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Justin Mclean updated FLEX-17225:
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Labels: easyfix (was: )
> make UIComponentGlobals.layoutManager a public property
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> Key: FLEX-17225
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-17225
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Layout - General
> Affects Versions: Adobe Flex SDK 3.2 (Release)
> Environment: Language Found: English
> Reporter: Adobe JIRA
> Labels: easyfix
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> There is a declaration in UIComponentGlobals:
> mx_internal static var layoutManager:ILayoutManager;
> Doing a search through the 3.2.0 SDK will find about 30 different classes
> that need access to this variable. For example, PopUpButton needs to call
> UIComponentGlobals.layoutManager.validateNow() when it displays its dropdown
> menu. Same with ComboBox. List calls it and AdvancedDataGrid calls it.
> This makes it a hindrance for developers who are trying to create similar
> components or descend from the above and override behaviors. We are told in
> general not to use mx_internal because it's unsupported and very subject to
> change without consideration for what it will break. It's also not
> documented so it's very hard to find without looking through the source code.
> But this seems like something that should be a public part of the API since
> it forms a very important part of the framework for being able to make usable
> components.
> In short - this is an undocumented (since it's mx_internal) and unsupported
> piece of the API but as far as I can tell there is no documented and
> supported way of accessing it, yet you are required to access it if you are
> going to make components similar to some of the very basic components in Flex.
> Please mark it as public instead.
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