Creating sequential text symbols using Flex

JayGregory

Hi all
What I thought would be a simple problem is turning out not to be.  I'm interested in creating different text symbols for a point layer, each text representing the order of a stop on a network.  At first I used the following actionscript code:
var stopNum:TextSymbol = new TextSymbol(null, null, 0x000000, false,0x000000,false,0x000000,"middle",0,0,0);
var stopFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
stopFormat.size="15";
stopFormat.font="Verdana";
stopFormat.bold="true";
stopNum.textFormat=stopFormat;
for (var i:int=0; i<=stopSet.features.length; i++){
        stopNum.text=i.toString();
stopSet.features.symbol = stopNum as Symbol;
stopLayer.add(stopSet.features);
}   

However, this sets all the symbols to the be the highest number.  So I guess a GraphicsLayer can only have one symbol unless I use a unique renderer.  My question is how would I create a unique renderer based on the stopSet.features.symbol.text attribute?  I've looked through some examples but am stumped. 

Would I need to create an array, populating it with each text symbol up to the maximum number of stops I would expect.  How would I then reference in ActionScript how to choose the correct symbol in each array without having a different line for say 1 through 100?

Any assistance here would be helpful, as I am pretty new to this API.
Thanks!

Jay

JayGregory

Thank you so much - I was able to get it working correctly with your assistance. 

Jay

    I just add a number during the loop in one place and I handle it very differently in other places but this is the simplest.

var rsNum:int = 1;
var textSym:TextSymbol = new TextSymbol(rsNum.toString());
rsNum++;