrid control to add data visualization features to your Adobe Flex application.
• Creating OLAP Data Grids contains information on using the OLAPDataGrid control, which lets you aggregate large amounts of data for easy display and interpretation.

• List control
• HorizontalList control
• TileList control
• ComboBox control
• DataGrid control
• Tree control