interesting, never had to do that...still in Flex 2 world mostly too...errr :(
What about using modules? set your one Application up with the needed stuff, then make a Module for each 'screen' and can load at runtime and all? DK On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Sydney R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have several "screens" that all have to have scaleMode=SHOW_ALL as well > as some other global skins, tooltips, etc. In Flex2 we simply wrapped > <mx:Application> but it doesn't work now in Flex3. I'm trying to migrate > our code to Flex3 and it's not as easy as I had hoped. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:59:34 AM > Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Go vote for my bug > > how much you want? :) I've never tried extending Application. Curious. > why would you need to do that? > > interesting comment from Gordon at Adobe on flexcoders about extending > Application: > > Sorry, although we've made it easy to write components in either MXML or > AS3, we haven't done the same with Application. If you are a newbie you > should start out with <mx:Application> in MXML. You can then use AS3 for > all your components if you really want to. I hope we can make this better in > a future release. > > > > What's going on is that when the MXML compiler compiles an <mx:Application> > it autogenerates code to set up a lot of stuff such as the default CSS type > selectors that various components like Button depend on. These aren't > getting set up when you simply extend Application as an AS3 class. When > Button calls getStyle() to find out what it's skin class should be, it's > getting a null Clas reference. > > > > Once you are no longer a newbie, you can use mxmlc's > -keep-generated-actionscript option to see all the generated code, and set > this stuff up yourself it you insist. But I really don't understand why some > developers like AS3 so much better tham MXML. Would you write a web app all > in JS and no HTML? > > > DK > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Sydney R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > I found a bug and I submitted it to Adobe, please go vote for it so they > > will fix it! I don't know of a workaround so I'm kinda dead in the water at > > this point: > > > > http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15107 > > > > Thanks > > Sydney > > > > ------------------------------ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! > > Search.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > > the subject line > > > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > Douglas Knudsen > http://www.cubicleman.com > this is my signature, like it? > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > the subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! > Search.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping> > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > the subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
