[flexcoders] Why no initial FlexEvent.SHOW event dispatched?

2008-12-02 Thread per.olesen
I was wondering why a flex control or container does not dispatch a FlexEvent.SHOW when showing the first time? Given this code: mx:Panel id=panel show=Alert.show('I am showing') creationComplete=Alert.show('I was created')/ mx:Button click=panel.visible = !panel.visible

RE: [flexcoders] Why no initial FlexEvent.SHOW event dispatched?

2008-12-02 Thread Alex Harui
Because it never went from visible=false to visible=true. We argued over this for weeks. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of per.olesen Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:43 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Why no initial

Re: [flexcoders] Why no initial FlexEvent.SHOW event dispatched?

2008-12-02 Thread Faisal Abid
The show event isnt dispatched on creation of the component, the event CreationComplete is dispatched because show, for the compiler means to go to the displaylist and show the component, but if the component isnt in the displaylist it cant show anything instead it creates it. So have two