# Populating a series of lists?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/populating-a-series-of-lists/61342>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 17, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/populating-a-series-of-lists/61342 "2004-08-17T21:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ScottD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@ScottD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ScottD)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/populating-a-series-of-lists/61342/1 "2004-08-17T21:47:18Z")

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I want to substitute a series of lists for a tree structure (like Mac OS X does when you shift the Finder into View \> Columns mode). When a visitor first views this Flash file, he sees a single list on the left side of the page. When he clicks an item in that list, a new list (full of items from the second tier of the “tree” hierarchy) appears. When he clicks an item in the second-tier list, a third list appears and so on until he finally clicks a “terminal” item. At that point, the information associated with that “terminal” item appears in a panel to the right of the lowest-level list. Crudely rendered in text, it would look sort of like this:

```
             [font=Fixedsys]| a | _____| d |____ | g |
             | b |_-&gt;_| e |_-&gt;_| h |_-&gt;_| item information |
             | c | _____| f |_____ | i |

```

I looked at Kirupa’s Creating a List Box example and that got me started, but I don’t know how to daisy chain a series of list boxes together, making them visible as I go along. Any tips or pointers to other pertinent examples would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Scott  
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