Just create a bindable property in your parent application, on click of menuitem assign the label to Bindable property
like this [Bindable] public var myProp:String = new String(); assing the label to this property. in title window you just need to read the property and bind it to textArea else another property in titlewindow --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Praveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I created a menu bar example with the > follwing code: > > <mx:MenuBar id="my_MenuBar"> > <mx:XMLList> > <node label="RootNode1"> > <node label="childNode1"/> > <node label="childNode2"/> > <node label="childNode3/> > </node> > </mx:XMLList> > </mx:MenuBar> > > Now in the "click" of "childNode1" I opened another MXML as > TitleWindow. I have a TextArea in that child window called > "myTextArea". Now i want to display the name of the child in menubar > in this text area., i.e I want to access and display > "childNode1" (label field) from TitleWindow(child window). > > I tried to access using > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > but it is not showing anything and if I tried to access > "selectedIndex" from MenuBar it is showing "-1" always irrespective > of what node i seleted in child window. > > can anyone plz help me how to acces parentwindows's > MenuBar's selecteditem's attributes from childwindow. > > Thanks in advance >