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[drinkrain]

So I have a rowlist that has an onitemfocus event which sends the focuseditem's data - "focusedContent contentnode" (defined by a getCategories Task) to display an Image, Title, Description, Duration component.

Also when I 'onitemfocus', a Get Rating task runs, which does an api call and grabs the rating and displays the rating by star Posters. This works fine.

What I want to do is prevent the get rating task to run on previous items by updating the FocusedContent  content node with a userrating value. I can do this. BUT once that value gets updated the Rowlist either re-renders / loses focus. It gets reset to the 0 item in the row.

I have unobserved the focused content while the data is being updated. but as soon as I re-observe the rowlist re-renders/re-focuses.

Does anybody have a clue to what is going on?
THANKS  

[Tyler_Smith]

Rather than using the focused index, I recommend looking at the rendertarcking property (https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Group)

This would allow your items to sit dormant until they are in view and the can execute your task (and then unobserve).

Example

sub init()
  m.top.enableRenderTracking = true
  m.top.observeFieldScoped("renderTracking", "onProcessRenderTracking")
end sub

sub onProcessRenderTracking(message)
  if "full" = m.top.renderTracking OR "full" = m.top.renderTracking then
    m.top.unobserveFieldScoped("renderTracking")
    ' FIRE OFF YOUR TASK HERE
  end if
end sub

[drinkrain]

While this sounds intriguing, I am still not fully comprehending how to apply this.

Right now I am just following the rowlist examples in the dev repos and Yes they are using the focused index. 

Aren't the items staying dormant until they get focused? If I use render tracking, what part of the rowlist would I be tracking. Would I be looking at the rowlist items and running tasks on every child that is visible?

This doesn't solve my original issue but it does sound like a way of optimizing things- I just don't see the whole picture.

[drinkrain]

... right now I understand that I am observing "itemFocused" which means that then entire rowlist is being observed. So if I can observe  what is just viewable that makes the most sense. But I don't know how I would replace the index tracking.... hmmm. I'll keep trying.

[drinkrain]

Still wondering if anybody has ran into this issue before!